They Bullied His Wife And Little Girl, Not Knowing He Was A Legendary War Hero

Mrs. Dawson, county board votes on phase two this Thursday. Gideon Pryor needs this farm before then. Sign today or we level it today. Cole's father built this house with his own two hands. It is not for sale. Lady, the whole town knows. Your husband's been gone two years, not one letter. Either he's dead or he doesn't want you anymore. He's coming home today. Sure he is Master Colonel Cole Dawson, the Medal of Honor, Your citation stays sealed. Officially, this ceremony never happened. Mr. President, the pension that comes with it, I want it to go to Noah's wife. Noah didn't make it back. Their baby's due this month, and he never got to pick a name. Stay on, Cole. Train the next generation. I can't, sir. My daughter was three the last time she saw me. She thought my uniform was a Halloween costume. I promised my wife this was the last one. Then go home, Master Carmel. Family protection beacon. Anyone comes after your family, you press it. I don't care who they are. Yes, ma'am. She'll mess it up when she sees you. She's been practicing her welcome speech. Almost there, baby. Daddy's coming. Keep going. She'll move. Lily! Sign it. And it stops. Ah! Daddy? Someone said you don't want us anymore. Daddy's late, baby. I'm sorry. I'm here now. Is this the hand you grabbed her with? Ah! Let go! You let go of her first, then get on your knees. Told you I would. You got no idea who you're messing with. You know whose job this is? Trent Pryde's. Gideon Pryde's son. Cops, judges, the county board, they all answer to the Prydes. Cole, please. Let's just take Lily and go. This is my father's land, Sarah. We're not the ones leaving. That bulldozer is. You hear that? You think the cops are coming to save you? Chief, Trent, we came out here to talk about buying the land. It's a lie. That bulldozer almost ran over my daughter. Ma'am, getting upset isn't evidence. Now that, Chief, that's evidence. Daddy. Are the police supposed to protect the good guys? In Millville, sweetheart, the Prykes decide who the good guys are. Turn around. You're under arrest for assault and unlawful restraint. Before you cuff me, Chief, call that number. The Pentagon. Sure. Want me to call the President while I'm at it? Dispatch, run a Cole Dawson. Cole Dawson. Discharged in 2414 as a corporal. No warrants. That's all I've got, Chief. A corporal? This county's full of war heroes, pal. His old man's in the ground, Chief. Nobody's coming for this guy. Cole. Not in front of Lily. And if I hit a cop, they won't even have to lie. Every report you ever filed, find them all. Keep them safe. Lily, look at me. Make me a new sign. The day it's hanging by that front door, this is all over. And Daddy never leaves again. Deal? Here's how it goes. Tomorrow morning, your wife signs on the steps of the police station. And she brings the kid to watch. Sign or no sign, that farm's flat by next week. What's that? You signaling somebody? Your imaginary commanding officer? General Avery, Master Sergeant Dawson's family beacon just went off. I put that in his hand this morning. Get me the FBI field office in Richmond. Get me the FBI field office in Richmond. I want agents at the Dawson farm tonight watching that family. And get me a car. I'm going myself. Put him in orange. He's not going anywhere. Come home, daddy. Aw, that's cute. And this? This little thing's how you call for backup? You just turned a call for help into a red alert. Alert. A red alert! You hear that? Lock him up! Ma'am, Dawson's beacon just went dead. Somebody destroyed it. Last signal came from inside the Milfreed police station. Protocol says we treat that as a captured soldier. Then this is a red alert. Forget the car. Get me a helicopter. And tell the FBI to send their tactical team. Now. Yes, ma'am. Helicopter's on the pad. 40 minutes to Millbrook. What's this? You collect dead men's stuff? Those belong to men who didn't come home. I'm taking every one of them back to their families. In person. Here's what I don't get. You guys take taxpayer money to go play soldier? And who pays those taxes? People like me. Everything you did over there, you did for me. Put them down. Chief! An army helicopter just landed on the high school football field! So the guard's doing drills, not my problem. Well look at this. A corporal, walking around with the Medal of Honor. That's stolen valor, pal. Federal crime. You're looking at jail time. First, he hands me a card. Some general at the Petterkomman. I tossed it in the mud where it belongs. I'm starting to sing songs. Let's find out who's faster, you or a bullet. FBI, drop the weapon, now! Get off me! You know who I am? I'm Trent Price! Saluting him? General, he's a corporal! He's a nobody with a fake medal! That discharge from 2414? The army wrote it, Chief, so he could go places nobody could ever know he'd been. This is Master Sergeant Cole Dawson, Medal of Honor. By tradition, everyone in uniform salutes that medal first, generals included. At 10 o'clock this morning, I watched the President of the United States put it in his hand. And that card you threw in the mud, that was my number. Chief Mosley, you're under arrest. Using that badge to violate this man's civil rights is a federal crime. Trent Price, you're under arrest, too. You just put a gun on a man who never should have been in that cell. My father's gonna make every one of you sorry! Some homecoming call. My little girl watched them put cuffs on me, ma'am. The feds took Trent. The chief, too. They've got agents sitting at the Dawson Gate, so I had to run the dozer back to the site. Sir, word is a general showed up. She saluted him. Calm down. I built this town's library. I built their brand new police station. Half the county board eats at my table. Trent will be home in three days. And Dawson? General doesn't fly in for a nobody. A man like that has enemies overseas. If something happens to him, every fed in the country starts looking overseas. And when it happens, I'll be sitting across