Cimarron Strip (1967–1968)
The Beast That Walks Like a Man
1h 12min | Western | Episode aired 30 November 1967
Marshal Crown tries to prevent the Houston clan from entering the Mocane Valley before it's open for settlement. The Houston's believe they'll have little competition for prime land because of the legend of a malevolent beast thought to lurk in the valley. When the wagon train is destroyed and most of its travelers killed, Marshal Crown and his men search for the culprits not knowing if their quarry is man or beast.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writers: Christopher Knopf (developer), Stephen Kandel (teleplay)
Stars: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone
The Beast That Walks Like a Man
1h 12min | Western | Episode aired 30 November 1967
Marshal Crown tries to prevent the Houston clan from entering the Mocane Valley before it's open for settlement. The Houston's believe they'll have little competition for prime land because of the legend of a malevolent beast thought to lurk in the valley. When the wagon train is destroyed and most of its travelers killed, Marshal Crown and his men search for the culprits not knowing if their quarry is man or beast.
Director: Charles R. Rondeau
Writers: Christopher Knopf (developer), Stephen Kandel (teleplay)
Stars: Stuart Whitman, Percy Herbert, Randy Boone
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00:00:00You
00:00:30You
00:00:54Two days chasing one poor benighted farmer halfway into the outlet like a fool
00:01:00You're more like a fool. We don't bring him back. Aye. I've heard it
00:01:04Let one of them cross just one the gates are open. The flood descends and we'll be plucking out farmers like wild weed
00:01:12You'll need all your tricks to find this one. He was here last night by the looks of things. He left in a hurry. I
00:01:21Wonder why I
00:01:23Will have a noggin of groggy me bags. I'm daft if I know from where we could rekindle the blaze reflect upon events
00:01:30Call it
00:01:32Heads heads it is
00:01:34Whatever what the South Fork? I'll take a north meet you back at the Cimarron. We draw blanks on this one
00:01:40We'll have to call in the army
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00:05:35Asked you to boil up water not Mulligan's do now bring it in
00:05:43Hurry up
00:05:45No, I should think after four days absence. You might observe a slight amenity. Oh, good morning. Dossie. How are you?
00:05:50Dossie? Oh fine, sir. Thank you
00:05:53poor
00:05:55What this careful I don't think you mean that
00:06:00Dossie I got a hundred things on my mind and 50 to do
00:06:04Gregor still in that outlet planting Barney for all I know now poor
00:06:20Coffee pure Brazilian
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00:06:33Oh
00:06:50Hey
00:06:54Hey you there with apples I saw what you did I saw that Morgan
00:06:58On we've been around pretty good
00:07:0020 years bucking trail breaking camp of the acid boy and faster with the callous felons the original hostiles backed up it wrong
00:07:07I'm a fancy of him that devil's a knight then we ought to know what it is
00:07:11I'm a deputy here a
00:07:14Deputy yeah, now you put those apples right back where you got it. Apple deputy. You hear that Rowan?
00:07:19I read about their people they go along with the fruit
00:07:23Well, hey there, let's bring it
00:07:28I
00:07:30Don't think so. I
00:07:35See me I buy a flat mountain Morgan. Yeah, that's what I see take him
00:07:39You want to make a steady diet out of black bread and beans?
00:07:46Sheriff
00:07:47Marshall name is Ron Houston marshal my butt folks Stacy Morgan got a hollow can on the edge of town
00:07:54How big a hollow Stacy there keeps a Bible 24 unless Bessie ran off with that ginger
00:07:59Yeah, but sue and fold kept old man. He died. Oh, Ben just didn't take a bath for two months
00:08:04He was riding drag this morning. I neglected to mention
00:08:09I'm Marshall. Could you point the direction to the river crossing straight out south?
00:08:14Hi, you can't do that. Oh, that's against the law
00:08:18What law nobody goes into the out until the government says so I neglected to tell you
00:08:24You'll find the settlement two miles out of town this side of the river you ask for a wheel, right?
00:08:29Your pleasure. No objection marshal if we drink a little of that holy water
00:08:34drink it
00:08:35Fish it bathe old man, but don't cross it
00:08:40wheel, right
00:08:41wheel, right
00:08:43Thank You Marshall and
00:08:46Thank you for the app
00:08:53You
00:09:00They're not gonna have to board that river to cross it they're gonna walk
00:09:23All right, we're camp here for tonight
00:09:27This is taken land, you know want no trouble
00:09:30Who's we?
