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In this episode, a former lawman, known for his relentless pursuit of criminals, arrives in the area, leading to a tense showdown when he attempts to take in a man who has built a new life for himself.
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00:27The End
00:40The End
01:00The End
01:30I'm pulling out Jeb
01:31And you ain't got nothing to say can stop me
01:34Don't appear there's much I can do to stop you either
01:40No hard feelings Jeb
01:42But I just ain't gonna ride against Ben Cartwright
01:45That's all
01:54All right you two get them sheep moving
01:59Leave him Billy
02:00He's past fussing
02:02You got to learn to kill a man once you draw on him
02:04But I shared second plates with him Jeb
02:07Just a few hours ago
02:10Once the thing is dead you got to get clear of it
02:12The scruffiest hole squirrel knows that
02:15Sure Jeb
02:16You uh
02:18You're lettered ain't you boy
02:20Yes sir I spell out some
02:21All right
02:24You read that to me boy
02:27And Moses went up from the plains
02:29And the Lord showed him all of the land
02:33I've been near 40 years myself
02:35Just like Moses
02:37But the Lord has finally showed me my land
02:40And I'm gonna take it to myself
02:44I have to kill everything on it
02:46And burn it to the root
03:42I'll be an easy way to make it
03:43Living in this
03:45There he is
03:47You know how don't you
03:48No
03:49Marry you a rich gal
03:53Little Joe
03:55You reckon how long it's gonna take us
03:56To clear out all this stuff
03:57Out of this drain ditch
03:59I figured the way we're going
04:01It'll take us about five or six years
04:03Yeah
04:06Hiya pa
04:09Hiya
04:09Nice
04:09You ever see such a pair of working fools
04:11Adam I wish some of that would rub off
04:13On you
04:15Well now follow the way I look at
04:16If a man expects to get ahead in this world
04:17He's got to use his brain
04:18Instead of his back
04:20Adam with a place like the Ponderosa
04:22A man has to be able to use both
04:23Now come on let's get the boys a hand
04:30Who'd be over there
04:32Must be Tucker
04:33I put him out hunting strays
04:35That don't sound like strays
04:36Strays all right
04:37But the two-legged kind
04:51That was just a warning
04:53Where do you men think you're headed?
04:55Why we're aiming across the Sierra
04:57We better find another way
04:59Nobody goes through the Ponderosa
05:00That's Ben Cartwright's orders
05:03You figuring to stop us all with that gun?
05:06Well maybe not all of you
05:07But I'll drop the first man
05:08That tries to come through here
05:11How much is Cartwright paying you mister?
05:14What's that to you?
05:15Is it enough for a man
05:16To get himself killed for?
05:18Look
05:18We're coming through
05:20Now you can shoot me
05:21If you have a mind to
05:22But as soon as you pull that trigger
05:24You're the same as a dead man
05:28All right
05:29Bring him through
05:31Then you better get out of the way mister
05:33Before you get yourself trampled
05:47I warned him Ben
05:48I give him clear warning
05:49Well nobody expects any more Sam
05:52You've been told you're on Ponderosa land
05:55I'd be obliged if you
05:56Turned the tears of those sheep
05:57And got them off
05:58Are you Ben Cartwright?
06:02Drummond
06:02Jeff Drummond is my name
06:03We ain't bringing no trouble
06:06We're just looking to pass through
06:07On the way to California
06:08No more than that
06:10Mr. Drummond
06:10I'm sorry
06:11I can't let you take those sheep
06:12Across the Ponderosa
06:14You mean you
06:14You got all this here
06:16And you ain't willing for us
06:17Just to cut through?
06:19That's what I mean
06:20Why
06:21You got enough land here
06:23To parcel out a state of your own
06:24And you're sitting fat
06:25Right on top of it
06:26Ain't you?
06:27Let me ask you a question
06:29Mr. Cartwright
06:30What more right
06:31Have you got to this land
06:32Than me?
06:33It's mine
06:34That's right or not
06:36Every inch of this land
06:37Is deeded in our name
06:38If that's what's bothering you
06:39Mr. Drummond
06:39Oh deed
06:41Why deed is only a piece of paper
06:46Looks to me like all they got
06:47Is some scribbling on paper
06:50It's what backs up the scribbling
06:51Mr. Drummond
06:52That's what counts
06:54How many of them you count Billy?
07:02Five Jib
07:03Just five
07:08Lesson we got
07:20Well there's
07:21No cause to draw down
07:23I was just
07:24Just resting
07:25Look I'm
07:27I'm only trying to get passage
07:29Through to California
07:29And I aim to pay for it too
07:32Drummond
07:33I don't want any of your money
07:36Well uh
07:38It's getting on
07:39Near the dark
07:39You uh
07:40Wouldn't mind
07:41If we was to camp here
07:42For the night
07:44Well
07:45Alright
07:46But you make sure
07:48You're gone by
07:49Tomorrow morning
07:49Is that understood?
