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Winston Ainslee, an aging and well educated gunfighter, employs Paladin to help him, gracefully and with honor, end his career. But the last person he killed has a brother seeking revenge; and he just arrived in town on the stage with Paladin.
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00:00Don't men die fast enough in this town?
00:08Ainsley's worth a dozen of the best of you people.
00:11And if I kill him, I won't be proud.
00:30I'm not a one I want to die.
00:34If you're looking for him, I'll be looking for him.
00:38Mr. Cordwright is looking for you.
00:40Mr. Cordwright has seen me yet.
00:43He can't see me yet, has he?
00:45Come out of the underbrush, Politon.
00:47I just got in from Carson City, Politon.
00:50Hey, boy, he hasn't seen me yet, has he?
00:53Come out of the underbrush, Politon.
00:56I just got in from Carson City, Politon.
00:59Well, Mr. Cortright buys and sells books.
01:04Can't understand it. I never catch you reading a book.
01:08You're always out with beautiful women or chopping up outlaws.
01:12I don't understand how you got to know so much.
01:15Take a look at that.
01:19Wow.
01:23That is interesting.
01:25Hmm.
01:28Keats.
01:301817 edition.
01:33It's beautiful.
01:35If anyone had told me I'd go to a gunslinger to authenticate a rare book, I'd say he was crazy.
01:41It's inscribed by Keats himself to my friend Joseph Severin.
01:47Old tannic and irony.
01:49Beautiful.
01:51Beautiful.
01:53Give you $500 for it.
01:55It's not mine.
01:57Ainsley gave it to me to give to you.
01:59Ainsley? Now who's Ainsley?
02:01Ainsley's a gunslinger.
02:03He reads books.
02:05He looks like he'd die of excitement at a faculty tea.
02:08And he's killed nearly a dozen men in Carson City.
02:10For gunfights ought to cheer the people up on dull Sunday afternoons.
02:16Paladin.
02:18Why?
02:19Please accept this book as a token of my sincerity in an unusual request.
02:29Winston Ainsley.
02:31You gunfighters are turning classic, Paladin.
02:34Either that or the bookworms are turning. Hey, boy!
02:37Yes, Mr. Paladin.
02:38A ticket on the stage to Carson City.
02:42Paladin.
02:43When you find out what it's all about, write me a letter.
02:47When you find out what it's all about, write me a letter.
02:52Woman, I behold thee flippant, vain, inconstant, childish, proud, and full of fancies.
03:05That's very good, Mr. Paladin.
03:07Keats.
03:22Oh, Hastings City!
03:24Driver, are you somewhere where I can find Mr. Ainsley?
03:42It will...
03:44Look!
03:49Come on, get back!
03:50Well, it's a lousy four corners, isn't it?
03:54Yeah.
03:56Andy! Andy Baker!
04:00What do you want with Andy Baker?
04:02My brother!
04:04He's my brother.
04:06Andy!
04:08Are you supposed to meet me?
04:10Listen.
04:11You better come inside for a minute.
04:13Oh, what was it you wanted?
04:15I want to see a man named Ainsley.
04:17Bring him inside.
04:19Ainsley will be looking for Baker here.
04:22See what's happening. Ainsley will find you.
04:24Andy!
04:26Hurry!
04:29Didn't know what to do with this stuff.
04:31Just holding it here until somebody called for him.
04:33Storage. Fluttering up the place.
04:35And what is this?
04:36His brother's dead. These are his things.
04:49Andy.
04:50Andy.
04:51What happened, Andy?
04:52There's money due on these.
04:53For storage.
04:54What happened to his brother?
04:55You're looking for a shot.
04:56Andy should never have called him out.
04:57Oh!
04:58Ainsley!
04:59Mr. Ainsley!
05:00I didn't shoot him!
05:01I just got to collect for storage.
05:02I want Ainsley!
05:03And I got to have $4.28 plus coach fare.
05:04I'll give you the $4.28 plus coach fare.
05:09I'll pay the charges, Tom.
05:10I'll pay for my own bills.
05:12I'll pay for my own bills.
05:13Maybe.
05:14Maybe.
05:15Maybe.
05:16Maybe.
05:17Maybe.
05:18Maybe.
05:19Maybe.
05:20Maybe.
05:21Maybe.
05:22Maybe.
05:23Maybe.
05:24Maybe.
05:25Maybe.
05:26Maybe.
05:27Maybe.
05:28Maybe.
05:29Maybe.
05:30Maybe.
05:31I'll pay for my own brother's things.
05:32I'm sorry, Baker, you had to have this terrible shock.
05:35I want Ainsley.
