1 00:00:09,744 --> 00:00:13,312 Tell me you haven't melted it down and sold it already. 2 00:00:28,662 --> 00:00:31,463 The Union Pacific provides the final spike, 3 00:00:31,465 --> 00:00:34,199 the Central Pacific nails it down, like we agreed. 4 00:00:34,201 --> 00:00:36,635 I agreed to hold a ceremony 5 00:00:36,637 --> 00:00:38,437 at the location of your choosing. 6 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:41,340 Collis, the heaviest thing you've lifted to date 7 00:00:41,342 --> 00:00:43,108 is a dessert spoon. 8 00:00:44,578 --> 00:00:46,545 You think my masculine capabilities 9 00:00:46,547 --> 00:00:47,613 are insufficient, sir? 10 00:00:48,816 --> 00:00:51,383 I think you'd rather not answer that question 11 00:00:51,385 --> 00:00:54,286 in front of 200 of Washington's finest. 12 00:01:58,552 --> 00:01:59,985 Mr. Lee? 13 00:02:02,389 --> 00:02:03,489 Mr. Lee? 14 00:02:04,658 --> 00:02:07,025 Wake up. Translate that. 15 00:02:07,495 --> 00:02:09,495 Need sleep, bossman. 16 00:02:12,666 --> 00:02:14,199 Translate. 17 00:02:18,439 --> 00:02:19,638 Address. 18 00:02:20,574 --> 00:02:22,074 In Ningpo. 19 00:02:24,278 --> 00:02:25,410 An address? 20 00:02:26,947 --> 00:02:28,213 China? 21 00:02:33,587 --> 00:02:34,987 Ribbed with iron, 22 00:02:34,989 --> 00:02:38,090 clad in silver, and crowned with gold, 23 00:02:38,092 --> 00:02:41,059 this spike will wed the oceans. 24 00:02:42,263 --> 00:02:43,328 Telegraphs 25 00:02:44,665 --> 00:02:46,598 in every major city 26 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,535 will buzz to life with the knowledge 27 00:02:50,337 --> 00:02:54,406 America's transcontinental railroad is now complete. 28 00:02:57,211 --> 00:02:59,244 At the fall of my hammer, 29 00:02:59,513 --> 00:03:04,283 the operator will tap out a three dot transmission. 30 00:03:05,486 --> 00:03:06,718 The message? 31 00:03:07,521 --> 00:03:08,587 One word... 32 00:03:10,691 --> 00:03:11,924 Done. 33 00:03:23,003 --> 00:03:24,436 Whiskey. 34 00:03:25,206 --> 00:03:27,272 You don't need another drink, mate. 35 00:03:29,710 --> 00:03:31,710 Hair of the dog. 36 00:03:33,013 --> 00:03:35,747 - Give the man a drink! - Pipe down, ya traitor. 37 00:03:36,550 --> 00:03:37,816 What'd you say? 38 00:03:37,818 --> 00:03:40,185 For the love of Josephine, can't a man sleep? 39 00:03:40,187 --> 00:03:42,854 - Whiskey damn it. - I called you a traitor. 40 00:03:42,856 --> 00:03:44,456 And we don't serve C.P. here. 41 00:03:44,692 --> 00:03:45,891 Call me traitor again. 42 00:03:45,893 --> 00:03:47,559 It's over, there ain't no sides. 43 00:03:47,561 --> 00:03:48,860 All right? 44 00:03:48,862 --> 00:03:50,829 Except the side of whiskey. 45 00:03:50,831 --> 00:03:52,731 Just give him a drink, for God's sake, Mick. 46 00:03:52,733 --> 00:03:54,066 Ah, shut up, Patrick. 47 00:03:54,068 --> 00:03:55,367 I told you all, there ain't no U.P. 48 00:03:55,369 --> 00:03:57,502 and there ain't no C.P., God damn it. 49 00:03:57,504 --> 00:03:59,104 Oi, the hell there ain't. 50 00:03:59,773 --> 00:04:02,474 Job or no job, I'm a Union Pacific man. 51 00:04:02,676 --> 00:04:04,009 Your pasty Mic ass'd 52 00:04:04,011 --> 00:04:05,744 still be down a mine shaft if it weren't for me. 53 00:04:05,746 --> 00:04:07,613 Call me traitor again. 54 00:04:07,615 --> 00:04:09,214 Keep your voices down. 55 00:04:09,216 --> 00:04:10,849 I don't work for you, Bohannon. 56 00:04:14,622 --> 00:04:16,321 You mean the winning side? 57 00:04:21,028 --> 00:04:22,761 Hand to God, 58 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:25,430 the next man who asks me for a drink, 59 00:04:25,432 --> 00:04:27,165 I swear I'll throttle him. 60 00:04:37,611 --> 00:04:39,011 Whiskey. 61 00:05:55,889 --> 00:05:57,689 Thank you, thank you. 62 00:06:50,110 --> 00:06:52,611 What the hell is this all about? 63 00:06:54,081 --> 00:06:55,514 Mr. Bohannon? 64 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:00,652 Mick? 65 00:07:01,622 --> 00:07:02,821 I... 66 00:07:17,871 --> 00:07:19,504 Hell if we know. 67 00:07:28,449 --> 00:07:31,383 Congress requests your presence in Washington 68 00:07:31,385 --> 00:07:33,385 to testify against Thomas Durant 69 00:07:33,387 --> 00:07:36,121 on charges of bribery, fraud and corruption. 70 00:07:39,927 --> 00:07:41,526 Well, shit. 71 00:08:21,134 --> 00:08:22,634 I ain't going to Washington. 72 00:08:22,636 --> 00:08:24,102 You've been summoned by Congress. 