( whistles a tune ) ( gunshots )

well, besides that, i'll tell you what i did hear, fannie. when i was in st. louis-- i don't care what you heard. it's doc. now, you remember that. doc. i'm sorry, doc. anyway, i heard some of the outraged citizens done burnt your wagon in st. louis. yeah, sure. i got me a new one. i had this one made to my exact specification by the finest craftsman in the republic.

the queen of spain, isn't it? there's one of each, boy, one of each. oh. toss me a couple of them green apples, would you? a couple? there you are, my boy. one, two. i see you got some new titles. yes, sir. now, d.m.i. that stands for the delaware military institute, in whose hallowed halls i spent a very happy but rather brief tenure. then a.t.g.d.d which is across the great divide, which accounts for my presence here. where i learned the secrets ofof t this ancient and honorable profession king? from an aged and dying scientist. tom's junction. yeah, i'm going there myself. it's been a week since i had a hot bath. hot bath? now, you be c ceful, josh. i know a man had a bath once, got his ears plugged, never heard another sounun as long as he lived. his case wasn't without virtue, though. he was married to the loudest, bitterest, most cantankerous female

m talking? she contracted an ailment and lost her voice, so you know what i did? i mixed her up a powerful drug, boy, and the next day, she was bellowing away again. you cure her husband? he wouldn't let me come near him. that man just didn't want to hear. well, i'm going to town and get in that hot bath. i'll see you in town, doc. keep your ears above water, josh.

all right now, folks. come a little closer because what i'm aboututo offer you is without equal anywhere in the country. you know me, old doc farnsworth, and i stand for honesty and integrity. ah, my dear lady, what is your trouble? where is your ache? uh-huh. all right, now. allow me the privilege of eliminating and eradicatingng the misery in your right arm. and here it is, dear lady, precisely what i prescribed to my sainted maiden aunt. can hear her now. "farnsworth," she said, "farnsworth, you have the magic." and you know what? she made me promise to share it with the world. and i've kept that promise, folks, and i'll keep it till my dying day. now here you are, dear lady. $1.00, please, just to cover the costs. i thank you. all right now, whoho next? aha. what can i do for you, my friend? it's, uh, kind of personal.

but don't you worry. old doc c rnsworth is here to help you. folks, i spent my entire life helping people who couldn't help themselves. speak up, man. come on, now. ( all laughing ) do you eat three meals a day, friend? whenever i can. well, from now on, you make sure-- morning, noon and night. and d minutes before each meal, you rub some of this on that head of yours. now, will yoyoremember that? all i have to do is look in the mirror. here you are, sir. one silver dollar, please. coin of the realm. all right, folks. now, come along, speak up. if i hear it, i'll cure it. - hey, doc. - yes, sir. what about thirst? thirst? right over there, sir. i never buck the competition. olks. ( all laugh ) the next clinical consultation will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. sharp, the same location.

( lively tune playing ) funny thing, randall. you never spent more than a couple of hours in this town before. what's so funny ababt that? you can really smell it, can't you? smell what? - trouble. - ( snaps fingers ) i don't think that's very funny at all, ed. i'm talking about jim lansing, the guy who banged into you at the hotel this afternoon.

yeah? i hope he makes it. hey, what do you put on your hair, chicken grease? ( snaps fingers ) say, josh... you got a minute? yeah, sure. - i wanna talk to you. - sure enough. my wagon be all right? no, it won't be all right. i've got my clean clothes on. never mind about that. all right. come on, doc. i ain't got all night. - aw, josh.. - i wanna play cards. don't get impatient. i'll let you in this evening. my boy... i found something. well, come on. what is it? well, if you get down off the horse, i'll show you. now...

out this afternoon. well, if i had $30,0,0, i wouldn't be sorry. i meant about knocking you down. how did he get here? he needed a place to hide. oh. the boy is innocenen how do you know? faith, my boy. simple faith. oh, that's good, doc. that's really good. well, it's good enough for me. now, look, it's none of f business, but if you're innocent, why are you running? i didn't steal that money from the bank. well, it didn't just get up and walk out. it was gone when i opened the safe this morning. uh-huh. well, there's another reason for running. this isn't'ty town. i came out from boston. i'm new here. hmm. well, they got laws here just the same as they do in boston. all the evidence pointed to me. i didn't have a chance. will you help him, josh? heck, no. now, josh, couldn't you make just one little exception in his case?

because the boy is innocent. well, then you prove it. i'll tell you what i'll do. i'll give you $50. $50 out of my own pocket. you decide against me, have you been drinking your own medicine again? well, i've lost money before. i'm going home. josh. now, i've been around slickers all my life. i know 'em and i know honest folk. that's whyhy i believe this boy. now, look, understand this. maybe he's innocent, maybe he's isn't innocent. i don't know, but i cacat afford to come between him and the law. now, you understand? well, then think it over. maybe you'll change your mind. i don't see how. oh. hope you make it, lansing. you're stubborn, stubbornn as that old mule of mine. ain't getting in no trouble for you or nobody else. ( clicks tongue )

