( theme music playing )
( horn blowing )
* Goodbye, fare ye well
* We're homeward bound...
Judith, does that singin' bother you?
Susan?
Well, it sure bothers me.
* ...a gal in Liverpool--
You've been doin' that all the way from Casper.
And I ain't repeated myself. You noticed?
Yeah. Well, I'd like to ask you a favor.
Sure, ask.
I think I'll get some air, Mr. Trampas.
All right.
Say, she's pretty. Yeah. About your--
When she got on in Casper, that's the remark I made to myself.
Now, there's a girl who's pretty.
Good for you. Now, what I'm getting at is, for the rest of--
Yes, Susan?
I think I'll take this shawl out to Judith.
It might get chilly.
Yeah.
She married? No.
Look, I'll put it to you real simple.
Your singin' annoys people--me.
Now, that's a shame. That's a real shame.
Judith married? No.
Well, that's good. They're sisters-- that's for sure.
But which one's the youngest?
This may come as a real shock to you,
but neither one. They're twins.
Oh, twins.
* I have a gal in Liverpool Town *
* I promised her that we'd never part *
( train whistle blowing )
Judith?
What are you thinking?
I hate this land.
Oh, I don't.
I think finally we're going some--
somewhere that'll mean something to both of us.
Aren't you tired of going from place to place, Judith?
So little time in each.
And then off again, and off again.
* She loved no other, no other but me *
* She cried so at partin', in nearly broke my heart-- *
The fact that you sing like a crow don't help none.
You understand me now?
You don't want me to sing no more.
No. Now, it's a chore
bringin' two young ladies up from Casper,
and I aim to sleep the rest of the way to Medicine Bow.
Well, I aim to sing.
Well, I aim to sleep.
Can I show you something?
Sure.
Are you chilly? No.
Perhaps you're right.
Perhaps this place we're going to will be--
I don't know, something different, a change.
Perhaps you're right.
Hold that.
You find it yet? Yep.
**
How would you like to see your gizzard
at the end of that, cowboy?
CONDUCTOR: Medicine Bow. Medicine Bow.
You're the first crow I ever seen with his own stinger.
CONDUCTOR: Medicine Bow. Medicine Bow.
Well, I guess we're here.
So, since you asked me, I won't sing no more.
Medicine Bow, ladies.
**
( train bell ringing )
Well, I thank you for the refreshment...
and the conversation.
Oh, anytime. Anytime at all.
Hey, did you hear about them two girls
that came in on the train last night?
Hear about it? The whole town--
They just went driving by in the buggy.
But there was another girl drivin' them.
Beautiful girl-- blond, freckles, little tiny nose.
Oh, sounds like Molly. Molly Wood.
Oh. Molly Wood.
Would you know where they'd be going?
Well, I couldn't be sure--
There was a man with them.
Uh, Trampas, I think, was his name,
and another cowboy, too.
Trampas? Yeah.
If he was with them, they'd be goin' out to Judge Garth's place.
Shiloh Ranch.
How would I get to there?
Oh, River Road. East. You can't miss it.
Is there a place around where I can get a horse quick?
Livery stable's just up the street.
Thank you.
Hey! I thought you were lookin' for a farm.
What's a farm without a wife?
**
Hey, Molly! Pull up the horses!
I promised the girls some fancy ropin'!
* Adieu, Prince Edward's Isle *
* Prince Edward, thou adieu
* Adieu, my lady's smile
( moos )
* Adieu, Prince Edward's Isle *
* Prince Edward, thou adieu
* Adieu, my lady's smile
* I must...
( mooing )
Well, that's how it's done. How'd you like it?
Very exciting, Trampas.
You ride beautifully.
All in a day's work.
Do you really think so?
Yes, I do.
Judith, you're a shrewd judge of horsemanship.
I knew that right off.
Have you seen much riding, Judith?
Yes, I have. Why?
Just wondering, is all.
And ropin'?
Well, none quite as graceful
or as thrilling as Trampas.
Thrilling?
Yes, very. Wasn't it, Susan?
Yes, it was.
Don't you girls move a step.
**
Not a step.
Hyah!
( moos )
That was splendid, Steve.
Just wanted to give you a notion of how it needs to be done.
And yet...
And yet what?
And yet it would be most difficult
to have to choose between you.