00:09:32Settlers council Oliver wheelwright duly elected chairman the book mrs. We'll write
00:09:42Have to have your names Houston Oliver
00:09:47I
00:09:49Can locate you three miles down the river at the crossing
00:09:54Right here be fine
00:09:58Locate you right in the middle of trouble
00:10:01I never threatened a Houston mister. Don't pay now. I'm gonna tell you once more all we want to do is get you out of here
00:10:08I'm gonna get you out of here
00:10:11I
00:10:11Never threatened a Houston mister. Don't pay now. I'm gonna tell you once more
00:10:15All we want to do is stay here for the night move on in the morning right across that River in the outlet
00:10:20straight as a crow flies
00:10:25That's against federal law that land doesn't open till Congress says so
00:10:30Well, I never was much on waiting
00:10:33Houston you're no more a farmer than any timber wolf
00:10:36Come in here grabbing land pour blood on it and try to turn it over for money
00:10:41Yes, sir. We've handled your type before
00:10:43hung some of them
00:10:45on most of them off
00:10:48You just back up and go on down the river. Like I told your turn Taylor and get
00:10:58We're no land grabbers see the name is Houston and proud of it. Don't you forget it?
00:11:07I
00:11:09Remember it you can get on that
00:11:12Marshal arrest them
00:11:18Only him Rowan Houston to guarantee the peace you got one green deputy marshal install of us
00:11:36You
00:11:41Betrayed me happy Houston bad bargain
00:11:54Boys
00:12:01All right, please be
00:12:07Well now you be good to brother Rowan marshal we'll be remembering you
00:12:16You're coming along to you to rest a woman that's right
00:12:27You're off the horse, you know, I'd have called you bluff marshal whatever that stuff is you mean this
00:12:36I
00:13:06Believe we have very chicken and dumplings. Oh
00:13:11Walking man you ought to be ashamed of yourself
00:13:14Do you realize that you shorten your life by days even months every time you take a drink of that that?
00:13:20Awful fire water or whatever it is
00:13:23The next time you feel the temptation what you ought to do is pray for the strength to resist the devil
00:13:29Do exercises take a cold bath in a creek something anything?
00:13:36Oh
00:13:53McGregor
00:13:55Where's Jim
00:13:57He left here about an hour ago. He didn't McGregor. What's wrong?
00:14:01Where is he? Well, I don't know. He's he's not here McGregor. You look as it
00:14:05McGregor tell me what's wrong
00:14:11When he gets back tell him to meet me at dr. Kilgourn's
00:14:16Well, he'll want to know if you found that set
00:14:19Really where Mocaine Valley?
00:14:22Did you bring him back don't ask me anymore less
00:14:24Oh
00:14:32Cane back
00:14:37Mocaine Valley
00:14:41That's another guest
00:14:44There was a time Marshall slept fine on the whole clan Cox got winged when he dropped
00:14:50So
00:14:52You tied the marshal burnt down the jail and then wrote us
00:14:56You heard of us all the way from Toscosa
00:15:00We gave as we got I
00:15:03remember that
00:15:11I'm sorry. We're shy of accommodations. Why'd you bring me along just for your company?
00:15:20I hold him as long as it takes you Houston is to realize that the river parts for no man
00:15:25Now you go back to your people and you tell him that
00:15:28I'll take my rifle
00:15:30You get your rifle back when I let him out. I
00:15:35Wouldn't trust me
00:15:39That's our Stacy she's a woman and a half
00:15:41Jim gotta gal gets into your blood. Wouldn't you say Marshall?
00:15:45McGregor's down at dr. Kilgren's. Oh, that's all right. I don't mind you looking at it like that
00:15:49We Houston's are proud of our women for the Jared sure pick himself a prize. God rest him. He seems upset
00:15:55She's a widow. Well, somehow that's a sad word that don't quite fit
00:15:59She's really not a Houston
00:16:01McGregor said that you're for Stacy. She's more of a Houston than any of us ain't one of us wouldn't die for her Jim
00:16:07Wait, you listen. What is it you want?
00:16:11McGregor wants you over
00:16:13She's probably halfway through town follow me. Yeah you I want to know what those Houston's are up to
00:16:19You got eyes in the back of your head deputy, huh? You're gonna need him
00:16:23Not half as much as I'll need these two. She's a pretty girl
00:16:29You were saying something I think you better get yourself over to dr. Kilgren's McGregor found mr. Daggett. Oh, why didn't you tell me that?
00:16:35I
00:16:40Gotta talk to you
00:16:48Mocaine Valley they found him in the Mocaine Valley
00:17:06You
00:17:19You'd make a sorry Scout I
00:17:22Wasn't trying to be all that sneaky
00:17:25Well, then you did marvelously well
00:17:27Marshal crown send you after me
00:17:30Well, we wanted to make sure you got back to your folks. All right
00:17:33Very thoughtful of him and you I
00:17:37Guess we'll ride together from here on is that dangerous? Honestly?
00:17:43Well wouldn't want to take any chances with you
00:17:46Well, it's been a long time since a man really worried about me. I
00:17:54Wonder what
00:17:58The deputy was gonna protect me
00:18:03I
00:18:04Was only trying to be help. That's right. That's right
00:18:07You were being real neighborly and we can't do any less now. Can you boys?