73 00:08:24,104 --> 00:08:26,171 You tell Congress I've a railroad to see to. 74 00:08:26,173 --> 00:08:28,006 Supplies to send West... 75 00:08:28,008 --> 00:08:29,741 The railroad is finished. 76 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:32,143 President Grant is determined 77 00:08:32,145 --> 00:08:34,112 to see all those guilty of corruption 78 00:08:34,114 --> 00:08:35,146 over its building punished 79 00:08:35,148 --> 00:08:36,882 to the full extent of the law. 80 00:08:36,884 --> 00:08:38,250 Uh-huh. 81 00:08:43,457 --> 00:08:46,157 You're not yet an old man, Mr. Bohannon, 82 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:47,959 but you are no longer young. 83 00:08:51,064 --> 00:08:53,131 I advise you to reflect 84 00:08:53,133 --> 00:08:55,100 on what it is you decide to do next, 85 00:08:56,370 --> 00:08:58,436 whose company you choose to keep. 86 00:08:59,206 --> 00:09:01,373 Your subsequent venture 87 00:09:01,375 --> 00:09:04,075 will likely determine the shape of your life. 88 00:09:09,917 --> 00:09:12,150 A subpoena is not a request. 89 00:09:12,152 --> 00:09:15,120 A cavalry escort can be arranged if need be. 90 00:09:38,745 --> 00:09:40,645 I'm buying out your stake in the railroad. 91 00:09:43,250 --> 00:09:44,649 But I'm not selling. 92 00:09:46,053 --> 00:09:47,819 I've been indicted. 93 00:09:48,255 --> 00:09:50,488 News will hit the papers tomorrow. 94 00:09:50,857 --> 00:09:51,957 I want no record 95 00:09:51,959 --> 00:09:53,391 of your involvement in the Union Pacific. 96 00:09:53,393 --> 00:09:55,226 I helped build the Union Pacific. 97 00:09:55,228 --> 00:09:57,929 You're associated with the Dead Rabbits. 98 00:09:58,231 --> 00:10:00,332 I'm compelled to cut ties. 99 00:10:03,136 --> 00:10:06,504 Your stock value by tomorrow will plummet. 100 00:10:07,874 --> 00:10:12,143 Stick around, then you'll be broke or in jail or both. 101 00:10:16,984 --> 00:10:18,350 I've buried bodies for you. 102 00:10:21,254 --> 00:10:25,023 I hope you don't want a kiss goodbye, McGinnes. 103 00:10:25,659 --> 00:10:27,025 I'm not your father. 104 00:10:42,976 --> 00:10:44,542 I hope you hang. 105 00:10:55,288 --> 00:10:57,489 Eva, here you are. 106 00:10:57,824 --> 00:11:00,125 Sheets don't wash themselves, Ms. Ellison. 107 00:11:00,127 --> 00:11:02,327 Need all the girls on their backs. 108 00:11:02,329 --> 00:11:05,196 Tricks'll dry up soon as the workers leave. 109 00:11:07,300 --> 00:11:08,366 Hey! 110 00:11:09,703 --> 00:11:11,803 You want a roll, go round the front, wait your turn. 111 00:11:11,805 --> 00:11:14,072 Oh, Eva, that's not a John. 112 00:11:14,508 --> 00:11:16,374 That's my editor from the Chicago Tribune. 113 00:11:16,777 --> 00:11:18,343 He's very interested in you. 114 00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:20,278 I ain't on the menu. 115 00:11:20,947 --> 00:11:23,081 No, he's interested in your story. 116 00:11:23,684 --> 00:11:25,917 He wants me to help you write it, in a book. 117 00:11:28,388 --> 00:11:30,555 Folks don't wanna read about a whore. 118 00:11:31,992 --> 00:11:34,259 It would be a story about a survivor 119 00:11:34,728 --> 00:11:36,361 and folks will love it. 120 00:11:36,363 --> 00:11:38,263 Folks will love you. 121 00:11:39,166 --> 00:11:41,099 That ain't been my experience. 122 00:11:41,535 --> 00:11:43,601 This could be a way in for you. 123 00:11:46,239 --> 00:11:47,906 Into what? 124 00:11:47,908 --> 00:11:49,107 Society. 125 00:11:50,243 --> 00:11:52,210 If that's what you want. 126 00:11:53,180 --> 00:11:54,813 Or anything, really. 127 00:11:54,815 --> 00:11:58,283 A best-selling authoress can write her own ticket. 128 00:12:11,364 --> 00:12:14,232 Slow down, Mr. Bohannon, pack light. 129 00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:15,867 I need you back in San Francisco 130 00:12:15,869 --> 00:12:18,269 as soon as you're finished with this Washington business. 131 00:12:18,271 --> 00:12:20,338 That well's deeper than you think. 132 00:12:20,340 --> 00:12:21,380 Careful you don't fall in. 133 00:12:21,742 --> 00:12:23,575 They're interested in Durant, not me. 134 00:12:23,577 --> 00:12:24,909 No, they're a hound with a scent. 135 00:12:24,911 --> 00:12:26,077 Once they've chewed through Durant, 136 00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:27,345 they'll come sniffing after us. 137 00:12:27,347 --> 00:12:29,114 I'm ahead of that problem. 