07:51You won't find us here
07:53I promise you that
08:04Yes sir
08:05You can count on it
08:06Mr. Cartwright
08:08You won't find us here
08:12Here you are Billy
08:21I saved you a chaw piece
08:23Without no grizzle
08:24Well that's out of your
08:25Helping Jib
08:25You best keep that
08:26For yourself
08:27Oh I had my fill
08:28For the night boy
08:29You take it
08:30Thank you Jib
08:32You know you could
08:33Still use fattening up
08:35If you was one of my sheep
08:36Rib scrawny like you are
08:38I'd have sold you off
08:38For hoof glue
08:39Before now
08:42You did fatten up
08:43Some though
08:44When I first come on you
08:45And them wranglers
08:46Was fixing to string you up
08:47Well
08:47You didn't look like
08:48No more than a fence post
08:51You've been mighty
08:52Good to me Jib
08:53I appreciate everything
08:55You've done
08:56I only hope I can
08:57Pay it back sometime
09:00There'll be a time
09:01Come boy
09:02There's always a time
09:05Well
09:05You better get yourself
09:07Some sleep
09:07Before morning
09:09What are we doing Jib
09:10Going back
09:11Well
09:12I don't know yet
09:13I gotta think on it
09:14You see
09:16The way I figured it
09:17We'd have made California
09:18Just about spring market time
09:20That flock would have been
09:21Fat and woolly
09:22We'd have got a side
09:23Of cash for them
09:25But
09:27I don't know
09:31Oh
09:32I've got another blanket
09:33For you boy
09:38That's Burton's
09:39Isn't it
09:40What difference does it make
09:42Ain't no good to him buried
09:44I
09:44I was just asking
09:47Night
09:47Night
09:47Billy
09:51Night
09:51Jib
09:57Burn it
09:58Little Joe
09:59Cut it
09:59Don't pull it
10:00We wouldn't be having
10:01All this trouble
10:01If you hadn't gone
10:02And lost that chili bowl
10:03I always fit on your head
10:04Just take it easy
10:05It's getting thin enough
10:06Up there like it is
10:06Keep your head still
10:09Are you still putting
10:10That salad oil
10:10On your hair
10:11Hog lord
10:12Oh
10:13What you're so worried about
10:14You ain't gonna look
10:15Any different
10:15When I get done anyway
10:16Yeah but I'll feel different
10:22What's the matter
10:23He's doing a good job
10:24Ain't he
10:26We're fine
10:28Yeah
10:29Hey let me see that mirror
10:37I've got an idea
10:38About what Adam
10:40Well I've been thinking
10:41The way the country's growing
10:42More people coming west
10:44California
10:46We could cut a road
10:47Across the north section
10:48Of the Ponderosa
10:51Not a bad idea
10:54I'll give it some thought
10:56Well I'd like to start on it
10:58Pa
10:59Well Adam
11:00I said I'd give it some thought
11:02Oh by the way
11:03Tomorrow morning
11:04I want you to ride out
11:04And see if Drummond
11:05Of those sheep of his
11:06Have cleared out
11:08And what if he hasn't
11:09Well then we'll make sure
11:11He's cleared out
11:12Why do we have to take
11:13The law in our own hands
11:14Now we're not taking
11:15Any law into our own hands
11:18What do you want me to do
11:20Open up the Ponderosa
11:21To every scavenger
11:22That comes along
11:23Drummond's kind
11:24Turns the land to dust
11:25And then just moves on
11:27Look Pa
11:27I'm not saying
11:28Let Drummond in
11:29But there gotta be
11:30People after him
11:31Farmers
11:31Traders
11:32Homesteaders
11:33Now what are you gonna do
11:34Take a gun to them too
11:35Now you know
11:36That isn't so Adam
11:37But I will take a gun
11:39To Drummond's kind
11:40He'll grab anything
11:41He can get his hands on
11:42And tomorrow morning
11:43You go out there
11:44And see that he's gone
11:45Is that understood
11:46Yeah
11:48All right Pa
11:49Anything you say
11:57Come on
11:58Roll up
12:00Come on
12:01Hustle it up
12:03Come on
12:03We gotta be making tracks
12:05Want me to get
12:06The flock shipped around
12:07And headed out to you
12:08I'll lead out
12:08The bell shipped
12:09If you want
12:10I ain't taking them out
12:11You ain't
12:13You mean we're not
12:14Crossing the Cartwright land
12:15No we're crossing
12:17All right
12:17But I've been thinking
12:19Maybe we won't
12:19Cross all the way
12:21You heard what
12:22Ben Cartwright said
12:25Cartwright
12:26I'm through being
12:27Shoved and hauled
12:28By his like
12:29A man takes something
