- 6 weeks ago
Lucas brings a dying man to North Fork, and Micah reacts strangely. Lucas tries to discover why Micah seems troubled.
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00:00it looks like somebody lost their horse or it lost them wait here a minute
00:30who does he belong to i don't know
00:42you see anybody not yet anybody here
00:55mr what happened can you hear me
01:00i better get you to the doctor north folk i'm going to north folk help me before they come
01:09you'll be all right mister don't worry mark
01:12the rifleman
01:24starring chuck connors
01:33is
01:42Fred, give me a hand here.
02:04Doc.
02:06Doc.
02:07Hey, look, there's something else.
02:09It's him, Doc.
02:10Easy with them, boys.
02:12Careful.
02:14Go get Micah's son.
02:16Who is he, Lucas?
02:17I don't know.
02:17I found him in a grove outside town.
02:19I was noticing.
02:20He's got a real mean looking wound.
02:24Thanks, boys.
02:28There's some brandy in the desk.
02:33My cousin Jeff got shot that way once.
02:36Didn't live to say amen.
02:38Now, why don't you run along, Mr. Hatterbury?
02:40We'll manage.
02:40I'm glad to stay, Doc.
02:42That won't be necessary.
02:43Oh.
02:45Oh, sure, Doc.
02:46Sure.
02:46Glad to be of help any time, Doc.
02:48Well, so long, Doc.
02:49So long, Lucas.
02:51Look for some papers in his jacket.
02:53See if he can find any next to Ken.
02:55Is it that bad, Doc?
02:56It's probably worse.
02:58He's had that bullet in him for a day or maybe two.
03:02Michael will be here in a minute.
03:12Oh, no identification here, Doc.
03:15Is he going to be all right?
03:16Doc's not sure, son.
03:17He might.
03:19You want to wait for me over at Hattie's?
03:21Oh, can I stay?
03:22All right.
03:23Come on.
03:24A little bit more.
03:25All right.
03:26Being born and dying are really simple experiences, Mark.
03:29I guess not knowing about them can be more frightening than knowing.
03:33Mark Deck, Doc.
03:35Well, maybe that's our story, huh, Luke?
03:38Maybe.
03:42Doc?
03:44Who is he?
03:45Don't know.
03:55Stoddard.
03:55You know him?
03:56We'll have to try a transfusion.
03:58Mike, I asked you a question.
04:00I know him.
04:02Do the world a favor, Doc.
04:03Let him die.
04:04What'd you say?
04:05I said let him die.
04:07Micah, I'll be right back, sir.
04:09Lucas, come here.
04:13Mr. Stoddard is going to die unless we do something right away.
04:16Transfusion might save him and then it might kill him, too.
04:19But we'd better try.
04:20Are you willing?
04:21Whatever you say, Doc.
04:22Then we'd better get to work.
04:23Now, I want you to take your shirt off.
04:25Marshal, do they know anything yet?
04:28Marshal.
04:29Oh, my God.
04:59You think you'll be a doctor someday, Mark?
05:18I don't know.
05:21Not if I have to stick people with needles.
05:23Well, sometimes it's the only way you can cure them.
05:26You take this invention here.
05:27It's called a naveling tube.
05:30It allows me to draw blood from your pa's arm and pump it over here into Mr. Stoddard's arm.
05:35Now, if your pa's blood and Mr. Stoddard's blood mix together, all right, Mr. Stoddard's got a chance to recover.
05:41But suppose they don't mix?
05:45Then Mr. Stoddard will have to cash in his chips, I reckon.
05:48Thought he probably would anyway, Mark.
05:50It's what I call a stack pick.
05:54You all right, Lucas?
05:55Fine.
05:55I was just thinking I'd like to know who dealt a hand.
06:03Whoa!
06:07Whoa!
06:13Damn!
06:14You see any trace of him?
06:15Nope.
06:18Then we proceed along this road?
06:24Road to the right, Mr. Jethro.
06:27Not more than an hour.
06:29North Fork?
06:30If he got that far.
06:32All right, North Fork.
06:34Hill!
06:35You wait here for me.
06:59Micah?
06:59It's Luke.
07:03Micah?
07:04Do you want me to help you break it down, Mr. McCain?
07:06Is Micah in there?
07:07Well, I reckon he is.
07:08I seen him go in.
07:09I seen him draw the curtains.
07:10I didn't see him come out.
07:13Micah?
07:24Come in.
07:27I'll see you later.