eh...hello. the lady's name is ann barchester, my wife. that makes you mr. barchester. does that mean anything to you, randall? yes, sir. that means that she's your wife. i don't why you're here, but if it's all right with you, ma'am, i'd kinda like to go wash up. go ahead. i didn't come here to discuss my marital status. ann: mr. randall-- ann. i just wanted to explain-- i'll do the explaining. we're not here to discuss a a wing bee. you keep saying why you're not here. sure wish you'd tell me why you are. you heard of the bank robbery here i itown? uh-huh. it's my bank, and the bank robber is jim lansing. you have no right to condemn anyone without due process of law. you shall have to excuse my wife. she has an emotional inability to face reality. this was jim lansing's room. he used to complain about being lonesomeme

i felt sorry for the man, took him home with me, opened my house to him. but that wasn't enough. he stole $30,000 from me. bounty hunters don't have your concern for due process, ann. some do. have i offended you, mr. randall? just a little bit. well, let me restate my point. men like you do not stop to judge their quarry. my business isn't judging, mister. precisely. i'm offering $1,1,0 for jim lansing. ( whistles ) you must want him pretty badad by noon tomorrow, it will be telegraphed to every sheriff in the area. i'm giving you a chance to get a head stt. why? you ask a lot of questions for a bounty hunter. i might change my mind. that wouldn't bust me up too bad. ann.

yeah, how's that? i've heardrd how you people work. some bounty hunters work some ways, some work in others. that's not the information i received. your kind likes to ask questions afterward. well, that suits me fine. i'd like you to brbrg jim lansing in dead. that is, if you decide to honor me by accepting my $1,000. - mr. randall. - yes, ma'am? - i just want to say-- - ann! i just... ann! hey, doc. yeah. that you, josh? yeah. well, i must have caught that faith of yours. say, now.

he's been seen in this area. well, now, you won't find him here, sheriff. now, why donon you let me look around for myself? well, i would've seen him. i've been here since this afternoon. yeah? and what were you doing in the saloon? well, what does any civilized man do in a saloon, sheriff? i'll just have a look around. oh, now, you won't find him there. i'll satisis myself. a $1,000 reward's just been posted for him, doc. that's a lot of medicine. yeah, it sure is.

okay, he's gone. now where's lansing? all i know is i staked out the burro a while ago, and when i came back, lansing was gone. and you were so sure he w w innocent. now, why did he run this time? okay. you just saved yourself $50. yeah, well, i wish i hadn't. josh: howdy. all ririt, on your feet, randall. - huh? - sam. get his pea-shooter. now we can talk. i've said my piece.

why would a bounty hunter even thinknkwice about accepting a $1,000 offer? maybe i just don't like your money. second question. how are you and lansing and the medicine man here splitting my $30,000? doc: now, just-- i lose $30,000. lansing disappears. you ride into town. the medicine man arrives. where's my money? i don't know what you're talking about. drop him. tough little nut, isn't he? you're not buying 16 ounces of medicine. no, sir. you're buying 16,000 years of accumulated and concentrated wisdom and knowledge,

scientific cornucopia? one single, solitary dollar. no more, no less, come on. name your complaint and step right up and get your medicine. howdy. i'd kinda like to talk to you if you don't mind. ann: oh. come in.

yeah. a man punched me in the face. i don't understand.. your husband and one of his hired guns, i guess. if arthur is responsnsle for that, i'm sorry. it's all right. last night, you wanted to tell me something. right now,w,'d like to know what it was. oh. i--i just wanted to say... i don't think jim lansing ok that money. i need more than that. jim lansing is a gentleman. is a m wthe nnets of shakespeare a common thief? no, ma'am, but $30,000 isn't common. did you come here to convict jim lansing? no, i'm just trying to find out exactly what you know. look, your husband thinks that lansing is guilty. well, i don't. you help m m maybe i can prove it. when he came to dinner that first night, he brought flowersrs the first flowers a man ever carried into this house.

we're not talking about me, ma'am.m. jim did everything nice. he held my chair for me. when i left the room, he rose. and every time i returned, he rososagain and held my chair again. he never entered this house without something, and he never left it without bowing. i see your point, but it's not gonon help me find him. that's all i can tell you. s time.. he isn't. i talked to him last night in johnson's grove. now, to tell you the truth, i thought he was guilty, too. then i had a little talk with your husband, and he kinda convinced me. offer me $1,000. what do you meanlo? it's kinda sweet. you know, i'm gonna take it 'cause i need it, but it doesn't mean i'm gonna railroad lansing. understand? maybe i can help you. thouisn't the only place jim read his poetry. en,, we'de ckboard to willet's creek.

ou. well, i'd rather do this alone. please? it'll just take me a minute. ann, what are you doing here? she came over to take you back to town. i don't stand a chance if i go back. now, listen to me, lansing. you ain't got a chance in the world if you don't. well, come on, let's go, and we'll all get what we want, huh? ansi. hey, nowive me that gun. i got what i want right here. both of you, i'll tell a story how you killed each other in a gun battle.

you could have said you loved me. i don't. couldn't you have lied just once? i thought framing jim for robbery would be enough, but you gave mother idea, mr. randall, when you came along. you know, it's a funny thing. the money's beenenere all the time... where i buried it, under that tree... where you read me poetry. but now the time for poetry's over. oh! no, let me--

i'm sorry, ann. ( sighs )

now let me tell you. believe e , josh, for the-- doc, i saw you when you filled it in the stream. oh. well, you could use it for after shaving. you know, it has a very soothing effect on the skin.