00:18:12Turn and turn about
00:18:14Rowan's enjoying the marshals hospitality and his deputy can enjoy hours
00:18:24It ten times over
00:18:27I
00:18:31Never saw done to any creature what was done to him?
00:18:35never
00:18:37No, what do you think killed him man or beast?
00:18:41neither
00:18:43I've seen men who died in a hundred different ways
00:18:46Gunshot stabbing clawed by grizzly strangled stomped by a horse gourd. You name it. I've been there to pick up the pieces
00:18:54But this is something
00:18:58There's something else
00:19:00There's got to be some explanation
00:19:03All right, you call it
00:19:05Man beast say he was killed by a rock slide if you want to
00:19:10Whatever killed won't take it. I
00:19:13Can't put a name to it
00:19:15Doc ever since I first came to Cimarron, I could depend on you for a straight answer. No
00:19:22Maybe haven't been here long enough Jim
00:19:26Yeah, maybe that's it
00:19:29Across that River
00:19:31There's an unknown land
00:19:34Tell him we found the body
00:19:37Mouth of the Mocaine Valley
00:19:40Not that superstition
00:19:42You're right
00:19:45Our superstition feeds on ignorance and rumor
00:19:48Well ain't nothing I can do about ignorance, but I won't add to the rumor
00:19:53We'll nail him up in a box put him in the ground for anybody else sees him pretend it never happened
00:19:59Don't you try and stop me Marshal. I've gone to the Mocaine Valley and killed the Devil
00:20:04You don't believe me
00:20:07Let's great beating wings beating down out of the sky
00:20:10Down into the stairs down
00:20:14Well, I'm not going there
00:20:17No, no, no, no, no
00:20:20But it's not a good idea
00:20:22Let's go
00:20:24It's great, beating wings, beating down out of the sky at noonday,
00:20:28and flooding out the sun.
00:20:30It's still there, Marshal, and there's no hiding from it no more.
00:20:32I've got a place for you right in there.
00:20:34You've got a dead man over there by the name of Daggett?
00:20:36That's right, he's dead, and that's the end of it.
00:20:38How? I'll tell you, because I saw it in the Mocaine Valley two years ago.
00:20:41I saw it tear and break the best friend this old horse ever had,
00:20:44leaving nothing behind but the stump of the hand.
00:20:46And how many more have disappeared since then?
00:20:48Answer me that, how many?
00:20:50Now, Daggett, it's got to end, Marshal.
00:20:53I've been slipping by in the shadows too long.
00:20:56I want to walk in the sun again.
00:20:58I've got to kill the devil, Marshal, I've got to kill him.
00:21:00Come with me.
00:21:02You've got to help me, Marshal, help me kill the devil.
00:21:10It's a great hairy beast,
00:21:12and it's got a claw that's ten times the size of a bear's.
00:21:15Or it's a devil with wings that just swoops down out of the sun
00:21:18and tears a man limb from limb.
00:21:23You don't believe that nonsense.
00:21:26Did I say I did?
00:21:28Ah, Mocaine Valley.
00:21:30That sounds like a good place for the Houstons to put down roots.
00:21:33Now, they like to rattle an old ghost story
00:21:35to keep the superstitious sodbusters away.
00:21:45Megan, we cut away the bad dreams and all the nightmares,
00:21:50and I think we've finally got ourselves a straight story.
00:21:53He has a friend by the name of Joshua Broome.
00:21:56I've heard the name.
00:21:58One of the last of the great old trappers.
00:22:00One of the best travel scouts I ever saw.
00:22:02You knew him?
00:22:045th Cavalry, back in the 70s.
00:22:06Well, he was as big as a mountain and as hard as a rock.
00:22:09The story went that he'd have a dozen soup for breakfast every morning,
00:22:13and every night he'd drink himself silly with a keg of whiskey.
00:22:17Well, he and the walking man,
00:22:20I thought they found the last wilderness in the outlet.
00:22:23Instead, they found the devil, or something he calls the devil.
00:22:26You see, he actually didn't see it.
00:22:29I saw.
00:22:32Broome's hand ripped off lying there in the trap.
00:22:36Later went back in with old Hendricks.
00:22:39Found Broome's bones scattered all around
00:22:42like some child was playing with them.
00:22:45Or devil.
00:22:48And Hendricks.
00:22:50I find him torn, twisted, and thrown down like a rag doll.
00:22:56And the sun blacked out in the sky.
00:23:00And I run.
00:23:03Marshall, I run.
00:23:05Well, the running's over now.
00:23:07We're going back in there tomorrow morning,
00:23:09and we're going in with open eyes.
00:23:11And whatever there is to see, we're going to see it.
00:23:14And if it's the devil?