12:30That's his
12:31You gotta start
12:32Learning that
12:32Billy boy
12:33Yes sir
12:34But ain't we
12:35Taking on a peck
12:36Of trouble
12:37Trouble
12:39I'm an old man
12:40Now
12:41But I once
12:42Had me a flock
12:43Of sheep
12:43Was like looking
12:43Across a big
12:44White sea
12:46I run them
12:47I run them
12:47From the Snake River
12:47On the north
12:48To the Mexican border
12:49And back
12:50Then the cattle come
12:51And the farmers
12:53Plowing up the earth
12:56I've been pushed
12:57So hard
12:58Billy
12:58There ain't hardly
12:58A corner
12:59I can squeeze
13:00Myself into
13:02But I'm through
13:03Being pushed now
13:06All right
13:06Hurry it up
13:07You men
13:07And get that
13:08Chuck wagon loaded
13:09Them Cartwrights
13:10Will be after us
13:11Before it gets
13:12Much lighter
13:13Billy
13:15You take them
13:16Two
13:16And hang back
13:16To ride guard
13:17And if them
13:18Cartwrights
13:19Come tailing us
13:19You let me know
13:20All right
13:21And Billy
13:23You make sure
13:23You stop
13:24Whichever one
13:25Of them it is
13:27You mean
13:28Kill them
13:28Jeff
13:29Is that what
13:29You mean
13:30That's right
13:31And leave them
13:32Out there
13:32Like bait
13:33To stink a trail
13:34For the rest
13:34Of them
13:34I can't see
13:36Doing that
13:36To them
13:37Jeff
13:37What'd they
13:38Ever done
13:38To us
13:39Why
13:39Them Cartwrights
13:40Would kill us
13:41If they got the chance
13:42Every one of us
13:42You know that
13:44Billy boy
13:44Now don't you
13:46Shed no tears
13:46Over them Cartwrights
13:47They're the same kind
13:49As tried to string you up
13:50Why
13:52They got
13:53And we ain't
13:55And those that got
13:56Ain't gonna give it up
13:57Unless you shake them
13:58Until their britches pop
13:59I'm telling you
14:00Billy
14:00They'd kill every one of us
14:01If they got the chance
14:03Only
14:05They ain't gonna get the chance
14:19This looks like
14:20About as good a spot
14:21As any
14:21To set up
14:23Set up for what
14:24Billy
14:25You talking about
14:26An ambush
14:27You just do
14:28Like I say
14:29I've been riding
14:30With old Jeff
14:31For a long time
14:32Now
14:32I know the way
14:33He thinks
14:35How do you mean
14:36Collier
14:38That old buzzard
14:39Thinking about
14:40Killing himself
14:41Some Cartwrights
14:43You know I'm right
14:44Billy boy
14:46You spot yourself
14:47Up there
14:49Collier
14:50You head on down
14:51A ways
15:20I'll tell you
15:21Billy boy
15:21I don't want to get
15:22Mixed up in no range war
15:23Not for what
15:23We're getting out of it
15:24You just do like
15:26Jeff says
15:27Well
15:27Can't we maybe
15:28Scare him a little bit
15:29The Cartwrights
15:32That kind
15:32Don't scare
15:34Maybe you feel like
15:35Having Jeff
15:36Flay the skin off you
15:37For not doing
15:37What he says
15:39Jeff says
15:40Shoot
15:42Shoot to kill
15:47Hey Collier
15:48What about all this
15:50You mean about
15:51Killing the Cartwright
15:53I mean about
15:54Getting strung up
15:54For Jeb Drummond
15:55I don't plan
15:56To get strung up
15:57For Jeb Drummond
15:58Or nobody
15:59Come on
16:00Let's get out
16:01Of here
16:14All right
16:15Drop the gun
16:34You win mister
16:36I
16:37I lose again
17:01Keep them bunched over to that side
17:03So they don't mill
17:04And get them two moving there
17:08Go make new camp
17:09Jeb
17:09No
17:10Not here
17:11It's too rocky
17:13I'd like to get to that
17:14Draw up ahead
17:16Faster up there
17:17Jeb
17:18That ain't no good
17:19For the sheep
17:20No
17:20Not for the sheep
17:21It ain't
17:22But for what I got in mind
17:24It's fine
17:25Come on
17:26Get them sheep moving
17:34Jeb
17:34Why
17:36One of the Cartwrights
17:37Come upon us
17:38Unexpected like
17:39Well did you kill him
17:41Nah
17:41He got Wheeler
17:43There's nothing I can do about it
17:44Jeb
17:44He had position on me
17:45He'd have finished me off too
17:47If I hadn't got clear
17:50I'd give you a job
17:51I mean to have it done right
17:53Now instead of the rest of them
17:54Coming looking for him
17:55He'll tail back
17:56And tell them which way we went
18:00Well
18:01Maybe it's for the best
18:03If we can get us to that draw
18:04Ahead of them
18:06Might be they get a little surprise
18:07Huh Billy boy
