Dead Man
Nobody Your actions are useless.
Blake This is complete fabrication. There can’t be. . .
Nobody You cannot stop the clouds by the building of a ship.
Blake What? What did you say? You know, I’ve had it up to here with this Indian malarkey. I haven’t understood a single word you’ve said since I met you, not one single word.
Nobody Are you sure you have no tobacco?
Blake I’ve already told you, I don’t smoke. If I don’t smoke, there’s a pretty good chance that I don’t have any tobacco.
Nobody Exaybachay not be going, William Blake.
Twill I guess the best advice, is not to take any damn advice.
Wilson What the hell is that?
Twill What’s that say? Read it.
Pickett Wanted, William Blake. In the amount of five hundred dollars.
Twill Shit. Hell, ain’t we about more fucked than a whore at closing time? Thanks to goddamn Mr Dickinson. Huh? I’ll tell you what that there says. It says, some pelt-wearing trapper, some stinking bean-sucking possum skinner, he’s gonna collect that reward money. Make you feel good? Goddamn pelt skinner.
Pickett I’ll be damned. Five hundred dollars? I don’t understand. I thought we was hired exclusive. I mean, he paid us gold in advance. I’m out here. I’m out here in the middle of shit’s creek, with two local lunatics. One who don’t say nothing, and the other one, he won’t even stop yapping.
Wilson You gonna shed tears for us? I wouldn’t do that if I were you.
Pickett And why not?
Wilson Because it ain’t good for your health.
Pickett Fuck you.
Wilson Fuck me? Fuck you.
Twill God damn it. Jesus, Cole. He’s just a kid.
Wilson He’s a Navajo mud toy now.
Twill Yeah.
Nobody (Speaks in native language). I have just ingested the food of the Great Spirit, and Father Peyote.
Blake Do you think I could have a little bit of it?
Nobody It’s not for use even for William Blake. The powers of the medicine, give you sacred visions that are not for you right now. My Southern Brothers were prohibited from using it, by the Spanish devils. But now, even the Notoemne and the Dene, know of it’s loving ways. (Singing in native language).
Blake What? What are you looking at?
Nobody William Blake. It’s so strange that you don’t remember any of your poetry.
Blake I don’t know anything about poetry.
Nobody Oh, you’re so modest.
Blake Listen. I feel very weak. I’m hungry.
Nobody Quest for vision is a great blessing, William Blake. To do so, one must go without food and water. All the sacred spirits, recognise those who fast. It’s good to prepare for a journey in this way.
Blake I seem to have, misplaced my eyeglasses. I can’t see clearly.
Nobody Perhaps you will see more clearly without them.
Blake You’re a very strange man. Very strange.
Nobody May the Great Spirit watch over you, William Blake.
Blake Nobody? Nobody? Nobody? Nobody?
Lee Hey, Marvin.
Marvin What?
Lee How come Dickinson’s telegram didn’t give no description of the horse this murdering fucker stole?
Marvin It did, Lee. A pinto, just like that one. White legs, brown ass, brown sides.
Lee It did? I don’t think it did, Marvin.
Marvin Well, you asshole! You got the damn telegram on you. Take it out and look.
Lee That’s right. Yeah, I got it here. I’ll check it. Maybe I been thinking of them wanted posters.
Marvin Lee! It’s him! You William Blake?
Blake Yes, I am. Do you know my poetry? ‘Some are born to endless night’.
Twill Well, Rome weren’t built in a day, Cole. Of course, I wasn’t overseeing that particular job.
Wilson Fresh kill.
Twill Yeah. No damn tobacco, that’s for sure. This some, some kind of telegram or something? What’s that say?
Wilson Dickinson again.
Twill Oh, goddamn Dickinson. You mean to tell me he’s even got the law involved in this now? Jesus. Tell you one thing, though. If that there Blake fellow keeps on shooting marshals, I’ll wind up liking the bastard.
Wilson Looks like a goddamn religious icon.
Twill Anyhow, getting back to the beginning of the story, my granddaddy, come over from Scotland, you see. He was actually part of the MacTwill clan. The clan tartan was a kind of gold and purple, if I remember correctly. I never wore a lick of it myself. Dropped the ‘Mac’ part of the name when he decided to come out west on account of he figured it’d get him more work and all. How about your family history there, Cole? Let me guess. Kind of figured you for a, a German, huh? I mean, am I right? Am I close? Austrian?
Blake I’d like to speak with Mr Dickinson, please. I insist on speaking with Mr Dickinson.
Wilson Goddamn redskins.
Blake Nobody?
Nobody William Blake.
Indian Girl (Speaks in native language).
Nobody (Speaks in native language).
Blake She’s upset.
Indian Girl (Rants in native language).
Nobody (Speaks in native language).
Indian Girl (Rants in native language).
Nobody (Speaks in native language).
Indian Girl (Shouts in native language).
Nobody (Speaks in native language).
Blake She’s beautiful.
Nobody (Calls in native language). Now, she didn’t mean to call you that.
Blake Huh?
Nobody But you sure interrupted a very romantic moment, William Blake.
Blake Oh. I’m sorry.
Nobody You just stay here, till I return. (Calls in native language). Don’t let the sun burn a hole in your ass, William Blake. Rise now and drive your cart and plough over the bones of the dead.
Blake Do you still have my eyeglasses?
Nobody No, I traded ’em.
Blake You traded them?
Nobody Do you have any tobacco?
Blake No. I traded it.
Nobody For what?
Blake I’m not telling.
Nobody Liar.
Blake Thief.
Nobody (Sings in native language). I don’t care if you were married sixteen times, I still love you. (Sings in native language). I will take you to the bridge made of waters. The mirror. Then you will be taken up to the next level of the world. The place where William Blake is from. Where his spirit belongs. I must make sure that you pass back through the mirror at the place where the sea meets the sky. White man’s trading post. Indians get diseases there.
Blake What do you mean?
Nobody Smallpox, consumption. Blankets are infected. It spreads through the villages. I see you have acquired a new weapon.
Blake Oh, yes. A Winchester. Here. Take it.
Nobody No.
Blake No, really. Take it. I took it off a dead white man.
Nobody Did William Blake kill this white man?
Blake Yes. William Blake killed the white man.
Nobody We need a canoe. Water.
Blake For the brutal murders of Charles Dickinson and fiancée, Thel Russell, Also the murders of the following territorial marshals, M Thornbury, deputy L Hazelwell, Big George Drakoulious, Benmont Tench, and one Salvatore ‘Sally’ Jenko.
Nobody It’s not bad.
