“Penance”

“Penance”

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Season:              2 episode 9
Series Episode:  18
Air Date:           March 10, 2000

 

Teaser

“Of all he tyrannies of human kind, the worst is that which persecutes the mind.” – Josiah Sanchez quoting  John Dryden from “The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts”

 

Exploit

Find a serial killer.

 

Remuneration

A dollar a day and found

 

 

Euphemisms / Quotes / Literary References

 

“These fellas are as full of wind as a bull in corn time.” – Bucklin “Buck” Wilmington

 

“Those who can do, and those who can’t watch.” – Ezra Standish

 

“Lotta frosting, no cake.” – Bucklin “Buck” Wilmington

 

“We all know, it ain’t the fiddle, it’s the man holding the bow.” – Pace McCormick

 

“Fishin’ up the wrong stream, my friend.” – Pace McCormick

 

“And in those days shall me seek death and shall not find it. And shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” – Josiah Sanchez from Revelation 9:6, the Bible KJV

 

“Evil is wrought by want of mind as well as want of heart.” – Josiah Sanchez

“The Lady’s Dream” (pub. Feb. 1844)

by Thomas Hood

The lady lay in her bed,

Her couch so warm and soft,

But her sleep was restless and broken still;

For turning often and oft

From side to side, she mutter’d and moan’d

And toss’d her arms aloft.

At last she startled up,

And gazed on the vacant air,

With a look of awe, as if she saw

Some dreadful phantom there –

And then in the pillow she buried her face

From visions ill to bear.

The very curtain shook,

Her terror was so extreme;

And the light that fell on the broider’d quilt

Kept a tremulous gleam;

And her voice was hollow, and shook as she cried:-

Oh me! that awful dream’!

That weary, weary walk,

In the churchyard’s dismal ground!

And those horrible things, with shady wings,

That came and flitted round, –

Death, death, and nothing but death,

In every sight and sound!

And oh! those maidens young,

Who wrought in that dreary room,

With figures drooping and spectres thin,

And cheeks without a bloom;-

And the Voice that cried, “For the pomp of pride,

We haste to an early tomb!

‘For the pomp and pleasure of Pride,

We toil like Afric slaves,

And only to earn a home at last,

And only to earn a home at last,

Where yonder cypress waves;’-

And then they pointed – I never saw

A ground so full of graves!

And still the coffins came,

With their sorrowful trains and slow’

Coffin after coffin still,

A sad and sickening show;

From grief exempt, I never had dreamt

Of such a World of Woe?

Of the hearts that daily break,

Of the tears that hourly fall,

Of the many, many troubles of life,

That grieve this earthly ball-

Disease and Hunger, and Pain, and Want,

But now I dreamt of them all!

For the blind and the cripple were there,

And the babe that pined for bread,

And the houseless man, and the widow poor

Who begged – to bury the dead;

The naked, alas, that I might had clad,

The famish’d I might have fed!

The sorrow I might have sooth’d,

And the unregarded tears;

For many a thronging shape was there,

From long-forgotten years,

Ay, even the poor rejected Moor,

Who raised my childish fears!

Each pleading look, that long ago

I scann’d with a heedless eye,

Each face was gazing as plainly there,

As when I pass’d it by:

Woe, woe for me if the past should be

Thus present when I die!

No need of sulphurous lake,

No need of fiery coal,

But only that crowd of human kind

Who wanted pity and dole –

In everlasting retrospect –

Will wring my sinful soul!

Alas! I have walk’d through life

Too heedless where I trod;

Nay, helping to trample my fellow-worm,

And fill the burial sod –

Forgetting that even the sparrow falls

Not unmark’d of God!

I drank the richest draughts;

And ate whatever is good –

Fish, and flesh, and fowl, and fruit,

Supplied my hungry mood;

But I never remember’d the wretched ones

That starve for want of food!