i'll live. i'll tell you something. i usually sympathize with the husband. after barchester hauled off and punched me in the face like that, it was kind of a pleasuree getting that money from him. a woman scorned. that's shakespeare. i got somethininelse here. cold cash. no, sir. go ahead, take it. no, sir. all you owe me for is one broken bottle, but i'd rather have you in my debt. say, how did you happen to be here just at the right time? faith, my boy. simple faith. come on. well, i ran out of medicine, so i came back herer for refills. now, i ask you, boy, isn't that faith?

fannie? now, listen, it's doc! rem-

on what? who wants to hire me. i do. i, um, i want to hire you... as a husband. - hmm? - mr. randall, i want you to marry me. ( gunshots ) wn uh, no. no, no. i think i'll stand up. this is a business proposal. ( door closes )

and how my father-- well, maybe mr. randall would like to tell you about that later. will you, mr. randall? sure enough. now, you run along and play, son. i want to keep my son, mr. randall. but my mother-in-law, mrs. irene goodhue morrison, is determined to have him. i'm not strong enough to fight her. well, uh, why would sheour y? well, she tried to run dave's life, but he wouldn't have it that way. d w at he's gone, she's decided to try again with his son. well, he is your sonon isn't he? oh, yes. but davey is her blood. she told me that over my husband's grave. since then, she's followed me from one town to the next, making life miserable. when i've gotten a job, she's seen to it that i've lost it, even when i've worked under an assumed name.

she's always right behind me. i can't fight her alone. mr. randall. mrs. irene goodhue morrison. whoa, hold on a second there. now, listen, i'll go to work for you. four dollars a day plus food. now, what do you say? i've come for my grandson, apparently not a mom tosoon.

here's a court order granting me full guardianship of my grandson, because you've seen to it. you should know by now that you can't buy everything with money. you couldn't buy your own son.n. the boy. i'll get him. that's far enough, mister, or you and i are gonna get at it.

i'm dying inside. yeah.

come in. afternoon, sir. well, what can i do for you? well, i know you're a busy man, so i won't take up much of your time. pertaining to the morrison boy. it says that she was unable to support the child. but i'll tell you something, that's not true. what is your interest in this matter? i know the boy's fathehe no more, no less. well, so did i. as a matter of fact, i know irene morrison very well, but that does not alter the facts. it might. now, what does that mean? well, no offense meant, sir, but seeing as you know this irene morrison so well, it could be you're just leaning a little bit her way, you know? i think you'd better explain yourself. i think this story got a little twisted up.

used you to get him. now, just a minute, young man. you're snde most respected woman in this territory. and i could just be telling you the truth. irene morrison swore to the statements contained herein, and they are facts. now, please, please remember she wants to give this boy love and affection, the accumulated wealth of three generations. ( sighs ) esct, sir... boy belongs with his mother. ( door clolos ) in you go.

when will she come? sometime. she said she'd be here. davey, you're a little man now, and you can stand the truth: your mother isn't coming. she lied t tme. i'll take her place, and you will call me grandmama, as we agreed at dinner. do you understand? yes, grandmama. good. now, i shall tuck you in. i shl tuck you in every night until yore 12. on your 12th birthday, you will move to the bunkhouse for six months, you shall own l of this one day, and i intend you shall know precisely wh ie inritete but that will not be until i die. and i do not intend to die until my work is done and you return from college. here. that's enough to think about. good night, davey.

hello, sonny. i didn't expect

what's your name? davey. wei'm hay to know you, davey. my name's malcolm. that beautiful pony yours? yup, that's mine. beautiful pony. you running away from home? i haven't got a home. i haven't got anybody. not even a mommy? nobody. that means you ain't had your breakfast yet. well, i always eat alone, now, i ain't got much. i've got eggs, bacon and pancakes and wild berries. you hungry?

- howdy. - howdy. i'm looking for a small boy, about 7 years old, riding a brown-and-white pony. - you seen himim - pony with a fancy saddle? - yeah. - ( laughs ) funny, i've seen the pony, but there's a man riding it. a man? yeah. which way'd he go? he rode on out that t y. much obliged. you're just so beautiful, you make me bust all over. ( bird screeches )

oh, honey, you must be real tired. i'm gonna cool you off n n. you know something? if i had a lot of money, you know, i'd never sell you. but if i had to sell you, there's only one person i'd sell you to. josh: where's the boy, mister? want the boy. now, y-you wouldn't shoot a mann because of a... little ol' pony, would ya? try me. well, there's a clearing a little way back there.

yes, sir. ( animal whines, yips ) ( yipping, whining ) you might as well come with me, boy.

( whining ) ( bird screeches )

we'd better rest now, boy. ( pup whining ) ( growls ) go away! go away! go away! ( growling )

( pup whining ) put the animal down, boy. but he's mine. i know, but put him down anyway. ( growling ) no qck movements. easy now. my mommy didn't come with you. i know, son. but i'm here now. ( snarling ) take my hand. you stand behind me.

what's the meaning of this? i want that man held for violating a court t der. - just a minute, please. - now, see here-- that's enough, irene. now, we have met to consider the future of the boy, david morrison, here beside me. irene: his future's already been decided. founded on false evidence. now, i warn you, irene. be careful. only a grandmother's love saves you from a charge of perjury. now then, mrs. morrison, you claim that you're capapae of supporting yourself and your boy if you are not interfered with. i know i can, your honor. but the boy did run away from his mother and from his grandmother. that also is evidence. this c crt is concerned with one thing only: that is what is best for the boy.

but the boy must decide for himself now with whom he wishes to live. you will have one year to prove your capability. if he decides to go with his grandmother, this case is closed forever. - davey? - yes, sir? you have to choose now, son. your mother and your grandmomoer are both fine women, and both have something to offer you. but you have to make - do youerstan - yes, sir. do you like your pony, davey? and se?my hou it will be your hous davey. the house with its toys, and the pony and d e land. all the land as far as you can see, davey, and then further still beyond the horizon. e rlbeyond your land, i'll bring you that as well.

