19 Nocturne Boulevard - THE DEADEYE KID (Reissue of the week)
When reformed gunslinger Lemual Roberts (formerly the Deadeye Kid) and his sidekick, British travel writer Clarence Fanshaw, roll into town, things sometimes get a bit... spirited....
But sorting out a feud in Ozark hill country might be more than
they can handle.\xa0
Cast List
Lemuel Roberts /Deadeye Kid - J. Spyder Isaacson
Clarence Fanshaw - \xa0J. Hoverson
Sheriff Nell - Hillary Dixon
Bartender - Joel Harvey
\xa0\xa0\xa0 DRUMMONDS
Eb Drummond - Dan Conklin
Jake Drummond - Jake Stratton
\xa0\xa0\xa0 TARBOXES
Abner Tarbox - Bill Hollweg (of Brokensea Audio)
Hap Tarbox - Reynaud LeBoeuf
Marilee Tarbox - Beverly Poole
Jenfaire Tarbox - Jody Montague
Harmonica music by Jere Canote (Canote.com)
Other Music:\xa0 Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)
Editing and Sound: \xa0 Julie Hoverson
Cover Design:\xa0 Brett Coulstock
Cover Photo:\xa0 Lauren Burbank (courtesy of Stock Xchange.com)
"What kind of a place is it?
Why it's hill country somewhere in the Old West..."
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THE DEADEYE KID
Cast:
Olivia
Lemuel Roberts (Deadeye Kid), retired gun, seen it all
Clarence Fanshaw, British writer, highfaluting
Hap Tarbox, last of the Tarboxes
Jake Drummond, last of the Drummonds
Marilee Tarbox, cause of the feud
Jenfaire Tarbox, Marilee's sister
Abner Tarbox, "old man" of the Tarboxes
Eb Drummond, old and more than a might tetched
Barkeep
Sheriff Nell Milford - ex-schoolmarm, talks purty.
OLIVIA \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Did you have any trouble finding it?\xa0 What do you mean, what kind of a place is it?\xa0 Why, it's an Ozark cart-road, can't you tell?\xa0
WESTERN MUSIC
AMBIANCE \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0DAYTIME WOODS - BIRDS, ETC.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 HOOF BEATS - TWO HORSES
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Tell me again why you wanted to come on up here?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 I've told you a dozen times already, old chap.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Keep tellin' me and might could I'll believe it some time.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [chuckle]\xa0 I am fascinated by the impact of emigrant culture into the Americas.\xa0 This particular area of the Ozark Mountain Range was heavily influenced by the Scottish who came here over the years.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I never heered no one from hereabouts sounding Scotch.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Not surprising, my good man - Scotch is a whiskey.\xa0 Scottish is an accent. [chuckles]
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [disgusted] I reckon.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 And you see, this area is most commonly known for carrying over the Scottish concept of the feud.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Well, I guess I did know that.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Some feuds in Scotland went on for generations - long after everyone had forgotten the root cause of the conflict.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yup.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 And this area is so isolated, nothing will have changed much for - oh, 200 years.\xa0 It's like a window into the past.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Speaking of holdin' grudges, Fanshaw, You might not want to say too much - folks round here might still be smartin' from that little dustup with your folks.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 My folks?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 You know, hunnert-some years back?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Hundred?\xa0 Oh!\xa0 Oh, yes.\xa0 I take your point, Lemuel.\xa0 Yes.\xa0 I shall keep mum, then, until we have tested the waters, so to speak, and understand the local population a mite better.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Long as you keep shet, I reckon we'll do fine.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 JUST THE HORSES FOR A MOMENT
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 GUNSHOT
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 Stop right there!
