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Paladin meets a man on the trail who confesses to two murders. The man then convinces a posse with hanging on its mind that Paladin is the killer.
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00:00You're like men killing a rabbit with clubs.
00:09The more it squeals and runs, the harder you beat at it.
00:12I want you to think.
00:30I want you to think.
01:00I want you to think.
01:30I want you to think.
02:00I want you to think.
02:29I guess you point that gun at me or someplace else.
02:32One of the two.
02:36No hard feelings.
02:38I was taking a nap over there in the grass.
02:40You kind of startled me.
02:42I wonder if you could point out the best trail to me.
02:44Understand the old trail to Santa Fe goes through here.
02:46Did you come a long way?
02:48That's right.
02:52I guess you passed through town back there a bit, huh?
02:55No, I came in from the north.
02:59Getting kind of late.
03:00You ought to bed down right here.
03:02You should miss that old trail in the dark.
03:04This here is wire grass.
03:11You won't find no better feed for your animal in a hundred miles.
03:14That old pin on mine, he won't eat nothing else.
03:17I ran into a bunch of horsemen about 12 miles back.
03:32Hidden this way?
03:34Possibly what?
03:38A bunch of my friends.
03:39I've been trying to join up with them.
03:45You ain't got some idea they're looking for me, have you?
03:48Well, the possibility had occurred to me.
03:55I guess that ought to change your mind, huh?
04:00I'll give you a hand setting up camp while I wait for them.
04:03If you got the makings, I sure would like some hot jabbin'.
04:07You'll find dry wood on the tree there.
04:14Look, just cause two strangers meet, they don't gotta be suspicious of each other.
04:17Now, I gave you my gun, offerin' to help with your stuff, here.
04:23Look, I'm tryin' to maybe make a friend, that's all.
04:26Now, is there somethin' wrong with that?
04:35I'll go build a fire.
04:37I only got two hands.
04:38Just put it up under the tree there.
04:47Let's go.
04:48Let's go.
04:49Let's go.
04:50Let's go.
04:51Let's go.
04:52Let's go.
04:53Let's go.
04:54Let's go.
04:55Let's go.
04:56Let's go.
04:57Let's go.
04:58Let's go.
04:59Let's go.
05:00Let's go.
05:01Let's go.
05:02Let's go.
05:03Let's go.
05:04Let's go.
05:05Let's go.
05:06Oh, that's a mighty good trail, Chuck.
05:10Lucky I run into you.
05:16Yes, sirree.
05:18Mighty lucky.
05:20Truth is, I planned it just this way.
05:22Well, I figured if I helped you with the gear,
05:24you'd furnish the grub.
05:28I was mighty hungry.
05:30Of course, being hungry ain't nothing new to me.
05:32I've been riding sort of a bad luck trail all my life.
05:36Kicked around by folks.
05:38Cheated.
05:40Listen.
05:46Posse.
05:48I figured they'd make it before dark.
06:02I guess I should have told you something.
06:14I killed a man and woman this morning.
06:20That's what I'm really waiting here for.
06:22I wanted to give myself up.
06:24Well, why were you so anxious to keep me here?
06:26Well, I figured you'd keep them from stringing me up.
06:29They're riding kind of excited.
06:47All right, mister, who are you?
06:48My name's Helen.
06:49Helen!
06:50McKay!
06:51Shut up!
06:52Grab him!
06:54Doby!
06:55You better freeze, cowboy.
06:56He killed the Willis family.
06:58Trailed him in from the south,
06:59but he got the drop on me.
07:01Now, that is so obviously a lie-up.
07:03Shut up.
07:05Somebody untie Doby.
07:07What do they think, Doby?
07:08He was halfway looking for you.
07:10I always get the blame, don't I?
07:12Better grab his guns.
07:16Drop the carbine, cowboy.
07:23Get a badge on that vest.
07:24You in charge of this latch-up.
07:25You've been told to shut up, ain't you?
07:27You better drop your gun belt, mister.
07:29Folks here a little excited.
07:31You'll get your chance to talk, I promise you.
07:53I'll be right back.
