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00:00is it just me or does it seem a little too quiet in here today having trouble with your
00:12new story yeah writer's cramp make way coming through
00:18i really should put a window down in the lab it's much safer much safer
00:28there does that make your day more interesting yeah too bad marguerite and roxon missed all the action
00:37oh i don't think they need challenger for that
00:41what have we got over here
00:49it's an odd looking smear but they're not like that
00:55and has only one purpose marguerite
00:58it's a hangman's noose
01:00john i don't like this place i think we should leave
01:09yeah i don't like it much either what have you found over there
01:13it's a tombstone
01:16it has your name on it j roxton
01:19died 1875
01:221875
01:24you don't think that tombstone has any connection to me
01:28i mean j roxton is not that uncommon a name
01:32well hell i could stand for
01:34joshua
01:35jacob
01:36jeremiah roxton
01:38you've been found guilty
01:40of being the wrong man in the wrong place
01:43at decidedly the wrong time
01:45joshua what are you doing
01:47what's going on
01:51where's marguerite
01:52this is a necktie party roxton and you're the guest of honor
01:55no
01:56please it's me john
01:59your lord have mercy on your soul
02:01do it
02:02oh come on boys no fun wasting a good horse
02:10at the dawn of the last century
02:20a band of explorers search for a prehistoric world
02:25driven by ambition
02:27secret desires
02:29a thirst for adventure
02:30and seeking the ultimate story
02:33they are befriended by an untamed beauty
02:36stranded in a strange and savage land
02:40each day
02:42is a desperate search for a way out
02:45of the lost world
02:47now
02:52you
03:00um
03:05oh
03:10Oh, my God.
03:40Oh, no, no, no. Careful, careful. Careful, now.
03:49I'll not greet that guard. Where did you go? What happened?
03:55I was going to ask you the same thing, mister.
04:02Mister?
04:05Are you all right? Tell me you know who I am.
04:08Oh, my name's Maylene Montgomery, and I'm sure I've never had the pleasure of your acquaintance.
04:14Oh, no.
04:17It must be this tree.
04:22Tombstone.
04:24Oh, this.
04:26Yes.
04:27Oh, this news.
04:29Haven't had your neck stretched like that. I'd say it's no wonder you're a little confused.
04:34Confused?
04:35If you think your name's Maylene, believe me, I'm not the one confused around here.
04:40There's a lot of rustlers in these parts.
04:43Is that who did this to you?
04:44No.
04:45For some reason, it was your good friend and mine, Challenger.
04:52Jack Challenger, the sheriff?
04:53No.
04:55George Challenger, the scientist.
04:57There's only one Challenger around here, and he's the law.
05:00I don't know why he would hang you without a trial, and I don't want to know.
05:04So, okay, you just go on your way, and I'll go on mine.
05:12Okay?
05:13Ah, now. Oh, wait, just a...
05:15Oh, wait a minute. We can't just split up. We have to figure out what happened to us here.
05:18That's your concern, mister, not mine.
05:19Mister, there you go again. It's not mister. It's roster. John bloody roster.
05:26Why'd you have to go and do that?
05:34Oh, the things I got myself, like, too.
05:53Howdy, boys.
06:04Is that piano music I hear?
06:10No, sir, Johnny.
06:12I know how you don't like no piano music in here.
06:15What did you call me?
06:16Uh, Ringo.
06:18Mister Ringo.
06:20Sir.
06:24That's what I thought you said.
06:27Ante up, boys.
06:28Don't let me spoil your fun.
06:34Mighty kind of you, friend.
06:45Barkeep, how about a little service?
06:49I heard you were dead.
06:52Well, I heard a lot of things about you, too, Violet.
06:56You must be crazy to come back here.
06:58You know, the last person that called me crazy died.
07:01With three bullets in her chest.
07:04I hate piano music.
07:13You are so bad for business.
07:16I'm good for so many other things.
07:19Oh, none that I can recall.
07:25Well, I came to pay my tab.
07:28Who'd you have to kill for that, Johnny?
07:30Well, haven't you heard?
07:32A lot of rustling in these parts.
07:35What kind of fixer you and Sheriff Challenge are working now?
07:38Same old, same old.
07:40I do all the hard work.
07:42He just keeps a little profile.
07:44At his camp upriver.
07:47It's strictly confidential.
07:48You see, we're not so different after all.
07:59Where am I?
08:25Why, you're in the Grand Guest Lodge of the Triple M Ranch.
08:33Well, how did I get here?
08:39Oh, you walked some.
08:40I carried you some.
08:42You carried me?
08:44I couldn't very well leave you for the coyotes.
