Ned Pepper (True Grit 2010)

"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!"

- "Lucky" Ned Pepper to Rooster Cogburn. "Lucky" Ned Pepper is a notorious outlaw and one of the main antagonists of True Grit. The leader of a gang of outlaws he is well known to law enforcement for his various crimes and is hiding out in Indian Territory to the north, out of the jurisdiction of law enforcement. While tracking down her father's killer Tom Chaney, Mattie Ross and Rooster Cogburn find out he is has joined Pepper's gang. They ambush him at an abandoned shack the gang are using to resupply and kill his fellow gang members but he manages to escape.

A few days later he captures Mattie after a chance encounter between her and Chaney at the river. After bargaining with Rooster to let Mattie go in exchange for Rooster stopping his pursuit of him and leaves her in the care of Chaney, instructing him not to kill her. However Rooster renegades on his promise and confronts Pepper and his remaining gang members, killing most of them before his horse is shot down and crushes his leg. Pepper tries to finish of Cogburn but is killed by a long shot from La Boeuf.

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