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 HORSES PULL UP
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [resigned] Don' want no trouble, podner.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 You one o' them?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Don' even know who them is.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 [hatred oozing] \xa0Them Drummonds?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Not no Drummond.\xa0 Don' know no Drummonds.\xa0 Jest passin' through.\xa0 Name's Lemuel Roberts.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 Roberts?\xa0 You the Deadeye Kid?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sigh, weary] \xa0Used t'be.\xa0 I's retired.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 But you don't stand with them Drummonds?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I stand pretty much as you see me.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 [thinks a moment]\xa0 You's s'posed to be mighty good with a shootin' iron - any chance you'd like a job?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I don' take sides.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 It wooden take long.\xa0 You and me, we cud end this hyear thing once and fer all.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sigh] I ain't a shootist no more.\xa0 Fight yer own battles.\xa0
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 HOOVES, CONTINUING UNTIL STOPPED
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [whispered] I say, what if he shoots you in the back?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [snort] Won't make no never mind.\xa0 He ain't no danger.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [realizing something]\xa0 Oh!\xa0 [beat]\xa0 I'm always surprised that you see things like that so much more clearly than I.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yep.\xa0 [dry sarcasm]\xa0 I'm the lucky one.
MUSIC
AMBIANCE\xa0\xa0\xa0 WESTERN TOWN
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 ONE SET OF BOOTS ON WOOD
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 SALOON DOOR OPENS, BOOTS STOP
AMBIANCE\xa0\xa0\xa0 SALOON
PEOPLE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [talking, slight lull in conversations]
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 BOOTS CONTINUE, DOOR SWINGS SHUT
PEOPLE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [Conversation resumes]
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [quietly] You certainly know how to make an entrance.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [quietly] Don' see too many strangers hereabouts.
BARKEEP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Certainly don't.\xa0 We're a mite off the beaten path.\xa0 What'll you have?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Whiskey.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 I could do with some myself.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sighs, then loud, to bartender]\xa0 I dint see no sign.\xa0 What's the name of this here town?
BARKEEP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Locknaw.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [excited, but still very quiet]\xa0 I knew it!\xa0 I'm quite sure there's a castle Lochnaw - I shall have to look that up.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 ONE GLASS BEING SET DOWN AND POURED
BARKEEP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Like I said, we don' get many strangers hereabouts.\xa0 No need fer a sign.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Reckon so.\xa0 [drinks quickly, reacts]\xa0 I heerd tell of some feudin' up this way?\xa0 P'raps why you get no company?
BARKEEP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Did that blasted Hap Tarbox try and hold you up?\xa0 [calling] \xa0Sheriff?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 No, no - I met someone, but he was might near civil.\xa0
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 You call that civil?
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 OFF - CREAK OF CHAIR, FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 They ain't no need fer... \xa0You-- you all gotta female sheriff?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 I say--!
BARKEEP \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0[hurriedly, under his breath]\xa0 She's the only one no one--
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 FOOTSTEPS STOP
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 I\u2019m Sheriff Milford, but most folks just call me Sheriff Nell.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Don\u2019 take you very serious, do they?
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 They don\u2019t have much choice.\xa0 Is there anything I can help you with?
BARKEEP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Tarbox's up to it again.
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 That\u2019s preposterous.\xa0 I've got him locked up.\xa0 What's your name, stranger?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [reluctant, but rapid] Lemuel Roberts.\xa0 I saw someone--
BARKEEP\xa0\xa0\xa0 [belligerently, resents sheriff] Someone tried to stop him in the road and it surely weren't Abner Tarbox.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 I say, why?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [trying to calm them]\xa0 Dint nobody try to stop me.\xa0 I was just sayin I met someone on the road.\xa0
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 What did he look like?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I dint--
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Just under 6 feet tall, ginger hair, perhaps 60 years old, ruddy complexion--
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [undertone] tsch.\xa0 [up] --Dint get a good look at him.\xa0 He'us in the brush.
BARKEEP\xa0\xa0\xa0 That's Hap--
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Hush.\xa0 Let's have a seat.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 FOOTSTEPS
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 This ...person... did he say anything?
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 SQUEAK OF CHAIRS
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ast if I was Tarbox or Drummond.\xa0 When I said I dint know neither one from Adam, he passed on... on by.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [chuckle]
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 When was this?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 n'hour or so.\xa0 See here, what's a'goin' on?
FANSHAW \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Yes, this is perfectly fascinating!
