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As the Civil War approaches, a Confederate sympathizer named Frederick Kyle (guest star Cameron Mitchell) arrives in Virginia City and befriends Little Joe. Ben Cartwright works to uncover Kyle's hidden agenda before it tears the Cartwright family and the city apart.
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00:23I'll take your bags in for you, mister.
00:36The name is Kyle, Frederick Kyle.
00:39Oh, yes, Mr. Kyle, we have your reservation.
00:42By the way, would you happen to know a family here by the name of Cartwright?
00:47Who on the Washoe doesn't?
00:49How would I get in touch with them?
00:50Well, it'd be pretty easy.
00:52Adam and little Joe are in town right now picking up supplies.
00:55By little Joe, would you mean Joseph Francis Cartwright?
00:59Joe, you call him that, you better be ready to duck.
01:02He's right inside.
01:05Joseph Francis.
01:18See your five and raise your five.
01:23I'll see that and raise you five.
01:39Tens over fives.
01:40Mm-hmm.
01:41Three sixes.
01:43Maybe do better next time, kid.
01:44Oh, he needs a little luck.
01:45He'd be better off with a miracle.
01:49You care to explain that, mister?
01:52That routine of yours is older than the wheel, and your partner here gives bad signals.
01:59All right, simmer down, young fella.
02:02It's a good thing to learn.
02:04You learned it cheap.
02:05Give him his money.
02:07I can fight my own battles.
02:08There's not going to be any battles.
02:10That's right.
02:12Give him his money.
02:14You think carrying one wing's going to keep me from mopping the floor with you?
02:18Pick any reason you'd like.
02:40That was pretty nice work, mister.
02:43How much of this belongs to you?
02:46I got about $70 in here.
02:49About $70.
02:49Uh-uh.
02:50Not all of it.
02:52When a man learns a lesson, he ought to pay for it.
02:58I'm Joe Cartwright.
03:00Kyle.
03:00Frederick Kyle.
03:02So I sure would like to repay you somehow.
03:04Haven't had a decent meal since I left Kansas City.
03:07I could sure use a good steak.
03:08I think I can fix you up Ponderosa style.
03:16Put that thing away.
03:19What do you want to do?
03:20Shoot the man that's going to give us a money tree?
03:22What?
03:24I've seen that one before.
03:25Back in Kansas.
03:27Gave me two men like him.
03:35Who is he?
03:37One-armed trouble.
03:40More trouble than this town's ever seen.
03:42One.
03:44One.
03:53Two.
03:54No.
03:55Two.
03:56One.
03:58Two.
03:59Three.
04:01Three.
04:02Three.
04:02Three.
04:02Eight.
04:02One.endecks.
04:07is is is the time for Bharat. is the host
04:07monster. Two. One.
04:08Two.
04:18The End
04:37Kyle, I'd like to tell you again how grateful I am to you for helping little Joe.
04:41For a meal like this, I'd do it every day.
04:44It's a pity you didn't get here a few days earlier.
04:46Then maybe little Joe might have had some money left over to spend the next time he goes into town.
04:51You've been cheated before, little Joe?
04:52They don't have to cheat him to get his money, Mr. Kyle.
04:55He's the worst poker player on the whole country.
04:58Well, I'd like to make up that deficit in spending money.
05:01You see, I'm in the business of exporting gold and silver bullion.
05:05You plan to buy silver ore here in Virginia City, Mr. Kyle?
05:08My intentions precisely.
05:09Well, you've certainly come to the right place then.
05:11We're sitting right on top of a whole mountain of it here.
05:12So I understand.
05:15But I must get to the various men who control that mountain of silver to interest them in my proposition.
05:20Well, I know them all, Mr. Kyle.
05:21I'd be more than happy to show you around.
05:23Well, I appreciate your kind offer, little Joe.
05:25Well, if you're looking for help in high finance, Mr. Kyle, I'm afraid you done picked on the wrong cartwright.
05:31How do you mean?
05:32Well, you see, little Joe's full of that hot southern blood that he can't get very interested in cold cash.
05:37Now, on the other hand, Adam over there, he's from New England.
05:39And he's just got a natural feeling for the jingler cash.
05:42And how about you, Haas?
05:44Well, sir, I reckon I'm sort of in between.