a lunch table from him with the FBI right outside the door. The general flies back to Washington. The FBI's left with one crooked police chief. And Mosley knows how to keep his mouth shut. Go pick up our old friend's wife and boy. Take him to the model home. Text me when it's done. Mr. Price, I told you, I'm out. I've got a wife now, a little boy. I know you do. And now your wife and your boy are my guests. Mr. Kirtle Dawson. Just Cole. I'm retired. First thing, I want your people on my farm, around the clock. Then we go after Gideon Price. You've got two agents at your gate right now. But Price, without evidence, we can't touch him. Tonight, all I can build is a case against the chief. Then build it with this. For two years, Price bulldozers ran over our fences. Somebody poisoned our chickens. Phone calls at two in the morning. I went to that station six times. They never wrote it down. Not once. So I kept my own copies. Every date. Ma'am, you just made our case against the chief. Mrs. Dawson, those two years without a letter, that was my order, not his choice. And this morning, the president gave your husband the Medal of Honor. The Medal of Honor? I had to trade it to be here, Sarah. Until I know this isn't payback for that mission, I'm not going back to Washington. And Cole works this with the FBI as a consultant. Sarah, I can't rock you up. You crossed the Prides. I sell to you, I lose this store. I've shopped here for 12 years. Two years we all thought Cole Dawson was dead. And his first day back, he lands in a jail cell. He's never getting out of that one. That's him. So it's true. That army helicopter last night came for him. Cole, welcome home. So good to see you. My wife's ready to pay now. Mommy says your army clothes aren't a Halloween costume. Mommy's right, but Daddy's done wearing them. Mine goes right there, by the door. I'm practicing my welcome speech again. This time, I'm not going to mess up one single word. I'll be right here to hear every word. Price's driver left this with the agents at the gate. Gideon Price requests the pleasure of your company. Lunch at noon, Millbrook Country Club. You're not going. I'm going. I want to look him in the eye. Mr. Dawson, I saved you the window. Best view in Millbunger. I'll take the wall. Old habit. Small towns, Mr. Dawson. Misunderstandings happen. My boy got carried away. He's young. So let me make it right. Two million dollars for your farm. Land out there goes for four or five hundred thousand tops. You tell those federal boys you won't testify against my son, and we go our separate ways. You sent a bulldozer at my little girl. There's no price on that. I hear Lily's making a new sign. Pink. Going right up by the front door. Funny thing about kids' things. They break once, they tend to break again. You just told me you've got somebody watching my daughter. Enjoy your lunch, Mr. Dawson. He didn't even blink. That means it's already set up. He's making his move today. On this street. There's one spot on this street with a clean shot at the club's front door. That feed mill roof. And the gray pickup from this morning is parked and right behind it. Front team, hold the door. Keep Pry in that room. Nobody walks out the front. I was wondering how I'd ever get something on Gideon Price, and you just handed it to me. Two hours, and he hasn't said a word. If we can't crack him, Price walks away clean. Region is out or near all the worst heard. Certainly, Dave, you're right. It's work. Watch his hand. Every time your partner says Price, it stops and he keeps checking that phone. Call it. He's not protecting Price. Price has his family. Nobody's picking up at the house. Get me every piece of property Price owns. The Price estate on Ridge Road, the Country Club, the warehouse on Mill Street, the old cannery out on Route 11. Price Crossing. The model home. Finished. Nobody living there yet. One mile from my farm. That's where they are. Sit tight. We'll bring them home. Boss, it's all over the scanner. Fed's got our guy on the feed miner roof. You want me to move these two? As long as you've got his family, he won't say one word in that room. We goin' hard. He puts the woman and the boy in front of him. Then we bring him out to us. He's out there! Yesterday, you threw my daughter's sign in front of a bulldozer. Mother and child, both safe! Price told me, kill Dawson in town, not in front of his little girl. Like that made it okay. Tomorrow's his big groundbreaking. The whole town will be there. Put me in front of that microphone. I want every one of them to hear it. You'll get your chance. Millbrook is always taking care of its own. And this afternoon, when the county board votes on phase two, we're going to keep right on doing it. Gideon Price offered me $50,000 to kill Cole Dawson. When I said no, his men took my wife and my little boy and locked them in his model home right over there. Gideon Price, you're under arrest for murder for hire and kidnapping. And your police chief started talking last night. He and your son are already waiting on federal charges. This afternoon's vote on phase two is canceled. As of right now, all work on Price Crossing stops. 30 years I've run this town, and you think one soldier can take it from me? Watch, baby. Daddy's not the one taking them away. The law is. Sarah, I'm sorry. I should have rung you up. I should have done a lot of things. Thank you for saying it. Do the police protect the good guys now? Yes, ma'am. They do. And we're going to keep on doing it. Cole, it's from Noah's wife. The baby came last night. A boy. She named him Noah. He'd have liked that. Sunday, we drive this up to her. All three of us. They asked me to stay on, you know. What'd you tell him? That I made my wife a promise. I was the last one. And come in again, the right way. Welcome home, Daddy. My name is Lily, and I'm five. Mommy? Grandpa built this house with his own two hands. Mommy kept it safe for you. And now you're home. And you don't ever have to leave again. Not one word wrong. Not one. I'm home, baby.