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sigh] Tarbox - Drummond feud.\xa0 Started long before I arrived in town.\xa0 They've just about managed to kill each other off.\xa0 The only ones still fighting are Hap Tarbox and Jake Drummond, and neither one has any children, so Locknaw's just keeping its head down until one or both is done in.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 And you're the only one they all--
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 I was made sheriff because I'm the only one in town with no kin on either side.\xa0 I came to Locknaw as schoolmarm, if you can believe it.\xa0
SHERIFF NELL \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0(continues) Took this on since it was the only way to keep them from shooting up the town every Friday night.\xa0 Now they just terrorize each other - and strangers.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Perhaps we can help?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I'm not much of one fer interferin'--
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 That isn't what I've heard, Mister Roberts.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [Sigh]
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Your reputation precedes you.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I cain't never get away from it.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [with Nell] Double negative.\xa0 [chuckles at Nell's reaction]
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 [with Fanshaw] You shouldn't use a double negative like that.\xa0 [NOTE she does not react to Fanshaw's comment.]
LEM \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0I don't rightly care.\xa0
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 I\u2019m so sorry.\xa0 Old habits. \xa0I'm-- [sigh]\xa0 Sorry.\xa0 If you truly don't want to interfere, I'll--
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I dint not say that - neither.
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 [laughs]
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 You're smarter than you act sometimes, "podner."
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Only, it's more on account of what I used to be, than what I am, if you take my drift.
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 I'm afraid I don't.\xa0 Quite.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 He's a reformed man.\xa0 Trying to make up for the things he feels he has done wrong.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Let's just say that if I still were who I was, I'd prob'ly be wantin' money fer this.\xa0 Being who I am now, I'm just tryin' to -- well, get inta providence's good books.
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Expiation.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 My precise word.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Naw, just payin' back for my sins.
MUSIC
AMBIANCE\xa0\xa0\xa0 WOODS, ONE SET OF FOOTSTEPS IN UNDERBRUSH
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Are you sure this is safe?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 You don' have to come along.\xa0 You're sumpin' of a trial.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 That's the sort of thanks I get!\xa0 If it were not for me--
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 You know I don' mind the comp'ny, I jest meant--
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 LOUD SNAP OF TWIG
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Was that--?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 A twig.\xa0 We should be jest about there, if'n I reckon right.\xa0 [grunt]\xa0 Yep - it's cleared out over thataway.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 That will make a delightful change.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 CRUNCHING THROUGH BRUSH, THEN FEET ON DIRT
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [low] \xa0I say, look there, Lemuel.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [low] \xa0I see her.\xa0 [up, very deferential]\xa0 Ma'am?\xa0 Ma'am?\xa0
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [gasps, taken completely by surprise] Oh!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ma'am, please, we don' mean no--
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 --any--
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 --no harm.\xa0 Jest want to set and talk for a spell.\xa0 Are you Marilee Tarbox?\xa0 I was told I might find you hereabouts.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [utterly bewildered] I-- I--\xa0 What are you doing here?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 We've come to speak with you, my dear young lady, about the - ahem - altercation between the Tarbox family and the Drummonds.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 I'm afeared that'us all my doin'.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 That's why we come.\xa0 Can you bear to tell it?
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 I'us s'posed to marry my removed cousin Abner Tarbox, but I\u2019us took with love for Eb Drummond.\xa0 So young and fetchin--
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 How utterly tragic!
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ayep!\xa0 As t'was, I dint make it nowheres.\xa0 Never did get to church.\xa0 After-- well, Abner and all brought me back here, and here I's stayed.\xa0
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 And of course, Abner couldn't marry you, after all that had happened--
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [shocked]\xa0 That's crazy talk!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Don' pay Fanshaw no mind.\xa0 He's furren.\xa0 They talk plumb crazy all the time.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Lemuel!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Miss Marilee, so you's tellin' us that it was you harin' off that started up the feud?
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 S'all I know about.\xa0 [ashamed] \xa0O'course, no one much talks to me no more.\xa0
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 That is most definitely their loss, miss Tarbox.\xa0 You are as lovely as a veritable posey in springtime.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [smiling] Crazy but sweet, aincha just?
MUSIC
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 MORE BUSHWHACKING
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 I don't see what more we need to know - Miss Marilee's abscondance was the root of the conflict.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I jest don't see it.\xa0 It ain't -- drastic enough, to my mind.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Trust me, it takes very little to set Scottish blood afire, even at this far remove!
