He spends nearly a half - hour on a stagecoach ride that introduces a mustachioed fugitive tracker, John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell, talking like John Wayne); his
driver O.B. (James Parks); his prisoner, the treacherous outlaw Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who's being escorted to Red Rock for hanging;
incoming Red Rock sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a former outlaw that Ruth can't accept as a lawman, and Maj. Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), an ex-slave turned anti-Confederate war hero turned bounty hunter
whose record of wartime atrocities makes Ruth distrust him and Mannix hate his guts.
It's a mantra that seems whispered on the winds of change, but it is a wind that has whipped into a frenzied tornado of frustration and loss for these
drivers,
whose source of
income has been irrevocably damaged.