Jesse James Page #6

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The more luck you have, the worse you'll get.

Shooting and robbing -

it'll get in your blood, Jesse.

You'll get like a wolf.

Just doing it because it's your nature.

That'll be your appetite -

for shooting and robbing.

Until something happens to you.

And if anything ever happened to you, Jesse,

it'd be like it was happening to me too.

Oh, darling, there's only one way out.

Come in. Give up.

Let me draw a free breath again.

I can't, Zee. I'd go crazy in prison.

I couldn't do it.

But if we went away now...

That's all there is to it, Jesse.

Goodbye.

- But, Zee, please...

- Good luck.

Zee, you said you'd wait.

However long it took.

- Would you marry me now, before?

- Today, if you want me to.

- Then that's the way, I guess.

- The only way.

And then the prodigal son

come home to his ma and pa.

- Welcome, brothers and sister.

- Thank you, sir.

Sit down. Just find a seat anywhere.

Could we get hitched?

Married.

- You ain't eloping, are you?

- How's that?

- No, sir. I'm grown.

- We're in a hurry, if you don't mind.

Your brothers?

- I have no brothers.

- Sorry.

- What's your name, sister?

- Zerelda Cobb.

- And yours, son?

- Jesse Woodson James.

Jesse Wood... Jesse James?

- Thank the Lord.

- Sit down.

- Yes, sir. We don't want no trouble.

- Trouble?

Why, son, you're as welcome

as rain to the flowers.

Do you realise, boy, that I had

a farm giving 900 bushels of corn

until that railroad had taken it from me?

Why, I'd given up preaching and

was making an honest living off the land

until that dad-swinged railroad

swindled me out of my own home.

- That's true, Mr James.

- By golly, son!

Do you know, I had a big house,

two barns, three outhouses,

until that goldanged railroad

hornswoggled me?

- Amen.

- Amen.

All right. We're gathered here

to join Zerelda Cobb

and Jesse Woodson James

in the bonds of holy matrimony...

- Howdy, Jesse.

- Howdy, Will.

- I guess Zee explained things.

- She said they're willing to go light.

They're so glad to get rid of you, they're liable

to make you a conductor on the road.

- What do you think I'll get?

- Two, three years.

Maybe five. It won't be much.

All they're charging you with is that depot

at Pine Hills that you knocked over.

That one they got proof on.

I'm much obliged for all you've done, Will.

Don't mention it.

Shall we go?

Is it all right, Jesse?

- Howdy, Jesse.

- Howdy, Jesse.

- Howdy, Jesse.

- Howdy. Judge.

- Jesse.

- Major.

- You ain't got no more guns, have you?

- No.

All right.

- You're doing the wise thing, son.

- Am I?

Judge Mathews is gonna try your case, son.

You can trust him.

I'm aiming to go as light as the law allows.

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