EXT. UNNAMED LOCATION - LATE AFTERNOON
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(Charlie is sitting in the One Hog Saloon playing poker when he hears a commotion coming from outside.)
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CHARLIE
What's got the bees buzzing out there?
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UNNAMED TOWNSPERSON
They was all dead!
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(This gets Charlie's attention. He turns from his card game. He steps outside and asks one of the townspeople who are in a huddle.)
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CHARLIE
Excuse me, friend. What's going on? Who died?
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UNNAMED TOWNSPERSON
A prospecting team just found a whole family murdered on Lonepine Trail. It were terrible if accounts are to be believed.
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(The look on Charlie's face changes to one of pure terror.)
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CHARLIE
A family? What kind of family? How many members? How many boys? How many girls?
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UNNAMED TOWNSPERSON
A ma and pa and two children. A boy and a girl they says. Just horrible. May the Jesus take in their souls.
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CHARLIE
No no no.
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(Charlie jumps oh his horse and races off towards Lonepine Trail. When he arrives at the scene there are several peace officers there. The first thing Charlie sees is a broken jar with crushed peppermint sticks. He jumps off his horse and heads over to where the bodies are. When he sees the bodies of the children he falls to his knees and starts weeping.)
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CHARLIE
No! No! No!
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(Wood Bohannon, the head peace officer, helps Charlie up off his knees and pats him on the shoulder. )
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WOOD
I've seen you at the One Hog before. It's Charlie, right?
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CHARLIE
(Nodding. Still crying.)
Charlie. Charlie Tucker.
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WOOD
Did you know the deceased, Charlie?
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CHARLIE
(Nods again. Voice very broken when speaking.)
It's my brother. And his wife and my niece and nephew.
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WOOD
I'm so sorry, Charlie.
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CHARLIE
What happened? Who did this?
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WOOD
We don't know yet. Road agents we recon.
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CHARLIE
What's being done? Who's trying to find the killers?
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WOOD
We have a man trying to track the horses, but the lack of light isn't helping. And so many riders have come and gone since they were found it's going to make it darn near impossible.
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CHARLIE
So nothing is being done?
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WOOD
We're trying, Charlie. I know this is hard news to swallow, but we are doing our best.
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(Ext: GREEN TRAIL. Charlie is sitting at the murder scene. It is morning. Wood is still sitting with him. They have sat there all through the night. He gets up and starts surveying the wreckage. After rummaging for a moment he sees a toothpick lying on the ground. )
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CHARLIE
(Picking up the toothpick and smelling it. )
Mr. Bohannon, did any of your fellow peace officers have any toothpicks in their mouth last night? It's been soaked in cinnamon.
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WOOD
Highly doubtful. We rode pretty hard to get here and we were kept busy once we did arrive. Could it have been your brother's?
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CHARLIE
No. Leon hated toothpicks. Said they were attributed to low manners in men. He was funny that way. Do they even sell these in town?
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WOOD
(Taking the toothpick from Charlie and smelling it.)
No. When any luxury like this is brought into Freedom Springs it's always a big to do for a week or so. I guess this makes a spice soaked toothpick our only lead.
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CHARLIE
At least it's something.
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(Charlie pauses. Tears run down his cheeks.)
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CHARLIE
I should have been here. I should have been with them. But I wanted to stay in town and play cards and see a whore. I should have been here.
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WOOD
If you had been here there just would have been another body for us to haul off, Charlie.
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CHARLIE
You don't know that. Maybe I could have...
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WOOD
Ain't no could have. We count at least six men who did this. And they were waiting. You would have been laid to rest if you had been there.
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CHARLIE
Probably. But at least I would have been there with them in those last moments.
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WOOD
Best you can do now is say goodbye. And pledge to help find the men who did this.
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CHARLIE
I will never stop looking for the men who did this. I won't rest until they are cold and in the ground. Every last one of them.
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