138 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,553 It was you, lit that little bonfire 139 00:12:35,555 --> 00:12:36,988 in the C.P. Depot last night, huh? 140 00:12:41,094 --> 00:12:42,761 I got something for you. 141 00:12:42,763 --> 00:12:44,529 To commemorate the Golden Spike. 142 00:12:44,531 --> 00:12:46,131 Only four like it in the world. 143 00:12:46,133 --> 00:12:47,932 Go ahead, put it on, Mr. Bohannon, 144 00:12:47,934 --> 00:12:49,000 you've earned it. 145 00:12:52,139 --> 00:12:53,438 Once you're back in San Francisco, 146 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,373 we'll get started on the Southern Pacific. 147 00:12:56,276 --> 00:12:57,942 - Shortline? - Uh-uh. 148 00:12:57,944 --> 00:13:00,945 She doesn't have the romance of the transcontinental, 149 00:13:00,947 --> 00:13:02,113 but don't write her off. 150 00:13:03,283 --> 00:13:04,682 She's just the beginning. 151 00:13:05,919 --> 00:13:07,318 Plenty of roads to build yet. 152 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:08,953 Oh, see that? 153 00:13:08,955 --> 00:13:10,855 Railroad man, through and through! 154 00:13:18,965 --> 00:13:21,166 All aboard! 155 00:14:02,876 --> 00:14:04,075 Thank you, sir. 156 00:14:27,334 --> 00:14:28,800 Mr. Bohannon? 157 00:14:30,203 --> 00:14:33,204 Archibald Romans, Senior White House Staff. 158 00:14:33,206 --> 00:14:35,773 I'm here to invite you to President Grant's gala this evening. 159 00:14:36,409 --> 00:14:38,142 I ain't much for galas. 160 00:14:38,144 --> 00:14:40,745 In celebration of the completion of the railroad. 161 00:14:41,548 --> 00:14:44,215 I come to testify, Mr. Romans, not socialize. 162 00:14:44,217 --> 00:14:46,618 The President has asked for you personally, Mr. Bohannon. 163 00:14:47,420 --> 00:14:48,620 Grant knows I'm in town? 164 00:14:49,923 --> 00:14:52,523 Your stay at the Willard Hotel has been compensated. 165 00:14:52,525 --> 00:14:55,226 Might I suggest you get yourself checked in 166 00:14:55,562 --> 00:14:57,795 and cleaned up before the soiree? 167 00:15:50,116 --> 00:15:53,284 I assume you've been corralled into testifying 168 00:15:53,286 --> 00:15:54,953 at this circus tomorrow. 169 00:15:54,955 --> 00:15:58,323 I'm not at liberty to discuss the hearing, Thomas. 170 00:15:59,326 --> 00:16:01,592 Congratulations on driving the golden spike. 171 00:16:01,594 --> 00:16:06,497 I stand accused of bribing government officials. 172 00:16:06,499 --> 00:16:08,333 That's officials like you. 173 00:16:08,969 --> 00:16:11,269 Now, I would advise you to say nothing, 174 00:16:11,271 --> 00:16:14,339 we're all in this together, Stephen. 175 00:16:15,442 --> 00:16:18,509 You've been away, so, allow me to fill you in. 176 00:16:19,079 --> 00:16:20,478 You're poison in this town. 177 00:16:21,414 --> 00:16:23,481 And very much in this alone. 178 00:16:24,250 --> 00:16:25,883 Now, if you'll excuse me. 179 00:16:34,294 --> 00:16:35,860 Now these hands... 180 00:16:36,463 --> 00:16:37,729 Have built things. 181 00:16:39,199 --> 00:16:40,298 Ma'am. 182 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:41,899 You're Cullen Bohannon, aren't you? 183 00:16:44,304 --> 00:16:45,670 The man of the hour. 184 00:16:46,339 --> 00:16:48,773 Quite an accomplishment, this railroad of yours. 185 00:16:51,044 --> 00:16:52,176 Thank you ma'am. 186 00:16:52,178 --> 00:16:55,446 You're more handsome than I ever imagined. 187 00:16:56,282 --> 00:16:59,917 You must tell me everything about the Wild West. 188 00:17:01,521 --> 00:17:03,354 They say it isn't safe 189 00:17:03,690 --> 00:17:05,690 for a respectable woman. 190 00:17:10,797 --> 00:17:12,196 I'm sorry. 191 00:17:14,034 --> 00:17:15,533 I'm not in the right place. 192 00:17:15,535 --> 00:17:18,403 Margaret, your husband is asking for you. 193 00:17:18,405 --> 00:17:20,471 Oh, George, he's a bore. 194 00:17:20,473 --> 00:17:22,907 And he's hopeless without you, my dear. 195 00:17:27,347 --> 00:17:30,148 Can't begrudge poor Margaret for flirtations. 196 00:17:30,683 --> 00:17:32,583 That's her husband. 197 00:17:34,587 --> 00:17:36,454 Colonel George Armstrong Custer. 198 00:17:37,424 --> 00:17:38,689 Damn impressed with your accomplishment 199 00:17:38,691 --> 00:17:40,825 on the railroad, Mr. Bohannon. 200 00:17:41,828 --> 00:17:43,461 Ten miles in a single day, was it? 201 00:17:44,197 --> 00:17:46,497 Well, had me one hell of a crew. 202 00:17:47,434 --> 00:17:48,599 You've the guts and countenance 203 00:17:48,601 --> 00:17:50,134 of a good soldier, sir. 204 00:17:51,538 --> 00:17:52,904 Who did you serve? 