08:47Well, thank you.
08:49So, uh, why is it called the Triple M?
08:52My husband's idea.
08:54Martin and Maylene Montgomery.
08:57The three M's.
08:57Your husband, hmm?
08:59Yeah.
09:04Sorry.
09:05It's a gopher.
09:06I wasn't expecting company.
09:10So, Maylene.
09:13Where do you think this husband of yours is?
09:16Last month, Martin went on the cattle drive to Abilene.
09:20We needed cash for feed.
09:22But, um...
09:25The wrestlers?
09:26They shot him down in cold blood.
09:33Rousseless?
09:36I'll get you some water.
09:37I'll get you some water.
09:37Boys, there's treachery afoot, and there's the law in this territory.
10:04I will not let it fester.
10:06Spread the word.
10:08I want Jeremiah Roxton dead or alive.
10:10Mostly dead.
10:11And whatever fool it is that's helping him.
10:20You've actually seen these places?
10:23New York, London, Paris?
10:26I have.
10:28And so have you.
10:31Oh.
10:32There's a big difference between dreams and reality, Lord Roxton.
10:38I'm a rancher's wife.
10:41Rancher's widow.
10:42Well, these planes are where I'll live and die.
10:48All these others just, it's just moonbeams and starshine, my Martin used to say.
10:57Well, there must be some way to make you believe who you really are.
10:59Don't start that again.
11:03Would you stand up, please?
11:04Yes.
11:04Oh.
11:12Thank God.
11:13Look at you.
11:23Well, now do you remember?
11:41Widow Montgomery, you at home?
11:47It's Jack Challenger.
11:49He doesn't remember me any better than you do.
11:51Hello? Is anybody there?
11:55Be right out, Sheriff.
11:57Stay out of sight.
11:59I'm sure that whatever happened between you two before was some kind of mistake.
12:03At least we agree on something.
12:09Good day to you, Sheriff.
12:11Good day, Widow Montgomery.
12:13I just come by to tell you the news.
12:16Me and the boys tracked down that rustler that killed your poor Martin.
12:20Unfortunately, he had help we didn't know about, and he got away.
12:23You know who this killer is?
12:25Some greenhorn by the name of Jeremiah Rockstein.
12:28Well, this just keeps on getting better.
12:31So if you see any strangers around you, shoot first.
12:34You leave all the questions to me.
12:37I'll do that.
12:38Marguerite, you have to listen to me.
12:51You got ten seconds to tell me why you killed my husband.
12:54It's more like the Marguerite I'm used to.
12:57Eight seconds!
12:58Marguerite, please, I did not kill Martin.
13:09My name is Maylene.
13:13All right, all right.
13:15You're Maylene.
13:16This is Wyoming, and I'm a bloody cowboy.
13:19But that doesn't change the fact that I did not kill your husband.
13:21The sheriff says you did.
13:22No, Sheriff Challenger says Jeremiah Rockstein killed him.
13:25Now, I'm John Rockstein.
13:28He's got me confused with someone else the same way I confused you with someone that I care about.
13:33Very deeply, don't you?
13:36Please.
13:38You have no reason to fear me.
13:46And I have no reason to harm you.
13:49Well, sometimes out here being afraid is the only thing that keeps you alive.
13:52It doesn't have to be that way.
13:54Yes, it does.
13:56Look, you have to trust me.
13:57I need your help.
13:58I don't know who you are.
14:00John, Jeremiah.
14:04I think you should go.
14:07Well, I don't have anywhere to go.
14:09Hell, I don't know how we...
14:11How I got here.
14:13Let alone now to get back to where I belong.
14:17I can't help you.
14:18No.
14:18No.
14:18No.
14:19No.
14:19No.
14:19No.
14:19No.
14:19No.
14:20No.
14:20No.
14:21No.
14:21No.
14:21No.
14:22No.
14:22No.
14:22No.
14:23No.
14:23No.
14:24No.
14:24No.
14:25No.
14:25No.
14:26No.
14:26No.
14:26I don't know.
14:56This is not a dream or a hallucination.
15:00What the hell is it?
15:14Oh, that's right, Maylene.
15:17You go in the world when you need help.
15:21Well, that's quite a story, May.
15:23You always said you wish your life had more adventure.
15:27I don't think I'm cut out for it, though.
15:28Not like you.
15:31Funny how things turn out.
15:34I'll ever want it was a good man like your Martin.
15:36And a little place to call my own.
15:38I lost my man.
15:41Nothing else matters after that.
15:43I know.
15:44So, what do you think you should do about this, Lord Roxas?
