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Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage
Photos by Jeff and Heather Morris Return |
Big 8, an ex-rodeo rider possessed of the healing touch, and Rob Bob, an injured cowboy recovering under her care, have a midnight discussion on the glory days of rodeo. When Rob Bob mentions her rodeo retirement age, Big 8 warns, “Don't never say that number.” |
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A knock at the door reveals Shedevil, soaking wet and looking for Big 8's son, Lucifer Lee, by whom she claims to be pregnant. |
Big 8 (Kate Enger) Rob Bob Silverado (Jackson Savage) Shedevil (Angela Blair) Shirl Bitahatcher (Carol Ault) Black Dog (Terrence Smith) Baxter Blue (Chad Kopenski) Memphis Donnie Pride (Bob Rymer)
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| Big 8 sews up a gash in Shedevil's scalp while Rob Bob keeps her immobilized. | Can Shedevil spend the night? Big 8 is hesitant; Rob Bob urges her to be welcoming – according to the cowboy code. |
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| “Jesus, you made my cross too big,” declares Big 8 after sister Shirl takes a bite of a neighbor's severed “finger” – a Vienna sausage. | Shedevil looks for money while Big 8 is out of the house, and discovers her box of sterling silver championship belt buckles (gifts from grateful, healed rodeo cowboys). |
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| Rob Bob, who has been sleeping, catches Shedevil in the act, but then tells Shedevil that it's Love at First Sight. | After a loving interlude, Rob Bob explains how he sees the world through the lens of classic Western movies. |
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| “Sonofagunofabitch!” Big 8 is not happy with the developing relationship. | After Shedevil warns of approaching doom, Big 8 stands her ground: “Ain't nobody, no-body, settin' foot in here with hostile intent.” |
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| Black Dog, a Ukrainian biker from whom Shedevil had taken $9,000 in drug money, arrives looking for revenge. | As the man of the house, Rob Bob confronts Black Dog who simply tosses him aside. |
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| Rob Bob calls out Black Dog for a classic shoot-out and empties his pistol. | But Black Dog, revives and demands a beer. |
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| Hand-to-hand combat eventually ends when Rob Bob uses Black Dog's own knife on him. | Big 8, Rob Bob, and Shedevil hide Black Dog's body in the broom closet. |
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| Baxter Blue, local deputy sheriff and Shirl's boyfriend, arrives for his monthly proposal of marriage to Shirl. | As Baxter declares his intentions, the others desperately clean up traces of Black Dog's demise. |
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| The unstoppable Black Dog emerges from the closet, and this time it is Baxter who guns him down. | To prevent Baxter from being branded a rogue lawman for killing an unarmed man, Shirl puts to work her professional experience at the local slaughterhouse. |
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| Baxter finds the gruesome proceedings unexpectedly arousing. | Rob Bob and Shedevil ride off into the sunset; Shirl is anticipating happy times with Baxter, but Big 8 is left alone — until Memphis Donnie Pride, newly-injured roper, arrives seeking her healing touch. |