You're both such splendid horsemen.
Aren't they, Susan?
The best we've ever seen.
Now may I take the young ladies on to Shiloh?
Judge Garth expected you early this morning.
What I was gonna suggest was that the young ladies take a ride.
You know, get the feel of the place, see how pretty it is.
I'd like that.
STEVE: Do you ride, Miss Judith?
Not very well.
Don't worry about it.
**
Mornin'!
Good morning.
My, ain't that a treat-- all that land.
All that beautiful land!
Flat and rocks and hills
and creatures on it, runnin'.
My, ain't it a treat.
Where do you come from?
Oh, I'm from nearly everyplace, except here.
Mostly I was a sailor.
I used to be that, but no more.
What I am--
Would you like to know what I am?
Yes.
I'm a man come home from the sea...
for good.
That's what I am.
And I'm Kevin Doyle, too.
I'm Molly Wood.
You're pretty.
Thank you.
And I'm glad about that.
( laughs ) Why?
Well, I come here to get a farm...
and to get a wife.
You married?
Widow lady?
Serving girl?
( laughs ) No.
Well, what, then?
I run a newspaper. Huh?
I run a newspaper, Mr. Doyle, and I run it--
But that don't explain how come you're not married.
Well, I guess-- You guess what?
I guess you got to get married someday.
You're invited.
Bring food from your farm.
Good-bye, Mr. Doyle.
I'm a wanderer. I may never come this way again.
Good-bye, Mr. Doyle.
Oh, I sorrow for you, Molly dear, I do.
But I may come knockin' at your door.
* Adieu, my lady's smile
* Adieu, Prince Edward's Isle *
* Adieu, my lady's smile
* I must be leaving you
( continues singing )
**
Whoa.
This is Shiloh.
This is Judge Garth's ranch.
It's beautiful, isn't it, Judith?
( clicks tongue )
Boys, go on up and grease the windmill.
When you're done with that, get back to the bunkhouse.
Hello. Judge expected you an hour ago.
Tell that to Steve and Trampas.
They were showing off for the girls.
Which one is Judith and which one is Susan?
I'm Judith, this is Susan.
Hello. Hello.
You can call him the Virginian. Everyone else does.
Are you from Virginia?
A few years back, ma'am.
I thought you were gonna be at Big Pines this week.
Leave in the morning.
Don't worry, Molly.
I'll be back in time for the celebration.
I was worried sick.
However, maybe I'll be needed here--
kind of help look after Judith and Susan.
I know your kind of looking after. They don't need it.
You never seem to mind it.
Whatever gave you that idea?
Come along, ladies.
Nice meeting you. Yes.
Pleasure's mine.
Give me a hand over here.
**
JUDGE: Do you like books, Judith?
Yes. Yes, I do.
Father told us of you, of your love for books,
and how you were such old and good friends.
Yes, we were.
He spoke of you often.
I think of him often.
But now his two daughters are here.
His legacy to me is a lovely one.
When he died, he asked that...
we be worthy of your friendship.
Judge dear, now that the girls are delivered to you safe and sound,
may I go back and earn my living?
Thank you, Molly. Thank you for letting them stay with you.
Oh, not at all. It was a pleasure.
Oh, no, please. I can find my way out.
Judith, Susan, I'll see you both in town.
Good-bye. Thank you.
Molly was so kind to us.
Molly is one of the special people.
Now, then... which of you
is the clever one with a potter's wheel?
She is.
My apologies, Susan.
I should've had your shop and place to live ready for you.
But I've been away.
Judge Garth?
This book about the sea--
the Mediterranean and the countries around it.
May I borrow it?
Why, it's yours.
Oh, no, no. I just want to borrow it.
Then I can come back and borrow others.
Whenever you like.
Thank you.
You see, Judge Garth,
Judith has a--
I have what, Sue?
Well, I was only going to say
that you haven't made up your mind about things yet--
what you want to do, when you want to marry, or--
What my sister is trying to tell you, Judge Garth,
is that I shall be a burden to you.
I meant nothing of the kind.
A burden because I haven't found myself--
what I want to do, what I am,
where I want to go.
And all the time, Susan shall be earning her keep,
making pottery, making things for people to buy.
And I? I shall be a burden to you.
Well, I can't conceive that.
