Plot summary
After an attack by a mysterious hooded rider, Trafford tells Marshall that he branded Flynn and Myers for their crimes, and that Hoxem is built on the graves of the massacre's victims. Returning Martha's cattle, Trafford leaves for Alberta with his herd. Whipp finds a travelling surgeon, Flathead Jackson, and it is revealed that Locke is suffering from syphilis; her son inherited the disease, dying at the age of fourteen. Entrusting White Moon to Jackson's care, Locke and Whipp reach Martha's farm and piece together the truth: Melmont and the soldiers contracted syphilis at the brothel after the massacre; Melmont infected Locke, later forcing himself on Martha and fathering Jed, though both have escaped infection, while emerging symptoms led Flynn to kill his wife and himself.
Jed goes after Melmont, while the others are attacked by the hooded rider, a disfigured McClintock, before Whipp kills him. Trafford and his herd are killed in a flash flood, and Locke confronts Melmont, who is shot by Martha and finished off by Whipp with a broken sword. Marshall agrees to conceal what happened, but Whipp and Locke go their separate ways. Thirteen years later, Jackson's Wild West Show arrives in England. Locke, disfigured by syphilis, visits White Moon, who declares he is proud of his heritage. Closing footage shows the 1903 visit of Buffalo Bill's Wild West to England and Wales, and the first known Western, shot in England in 1899, as well as "Melmont's", purporting to be a store trading since 1890.
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