[John finds his son and Maddie finds her daughters practicing with the rifle.]
John: You're tensing up.
Jack: I'm not!
Maddie: You are. Your back's tense and it's making the rifle jump. You're holding it wrong. Here, let me show you.
Applejack: I don't need you to show me, Ma.
John: I guess not.
Jessie: You'll show me and you'll just...run off again or something. It's better I teach myself.
Maddie: I ain't going nowhere.
Jack: Whatever you say, Pa.
John: Don't be like that.
Applejack: Sorry.
[They listen in the distance.]
Maddie: Wolves have been after the herd. Got to get out there and scare them all. You wanna come with me? It's safer with five.
Jessie: Okay.
John: Come on, the dog will soon sniff 'em out.
[They mount up.]
Jack: I can shoot. You know that. Why you gotta treat me like a kid?
Maddie: It's what fathers and mothers do. I'm just tryin' to look out for you.
Applejack: You can't just decide to be a mother when it suits you. What about the rest of the time?
John: Come on, Jack, Applejack, and Jessie. That ain't exactly fair.
Jessie: One minute you're tellin' me to be a woman, and the next you're tellin' me I'm just a girl.
Maddie: It's gonna take awhile for things to get back to normal.
Jack: Normal? Was it ever normal?
John: I don't know, but it'll get better, son and nieces. I promise.
Applejack: I'm sorry, Ma.
Maddie: You don't need to be.
Jessie: I don't mean to be moody. I'm glad you're home, I really am. It's just, every time you go off, well I worry you're not coming back.
John: I swear, if it was down to me, I'd never have gone anywhere.
Jack: They can't make you, can they?
Maddie: It's complicated, but seems they can.
Applejack: What was your father like?
John: I didn't really know him. He died when I was just a boy and when your aunt/your mother was just a girl.
Jessie: Died of what?
Maddie: Why do you want to know?
Jack: Oh it just sounds like a good story, that's all.
John: Come on, he's picked up a scent!
[They follow Rufus.]
Jack: Pa, is Uncle really your uncle?
Maddie: No, at least I sincerely hope not! He's probably lots of people's father, though.
Applejack: Well why do you call him Uncle, then?
John: Folks always did. Probably 'cause he's always been older than everybody else.
Jessie: He was old when I was a kid.
Maddie: He was old when I was a kid, daughters and nephew. God must have had some purpose for keepin' him on this earth, but I sure as hell don't know what that is. Look, daughters and nephew! He's sniffed 'em out!
[John and Maddie gun down the wolf pack.]
John: Come on, Rufus. Where are the others at, boy? Jack, Applejack, and Jessie, they're up ahead!
[They take 'em out.]
Maddie: That looks like all of them. Good work, Jack, Applejack, and Jessie. Alright, we should head back now. We got out further than I thought.
[They head back.]
Jack: How many did we kill? That'll peace our cattle for a while!
Maddie: That was some good shooting, son.
Applejack: So can I go out hunting by myself now?
John: Hold on there, cowboy and cowgirls. You ain't ready for that yet. One step at a time.
Jessie: Oh please, Ma.
Maddie: We'll go out again soon. Catch something nice for your Pa to cook.
Jack: I reckon I could kill a bear no prob'!
John: I ain't gonna tell you again Jack, Applejack, and Jessie! You ain't leavin' the farm without checking with me first you hearin'?
Applejack: Yes sir and ma'am I get it. Ma, can I ask you something?
Maddie: Of course.
Jessie: Were you a murderer?
John: What?
Jack: That place where they caught us, Ma and he said you were a murderer.
Maddie: Maybe, but I live my life believing there is a difference between killing and murdering.
Applejack: Not for the one who's dead.
John: Sure. We all do what we have to to survive, sometimes it ain't pretty. But in the end, we pay the price for what we did.
Jessie: Like those rustlers who attacked our cattle?
Maddie: Exactly. Look, when I was a kid things were different, rules were different. But that's over now.
Jack: You know, we could be outlaws, you and me!
John: All we did was kill a few wolves.
Applejack: Well I read a book about a father and son who robbed banks. One-arm Willie, that was his name.
Maddie: I'm happy with my two arms, if you don't mind.
Jessie: Just imagine it though! John and Jack Marston and Maddie, Applejack, and Jessie Morgan, most wanted men and women in the West!
John: And what about your Ma and your Pa?
Jack: Well, I mean we'd still come home.
Maddie: You live in a dream world. It ain't like they tell it in books. And it ain't no way to live a life. It was ugly, and brutal.
Applejack: Alright. Geez, I was only joking around.
John: You'll have a farm of your own. You can read and ride. Don't waste your life, son and nieces. Don't live like I had to.
[They arrive back home.]
Maddie: You're turning into a decent hunter, daughters and nephew. But try to stay out of trouble.
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Red Dead Redemption
FantasiRed Dead Redemption is set during the decline of the American frontier in the year 1911 and follows John Marston and his twin sister Maddie Morgan nee Marston, two former outlaws who, after his wife and son and her daughter is taken hostage by the g...
