The Wolf and the Lamb

You are like a little bloodhound.

I thought for sure you wouldn't see me up in that old Ponderosa.

There is not a single hiding spot

this one couldn't sniff out.

-Time for supper. -Mm.

One more game, Pa? Please?

Make it quick.

I don't want the potatoes getting cold.

One... two...

...five... six...

...seven... eight...

...nine... ten.

Oh where, oh where

has my little Emma gone?

Oh where, oh where could she be?

Emma!

Emma, dear.

Come in.

Bonjour, good man.

I need a moment with your Elizabeth.

Is this a demand or a request?

I presume your employer has set forth

a most unsavory rapport c'est moi.

Mm, she thinks you're a cocksucker.

Hm! Well then,

would you please inform La Queen Consul

that Monsieur Jean Le-Grange requests an audience.

She's busy.

Might you be so kind as to

deliver this memorandum...

...to the Crown, if you will.

Ah, sir! Majesty.

What is this?

It's a quote.

Why you gotta be so fucking obscure?

- Hmm. - Get up here.

At the hotel now?

Enjoying a fine meal, I suspect.

You are reckless.

Careful, Frank.

Denigration does not become you.

Now is not the time for the Chief Justice from Helena to represent.

My request is-- is merely a...

requisite venture to secure my-- my interests.

Children are missing.

Those children are long dead.

You know it, and I know it.

Unfortunate indeed.

But progress will not be delayed.

I am not here for the color.

Coons or chinks?

Gold, you half-wit.

I submit your deputy take his leave.

It has come to my attention that there has been some

very large talk behind our

sleeping backs.

Spit it out, La Grange.

We have no time and we cannot be silent.

Treachery is at play.

Details, La Grange.

Monsieur Dan has made a lucrative incentive

to the Chief Justice which ensures our assets

become his.

He wants the jewel in your whorehouse?

Uh-uh-uh. Bordello.

Why?

The same reason all short men want anything.

Power.

And how exactly have you come across these particulars?

My hive of busy bees keeps me well informed.

I presume he believes me to be a feeble opponent.

You are.

That's why you seek alliance.

Well, La Grange can be swayed, but Liz will never sell.

The Chief Justice is a man of renowned repute.

Yeah, so was John Wilkes Booth.

I need order.

None of this talk of missing children,

crying mothers, irate fathers.

The United States government, by its own volition,

will secure private property for public use...

...with just compensation, of course.

To what end?

Make the saloon into a courthouse?

No quicker way to turn the town against you.

After the acquisition,

I will procure the property

at below market value.

Pardon my skepticism...

...but what lands confidence the politicos will take a loss?

The Chief Justice brokers the deal.

Yeah.

Henry?

Time to go.

Henry?

There you are.

What do we have here?

Ah!

It's perfect.

The sores aren't going to simply...

...disappear.

You must cease from oral copulation until they are

fully healed.

I-- I got debts, doc.

I see. All right.

But... I trust...

...you will settle your current obligations

and abstain from oral copulation

for at least a week.

All right?

-Mm? -Mm-hmm.

All right.

You may go.

Oh, dear.

This belongs here.

-What is this? -Gonna need a resupply.

Dry as a desert down there, doc.

Mm, well, rush order from Chicago won't be cheap.

How about I trade you for it?

Straight up!

Your antics are nothing but a pretense.

I am your physician, not a trinket nor a clown.

Go! Go!

Mm. Thank you, mama.

Mm. Mm-mm-mm.

Morning, Mary. Sol.

Hello, Henry. Jo.

How's my little tree sparrow?

That was so thoughtful, Henry.

What is it?

Why it's a wolf, of course.

Magnificent.

Fierce.

Best be off.

Gonna be late for the Reverend's inaugural service.

- May I? - Oh!

You're a gem, Sol.

Mary was wise to gain your affections.

Persistent suitors are impossible to ignore.

- Mm-hmm. - That's right.

Any news?

Put down another mare last night.

That's seven in so many days.

Can't make no sense of it.

Oh.

I was inquiring about the children.

No.

No news.

Lamentably.

Henry.

Your bag, sir.

-I can carry it. -Yes, of course.

-Good day, doctor. -Thank you, young man.

Listen here.

I myself have not spoken to the afflicted couple.

No, no.

So understand the words I appropriate

now on account of...

...unsolicited whispers.

Last night, when that boy was, um...

...counting sheep,

his mother opened the window to let the night air in, but...

...the room they acquired is on the second floor, so there's--

Well...

Anyway, um,

when they... awoke this daybreak, the boy was gone.

Not a sound, not a sign.

As for the door, well...

...it was still locked from the inside.

Welcome, brothers and sisters, to the house of the Lord.

And in His name we give thanks.

I am so grateful to be here.

Graced by your abundant generosity

with more provisions than any man can consume.

Notwithstanding that I am partial to breaking bread,

recent events... compel us to take heed.

Our children... are missing.

Just this morning I heard word of another boy, young Edward Browning.

Gone.

Vanished in cover of night.

What about our animals?

Dying.

No explanation?

Who gives a damn about your pigs?

Our children have been stolen.

It's true.

Our animals are dying.

Horses, dogs, pigs, even chickens.

Our children and our animals,

are they not all God's creation?

Hm?

And what calamity has been bestowed upon them?

The bane of their existence, is it a plague?

Is it a curse? Is it an untimely...

...pestilence befalling?

Help us, Reverend.

Guide us.

Guide me to my child.

I am not afraid.

Not afraid.