05:48Haas' mother and I were on the way out west when Haas was born.
05:52Out in the prairie, just west of the Missouri.
05:55You weren't alone, Haas.
05:57Many good men were born on the prairie.
06:00Yes, sir.
06:02I just don't understand it.
06:03But we're all from the same country here, and yet there's still all this talk about north and south.
06:09Where's the dividing line?
06:12I'd say that the dividing line was in people's minds.
06:17Well, that puts me in the middle, all right, because I ain't got no leaning either way.
06:22You know, that's the trouble with you, Haas.
06:23Now, you take older brother over here.
06:25He's from way up north.
06:26Me, I'm from way down south in Dixie.
06:28Just blow the bugle when you want the war started.
06:30All right, now.
06:32We all have our roots in the right here in the Ponderosa now.
06:35Sometimes a man's roots and responsibilities go deeper than where he lives.
06:40Isn't that sort of idea rather stale and old-fashioned, Mr. Kyle?
06:45When we came out west, we left that behind.
06:48Can you ever leave behind an idea or an ideology?
06:55At any rate, little Joe, I most appreciate your kind offer of help.
07:00Well, that's certainly the least we can do for you, Mr. Kyle.
07:07Are you sure you won't have a cigar?
07:10Thank you, no.
07:11I don't want anything to spoil the memory of that steak.
07:14Well, I'll tell Hobson what you said.
07:15I'll be awfully pleased.
07:17So, it's ranches like this where all that good beef comes from.
07:21Mr. Kyle, I know it's an overly used expression, but you do sound like a city fellow.
07:27Not by choice.
07:28But the cities are where one finds the houses of finance.
07:32Yes.
07:33Yes, you're right there.
07:34Sit down, Mr. Kyle.
07:36Used to travel a great deal to the cities.
07:39Yes.
07:40You still travel, I suppose?
07:42St. Louis, New Orleans, New York, all over.
07:46Nice cities.
07:46Yes.
07:48What about this trouble that seems to be brewing between the states?
07:54Not trouble, Mr. Cartwright.
07:57It's a prelude to war.
07:59Civil war.
08:01Now, do you really think it'll come into that, Mr. Kyle?
08:03There's already talk that some of the states are seceding from the Union.
08:09I hope we'll be spared all that grief out here.
08:15Where did you say you were from, Mr. Kyle?
08:16I don't believe I did say.
08:19But I'm from Kansas.
08:21And that's right in the middle of everything.
08:26Well, I think I'll turn in.
08:27Good night, gentlemen.
08:28I do appreciate your hospitality, sir.
08:31Our pleasure, Mr. Kyle.
08:32Our pleasure.
08:33See you in the morning, Mr. Kyle.
08:41Hey, I've got express riders coming in like a scalded cat.
08:49Just don't seem to me like people get as excited as they used to, Paul,
08:52when the pony rider comes to town.
08:54Well, you know, Haas, people don't like to hear bad news.
08:57It's been getting worse all the time.
09:00Well, let's pick up our paper.
09:02You're alive!
09:09Hey, hey, hey, come on, hold it!
09:11I'll kill that dirty Yankee!
09:13I'll kill him dead!
09:14Yeah, hold on!
09:15What's going on here?
09:16I'll tell you what's going on.
09:17This dirty rev said the North's not even fit to be in the same Union.
09:20Yeah, it is!
09:21Wait a minute, wait a minute!
09:25It's Virginia City.
09:27It's neither North nor South.
09:29Maybe all that's going to change pretty soon.
09:32Well, that might be true, but right now, you're just going to simmer down a little bit.
09:36That one of the papers you scum in town?
09:39Yes, it is.
09:39Well, there won't be no truth in it.
09:41Just poison.
09:42That paper comes from New York.
09:43Let's hear what it has to say, Mr. Cartwright.
09:45We don't want to hear no reading from a northern paper.
09:47Is that right?
09:49What's the matter with you revs?
09:51You afraid to hear the truth?
09:53Just hold on.
09:55If my pa wants to read the paper, I reckon that's what he's going to do.
09:59Now, you just simmer down a little bit.
10:04Well, the news has been mostly about one thing.
10:10That's a speech that Mr. Lincoln made last month in Springfield.
10:14Well, I guess what I wanted to say will be found right in the end of it here.