205 00:17:55,175 --> 00:17:57,508 I rode under General Nathan Bedford Forrest. 206 00:18:00,413 --> 00:18:01,479 Confederate. 207 00:18:03,216 --> 00:18:04,348 That's right. 208 00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:09,720 Shit, I led the charge against you boys at Bull Run. 209 00:18:09,722 --> 00:18:11,189 Had you outnumbered and outgunned, 210 00:18:11,191 --> 00:18:12,623 but God damn if you didn't give us 211 00:18:12,625 --> 00:18:13,991 one hell of a steeplechase. 212 00:18:15,462 --> 00:18:17,061 Where I come from, an ass-whooping amounts 213 00:18:17,063 --> 00:18:19,163 to more than a steeplechase, Colonel. 214 00:18:20,767 --> 00:18:22,667 Come over here, boys. 215 00:18:23,136 --> 00:18:25,436 I want you to meet the Grayback son-of-a-bitch 216 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:27,672 who built ten miles of iron road in a single day. 217 00:18:28,208 --> 00:18:29,474 To Mr. Cullen Bohannon... 218 00:18:31,144 --> 00:18:33,511 Toughest whoop-ass on the transcontinental railroad. 219 00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:38,549 Thank you. 220 00:18:49,629 --> 00:18:52,230 He looks at me and he says, "What's a poodle?" 221 00:18:56,402 --> 00:18:58,569 - Oh, now. - Oh, at ease, gentlemen. 222 00:18:58,571 --> 00:18:59,770 Mr. Bohannon. 223 00:18:59,772 --> 00:19:01,806 You've met the Colonel, I see. 224 00:19:01,808 --> 00:19:04,175 Bohannon here was just explaining the difference 225 00:19:04,177 --> 00:19:06,744 between a blood hound and a poodle. 226 00:19:06,746 --> 00:19:08,045 I got that right, Captain? 227 00:19:08,848 --> 00:19:11,149 Good enough for a Yankee. 228 00:19:11,151 --> 00:19:12,817 Have you boys heard how to tell 229 00:19:12,819 --> 00:19:14,385 a good Yankee from a bad one? 230 00:19:16,489 --> 00:19:17,822 Mr. Bohannon? 231 00:19:17,991 --> 00:19:19,590 Why, that's simple, Mr. President. 232 00:19:19,592 --> 00:19:21,225 All the good Yankees go home. 233 00:19:23,796 --> 00:19:25,329 Let's go get some real food. 234 00:19:25,331 --> 00:19:27,098 Yes, sir. Nice to meet y'all. 235 00:19:45,351 --> 00:19:46,751 Ah. 236 00:19:50,323 --> 00:19:51,389 Oh, yes. 237 00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:55,359 Go ahead, eat it. 238 00:19:55,862 --> 00:19:58,362 Those frilled dainties they're serving up there 239 00:19:58,364 --> 00:19:59,664 aren't fit to feed men. 240 00:19:59,666 --> 00:20:00,965 Mmm. 241 00:20:01,968 --> 00:20:03,301 'Coffee'? 242 00:20:04,571 --> 00:20:05,937 Mmm-mmm. 243 00:20:07,407 --> 00:20:08,439 Now, 244 00:20:09,842 --> 00:20:11,642 if you brought me down here to talk about Thomas Durant... 245 00:20:11,644 --> 00:20:14,645 Oh, I have a Senator who will testify to taking bribes 246 00:20:14,647 --> 00:20:15,913 from Doc Durant. 247 00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:19,550 Bad fruit left over from the previous administration. 248 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:21,752 I don't need your help cleaning house. 249 00:20:23,223 --> 00:20:25,556 - We just here for the coffee then? - Mmm. 250 00:20:30,063 --> 00:20:32,797 I'd like to make you a Colonel in the Fourth Cavalry. 251 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:36,267 You'd be the Undersecretary of the Western Territories 252 00:20:36,269 --> 00:20:37,768 for the United States Army. 253 00:20:38,371 --> 00:20:41,906 Your job would be to protect the railroad you've built 254 00:20:42,842 --> 00:20:44,342 from all present threats. 255 00:20:44,744 --> 00:20:47,445 - You mean Indians. - All threats, Mr. Bohannon. 256 00:20:47,447 --> 00:20:49,647 Cutthroats and train robbers. 257 00:20:50,116 --> 00:20:51,916 Cattle rustlers along the Texas border. 258 00:20:51,918 --> 00:20:54,252 And, yes, renegade Indians. 259 00:20:54,254 --> 00:20:55,453 I ain't no Indian killer. 260 00:20:57,557 --> 00:21:01,325 You're smart enough to prevent bloodshed where possible, 261 00:21:02,528 --> 00:21:05,796 and not afraid to get your hands dirty when necessary. 262 00:21:06,766 --> 00:21:09,500 You'd report to the Secretary of the Interior. 263 00:21:12,605 --> 00:21:15,006 Sounds like you're asking me to wear Union Blue. 264 00:21:16,109 --> 00:21:19,543 I'm asking you to wear an American uniform. 265 00:21:20,913 --> 00:21:22,813 Your country needs you, Mr. Bohannon. 