07:28Oh, sure, sure, sure.
07:30Lucas, sure.
07:32How's the patient?
07:33I don't know yet.
07:34Doc says it might be several hours.
07:36He's taking out the bullet now.
07:38Bullet.
07:40That's something, isn't it?
07:43I'm going to tell you a fact you won't believe, Lucas, boy.
07:47I've worked 26 years out of my life as a peace officer,
07:50and I've never had as much faith in justice as I do right now.
07:54Not one day in 26 years has the whole pattern,
07:56the rhyme and the reason made as much sense as it has today.
07:59Who started?
08:02Who?
08:03What's he to you, Micah?
08:04You wasted your blood, Lucas, and that's too bad.
08:07Well, that was my decision.
08:09I'm just telling you he isn't worth it.
08:13Well, then he's not worth getting drunk over either.
08:16I think that's my decision.
08:18I'll see you later.
08:22I'll see you later.
08:22We're going home, Mark.
08:43Can't we wait?
08:45No, we can't.
08:46It's out of our hands now.
08:48We'd best get about our home business.
08:49I don't want him to die, Paul.
08:55You barely knew him.
08:57That don't matter.
08:59No, it doesn't.
09:01Come on.
09:02Come on.
09:02Come on.
09:28Morning.
09:30Morning.
09:30Morning.
09:30you a resident of north folk mister that's right we people are from talbot city howdy
09:40we folks represent a people's committee in talbot city
09:45been traveling looking for a man named a start-out headed this way gunshot you seen him
09:58well as a matter of fact i found him in that grove over there myself
10:04he's at the doc's office in town but he won't be going anywhere dead almost came out of
10:16well much obliged mr mccain mccain today is our lucky day
10:28why'd you tell them they're a people's committee i had to
10:44what's the people's committee vigilantes some parts of the country don't have much law
10:50some people have to take things into their own hands
10:55maybe we better ride back to town for a while
11:09oh there it is
11:23two
11:44dr burridge
11:45yes doctor you've got a wounded man inside named stoddard is that correct yes we've come to claim
11:54mr stoddard doctor please bring him out well who are you we represent the decent honest folks in
12:00talbert city we're here in the name of the law well i'm sorry gentlemen but my patient's in a
12:06coma or he'd die if he removed doctor you don't understand we've traveled over a hundred miles
12:13to find mr stoddard he shot a man in a card game he's going back to be hanged now you tell me what
12:20difference it makes whether he dies in route or at the end of a rope in talbert city it makes a
12:26difference to me good day gentlemen let go of that door better listen to mr jethro doctor
12:35it's easier that way i don't do things the easy way now let go of that door
12:43you're gonna bring mr stoddard out doctor what are we going after him mr jethro
12:50oh good morning mr mccain we meet again let the doc go back to his patient
12:57let him go i said mr mccain's right boys cam let him by
13:05we want no trouble we're a legal committee
13:09now mr mccain you're a conscientious citizen we've already proved that suppose you go inside and
13:18explain to the good doctor that he's got no choice suppose you tell him that arbor and a fugitive is a
13:23crime we wouldn't want anyone to be guilty of that will you tell him mr mccain
13:30we'll talk about it mr jethro well that's fine now we're going to rest and feed up it's been a long
13:37trip but we'll be back in say an hour you think about what i said mr mccain you'll see i'm right
13:46we don't intend to leave north fork without him
13:55come on boys mr mccain mr mccain
13:59how is he same
14:14whether we like it or not the hour legal committee does where in tobert city
14:20what are his chances if he's not moved i don't think that's the point do you no
14:29well it is a legal committee while we may not agree with the laws in tobert city we've got to
14:47respect them well the doc says he'll die if he's moved he may die anyway the quicker the better
14:53since when did we become judges i've never judged anyone in my life lucas i've walked out in that
15:00street and a hundred like it for the summer of the earth and i've never complained well i'm complaining
15:04now i'm telling you started isn't worth it i know suppose he isn't you let those vigilantes
15:10take him and it's another name for murder what's got into you i'm just a plain ordinary human being
15:14full of love greed or hate by hate i mean hate oh i'm i'm not like you
15:21lucas mccain the honest protector of our morality
15:27you know we ought to bottle it son yes sir we ought to bottle it and sell it in the general store
15:32you got troubles well take a good deep drink of lucas mccain you're bound to be cured all right
15:38that's enough micah sure sure lucas here here this is what you want isn't it well go ahead and
15:45take it go ahead act the part be the honest protector of our morality make us toe the line
15:51set the fine example after all stardard's got your blood in his veins he's worth something now isn't he