00:23:17Well, what is going on now?
00:23:20Hey! What's going on here? What's the meaning of this?
00:23:49What are you doing?
00:23:51We decided to bring a little supper to Brother Rowan.
00:23:53Well, you can't come in here like this.
00:23:55What's that?
00:23:56Hey, I got me a pretty gal.
00:23:58You had you a pretty gal.
00:24:00Let me go!
00:24:01Can't you see my brand on her?
00:24:02You mean that little notch by the ear there?
00:24:05Yeah, that's the one.
00:24:06Let me go!
00:24:07It's my brand.
00:24:08No, I've got your brand.
00:24:09I'll handle this one.
00:24:26Easy now, lad. No roughhousing.
00:24:28Jim, just watch how you handle my brother.
00:24:30I'll push my brother around.
00:24:32Listen, I'll take care of this.
00:24:33No, he's mine.
00:24:34Jim, aren't you?
00:24:35Hey!
00:24:37Two against one, that ain't the Houston way.
00:24:39Now, you remember, these folks are our guests.
00:24:41You show them what Houston hospitality really is.
00:24:43Bart, get another foot stopper there.
00:24:46Putting on the fancy, putting on the style.
00:24:50That's what all the young folks are doing all the while.
00:24:53Now, get that food around here.
00:24:55That smell's driving me wild.
00:24:56I see so many people putting on the style.
00:25:00Young man in a carriage...
00:25:02You obviously don't mind invasions.
00:25:03No harm in a family getting together.
00:25:05A family riot is more like it.
00:25:12Of course, any time the marshal leaves town, I'm in charge.
00:25:15It's a pretty big job being the deputy of a town the size of Cimarron.
00:25:20Hi, Marshal.
00:25:21Well, it seems to me I just asked you to follow him.
00:25:24That was all.
00:25:26Well, you see, I kind of got invited to join him.
00:25:29And you couldn't resist him.
00:25:31You might say that.
00:25:34They're a great bunch of people.
00:25:37Yeah, I know what you mean.
00:25:59I never bluff, Marshal.
00:26:02And that makes you different.
00:26:03All Houstons.
00:26:05All the settlers that come in here are different, except to me.
00:26:08To me, they're the same.
00:26:10You want to cross that river, I say you can.
00:26:13But before you cough yourself to death trying to be something you're not...
00:26:16What was that supposed to mean?
00:26:18Roll it over in your mind for a while.
00:26:20It'll come to you.
00:26:21Look, Marshal, we're none of your nowhere sodbusters.
00:26:24The Houstons owned 40 square miles of Colorado before there was a Colorado.
00:26:28That should have been enough.
00:26:30Except the river ran dry and the land died under, so we left.
00:26:34We're not shipless and we're not claim jumpers.
00:26:36And there's 10 million acres in that outlet and we aim to have a little piece of it.
00:26:41You can't cross until it's open to all.
00:26:44Now, how are you going to figure on stopping 14 of us?
00:26:47How do you figure on getting him out of here?
00:26:49I haven't decided yet. You got any advice?
00:26:54You can start by telling that kinfolk of yours to quit rifling my office looking for those jail keys.
00:26:59He's on a cold trail.
00:27:01I'll tell him. Anything else?
00:27:05Come here, gal.
00:27:06Let me go!
00:27:07Oh, now, calm down.
00:27:08Let me go!
00:27:11And he's scratching the wrong pussycat.
00:27:13The only information he's going to get out of her is that her eyes are blue.
00:27:17You're not being very helpful, Marshal.
00:27:19And you're the expert.
00:27:20Now, how would you figure on busting him out?
00:27:23Try to distract the Marshal with a pretty girl.
00:27:27Well, now.
00:27:29Why didn't I think of that?
00:27:42I'd tell that gentleman standing behind me who's got that rifle in my back to be careful who he's aiming it at.
00:27:48Huh?
00:27:57Easy.
00:27:58All right, the keys to that cell or I'll blow me a tunnel through his head.
00:28:01You wouldn't?
00:28:02Maybe not.
00:28:03But he wouldn't be the first Marshal we ever dipped in tar and hung from a church steeple.
00:28:07Alas!
00:28:08I just bet you'd do it. And after kissing him, too.
00:28:12Ah, but that was pleasure and this is business and we got ourselves a river to cross.
00:28:16Well, if you're foolish enough to cross that river, I'm just foolish enough to let you cross it.
00:28:27Stacy.
00:28:39Clark's on point. Morgan on drag. Stacy on the flank.
00:28:42You know the order on the wagons. Let's go.
00:28:47I'll see you the next time I get to town, little gal.
00:28:51Keep cattle in the winter for me, Dulcy. I'll be back.
00:28:55You take your choice, honey. We'll make a Houston out of you yet.
00:29:13Poor Jim. Never had a chance.