266 00:21:22,815 --> 00:21:24,048 Don't deny who you are. 267 00:21:25,585 --> 00:21:26,717 I'm a railroad man. 268 00:21:26,719 --> 00:21:28,352 Bullshit. 269 00:21:30,757 --> 00:21:32,690 You're a soldier. 270 00:21:32,959 --> 00:21:35,159 Lost without a war to fight. 271 00:21:40,633 --> 00:21:41,966 Ah, damn. 272 00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:44,201 I've got to go make a speech. 273 00:21:46,906 --> 00:21:48,372 Think it over. 274 00:21:48,975 --> 00:21:50,408 Yes, sir. 275 00:22:41,494 --> 00:22:46,597 A backwards rebel right at home in the nation's capital, 276 00:22:48,835 --> 00:22:51,135 I never thought I'd see the day. 277 00:22:53,373 --> 00:22:55,473 Ain't nobody more surprised than me, Doc. 278 00:22:56,843 --> 00:22:58,743 Never thought I'd see the day you'd be itching for a train 279 00:22:58,745 --> 00:23:00,611 back to Hell on Wheels. 280 00:23:01,647 --> 00:23:04,548 They've turned a Senator. 281 00:23:06,853 --> 00:23:08,452 Several, probably. 282 00:23:10,156 --> 00:23:13,357 I don't know who, but whatever hog they've got tied 283 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,227 will squeal loud and clear. 284 00:23:16,596 --> 00:23:17,828 Mmm. 285 00:23:19,265 --> 00:23:20,931 You've gotten outta tighter spots than this. 286 00:23:20,933 --> 00:23:22,900 Grant needs a scapegoat. 287 00:23:24,871 --> 00:23:26,904 I'm out of allies. 288 00:23:30,777 --> 00:23:32,476 Maggie Palmer was right. 289 00:23:37,083 --> 00:23:38,482 She was a good woman. 290 00:23:40,753 --> 00:23:41,986 I loved her. 291 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:56,834 They brought me here to testify. 292 00:24:01,574 --> 00:24:03,507 Say whatever you want. 293 00:24:07,046 --> 00:24:10,014 Enjoy your newfound favor 294 00:24:10,917 --> 00:24:13,517 because it will be over in an instant. 295 00:24:17,657 --> 00:24:19,824 Those men you were laughing with in there, 296 00:24:20,126 --> 00:24:22,193 they're not your friends. 297 00:24:23,930 --> 00:24:25,663 They'll bleed you dry, 298 00:24:26,632 --> 00:24:29,400 toss you out with yesterday's newspapers. 299 00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:01,765 I came to cash out my 10%. 300 00:25:03,636 --> 00:25:06,670 I've got a big labor contract at the docks in San Francisco. 301 00:25:07,874 --> 00:25:09,240 I thought you'd come along. 302 00:25:10,142 --> 00:25:12,276 I ain't a labor contractor. 303 00:25:13,312 --> 00:25:15,513 Well, we'll keep the whores, then. 304 00:25:15,515 --> 00:25:17,948 Hell, we'll import new ones from France. 305 00:25:17,950 --> 00:25:19,717 I've big plans, Eva. 306 00:25:20,152 --> 00:25:21,952 We're only expanding. 307 00:25:23,189 --> 00:25:25,422 We ran a good enterprise. 308 00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:28,425 I'll always be thankful for that. 309 00:25:29,395 --> 00:25:31,629 But we're bad for each other, Mickey. 310 00:25:32,832 --> 00:25:33,931 Josie... 311 00:25:35,201 --> 00:25:36,967 - Shea... - That was business. 312 00:25:39,305 --> 00:25:41,105 Come to San Francisco. 313 00:25:46,045 --> 00:25:48,879 We stick together, it's a matter of time 314 00:25:48,881 --> 00:25:51,649 before one of us devours the other one, 315 00:25:51,651 --> 00:25:53,284 and you know it. 316 00:26:26,886 --> 00:26:28,319 Here you go then. 317 00:26:28,788 --> 00:26:30,321 Good luck to you. 318 00:26:31,290 --> 00:26:33,757 Me leaving's the closest thing we got to a happy ending. 319 00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:35,859 Sounds like you've got it all sorted. 320 00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:43,167 Don't go sour on me. 321 00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:45,703 See yourself away. 322 00:27:35,454 --> 00:27:36,820 The President will see you now. 323 00:27:48,467 --> 00:27:51,735 ...property, and free political opinion... 324 00:27:59,178 --> 00:28:00,911 You've reached a decision. 325 00:28:33,179 --> 00:28:34,611 Perfect fit. 326 00:28:35,181 --> 00:28:36,180 Anything else, sir? 327 00:28:36,182 --> 00:28:37,648 No. No, thank you. 328 00:28:56,736 --> 00:28:58,235 Your name and title for the record. 329 00:28:59,071 --> 00:29:00,471 Cullen Bohannon. 330 00:29:01,273 --> 00:29:02,406 Stake-holder and Chief Engineer, 331 00:29:02,408 --> 00:29:04,108 Central Pacific Railroad. 