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i want to thank you. l, u be seeinyou again? yeah, well, i hope so. goodbye, mr. randall. bye, son. mr. randall... do you have a moment? yes, ma'am. may i ask a favor? it's about the pony. i want my grandson to have e .

yes, ma'am. ovemyself right away. mm-hmm.

?? - kadish, just because you drilled a well for water and struck pure whiskey doesn't necessarily meano cu there is nothing supernatural about your whiskey well. ??

(gunshot) - how's your head? i just smacked it into a rock. - here's your hat. - thanks. - yeah, i might have knowed it. wasting good powder and shot on the wronn. you ain't one of the mccandle brothers. - you mind telling me who are the mccandles and why you almost killed me? - what do you care what i do to the mccandle brothers? fact is, the mccandles have been potting at me for over a month now, and i don't know no why any more than you do. it's just me, i guess. - who and whwh are you?

- "have gun, will..." welon god's green earth stroke that needed yot'mesir.along in. - well, i'm not so sure it's mual. - look, i got some acorn coffee on the stove and a pot of salted pork and beans that's been ri up r a long time. of course you don'expect any money, 'cause i ain't got none,

i built thth place whole with my own hands, scrounging up all this stuff. now, don't you go saving none of that for me, 'cause i had it for breakfast. - well, , , i'm not really very hungry. i, uh... i ate just before you shot at me. that i didn't hit you, i mean? - yes, sirir i, uh, suspect that the fate that guided your hand is now making the halls of olympus ring with sardonic laughter. - the halls of olympus. you know something, mr. paladin? i just knew you was this k kd of a man. well-read and cultured and all that, but with a wild d roke of pure courage blended right in. i knew you was that kind of a man. - well, you were gonna tell me about the kind of trouble you're in.

slurp some of that down, huh? - (sniffing) - yeah. - true bouquet, full body, veve well and carefully aged. - true is true. i got a whole lake of the stuff. - you got a lake of it? - yeah. we're sitting on it right now. - you've got a lake of it, and we're sitting on it? - uh-huh. - well, mr. kadish, that's very interesting,

believe me, that's true. a while back, i got tired of trekking down to the creek to get water, see? and i decided to drilllle a well. about six weeks ago, it come in. and... it wasn't water. it- (laughing). you don't believe me, do you? - no! - come on out to the pump. come on out to the pumum all you gotta do is just pump it just a couple of times. go on,n,ump it. pump it.

e stepped over the line into your fantasy - fofothe arrows of the almighty richest are within me,e world. and the poison thereof drinketh up my spirit. god sent it to try me, like everythininelse. - now, would you like to stop talking in riddles? must have drilled wells around here in the last year? how many of them you figure hit whiskey? - there has to be an explanation! - why should the one soul in a milliononho hit whiskey be the one soul who, if he drinks it, it'll be the wreck of his life, huh? of all the drunkards with whiskey wells, hohomany of them are trying to save what's left of their lives by staying dry? yeah, there's no explanation for it.

and i got less than a week to go. but i can't do it alone, 'cause it's gaining on me. sylvia is gonna be here... that's my wife, sylvia. - she's gonna be here in another five days. i promised her that i'd stay off the sauce for a whole solid year. five more days. look, mr. paladin, you're gonna have to help me, please. hing. - sorry, kadish, i'm not prepared to take on a lifetime job. - lifetime? itit just for five days! - what happens on the sixth day, when i'm gone? or the sixtieth? or the six hundredth? - but i just wannanaeep a word to my wife, that's all. i'll be stronger after that, if i can just get by that. honest i will, i swear it. - there's bitterss tth it's a small pill, but a man like you can't swallow it.

i guess you're right. it was kind of a wild, crazy idea. - - w,'s a. i- and the mccandles? no, you may accept it was kind of your miracles in stride, but y't md, i think i'll t ad

y week for six weeks now, and i haven't had one single solitary drop-- honest, i haven't. - my name's paladin. - well, your husband has some idea t tt a malevolent fate isobes - that's true.

- i'm not surprised. - you're not? if he were lost, it'd be in the mountains, an. if he got caught in a hurricane, he'd run for the nearest shelter and it would turn out to be a distillery. - mrs. kadish. moses. come on with me. i'd like to show you something.

he burned it to the ground, wrote all the supplies off the army records, and he's been selling the surplus ever since. including these. and when you hit whiskey, they k kw you weren't about to leave.

for all your efforts. i know you did the best you knew how. - what about it, moses? what are you gonna do? - i don't know. it all seemed so simple. i don't know. - you don't know? i thought you'd come to your senses. you're gonna get out of this hovel. look at him. can't you see? he's in agony.