10:21It says the agitation has not only not ceased, but augmented.
10:30In my opinion, he says, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.
10:37Then he says, a house, a house divided against itself, cannot stand.
10:53Beg your pardon, Mr. Cartwright, what's all that mean?
11:00Well, Mr. Lincoln is saying that people come together because of the things they have in common,
11:06like, well, like friendship and love.
11:12And I guess it means that when they get so blinded by their personal beliefs that hate creeps in,
11:21well, then violence can't be too far behind.
11:24Oh, that's nothing but northern lies.
11:26They ain't lies neither.
11:28A nation ain't a nation if the states don't stick together.
11:32Wait a minute, Luke.
11:33What if a state don't want to stick together?
11:35Then we fight to make them stick together.
11:39For those of you who would like to have the news read from a southern paper,
11:44I have here the Charleston Journal.
11:49Mr. Lincoln's speech has been hailed as a southern victory.
11:54It is generally acknowledged that the first ten lines of that speech have already defeated his bid for election.
12:02Here was Mr. Lincoln's reply to that opinion.
12:05If it is decreed that I should go down because of this speech,
12:10then let me go down linked to the truth.
12:13Let me die in advocacy of what is just and right.
12:19You trying to tell us that a southern paper would write a thing like that?
12:22If you can read, see for yourself.
12:25The South would never praise the thinking of a man like Gabe Lincoln.
12:28A man who honestly knows what he believes
12:31and has courage enough to act on it.
12:35He's a man deserving of praise from all men.
12:55Now, we could have cut your heart right out, Mr. Cobb.
13:01We wouldn't want to do that.
13:03We just wanted to show you how handy we'd be to have around.
13:07What do you want?
13:08Well, our meeting before was a little informal.
13:12We thought we'd like to make it more proper.
13:14My name's Regis and this is Gorman.
13:18What do you want?
13:19Well, I guess you could say we came around to an enlist.
13:23Enlist?
13:26What are you talking about?
13:28Why, the cause. What else?
13:31I remember you from Kansas, Mr. Kyle.
13:36Frederick Kyle.
13:38Leader of the Free State Movement in the South.
13:40Oh, making stirring speeches, all of them down the state.
13:45Swearing to die for the cause if you had to.
13:47Oh, you were mighty persuasive, Mr. Cobb.
13:50So much so that I've been thinking about you ever since.
13:54So you can see how pleased I was to see you'd landed right here in Virginia City.
14:01Come in.
14:07Well, now, like I say, being a convert to the cause, I just naturally wanted to join up.
14:12And Gorman here, he always goes along with me.
14:16Goes along with you in what?
14:19Well, now, since Virginia City's sitting on a pile of silver, we thought maybe you were after some of it
14:25to help run the war.
14:26Any particular war?
14:29Well, let's say the one that's about to start, it don't much matter one way or the other.
14:34It don't make much difference to you, do it.
14:36Well, now, Mr. Kyle, it's your war, not ours.
14:38Yes.
14:40Thank you for reminding me.
14:44All right.
14:46Talk.
14:50We heard some of the mine owners might not want to go along.
14:54So we thought maybe we'd lean on them a little.
14:58Or maybe just keep you from getting hung with the highest tree.
15:03Now, we could be your own private little army, Mr. Kyle, for just, uh,
15:07what would we say, uh, $5,000?
15:12Well, what do you say, Mr. Kyle?
15:14For the good of the cause?
15:17Talk to me about the cause.
15:20You dirty it every time the words come out of your mouth.
15:26You laugh again and I'll kill you.
15:29Gorman!
15:29Now, you hold it, you hear?
15:32Now, look, Mr. Kyle, we didn't come here to fight.
15:37We just want to talk business.
15:38That's better.
15:39We talk business, not causes.
15:42Now we understand each other.
15:44Yes, sir.
15:46Yes, sir, we understand.
15:47Get out.
15:48When I need you, I'll send for you.
15:52Now, you can count on us, Mr. Kyle.
16:15Now, Tom, over here, Adam.
16:17Oh.
16:20Listen, Tom, you've seen little Joe around anywhere?
16:22He was up making the rounds with that Kyle fella.
16:25Yeah, but he should have been home by now.
16:28Where's Kyle?
16:29He's up in his room, alone.
16:31One arm of his don't slow him down much.