15:56well go on take it you heard what i said take it i don't want it
16:09mr mccain mr mccain are you going to talk to them vigilante fellas all alone
16:22i think i can handle them alone mr henneberry no that's what my cousin jeb said before they shot him
16:39no no mr mccain when the chips are down you can bank on old man henneberry and that's in fact
16:46moral support mr mccain right to the grave
16:49will you join me mr mccain we won't be staying well that's too bad
17:11you have a way of acquiring responsibility mr mccain
17:21you're leaving north fork mr jethro right now we'll deliver mr stardard when he can travel
17:26that's a promise i'm sorry but we got to take mr stardard with this that's an obligation you understand
17:35i'm afraid not your law and our law are two different things what's your stake in this mr mccain
17:43what's yours simple justice i hate to see a guilty man go unpunished i'm not talking about innocence or
17:51guilt what are you speaking about your method of simple justice yes i'm an idealist too
18:04hands up your varmints now get out that was very foolish mr mccain we have a very vindictive
18:11citizenry in our town make a threat mr jethro i'm listening then i'd be the one that was foolish
18:20you hold all the cards right now i never play against a stacked deck we'll be back in a week mr mccain
18:29don't come back in a week mr jethro don't you ever come back now when stardard can travel we'll bring
18:37him to you or his body when i consider that a statement of honor we'll be expecting you well that's that
18:59mr mccain
19:11well thanks a lot mr oh think nothing of it mr mccain you know it's a good thing my rifle wasn't loaded
19:17wasn't loaded i got so mad at them buzzards in there i could kill one of them cold turkey for sure
19:23if it was loaded yeah of course morrow's support mr mccain
19:40lucas yeah
19:43i'm putting your badge on the table micah you think your hand will be steady enough to pin it back
19:54on well maybe i ought to buy you another bottle first lucas
20:0330 years ago john stoddard was my closest friend stood up for me at my wedding i married elizabeth
20:14cook the prettiest girl in montana territory and i guess i was just about the happiest man anywhere
20:20elizabeth was 18 i was 22 and nothing was impossible for us you know the feeling lucas
20:27yeah micah i know the feeling john was a wild kid irresponsible gambled drank a lot elizabeth being
20:38like she was a natural born mother she decided to take john under a wing we formed him we bought a
20:45little farm and she decided to have him come and work for us well things went very hard but elizabeth she
20:53just cooked and sewed and made do with what she had whenever there was a dance or a party in town
20:59she'd put on the very same dress he was married in and laugh about it never say a word that's how she
21:04was and all the time stoddard kept looking off at the hills talking about gold and how he wished
21:11he'd had a stake elizabeth and i used to laugh about it we were rich without any gold and we knew it
21:17i know what you mean well that spring there was a drought and every dollar we had was in the ground
21:28we were scared plants had come up and parched brown in a week and there was nothing we could do but
21:32haul water and pray did you ever see a field dry up and blow away lucas it's quite a frightening thing
21:41especially when it's your life well in august i went into panic and borrowed two hundred dollars
21:49mortgaged everything i owned the farm equipment everything when i got back that night the three of
21:55us sat around the kitchen table trying to figure out how we were going to make it through the winter
21:58without losing the farm we made a budget lucas accounted for every penny and then some
22:05the next morning johnny was gone and so was the two hundred dollars oh he was kind enough to leave
22:11a note saying he'd be back soon and with the money doubled four hundred dollars but i never saw him
22:17again until today what did you do do elizabeth died in september she got the fever i was forced to sell
22:29a horse the month before and had to run all the way to town to get a doctor when i got back she was dead
22:35and thanks to stoddard she died all alone on a dirt farm that wasn't even mine anymore
22:42micah doc wants you to come on over all right son we'll be there in a minute but doc says micah's
22:48gotta come over right away it's mr stoddard you gotta hurry micah micah
23:05he wants to talk to you micah
23:09here micah take it i've been looking for you to tell you how sorry i am
23:27please forgive me
23:40what is it micah
23:51i don't know
23:52i don't know what kind of a
24:04the earth turns mark his time was up i don't know what kind of a
24:17man stoddard was and i'm not sure we'll ever know but he kept the promise he made 30 years ago
24:24i think that's what we should remember him by and so does mike
24:28let's go home so long doc so long
24:45so
24:54THE END
25:24THE END
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