The Thicket

Daddy?

While you was gone.

Don't go in, Lula.

We'll wait for Grandpa, he had it already.

Are you gonna get sick?

No.

You promise.

No, Lu, no.

Hey. No, I ain't gonna get it.

Hey. Hey, don't look. It's gonna be alright.

We're gonna be okay.

Easy boys, easy. Whoa!

You were a good boy.

"Fear thou not, for I am with thee.

Be not dismayed, for I am thy God."

"I will shelter thee...

Yea, I will help thee.

Yea, I will uphold thee

with the right hand of my righteousness."

Here.

Find the line on the back page.

Put your name there. The one that says "heir".

What is this?

Land. Wind River Range.

My grandpa fought the Kiowa for it.

My pa fought the cattlemen. Supposed to be your father's.

Is that where we're going?

We're going to your aunt's in Kansas.

When I die you get this place and everything on it. But until then,

you'll live with your Aunt Tess. Best that I can do.

Come on.

Four bits.

Who burned the bridge?

Lightning burnt the bridge, way fellow.

- That's unfortunate. - Yeah, it is.

Four bits.

Four bits!

We're here first. You can take the next ride.

It's a very small ferry and there's weather coming.

They want four bits for the ferry.

You got four bits, grandpa?

Four bits I say.

Loan a brother a fare.

We'll spot you the fare, mister.

I ain't asking you.

Well...

I believe this is the first time I've ever liked

the sight of a silver star.

Lula...

Lula.

We met. You remember?

- No, she don't know you. Okay? - Jack.

You scared of me?

You scared of me, Silver Star?

Get away from her now.

I know who you are.

Who am I?

You're Cutthroat Bill.

You make that name up, old man? Who says I am?

Western Union, for one.

They got a price on me?

I don't know about that.

Last I heard, it was $10,000.

You gon' collect it?

Lu... Lula, you got a price on you?

- How much? I just wanna know. - You leave her be now.

Look at this old man, he's shittin' himself.

He don't even know what to do, sink or swim.

Oh look. He's got a little gun.

We don't want no trouble.

You want trouble. Soon as you draw on me.

Bang.

Bang.

We're all family.

- There's a doctor in Sylvester. - Holy hell.

Just a scratch, he'll fix it up.

Whooo!

I've never had a sting like that.

There's only one thing we're gonna do about that.

Grandpa!

I'm unarmed.

You think I care?

Grandpa!

We're closing up.

Shame.

There's only mint.

Sorry?

You ain't got no licorice?

Just what's there. But we're closing.

Girls like licorice.

What's that there?

That there?

You hear okay?

Can you see me?

I see you.

You think I'm pretty, don't ya?

I believe that there is, um... horehound.

Well now you try'n kill me?

No. I can't have no hard candy.

What are these right here? They look soft.

I don't know.

You don't know your own candy?

I just don't. Um...

Fellas... you gonna buy all that?

We're just browsing.

Now... you're gonna put all the money in a sack

and give me all them candy sticks you got.

That right here, that's licorice.

Go on. Suck it.

Harder.

You alright, miss?

Where am I? What town?

Sylvester. That's my daddy's store.

Run. They'll shoot you.

Run!

Fuck!

Lula!

Lula!

Grandpa...

Fear thou not, for I am with thee.

Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will...

I will help...

Lula!

I'm sorry.

Lula!

Lula!

He killed Marvin Taylor and his son.

- Hang him! - Marvin Taylor's dead!

I saw him...

Wait! Wait! Wait! Hey! Hey!

I need to talk to you!

Hey! Where's Bill taken the girl?!

Where's he taken my sister?

Let me go!

Where the hell you think you're going?

Mountie!

- Don't you dare. - Somebody!

- Get in there! - Somebody!

- I said get in there! - Get off me!

Get off me!!!

Pull him up.

Ha! Ha!

Wait! Hey!

Let me talk to him! Please!

Tell me where Bill's going!

Tell me, I'll say a prayer for you! Please!

Where are you taking me?

My brother's gonna come looking for me.

Your brother? He's dead.

All of them back there.

Got lost in the fray is all.

- That's a lie. - It ain't.

I seen him.

You're lucky I saved you.

You'll learn to say thank you.

Let me look at it.

Nah, Billy.

Fuck!

Here.

Thank you, Billy.

You should learn how to shoot, girl.

Where am I?

Graveyard.

I was supposed to bury you if you didn't wake up.

The others that were with him...

did you see which way they went?

Only Bill the bank robber.

I... I thought her name's Cutthroat.

He's got a lotta names. Cutthroat, Two Smiles.

- It's a she. - What?

Bill is a she. Do you know where they went?

They rode north.

Which way is the Sheriff's office?

Ain't no Sheriff.

What?

Ain't no Sheriff in this town, hence the fresh graves.

Is this your wagon?

Belongs to Jones.

- I got money... - It belongs to Jones.

Who's Jones?

Well, there's the wee grave's man.

We're done.

Is he buried?

Six deep.

Did you measure?

- I did. - Hmm. Used a ladder, I'll be bound.

$2.

You don't appear to have dug.

My partner digs, I collect.

Hmm. Well, $1.

Two was the agreement.

One digger, $1.

$2 for a grave, mister.

Alright. I'll tell you what.

I'll give you $1 for a grave and, uh, $1 for a dance.

I'd pay the man, Bailey.

I saw down in St. Louis three or four of these fellas,

they're as jolly as gypsies. Whee! Come on now.

Yeah, well you got the wrong notion, mister.

We dug the grave, now pay me and leave the rest alone.