I dress’d as the noble dress,

In cloth of silver and gold,

With silk, and satin, and costly furs,

In many an ample fold;

But I never remember’d the naked limbs

That froze with winter’s cold.

The wounds I might have heal’d!

The human sorrow and smart!

And yet it never was in my soul

To play so ill a part:

But evil is wrought by want of Thought,

As well as want of Heart!

She clasp’d her fervent hands,

And the tears began to stream;

Large, and bitter, and fast they fell, 

Remorse was so extreme;

And yet, oh yet, that many a Dame

Would dream the Lady’s Dream!

 

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.” – Josiah Sanchez

Henry VI Part 2: Act 3, Scene 3 (pub. 1623)
by William Shakespeare 

Enter King Henry, Salisbury and Warwick, to the

Cardinal in bed, raving and staring.

KING HENRY

How fares my lord? Speak, Beaufort, to thy sovereign.

CARDINAL

If thou be’st Death, I’ll give thee England’s treasure,

Enough to purchase such another island,

So thou wilt let me live and feel no pain. 

KING HENRY 

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,

Where Death’s approach is seen so terrible!

WARWICH 

Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.

CARDINAL

Bring unto my trial when you will.

Died he not in his bed? Where should he die?

Can I make men live, whe’er they will or no?

O, torture me no more! I will confess.

Alive again? Then show me where he is. 

I’ll give a thousand pound to look upon him. 

He hath no eyes! The dust hath blinded them. 

Comb down his hair.  Look, look.  It stand upright,

Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul 

Give me some drink, and bid the apothecary

Bring the strong poison that I bought of him. 

KING HENRY

O’ Thou eternal over of the heavens,

Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!

O, beat away the busy meddling fiend

That lays strong siege unto this wretch’s soul

And from his bosom purge this black despair!

WARWICK

See how the pangs of death do make him grin!

SALISBURY 

Disturb him not. Let him pass peaceably.

KING HENRY

Peace to his soul, if God’s good pleasure be! –

Lord Card’nal, if thou think’st on heav’s bliss,

Hold up thy hand; make signal of they hope. 

The Cardinal dies.

He dies and makes no sign. O, God forgive him! 

WARWICK

So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

KING HENRY

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. 

Close up his eyes, and draw the curtain close,

And let us all to meditation.

After the curtains are closed around

the bed, they exit.  The bed is removed.

 

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Chris Larabee	Gunfighter	Michael Biehn	43	Credited
Vin Tanner	Gunfighter	Eric Close	32	Credited
John “J.D." Dunne	Gunfighter	Andrew Kavovit	28	Credited
Bucklin "Buck" Wilmington	Gunfighter	Dale Midkiff	40	Credited
Josiah Sanchez	Gunfighter/ Theologian	Ron Perlman	49	Credited
Ezra Standish	Gambler/ Conman/ Gunfighter	Anthony Starke	36	Credited
Nathan Jackson	Gunfighter / Healer	Rick Worthy	32	Credited
Mary Travis	Owner and editor of The Clarion News	Laurie Holden	30	Credited
Irene Dunlap	Seamstress	Amy Hayes		Credited
Pace McCormick	Co-owner of The McCormick Brothers Traveling Gun Competition / “Fastest man on earth”- Barker	Joe Lara	37	Credited
Sledge McCormick	Co-owner of The McCormick Brothers Traveling Gun Competition	Blake Adams		Credited
Cyrus Poplar	Pinkerton Detective	Lenny von Dohlen	41	Credited
Rain	Seminole villager	Siena Goines	30	Credited
Hannah Sanchez	Josiah Sanchez' sister	Jennifer Edwards	42	Credited
	Barker with The McCormick Brothers traveling Gun Competition	Steven J. Oliver	47	Credited
	Man dressed as a showgirl	David Michaels	35-36	Credited
	Nun	Wendy Robie	46	Credited
	Boy at the nunnery			Uncredited
	Townsman	Johnny Luckett	40	Uncredited
		David S. Winn III		Uncredited
	Undertaker			Uncredited
The Dunlaps	Irene Dunlap's family			Mentioned
Billy Tavis	Mary Travis' son			Mentioned