07:5644-40.
07:58His carbine's the same caliber as killed the Willis's.
08:01Well, that's just fine, except that's not my gun.
08:04I warned you.
08:05Hold it, Curly.
08:06Hold out nothing.
08:07Look what he did to me.
08:18Hold it, you're gonna kill it.
08:19Well, ain't that what we'd come out here for?
08:21That's enough, Curly.
08:31McKay?
08:32Curly, all of you.
08:34This is a legal posse here, and it's gonna be run that way.
08:38Sure, Sheriff, we understand that.
08:42You better tie him up, if that's all right with you.
08:46Well, might as well play it safe.
08:48Well, we're gonna string him up, ain't we?
08:50Don't know, Dobie.
08:51That depends on what you got on him.
08:53Drag him up there underneath that tree.
08:55Okay.
08:57We're just gonna ask him a few questions.
08:59Right again?
09:00Right.
09:01Come on.
09:02Come on.
09:05As long as we don't make no mistakes.
09:08Well, that's what I'm here for.
09:09See that you don't.
09:10We don't.
09:22Hey.
09:23All right, Domi, go ahead.
09:49Well, I was coming in from the south.
09:53I stopped the one of my horses at the Willis' place.
09:56And him and his wife did.
09:59He used a knife on them before he shot them.
10:01Yeah, we've seen them too.
10:03He made them tell where they hid their money, all right.
10:06Ought to do the same to him.
10:08Yeah, or worse.
10:09You can drop that kind of talk.
10:12How come you didn't ride straight into town, Dobie?
10:16Well, you know me, Sheriff.
10:18Yeah, I know you.
10:19That's why I'm asking questions.
10:22Well, uh, I saw his tracks and I followed him.
10:27I knew you folks would get a posse up.
10:29I didn't want to get out of the county.
10:32Good thinking, Dobie.
10:34Dobie always was a foxy one.
10:37The foxy we started out looking for him.
10:40Our mistake, Dobie.
10:42Well, like I said, I would have had him too, but he got the drop on me.
10:47Just look at him there, sitting, watching us.
10:51Why don't you admit it to him like you did to me?
11:12I promised you a chance to talk, mister.
11:14You better take it while you can.
11:15Why'd you kill the Willis?
11:16Guilty until proven innocent.
11:17That it, Sheriff?
11:18I'll call that smart mouth of his.
11:19Curly!
11:20There'll be plenty of time for that.
11:21Where's his gear?
11:22Right over there.
11:23Go through it, Curly.
11:25Go through it, Curly.
11:55It's like we figured, part old Willis's savings.
12:10Five or six hundred dollars.
12:14Where'd you add the rest of it?
12:17Would you like me to give you the name of the bank I drew that money out of?
12:20Or is fact admissible according to your rules of evidence?
12:25Shut up!
12:28The prosecutor has an objection, Sheriff. Sustained or overruled.
12:33That kind of talking ain't gonna help you, mister.
12:35Well, what is gonna help me? A false confession?
12:39No ways of making him talk.
12:41We ought to take him into town. Give him a fair hearing.
12:45We ain't got time for that. Cattle barners waiting and we all got cattle to move.
12:48We ain't on salary like you, Sheriff.
12:51Let's do what we gotta do.
12:57Hey, maybe this will help us make up our minds.
13:09All right, perfect.
13:10Gunman.
13:11Figures, don't it?
13:12Take a cold-blooded killer to do what he did to the wilderness.
13:27An innocent man would be begging now, mister.
13:30So would a guilty one.
13:31You ever see men ironed with clubs go after a rabbit?
13:36What do you mean?
13:37The more the rabbit runs and screams and tries to get away, the harder the men beat at it.
13:41No, I'd rather give this gathering a chance to do some thinking.
13:45There's two sides to everything, mister. We'd like to hear yours.
14:02Ain't that right, McKay?
14:03Any more of that coffee left?
14:09Yes, sir, mister McKay.
14:21You better tuck that loose anyway, Perk. The last one you made nearly didn't do the job.
14:24Hey, that's right. You make second time in two years you went and caught a killer.