- please, moses, why donstop fighting it.up now? you're miserable and you know it. now relax and take a nice long drink. - you know, it's funny why nobody ever r ked me why i drink. everybody asked me why didn't i stop it. but they don't care, not really. it doesn't matter... - now, would you like to

it's kind of a twisted magic and it stretches me in every direction. lkaller, ride further, shoot straightht, and talk smarter than anybody in town.

- and two drinks? - two drinks? (laughing) now, that's something you just wouldn't believe. - did you ever try stopping after the first one? - try stopping after the first... now, mr. paladin, i can see right off

you" kind of drinker. oh, you probably enjoy a libation with a friend or a companion, or take a cup of cheer tobut, man, i'm talkingrt eveabout drinking!ile. i'm talking about "full-time, 'round-the-clock, rain or shine, don't come home until e consumption of spirituoiq moses, you've got a beautiful wife. you had a good job, rare senvity and perception, and you're about to commit suicide. - oh, i'm not dying. i've gotten bigger and bigger in every way. the second drink, huh? (laughing)

that second drink, i can empty a swimming hole full of kids and take 'em right back to the schoolyard. and strange dogs answer my commands, and tomcats go rht back where they come from. and birds? (laughing) nightingales take the tenor parts when i sing. (laughing) second drink, and you're still on top of it. you can still walk away from it. - mr. paladin, why don't you let him alon can't you see he's happy now? - sylvbe! - is that true, moses? are you happy?

- yeah, it taught me one thing. it taught me where the enemy is. his name is john barleycorn, and the enemy lives right there. and he can make me walk shorter, ride lesser, shoot crookeder, - moses. - it's true. well, i got two in me now. there he is. there's the enemy. - mrs. kadish, whatever moses kadish is, you made him.

- you took away his strength and gave him yours. - how do you know he had any? - by what he's done right here. - i praised him and comforted him. - you praised him for what? for running away and hiding from you in saloons, the only place he could feel like a man? - he's right. - drink it, moses! you need it! (gunfire) n! - kadish? this is mccandle! you burned down our store, remember? now we're gonna burn you out! - mccandle, it's not just kadish in here now! - don't matter! you're gonna get it anyway,

(gunfire) - (whimpering and crying) - sylvia. - here, this will help. - (crying) (gunfire) - (crying)

- (crying) - sylvia, i want you to stop that crying. come on, stop it! i'm sick and tired of it! hearing it every night when i'd come home drunk, i never realized that inside, you were glad about itit

- what are we going to do now? - well, moses, you were right. two drinks in you and you can accomplish miracles. sing with the nightingales and charm strae dogs. and apparently, you whipped that third drink. it wasn't in her too much, either. i guess it was in me. this place, this house that i put a year in building... i i ess it changed me.

- sylvia, you know what you're gonna do? you're gonna... start unpacking. ?? - ? "have gun will travel" ?

? his fast gun for hire? ?? a soldier of fortune ?? ?thaladin ? ? wre

?? (xxxxs gun) - mutiny's a big word, hodges, but panic i understand. but mutiny? what gave colonel burgess life-and-death autonomy over these people? ??

- it's my brother courtney, mr. paladin. he's vanished. i want you to find him. i don't care what it costs. find him. - drink? - no, thank you. - thank you, no, hey boy. you suspect violence? - hmm. with brother courtney the victim? it's hardly likely. - how can you say that? - because i've encountered hundreds like him. this nations has produced a bumper crop. the i.o.u. - that's not being fair. - i'm being honenest. that's what mr. paladin needs, honesty at this end, if not at the other. thquick smile, the empty promise, the moist handshake, that's what you look for. ananwhen you feel the sudden thrust that's when you know you've found courtney burgess. - my husband's merchant mind fails to acknowled that... some men are born special,

give her what she wants. - courtney wrote last from sacramento to tell me he was heading north in search of the future. this time he said he was determined to make good for himself. - well, i don't see that you really need me at all. surely the sacramento police. - i don't think you understand, mr. paladin.

- hot enough for you? - (chuckles) it'll do. - emmett wilhoit, grand rapids. who shot you? - indians. up trail. in case you're going that way. it'll be all right. a little rest is all i need. - sure. they even burned old burgess' fort up ahead, so they say. - burgess? - know him? - i've been looking for him for two months. - well, he ain't hiding. not colonel burgess. - colonel? burgess never spent a day in the army in his life. - no, not ours. his own army, his own fort.

they shoot good, too. you look out now. - yeah. i'll look out now. (indians shouting)

hello?

you must be fond of that gun. - i've grown attached to it. - you gonna kill me? - should i? - if you're taking a ballot, i vote no. it's the colonel you've come for, i suppose. - now how would you know that? - well, mister, everybody comes looking for the colonel. it's a regionanasport, like lacrosse. he'd tell you so himself, if he weren't presently indisposed. - that's courtney burgess? - what's left of him. me? i'm the ever-faithful sam hodges, the colonel's dog-robber. can i gegeup now? - (groans) - this man isn't drunk, he's ill.

but what about those three in the orderly room? now typhoid didn't take them out. out of a company of 12, all but those three defected. you know, once nature turns on man, it ain't but a hop, skip, and a jump until man turns on himself. - why were they shot, and where are the others? - well, it's a long story. you got a minute? - (coughs) (coughs, groans) - well, i do, but i'm not sure a aut your colonel. - he's not going anyplace. chief tamasun and d s war party arrived ten days ago. they didn't even bother to attack. they knew they didn't have to. thirst was on their side, thirst and fever. - what stirred 'em up? - well, a slight misunderstanding between tamasun and the colonel. you know, when it comes to progress, you can depend on the chief to be on the conservative side every time. well, the colonel had only 12 men to keep order. there was near to 80 settlers. they were rubbing each other rawaw food was running low.