15:50It doesn't matter what I want.
15:51Of course, Veronica.
15:53Well, we can't have gone very far.
16:00He did it.
16:02That him?
16:03Not hard on the eyes at all.
16:13Hello, Veronica.
16:14You think everyone you meet someone else?
16:16Only the people who are someone else.
16:18Why do you follow me here?
16:21I took a chance that whoever you might go to for help would be someone I could trust.
16:27And I believe I can trust you.
16:30Well, you were right about that, too.
16:32He isn't thinking straight at all.
16:35Whiskey?
16:37Maybe when this whole problem is sorted out.
16:39You really aren't from around here, are you?
16:43I have to find Challenger.
16:44Well, if he's looking for you, that shouldn't be hard to do.
16:47Well, I have to get to him first.
16:48Try and sort out this crazy situation.
16:50Why?
16:51Because you think he's someone else, too.
16:54A scientist, you said.
16:55A brilliant one.
16:57And if I can get him to remember that, then hopefully he can figure out where we are,
17:01how we all got here, and how we can all get home.
17:03Because believe me, I certainly can't.
17:04Look, friend.
17:10There's one thing I've learned in my life of adventure.
17:15That things look different in the morning.
17:18There's a bunk out back, and you're welcome to use it.
17:21Violet, you can't.
17:23I can, and I will.
17:34Maylene's the closest thing I've got to a friend around here.
17:38And if you hurt her in any way, Sheriff Challenger would be the least of your worries.
17:43Point taken.
17:45Now where can I find him?
17:46I'm warning you.
17:47He's as crooked as a snake.
17:49And he's got a partner.
17:51What else do you know?
17:54Nothing about Maylene's husband.
17:55But a whole lot more about Sheriff Challenger and his partner than I'd care to know.
17:59Best advice I can give you, keep your ears open.
18:02What do you think you're doing?
18:11Challenger said he's looking for Roxanne and whoever's helping him.
18:15If he finds that man here, you're going to hang too.
18:18From what I've heard, Challenger spends all his time camped up at the River Fork looking for rustlers, he says.
18:26May, come on.
18:29Why don't you get some sleep, huh?
18:30I sure could use some.
18:36Don't worry.
18:38Everything's going to be just fine.
18:41I just have to finish up a few things here.
18:44I'll see you in the morning.
18:45Okay.
18:46If someone's paying attention, things should be a whole lot better come sunrise.
19:03At least Veronica still knows how to make a map.
19:24They're you, Angus.
19:51Whoever you are, you better come out now.
20:01I believe the traditional saying is reach for the sky.
20:05Now you drop that.
20:08You don't know who you're dealing with, son.
20:09Oh, but I do.
20:10Professor George Challenger, late of the University of Attenborough, leader of an expedition to the Lost Plateau.
20:23Keep talking.
20:27The Plateau is home to a shifting series of realities.
20:32Hell, we get a lot of them around here.
20:34That wouldn't be the first time.
20:37You see, back in the real world, you and I are the best of friends.
20:41Close friends?
20:42I said I'd follow you through to hell, I'm back.
20:47Sometimes I think we've come pretty close.
20:50If that's the case, then that gun is just one big bluff.
21:01Listen to me, George.
21:02You're the only one that can get us out of here.
21:04I'll get you out of here, all right?
21:24Don't make me do it, George.
21:27Don't make me do it.
21:28Please, your only hope.
21:37It's Roxton!
21:41Sorry, Levi.
21:58I was wondering when you'd show up, Nettie, boy.
22:08The question is, whose side are you on?
22:13Say hello!
22:17Roxton, I've been looking all over for you.
22:21You recognize me?
22:24Of course I recognize you.
22:25Why wouldn't I recognize my old friend?
22:28I mean, after all.
22:33You're going to save me a whole lot of trouble just by dying.
22:43Now you listen to me, Nett.
22:46You're Nett Malone.
22:49You're a journalist.
22:51For the International Herald Tribune.
22:54Yeah.
22:54And you.
22:58You're a white herb.
23:02Come on, friend.
23:04Get up.
23:06It's a hate to kill a man who's not resisting.
23:09I'm not playing your games.
23:11Who's playing?
23:13This is business.
23:14Now get up and run.
23:21If you insist.
23:22All right.
23:40Now we're going to have some fun.
23:42Ah, the widow Montgomery.
23:50Always a pleasure.
23:52What do you want?
23:54Well, I'm looking for the man that killed your husband.
23:57The real question would be, what's got you so fired up?
24:01Just on my way home.
24:02Well, it's that way.
24:05By the hanging tree.