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 GUN SHOT
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Was that--?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yup.\xa0 That one WAS.\xa0 Stay here.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 DROP HEAVY BAG ON HARD GROUND
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [Calling]\xa0 I ain't yer enemy!\xa0 Whoever y'are, I ain't none o' this!\xa0 Jest want some palaver.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ain't a Tarbox?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Wouldn't even if'n I could.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off] I'm not even going to try...
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [low] Hesh.\xa0 [up]\xa0 Can I come on?\xa0 You see my hands, a'right?
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [beat]\xa0 All right.\xa0 Come on, then.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [to Fanshaw] Keep shut.\xa0 I don't fancy getting' kilt here.
FANSHAW \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0[off, fading]\xa0 Right-ho, Lem.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 WADING THROUGH UNDERBRUSH
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Who are you, then?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Lemuel Roberts.\xa0 You can call me Lem.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 [coming on, wheezy]\xa0 Looks like a Tarbox t'me.
JAKE \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Lem.\xa0 I'm Jake.\xa0 You holdin' iron?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Left it yonder.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [grunt of acceptance]\xa0 So what you come fer?
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 He's scouting fer them.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 How bout you'n'I set a spell?\xa0
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 I reckon we cud do that.\xa0 Lord'a'mighty, put yer hands down - you look right silly.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Thankee kindly.\xa0 [grunt as he sits]\xa0
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 You cain't trust him, cain't trust none'o them!
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Lemuel Roberts.\xa0 Seems like I heered that name somewheres.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 He's the Deadeye Kid!\xa0 Just goes to show them Tarboxes are yeller enough to hire theyselves a gun!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [grudgingly] Folks sometimes call me... the Deadeye Kid.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Thassit!\xa0 [suddenly suspicious]\xa0 Them Tarboxes, they pay y'all to come on up here?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Nope.\xa0 [sighs]\xa0 I-- I don't rightly know why I'm gettin' inta the middle o' this--
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 He's a low-down dirty liar!\xa0 Check and see if he got him a forked tongue.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Mister Drummond, I reckon the only folks I'm speakin' for here is the town.\xa0 They ast me to try and stop all this trouble, and here I am.\xa0 They jest ast me cuz I don't haveta live here, and I-- well, I guess I ain't a\u2011scared of much.\xa0 [slight snort]
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 You shud be!\xa0 My boy here can shoot the eye out a silver eagle at twenny paces!
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [snort of disbelief] Y'all are gonna sort this here out?\xa0 Cain't think how you spect to do that.\xa0 This'us been goin' on for a donkey's years, and Hap ain't about to rein in none.\xa0 He's a curly wolf 'n no mistake.\xa0 Time and again, I tried to reach some kinder accord with him, but - well, I shore wooden be s'prised to find that boy was plumb rabid.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 That whole family got polecat in it somewheres.\xa0 Ain't none of the menfolk right in the head.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 But you'ud set down if'n he did?
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [blows out air, thinking, then doubtful]\xa0 I reckon I cud, but I cain't see my way to trustin' him, nohow.\xa0 He'd lie soon as look atcha.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Don't you go trustin' them Tarboxes, boy!\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 If I sort this out right, he shou'n't have nothin' left to be afired up about.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 He was borned afired up.\xa0 Hmm... [beat]\xa0 Well, [slaps his thighs] Least I can be hospitable.\xa0 You a drinkin' man?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I wouldn't say no to a snort.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 CREAK OF LEATHER AS JAKE GETS UP
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [going off] Be right back.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 FEET ON GRAVEL WALK AWAY
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [waits a second, then] And you, sir?\xa0
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Me?\xa0 Eh?\xa0 No one lissens to me!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Might you be Eb Drummond?
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sly]\xa0 I might.... but not to any Tarbox.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Marilee sends her love.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 [flabbergasted]\xa0 Marilee?\xa0 How\u2019d you know Marilee?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Talked to her, jest as I'm talking to you now.\xa0 Figgered the boy wouldn't understand, so I waited to tell you.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 She--\xa0 Is she--?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I spect she's much as you remember her.\xa0 They never managed to get her hitched, if that's what you're worrying about.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Then ...what happened--?