six cases of typhoid in one day. four of 'em buried out behind the stable. yes, sir, that's what started the mutiny. you know, it was just as if a mad dog had been set loose in the fort. the colonel tried to reason with 'em. nonody going to stop them. they'd rather take their chances with the nez perce indians than stick and risk the fever. - mutiny, hodges? mutinyny a pretty strong word. panic i can understand. but mutiny? against what? what gave the colonel and his private militia life-or-death autonomy over those settlers? - when moses led his people out of egypt,

- mistererwhen the colonel came here, this was wilderness. everything you see here, he made happen. because of a dream. when a man sets up housekeeping in another man's dream, the colonel figured the landlord had the right to set up a few rules. - that's fair enough, but what rules? - colonel burgess put a roof over their head, clothes on their back, vittles in their belly. and if he taxed them, if he demanded strict obedience and a share of their crops, it was his rightful due. - and you stuck with him. why? typhoid doesn't worry you? - of course it worries me. but abandoning the colonel to die alone, that worries me more. - you couldn't take him with you? - oh, the indians, they let the others through. all they want is the colonel. - (coughs)

- well, this man's sick. he needs a doctor. he needs medicine. - and folks in hell are needing ice water. maybe ththe's something in the stores, i don't know. we can see. - don't let them kill me! - now, now, now, nobody's gonna kill you, i promise. - please, i don't want to stay. ask him to take me with him. - when you're better. you never did say who it was who sent you. was it floyd miniver, denver mine and ore? - nope. - hope you brought a horse. - only as far as the woods. - i don't hear anybody laying railroad track. how are you planning to bust out of here? - that's a good question. how are you?

ll, he knows this fort is unprotected. what's holding him back? - a healthy fear of typhoid. i ain't played the big ace yet. - no horses, no water, 200 miles from nowhere, besieged by hostile indians and fever. what are you saving it for? - you play your hand, i'll play mine. what if you had a medical emergency away from home? my chest hurts. i can't breathe. what you need is mobile e lp. america's premier mobile medical alert ste most systems only work at home. but with mobile help, you get help outside the home, with coverage nationwide on one of the largest cellular networks,

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- - s it the merchant trust in abilene? - nope. - luke frost sent you? - nope. - then it was the colbert rattling off names, one might get the impression that your colonel

few enemies. you know, you don't just plant a seed and up pops a fort. takes planning, sweat. - indian sweat? - like the colonel always says, it wasn't kindness thaha built the pyramids. so a few savages die. what of it? the end result, that's what counts. - apparently, chief tamasun doesn't share your colonel's opinion. here's some choral hydrate. that ought to o se his pain a little bit. tell you about him? - they? - whoever sent you. nev to turn my back on him. - on anynye, friend. - now what is this gonna buy you? - one less complication. - oh, no, you're gonna need me beforereong, friend. - against a hundred nez perce? uh-uh.

property. (gunfire in distance) oh, no! if he's killed, we're finished! (gunfire) - (groaning) - i knew it. here heheomes, the head man himself, tamasun. stay away. this is my ace, and here's where i play it. - palau! tamasun will talk.

but talk fast! it's hot out here! - speak true, ametsun. plenty hot here. tamasun make trade. give us oak leaf chief, we go. no more blood. - that's no bargain! - like maybe tamasun burn fort, huh? - you won't do that. you want the oak leaf chief alive. the dirty heathens, they want to torture him! - maybe tamasun come get him. - into the camp of the big fever? face it, chief, your braves are bored and restless. for ten days they've been cooking in this hot sun. they want to get back to their squaws. two ponies, a fresh supply of water, guaranteed safe passage! those are my terms! - for oak leaf chief? - signed, sealed, and delivered.

- i'm not going anywhere! - (groaning) i told you i had the big ace! - you can't turn this man over to them to be tortured, no matter whatate's done. - look at him. there's not much left of him. a few minutes off his life, that's all i want to borrow. the colonel's jacket's hanging in his office. get it. - why stand on ceremony? just throw him out like he is. - there's a lot you don't understand about nez perce logic. to them, t t uniform is the authority. the same as a tribal chief's known by his bonnet. it's the uniform they want to o nish. if i hung those oak leaves on your shoulder, you'd be the c conel to them. now, you get that jacket

- (groaning)

- over here. - all right, fun's over! give me the jacket! - no sale. - over you dead body, then!

awful place to shoot a man. - i've been hoping all day you wouldn't force me do that, mr. burgess. - you knew. you can't let a fellow check out with a puzzlement on his mind. - it was your sister. - you're supposed to bring me back. - no, she just wondered what was happening. she was concerned. - i bet i know who it was who told you never to turn your back on me. that stiff-necked brother-in-law of mine.

this fort, this business, it wasn't so bad. - mr. burgess, you and i are both near dead. - i got use for you yet. give me the jacket. i got no time to argue! put it on. put it on. when you get back, and you better get back, mister, this is the part that i want you to tell him. tell my brother-in-law the kind of end i came to. do you understand?

s approaching) he's dead!