14:29Forget it. I ain't looking for no credit.
14:32Ain't you now? That's a laugh.
14:34Or you'll be bragging all over town tonight.
14:37About ready?
14:39We better hurry this up.
14:41I don't like this way of doing it.
14:44Why moving into town?
14:47We'd have the same men on the jury there.
14:50There's a difference.
14:51He's just got you nervous.
14:55If he was down on his knees, crying and begging this whole thing, it'd go past it.
15:00Wise word, Sheriff.
15:03A good lynching needs tears and screams and terror, the more excitement, the less thinking.
15:10Big talk for a killer.
15:12The ideal victim is mentally or emotionally ill.
15:16Of course, the professional hangman will get the first chance on him.
15:18Lynchers have to be content with people that are merely a little bit different.
15:22Little people, the weaker they are, the better.
15:25We have to sit here and listen to him.
15:27You shut up, too!
15:29I'm running this!
15:30I'm running this!
15:38And in anger our lips shall form the truth.
15:43Herodias the second essay.
15:46He'd better if she was waxed.
15:52Mister, please.
15:53Haven't you got something to say?
15:57Not to you, Sheriff.
15:59Only to the man who admits he's in charge here.
16:03And only when he's ready to listen.
16:05Let's get this thing over with.
16:13I ain't got all day.
16:22Hold on!
16:35Here, let me do it!
16:36I thought you were going to be more trouble.
16:39Look, mister, we got a bottle you want to drink.
16:43Well, for luck, kind of.
16:45Ready, Mr. McKay.
16:46All right, Sheriff.
16:47Have him speak his piece.
16:49He said he wants you to ask him, McKay.
16:52He wants to make sure you're listening.
16:56Maybe he should know if you think he's in charge of the man on the ground.
17:00I'll do the same.
17:02Here, let me do it!
17:04I thought you were going to be more trouble.
17:06Look, mister, we've got a bottle you want to drink.
17:09Well, for luck, kind of.
17:11Ready, Mr. McKay.
17:13All right, Sheriff.
17:14Maybe he should know a few things about us.
17:17Mister, it wasn't easy opening up this land of ours.
17:20First week I was here, somebody poisoned my water hole,
17:23and I got a boy buried on my place to prove it.
17:27After we cleaned out the mountain cats to save our stock,
17:30there was the Indians and then the outlaws.
17:33And it wasn't the law that done that.
17:36A lot of hard work, sweat, a few guns, a couple of ropes.
17:44If you think we're gonna turn all this over to somebody that's too weak
17:50or lazy to make a go at ranching, you're mistaken.
17:55Sheriff's got a gun.
17:58And if he's man enough to carry on what we've started,
18:01I'll be more than glad to turn it over to him.
18:05I ain't got no quarrel with you, McKay.
18:09That's why we've got more faith in trees than courthouses.
18:13You understand?
18:15I understand, McKay.
18:16This is your apology to yourself.
18:18You've got wax in your ears.
18:20I'm saying we're good people doing what we gotta do.
18:23What we do is good.
18:25And in his third essay, Herodias said,
18:28we can contend with the evil that men do in the name of evil,
18:31but heaven protect us from what they do in the name of good.
18:34Come on, let's string them up.
18:35Let's quit wasting time.
18:36Everybody settle down.
18:38I'm accusing you of killing the Willis.
18:43Are you asking me for a statement?
18:48All right.
18:49I am.
18:51Go ahead, man.
18:52Speak up.
18:54Now, what were you doing when I rode up?
18:55Hiding the money?
18:56Now, that won't work.
18:57He overheard you start out looking for me.
18:58And why they started out looking for you, I'd like to know.
19:00You must have a very interesting reputation.
19:02You say this is a crafty man?
19:04Is that a good word for him? Crafty?
19:06Is he the kind of a man who'd fight?
19:07Or would he run?
19:09Would he shift the blame to somebody else?
19:12That's Doby, all right.
19:13We all know what kind of a man Doby is right now.
19:15We're interested in you.
19:16Well, if you can see through your eyes,
19:17I'll be able to see you.