18:10All right
18:11Drive them
18:13Oh we
18:13Run them
18:20Should have run that bushwacker off
18:21For good last night
18:23Want me to ride in the town
18:24Tell the sheriff
18:26I don't need any sheriff
18:28That flock of sheep
18:29He couldn't have gone more than a few miles
18:30We can get rid of them before dark
18:32Now wait a minute
18:32Pa
18:33Let the law do it this time
18:35What's wrong with you boy
18:37You want to sit here
18:38And twiddle your thumbs
18:39While Drummond's sheep
18:40Eat our land bear
18:41By the time the lawyers
18:42And the sheriff
18:43And the court in Virginia City
18:44Get through haggling
18:45With what should be done
18:46The whole north pasture
18:47Will be torn up
18:48Get your guns
18:49We've got work to do
18:50What kind of work pa
18:51Get those sheep off our land
18:53Now look pa
18:53I don't want you running after Drummond
18:54Now just settle down
18:56You're going south boy
18:58Pa
18:58You're just as bad as he is
19:00I'm what
19:00You and Drummond both think
19:01You're a law unto yourselves
19:02And you're not
19:03Without the law
19:04A man's no better than dirt
19:06Now you listen to something from me
19:08I cleared that land
19:09That Drummond's driving his sheep through
19:11I worked it
19:11Till my hands cracked open
19:13And the sweat blinded my eyes
19:14And I planted that grass
19:15And with the lord's help
19:16It grew
19:16And I'm not gonna let
19:17The sheep herder
19:18Who never did an honest day's work
19:19In his life
19:19Ruin it
19:23Now you coming with me or not
19:51Go home
19:56All in, Jeb.
19:58That's good.
20:00Now it's the Codrights who's going to be in open ground.
20:03Jeb, you sure you ain't picking off a bigger piece than you can chew?
20:07It's a blind draw, Jeb.
20:09You let them come in here, it's us that's going to be trapped.
20:11Well, if that's what they thought,
20:14it might turn out just a bit different.
20:17It don't matter if they've got us trapped,
20:20as long as we get one of them.
20:21Just one.
20:22You let them walk in here,
20:23what's going to keep Ben Cartwright and killing off the whole lot of us?
20:26Of course, Cartwright is the kind of guy that don't shoot
20:29unless somebody else fires the first shot.
20:32Well, I don't like sitting here like a treed squirrel.
20:35I say we'll get out there and face him straight off.
20:39All right, go ahead.
20:42Well, what's the matter?
20:45You ain't going, are you?
20:46Because you ain't smart enough to tackle a man like Cartwright.
20:49He'd chew you right up and spit you out on the ground.
20:52Any fool can go out and get himself shot dead.
20:55You ain't going to face them, what are you going to do?
21:01You ever see Indians go after a herd of buffalo?
21:05They dog out the strays one by one.
21:08And then pretty soon, the rest of them are scared and running over each other.
21:14Collier, I want you to take two men and hide yourselves up there on that ledge over there.
21:20Billy, I want you to get back down the path by the drawer there.
21:24Because if we split them up, that's where some of them are liable to run for it.
21:29Well, sounds good, don't it, boy?
21:32Yeah, I guess so.
21:35That ain't what you're thinking, is it?
21:37What are you thinking, boy?
21:40You're asking us to shoot those men down like there's nothing but a bunch of bounty pelts.
21:47Well, sure I am.
21:49What's wrong with it?
21:51I didn't say nothing was wrong with it.
21:54That's good, because I hope you ain't forgetting how I first come on you, strung up for a horse thief.
22:01You didn't do it, but you had a rope around your neck anyways.
22:04Well, this ain't no different.
22:06And the cartwrights ain't no different neither.
22:09They'll kill you if you give them the chance.
22:11Maybe not with a rope, but they'll do it.
22:15What are you gaping at?
22:18Nothing, Jeb.
22:19Well, you get back there where I told you.
22:23Now, look, boy.
22:26I've been pulling myself through this world for a long time.
22:30And when you get right down to it, it's a fact.
22:33You've got to fight back, whichever way you can.
22:36Or you'll just get beat to the ground.
22:40All right, get back there where I told you to go.
22:43All right, Jeb.
22:44And, boy, remember.