Coming to you with questions, borrowing books,
disturbing you with my ignorance.
Because I don't know yet what I am,
what I want to be.
I don't know. I just don't know.
Well, we've heard from Judith.
Now let's hear from you.
Well...ask me things,
or I won't know where to begin.
JUDGE: Well, how did you learn to work the potter's wheel?
Let's start with that.
Well...
once when Daddy and I-- and Judith--
were wandering from Omaha to the West.
Daddy was positive there was work further west.
We met a peddler and his wagon.
There were all manner of things in it--
laces and cloths and trinkets.
A music box.
All matter of things a young girl could want.
And there was a potter's wheel.
So Daddy bought it for me.
And when we stayed in one place for a while,
I learned to use it, to make things on it with clay.
It was a--
( crying )
Judith, listen to me.
Listen, it was an accident. It wasn't your fault.
You mustn't blame yourself.
( sobbing )
Judge.
Judith, nothing has happened, nothing.
Your sister isn't hurt. She's not hurt.
I didn't mean it, I didn't mean it. I'm sorry!
I know. I know you didn't.
I--I just--
It's all right. I'm sorry.
Well, we won't say a word of this to anyone.
Not a word.
It was my fault anyway.
I shouldn't have left this gun here.
You--
You're not angry?
You'll let me come back?
Why, you needn't go back to town at all.
You can stay here, both of you.
Susan...
Yes?
When I thought that I had killed you...
my heart stopped beating.
Help me, Susan. Help me say it.
I don't know how. I don't know what you want to say.
That we're really one person.
When you're hurt, I'm hurt.
Isn't that so?
Yes.
Yes, it is.
**
( horse neighs )
Well...
are you enjoying it? No!
Of course I am.
Except...
it makes me sad.
So much to see.
So much of the world.
Sights and sounds and--
Did you ever want to bite the world like an apple?
Of course. When?
( laughs )
Oh, no. Not now anymore.
Now my life has fallen into a pattern,
and that's the way I want to live it.
Were you looking for me?
No, I was riding into Medicine Bow.
Why?
See your sister and her shop,
how she's getting along.
I see.
Judge, did you ever wish--
did you ever wish you could--
Well, here.
The sounds of names.
Thebes, Samarkand.
All faraway places.
To go there? Uh-huh.
Yes, when I was very much younger, I did.
Most young men have dreams like that.
And now?
Oh...
someday I'll take a trip.
I'll see Europe,
stand before the paintings and the castles
and the...antiquities
and marvel at them.
Uh, no. Thebes, Samarkand.
Strange, exotic places.
Judith...
I've lived through quite a few years
here in this land.
Here, and in the South,
and West.
And I've been there.
The caravans west.
The Chiricahua, Snake River,
King's Peak...
the Rio Grande.
Now I've come to that part of my life
where I don't want things changed very much.
Are you getting old? Is that what you mean?
Old? Not old.
Oh, changes will come, I'm sure.
I can't help that, because that's in the very nature of things.
But then...
you can't possibly realize that yet.
You're right, you're not.
What? Old.
( laughs )
**
No.
But all I want to do is kiss you.
And you expect me to let you?
Why not? I'm the very soul of honor.
I'm lookin' for a wife,
a woman to help me raise up a dozen kids
and then send them all to sea.
And you've decided on me to be their mother?
No, Miss Molly. I'm merely searching.
I wanted to kiss you to find out if I'd like it.
And supposing you do?
Well, then I'll start thinkin' about you more than I do now.
Kevin...I like you.
Well, I'm likeable.
But I'm busy.
I've been waitin' for two hours
for you to finish writin' what you had to.
Now, I know it's midday, Miss Molly,
but you take my word for it,
midday's as good a time for courtin' as any.
Really? Yes, ma'am.
Once I was on an island called Samoa--
Samoa?
That's practically all they do there, is court.
Any time of day. They ain't swimmin'
or shreddin' coconut-- they're courtin'.
Then, in Sumatra-- Sumatra?
Yeah, that's a country far across the sea, and--
Kevin. Yes, ma'am?
I like to hear you talk,
but I'm not the girl for you.
Take me for a walk. Fair enough?
Fair enough.
I like to hear me talk, too.
But strange as it may seem, Miss Molly,
I talk only the truth.