16:34I told you, he's troubled, like the which this town has never seen.
16:37What was that you said about him being a money treat?
16:40He will be.
16:42Just as long as we all ride the same track.
16:48I thought you said Kyle was in his room alone.
16:50Who are they?
16:51Name's Regis and Gorman.
16:53They got a mean streak runs clean through.
16:55I hear they got out of jail just last week.
16:59Now, what would a man like Kyle be doing with their kind?
17:02Just what is Mr. Kyle's kind, Adam?
17:04Are you sure?
17:06Well, now, you've got to admit, he plays his business close to his vest.
17:09Well, somebody ought to know.
17:11My guess would be little Joe.
17:12Mr. Kyle seemed to want to get friendly with him right from the start.
17:15What do you mean?
17:16Well, he was asking about little Joe the minute he got off the stage.
17:24Thanks, Tom.
17:30Come on, Hunter.
17:33Gentlemen, this drink's on me.
17:38Well, thank you, neighbor.
17:42I'm Adam Cartwright.
17:43Cartwright?
17:44Well, ain't we stepping high on the wheat?
17:47My name's Regis.
17:48It says Gorman.
17:50What about your other friend?
17:52What friend's you talking about?
17:55Oh, the man with the money tree?
17:58Mr. Frederick Kyle.
18:00You know about Kyle?
18:01Easy, Joe.
18:04Here's a toast.
18:05What does he want with my brother?
18:09Like I said, here's a toast to small dogs and little old ladies.
18:14Well, I don't know about Mr. Kyle, but I know about you, both of you, and what I know I
18:22don't like.
18:22We don't much care whether you like us or not, Mr. Cartwright.
18:26You just stay out of our way.
18:27Your way?
18:28Mr. Kyle's way.
18:28Well, let's say him and us are on the same side now.
18:31Come on, now.
18:31You'll be on any side that paid your price.
18:33You want to make us a better offer?
18:35No.
18:36No, I just want to be on the opposite side.
18:55Adam, find little Joe?
18:59No.
19:00Good boy.
19:01He knows we've got that branding to do in the crest section.
19:04Well, he should be writing in pretty soon, I guess.
19:07He was with Kyle again today.
19:09Well, I told him he could go.
19:15What is it, Adam?
19:17I met two gentlemen today, a Mr. Regis and a Mr. Gorman.
19:21We had a toast together.
19:22Yes?
19:23You sweep better things off the streets.
19:25But they also happen to be friends with Mr. Fred Kyle.
19:29What's on your mind?
19:31Kyle didn't meet little Joe by accident.
19:33And he was asking for him the minute he got off that stage.
19:38Who told you that?
19:40Tom Madigan of the International House.
19:45Mr. Hennessey, you sure you won't have a drink?
19:47I don't drink, Mr. Kyle.
19:51Well, it's a pity.
19:52It's one of the few indulgences a man has left.
19:55What did you want to see me about, Mr. Kyle?
19:57Well, I'm prepared to offer you a firm contract.
20:01I want to buy all the silver your mind produces.
20:04I already have a contract with my brokers in San Francisco.
20:07I know.
20:08But I'm willing to pay you a third more.
20:10I said I had a contract, Mr. Kyle.
20:13Say, Mr. Hennessey, aren't you passing up a pretty good deal?
20:16I think you'd best keep out of this, little Joe.
20:19Well, Mr. Kyle's a friend of mine.
20:20You didn't even hear him out.
20:21Forget it, son.
20:22I don't want to forget it.
20:23What's the matter with the offer?
20:24The man who's making it.
20:27I've heard of you, Kyle.
20:29I understand you have pronounced Southern sympathies.
20:32But my sympathies lie entirely in the other direction.
20:35Good day, sir.
20:40What do you mean, bringing politics into this?
20:43I thought it was a straight business deal.
20:45And so it is.
20:46We'll forget about him.
20:48Well, little Joe, today just about did it.
20:51Most of the mine owners I'm after have been invited to next week's meeting.
20:55I'm very grateful to you for your help.
20:57All I did was make introductions.
20:59Which was plenty.
21:00Out here, it pays to have a cartwright on your side.
21:02What do you mean?
21:03Well, when I knew I was coming out here, I'd heard, of course, of the Cartwright family of the Ponderosa.
