Everett jolts awake, followed by the other men. The men sleep in the barn on some hay, but they are awakened in the middle of the night by the shouts of a lawman yelling that they’ve surrounded the barn. Everett brushes his hair, and asks Wash if he happens to have any hairnets.
Later, Pete, Delmar, and Everett sit in Wash’s living room, listening to the radio. Delmar is less than excited to hear that the stew is made with horse meat. “She must have been lookin’ for answers,” Everett suggests, as Delmar compliments the stew they’re eating. Pete asks what happened to Cora, Wash’s wife, and he tells him that she ran off. The scene shifts and we see the men eating dinner with Wash and his son. He greets Pete, who introduces him to Everett and Delmar. In the back, Wash Hogwallop is whittling a stick. Everett, Delmar, and Pete insist that they don’t have papers, they just want to talk to Wash. A young boy-Wash's son-is standing out front and shooting at them, asking if they’re from the bank he has instructions from his father to shoot at anyone from the bank, or anyone serving papers. Everett is interrupted by the blast of a gunshot.
To this Everett says, “What does he know? He’s just an ignorant old man!” Everett insists that he buried the treasure, and that they just need to get to Pete’s cousin Wash's house, so they can disconnect the shackles that are connecting them by the ankles. Everett immediately contradicts himself in the next moment, when Pete complains that the blind man told them they wouldn’t get the treasure they seek.
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Delmar is confused about how the handcar driver knew about the treasure they were after, and Everett assures him that the blind are often gifted with a connection to the paranormal and a gift for seeing the future. The scene shifts and we see the trio walking down a road. I cannot tell how long this road shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward.” The men listen intently, riding the car down the tracks. You shall see a cow on the roof of a cotton house, and oh so many startlements. But first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. The blind man interrupts him with a strange prophecy: “You will find fortune, though it will not be the fortune you seek. “I have no name!” the blind man says, and Everett begins to give him advice about how he might find gainful employment. Looking back at the railroad, they see a blind man driving a handcar and climb aboard. Delmar simply looks at each of them and says, “Okay, I’m with you fellas.” Suddenly they hear something in the distance, the sounds of their pursuers. Everett insists that he ought to be the leader because he’s “the one with a capacity for abstract thought.” Pete wants to be the leader also, so he and Everett turn to Delmar to break the tie. Everett makes himself the leader of the group, which Pete objects to at first. He starts to ask them a question, but when one of his companions falls down a nearby hill, he is pulled off the train by the ankle.Įverett turns to his companions, Pete and Delmar, and scolds them for the fact that they were pulled off the train. One of the men, Ulysses “Everett” McGill, jumps into the train, where he finds a number of somber-faced men. Later, we see them running towards a train and trying to jump aboard, still connected at the ankles. The men run down the road, all connected by chains around their ankles. Suddenly, we see three prisoners running through a cornfield, escaping the chain gang. We see a group of prisoners working on a chain gang in the rural South.
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