 

 

Crew

Director	Gregg Champion
First Assistant Director	Gwyneth Horder-Payton
Second Assistant Director	Susan Price
Developed by	John Watson / Pen Desham
Original Screenplay	William Roberts / Walter Bernstein (uncredited) / Walter Newman (uncredited)
Teleplay	Don Michael Paul
Television Story	Jeff Vlaming
Script Supervisor	Jan Rudolph
Script Coordinator	Christina Weir
Executive Producers	Pen Densham / Richard Barton Lewis / Walter Mirisch / Mark Stern / John Watson
Producers	Steve Beers / Lynne Symons
Associate Producer	Dennis C. Duckwall
Supervising Producer	Melissa Rosenberg
Consulting Producer	Richard Kletter / Mark Haskell Smith
Composer: Original Theme	Elmer Bernstein
Music	Don Harper / David M. Metzger / John Van Tongeren
Composer: Additonal music	Steve Wilkinson (uncredited)
Director of Photography	Gordon C. Lonsdale
Camera Operator(s)	Gregory Paul Collier / Brian Sullivan (uncredited)
Key Grip	Jason (D.) Hodges
Best Boy Grip	Bob Snowdon (uncredited)
Chief Lighting Technician	Jack Todd
Best Boy Electric	J. B. Richner (uncredited)
Film Editor	David Post
Assistant Editor	Gregory D. Gontz
Supervising Sound Editor(s)	Victor Iorillo, M.P.S.E. /Doug Kent
Sound Editor(s)	Miles O'Fun
Production Sound Mixer	Richard Schexnayder
Re-recording Mixer(s)	Pete Elia / Larry Stensvold
ADR Mixer	Mark DeSimone (uncredited)
Art Director	John Bucklin
Set Decorator	John (F.) Brown
Construction Coordinator	Dean (R.) Brown
Property Master	Curtis Akin
Assistant Property Master	James L. Eddy (uncredited)
Propmaker Foreman	Steven Fidler (uncredited)
Location Manager	Patrick Mignano
Location Liaison	Daniel Veluzatd (uncredited)
Transportation Coordinator	Rockey (Rocky) Reed
Production Designer	Jerry Wanek
Unit Production Manager	Bob (Robert M.) Rolsky
Production Coordinator	Bill (William) Sell
Post-Production Executive	Hudson Hickman (uncredited)
Post-Production Supervisor	Shana Fischer Huber
Post-Production Assistant	Michelle Sabrina Wong (uncredited)
Production Accountant	Jeff Gafin
Original casting	Janet Hirshenson, C.S.A. / Jane Jenkins, C.S.A.
Casting	Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
Casting Associate	Tim (Timothy) Michals
Costume Design	Dan Moore
Costumer	Susan Saldutti (uncredited)
Makeup Artist/ Makeup Department Head	Phyllis Temple
Hair Stylist(s)	Gary Walker
Special Effect Coordinator	Dan (Danny) Lester
Stunt Coordinator	Walter Scott
Assistant Stunt Coordinator	Tony Lee Boggs (uncredited)
Stuntmen	Richard Burch (uncredited)
Boss Wrangler	Clay M. Lilley (uncredited)
Main Title	Frankfurt Balkind
Film Laboratory Services	FotoKem (Film lab)
Audio Post Production	Westwind Media
Post Production Services	The Post Group (Production Suites)
Production Companies	Trilogy Entertainment Group / The Mirisch Corporation / Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) (Television)
Distribution Company	Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

 

 

 

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Sources

The Magnificent Seven television series episodes (written, spoken and credits). Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Wikipedia, authors (cited), philosophers (cited), poets (cited), The Bible (cited), YouTube, (cited), individual observation. and others as indicated by the links.

 

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