05:37Well, who's this Ainsley shot, my brother?
05:41I'm Ainsley.
05:47You're Ainsley?
05:50Your brother forced me to defend myself.
05:52We'll talk when you've sobered and thought about things.
05:55How'd you kill him?
05:56I outdrew him.
05:58I know that's difficult to believe, but don't try me.
06:03Come on. Draw.
06:06Come on, draw!
06:08You're drunk. I just murdered you.
06:10You!
06:14What's the matter with you?
06:18I'm not gonna kill you until you're in a fit state to defend yourself.
06:22You...
06:25That's all.
06:27This is my business.
06:28That man is doing his best not to murder you with a gun,
06:30and he's obviously no match for you with his best.
06:33I'm gonna break his back, and you ain't gonna stop me.
06:38He killed my brother, Andy.
06:41Don't you get up.
06:43Sheriff, put him on the stage out of town. I'll pay the ticket.
06:47Ainsley, anything you do is on your head.
06:50If you don't like it in Carson City, you get on the coach.
06:54Well, thank you, sir.
06:56But warn him, anyway, will you do that much?
07:03You... you awake?
07:05Yeah.
07:06That man there don't look like much, but he's a clean shot and faster than 11 other fellows, including your brother.
07:17If you want to try him in a fair fight, you'll have the long end of the odds.
07:21That all right, Mr. Ainsley?
07:24Well, thank you, anyway, Mr. Paladin.
07:28Paladin?
07:30I'm gonna kill you, Ainsley.
07:32I'm gonna kill you.
07:34Looks like we're gonna have a show at that, don't it?
07:37What's the matter, Sheriff?
07:39Don't men die fast enough for you?
07:47Come on, get him.
07:49Come on.
07:50Huh?
07:51Show him where to get something to eat.
07:53Yeah.
07:54I want some coffee, too.
07:56Hey, Barkeep!
07:57Hey!
07:58Hey!
07:59Barkeep!
08:00Hey!
08:01Hey!
08:02Barkeep!
08:03Hey!
08:04Hey!
08:05Hey!
08:06Car, some coffee, please.
08:12You got money?
08:13Oh...
08:14Coffee costs you.
08:15Won't anybody feel sorry for Andy Baker's poor old brother?
08:21You're Andy's brother?
08:22I just want some coffee, please, Black.
08:23Sure, sure.
08:24Plenty of it.
08:25Plenty of it.
08:26You come here to kill Ainsley.
08:27What'd he say?
08:28You come here to kill Ainsley, for sure, huh?
08:30Ainsley.
08:31Ainsley, for sure.
08:32Ainsley.
08:33Ainsley, for sure.
08:36Mayo is the only one.
08:37Ainsley.
08:38Ainsley, for sure.
08:41Ainsley.
08:42Ainsley, for sure.
08:44Ainsley, for sure.
08:49My oasis, paladin.
08:52Walls of books to keep out the wild animals.
08:56Ainsley, what's wrong with that sheriff?
08:58Why doesn't he like you?
08:59Him?
09:00Oh...
09:01Like all the rest of them, he's waiting for the day when I get too slow.
09:04I just give up.
09:05Castle City is a shooting gallery, paladin, and I am the hardest target and the biggest challenge
09:11is for any fool with delusions of grandeur.
09:16Oh!
09:17He got him.
09:18Mr. Paladin, my daughter Anna.
09:21How do you do?
09:22How do you do?
09:23Well, he looks like he could do it.
09:26Who was it this time?
09:28Uh...
09:29Matt Baker.
09:30Brother of that Andy Baker, or whatever his name is.
09:33The one I killed last month.
09:35Ainsley, what's wrong?
09:37Why won't one man in this town help you?
09:40He likes to play games and they like to watch.
09:43Mr. Paladin.
09:45Miss Ainsley.
09:46I think it's very clever and sensible of you to make a business out of gun fighting.
09:51It's, uh...
09:52It's sort of like butchering hogs.
09:54Well, I didn't come here to butcher hogs.
09:57No?
09:58No.
09:59Oh, of course.
10:00Paladin.
10:01Your business is, uh... is to slay dragons.
10:05Well, I'm not sure. I like the choice you give me.
10:08Oh, how arrogant you all are.
10:10Pretending there's justice and a fair way to... to kill man.
10:14Instead of a shooting gallery, you'd prefer Carson City as a slaughterhouse.
10:18Oh, there's no hypocrisy in a slaughterhouse.
10:21And a lot more honesty and usefulness.
10:23You're done.
10:25You're a back shooter and a dry goucher.
10:28Oh.
10:29Oh.
10:30Oh, and, uh, Mr. Paladin is a man of honor.