(speaking native language) ??

armor in a savage land ?

? ?

>> don't move, mr.. don't even think it.

>> i'm going to back off. you just continue to be real careful. get up now. .

just say to yourself. remember that black monkey in a white man's uniform. >> what do you want with me? >> nothing. i thought you was one of them. what's the matter? ain't you ever seen a man of color before? >> i've seen a few. >> >> i would like someone to sneak up behind you with a gun. >> i guess you would. them black folks are naturally scared easier than white folks, right? what's your name? >> boo - beau kant.

you said cannon and i said boom as a joke. boom is kind of a joke, too. you are boom and i am black print don't you want to know what my name is? >> i figured you would tell me when you felt like it. >> do you know what a dog robber is? he still talks. -- he steals dogs. [laughter] you don't know much do you? he's an orderly and i bring in the food and press those pants in china and boots.

and you run and you fetch and you run and you fetch. and when you are ready to drop, you run and fetch some more. and don't ever let that almighty kernel spell your sweat or drink cold coffee or chew on tough meet. that's what it's like, mr. boom. that's was like in the cavalry. terrible. it? terrible. you want to see something really terrible? >> how did you get that? >> on october the kernels whiskey. -- i knocked over the kernels whiskey. he is handy with a whip. it laid me up for six whole

to protect men, don't think? >> the white ones, yeah. the minute i get out of bed, i went to the first sergeant and told him. i said i want real soldiers duty, not just shining boots or licking them. no more aching latrines. you know what he said? he just laughed. he said what does a black monkey like you want to get shot up for? off, boy? >> anything you can do? >> yes, what i'm doing. i want to find officers that can help me but -- i will never make bt vi

>> you ready? >> yeah. if i tell you something you promise you won't tell big john or uncle buck?

>> he's not deserting. i guess he is by the rules. all he wants to do is yet an army post where he may find an officer that will help protect them from that coolonel. >> what are you going to do? >> to help a soldier escape is not good business. it's not my business. your heart is rolling her he all right, i will keep your secret.

>> hey blue boy. you going prospecting? he got no pic, no shovel, are you sure you have everything for a few weeks in them hills? come on blue boy. you got no pans. without a pan and a s? you steer me if i am wrong but did you have seconds and even thirds? >> yeah. >> tell me. >> if i want to go someace, that's my biness. you were the one that always said a man has got to make his own decisions. >> so? i said that?

that. wh >> nothing. if i tell you, even if i ask you, it's a secret. itision,s it? >> relax. like i'm pulling you with one hand and pushing with the other. sometimes i don't realize that you are a full grown man. -- you do know what you are doing? hm? >> yeah. >> you are my boy. >> vaya con dios.

>> hey, mister! hey, mister! hey, soldier.

well, that should fix does a? >> no. >> i am obliged to you. >> good luck, i've got to the you're going no matter -- nowhere, white boy. ? ?

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>> hi, john. >> i was there is. >> you breathe deep. it's a scorcher. >> ?

? do you know that song? my grandmother used to always sing it to me. this here is mr. rufus francis johnson. he's the only one that knows what the cows think at night. go on. rufus here. how is your head? the only way i to could figure to tie you up is to knock you out.

white boys heads? hard as a rock. [laughter] cat got your tongue, boy? >> you, all that stuff you told me about the colonel, that was all lies, wasn't it? >> yeah. truth of it is, i am the colonel. see how the black can rub off already? it's just a disguise, boy. lookee out there. the rocks are all the same. that's you white people.

rocks. [gunshot] missed him. how come you never see no like lizards? are there rules that say that like lizards have to live in special places? there is a long day coming up but we will write out in the first light. sometimes -- >> i promise i won't tell anybody i even saw you. >> you called me graham? >> that's your name you said.

one that only called me graham. she raised me. those black lizards. one little old black rock is sure standing out. it ain't good standing out all alone. it's time we rode out of here. me and the replacements -- we stopped alongside a big old river. i waded on out.

all around. them fishes was all around me. it sure felt funny. there i was, the oldest man -- the only man and there was thousands of fishes. they were swimming in a sea of people. all set to swallow me whole. you want to get it just like the

feels like there is 50 men in these two hands. i ain't mad at you, boy. how come you want to go jump me likehat when my back is turned?

>> graham -- you try to kill that colonel because he would do you. what about that scar? >> you mean this? [laughter] i got this scar in missouri. the other soldier had a bayonet you attack him? >> that colonel treated me like dirt and i wish i could count the times he kicked me like i was a talk. -- like i was a dog. >>here is no reason. there was no reason.

you will never know, will you boy? now get some rest, we are moving out in the morning. boy, you are going to get me out of here, out of this old desert. >> why should i? >> because if you don't, i will kill you. >> sergeant williams? >> what can i do for you? >> am looking for a deserter. >> no deserters around here. >> just taught somebody could have seen him. colored, names jessup. >> buck, you seen any deserters? >> no.

we lost his trail about an hours ride from here. we thought maybe somebody might have seen him. the man asked kind of funny like is not quite right in the head. >> i can check with the hands in the morning but i doubt anyone has seen him. i would've heard something about it. >> sergeant, is he dangerous? >> you might say that.