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL RETURNING
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Make it myself.\xa0 Old granddad's receipt.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Boy does take after me.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 CREAK AS JAKE SITS
SOUND \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0BOTTLE TOP OFF, POUR INTO TIN CUP
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Get yerself around that, then.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [reacts - powerful, but not bad]
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [chuckles] Kicks, eh?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [coughing slightly] Like a cougar in a carrysack.\xa0
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yep.\xa0 Bites and scratches all the way down.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [chuckles]
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Boy!\xa0 Yes you.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [very understated] Hmm?
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 OCCASIONAL SIPPING, POUR OF ANOTHER DRINK, THROUGHOUT THE FOLLOWING
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 [whispering throughout] Them Tarboxes, they said Marilee brought me a poke of gold coins, as a dowry-like--
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 So you're fixin' to end the feud?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yep.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 --and that's what started the intire mess.\xa0 When they - they ...found her--
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 I'd be happier than a pig in swill if this was over.\xa0
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 --the coins weren't nowhere. \xa0She never had 'em!
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 I cud settle down.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 You b'lieve me, dontcha?
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Maybe raise me up some kids.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yep.\xa0 [slight change in emphasis]\xa0 Sounds mighty nice.\xa0
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 It's Hap Tarbox won' letcha snap it off.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Reckon I'll ask him hisself.\xa0
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 CREAK AS HE GETS UP, DUSTS HIS SEAT
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Afternoon.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Here's luck.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 If you happen across Marilee again, tell her I- I'll come for her.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I'll carry that.
MUSIC
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Gold?\xa0 I was quite certain this all began with love.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Gold moves jest as many mountains.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yes, but you must consider - Love may very well vanish into thin air, but gold must have actually gone somewhere.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Plenty o' folks, these parts, \u2018d bury it.\xa0 No one'ud ever know.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Oh, come now.\xa0 A secret is only a secret if no one knows it.\xa0 Did he say how much gold?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Spect he dint know.\xa0 Not likely they'd a given no reckonin' to them they's accusin' of rustlin\u2019, no ways.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sigh]\xa0 Sometimes I truly despair for your grammar.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [smile] \xa0My Grammar's dead.\xa0 Keeled over when I wasn't but a pup.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sound of exasperation].
MUSIC
AMBIANCE\xa0\xa0\xa0 TOWN
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 HOOVES - ONE HORSE
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 HORSE STOPS, CREAK OF A DISMOUNT
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 BOOTS ACROSS WOODEN PLANKING, KNOCK ON DOOR
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off]\xa0 Come on in!
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 This Hap fellow isn't likely to be very cooperative, after his incarceration.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Let me do the talkin'.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 DOOR OPENS, FOOTSTEPS CONTINUE
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [muttered] As always...
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Sheriff?\xa0 Ma'am?
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Mr. Roberts.\xa0 Have you had any luck?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 A mite.\xa0 Can I jaw with your prisoner for a spell?
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 HEAVY LEATHER CARRYSACK BEING SET DOWN
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Hap? \xa0Certainly.\xa0 Though I must warn you he's not very cooperative.\xa0 Right through here.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 JINGLE OF BIG KEY RING
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 LADY'S FOOTSTEPS FOLLOWED BY SINGLE SET OF HEAVY BOOTS
SOUND \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0LOCK UNLOCKS, DOOR OPENS, FOOTSTEPS CONTINUE
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off, calling, slightly disgruntled] I'll just wait out here, shall I?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [muttered] That's jest fine.
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Hmm?
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 FOOTSTEPS STOP, JINGLE OF KEYS AGAIN
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ah'm startin\u2019 to see what mighta caused all this.\xa0
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 How?\xa0 I've had Hap and Jake each at one time and another in lockup here, and neither one seems to know - or they simply won\u2019t speak of it.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ah\u2019m good at listenin' to them as no one else pays any mind to.\xa0
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Whatever do you mean?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [he said too much]\xa0 Um, old folks, crazy folks, injuns - them kinds.\xa0
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 [puzzled] Hmm.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 If'n it gets the job done, I reckon the path I take don't matter much?