Come along.
**
What's that for?
They're building a bandstand.
Medicine Bow will be 25 years old on Saturday.
Oh?
Bands and racing and everything, huh?
That's swift foot racing indeed!
Where are we goin'? In here.
What do we want to come in here for?
To give them a hand.
Stow 'em out, mates.
Hey.
Hello, Susan. We just dropped by
to see if we could help you out. This is--
You looked different on the train.
Huh?
On the train, you looked like, uh--
you looked like one of them ladies from Nova Scotia.
Hey, mister, I want to talk to you outside.
You know, poke bonnet and suckin' their cheeks
and lookin' all dried up, like they'd just come from church,
like they just listened to a sermon about sins
they never dreamed of doin'.
We never finished our business on the train.
JUDITH: Nova Scotia? Yes, ma'am.
Where's that?
Oh, that's in the wide Atlantic.
Got so cold there, I nearly froze my chin whiskers.
I once wore chin whiskers.
Did you? Mm-hmm.
Down to here.
One of those ladies got laughin' so hard,
I stopped kissin' her long enough to shave 'em off.
Hey, sailor, I'm talkin' to you.
I know.
Put that away, huh?
JUDITH: You're a sailor? You've seen the sea?
Oh, I've seen 'em all.
I want to show you something.
Come on.
If those girls weren't around,
I'd take that sea scrub apart limb by limb.
Sure you would.
Isn't there a sea chanty about a sailor being fickle?
He's very handsome.
Listen to it.
Oh, I've heard it.
No, listen to it.
Is that what it sounds like?
Is that what the sea sounds like?
Yep.
Yes? Mm-hmm.
I've never seen the sea.
Oh, I've seen 'em all.
My father saw it once. Mm-hmm?
West. The Pacific, for a day.
He looked at it, and it frightened him,
so he went away from it.
He brought us this conch.
He said to listen to it, and this is what the sea sounded like.
Not all the time.
Sometimes it's teeth and thunder.
Oh, I've seen the sea just take men and swallow 'em right up.
I've seen sights.
I've seen all manner of places where the oceans end.
Tell me.
( laughs ) It'd take days to tell all--
Oh, no, please! Tell me.
It'd take days. Sit down. Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Well, let's see.
In the China seas, the water is green.
And around Aparri, the trees grow
right down to the edge of the beach.
You see it, you make it as a landfall,
you make port around sunset,
and you never did see such a sky.
You never did see such colors.
**
Someday I'm goin' away from here.
Not if I can help it.
I'm gonna find somebody to take me.
Know what I did today? Uh-uh.
I looked at a map.
Fella who sells farms around Medicine Bow showed me a map.
Tomorrow I'm goin' with him and look at some land.
You're gonna settle down forever and ever?
That's right. Gonna raise up children
to enjoy life as much as I do.
I'll pay my debt to this lovely world a dozen times over,
and I'll welcome death like a friend.
You're a strange man, Kevin.
Well, I pity the man that isn't.
We were talkin' about settling down.
You need a wife?
Aye.
I'm lookin' for her now.
Not me. Why?
Never been to Egypt.
Well, I've been there.
**
Judith! What are you doin'?
Come on in!
No! And you come out of there!
Judith!
Come on out of there, now!
( laughs )
Hey! What'd you do that for?
'Cause I felt like it. Why didn't you come in?
'Cause I can't swim.
Sailors don't, do they?
Most of 'em don't.
Judith.
What do you want from me?
Right now I just want to hold you.
Never.
Go on with your work.
I'm sorry.
I didn't hear you.
No need to apologize.
I enjoyed watchin'.
Enjoyed?
Yeah, seeing your hands move so quickly
and so surely,
creating beauty out of common clay.
Oh, I--I'm starting a bowl.
Most people don't see beauty there.
Oh, in Athens, in Greece,
I saw urns that were priceless
'cause of their beauty and grace.
And they were clay once.
I'm afraid none of mine will ever be priceless.
Oh, don't you be too certain.
You think that those Greeks who made those priceless urns
knew that they were creating great art?
Well, how do you know?
Maybe in 1,000 years, or maybe 2,000 years,
and archaeologist from some strange, new civilization
will dig right here
and make the discovery of his career--
your bowl.
I hadn't considered that.
