Wild Bill

At Wild Bill Hickok's (Jeff Bridges) funeral, his friend Charley Prince (John Hurt) recalls Hickok's final days in Deadwood. Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin) mourns him especially. In a flashback, Bill and his friend California Joe (James Gammon) come upon an Indian burial structure with a lone warrior sitting atop it. Joe, who speaks the warrior's language, says that the warrior wishes to kill Bill in order to correct his streak of misfortunes. Despite Joe's warning that killing Indians "in a religious frame of mind" is bad luck, Bill shoots the man dead.