21:09So I checked to see if it was the same family.
21:12The same family?
21:13Mm-hmm.
21:15I knew your mother, little Joe, back in New Orleans, a long time ago.
21:21She was a very beautiful, a very gracious woman.
21:28In many ways, you're much like her.
21:31So I thought perhaps you'd like to have this.
21:43Where did you get it?
21:47Doesn't matter.
21:50I've had it many, many years.
21:56She was a very beautiful woman, your mother.
22:01She was.
22:10I want to thank you for giving me this.
22:13Nothing at all, sir.
22:16Well, in one morning, bright and early, we'll get back to the rest of the names on that list.
22:22Sure, little Joe.
22:23Sure.
22:29Thanks again.
22:31And don't worry any about Mr. Hennessey.
22:32I think he'll come around.
22:34I think he will.
22:35So long, Mr. Cartwright.
22:46Hello, Tom.
22:47Evening, Ben.
22:48I was glad to hear your wife is feeling so much better.
22:51I'm looking for Mr. Kyle.
22:53I'm afraid he's not in his room.
22:57You're a friend of Mr. Kyle's?
22:59Well, I know him.
23:01I see.
23:03Well, then we have that in common.
23:06My name is Lily Van Cleet.
23:08Well, my name is Ben Cartwright.
23:10I believe you must be stranger, Virginia City.
23:13Just passing through.
23:16Are you a friend of Frederick Kyle's?
23:18Why?
23:19Well, he's a very interesting man.
23:22I'd like to know more about him.
23:24Well, then I suggest you ask him.
23:27Yes, I suppose I should.
23:30You must be tired after your journey.
23:32May I offer you some refreshment?
23:35You say you're just passing through.
23:37I'm going to California.
23:40The West is such a wonderful land.
23:42Well, it used to be.
23:44It used to be?
23:46Oh, the trouble back East.
23:47It's seeping West.
23:49It doesn't belong out here.
23:50Hate and misunderstanding have no place anywhere, Mr. Cartwright.
23:55Oh, uh, coffee?
23:56Please.
23:57Two coffees, please.
24:00Well, I hope things will be different out in California for you and your husband.
24:06You are married, aren't you?
24:09Why.
24:10I was once.
24:12And you?
24:13Yes, I have a ranch.
24:15I live there with my three boys.
24:17Three sons?
24:18How wonderful.
24:19What are their names?
24:21Well, the oldest is Adam.
24:23The middle boy, we call him Horse.
24:26Well, if you'd see him, you'd know exactly why.
24:28He's a pretty big fellow.
24:30And, uh, the youngest.
24:34The youngest and most impressionable.
24:36We call him Little Joe.
24:38I named my son Joseph, too.
24:42Well, if he favors you, ma'am, he's a fine-looking boy.
24:46It's past tense now, Mr. Cartwright.
24:50Pardon me.
24:52Joseph is dead.
24:55Oh, I'm sorry.
24:56What is happening in Virginia City happened in the East over a year ago.
25:02Joseph and his father were accidentally embroiled in a street fight.
25:07I lost them both that night.
25:13You are a very fortunate man, Mr. Cartwright.
25:16Be thankful for that.
25:25Hello, Fred.
25:30I told Mr. Cartwright we were friends, and I was just passing through and decided to stop over and say
25:36hello.
25:39Mr. Cartwright.
25:41Mrs. Van Cleet.
25:45Kyle.
25:47I'd like to talk to you for a moment, please.
25:52Wait, please.
26:01When you came into town, you were looking for my son, Joseph.
26:08Why?
26:11I had a photograph of his mother.
26:13I thought he'd like to have it.
26:16Where did you get it?
26:19I knew his mother.
26:21You don't believe me, Mr. Cartwright?
26:24She's gone now, so that doesn't matter anymore.
26:27But my sons do.
26:29I don't know what your intentions are, Mr. Kyle, nor what you're seeking to achieve here in Virginia City.
26:36But don't try to see little Joe again.
27:14Blind with thine hair, the eyes of day, kiss her till she be wearied out.
27:23Than wonder, or city and sea and land.
27:29You see?
27:30I still remember Shelley.
27:33Well, I should.
27:35You've read him to me often enough.
27:38You know, a few more years and you might have made a literate man out of me.