Perhaps I'd better spend some extra time on this one.
Well, a word to the wise.
Is Judith upstairs?
No. She's out at Judge Garth's today.
That's strange.
Hmm?
I've been thinking.
My sister wouldn't be interested in this at all.
Vale of Kashmir, Hadrian's tomb.
And you--
you hear the far and fetching sounds, eh?
Mm-hmm.
Judge, Susan and I are twins.
There's a oneness about us,
as if neither of us is complete without the other.
And yet, there are terrible times when--
( laughs )
What were you going to say?
Uh, nothing.
Um...what are you writing?
Oh, just a feed list.
Things that have to be ordered.
What's troubling you, Judith?
You. You are.
With your talk and your books and--
just knowing you.
Maybe I would have been happier never to have come here.
Why, because I gave you a few books to read
on distant places-- pictures to look at?
You're the cause of my trouble, Judge Garth.
You have a responsibility towards me.
I think I'll borrow this book.
**
( chuckles )
( laughs )
You're very fond of Judith, aren't you?
Yes, ma'am.
She's very lucky.
And so are you.
I--I have to finish this before it dries.
If you don't mind.
Not at all. An artist has the right to solitude.
**
( breathing heavily )
You--You trouble me, Kevin.
How?
Oh...
you've opened up a whole world for me.
Did you know that?
Tell me the places you've been,
and giving them all a far and fetching sound...
making me unhappy.
Oh, them places-- ain't none of them as sweet as this land.
I bought a farm, Judith.
You gonna settle down here?
Yep.
To live out your years here?
With you, Judith. Never.
I'll find a way.
Will you? Yes, I will.
No, that's not the way. Not with kisses.
Well, then how?
Don't touch me.
Then how?
Look for it.
I hereby declare
that the town of Medicine Bow
is now officially 25 years old!
( cheering )
Therefore, let the celebration begin!
And let joy be unbound!
( music playing, cheering )
Ladies and gentlemen!
Your kind attention right up here to the center of the ring!
Ladies and gentlemen, I have here $100!
100 crisp and beautiful one-dollar bills
for anyone who can go three rounds
with the one and the only Kid Bruce!
There he is!
All right. Now, who's got the courage for it?
What about you, sir? What about you?
Come right up here. Now, isn't there one person
in this lovely town of Medicine Bow?
There must be one person
who's willing to step into this ring
and make the easiest $100 he's ever made in his life.
All right, now, do I hear someone? What about you, young man?
What about you? Come right up. That's the boy.
Get right up in there. Go ahead.
( cheering )
You tug a lot.
Seems we never get a chance to finish our conversation.
I noticed that.
I'm riled.
You know why I'm riled?
You held that knife to me.
I can't forget that.
The fact that I ain't done nothin' about it--
that riles me.
Well, if you're thinkin' of hittin' me
or something stupid like that, don't you do it.
I ain't afraid of you, if that's what you're thinkin'.
Well, I'm riled.
You know what I think?
I think you couldn't even lick that--
CROWD: Ohh!
I think you couldn't even lick that man there.
Not him. Him.
ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, 100 crisp...
Maybe.
Doubt it.
Could you? Oh, easy.
That's why I don't want to fight with you. I'd lick you too easy.
I look at you, and I don't see a fist fighter at all.
All right. I'll fight him if you'll fight him.
Oh, I was going to anyway.
But I wouldn't do it if I was you.
He's a professional fighter.
He knows all the tricks.
Do you?
ANNOUNCER: All right, ladies and gentlemen,
I have $100.
Me next!
You come right up here, boy!
Get right up there.
( fanfare, cheering )
Got you.
Ha ha ha!
Yah! Ha ha!
All right.
( cheering )
CROWD: Ohh!
( crowd booing )
All right, ladies and gentlemen.
I still have that $100.
Would anybody-- Hey! Me next!
You're next! Come right up here, boy.
That's it!
( crowd cheering )
All right, $100!
( bell rings )
( crowd cheering )
Trampas.
You worked harder for this than I did,
so I'll split it with you.
I licked you, Trampas, and I didn't have to hit you.
I'm glad about that.
**
The winner!
( cheering )
It's exciting, isn't it?
It'll be a wonderful day.
Don't you think so, Judith?
Let's go downstairs.
And we'll be together again...
all day long.