19:18If you can see you.
19:19Why did you see a man who was looking for me?
19:20You said you were a man who was looking for me.
19:22I was looking for you.
19:23I'm the man who was looking for me.
19:25I was looking for you.
19:26I was looking for you.
19:27You must have a very interesting reputation.
19:29You say this is a crafty man.
19:31Is that a good word for him?
19:32Crafty?
19:33Is he the kind of a man who'd fight?
19:35Well, if you can see through your anger, the signs are all around you.
19:38Take a look at that gun in my holster.
19:40Handcrafted, balanced, polished.
19:43Would a man who carries a weapon like that also carry a rusty old carbine?
19:47That fire you heated your coffee on.
19:50Would a murderer stop to camp only a few miles from his crime?
19:55And most important of all, did you think to backtrack my trail?
19:59Which way did the hoofprints lead?
20:01You think we're stupid? We already done that.
20:03This here animal came in from the south.
20:05That's not my horse!
20:07I'm glad to hear you say that.
20:09Because that horse was stolen from Pert there three days ago.
20:12And we swing them for horse stealing, too.
20:15Well, match my blanket and the saddle to the sweat marks on that horse.
20:19And see if they match.
20:21Where's his saddle?
20:23You admit that this is your saddle?
20:26I'll tell you in five seconds which horse he rode in on.
20:33I'll tell you in the middle!
20:34And see if that is your face was suspended!
20:36I'm glad to be here!
20:38Here's my boulevard!
20:39He's got a medal.
20:40Okay, I'm glad to be here!
20:41You really was very well.
20:42I did not know!
20:43I'd say he got him, I did not know!
20:44It's not that much.
20:45I'm glad to be here!
20:46Why would you die?
20:47Well, they both get out of the way.
21:17Let her go!
21:25We've got to hold the hammer back to this arm. The searspring broke.
21:29We've got to hand fire it.
21:33Okay!
21:41How come Joby knows that?
21:43Looks like we nearly hung the wrong man.
21:58Hold him here, I'll get some slack.
22:01I hope they catch him next day.
22:03Because when they bring him back, I want to see what you've got to say to him.
22:13He's got to die.
22:22He's got to die.
22:25He can fight back to me.
22:26I just want to die.
22:29He is still here.
22:31He's not here.
22:34Untie him. He's innocent.
22:38It was Dobie, like we thought in the first place.
22:43He's innocent.
22:46It was Dobie like we thought in the first place.
23:01Figured you had enough of this place, so I'll saddle up your horse for you.
23:19Bizarre mistake, Mr. Paladin. We had no way of...
23:25I was heading for Santa Fe. You point out the old trail to me.
23:30Sure. Right southeast, about three miles. Turn off at the first arroyo. You can't miss it.
23:35Mr. Houndby!
23:37And Dobie O'Brien.
23:38Mr. Houndby!
23:40Please, Mr. Houndby!
23:42You find out what kind of a man I am, Mr. Paladin.
23:45I guess it all depends on whether or not McKay learned a lesson from this.
23:50I'm sorry about you.
23:52Just you remember what you do here today, you'll live with the rest of your life.
23:58Houndby!
24:00Please, Mr. Houndby!
24:01Please, Mr. Houndby!
24:02Please, Mr. Houndby!
24:03You know how I'm filled!
24:04Oh, boy!
24:05Oh, boy!
24:06Oh, boy!
24:07Get him up there!
24:08All right.
24:09Right there.
24:10Get him up there!
24:11Ah!
24:16Oh, boy!
24:17Get him up there!
24:19Ah!
24:20Oh, boy!
24:21He's behind him, right there!
24:23Help!
24:25Heaven help us from what men do in the name of good.
24:55Heaven help us from what men do in the name of good.
25:25Heaven help us from what men do in the name of good.
25:32Paladin, paladin, where do you roam?
25:37Heaven help us from what men do in the name of good.
25:44Heaven help us from what men do in the name of good.
25:51Heaven help us from what men do in the name of good.
25:58Heaven help us from what men do in the name of good.
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