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Wyatt Logan : How's the letter coming?
Lucy Preston : It's not. I'm having the world's worst case of writer's block. I know that there's something about patriotism and liberty and American character. I think.
Rufus Carlin : You don't know? You're the historian.
Lucy Preston : Yeah, believe it or not, I have not memorized every single letter ever written in the history of time, and this letter, if I don't get every single word exactly right...
Wyatt Logan : It's just a letter.
Lucy Preston : It's not just a letter. It's the letter that created Texas. No pressure or anything.
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Wyatt Logan : [arriving at the Alamo] I expected soldiers.
Lucy Preston : It's mostly local ranchers, farmers, families too.
Rufus Carlin : Part of me just wants to shout out "run for your lives", you know?
Lucy Preston : I know.
Rufus Carlin : [spotting a group of black men nearby] Are those, uh...?
Lucy Preston : Free men. Slavery was outlawed in Mexico, and this is all technically still Mexico. At least for one more month, anyway.
Rufus Carlin : Viva la Mexico.
Lucy Preston : I wouldn't say that too loud around here.
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Wyatt Logan : Rufus, you need to find a way out.
Rufus Carlin : A way out? There's two things everybody knows about the Alamo. One, everybody dies. Two, they die because there's no way out.
Wyatt Logan : The Alamo didn't have anyone as smart as you. Figure it out. Make a way if you have to. We need to get the women and the children out. Same with the letter.
Lucy Preston : Well, like I said before, Travis didn't finish it.
Wyatt Logan : Then finish it for him. I'm gonna try and buy us some time.
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Lucy Preston : It's a red flag.
Rufus Carlin : What's a red flag mean?
Lucy Preston : It means no quarter. No prisoners. Execute anyone who tries to surrender, which is not supposed to happen, by the way. Santa Anna was supposed to let the women and children go free.
Rufus Carlin : Am I missing something? None of this is supposed to happen. That army isn't supposed to be here for another three days.
Lucy Preston : Flynn must have found a way to change it.
Rufus Carlin : But why?
Lucy Preston : Must be about the letter.
Rufus Carlin : What letter?
Lucy Preston : Travis's famous "Victory or Death" letter. It's... it's the one that was reprinted in U.S. newspapers all over the country. It's why we remember the Alamo. It's why they were able to defeat Santa Anna in a few weeks.
Rufus Carlin : It's only two sentences.
Lucy Preston : Exactly. Because Travis was killed before he was able to finish it.
Rufus Carlin : So, no letter, no Texas.