Like we used to.
We used to, didn't we, Susan?
I miss it.
Don't you?
I don't know.
I don't believe that.
What do you mean?
You seem restless.
I don't like it here.
I like it here.
There, you see? Two sides of the same coin.
Yes.
( cheering )
( gunshots )
( laughter )
Susan...what's going to become of us?
Well, we'll be together...
like we always have been.
It's what we want, isn't it?
No.
I can't stand--
I can't, that's all.
I can't.
Can't stand what?
I don't know. I'm restless.
We've both agreed to that.
We've both said, and we know it.
Can't stand what?
Let me alone, Susan.
Can't stand what?
Being tied to you!
Not being able to-- I tried to kill you!
I tried to, Susan, and you knew it!
When I pulled the trigger on that gun,
I wanted you out of my life...
so that I could live and be myself,
without you.
I wanted to kill you!
It was an accident. Was it?
Of course it was.
No, I wanted you out of my life,
so that I could live and be myself
and love and-- Judith--
Did you break it?
No.
It's all right.
Judith, you didn't mean you would--
No. Of course not.
It was rather a bad joke, wasn't it?
Let's go outside.
Let's be together again.
Yes.
**
How do I look?
Magnificent. Fast on my feet.
I must say it doesn't improve you, Trampas.
Hey, Molly, don't you have a dress that color?
Mm-hmm. With ruffles.
All right, you two.
You said I look magnificent.
But tell me-- do I look fast on my feet?
I have my bets on two boys
who are gonna walk all over you, sailor.
That's 'cause you don't understand.
Understand what?
About the secret advantage I got over 'em.
Over all of 'em.
What secret advantage?
If I told you, it wouldn't be a secret no more.
If you've got some kind of advantage goin' for you
that nobody knows about,
the judges might be interested.
Might at that.
Has to do with them small, delicate tendons
runnin' along the ridge of my instep and my toes.
What's different about 'em?
If I took my runnin' shoes off, you could see.
Well, take 'em off.
Oh, there's ladies present.
What's different about your tendons and toes?
What's different about 'em
is that they've been bathed
in the warm currents of the Persian Gulf.
STEVE: So what?
It quickens them, gives them a life of their own.
Everybody knows that.
Did you know that? Let's go.
What I told them about the Persian Gulf--
you think I made it up?
Do you think, Molly dear?
I've missed that.
Missed what?
That kind of talk.
Well, I've been busy with my farm
and the plannin' for it.
And with Judith.
You know what you just did? No.
You just sent a shiver right through me, Molly dear.
Just by the saying of her name?
When women fight over me, it sends a shiver through me.
And me with a footrace to win, too.
She's quite lovely.
Aye, Molly dear.
And different from the others you've known.
Ah, that she is.
And you've fallen in love with her.
Have you seen her?
Well, yes, at her sister's shop.
Oh, you mean, have I seen her here?
I mean, have you seen her here--
right here at this celebration?
No.
That's a shame.
I think it'd be pleasing to her sense of beauty
to see me win a footrace.
( laughs ) I think it would.
I'm sure it would.
Far way-- where I told you of--
a footrace winner is led into a sweet-smellin' garden--
Are you that sure you're going to win?
You doubt it?
You can stand there
in your bonnet and your petticoats
and truly doubt me?
Why, Molly dear...
( fanfare plays )
And now the event we've all been waiting for--
the Medicine Bow footrace!
( cheering )
Will the contestants please line up here for me?
Gather in here.
Will the contestants say their farewells
to their trainers and handlers, please?
Latecomers will not be tolerated.
Good luck, Kevin.
Thank you, ma'am.
What are you doing?
Waiting for you to kiss the winner.
( laughs )
And you just did. You'll see.
( laughs )
All right, gentlemen, line up.
Are you ready?
In a straight line, please.
Ready...
( cheering )
( firecrackers popping )
Judith! I'm winnin'!
And the winner of the first prize is...
Kevin Doyle!
( cheering )
MAN: Whoo-hoo-hoo!
( whistling )
Howdy, Trampas.
I'm still riled.
I thought we settled that.
No. No, you fightin' that fella
and me fightin' him--
that just wasn't the same thing.
Didn't settle anything at all.
And you're still mad?
No, not mad, really.
