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Across from Elsa sits a girl a year or so younger. Her name is MARY ABEL DUTTON(17), brown hair, plain in every way. She has spent the past three days on a train marveling at Elsa’s beauty -- and absolutely hating her for it ... She leans toward Elsa as she wipes tears from her swollen cheek, smiles. MARY ABEL You had it coming. INT. RESTAURANT -- CALHOUN HOTEL -- NIGHT. The place is packed. Barely room to move. Shea and Thomas sit across from two cowboys in their late twenties, WADE(28), AND ENNIS(26). WADE How’s it pay? SHEA Hundred a month. ENNIS It’ll take four months to get
there, then we’re stuck in Oregon for the winter. We’ll burn through the money waiting to get home. SHEA We can send you back on the train.
Wade and Ennis look at each other. WADE
Look, Captain ... I’ve pushed cattle all the way to Omaha and come across a fair amount of these emigrant wagons: these sons of bitches are trying to die. Can’t swim. Can’t ride. Bandits gonna plague you all the way to Nebraska and when you get to the Indian country ... THOMAS Indians are on reservations. ENNIS They’re on reservations ‘till they ain’t. And when they see you coming ‘round the bend they gonna saddle up and pluck y’all like chickens.
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