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sigh] Too true.\xa0 Well, see what sort of a path you can turn up in there - but I'm afraid you'll find it a rather crooked one.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 DOOR OPENS, BOOTED FEET GO IN
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Wuzzat?
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Someone wishes to speak with you, Mr. Tarbox.\xa0 Please try and be civil.
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 You can go to blazes, bezom.
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Such a fine upstanding character.\xa0 I want nothing further to do with him.\xa0
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 BOOTS SLOW INTO ROOM.\xa0 DOOR SHUTS.
HAP \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0You can go to blazes too, who\u2019e\u2019er y\u2019be!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Kinda dark in here, ain't it?
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 It's the pokey, nit.\xa0
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 Hey! \xa0I clapped eyes on you afore this - on the road!\xa0 You said you wasn't involved!\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I ain't involved in none of this, jest trying to help the Sheriff keep the peace.\xa0 Now, she says Hap - that's you, ain't it? - is one o' them making trouble.
ABNER \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0It's them Drummonds!\xa0 They's the ones started it, stealin' our gold!
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 This is all them Drummonds' fault!\xa0 We're jest tryin' to get back our own!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I unnerstand that.\xa0 Now if'n I can nose out what y'all lost, get it back to you, would you agree to end this - make peace?
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 My own cousin was kilt fer that gold!\xa0 That varmint Eb Drummond tricked her into stealin\u2019 it, then crevassed her once't he done got hold of it!
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 [not convincing, too sly] I reckon I might could set down - long as Drummond does.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 Her folks was took hard - losing both daughters in jest one season.
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Y'all come back when Drummond turns peacable, ya hear?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [muttering]\xa0 Two daughters?
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 What?\xa0 Wazzat?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [disgusted noise, then strangely inflected]\xa0 I'll speak with you again soon, feller.
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Soon?\xa0 hah!
MUSIC
AMBIANCE\xa0\xa0\xa0 WESTERN TOWN STREET
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 ONE PAIR BOOTS ON WOOD OR HARDPACK, WALKING SLOWLY
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Didja see him?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yes.\xa0 While you were in conference with Tarbox, I took a look around - [heavy sarcasm] as much as I can manage on my own.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 And?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Jake Drummond was certainly watching when we left the Sheriff's office.\xa0 What shall we do now?\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I'm sore tempted to break Hap Tarbox out the pokey.
FANSHAW \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Surely you jest!\xa0 Lem, that would be madness!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 It'd be one way to end everythin'.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Do you mean--?
LEM \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0You put two rabid dogs in one corral, you're bound to have at least one less dog.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 But Jake... He seemed like a rather reasonable fellow.
LEM \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0That's all at\u2019s stoppin' me.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 PAPER UNROLLS
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 What the devil is -- [confused] a wanted poster?\xa0 [very dry] You're holding it upside down.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Don' matter--
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 PAPER IS ROLLED UP
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 --I jest took it.\xa0 Wanted sumpin' to make Jake wonder.
MUSIC
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 BUSHWHACKING
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 I don't see why we had to come all the way back out here. You've already spoken with Marilee.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I reckon she might have more t'say about them two lost girls.\xa0
FANSHAW \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Do you feel it's so important?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Everthin's important - right up til you know what ain't.\xa0 This - well, I reckon its jest sumpin that got overlooked, and I cain't leave a loose rope to dangle.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Colorful.\xa0 Do you still hear Jake behind us?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Reckon I do.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 LEAVE THE BRUSH, BOOTS ON HARD PACK
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Aha, the lady is expecting us.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [coming on] Y'all came back!
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Of course!\xa0 Simply to gaze upon you would brighten any man's day.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [giggles]
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [disgusted] Now that the courtin's done with, you two want a hayloft somewheres?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 I say!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 You say plenty.\xa0 Miss Marilee, we come back fer two reasons.\xa0 First, Tarbox said sumpin about two girls died the year the feud started--
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 My sister might could tell you more--
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off]\xa0 What in tarnation is wrong with you, Kid?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [calling back off to Jake] This'll only take a moment.\xa0 You might want to--
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off] Marilee?