24:07By the way, you wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
24:10I hear you're pretty handy with that thing.
24:12Jeremiah Roxton did not kill my husband.
24:16Your man's not even cold in the ground.
24:18You've gone and found another.
24:22I am sorry, ma'am.
24:23But I just hate loose ends.
24:38Does that ring a bell, my friend?
24:40What are you doing here?
24:42Violet told me what she did.
24:44Leaving you the gun and the map.
24:46I didn't have anything kind to say to her after that, so I just left.
24:50Well, Violet did the right thing.
24:51If you want to get yourself killed.
24:53You're both going to swing.
24:55Who is he in your world?
24:58A shiftless outlaw.
25:00Johnny Ringo.
25:02What do you think it is?
25:04Someone we should probably tie up before he causes any more trouble.
25:09I knew you weren't the killer.
25:16Well, give me enough time and I'll help you remember everything.
25:21At least you tell a good story.
25:23Sheriff, over there.
25:35Sheriff, over there.
25:39Well, howdy, Ringo.
25:48That's quite a trail you left.
25:50You got something to tell me?
25:51It was Roxton and Montgomery's widow.
25:53That timid little mouse is riding with Roxton.
25:56Get me out of this.
25:58And give me a gun.
25:59I'm not sure I should.
26:11You see, something else has happened.
26:17Roxton came looking for me and the embarrassing thing is, he found me.
26:21What?
26:22Not what.
26:24How?
26:26You see, apart from me and the boys, you're the only one who knows where we're camped.
26:31You're crazy.
26:34I didn't tell Roxton where you were and you know it.
26:38Maybe you didn't.
26:41But if you didn't tell him, who did you tell?
26:49Violet.
26:49Violet.
27:01This is the first place you remember here?
27:04Yeah.
27:06You and I found this tree in the middle of a jungle.
27:09This...
27:09It was old and weathered.
27:13It's still in one piece.
27:15It's hanging from that branch up there.
27:19It was a tombstone with my name on it right over there.
27:22You read from it.
27:24Was Challenger with us?
27:26You and Miss Crew, I mean, when you found this place?
27:29It was back at the treehouse.
27:31Treehouse?
27:31Yes, where we all live.
27:34Challenger was there with Violet and Johnny Ringo.
27:37Who do you think they are in your world?
27:39Well, Ned Malone is an American journalist.
27:43And Veronica Layton is a resourceful young woman who grew up alone in the jungle.
27:48Is there something happening between them as well?
27:51You mean like there is with us?
28:02Don't kiss me again.
28:05You know, sometimes Marguerite's afraid of me just as you are.
28:07And it makes me think maybe someone once broke her heart.
28:12The same way your heart's been broken.
28:15Unless she's still not ready to risk that happening again.
28:18Did someone ever break your heart?
28:20Oh, I've never met the woman that could break my heart.
28:25Until I met Marguerite.
28:35Sorry.
28:36It might hurt a little.
28:46It's just a scratch.
28:49You're making me sorry I ever killed a doctor.
28:53I imagine he's sorry, too.
28:58There.
28:58That's it?
29:04No thank you?
29:05Or should I put that on your tab, too?
29:08I had something else in mind for you and me to do next.
29:10I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, Johnny.
29:14But never the same one twice.
29:21You take a lot of things for granted, Violet.
29:25I know Roxton was here.
29:28Telling his lies.
29:29I also know that you believe those lies.
29:41And I know that you told him where to find Challenger.
29:48I swear, Johnny.
29:49I didn't say.
29:52There's only one way out of this for you now, Violet.
29:56Roxton came here once looking for help.
29:59He might be fool enough to do it again.
30:01And if he does,
30:04you're gonna pay your tab
30:05to me.
30:18Whoa.
30:21Challenger.
30:26Yeah.
30:29What are they doing?
30:43What are they doing?
30:45Your last chance.
30:48Come out now.
30:52Burn it.
30:53Burning down my cabin.
30:56No.
30:58It's not the cabin he wants.
31:06Where are they doing this to me?
31:08It's me who's after.
31:09He knows you're helping me.
31:11How?
31:11The only other person that knows is Violet.
31:13She would never tell.
31:14There is one other.
31:16Johnny Ringo.
31:17I've got to get Challenger away from those deputies now.
31:21Just hope Ringo's packed enough ammunition.
31:23How would Challenger know what John Ringo knows?
31:30Unless the sheriff and me go partners.
31:37Triple M.
31:38I believe this belongs to you.
31:45I gave this to Martin the day we were married.
31:49He gave me this.
31:55Johnny Ringo must have killed him.