22:47Remember what I want.
22:48I want one of them cartwrights.
22:52Alive.
22:54Yes, sir.
22:57And put a jacket on, boy.
22:59There's a chill coming up.
23:17Well, what do you make of it, horse?
23:20I can't figure out why, Paul, but it looks to me like he took them sheep right up into that
23:24blind canyon.
23:26And that old scavenger.
23:29He isn't leaving the Ponderosa at all.
23:30He's finally the camp here.
23:32What makes you say that, Paul?
23:33Well, why else would he be heading up into that blind draw?
23:36Oh, up there, he can protect his flock and have a good chance of standing us off.
23:40There sure ain't no sign of him anywhere else, Paul.
23:44That's the way it appears, except there's no pasture for his sheep in that draw.
23:47If he can stand us off, that means we can do the same to him, starve him out.
23:50Well, why wait for that?
23:52Why don't we just ride in and get it over with?
23:54Wouldn't Mr. Drummond love that?
23:56The four of us, bunched up together like somebody flies on flypaper?
23:59No, we're going to have to spread out and stay spread.
24:04Hoss, you and Joe, you move up on the left side.
24:06Adam and I will ride straight in.
24:09Paul, there is another thing we could do.
24:12What's that?
24:13Well, you could stand and watch on him while I get the sheriff.
24:16I thought we'd settle that.
24:19Well, we could pin him down like Adam says.
24:21And wait for some judge to serve a paper on him?
24:25The court in Virginia City doesn't own the Ponderosa.
24:28We do.
24:28And if we're not willing to fight to hold on to it,
24:31we might as well turn it over to the first settler who feels like staking a claim.
24:42The court in Virginia City
24:53Carlyer, take your men and move them out into the open.
24:56What for, Jeb?
24:57We got good position on them cart rides right here.
25:00Just do like I say.
25:02Hey, take those men and move them out in the open.
25:04But, Jeb, them cart rides will be sitting ducks from here.
25:07We could wipe them all out.
25:09I don't want to wipe them out.
25:12Or maybe just miss wiping them out.
25:14I just want one of them cart rides alive.
25:17Now, you take those men and move them out in the open
25:20where they can be seen.
25:33They're there, they're all right.
25:34We're riding slow.
25:36Adam will come with me.
25:37You boys cover us from the rocks.
25:49Don't fire.
25:51I'll tell you when to shoot.
25:52You hold your ground right there.
25:54The first one breaks to run,
25:56I'll kill him all by myself.
26:04I hear you, Cartwright.
26:06My son and I are coming in there.
26:09You fire one shot,
26:10there won't be a wannabe
26:12ever comes out of that drawer alive.
26:29I hear you, Cartwright.
26:43I ain't drawing.
26:46Drummond,
26:46I ought to let you and your sheep starve.
26:50Looks like I did work myself into a hole, kind of.
26:53Hey, Drummond,
26:54you broke your word to me.
26:56You're not going to break it again.
26:57I'm going to give you one last chance
26:58to get those sheep out of here.
27:00Maybe we can make ourselves a little deal.
27:03No deal, Drummond.
27:05Clear those sheep out.
27:08He don't give a man much space to twist in, does he?
27:11He means it.
27:13Now, either you get out
27:14or you get starved out.
27:18All right, boys.
27:20Put down your guns.
27:24I'll get my sheep out of here come morning.
27:27You get your sheep out right now.
27:30Sure beats me.
27:32Here you own half the world.
27:34And me, all I'm asking is the right
27:36to drive a few miserable sheep
27:38across the corner of your land.
27:40You'd think you could do a man
27:41that little good.
27:43You've got a mighty unreasonable old man, boy.
27:48Now, Drummond,
27:49get those sheep out now.
27:53All right, boys.
27:54You got your orders.
28:05Let's get those sheep out.
28:21Let's get those sheep out.
28:24Maybe we can make us a little deal.
28:26You heard what my father said.
28:29All right, you men.
28:29Let's get them moving.
28:50Take cover, men.
28:51Let's get them moving.
28:51Let's get them moving.
29:39Let's get them moving.
29:40Let's cut shooting, Paul.
29:41I've had it cut off in there.
29:43I've got to get to them.
29:43Paul, you can't make it down there.
29:46Joe?
29:47Yeah, Paul?
29:47I'm going to try to make it up along that ledge.
29:50Paul, you can't make it.
29:53Got Adam in there, I'll make it.
30:08Joe!
30:09Yeah, Paul?
30:10That Drummond is behind the wagon.
30:12I can't get a shot at him from here.
30:30You're cut off, boy.
30:32Throw down your gun.
30:35You heard him.
30:37Drop it.
30:38Adam, make for that path behind you.
