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00:03 Sarah Buchanan, the lots have been drawn.
00:18 And according to the law, you've been chosen.
00:20 Abraham.
00:27 You will do the angel's vengeance.
00:28 I give you the weapon.
00:33 Hasn't there been enough killing?
00:36 We did not start this.
00:38 It is written that we should love our enemies.
00:43 Your father gave us the law, but he told us to use it well.
00:47 Which I am doing.
00:50 You speak of my father.
00:52 The law is his.
00:55 It was handed to me for my son.
00:59 How do I give it into his hands?
01:03 Answer me, old man.
01:05 How do I give a dead boy the law?
01:09 The man who killed my son is still alive.
01:13 The angel's vengeance will cut him down
01:15 into the dirt that is him.
01:18 The vengeance will be mine.
01:20 The man you seek was last known to be in the town of Copper
01:31 City.
01:33 You are to find him, follow him.
01:37 Sarah Buchanan, I do not expect to see you
01:42 until you carry the blood of Josh Randall on your hands.
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02:25 Bang!
02:39 You missed.
02:40 No, I didn't.
02:41 Got you right in the heart.
02:42 Bang, right between the eyes.
02:45 I guess you did all right.
02:47 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:50 You, uh, you get them shells ordered?
02:57 Yep, come in this morning.
03:00 I'll be around here some hours.
03:01 Did you find that fellow you was looking for?
03:05 Huh?
03:06 No, no, no.
03:07 He's a pretty smart fellow.
03:08 I'm going after him first thing in the morning.
03:10 Hey, uh, what's this here?
03:12 Peaches.
03:14 Extra fancy, packed in heavy syrup.
03:16 Come all the way in from St. Louis.
03:18 Peaches in a can.
03:19 Boy, that's something, isn't it?
03:20 Open them up and try them.
03:22 Much obliged.
03:23 I don't get much call for fancy stuff,
03:27 but I like to keep them in stock.
03:30 I figure your fellow ought to be progressive.
03:32 [CLATTERING]
03:35 Pretty good.
03:40 I'll take some with you.
03:45 You can all be outside.
03:46 Now, it's your turn.
03:56 OK, let Suzy be the idiot.
03:59 Suzy can scalp us.
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04:04 Howdy.
04:12 Afternoon.
04:13 What can I do for you?
04:14 OK.
04:16 You're new in town, aren't you?
04:18 Uh-huh.
04:19 Figure you'd stay long?
04:20 Long as I have to.
04:22 Well, you might just look around.
04:23 Anything you want, this is the place for it.
04:26 Good grazing land, dirt will grow anything.
04:28 You might just look around.
04:30 Listen, I'm kind of in a hurry, you know?
04:32 All right.
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04:37, [CRASH]
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04:51 Listen, mister, I know you're in there.
05:11 I don't know why you're shooting at me,
05:14 but I think you got the wrong man.
05:17 I'm not going to go sticking my head inside that barn
05:19 door to find out either.
05:21 But I'm going to be out here waiting for you when you come
05:22 out.
05:23 So when you come out, you keep that rifle over your head.
05:25 You hear me?
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06:17 All right, get up.
06:20 Come on, now.
06:20 Get on your feet.
06:23 I know who are you.
06:24 What are you trying to shoot me for?
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06:35 Pretty fancy weapon you got here.
06:36 [GUNSHOT]
06:40 Any more shells for this thing?
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06:59 I'd rather not wait.
07:01 Wait for what?
07:03 Kill me, Mr. Randall, please.
07:04 No!
07:06 Boy, you really something.
07:08 First you try to shoot me.
07:10 Now you want me to shoot you.
07:12 Well, what is it?
07:13 You just like the noise or something?
07:15 Well, I'd like to try and help you out if I
07:16 knew what you wanted.
07:18 But I don't.
07:20 My name is Sarah Buchanan.
07:24 I'm an angel.
07:26 Yeah?
07:28 I never figured they'd be carrying guns.
07:30 [GUNSHOTS]
07:33 Now, you want to tell me about this?
07:37 In Copper City, Mr. Randall, a man by the name of Virgil
07:40 Saxon was murdered.
07:42 Does that make it any clearer?
07:45 Yeah.
07:48 Now, you listen to me.