00:29:25Whoa!
00:29:46Whoa!
00:29:47Whoa!
00:29:51Crossed that river free and clear. It's all downhill from now on, Rowan.
00:29:56Not quite. You gotta shake that Marshal once and for all.
00:29:59You think he'd dare follow us?
00:30:00Well, you kissed him, didn't you? And I'd like you to forget that.
00:30:04He'll be along. You can bet your bustle on it.
00:30:07How you gonna stop him?
00:30:08You leave that to me. Bring out my horse.
00:30:11Now, get this map out the cocks.
00:30:13It's all marked off. Turns into this dry wash here about three miles ahead.
00:30:17Be rough going, but if he keeps on the rocks, won't leave a trail for anyone to track.
00:30:21Then over here, turn across country till he gets to the head of this valley and look around for a place for a night camp.
00:30:25Mocaine Valley, isn't that where...
00:30:27That's right, where that half-breed saw the devil and the beast.
00:30:30And the devil and whatever the next tall story calls it.
00:30:33That's the place, all right.
00:30:36And that superstition will keep those sodbusters out, huh?
00:30:40Yeah, we get settled down there. Get some breeding stock.
00:30:43Couple of years, we'll have the finest herd of white-faced beauties you ever did see.
00:30:46It'll be like it was.
00:30:48It'll be better. A lot better.
00:30:51And this time, no one's gonna move us off our land. Not even the law.
00:30:58Mother, you let Davy have a turn at the lines now.
00:31:02Rome, are you gonna kill him, Marshal Crown?
00:31:07Do you care?
00:31:10I do.
00:31:14I'll remember that.
00:31:33That's far enough, Marshal. Hold it right there.
00:31:37Just keep on looking to the front and don't move.
00:31:40Well, I hope you enjoyed our hospitality back there at the inn.
00:31:43I hope to return it soon.
00:31:45Well, don't go out of your way.
00:31:47I already have.
00:31:49Marshal, we're not gonna be stopped.
00:31:51Now, you're gonna have to kill each one of us, starting with me.
00:31:55Can you do that?
00:31:56If I have to.
00:31:58That's a future out there waiting for us, and we aim to claim it for our own.
00:32:01Now, why don't you go back across that river and tell them sodbusters that you lost our trail?
00:32:05We just happened to disappear it on you.
00:32:07Nobody'll know the difference.
00:32:08I will.
00:32:11Marshal?
00:32:12If you had my job, what would you do?
00:32:14That's not a fair question.
00:32:16Well, then you know the answer.
00:32:18Can't you see I don't want to kill you?
00:32:20Fine. So I'll save you the trouble.
00:32:24Can't you see I don't want to kill you?
00:32:26Fine. So I'll save you the trouble.
00:32:29I expect my deputy's standing behind you by now.
00:32:32He'll see to your rifle.
00:32:37That's an old trick, Marshal. It won't work.
00:32:49I told you we'd return your hospitality.
00:32:54That's to bring my other two deputies.
00:32:57We couldn't be sure on which hill we'd find you waiting for us.
00:33:14Ma, look what I found.
00:33:16Oh, Davy, honey, can't you see that we're busy?
00:33:19Found it in a cave. Can I play with it?
00:33:21No, Davy.
00:33:24Oh, honey, I'm sorry.
00:33:26I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to jump at you like that.
00:33:29Where's the cave, Davy?
00:33:31Up in those rocks.
00:33:38Was there anything else in there?
00:33:40No, ma'am.
00:33:42Can't I just scare Morgan with it?
00:33:45No, Davy, you can't.
00:33:47You see, honey, this was someone human.
00:33:50And we have to show respect for human life and bury it decently, see?
00:33:55Yes, ma'am.
00:33:58You go and bury it now.
00:34:00Okay.
00:34:01Okay.
00:34:08Stacy, are you sure that this is where Rowan told us to make camp?
00:34:12Near as Cox and I could figure out from the map.
00:34:16But I wish he'd get here so we could know for sure.
00:34:21It's wild country.
00:34:25But you have only to look at the soil to see how good it is.
00:34:28You can grow anything here. Cattle, cows and kids.
00:34:40Volcano Valley.
00:34:50Volcano Valley.
00:34:56Grand, where'd you learn to slip up on a man like you with his own shadow?
00:34:59Born into me, I guess.
00:35:01Another half a meter to Pawnee.
00:35:05I used to say I could go a month without food and a week without water.
00:35:10Run down a horse, track a lizard across a rock, or a hawk in the still air.
00:35:16But now, now I ain't much.
00:35:23We're almost there, Marshal. Volcano Valley.
00:35:26Fine. Show us the way.
00:35:29Marshal, smoke.
00:35:33Maybe a campfire.
00:35:41We're near Cox, they're coming!
00:35:46We're near Cox, they're coming!