30:48Come on, Billy.
30:49Cut him down.
30:54Drop it, kid.
30:57You're going to kill me, ain't you?
30:59Come on, kid.
31:00I said drop it.
31:04Now get out of the way.
31:05I can't.
31:08I can't get out of the way.
31:09I can't, Jeb.
31:10Give me order.
31:13Cover me!
31:20You've got to put up your hands.
31:24All right.
31:25Now come on down here.
31:38Cartwright!
31:40Cartwright, can you hear me?
31:41You call your men off or I'll kill your boy right now.
31:48Joe!
31:49Horse!
31:50Hold your fire.
31:53All right.
31:53Now clear out.
31:55You're still trapped in that hole, Drummond.
31:57Am I?
31:59You got yourself an empire, ain't you, Mr. Cartwright?
32:03Is it worth your boy's life?
32:06Well, is it?
32:10What do you want, Drummond?
32:13You hear that, Billy boy?
32:17What I want, Mr. Cartwright?
32:19Ain't that what you said?
32:21Well, I'll tell you flat out.
32:23First off, I'm going to run my sheep across your land.
32:27And I'm going to graze them till they're full enough to bust.
32:30And your son is going to be with me every step of the way.
32:33And if you try stopping me, I'm going to put a bullet right in the back of his skull.
32:38It's been a long ways to here, Mr. Cartwright.
32:42A long ways and a lot of time.
32:45And if you got any doubt about my meaning, what I say,
32:49well, you just make your play.
32:52All right, Drummond.
32:54I can't stop you.
32:57But you listen to me and you listen good.
33:00If you put a scratch on my boy,
33:04I'll find you.
33:05And I'll kill you.
33:07If I have to follow you clear to hell.
33:14How are we?
33:15We got to do something.
33:18Maybe Adam was right.
33:19Maybe we should have called the sheriff in in the first place.
33:21I don't know.
33:24He was right.
33:29My fault.
33:32Oh, Paul.
33:34You know, you know we don't blame you for nothing.
33:37It's just the way things turned out.
33:39Austin and I would have done the same thing if it were up to us.
33:42That's right.
33:44I made Adam do it my way.
33:47I let Drummond outsmart me.
33:50Paul, you heard little Joe.
33:52Any of us would have done the same thing.
33:56I couldn't have done it any differently.
33:59Couldn't just invite a man and ask him to
34:02make himself and his sheep at home in the best pasture.
34:06Paul, we know you couldn't do any such thing.
34:09Look, don't blame yourself.
34:13Should have thrown him and his sheep right off the property right away.
34:18I was soft.
34:21Paul, we've all learned our lesson.
34:25From now on, we'll know better than to try to fight this sort of thing ourselves.
34:28We'll go for a sheriff.
34:34You mean, from now on, the Cartwrights don't fight their own battles anymore?
34:38Is that what you're saying?
34:38From now on, whenever we get into any kind of trouble, we have to go begging for help?
34:41Not begging.
34:42It ain't begging.
34:42Well, then what is it if it isn't begging?
34:44It's asking.
34:45It's asking like other folks do when their rights are violated, Paul.
34:49It's asking folks whose sworn duty it is to uphold the law to come and help us.
34:54Paul, is that what you always try to teach us?
35:00Paul, you know I've always wanted us to take care of our own troubles.
35:04But this time they've got Adam.
35:07I just don't think there's anything else we can do.
35:11Yeah.
35:14Yeah.
35:17All right, you two settle up.
35:19Ride into town, tell the sheriff what's happened.
35:20I think I can go first about myself.
35:26Horse.
35:29You and I, we're riding into Drummond's camp.
35:32I got an idea how to keep Drummond busy till the sheriff gets there.
35:35I don't trust him, but then I can see him.
35:37Yes, sir.
35:40All set, Jeff.
35:42You look at them sheep.
35:43They're resting in quiet.
35:45I bet they ain't felt as good in their bellies in a month of Sundays.
35:49Grazing on all this nice, fat, cartwright grass.
35:51Sure is good pasture, Jeff.
35:54You know something, Billy?
35:56I've been thinking there ain't nothing we can find in California as good as we got right here.
36:00Now, is there?
36:01Well, I guess not, Jeff.
36:03Good land, lots of it.
36:05Why, we can raise ourselves the biggest, fattest flock of sheep in the whole country right here.
36:11And I'm going to take it, Billy.
36:12All of it.
36:14How are you going to do that?
36:17I knew that Providence would show me a way.
36:19Him?
36:20You mean young Cartwright?
36:21Mm-hmm.
36:22Before I'm done with him, Ben Cartwright is going to be begging to give us the Ponderosa to get his
36:27son back.
36:28You remember one thing, Billy.
