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Page Five...back at the mine, the doctor tends the ill and meets the Queen for the first time, firsthand. |
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| "She's here!" the
cry goes up.
Who's here? Helm searches furtively. |
The sargent ignores Helm's pleas for reason and puts a gun to one of the peasant's head, demanding the Queen reveal herself before he reaches the end of his ten count. | He reaches "one."
There's a pause, then Tessa screams "No!" and steps into view.
"What took you so long?" the sargent asks. "I wasn't sure you knew how to count," the Queen replies. |
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| Helm laughs at
her joke.
Meanwhile, Marta is praying in the pueblo chapel and sees Montoya in the shadows. |
He explains that he never misses celebrating the death of his father. He is not mourning. Grisham arrives to tell him the Queen is captured. | Robert talks the sargent into letting him tend Tessa's wound, which is bleeding again. |
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| Why are you doing
this, Doctor? To save me for Grisham and Montoya?
I'm doing this so I can stop the bleeding and so that I can do this... |
He palms a scalpel out of his black bag and cuts her bonds. | I can do this much, Senorita. The rest is up to you. |
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| Montoya and Grisham ride up and Tessa breaks away and runs into the mine. They send the sargent in after her. She disarms him. | Then she hammers a hole in the side of a gun powder barrel and kicks it ahead of her as she forces the sargent to proceed her out of the mine. | They appear at the mine entrance and Montoya orders his men to kill her. |
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| If there's going to be a murder here, then you will have to think about killing me next, Luis. | No problem0, Roberto.
Montoya shoves Helm behind him. |
Tessa releases the sargent and throws the lamp behind her, into the mine, onto the trail of gunpowder. |
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| Tessa stalls, asking for a moment to say a last prayer for the souls of her captors. | The flames reach the kegs and kaboooom! | When the smoke clears, the Queen is gone, and left behind, only the tarot card. |
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| I think she left that for you, Luis. | The supply ship has at last arrived, good for everyone except Montoya, whose cannon will not be staying at the pueblo...there is no gold to buy them. | ...and this is
where we came in.
Senorita Alvarado. |
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| I took your advice, Doctor. I didn't eat all morning to see what hunger feels like and I'm famished. | Senorita.
Helm acknowledges Marta. |
Tessa walzes by him, chattering to Marta about making her a new dress. |
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