07:50 When a man pulls a .44 on me and he's pointed at me,
07:53 ready to blow big holes through me,
07:54 I'm not going to stand and argue with him.
07:56 That was either me or him.
07:57 And lady, I shot him dead.
07:59 Is that true?
08:01 Well, I said it was.
08:02 And there were witnesses in town if you want to talk to them.
08:04 And, uh, it was a legal hearing.
08:06 Well, it doesn't make any difference, really.
08:13 Virgil was Abraham's son.
08:15 Who's Abraham?
08:17 Abraham's the leader of the angels.
08:20 He called all the young people together,
08:21 and I was the one who was picked.
08:24 You see, that's the law of the valley.
08:26 If harm is done to one angel, another is
08:29 picked to administer justice.
08:31 If he fails, then another, until justice is done.
08:34 Yeah.
08:35 Suppose you run on back and tell those people
08:37 they done picked the wrong fella, huh?
08:40 The only way I can set foot in the valley is if you're dead.
08:43 Uh-huh.
08:48 Tell you what, supposing you and I take a ride out to this valley
08:51 and talk to this man Abraham.
08:54 He'll kill the both of us.
08:56 Well, uh, let's hope not.
08:59 Since he's got his heart set on tracking me down,
09:00 I'll just go out there and save him the trouble.
09:02 I got a few things I got to pick up in town.
09:05 We'll go out and take a look at this valley of the angels.
09:08 Come on.
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09:13 You, uh, you ride horses a lot.
09:37 You've been on a trail eight hours, you don't even look tired.
09:39 Those are, uh, peaches, you know, in cans.
10:01 I think I'm from St. Louis.
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10:07 You know, uh, if you go out on a trip to kill a man,
10:20 you ought to bring a sleeping roll with you.
10:21 That's kind of important out here.
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12:14 [GUNSHOT]
12:18 [SOBBING]
12:29 You really plan on using this thing on me?
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12:44 I don't know.
12:47 I don't know.
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12:54 There it is, the Valley of the Angels.
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13:12 Josh, if you go down there, you'll never come out.
13:17 I know Abraham.
13:18 He wants you dead.
13:19 And he won't rest until you are.
13:20 Now, look, let's understand each other, lady.
13:23 I don't like anybody hunting me down.
13:24 As soon as it's dark, we're going to go down there.
13:27 We're going to talk to that man.
13:28 All right.
13:34 But Josh, do this for me.
13:37 See Mr. Rankin first. Talk to him.
13:40 He's a good man.
13:40 He was a friend of Nehemiah, Abraham's father.
13:43 They founded this valley together years ago.
13:46 He has no authority now, but--
13:49 but perhaps he can help us.
13:50 All right.
13:54 [MUSIC PLAYING]
13:58 Here's Mr. Rankin's house.
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14:07 [KNOCKING]
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14:36 Sarah.
14:38 Mr. Rankin, this is Josh Randall.
14:41 Come in.
14:42 Come in.
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14:46 [DOOR SLAMMING]
14:48 My dear, what are you doing here?
14:50 I-- I told him what would happen,
14:51 but he insisted on coming.
14:53 Mr. Rankin, Josh didn't murder Virgil.
14:57 Tell him, Josh.
14:58 [THUNDER]
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15:05 [THUNDER]
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15:16 And that's exactly what happened.
15:22 I rode out here with her because I want
15:24 to get this thing cleared up.
15:28 It was a mistake, Mr. Randall.
15:30 A well-intentioned one, but nonetheless a mistake.
15:34 Tell me something.
15:35 Does it make sense to you, me riding
15:37 out here to talk to this man?
15:38 Oh, yes.
15:40 However, the logic of the world doesn't
15:41 seem to apply anymore in the Valley of the Angels.
15:43 What if you told him of his child?
15:48 Well, I-- I told him what I could.
15:55 We are a strange people, Mr. Randall.
15:58 In the beginning, it was not always so.
16:01 We were ordinary, except that we wanted
16:03 to worship in our own way.
16:07 We had a little colony in the Eastern Mountains
16:09 many years ago.
16:12 But outsiders came to the colony,
16:16 told us that our customs were wrong, that our law was wrong.
16:21 And when we would not change our custom or our law,
16:25 they rose up against us.
16:28 Our leader, Nehemiah Saxon, could have used force,
16:34 but it was not his way.