27:44Speaking of years, this is a sort of a special one for us.
27:53A man who can remember Shelley surely can remember his 20th wedding anniversary.
28:01I do.
28:03I do.
28:04I do remember.
28:0520 years.
28:0920 years.
28:12And you introduce yourself to Cartwright as a friend.
28:16Whatever it is you're here for, Frederick, I didn't want to spoil it.
28:19There's nothing you can do to spoil it.
28:21The daughter of a northern senator meets a lot of people.
28:24I don't think the cause of a southern sympathizer would be enhanced in case someone were to find out I
28:30was his wife.
28:31Have you changed that much, Lily?
28:34That you could be interested in the cause of a southern sympathizer?
28:38I still believe what I have always been taught to believe.
28:43No, Frederick, my beliefs haven't changed.
28:51Neither has my love for you.
28:55I was hoping that after whatever it is you must do here, we could go to California together.
29:03We could be happy there.
29:04It's a new land.
29:06I heard that the day I arrived in Virginia City.
29:11But now I mean to take it into the camp of the Confederacy.
29:15Oh, Fred.
29:18What fools we are.
29:21Our son loses his life.
29:23You lose an arm.
29:24Then we lose each other.
29:26Why?
29:28Why?
29:29Our boy did not lose his life.
29:33They took it.
29:35He was murdered.
29:37Murdered by a group of those self-righteous northern hypocrites
29:40that your father so skillfully represents.
29:43There were secessionists in that group that night, too.
29:46We don't know which side it was that killed him.
29:52I guess we all had a part in killing him.
30:01Fred, this may be our last chance.
30:06You said that you believed what you were always taught to believe.
30:13Well, that's true with most of us.
30:17A man does what he has to do.
30:25And you used to quote another part of Shelley.
30:29A glorious people vibrated again.
30:33The lightning of nations.
30:37The day that all this is over.
30:42I shall come to you.
30:52You're forgetting something, Mr. Hennessy.
30:55You don't drink.
30:58I've been waiting for you, Kyle.
31:01You have?
31:03Why?
31:04Why?
31:04I know why you've come to Virginia City.
31:06A number of the other mine owners have told me about your purpose here.
31:11And what is my purpose, as you put it?
31:14To force the silver mines into financing the rebellious cause of the South.
31:19Yes.
31:21Yes, that is my purpose.
31:22Well, you won't get away with it.
31:27You think you can stop me, little man?
31:29I'm going to leave for Washington in the morning.
31:31Warn the proper authorities about what you're doing.
31:34Don't you try it, little man.
31:36I'm warning you.
31:38Don't you try it.
31:49Regis.
31:55Yes, Mr. Kerr.
31:56Have a drink.
31:57Bartender.
32:10Hey, Regis.
32:12The stage is about ready to leave.
32:15I figured it's getting to be about that time.
32:18I fell over there.
32:20What in the gray hat?
32:22It's about as Yankee as a man can get.
32:26Only good Yankees, dead Yankee.
32:32You know, I think that stage is going to run into a barrel of bad luck.
32:44There, there, there.
32:47There, there.
32:51Maybe we go.
32:55Oh, Mr. Kerr.
32:58No.
32:58No.
32:58No.
32:59No.
33:04It'samus.
33:04Come on.
33:05Come on.
33:05Come on.
33:34my foreman found the bodies just before dark since since you and the lady were acquainted
33:40i thought you'd want to know how did it happen someone placed a boulder on a blind curb
33:48the driver didn't have a chance to stop the stage from going over the cliff
33:53who did it must have been two of them there were footprints all around kyle
34:07who was she
34:11you must have known her pretty well why don't you tell us who she was what are you hiding mr
34:15kyle
34:17i am not trying to hide anything
34:21she was a person i once knew you believe that don't you i don't believe you kyle who are you
34:28and what do you really want here in virginia city look what's got into you adam you have no right
34:31to question mr kyle like that haven't i well he's got you pretty well fooled hasn't he fool about
34:36what he hasn't got me fooled about anything tell him kyle tell him the truth stop it stop it
34:41what's the matter with you what are we doing shouting over the dead fighting like animals
34:46come on both of you i'm sorry kyle we shouldn't behave this way
34:55i told you ben
34:59she was a person i once knew
35:12here's two more
35:22well
35:23evening mr kyle
35:25i suppose you heard about the accident that yankee leaving on the morning stage
35:29i heard
35:30well then maybe you'd be pleasure to buy us a drink
35:32put your guns on the bar
35:43in the back room
35:45in the back room
35:47in the back room
36:15oh
36:17oh
36:18oh
36:30Oh, my God.