332 00:29:04,110 --> 00:29:05,309 Your current title, sir. 333 00:29:05,511 --> 00:29:08,245 Colonel, 4th Cavalry, U.S. Army. 334 00:29:08,781 --> 00:29:10,080 I'll cut right to it, sir. 335 00:29:11,383 --> 00:29:13,117 Have you ever witnessed Thomas Durant offer 336 00:29:13,119 --> 00:29:14,518 an elected official a bribe, 337 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,353 in form of stock or cash in exchange 338 00:29:16,355 --> 00:29:17,821 for favorable legislation? 339 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,434 The transcontinental railroad 340 00:29:31,804 --> 00:29:35,172 could not have been built without Thomas Durant. 341 00:29:40,379 --> 00:29:41,545 That wasn't an answer. 342 00:29:42,214 --> 00:29:43,447 I'll ask again. 343 00:29:43,449 --> 00:29:45,916 As a former employee of the Union Pacific, 344 00:29:45,918 --> 00:29:48,252 did Thomas Durant ever voice his intention to 345 00:29:48,254 --> 00:29:50,354 or offer any bribes to an elected official? 346 00:29:52,324 --> 00:29:55,492 The transcontinental railroad could not have been built without Thomas Durant. 347 00:29:55,494 --> 00:29:58,462 Mr. Bohannon, you have sworn an oath 348 00:29:58,464 --> 00:30:01,298 before this committee under penalty of perjury. 349 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:04,001 We have a dozen Senators on record 350 00:30:04,003 --> 00:30:06,303 saying Thomas Durant attempted to bribe them, 351 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:09,706 are you disputing their account of the facts? 352 00:30:10,409 --> 00:30:12,376 The fact I know to be true 353 00:30:13,112 --> 00:30:15,112 is that the transcontinental railroad 354 00:30:15,114 --> 00:30:18,816 could not have been built without Thomas Durant. 355 00:30:18,818 --> 00:30:21,451 This committee has the authority to hold you in contempt, Colonel. 356 00:30:21,453 --> 00:30:23,787 You have the right to detain me, Governor, 357 00:30:23,789 --> 00:30:25,589 but that won't change the fact 358 00:30:26,025 --> 00:30:28,392 that the transcontinental railroad could not have been built 359 00:30:28,861 --> 00:30:31,028 - without... - Thomas Durant. 360 00:30:38,671 --> 00:30:40,671 Thank you, Colonel. That'll be all. 361 00:30:55,020 --> 00:30:57,154 The lecture circuit won't know what hit them. 362 00:30:57,156 --> 00:31:00,257 First stop, Council Bluffs, day after tomorrow. 363 00:31:00,626 --> 00:31:02,559 But the book isn't written yet. 364 00:31:02,862 --> 00:31:04,628 The book will come, don't worry about that. 365 00:31:04,630 --> 00:31:08,031 In the meantime, your face tells the story better than any book. 366 00:31:08,367 --> 00:31:10,868 Maybe we should go over the details. 367 00:31:10,870 --> 00:31:13,103 Yes. Walk us through it, Mrs. Toole. 368 00:31:13,873 --> 00:31:16,206 You were headed West with your family 369 00:31:16,208 --> 00:31:18,408 when you were attacked by Wild Mojave... 370 00:31:18,410 --> 00:31:20,244 - Yavapai. - Sorry? 371 00:31:22,047 --> 00:31:23,180 It was... 372 00:31:24,516 --> 00:31:26,216 We was attacked by Yavapai. 373 00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:27,718 Apache. 374 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,653 Then they traded me to the Mojave 375 00:31:29,655 --> 00:31:31,288 for three blankets and a horse. 376 00:31:31,557 --> 00:31:33,490 Three blankets and a horse. 377 00:31:34,159 --> 00:31:36,193 The price of a human soul. 378 00:31:36,195 --> 00:31:37,527 Great detail. Possible title. 379 00:31:37,529 --> 00:31:39,196 - Remember that, Ms. Ellison. - Mmm. 380 00:31:39,198 --> 00:31:43,333 So, the Mojave marked your face and made you their slave. 381 00:31:43,335 --> 00:31:45,068 No. Not exactly. 382 00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:46,837 How would you describe it? 383 00:31:50,109 --> 00:31:51,241 They... 384 00:31:53,012 --> 00:31:54,478 Everyone had marks but... 385 00:31:55,948 --> 00:31:59,616 The point is to let Mrs. Toole 386 00:31:59,618 --> 00:32:01,985 tell her story in her own words. 387 00:32:03,022 --> 00:32:04,421 Go ahead, Eva. 388 00:32:04,423 --> 00:32:05,589 We won't interrupt. 389 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,661 It was hard at first 390 00:32:11,530 --> 00:32:13,563 because I missed my momma. 391 00:32:13,565 --> 00:32:15,866 But then I had me a Mojave... 392 00:32:20,572 --> 00:32:23,006 Had me a Mojave sister and... 393 00:32:26,445 --> 00:32:29,746 I'm sorry, this dress just don't seem to fit right. 