I reckon I kind of like you now.
Didn't think I would.
But you did pull that knife to me.
Yeah, I did.
Well, I reckon I'm gonna stay riled
till we settle this thing.
Well, if it'll make you feel any better...
Yep, it would.
All right.
Well, come on, swing at me.
Come on, come on, raise your hands.
Oh, no. You got a right to swing first,
on account of that knife.
Well...
Okay.
Still riled?
No.
Bartender, two beers.
**
Judith?
You know what you've done?
What'd I do?
You made a thing come true,
standin' over me there in the water...
in places where I've been
and the sea like glass...
I would stare into it.
There'd be an image there.
And a squall would come, and the image would be gone.
And I'd roam again, and find it again,
lose it again.
And then roam to another sea.
And now?
Now I've found it. I've captured it.
That wild and wandering thing-- I've found it.
And you won't escape.
No?
Judith--
You know what you won back there?
Huh? The prize.
The race. Do you know what you won?
A pig. A fat little pig,
who'll dig up your garden--
the garden you want me to plant for you
and tend for you.
Heh. The sailor who bought a farm,
won a pig, and now tries to win me for a wife.
Judith--
A sailor who binds himself to the earth,
and yet is so light of foot.
I'd give it up.
A sailor who speaks so prettily of far-off places.
Do you hear me? I said I'd give it up.
But you can't. It's what you said you always wanted.
No, no more. What you've dreamed.
No more!
Tell me.
The far places.
I know them. I'll take you there.
Places you've never seen?
Places I've never seen. I'll take you there, too.
And when we want to go to other lands, other countries?
We'll go there, Judith. Whatever you want.
Oh, swear it.
I've told you, Judith.
Kevin?
Is this what you saw?
Yep.
It's false.
Why?
Don't you see?
No.
Well, look.
There's not one person there, but two.
Not me alone, but with another.
There's only you.
You're wrong. I'm never alone.
There's always somebody else.
Who?
Susan.
That's from living so close together for so long.
It'll never end.
Never.
I'll book passage for just the two of us. Then it'll end.
No.
You've only got to tell her. No.
Well, I want it to end, Judith.
You got your life with me, and she has--
Don't you understand? Don't you understand?!
I'm trying to.
I can't leave my sister, and she can't leave me.
We're one!
Oh, help me.
Help me.
There's a port in the Southern Seas--
Help me.
And the stars on fire and dancin'--
Kill her.
And the moon ridin' high-- Kill her.
Kill her! You want me, kill her.
Kill her! Set me free! Kill her!
You said you want me!
Kevin?
Kevin!
**
One of you!
Well, come on! All of you!
Marshal, come on. You're needed.
Landlubbers, just fight me.
Somebody, come on, fight me!
You're drunk, sailor. Come on, we'll take you home.
Watch him, boss man. He's a fighter.
Come on. I'll take you both on.
You're not gonna take anybody on.
We're gonna take you home now.
Oh, yes, I am. You. I'm gonna fight you.
This man needs a place to finish his sleep.
I've got just the place for him.
Come on, give me a hand.
He's been courtin' Judith Morrow, hasn't he?
That's right.
I think you'd better ride out to Shiloh
and tell Judge Garth what happened.
You mean now?
When everything's just gettin' started?
I haven't even had a--
Well, Judith is Judge Garth's ward--
in a way, that is.
I think he might want to know what happened.
Might even want to have a talk with him.
Go on, now, move.
Well...
why doesn't he go? Why don't you go?
I've been up in the high country all week.
Now, move!
( giggles )
That was quite a show you put on, Mr. Doyle.
Anybody ask for you, mister?
No.
Then get out.
Well, if you want to talk about it later,
I'm Judge Garth, a friend of Judith's.
Judith? You wanted to talk about Judith?
Not now. Not when you're like this.
If you're a friend of Judith's,
and if I know her--
and I know her--
she's been gentle with you--
you bein' a friend of hers--
and loving to you. Hmm?
How? Like a child?
Or like some--
You've been courtin' her, huh?
I would've taken her to the ends of the earth.
That's what she wanted of me,
what she begged of me.
And in return, would've loved me.
She's a child.
Just a child?
Do you know what she is?
Do you know what she is, friend of Judith's?
You know what she wanted me to do?