10:40How can you be sure he'll stop at what you pay him for?
10:43Ainsley, what is it you want me to do?
10:46Stop me from killing Matt Baker.
10:53Today he's humiliated.
10:55Tomorrow he'll burn with revenge and the day after he'll demand justice.
10:59And I'll sacrifice him on the altar of my own instinct for self-preservation.
11:03And there'll be others.
11:05Save him. Save the others.
11:07I want you to shoot me in this blasted hand.
11:14Well...
11:17Well, there is a stagecoach for San Francisco.
11:19You could join me on that.
11:21My reputation would follow me.
11:23There'd be other Matt Bakers and more after them.
11:26Well, you could change your name.
11:28It's not too hard to lose yourself in a big city.
11:30I have asthma.
11:32Do you think I wouldn't trade all this to be back in the East?
11:35Cold and sick and poor and drilling latched into wet-nosed schoolboys.
11:40Another winter and a cold climate would kill me.
11:43Why couldn't you hire Paladin to kill Baker?
11:47Anna is so sure she knows all the answers.
11:51I've asked myself over and over.
11:54Why should they die so that I can live?
11:57If I agree.
12:01We stage a gunfight.
12:03You shoot me in the hand.
12:05And you walk out of here with my reputation.
12:09No.
12:12No.
12:13If I was a little off, I could kill you.
12:16Yeah.
12:17Unless I drew a little faster than you.
12:19Why the charades?
12:20Why don't you just shoot him in his hand now?
12:22Oh.
12:26Well, put your hand on the book.
12:33How am I saying something?
12:39Take the gun.
12:41Now, let's see how coldly realistic you can be.
12:43Go on, pull the trigger.
12:44Pull it.
12:45Go ahead, pull it.
12:46No.
12:47No.
12:48Well, so much for youthful realism.
12:59You'll do it.
13:00Before Baker gets here.
13:02What?
13:05I'd have to be sure I could out shoot you first.
13:08Indeed.
13:09Would you like to take a little side bend on it?
13:12I have a little test in mind.
13:15Now, what sort of a test?
13:18As you well know, any 10-year-old schoolboy can hit a target if nobody's shooting at him.
13:23I have a target, Paladin.
13:25One that kills.
13:30Matt.
13:32Tomorrow.
13:33Daylight.
13:34I can show you where he shot your brother.
13:37Crying there in the dirt he was.
13:38Whilst I went to get the dock.
13:41You show him where the sun comes up.
13:43Ainsley would get it full in the face around about 11.30.
13:46Matt here would have it over his shoulder.
13:48He's got to catch Ainsley by surprise or he won't even know when it hits him.
13:51Now, you don't have to do that.
13:54Now, I know what's right.
13:57And I'll kill him in my own way.
14:00But I'm doing this for Andy.
14:02I'm doing it for him.
14:03Yeah?
14:04How are you going to do it?
14:09Well, I'll kill him.
14:11That's all.
14:12I made up my mind and I'll kill him.
14:18Well, I'll get more coffee.
14:21I'll kill him any way I can.
14:36A rattlesnake strikes by heat and sound, paladin.
14:40Kick over a rock.
14:41And if you see one, draw and shoot before it strikes.
14:44All right?
14:45All right.
14:46A target that has a fair chance of killing you, paladin.
14:54After you.
15:16You're right.
15:17All right.
15:20I'll let you see the next one.
15:22You can get a bite.
15:24I'll meet you.
15:26You can get one bite.
15:27But you're right.
15:28You're right.
15:29Oh, you're right.
15:30Right.
15:34You're right.
15:36I'll see you later.
15:37You'll be right.
15:39You're right.
15:40I'll see you later.
15:41See you later.
15:42I'll listen to this one.
15:43You can do it, paladin.
16:07How did it come to this?
16:09Oh, when I first came here, it was considered very funny to make the little man with the goatee stand up in the bar and spout Latin.
16:20It's considered even funnier if a man took more than one punch to knock me unconscious.
16:25I'm a scholar, paladin.
16:28I taught myself to shoot.
16:30Same way I learned Greek and Latin.
16:33Stop being funny.
16:36Well, we'll have to have the same story.
16:39You say that you've discovered that I came here to kill you.
16:44You throw me out of the house, and then you ask the sheriff for protection.
16:49What?
16:50You refuse.
16:51Of course.
16:52And then we'll fight.
16:56Ainsley, you have a beautiful daughter.
16:58It's really a shame we can't all three of us get on that stage to San Francisco.
17:03I've been looking for you.
17:24Oh?
17:24Mr. Ainsley's got a complaint.
17:27You come here gunning for him.