394 00:32:29,748 --> 00:32:32,449 But, the dress is part of the story, 395 00:32:32,451 --> 00:32:35,352 it indicates you... You've been saved. 396 00:32:38,390 --> 00:32:40,157 Saved from what? 397 00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:43,193 From a life of savagery, of course. 398 00:32:47,599 --> 00:32:49,800 The marked face and the dress, 399 00:32:49,802 --> 00:32:51,301 we can't have one without the other. 400 00:32:51,303 --> 00:32:52,869 Not now, Ed. 401 00:32:58,644 --> 00:32:59,943 I can't do this. 402 00:32:59,945 --> 00:33:01,311 Eva, we'll get a different dress. 403 00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:03,046 No, it ain't the dress. 404 00:33:05,684 --> 00:33:07,684 The railroad is finished, Eva. 405 00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:10,754 What else will you do? 406 00:33:10,756 --> 00:33:12,856 This is the best that you can hope for. 407 00:33:16,428 --> 00:33:18,495 Oh, God, I... 408 00:33:21,667 --> 00:33:22,899 I'm sorry. I... 409 00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:31,908 I love you, Louise. 410 00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:35,479 But I promised myself 411 00:33:35,481 --> 00:33:37,114 I'm done whoring. 412 00:33:39,518 --> 00:33:41,218 Good luck in Chicago. 413 00:33:57,469 --> 00:33:59,369 You're one hell of a shot. 414 00:34:00,305 --> 00:34:02,039 Plenty of practice. 415 00:34:02,041 --> 00:34:03,607 Too bad for the Apache. 416 00:34:04,209 --> 00:34:05,509 That's where you're heading, right? 417 00:34:05,511 --> 00:34:06,510 Arizona territory? 418 00:34:06,512 --> 00:34:07,944 Ship out tomorrow. 419 00:34:09,148 --> 00:34:11,415 Apache women are turned on by gore. 420 00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:14,684 Fornicate like rabbits once the killing's done, 421 00:34:14,686 --> 00:34:16,620 you barely have to force them. 422 00:34:17,222 --> 00:34:20,090 Got myself a few trap trophies from Arizona, 423 00:34:20,092 --> 00:34:22,259 had 'em stitched into coin purses. 424 00:34:22,261 --> 00:34:23,293 No. 425 00:34:24,096 --> 00:34:26,296 It ain't that kind of assignment. 426 00:34:27,232 --> 00:34:29,666 Just bringin' a couple of renegades is all. 427 00:34:29,668 --> 00:34:31,601 Grant tell you that? 428 00:34:32,571 --> 00:34:34,771 He's a politician, I suppose he has to. 429 00:34:38,510 --> 00:34:39,743 You're a killer. 430 00:34:40,579 --> 00:34:42,446 You know what happens in the fog of war. 431 00:34:56,395 --> 00:34:58,562 Got to go see to the wife before I go. 432 00:34:58,564 --> 00:35:00,730 Keep up with my conjugal duties, 433 00:35:00,732 --> 00:35:02,165 lest she turn to the postman. 434 00:35:02,768 --> 00:35:04,601 You got yourself a girl? 435 00:35:08,407 --> 00:35:10,640 That's for the best. Keeps you focused. 436 00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:14,444 Don't worry about Grant's bullshit. 437 00:35:14,446 --> 00:35:16,279 You'll ship out, kill some Injuns, 438 00:35:16,281 --> 00:35:19,483 blam, blam, blam, then ride back to Washington a hero. 439 00:35:20,452 --> 00:35:21,718 Nothing better. 440 00:37:07,659 --> 00:37:09,559 Bless you, my son. 441 00:37:10,729 --> 00:37:13,430 How long has it been since your last confession? 442 00:37:22,708 --> 00:37:24,507 Are you a soldier? 443 00:37:27,412 --> 00:37:29,246 It's all right, my son. 444 00:37:29,248 --> 00:37:32,315 No man is without sin, but you can be forgiven. 445 00:37:35,921 --> 00:37:37,487 Do you seek salvation? 446 00:37:53,472 --> 00:37:55,472 Do you wish to be saved? 447 00:38:37,949 --> 00:38:39,416 Thank you. 448 00:38:41,019 --> 00:38:42,152 Thank you. 449 00:38:48,460 --> 00:38:50,360 Thomas Durant will invoke his fifth amendment right 450 00:38:50,362 --> 00:38:52,829 as secured by the constitution of the United States. 451 00:38:52,831 --> 00:38:55,498 Mr. Durant, we have sworn testimony 452 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:57,600 corroborating the charges against you, 453 00:38:58,003 --> 00:39:00,704 am I clear you are choosing to let these charges go 454 00:39:00,706 --> 00:39:02,605 unanswered by you here today? 455 00:39:02,607 --> 00:39:03,607 Mmm-hmm. 456 00:39:03,775 --> 00:39:06,676 As is your constitutional right, 457 00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:09,979 so long as you're aware the record of history 458 00:39:09,981 --> 00:39:12,682 will remember Thomas Durant as a criminal. 459 00:39:13,485 --> 00:39:14,951 The record of history? 