36:30You catch a man where he's soft, and you can most always squeeze anything you want out of him.
36:36You better take care of him.
36:38I don't want nothing to happen to him just yet.
36:39I'll take care of him.
36:41Yes, sir, Billy.
36:43There ain't nothing at all in California we ain't got more of right here.
36:48Say, you must be clean hungry.
36:50Eat some of them beans before the cold.
36:53See you in the morning, Billy.
36:55Night, Jim.
36:56Night.
37:13I brought you some beans.
37:18I can't untie you.
37:20Jeff wouldn't favor that.
37:22It's all right.
37:28You could have killed me yesterday when you had the chance.
37:32Guess I could.
37:33If you had, you wouldn't be here like this now.
37:37Yeah, I guess that's true.
37:41Why don't you do it, then?
37:42Why don't you kill me when you had the chance?
37:44I don't know.
37:45Just couldn't.
37:47That ain't like Jeff said.
37:48I mean about what you and your pa would do to us.
37:52Well, what did he say we'd do to you?
37:54Kill us.
37:55First crack out of the barrel.
37:59How long you been with Drummond?
38:02Oh, a year.
38:03Maybe a little more.
38:05I met him when I first left off farming and took to the road.
38:10Wasn't exactly like I met him.
38:12Some drunk cowhands was gonna hang me up for stealing a pinto.
38:16But I never done it.
38:18How old were you?
38:20Nineteen.
38:22I guess that's how it happened.
38:24Well, I didn't know much then.
38:26Well, like now.
38:29I bought the horse off a peddler fella.
38:32But I never had sense enough to get no papers for it.
38:35Just dumb, trusting-like.
38:38Now he's taught you not to trust anybody, huh?
38:40Jeb saved my life.
38:43Well, that doesn't mean you have to live the way he does.
38:46I owe him.
38:48But I guess you wouldn't know what it feels like to have a rope strung around your neck.
38:52Not with a regular family and living the way you do.
38:57No, sir.
38:59Old Jeb, he'd just come by and scattered them trail hands off.
39:03And you think he did it for you?
39:06Haven't you been around him long enough to know he doesn't do anything for anybody except himself?
39:10That don't make no difference.
39:13Oh, I guess it weren't so much to save me as much as old Jeb just got it in for
39:21cattlemen and cowhens and that like.
39:24He's bitter in his ways.
39:26Like my pa was.
39:29What happened to him?
39:31He got himself killed fighting over a few acres of bare rocky ground back in Kentucky.
39:38Wasn't like I knew him much.
39:40Him or anybody.
39:42Mostly I just sort of shifted around from one kin to the next.
39:46Doesn't mean you have to stay with him.
39:48He's always done good by me.
39:51Listen, he's no better than something that crawls after carrying.
39:54You want to plunder your piece of land bad enough to have his taint rub off on you?
40:00You talk mighty big, don't you, mister?
40:02That's because you got it all.
40:03A family and regular living and all this good, rich land to hang on to.
40:09All I got in this world is Jeb Drummond.
40:11You remember that, mister.
40:13I got nothing in this world but Jeb Drummond.
40:16I got nothing in this world but they're dead.
40:17I got nothing in this world but you are dead.
40:20Go home, please.
40:21Go home, please.
40:23Go home, please.
40:24Go home, please.
40:27There it is.
40:33Go home, please.
40:38Go home, please.
40:45Captain, two men on horses.
40:47Looks like the cartwrights.
40:50Pull that wagon!
41:19I left my gun, Ruben.
41:21He ain't left his.
41:25Get that gun, Billy boy.
41:30Adam.
41:31Hello, Pa.
41:32All right.
41:33Now, suppose you dismount and say your piece.
41:44Drummond, let my son go.
41:46Take me instead.
41:47You?
41:48Did I hear correct?
41:50You hear correct.
41:52What are you figuring?
41:54You want a hostage.
41:56Well, I'll be a hostage.
41:58No, Pa.
42:00Well, Drummond, what about it?
42:02Well, I'll tell you, I don't care much
42:04which of you cartwrights I hold as hostage.
42:07Because I got me another notion.
42:10What's your notion, Drummond?
42:12I've been thinking they had nothing in California
42:14as good as you got here.
42:16So I'm going to take it.
42:18All of it.
42:19And claim it as my own.
42:21How are you figuring on doing that, mister?
42:24Are you planning on killing us all?
42:27Ask your old man.
42:28I think he knows.
42:31Billy boy, give me that paper.
42:36Yes, sir, Mr. Cartwright.
42:39I've got it all right here.
42:41A deed to 50,000 acres of your land.
42:44Now all you've got to do is
42:47sign it and make it all legal.