36:48Oh, my God.
37:19This was a planned crash, all right.
37:21But what made you think those men were the murderers?
37:25Well, Mr. Kyle?
37:27I think we can answer that, Sheriff.
37:29Austin and I just checked up on the road. That slide was done deliberate.
37:32We found a pick they used to pry the boulder off onto the road with.
37:35It's got Gorman's initials burned there in the handle.
37:40Well, that proves those two men are guilty.
37:43But Mr. Kyle never answered the question.
37:46How'd he know those men are guilty?
37:47What difference does it make as long as there's the men that did it?
37:50Well, it does make a difference, doesn't it, Mr. Kyle?
37:52What were those men guilty of, murder or just acting on your instructions?
37:55Oh, that's ridiculous.
37:56What reason would he have to do a thing like this?
37:57Well, maybe I can give you a clue.
37:59Which one did you want killed, Kyle?
38:01The man or the woman?
38:01Look at him.
38:02You've been riding Mr. Kyle ever since you met him.
38:04Now, stay out of it!
38:10Brother against brother?
38:12How dare you?
38:13Either of you.
38:33Paul?
38:36Paul.
38:37Paul.
38:38Paul.
38:39Little Joe came in about 20 minutes ago.
38:41The Maverick finally got home, did he?
38:43Well, right now, the three of you are going to have a talking to.
38:45We'll put an end to this nonsense once and for all.
38:48Little Joe!
38:49Paul.
38:50Little Joe, come in here!
38:51Paul.
38:52Paul, he came, but he didn't stay.
38:55What do you mean he didn't stay?
38:57He just came to pick up a few things, Pa.
39:00He's going to stay in town for a while.
39:01Why didn't you stop him?
39:05I planned to.
39:07Paul.
39:08Adam says he's going to go, too.
39:12Adam!
39:13Adam, wait a minute.
39:20Now.
39:23Now, Adam, before you, it's political trouble.
39:24It's a madness, Pa.
39:26Suddenly, something screams at you inside.
39:28You find yourself saying things you don't mean.
39:30Things you don't even believe.
39:32Tell little Joe I wanted him to know that.
39:35Try to make him understand.
39:38These things that are packed here, what's this for?
39:40Where do you think you're going?
39:44New England ought to be mighty pretty this time of year.
39:47I think I'd like to see it again.
39:49Now, Adam, you can't be serious.
39:50Use your head.
39:51Oh, Adam, come on.
39:53Horse things can't be the same between us anymore.
39:55What are you talking about?
39:56What can't be the same?
39:57Why can't they be the same?
39:57Well, just can't, Pa.
40:01Adam!
40:03Adam!
40:04Adam!
40:05There's no other way, Pa.
40:06Can't you see?
40:07No, I can't see.
40:08I'm not going to stand by and watch my family flake away like rust off a wheel.
40:12Well, use your head, Pa, not your heart.
40:14Can't you see the damage is already done?
40:17It's got to be little Joe or me.
40:18And he needs you more than I do.
40:21Adam.
40:23I don't want you to go.
40:25You think it's what I want, Pa?
40:26Or even what little Joe wants?
40:27This thing has gone so far now, there's just no stopping it.
40:30You can't have two different points if you're in the same house, Pa.
40:33It just won't work, and that's all there is to it.
40:34Adam, please.
40:35Pa, Pa, leave me alone, will you?
40:38Adam!
40:47All that newspaper you was reading the other day in the saloon about what Mr. Lincoln said
40:51about a house divided can't stand, I reckon he's talking about folks like us.
41:01No.
41:03Not us, boss.
41:08Not us.
41:18Since I have already met and talked with most of you gentlemen, the main purpose of
41:23this meeting is to iron out any further questions that might have occurred to you.
41:28You've guaranteed to pay us well above the price we're getting in San Francisco for our
41:33silver ore.
41:33That's right.
41:34How do you expect to do this, sir?
41:37Those I represent need hard money, gold or silver.