460 00:39:14,953 --> 00:39:16,686 That's right, Mr. Durant. 461 00:39:16,688 --> 00:39:18,154 My client will invoke his right... 462 00:39:18,156 --> 00:39:20,457 The record of history will read, however, 463 00:39:20,459 --> 00:39:24,761 the handful of overfed Senators in this room 464 00:39:24,963 --> 00:39:26,763 who choose to write it. 465 00:39:28,367 --> 00:39:31,401 I'm not interested in the record of history... 466 00:39:31,403 --> 00:39:32,502 Mr. Durant, please. 467 00:39:32,504 --> 00:39:35,438 I am interested in reality. 468 00:39:36,541 --> 00:39:40,276 Not the one bandied inside the halls of Congress, 469 00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,615 but the one I witnessed with my own eyes out West. 470 00:39:47,986 --> 00:39:49,753 Five years ago, 471 00:39:50,389 --> 00:39:53,556 the American people, torn apart by war, 472 00:39:53,558 --> 00:39:57,394 cried out into the darkness and turned a hopeful ear 473 00:39:57,396 --> 00:39:59,462 to the void for an answer. 474 00:40:00,732 --> 00:40:02,766 Americans needed a dream 475 00:40:03,702 --> 00:40:05,135 and I gave them one. 476 00:40:06,571 --> 00:40:09,706 A transcontinental railroad that would unite 477 00:40:09,708 --> 00:40:11,908 this nation and its people. 478 00:40:14,679 --> 00:40:17,247 Dreams don't come pretty, 479 00:40:18,049 --> 00:40:19,516 they don't come clean 480 00:40:19,518 --> 00:40:21,651 and they sure as hell don't come simple... 481 00:40:23,622 --> 00:40:24,921 They come true. 482 00:40:25,757 --> 00:40:28,324 Truth delivered by lies is no less true, 483 00:40:32,264 --> 00:40:37,600 and dreams made reality by falsehood are no less real. 484 00:40:40,439 --> 00:40:45,041 1,776 miles of iron track, 485 00:40:45,043 --> 00:40:47,610 that is what I delivered! 486 00:40:47,612 --> 00:40:51,848 Track upon which thousands of wheels will now revolve 487 00:40:52,617 --> 00:40:56,653 carrying on their axles the wealth of half the world. 488 00:40:57,923 --> 00:41:00,623 Final Destination, San Francisco! 489 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:03,526 Drawn by the Iron Horse, 490 00:41:04,095 --> 00:41:07,197 darkening the landscape with his smoky breath 491 00:41:09,267 --> 00:41:13,069 announcing to the world with its piercing scream 492 00:41:13,638 --> 00:41:18,174 that we are a great people who can accomplish great things. 493 00:41:20,912 --> 00:41:23,213 Yet the American people, 494 00:41:24,249 --> 00:41:28,051 driven by their cowardly representatives in Washington, 495 00:41:28,587 --> 00:41:30,553 are in need of a villain. 496 00:41:31,122 --> 00:41:33,022 And so here I sit, 497 00:41:35,961 --> 00:41:37,560 elected by you, 498 00:41:38,997 --> 00:41:40,363 to play my part... 499 00:41:43,134 --> 00:41:46,202 The part of the scapegoat. 500 00:41:47,672 --> 00:41:49,873 The patsy. Sent into the wilderness 501 00:41:50,942 --> 00:41:52,942 so that men sitting in this room 502 00:41:52,944 --> 00:41:55,278 can lay their sins upon my back, 503 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,380 and claim they themselves are clean. 504 00:41:58,984 --> 00:42:04,187 Men enjoying immunity while enriching themselves on the backs 505 00:42:04,623 --> 00:42:07,090 of those who sacrificed everything 506 00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:12,295 to make manifest America's destiny. 507 00:42:13,031 --> 00:42:15,064 Blood has been spilt. 508 00:42:15,867 --> 00:42:16,966 Lives have been lost. 509 00:42:16,968 --> 00:42:19,202 Men have been ruined. 510 00:42:20,572 --> 00:42:23,806 I saw it, and I survived. 511 00:42:32,717 --> 00:42:38,321 I will not return from the wild having made America's dream a reality 512 00:42:38,823 --> 00:42:44,727 only to have six bureaucrats in starched collars judge 513 00:42:44,930 --> 00:42:48,898 the manner in which I realized that dream. 514 00:42:53,271 --> 00:42:57,307 Put me on trial, lock me in prison, 515 00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:01,311 erase me from the record. 516 00:43:05,250 --> 00:43:07,417 For history is written in pencil... 517 00:43:10,755 --> 00:43:15,925 And the truth is carved in steel across this nation. 518 00:43:18,897 --> 00:43:22,031 And one truth above all others is this... 519 00:43:25,270 --> 00:43:27,337 Without me and men like me, 520 00:43:28,807 --> 00:43:31,174 your glorious railroad 521 00:43:32,243 --> 00:43:33,810 could never have been built.