16:37 He decided to go where we could live in peace.
16:41 After searching the land, he found this place
16:44 and called it the Valley of the Angels.
16:47 But still, people would not let us live in peace.
16:57 As our towns grew, marauders came to rob from us,
17:02 to cheat us, sometimes to murder us.
17:08 Nehemiah was forced to make the law.
17:12 When Nehemiah died, his son Abraham made many changes.
17:16 He used the angels' vengeance for his personal vendettas.
17:21 He excluded no one, women, children, old people.
17:27 Gave him great power.
17:30 Well, uh, why didn't somebody here
17:32 do something about this man?
17:33 Because no one dares go against Abraham.
17:38 [GUNSHOT]
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17:43 You've been delivered, Mr. Randall.
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17:51 Take him to the meeting house.
18:01 Notify the others.
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18:09 Sarah Buchanan, come forward.
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18:30 You were sent to serve the angels' vengeance.
18:39 Have you accomplished your mission?
18:42 The slayer of my son lives?
18:44 Answer, Sarah.
18:50 He lives.
18:51 Why?
18:52 [FOOTSTEPS]
18:55 Who is this man?
19:02 It was such a weapon that finished my boy.
19:13 I killed your son, sir.
19:17 You admit you murdered Virgil.
19:19 I didn't think it was murder.
19:20 The boy was drunk.
19:22 He wanted to prove he was faster than I was.
19:23 We had a few words.
19:26 He drew on me.
19:27 You lie.
19:29 My boy never touched alcohol.
19:32 Like I said, the boy was drunk.
19:34 If he shot at you like you say he did, you'd be dead.
19:37 He was almighty fast with weapons.
19:40 I taught him.
19:41 While you were teaching him about guns,
19:43 you might have taught him there might be
19:44 somebody else a little faster.
19:47 If he hadn't have drawn the way he did,
19:49 I wouldn't have had to kill him.
19:50 Now, if you don't believe me, there was a court hearing
19:52 and a town full of witnesses.
19:55 Outsiders?
19:58 You think I believe them any more than I believe you?
20:01 Abraham, in heaven's name, give the boy a chance.
20:04 If he claims proof, at least we should investigate.
20:10 You're forgetting yourself, old man.
20:13 I'm the leader of the angels, not you.
20:16 My word is law in this valley.
20:18 You failed in your mission, girl.
20:27 The penalty for failure is death.
20:29 But to prove that I'm a just and a merciful man,
20:37 I'll give you a chance to redeem yourself.
20:40 Abraham, what are you saying?
20:41 You want to redeem yourself, don't you?
20:43 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
20:46 Kill him.
20:54 You hear what I'm saying, girl?
21:00 I hear.
21:01 Then do as I say.
21:02 Use it.
21:07 Now, let's get our vengeance against this murderer.
21:10 Stop this farce, Abraham.
21:11 It's gone far enough.
21:13 Still your tongue, old man.
21:15 You've stood in the way of the law already.
21:16 No.
21:18 We all know about Virgil, the kind of man he was.
21:21 There's not one of us who doesn't think the punishment
21:23 given to him was just.
21:25 Sorry if you can't.
21:27 I've given the law.
21:28 Kill him.
21:29 You, kill him.
21:39 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
21:42 I'm your leader.
21:45 Can you expect them to obey you anymore, Saxon?
21:53 You sent a girl out to kill because she wouldn't have
21:56 anything to do with your son.
21:58 Now you ask decent people to commit murder.
22:01 All right, well, if there is no one with courage
22:06 to see justice done, I'll see to it myself.
22:12 [GUNSHOT]
22:23 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
22:27 May God forgive me.
22:49 I, uh, I forget what you did for me.
22:53 No, it was wrong, Mr. Randall.
22:56 No man can decide another man's destiny.
23:00 Abraham almost decided mine.
23:02 Don't hate him.
23:04 He'd forgotten the past.
23:06 Even as I did in that moment, it's easy to forget.
23:12 Virgil's death blinded his soul.
23:16 Mr. Rankin, I don't know a lot about these matters,
23:18 but I do know one thing.
23:19 If you hadn't have done what you did, you would have killed me.
23:23 I'm much obliged to you.
23:26 Goodbye, sir.
23:27 We'll miss you.
23:34 Maybe not.
23:36 I, uh, know my way back.
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