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [breathless] Eb?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Now I see your scheme!\xa0 You romantic fool, you!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [calling] Jake, I need to apologize fer leadin' you all to hell and gone--
[BEHIND JAKE AND LEM, MARILEE AND EB EXCHANGE ENDEARMENTS - HE STARTS TO SOUND YOUNGER, LESS CROTCHETY]
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 I should say so!\xa0 What you want with in a place like this? [slightly weirded out - it is a graveyard]\xa0 They ain't nothin' here.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I been thinkin' that mebbe the answer is here somewheres.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Here?\xa0 Buried?\xa0 Was that paper Tarbox gave you a map?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 No map.\xa0 See, two young ladies - were taken from their family, right about the start of all this, here.\xa0 I'm reasonable sure Marilee weren't the cause, so I have to ast myself, what about the other one?
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Jenfaire?\xa0 What do you know about her?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Sheriff Nell says your sister left behind a child and a husband who weren't much more than a drunk and a troublemaker--
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 That's a Tarbox all right.\xa0 Beggin\u2019 your pardon, my dearest dove.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 He'us a beast.\xa0 He hurt her so bad when he got too much white lightnin inta him.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 So I ast myself who would need the money more, if'n she were plannin' on lightin' out fer parts unknown - a newborned mama, or a girl gone to marry?
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 But Jenfaire Tarbox, she was Hap's Grandma.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 So Sheriff Nell said.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 She never dint go nowheres.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Not like she planned, no.\xa0
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off] Hold it right thar!\xa0 Hands up, both of you!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Down!
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 No!
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 SCUFFLE, THEN GUNSHOTS [from off] WHICH PING OFF OF STONE.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 I reckon there's one good thing about meetin in a place like this.\xa0 [grunt as he rolls up to shoot]
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 CLOSE GUN SHOT
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Plenty o\u2019 cover.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Dammit, I'm trying to end this peaceable.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Go out there and tell that sidewinder, then.\xa0 I'll put up when he does.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Lem, he's behind a tree north-north east of here.\xa0 If you roll to the left, he won't have a clear shot.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Right.\xa0 Jake, you stay put.\xa0 Gimme some cover, but don't waste yer lead.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [almost enjoying this] Oh, I got plenty.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Just cover!
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 SCUFFLE AS LEM ROLLS AWAY.\xa0 A COUPLE QUICK GUN SHOTS FROM OFF, ONE FROM NEAR - THEY GO ON SPORADICALLY IN THE B/G
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Get Marilee over here.\xa0 I need Jenfaire.\xa0
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Right ho!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [yelling] Abner?\xa0 Abner Tarbox!
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 It's Hap, you chicken-brained dog-breath varmint!
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [hissing]\xa0 Course, it's Hap!\xa0 Abner got hung last month over to Conners Gulch.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [muttered] Dammit.\xa0
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Here is Marilee.\xa0 Shall go and I fetch Abner for you, as well?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sigh] Yeah.\xa0 If\u2019n you please.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Jenfaire don' wanna come.\xa0 She ain't fit for comp\u2019ny.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I ain't company, woman.\xa0 Think o' me as the law.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sounding much younger] Yes, darlin\u2019, lissen to the--
ABNER \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0[off, coming on] Let go of me - you city slickin' furriner!\xa0
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 What the blazes!
ABNER \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0[grunt of effort] Hah!\xa0 [shocked] Marilee!
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Abner!
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Stay behind me, Marilee.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 GUN SHOTS CONTINUE
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 You little mink, runnin' off on me.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 You dint take no time a'tall to fetch you another bride, Abner Tarbox.
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 [sarcasm] Right.\xa0 I plumb fergot it were almost five years afore you finally hitched up with Ellie Dean.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Oh!
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 I had to, darlin'--
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I hate to break up this li'l tea party--
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 GUNSHOT
LEM \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0But if'n we don't sort things out right quick, your 'last remainin' will be joinin' you.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off] You say sumpin, Lem?
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [calling] Talkin' to m'self.\xa0 [quieter, urgent] Get Jenfaire.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [going off] I'll try...
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 [low]\xa0 Eb, Don't you never tell that purty little girl this, but I was jest as happy to see the back of her.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 What? Why?
ABNER\xa0\xa0\xa0 I's never sure but that we was a mite too close fer kissin, if\u2019n you see where I's aimin'.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Oh!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Sounds t'me like, if the gold's found, this whole thing can be done with.