00:36:16We're near Cox, they're coming!
00:36:46We're near Cox, they're coming!
00:37:16We're near Cox, they're coming!
00:37:46We're near Cox, they're coming!
00:38:09Rowan?
00:38:11Stacy! Baby!
00:38:14No, no, don't touch me, please.
00:38:18They're all dead.
00:38:20Well, who did it?
00:38:22I don't know.
00:38:24I don't even know what happened, I don't know!
00:38:44Take over, Rowan.
00:38:47Take it so I can understand it.
00:38:49No, no words.
00:38:51No comfort, they're Houston's.
00:38:54All they want to hear is the sound of their killer dying.
00:39:08Now I'm dead.
00:39:11Now I'm dead.
00:39:15You've got to remember, Stacy.
00:39:17You've got to remember something. Now tell me.
00:39:20But you were here! You saw something! Tell me!
00:39:35You'd be better off if you got some sleep.
00:39:39We...
00:39:41We made camp, we settled down for the night.
00:39:44Went to bed.
00:39:46The animals were fussing, but...
00:39:50And then, late, the horses went mad,
00:39:54and they broke free and ran, and...
00:39:57We tried to...
00:39:59But there was just a lot of yelling and screaming, I don't know, I...
00:40:02You saw something?
00:40:04It was...
00:40:06No, nothing, nothing clear, just shadows and fire.
00:40:09The wagons were burning, and Joanna, she was...
00:40:13Running, and her clothes were on fire.
00:40:16Rowan, I'm sorry.
00:40:18I didn't see any more, she was gone.
00:40:20Well, somebody. You had to see somebody.
00:40:23I was by the wagon with Davy, and...
00:40:26Something...
00:40:28Lifted up that whole wagon, and he heaved it over right on top of us.
00:40:32I just lay there, holding Davy.
00:40:35I heard screaming.
00:40:37I don't know who was screaming.
00:40:40I think...
00:40:42I think it was me, screaming.
00:40:45Stacy!
00:40:47Stacy!
00:40:53Something's coming through the woods, don't let it get me, don't!
00:41:03Hold it.
00:41:05Walk him in.
00:41:19Nothing.
00:41:21No sign.
00:41:23Nothing at all.
00:41:27Nothing at all.
00:41:30Nothing at all.
00:41:35I'm afraid, Stacy, something's gonna...
00:41:38Oh, no, no. No, honey.
00:41:40We're all here, nothing can happen to you now.
00:41:46I don't want to sleep.
00:41:48Nobody said you had to go to sleep.
00:41:50Do you want to hear the end of the story about the princess?
00:41:53Walk him in.
00:41:54Nothing, there was nothing.
00:41:56He didn't want to find anything.
00:41:58It had to be signed somewhere.
00:42:00What if it's the devil, turned himself into a beast and then disappeared?
00:42:03There was no ghost that massacred nine people.
00:42:05I want something real.
00:42:07Maybe it was a raiding party, Cherokee.
00:42:09They've been civilized for years.
00:42:11Comancheros looking for loot?
00:42:13They wouldn't leave without taking everything with them.
00:42:15Guns, wagons, supplies, just a thought.
00:42:18The devil don't need for nothing.
00:42:20No guns, knives, clothes.
00:42:23There's nothing but the air around him, draped with his own curse.
00:42:27Killed with that great claw.
00:42:29Put him in the ground, you looked, you saw.
00:42:31Torn by the claw.
00:42:33Nothing else kills like that.
00:42:37Francis.
00:42:39The first sign of light, you head back to Fort Supline.
00:42:41Get army help.
00:42:43Mac, you're going to have to take Stacy and the boy back to the Cimarron.
00:42:46Ah, you're the poor lass.
00:42:48You're going to stay here with this walking man?
00:42:51You know, I'll be scouting the area until you get back.
00:42:55Walking man, you go back up on that knoll.
00:42:58You take first watch.
00:43:00I'll leave you after a bit.
00:43:05Mac, over by the wagon trail.
00:43:09You cover the other side.
00:43:11Keep an eye on walking man.
00:43:13He looks a little edgy to me.
00:43:14Okay.
00:43:16So we're going to sit through a wasted night.
00:43:18Well, whatever it is that killed my people is out there.
00:43:21We can't track at night.
00:43:26Where are you going?
00:43:29Out there.
00:43:33And stumble around like a blind man?
00:43:35It's better a blind man than a coward.
00:43:37If they were my dead, I'd probably do the same.
00:43:40But only a fool set himself up as a target at night.
00:43:43Maybe that's what I want to be, a target.
00:43:45But whatever it is out there, devil beast, let it find me because that means I find it.
00:43:50And that's all I ask.
00:43:51Just one chance to get my hands on it.
00:43:53Not this way.
00:43:55Can't you get it through your head? I don't want your advice or your help.
