Corey Hart (Richard Hart’s great-grandson)
Appearances
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
If he couldn't use his gun, he would use his fist to apprehend these criminals and bootleggers. That was something he really prided himself with. In this instance, it went wrong.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
selected two of them to go to kind of a bootleg operation and try to score some alcohol.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
The idea was that as soon as they would come out, he and another officer that was with him would then make the arrest.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
So he's actually out on the railing board telling this bootlegger to stop. He wouldn't stop, so he started firing shots into the air. And then the car that they were chasing sped off.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
In an attempt to try to stop that car by trying to take out the tires.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
He actually shot the driver through the mouth, and so when it came to the vehicle, it realized, oh, this is not the person that they were actually trying to chase.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
Tried to take that individual to the hospital, but it was a lethal shot.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
And then... Then found out that this individual was also a World War I veteran, was married, had a child that was very young, so less than a year old, and was a hero to the community for being that World War I veteran, was very well liked.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
He had to have a court appearance because they were charging him with manslaughter.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
Surprisingly, with the entire community against him and him fearing for his life, it was the Women's Christian Temperance Union came to his defense, and so they were able to pay for 2 Gunhart's attorney, to give him an attorney.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
Saying that by putting him, by putting a prohibition agent, Dugan Hart, on trial for manslaughter, it's making him a martyr of prohibition.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
From the beginning, she had fought for... "...these fearless, high-integrity men that were willing to do this very dangerous job that the majority of the U.S. were not in favor of."
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
I think that that really did strike him hard. Here was something that he was proud of, being two-gun, always getting the man, using tough guy ways to get him.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
He was forced to pay back essentially his salary for that crime and saying that he was careless and reckless in his behavior.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
Homer is very close to the Missouri River. When Richard arrived, there was a flood.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
What they didn't realize is that the car that they were in was also beginning to be overtaken by that flood.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
Kathleen Winch was in the vehicle that was floating away, but Richard and another individual in Homer were able to jump in and pull that car to safety.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
So it was his bravery that really caught the eye of Kathleen and said that this is the guy that I want to be with.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
He loved to show off. And so if he could have the opportunity to show off his sharpshooting skills, he would. There are rumors that he would shoot apples off the top of people's heads. If you think of Richard Hart, it's a thing. It's always two guns. It's two guns, you know? And so why are you not going to call someone like that Two-Gun Hart? I mean, it just fits.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
But afterwards... As he's heading out west, he just gets off on this stop in Nebraska and sees this town Homer and knew this was a point far enough west where that lifestyle still existed. So he could continue this mission in his life to be a cowboy.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
Governor recognized the fact that if we're going to have prohibition agents, we need people that are fearless. And Richard Hart was somebody who fit that to a tee.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
I believe it was around 1920, and it was a really, really bad rainstorm.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
He's trying to take the man to Lincoln, Nebraska, but... He got north and south messed up, so instead of going back to take this criminal in, he ended up going, I believe, towards the South Dakota border.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
But when he gets there... Found out that they wouldn't book either of them.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S3E5: Double Barrel
It was really discouraging for him. It was the pinnacle of him understanding how much corruption there was. This is not my law. And that was the excuse that a lot of people used.