42:49Drummond, do you think that my signing
42:52a ridiculous scrap of paper like that
42:53is going to make anything legal?
42:55Well, the way I see it,
42:56I'm willing to take the gamble.
42:58Because I ain't got nothing to lose anyhow.
43:00And you've got something mighty important to gain.
43:03What's he got to gain?
43:05You.
43:07Because unless he signs this deed,
43:08I'm going to kill you
43:09and let your body rot where it drops.
43:14Adam, there's something you ought to know.
43:16I sent little Joe to town for the sheriff.
43:20Thanks, Bob.
43:21It looks like I've been wrong all along.
43:23No.
43:25No, you weren't wrong.
43:28And Drummond, with the sheriff coming,
43:29how do you think you're going to get away with all this?
43:32Well, like I said, I'm willing to take the chance.
43:35Yes.
43:36That's what you said.
43:39What about you?
43:40You willing to take a gamble, too?
43:46Whatever Jeb says is good enough for me.
43:52You, too?
43:54I'm willing.
43:57Look at him.
43:59Do you think he cares if you get skinned
44:01and hooked like some coyote meat?
44:03As long as he can use you to get what he's after?
44:06All right, you had your say, mister.
44:08Now, do you want to sign this deed
44:10or do you want to bury your son?
44:12Don't sign it, Pa.
44:13He won't shoot.
44:20That's the difference between you and me, Drummond.
44:24I'm not a gambling man.
44:27Give me that paper.
44:31Pa, don't.
44:3250,000 acres, it isn't worth it.
44:34Isn't it?
44:48Well, that's a mighty fine-looking signature.
44:51Much better than I could have done.
44:54But then, I never owned 50,000 acres of prime land before, neither.
44:58And you don't own it now.
45:01Don't move!
45:05Adam.
45:09I was going to make it an even deal.
45:11The land for your son.
45:15But it looks like I can't trust any of you Cotwrights.
45:18There's only one way to deal with you.
45:20Give me the gun, Billy.
45:22You can't just kill him, Jeb.
45:24Can't I?
45:25You just watch.
45:27I ain't done nothing for you to kill him over, Jeb.
45:30You give me that gun!
45:31But, Jeb...
45:32Look how many times I've tried to beat it into you, Billy.
45:35If you want something in this world,
45:37you've got to get it whichever way you can.
45:39But you go right on being woman-soft.
45:41Maybe I should have let them wranglers string you up for stealing them three pin-oes.
45:46Three pin-oes?
45:52Jeb, how'd you ever know they was looking for three of them?
45:56Well, they said, I guess.
45:58No, they never.
45:59They never said nothing after you came.
46:02Well, that don't make no difference, boy.
46:04Don't it?
46:05Well, I think it does, Jeb.
46:08Because you kill them straight off.
46:11Well, I thought it was to save me, but that wasn't it, was it?
46:15Well, you knew there's three pin-oes
46:17because you was the one that stole them and sold them off yourself.
46:21Well, I guess I really don't owe you nothing, do I, Jeb?
46:24Now, you know that ain't right, Billy boy.
46:27I mean, maybe I did lie to you about them pin-oes,
46:30but I always done good by you and I taught you things.
46:34Sure.
46:35Like shooting a man in the back.
46:36Like grabbing and thieving.
46:39Well, I learned good, Jeb.
46:41But I ain't learning no more.
46:43Now, look, Billy.
46:44Billy, you're like a son to me.
46:47The only reason I want this land is because I'm going to leave it to you.
46:50I promise it.
46:51No, Jeb.
46:53You give me that gun!
46:57How many times have I tried to beat it into you, Billy?
47:07Jeb.
47:08I...
47:10I should have let him hang you.
47:12You're no good leaving dirty double-crossing.
47:17Shoot him, Coyote!
47:19Kill him!
47:35Hey, Pa, how come I've seen you got all this vinegar?
47:37Sorry, Pa, you didn't have no rutabaggers.
47:41Guess I'll be leaving.
47:43Surely thank you for all your help.
47:45For the shirt, little Joe.
47:47You're welcome.
47:48Where do you go now?
47:49I don't know exactly.
47:52Billy, do you ever think of taking a homestead?
47:55You mean a place of my own?
47:56Yeah.
47:57Sure, but...
47:58Well, uh, we got a lot of open land here in the Ponderosa.
48:01I figure that Adam here could probably help you pick out a good piece of it.
48:05You mean a piece of your land?
48:08Well, we got a lot of people coming out this way.
48:10I guess we'll have to make some room for them all, including the law.
48:16Well, Mr. Cartwright, I sure will try to live up to your faith in me.
48:22Well, Billy, you better, because if I catch you stepping out of line just once, why, I'll...
48:26You'll, uh, go get the sheriff.
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