41:42So to get it, they're willing to pay more in drafts of trade.
41:46Drafts of trade.
41:48For what, Mr. Kyle?
41:50Easily marketable items, such as cotton, tobacco.
41:57Gentlemen, I'd like to talk to Mr. Kyle in private.
42:00Will you excuse us?
42:04I asked if you will excuse us.
42:06I have something important to discuss with Mr. Kyle.
42:12It's not very ethical.
42:23I suppose you'd like me to go, too, huh, Pop?
42:27You're a man now.
42:28After you hear what I have to say, you can do as you wish.
42:37Mr. Kyle, this scheme of yours with the mine owners, how does it work?
42:43The silver bullion and the letters of trade which you give in return are channeled through
42:48some foreign country, and the bullion ends up creating a war chest for the Confederacy.
42:54Isn't that it?
42:55You're a very astute man, Mr. Cartwright.
42:58A very astute man.
43:00No, just a father.
43:02Something which probably isn't very important to you.
43:05Allow me to decide for myself what is important to me.
43:09You're a man of purpose, aren't you, Mr. Kyle?
43:12Everything for what you believe.
43:14Is that so bad?
43:16Or don't you believe in anything?
43:19I believe in my sons.
43:21Today I lost two of them.
43:24I should think you'd know better than anyone else alive how much that hurts.
43:29Me.
43:30Why me?
43:32That woman.
43:36That woman, Kyle, who was she?
43:38You leave her out of it.
43:40Can you?
43:42That night in my front yard when you were looking at what remained of her,
43:47I could feel the pain in the air.
43:51You loved her, didn't you?
43:54You loved her and you were willing to let her go without so much as a goodbye.
43:58I don't want to kill you, Cartwright, but I could change my mind.
44:03Who was she, Kyle?
44:06Every man has something he'll live for and die for.
44:09I want to find out what it is with you.
44:11How far will you go?
44:13How much are you willing to sacrifice, Kyle?
44:16Cartwright, I'm warning you.
44:17You let me alone.
44:18I talked to that woman.
44:20I saw the way she looked at you.
44:21I saw the way she held your arm as you walked up the hotel stairs.
44:25And then later I saw the way you were holding her cape.
44:27The cape that only a few hours before had warmed her flesh.
44:30Stop it, Ben.
44:31You hear me?
44:32Stop it!
44:33Was she nothing more than the party girl from Carson City?
44:47It isn't fair, Ben.
44:49You're not fair.
44:50You said that you...
44:52You wouldn't take sides.
44:54That this wasn't your fight.
44:56You made it my fight, Kyle.
45:00She was your wife, wasn't she?
45:10Yes.
45:14Yes, she was my wife.
45:18First your son.
45:20Then your wife.
45:23Nothing must interfere with your mission.
45:26Nothing.
45:27Nothing.
45:28I will stop at nothing to ensure the success of my cause.
45:32Yes, I believe that.
45:34You will see.
45:35This is only the beginning.
45:37No sacrifice will be too great.
45:40There'll be countless others.
45:41Men like myself.
45:42And worse.
45:44Brother against brother.
45:46Father against son.
45:48And when it's over,
45:49what a waste it will all have been.
45:52What a useless, damnable waste.
46:09I'm sorry, Pa.
46:09I'm sorry, Pa.
46:36Brother against brother, father against son.
46:40Do you really think it'll come to that?
46:43I don't know.
46:46I do know that a tree has many roots,
46:48and they run in many directions.
46:51but it has only one taproot.
46:56And this is where yours is.
47:00I think I know that now.
47:27Well, it should be a lot further along than this by now, Adam.
47:31Don't worry.
47:32I'll get there.
47:33Well, maybe you will, maybe you won't.
47:36First, I think we ought to get something settled.
47:38Now, just hear me out.
47:40Just sit and listen to me.
47:43Now, as long as I can remember,
47:44you always stayed up later than we did
47:46because you were, well, you were older than we were.
47:50You always helped Pa settle the problems of the Ponderosa
47:53because you were grown up.
47:54Well, that just isn't going to set with me anymore.
47:57Not if Horse and I have to run the ranch by ourselves.
48:03That lake sure gets any of your skin, don't it?
48:09It sure does.
48:14Let's go home.
48:16Let's go home.
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