>> ? ? ? ? ? what you gun it to one judgment day?

top if it bothers you? ok, let's go. >>no, i cannot go here. . >> will go or i say. . >> this is apache country. >> i haven't >> it's their land. >> what do you mean? it's mine. hey, you out there, i hereby christen you my land. that sounded good. jessup land. [laughter] over there, we are cominto the

kaman, boy, you're going to see the desert. old rufus is enjoying this. the only thing i ever had was old rufus and my grandma. what are you going to to? what are you going to do? what are you going to say? what are you going to do come judgment day? >> we found fresh tracks heading south. >> good for you. >> the south is apache country.

>>. what you mean you can't allow. >> regulations. >> you know you can do with them, sergeant. >> that's my son out there. nobody steps may. >> i could have stopped that boy and i did not stop him. >> let's go. >> [laughter] old rufus was thirsty, wasn't he? you just drink your fill, boy. we've got all the time in the world. hey! where are those apaches?

they never show themselves. >> that's because they are on jessupland and they know it. hey, you savages, you are trespassing. it off of my land. [laughter] get off my land. don't you worry about them indians, boy. old jessup just to care of them. -- hey, you hate me, don't you? i give you one chance and you tried to kill me. you are lying. any man can do to me what i do to you, i will kill him, you

>> that's what you are out here running, isn't it graham? >> maybe, but i'm free and you ain't. you are here because i brought you here. me, graham. you are not free. you ve no gun and you are scared i'm going to kill you. but you don't hate me. how come you don't hate me? >> maybe i'm just a little more afraid of the apaches. >> there you go again. i'm about to tell you one more

that is one ugly thing. mean looking, too, with those big old stingers. they said a mother scorpion carries around a baby scorpion for 10 days after they are born and those babies turn around and eat their mothers. ain't that something? of he says there are more poisonous when they are young them when they are full grown. you say the truth. you say you're just using those apache to get back at me. come on, say it. . >> don't play around. >> nevermind about that, just say there are no apaches. go on! >> there ain't no apaches.

there is, are you? >> i will not say there are any. >> all right. >> that one is never do not land on nobody no more. i never meant to do that. i am your friend. wait a minute i'm going to help you. hold still. old jessup ain't so dumb, is he? now don't blame me.

you're going to be all right, boy. yeah, >> ? what are you going to do? what are you going to say? what you going to say come judgment day? >> john, it's st still two sets of tracks into horses but we are closing in. >> there heading straight for

ground? >> an hour from here is a rock formation. the land beyond that belongs to apaches and we stay clear. >> have you mean? the government does not recognize indian territory out here. >> well mr. sergeant man come out here the apache is the government. >> we have an agreement with them. >> kind of a peace treaty, you might say. >> between the high chaparral and the apaches? >> >> you talk about it as this is a separate country. this is united states territory. >> when we started out, it was indian country and we could not count on your army for any protection and we still can't. it did not take us long to find out it was easier to make peace with the apache. as long as we leave that land to the apaches, they don't ra our

treaty? >> not yet. >> but if jessup took the boy

>> that's it? what do you call it? >> the forbidden land. >> and that big old rock there, you are supposed to go past that? >> that's it. >> going has that rock -- >> the apache don't care what color you are. not in their land. not a man uniform.

>> i got you. maybe they will leave us alone. what are you getting worked up about? there is no indians and no treaty. you are lying just like i said. you must think i will believe anything a white boy says. you will try from going to mexico. i'm too smart for you. i'm too smart for all of you. come out you read double. -- you read double. -- you red devil.

what did i tell you? there ain't no indians. >> great, we are not pass the rockette. >> shut up. >>ha-ha. [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot]

>> you've done it now. rufus, git. git! get away. [laughter] >> cut me loose. you set them up and they will not let up now. >> oh yes there is. sharpshooting jessup scared them away. >> i know them indians. they will sneak in on us.

don't you, boy? lead me like everyone else does. >> no i swear. >> them apaches are like evody se in this whole world. they are just itching to see me die. >> you didn't j thlo you killed him. >> he treated me like dirt. >> he did not beat you. he did notick you. >> he didn't have to. i knew the way he was thinking. >> you can't kill someby for

anything am a white boy? you live your whole life and cussed at and treated like he wasn't there? how come you're telling me what to do? what do you know about being black? >> you. if you are halfway decent, people would be decent to you. >> don't give me none of that preacher hogwash, boy. >> you blame everything on being colored. why don't you blame you?

white man's world. -- in a white man's world. >> it must be plenty bad. you are not the only colored soldier around. this will not do you any good. you could be in the 10th cavalry. >> they've got it in for me, that's why. >> it would be the same if you was white. [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot]

[laughter] [gunshot] [gunshot]

[gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] >> it's coming from the other side. that sounds like quite a few of them.

around. >> all right. >> it blue boy is still alive and the apaches did not like that uniform, they will not let up. >> sergeant, will you wait here? >> that's my son out there. >> all right, mr. cannon. >> just take cover. [gunshot]

>> we can get a shot off from the top of that rock. it will show the apaches that we are on their side. it's not much of a chance but -- at least it's a chance. >> you stay here and you keep those soldiers out of sight. >> you stay here. outshoot me. [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot]

[gunshot] >> you getting scared? graham is not scared of anything. [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] >> [whispering] up hatcheries will have a time of it to get -- the apaches will have a time of it trying to get me.

[gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] [gunshot] >> savth all my life telling me what to do -- don't ever tell me, boy. you want to make a run for it,

>> rufus. johnson.