Well, I'll tell you, if you got the heart for it...
and the stomach.
A small thing, as the world goes-- murder.
Aye, murder...
of her sister.
Of her sister Susan, whose presence on earth Judith can't bear.
That's all I have to do to win her love.
Kill her sister.
Then Judith can come to me
whole and complete and lovely.
Lovely Judith.
You know something, Judge?
I haven't got the stomach for it.
Nor the heart.
* We're homeward bound and ready for sea *
* Our drunken captain sure went on a spree *
* He came on board and to us he did say *
* Pick up your anchor...
* And sail...
Deputy.
**
( knocking )
Good evening, Judge. Won't you come in?
You seem surprised to see me.
Is Judith here?
Yes, she's upstairs.
Hello.
I was looking for you-- both of you--outside.
We got tired.
It's been an exciting day.
Yes, it has.
Don't you think so, Judith?
Hmm? Would you like some tea?
No, thank you.
No.
Judith, what did you do today?
What did I do today?
I don't understand what you mean.
Were you with Kevin?
Kevin?
Kevin Doyle?
Why?
What is it? Is something the matter?
I'm going to be rude, Judge. Forgive me.
( whispers, laughs )
( whispers ) He's jealous.
He is, he is!
My--My sister says that, uh...
you're jealous of Kevin Doyle.
I'm sorry for your sister, Susan.
She's very--
Judith!
That's all right.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to hurt you.
But, you see...
I can never marry you.
I can't even love you.
You see, I told Kevin the same thing today.
A boy.
Heh. He's such a child.
I told him I would never leave my sister Susan,
that I couldn't marry him,
and I couldn't go away with him.
He wept.
And then he said all sorts of dire things.
He was furious. He said terrible things.
Then he ran away.
I can't have either one of you.
That's why he's here. He's jealous.
Susan...
did Judith ever try to kill you before?
What do you mean?
Did she try to kill you before that day in my study?
No.
And, uh--
and she didn't that day, either.
Oh, there were other times, Susan.
In a river.
Long ago, in a river.
You remember, Susan-- when we were children.
I went and left you there,
when I could've come back and helped you.
You would've drowned
if a boy hadn't come and helped you.
It's true, Susan.
No.
You imagine these things, Judith.
You know you do. It's true.
And later, when we lived in that tent city-- the fire.
All the animals screaming in confusion.
And I woke up in the middle of it and ran away...
without awakening you. I ran away and left you there.
Judith--
Today, dear, I finally said it.
Today, I had a chance to leave you,
to do all the things I've ever dreamed of.
I couldn't do it.
Because of you.
You strangle me...
because you're alive.
And I can't free myself of you.
Today I asked him to kill you.
I said it out loud.
It's what I've always wanted.
I said it, and I knew it.
I said it, and I wanted it-- you dead!
Kill her. Kill her. Please help me.
Kill her! Kill her!
No.
You won't do it.
( carnival music playing )
Hmm.
Susan always loved the sound of a band.
I hate it.
It's noise, not music.
Judge.
What will happen to her?
We'll talk about it later.
No, I think she should hear.
If she's listening.
What will happen to her?
Come look at them, Susan. Look at what they're wearing.
Aaaah!
( crowd shouting )
**
You know how long you've been standing there alone?
Seven hours.
I've come to take you away.
Soon.
Not now.
Now.
You've been told. You know what she wanted me to do.
You've given her all the mourning she deserves--more.
How do you know what she deserves?
Well, I know how she felt about you.
And that's all you know.
Isn't that enough.
No.
I saw her die, long ago...
when she found that I was loved and she was not.
She--
She was so beautiful.
Like our mother.
Our lovely, unhappy mother, who--
who left our father for another man.
And then another, and another.
Judith looked like her.
She was the very image of her.
And I was nearly ten before I--
before I knew that Father felt nothing,
nothing at all for Judith,
that all the love he had to give
he gave to me.
And all the strength and peace I possess--
half of it was stolen from her.
There was nothing I would not have done for her.
Nothing.
**
You mean you've known how she felt about you
for a long time?
For longer than she knew.
Since the time she began to say we weren't two people--
just one.
Come on.
What now, boss man?
What now?
Judge told us to look after her.
She's in good hands.
Yeah. I know what you mean.
**
( theme music playing )