Unforgiven Scene 13 Summary

  • Inside the Sheriff's office Bill is looking at The Duke of Death. He asks Bob, who is lying in a cell, if that's him on the cover?
  • Bob nods, clearly unable to speak as a result of his injuries. He groans.
  • Bill mispronounces the title of the book again—he calls it The Duck of Death—and Beauchamp, who is in the adjoining cell, corrects him.
  • Bill asks about the cover, and Beauchamp tells him that it's exaggerated. It's a marketing trick.
  • He also points out, however, that the stories in the book are based on eyewitness accounts.
  • Bill is skeptical.
  • He refers to Bob again as the "duck." Beauchamp corrects him, to no avail.
  • Bill starts reading from the book—again calling the duke the "duck."
  • The book recounts Bob's fight with Corky Corcoran in Wichita. Bill reveals that he was in the bar where the fight happened.
  • Beauchamp can't believe it.
  • Bill tells him there was no woman involved (as the book claims), and that Corky didn't carry two guns either.
  • Beauchamp is in disbelief. Bill says that the name "Two Guns" came from the fact that Corky's penis was as big as the barrel of his Walker Colt.
  • Corky had sex with a French girl that Bob liked. Bob got angry, and fired a shot at Corky that night in the Blue Bottle. He was so drunk, he missed.
  • Corky went for his gun, but was in such a hurry he shot his toe off. Bob fired again, and missed…again.
  • Corky took aim and had plenty of time to fire. His gun, however, blew up in his hand.
  • Bob then went over, real slow, and shot him in the liver.
  • Beauchamp can't believe it. Not only did Bob shoot an unarmed man, but the story Beauchamp has been told is totally false.
  • Bob, in the other cell, turns away, clearly ashamed of the facts.
  • Beauchamp, a look of disbelief on his face, slowly sits back down.