00:43:58You've got a boy in the lean-to, alive.
00:44:01You want to leave him with nothing but another nightmare?
00:44:03I know what I'm doing, Marshal.
00:44:05Well, so do I.
00:44:24You hit him. You hit him.
00:44:26It's the only way to stop him.
00:44:28You can't do this. I won't let you.
00:44:30Full of anger and grief.
00:44:31Don't you understand?
00:44:33Those were our people.
00:44:35He has to answer the call of their blood, not...
00:44:37I'm going to let him go.
00:44:42I'm not going to let any more mucins get themselves killed.
00:44:46I'm not going to let any more mucins get themselves killed.
00:44:53Stacy, I'm sorry.
00:44:58I'm alive.
00:45:00And I should be dead.
00:45:04I'm alive.
00:45:08I'm alive.
00:45:15I'm alive.
00:45:21It never happened.
00:45:22It did.
00:45:24Marshal?
00:45:30The walking man's gone.
00:45:32I told you to keep an eye on him.
00:45:33I looked, and one second he was there, and the next second he was gone.
00:45:38You all right?
00:45:41Rowan?
00:45:42Cut me loose.
00:45:43Rowan, I...
00:45:44Pick up that knife and cut me loose.
00:45:45I can't.
00:45:46I don't want you to die.
00:45:48He's right. If you go out there...
00:45:49You don't give a hoot about me.
00:45:50You got a man looking at you the way you want him to look at you.
00:45:52Nothing matters anymore.
00:45:53It wasn't like you think.
00:45:54I don't know why...
00:45:55I'll tell you why. Because we're animals.
00:45:56Even at death, we take our pleasure where we can find it.
00:45:58Rowan, don't shame me.
00:45:59Here, with our people still warm in the grave.
00:46:00No.
00:46:01Here, turn your back on us.
00:46:02Never.
00:46:03What do you mean?
00:46:04Pick up that knife and cut me loose.
00:46:08Houston, don't shy away from what has to be done.
00:46:14Go ahead.
00:46:26You know I gotta go out there, Stacy.
00:46:40Stacy, not if I hurt you.
00:46:43It doesn't matter.
00:46:45You've been good for this family, Stacy. I mean that.
00:46:48Now, if anything happens to me,
00:46:51you take care of Davey. Now, he needs you.
00:47:13Why?
00:47:23Because I'm a Houston, and so is he.
00:47:26We have a pride.
00:47:27Well, that foolish pride is going to get him killed.
00:47:29You'll both keep her here, even if you have to hogtie her.
00:47:44Come on.
00:47:56Come on.
00:48:13Come on.
00:48:43Saddle up.
00:48:54Why?
00:48:56We're moving out.
00:48:57Why?
00:49:00Because I said so.
00:49:02He's dead.
00:49:04No.
00:49:06I got a right to know.
00:49:08I found his horse, that's all.
00:49:10You mean he's still out there?
00:49:12You're going to turn your back on him?
00:49:14I'll find him.
00:49:15His horse was dead, slaughtered.
00:49:17I searched for him. No trail, nothing.
00:49:19There's miles of wild country out there.
00:49:21We could search for him for weeks and never find him.
00:49:23I've done all I can.
00:49:25Now I need help.
00:49:26Well, I don't need any help. I'm a Houston, and we take care of our own.
00:49:29My husband went up against four common showers to save me.
00:49:32He got himself killed for me.
00:49:34I owe Rowan as much.
00:49:36I'll find him.
00:49:37You're coming with me.
00:49:38No.
00:49:39Why do you Houstons have to be lords of the earth or the dead without a way station in between?
00:49:43Now, do you know what drove Rowan here?
00:49:46Pure stubborn pride.
00:49:48A man who couldn't live with the fact that his 40 square miles were gone.
00:49:51And that maybe he'd have to settle for something less.
00:49:54That's not true.
00:49:55It is true.
00:49:57Oh, please, just let me go.
00:50:03You're going to have to die along with him to prove your family loyalty.
00:50:06You're not even a Houston.
00:50:08Don't you understand?
00:50:10They gave me life.
00:50:12I had none before.
00:50:14My father was a righteous man.
00:50:16He put the fear of God in me.
00:50:18Joy was sin.
00:50:20I'd be consumed in the fiery furnace if I even looked at a boy.
00:50:23But I looked anyhow.
00:50:24And I saw Jared Houston.
00:50:26And suddenly I didn't care anymore.
00:50:28It was like I saw the sun come up for the first time.
00:50:31And I wanted to run toward it and never stop running.
00:50:34And Jared's family took me in, and they faced down my pa.
00:50:37And a miracle happened.
00:50:39A scared little girl learned to laugh and sing and love.
00:50:43And I became a Houston.
00:50:44Not just married to one, but born and bred into my bones.