31:57Yeah, Ringo and the sheriff.
31:59And they're trying to hang anyone they can find to cover it up.
32:02Oh, Maylene, no.
32:03It's not the matter.
32:04There has to be another way.
32:07I want them.
32:09Dead or alive.
32:11Get up.
32:13There goes the element of surprise.
32:14Come on.
32:19Hang on.
32:20Ah!
32:26Ah!
32:28Oh!
32:29Oh!
32:33Oh!
33:01Never outrun them.
33:03Where are we going?
33:10Elementary tactics.
33:12We're heading for the high ground.
33:16Let's go.
33:23Get back in the rocks.
33:24Get him!
33:34Cut him down!
33:45The high ground isn't as useful when you're almost out of ammunition.
33:50Roxton, we can do this easy.
33:54Oh, we can do this hard.
34:01You know the high ground better than I do.
34:03The river's over that cliff.
34:05Cliff?
34:06My uncle's getting better.
34:08Let's go.
34:10All right, boy, cut him down.
34:24Whoa.
34:30Can a purr go swim?
34:33Can Miss Crew?
34:35Like a mermaid.
34:35And so can I.
34:38Whoa!
34:41I'll...
34:42Whoa!
34:44Whoa!
34:48We'll never be able to follow him now.
34:51Oh, we don't have to.
34:53There's only one place they can go.
34:54This isn't right.
35:04There's no horses.
35:06It's never closed.
35:07What's this?
35:08I don't know.
35:09There's only one place they can go.
35:10Violet?
35:31Anyone here?
35:40Who's there?
35:46Violet!
35:50Run, Mae! It's a trap! Run!
35:54You murdered my husband.
35:56It's alright. I'll see him soon enough.
36:02You're like a bad penny!
36:08You gotta go, Ringo. That's what Malone would do.
36:12Not in this lifetime.
36:16I can't. You're still my friend.
36:30Ready to give up? Wipe along the agony.
36:34My thoughts exactly.
36:38Come on, Mae. We've gotta get out of here.
36:44Oh, you'll get out of here, alright.
36:46But not the way you planned.
36:50Shoot him.
36:52Without Challenger, we don't go home.
36:54If we die here, then everything is over.
37:00We have to fight another day. Go!
37:02You take care of her.
37:10Violet.
37:12I've got my own account to settle.
37:16Violet!
37:30Women.
37:32Violet.
37:48Violet.
37:49No!
37:50Keep dreaming, Mary.
37:52You keep dreaming, Mary.
37:55For the both of us.
37:59No!
38:00No, no, no, this isn't happening.
38:03I won't accept this.
38:06No closer, Challenger!
38:07I'm your old friend, Austin.
38:11You wouldn't shoot me.
38:22What have I done?
38:52You got the men who killed my husband.
38:58The men who tried to kill you.
39:01You saw that justice was done.
39:05This belongs to you.
39:22John, what is it?
39:30Oh, I knew I didn't like this place.
39:37Did you see that?
39:42Marguerite.
39:46I lived it.
39:52So, at the end of this little daydream,
40:01you were the noble lawman who tamed the Wild West.
40:04It was much more than a daydream, Marguerite.
40:07Well, for Maylene, it must have been a dream come true.
40:09Roxton made sure that justice was done for her husband.
40:13And for Jeremiah Roxton.
40:15Yeah, too bad about you and me.
40:19And Violet.
40:19Even she paid the price for taking the outlaw's money.
40:22Justice 50 years too late, if you ask me.
40:25Justice is never too late.
40:26That's why the tombstone and the noose disappeared.
40:29What?
40:29Because some cowboy was hung for a crime he didn't commit.
40:32Somehow his restless spirit magically caused that noose and tombstone to appear in the jungle.
40:37And where a good person might find them.
40:41And set things to rights.
40:46In this world, or the next.
40:49Yes, well, I'm proud of you.
40:54Well, thank you, Veronica.
40:55You see, that's how a great western is supposed to end.
40:58The hero gets a kiss from the pretty girl.
41:01The hero is supposed to kiss his horse.
41:04When did you become so cynical?
41:06Well, you were there.
41:10You saw the noose and the tombstone disappear.
41:14Me, cynical, you should have met my third husband.
41:17Or was it my fourth?
41:17Are you jealous?
41:25Some drab and dreary prairie girl.
41:28She was the most beautiful woman I've ever met.
41:32You said she looked exactly like me.
41:39She's...
41:40Get right off into the sunset.
41:45what matters.
41:47What are they?
41:49You said she'll be done.
41:56What are they?
41:56What are they?
41:57I don't know.
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