EXT. UNNAMED LOCATION - LATE AFTERNOON
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgiFSouzKC
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0f2BFcgUwH
(Charlie is sitting in the One Hog Saloon playing poker when he hears a commotion coming from outside.)
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQfAUPXS4zH
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU197okudmo
CHARLIE
What's got the bees buzzing out there?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHBUx6h7GK
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk37625R88l
UNNAMED TOWNSPERSON
They was all dead!
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWPrOT8p9so
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡshhH8YfKwF
(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.)
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdG3SDvF8d
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsfNQvCXqK
CHARLIE
Excuse me, friend. What's going on? Who died?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhU39IOw7Ru
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfrzynK3gDD
UNNAMED TOWNSPERSON
A prospecting team just found a whole family murdered on Lonepine Trail. It were terrible if accounts are to be believed.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGkK3hkNnJ
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMD56HpY5Bx
(The look on Charlie's face changes to one of pure terror.)
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvruNjBVho2
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkreAK4Jsqc
CHARLIE
A family? What kind of family? How many members? How many boys? How many girls?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrmIZ1zU64K
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ49tBG1vHJp
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.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7SuiZFQKFs
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbeyeCtfVn6
CHARLIE
No no no.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPOUUiDpRuA
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOU87tD2gB0
(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.)
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIFe1rO224
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3SOuKeM9M
CHARLIE
No! No! No!
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLFpogj1OF
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6w1oBJFlkR
(Wood Bohannon, the head peace officer, helps Charlie up off his knees and pats him on the shoulder. )
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPBu3TCE0V4
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6K1pYVBIhh
WOOD
I've seen you at the One Hog before. It's Charlie, right?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ87L2p1w9b1
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡatCv4iPPGO
CHARLIE
(Nodding. Still crying.)
Charlie. Charlie Tucker.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6t7nPWmGC
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvWqOwUiofg
WOOD
Did you know the deceased, Charlie?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFzVCTggprF
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtsx12TMXDi
CHARLIE
(Nods again. Voice very broken when speaking.)
It's my brother. And his wife and my niece and nephew.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtyAw4gfLRb
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVar3aY2PFN
WOOD
I'm so sorry, Charlie.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIR8r07dyo5
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZef7EUbPNQ
CHARLIE
What happened? Who did this?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaXAoemKiw
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ1LTRGzpLd
WOOD
We don't know yet. Road agents we recon.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhQLS3GL33l
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoSLpfDrkEr
CHARLIE
What's being done? Who's trying to find the killers?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnbLsVjeDye
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl0nMmTi1hP
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.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhtAVjxbQSC
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZUWJGWg0E
CHARLIE
So nothing is being done?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCocFCL5tUj
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBh4isNKSMw
WOOD
We're trying, Charlie. I know this is hard news to swallow, but we are doing our best.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNISK4YyzTj
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsUyfdKeNb
(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. )
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡubWSNpOINH
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeyGW3v5iO
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.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4glpgvKSJ
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpnNwO5C4j
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?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljBn1kqs9P
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5g15v7bHpZ
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?
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuuJqzcyyfu
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4ceQnKSVx
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.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzaiz6LHwoV
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNgIvYdfdhW
CHARLIE
At least it's something.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMdG5wuzoe
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8K2j3j6nBe
(Charlie pauses. Tears run down his cheeks.)
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmf1YQ785x
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe5p6UCupKy
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.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2fMrVhyhL
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxtMvZBNVfe
WOOD
If you had been here there just would have been another body for us to haul off, Charlie.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsaeUsH790s
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGPLLgsiHg
CHARLIE
You don't know that. Maybe I could have...
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKzWR8ZblMF
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUwyoUDNZi
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.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdOPRzWjuN
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLXkaoi3MCE
CHARLIE
Probably. But at least I would have been there with them in those last moments.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMU5xD4iagW
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2t8graY7FL
WOOD
Best you can do now is say goodbye. And pledge to help find the men who did this.
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwv8wS63Lrn
803Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vcqdwXAkV
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.
ns 15.158.61.41da2