MARILEE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Jenfaire\u2019s here.\xa0 Talk.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Jenfaire?\xa0 Where?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 She prefers to stay out of sight, Lemuel, but she will answer.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [Sigh]\xa0 I\u2019ud rather look folks in the face, but-- Jenfaire Tarbox, wha'd you do with them gold coins?
JENFAIRE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [distant, wispy, teary]\xa0 I-- I hid \u2018em under the cowshed, in a leather poke.\xa0 I meant to go back and..., and git.\xa0 Just git away--\xa0 but the baby come early.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 I see.
JENFAIRE\xa0\xa0\xa0 --and I-- I dint make it.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Thank you ma'am, fer that.\xa0 You go on back now.\xa0 I'll try and turn this stampede.
EB\xa0\xa0\xa0 Can I-- I can stay here, with Marilee, cain't I?\xa0
LEM \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Reckon I don't know, but you can try.\xa0 [Up]\xa0 Hap!\xa0 I know where the gold is.\xa0 I'm standin' up, and if you shoot me, there ain't no one else alive can tell you where to find it.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Must you rub it in?
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 NOISE OF STANDING:\xa0 CREAK OF LEATHER, PULLING SELF UP ON HEADSTONE, ETC.
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off, calling] Tell Jake to throw down his weapon.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ain't gonna happen!
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 Tell him--
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ain't gonna happen, Hap.\xa0 But Jake is gonna walk away, and you and I are gonna go on and get yer coins.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [whispered, still hunkered down] I ain't!
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 Jest go.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 [beat, then] JAKE STANDS, FOOTSTEPS ON GRAVEL
MUSIC BUILDS \xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0NOT A CHANGE SCENE, JUST A DRAMATIC MOMENT
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 CLICK OF HAMMER ON REVOLVER
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 GUNSHOT, SOMEWHAT IN SLOW-MO
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 SECOND GUNSHOT - GOES WILD, RICOCHET.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [yell of surprise]
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off] Unggh!\xa0 [impact]
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Oh, good shot.
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 [turning around/coming on] What in tarnation?!
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 BODY DROP, OFF
HAP\xa0\xa0\xa0 [off, death rattle]
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [under his breath]\xa0 Damn.
MUSIC
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 HIS AND HERS BOOTS ON WOODEN PLANKS
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 So Mr. Roberts shot Hap?
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 The critter was fixin' to shoot me in the back!\xa0 He couldn't not do it.\xa0 [beat]\xa0 Ma\u2019am.
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Did anyone else witness this?
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Nope.\xa0 I'm plumb sorry miss, I mean sheriff, ma\u2019am, but it was jest the three of us. \xa0[beat] \xa0And all them headstones.
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 BOOTS STOP. DOOR OPENS SLOWLY, WITH EFFORT
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 Ungh - what is -- wrong --?
JAKE\xa0\xa0\xa0 Let me help ya, miss.\xa0 Ungh --
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 DOOR OPENS GRUDGINGLY, SOMETHING FABRIC IS BEHIND IT
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 MUFFLED CLINK
SHERIFF NELL\xa0\xa0\xa0 A rotted old leather sack?\xa0
MUSIC
SOUND\xa0\xa0\xa0 TWO HORSES HOOVES
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 You could have kept some.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [down] Sheriff Nell there will see it gets put to good use - mebbe fer a church or a school or sumpin.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 You did the right thing.\xa0 That town is free of a terrible burden.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [down] My hands done it.\xa0 Dint give me no time to think twice.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 If not for your interference, Lemuel, a good man - Jake - would be dead.\xa0 [beat] Try to think of it this way - you ended the feud with but a single shot.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [starting out of slump] Yeah, I reckon a single shot kin have some kind of power.
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 Yes.
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [kidding, sly] Like that shot heard round the world?\xa0 Jest over a hunnert years ago?
FANSHAW\xa0\xa0\xa0 [huffy] Yes, well.\xa0
LEM\xa0\xa0\xa0 [chuckles a bit]
MUSIC OUT
CLOSER
\xa0
NOTE:\xa0 Poem with the line shot heard round the world was written in 1837.