This causes Buford to strike Clara, knocking her to the ground, before Doc's voice shatters the moment, yelling for Buford to stop what he's doing.
Furious, Buford raises his gun and prepares to shoot Doc, warning that he'll bleed out for two days before he dies.
Before he can shoot, Marty grabs a pie-plate, and flings it, knocking off Buford's aim.
Marty demands that Buford leave his friends alone, but Buford then manages to provoke Marty by calling him "yellow."
Wanting to prove Buford wrong, Marty agrees to a dual at 8am on Monday.
After Buford and his gang leaves, Doc has a few words with Marty, but not before Clara comes up, and Doc says he'll take her home.
Marty is then accosted by several men who are ecstatic that he has the guts to stand up to Buford.
One of them is the Colt firearms man, who gives Marty a Colt Peacemaker to use in the duel (with the promise that if Marty loses, the firearms man gets the gun back).
The only naysayers in the group are Marty's ancestors, who chastise him for giving in and not just walking away.
Case in point: Seamus and Maggie recall Seamus's late brother Martin.
He was a very tough person, but he also picked fights whenever someone called him a coward, which turned out to be his downfall when someone fatally stabbed him in the chest during a brawl at a saloon in Virginia City.
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