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JOSEF (CONT'D)
You try to rob us. You take us FOR FOOLS -- Shea grabs Josef by the throat and slams him into the wall. SHEA
You have no horses. No guns. Can’t ride. YOU ARE A FUCKING FOOL. For thinking you can travel two thousand miles with no skills to survive it. THOMAS Captain.
Shea looks back -- the emigrants stand at the door, horrified at what they are witnessing. Shea releases Josef and turns to them. SHEA Take the train to Portland. You won’t make this trip. The old man speaks. Josef translates. JOSEF We can’t afford the train. SHEA Then I suggest you buy farms around here. JOSEF Here is hot. Here is dry. We come from mountains. Mountains we know. He speaks to the old man in Slovak. Then looks to Shea. JOSEF (CONT’D) How much do more men cost. SHEA Hundred apiece maybe. Maybe more. Let me ask around. Shea walks to the door. JOSEF So, in the morning we leave? SHEA We leave when you’re ready and you won’t be ready in the morning.
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