17:28If I did?
17:29Well, if it's a fair fight, you're safe as far as the law on Carson goes.
17:33We don't tolerate bushwhacking.
17:35Hey, you're a professional, aren't you, mister?
17:38Ainsley asked for your help this afternoon.
17:41Mr. Ainsley's been getting a little slower every year.
17:45He's taken to consulting us plain mortals lately.
17:48Like he's beginning to feel mortal himself.
17:50He asked for your help, but you won't give it to him.
17:54You won't help him until he begs.
17:57Ainsley's killed men without waiting for the law.
18:00And they all ain't been bad.
18:02Some of them had families and children.
18:03You did come to kill him.
18:05If I did, I came here with a decent regard for the fact that Ainsley's worth 12 of any man in this town.
18:12And if I kill him, I won't be proud.
18:20Hey, the dude on the stage is going to shoot Ainsley.
18:32Why, Ainsley will pot the fellow before he gets off the hotel steps.
18:35Don't be too sure.
18:37He's professional.
18:39I tell you what, I got it in my bones.
18:41I'll bet you five the dude takes Ainsley.
18:43Done.
18:44Where'd you get this?
18:45Well, the sheriff.
18:46Ainsley wanted to get the fellow run off.
18:48Looks like we've been wasting good coffee on you, Baker.
18:51Don't be too sure.
18:52Give me a shot.
18:53You got money?
18:54Give me a shot.
18:55It's going to be a fight tomorrow.
19:02They'll be hooping it up some tonight for sure.
19:05I'll kill him myself.
19:07Well, why?
19:09Just let the gunfighter do it.
19:11I'll kill him for Andy's sake.
19:14With the gunfighter on our side, the odds will be even up a little.
19:18They're going to be all against Ainsley.
19:23Hey, Sam.
19:27I'll double the bet that Ainsley gets it tomorrow.
19:30You that sure the gunfighter will take Ainsley?
19:33I'm just betting Ainsley dies, that's all.
19:40Another two high will make him more comfortable.
19:42Man, this will be something to tell your grandchildren.
19:48Is that what you want your children to hear?
19:50Coward's stories about men dying?
19:53Well, I wish you good luck anyway, mister.
19:58Thanks.
19:58Come get it, Ainsley!
20:16Come get it, Ainsley!
20:18Don't tell me it, Ainsley!
20:19Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
20:26Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
20:33Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
20:36I asked the sheriff to tell you to leave I refuse my employer hired me to do a job
21:05here you got him nervous gunfighter ain't nobody scared easily before yes well let us proceed
21:35either one of you fellas can lose your cover that I get a shot at each of your piece now you just watch
21:44this as soon as that water runs out ain't gonna be nothing between you and me but a couple little
22:04boards Ainsley I want to get you first old Ainsley and we'll wait just a little while for you gunfighter
22:31you can afford to sit you while you ain't even got any water
22:34reach for it I can't I can't reach it you'll only expose your arm
22:57yeah he'll have the sights of his rifle right on that gun he'll shoot my
23:02it's what you wanted Ainsley yeah reach for it
23:10it's what I'm saying
23:17yeah
23:18yeah
23:19yeah
23:20yeah
23:23yeah
23:25yeah
23:30yeah
23:33yeah
23:33yeah
23:35Let's go.
23:45Daddy!
23:47Thank God!
23:48It's over!
23:52You won't shoot with that hand no more, Mr. Ainsley.
23:55You've still got a left hand, Ainsley.
23:57I'll fight you left-handed if you want.
23:59Oh, palaces!
24:00Let him alone, please!
24:03Get up!
24:04He couldn't hit the floor with his hat.
24:06You'd murder him.
24:07That's right.
24:10Get on that stagecoach tonight.
24:14I don't know if I could take a professional killer,
24:16but there are a hundred other people in this town.
24:18You can't take them all.
24:20Just because we don't like a man don't mean we let him get murdered.
24:23I see.
24:25Well, I'll tell my employer that Mr. Ainsley's shooting days are over.
24:31You got to satisfy him?
24:33I think so.
24:34I think so.
24:35I think so.
24:36I think so.
24:37Thanks, friends.
24:38Thank you for having me.
24:39You're welcome.
24:40Yeah.
24:41I'll see you now.
24:42You're welcome.
24:43You're welcome.
24:45I'm Chris.
24:47A gun will travel
24:53Reads the card of a man
24:56A knight without armor
25:00In a savage land
25:03His fast gun for hire
25:06Heads the calling wind
25:09A soldier of fortune
25:13Is the man called
25:16Paladin
25:18Paladin, paladin
25:23Where do you roam?
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