00:50:47So don't you ever say to me I'm not a Houston, because I am.
00:50:50I'm Jared and Rowan and Morgan and Cox and every one of them.
00:50:53And I always will be.
00:50:54And that's why I can't leave one of my own out there.
00:50:56That's why I've got to kill whatever killed my family.
00:51:00And you can make me go with you, Marshal.
00:51:03But I'll be back.
00:51:06Jim.
00:51:12Walking Man.
00:51:17Where have you been?
00:51:25You see him?
00:51:26No.
00:51:27Walking Man, you can track a lizard on a rock, a hawk in still air.
00:51:32You're one of the best.
00:51:33You still are.
00:51:35You track them.
00:51:38Too many.
00:51:40They're all the devil's men.
00:51:42Can't go back, never.
00:51:44The devil can't be killed.
00:51:46Jim!
00:51:48David, he's gone.
00:51:49Gone?
00:51:50I saw him here just a minute ago.
00:51:51How about the lean-to?
00:51:52I looked inside all around. I can't find him anywhere.
00:51:54Well, I don't think he came this way. We'd have seen him.
00:51:56Well, let's find him.
00:52:05David?
00:52:11David?
00:52:23David?
00:52:30David?
00:52:35David?
00:52:43Jim, he couldn't have come this far, not by himself.
00:52:46Cut over to the left and circle back.
00:52:52You all right?
00:52:53I'm fine.
00:52:54Marshal?
00:52:55McGregor, I found him. He's over here.
00:53:00You found me.
00:53:01He's playing a game.
00:53:02A game?
00:53:03What kind of a game, David?
00:53:05Hide and seek. And he won.
00:53:07He beat Aunt Stacy.
00:53:09Stacy?
00:53:33Stacy?
00:54:03Hey!
00:54:34Ah!
00:54:35Ah!
00:54:54Ah!
00:54:55Ah!
00:54:56Ah!
00:54:57Ah!
00:54:58Ah!
00:54:59Ah!
00:55:00Ah!
00:55:01Ah!
00:55:02Ah!
00:55:13Ah!
00:55:20Ah!
00:55:21Ah!
00:55:32No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
00:56:02Could have a hundred devils hiding in this misbegotten valley.
00:56:17We need an army to cover even half of it.
00:56:20That's what we will have.
00:56:21I sent Francis with a boy to Fort Supply.
00:57:57I didn't want to do this to you, but he's the only friend I ever had.
00:58:14Now he's a devil.
00:58:17No one, no thing can kill the devil.
00:58:37I thought you were dead.
00:58:51Once may be, never again.
00:58:57You have the same look a walking man had when I took him into my arms this morning.
00:59:03He saw my face for the first time in two years.
00:59:09Not dead, Joshua Broom can never die.
00:59:14I've come up from the bowels of the earth to rule my people.
00:59:20Stand up, old horse.
00:59:30I spared him today, and now he serves me like the others.
00:59:35What about the others you didn't spare?
00:59:38Can't you see he's crazy?
00:59:43No, no, not anymore.
00:59:47I was, I was.
00:59:50My hand caught in that trap, and the world's all about, and the night coming on with the
01:00:03freeze.
01:00:04So I tore myself free, and the hand was all that was left of the me that was, and the
01:00:19pain like fire in the stump of my arm, and I ran, I ran until there was nothing left
01:00:28in my legs, and I'll come on a bear, and I killed it, ate, tore out three of its ribs
01:00:41like atom-made woman, I fashioned me three blades, then they found me, them renegade
01:00:51rapos, and I tore one with a claw, and roared with the strength of it, and the rest of them,
01:01:02the rest of them, they fell down, and they called me, it was like I, I knew, I knew what
01:01:11they called me was true, I knew that, I could hear, I could see, I could feel the power
01:01:21of it in me like fire, I knew who I was, because I could see the fear of me in them Indians'
01:01:30eyes, devil, devil, I am the devil, you see him walking on, you hear him, he's the devil,
01:01:49you believe that, or is he just an ordinary man, man with his brand of green, using fear
01:01:59and crazy strength to keep this land to himself, you don't believe, you don't believe, open
01:02:09your eyes, Jim Crown, look at the devil's fire, the devil's fire will take them clean and quick,
01:02:31then you, Jim Crown, you, when word gets back to Cimarron, no one will dare to come to the
01:02:41place of the devil again, no one, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man,
01:03:11you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man,
01:03:40you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man,
01:04:06you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man,
01:04:34you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:05:02couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:05:31couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:05:59couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:06:27couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:06:54couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:07:20couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:07:48couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:08:17couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:08:45couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:09:13couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:09:38couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:10:02couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:10:28couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:10:55couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:11:23couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:11:53couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,
01:12:19couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is, couldn't you, Logan man, you see what he is,