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CHALK:

They did. Keep usin’ them fucks

up, don’t they?

COLE:

Put your little contraptions away.

I’m going to walk you down to the

jail house and I don’t want to

spook the horses.

Bronc and Chalk bristle. They button up and spread apart.

BRONC:

You ain’t walkin’ us nowhere,

Virgil Cole.

COLE:

You pull on me, either one, and

I’ll kill you both.

CHALK:

Bullshit!

Chalk laughs - he goes for his gun ---

Cole shoots him before he even touches it.

Bronc goes for his and Cole, almost thoughtfully, shoots

Bronc in the face.

One of the Hands by the bar pulls a .45.

Hitch blasts him off his feet, the FOURTH MAN’S hands go up.

FOURTH MAN:

I ain’t shootin’, I ain’t shootin’!

The room’s full of smoke.

The patrons stand with their backs to the wall, stunned.

The Aldermen look in from the Lobby... astonished.

Cole flips open the Colt’s cylinder and reloads.

COLE:

I warned ‘em.

14 INT./EXT. MARSHAL’S OFFICE - THAT NIGHT 14

Through the windows of the office Cole sets some books on a

shelf. Hitch finds a key on a ring and unlocks the chain of

the gun rack.

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15 EXT. STREET CORNER, APPALOOSA - THE NEXT DAY - DAY 15

Hitch looks out the window as Olson scurries by.

Behind Olson, Bragg and eight of his men front the jail.

16 INT. EARL MAY’S CORNER SALOON - CONTINUOUS - DAY 16

Hitch sits at a table facing South Street. Cole sits at atable watching Main. Earl May leans on the rough wooden bar.

(During the following dialogue, Bragg and his men are seenthrough the Main Street window riding up and dismounting. Twoof the men will stay outside.)

Olson hurries in, rattled.

Marshal!

OLSON:

COLE:

Mornin’ Mr. Olson.

OLSON:

Bragg and some of his men are atthe jail looking for you.

COLE:

I ain’t at the jail.

OLSON:

Yes... um, I can seen that.

COLE:

Get a better view of what’s goingon settin’ right here, don’t we

Everett.

OLSON:

What should we do?

COLE:

‘Bout what?

OLSON:

Bragg and his men -Olson

backs away as Bragg and SIX MEN enter.

men toward the bar.

Bragg nods his

Bragg, starched white shirt, hand-tooled black boots, gunbelt, strides over to Cole.

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