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Features Little Joe Cartwright (Michael Landon) befriending and teaching sign language to a deaf-mute woman named Annie (Stella Stevens). The episode focuses on Joe’s efforts to help her, causing tension with her protective, reclusive father and a threatening local trapper.
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04:05Hey, Sam, look.
04:08Let's pretend that she's a tree.
04:13Foolishness.
04:15Can't hear.
04:16Can't talk.
04:18Don't understand no more than them dumb bees she tends.
04:23No use bringing her presents, little Joe.
04:26Ah, come on, Sam.
04:28Anybody understands getting a present.
04:30Suit yourself.
04:32Getting on towards dinner.
04:34Getting on towards dinner.
04:34You're welcome to share it, such as it is.
04:48Hey, look, I, uh, I brought you a little present.
04:51Hey, wait a second.
04:52Let me get it.
05:00Hey, sir.
05:02I thought I'd bring it as long as I was coming.
05:04It's not much.
05:07Well, come on.
05:08It's not going to bite you.
05:10Well, come on.
05:10Take it.
05:11It's for you.
05:14Yeah, wait a sec.
05:22Here.
05:28It's not much, just a rag doll.
05:35Don't worry, I'm not going to take it back.
05:48Oh, you...
05:50You go right ahead and enjoy it.
05:57So long.
06:03Well, I'll see you.
06:07So long.
06:36It's good talking to you, little Joe.
06:39Man gets out of the habit with nobody around to listen.
06:42Why do you stay up here, Sam?
06:44It's best.
06:46Maybe it's best for you, but what about Annie?
06:49Must be something terrible wrong with a man.
06:53A father, a child like her.
06:56Killed her ma, bringing her into the world.
06:59I reckon it ain't too much punishment for me to raise her.
07:02It was just an accident, the way she was born.
07:04It's not your fault.
07:06No!
07:07I won't hear no more about her.
07:09Not from you.
07:11Not nobody.
07:16Okay, Sam.
07:19I'll help you move the rest of those sheep before I start out for Placid.
07:39Well, I never knew a couple dozen sheep could be so ornery.
07:45Almost as bad as people.
07:47You know, it's funny.
07:49You know, I've been talking to you all day, and I know you can't hear a word I'm saying.
07:57Hey, what are you looking at now?
08:00Hey.
08:01That's what I call a right pretty girl.
08:05Hey, look over here.
08:07That fellow right there, that's that handsome Joe Cartwright.
08:10It's the guy that's always watching me when I'm shaving.
08:12I just can't seem to get rid of him.
08:26All right, what are you trying to fool me with now?
08:29Step behind your back.
08:38Hey, look.
08:40It's real beautiful.
08:47That sure is pretty.
08:50I guess you don't need to know how to talk to say everything.
08:54Thanks.
08:57I wish I could make you understand.
09:03Hey, look.
09:06Look, I'm trying to tell you I like it.
09:24Oh, howdy, Preacher.
09:25Albie.
09:26It's good to see you again.
09:28Thank you, Albie.
09:30You been walking in the way of the Lord?
09:33Well, I've been doing a lot of walking.
09:36Senator, you were up here near spring the last time you came by here.
09:41I guess it was.
09:42You dropping in on Sam, too?
09:45Well, you don't think I'd be swapping tails and telling news of that Annie.
09:49She's a child of God, son, for all the way he made her.
09:53Well, that's a fact, Preacher.
09:55How about you?
09:56About time you married and raised a family, isn't it?
09:59Plenty of unmarried girls in town.
10:02Town girl once said I had the smell of a trapper on me.
10:06It's like meat that's not cured right.
10:09You'll find the right girl soon enough.
10:11Come on, now.
10:13The word of the law will conquer mine and your soul.
10:29For thou writest bitter things against me and will consume me for the sins of my youth.
10:37Amen.
10:38I'm paying for my sins, Preacher.
10:41Paying.
10:42You, Sam, that why you're always getting them children fevered?
10:46Every man is tempted by the devil, Albie.
11:28No, Albie.
11:30Hearing the word of God is man's only salvation.
11:33True, Preacher, true.
11:35If I could only read the Lord's word,
11:39I could bear up under his suffering.
11:41Yeah, even if you could read, Sam,
11:44who would you read it to?
11:49Getting cramped sitting all this time.
11:52Think I'll go out for a while.
11:57Man born of woman living a short life
12:00is filled with many miseries.
12:03Who will make him clean
12:06that is conceived of unclean seed?
12:10I will ever understand you.
12:18That's why I would be different.
12:19All of you.
12:33Can I understand you?
12:36Have a while.
12:38Say that you may not be unique.
12:48No, don't be scared. Just Albie.
12:51What else you got there, huh?
12:52Let Albie see it.
12:54Come on, let me see it. I ain't gonna take it.
13:02Oh, it's a button, huh?
13:04I guess you ain't got much that's better, have you?
13:06Huh?
13:11No matter what you are, you sure are pretty.
13:14Look, you must get lonesome, too.
13:17Look, I'm just trying to be nice to you, that's all.
13:20Come on, come on.
13:22I've been trapping for over a week.
13:25Man likes a woman to be waiting when he gets back.
13:28Come on.
13:30Come on.
13:32What are you, some sort of stick of wood or something?
13:35Come on.
13:36You can't hear, you can't talk.
13:38Haven't you got any feelings?
13:45Yeah, that's not so bad now, is it, huh?
13:48Albie?
13:49Where are you?
13:52You in there, in that shed?
13:53Come on, preacher!
13:55I'm not finished with you yet.
13:57I'll be back.
14:06What are you doing in that shed, Albie?
14:08Well, I'm just helping Sam catch up with his chores, preacher.
14:11Oh, that's good of you, Albie.
14:13Sam's got a lot of fever.
14:14It'd be a good idea if you stop around whenever you can.
14:17Don't worry, preacher.
14:19I'm going to be around a lot more now.
14:22Good.
14:37I'll be back.
15:06What are you doing here?
15:07Come here, girl. You should be out with the sheep.
15:14What are you hiding?
15:16Out with it, girl.
15:24I warned you.
15:27Never touch me money pouch.
15:32Corrupted by a present.
15:35You've done an evil thing.
15:38You must be punished.
15:46At least if you can't hear, I know you can feel.
15:51I take no joy in hurting you.
15:54I'm your father.
15:56It's my duty to teach you right and wrong as best I can.
16:02Thou shalt not steal.
16:06Thou shalt not steal.
16:15Don't look at me with them sad eyes.
16:20I can't stand to see suffering written on your face and not a word coming from your tongue, not even
16:26sobbing.
16:28Put it back so you'll remember.
16:32Never do it again.
16:35Thou shalt not steal.
17:38Sam Croft!
17:41Hey, what do you see when I brought you from Placerville?
17:45Come on!
17:47It's really for you anyway, eh?
17:49What do you see what it is?
17:50See, I got to talking to this doctor in Placerville, and I told him all about you, and he gave
17:56me this.
17:57Here, here, take it.
17:59Hey, Sam!
18:01Sam!
18:04It's a book of sign language, and you can learn to talk once you understand these signs.
18:12It's not hard, either, because I learned a whole bunch of them on the way out here.
18:20I'm sure you don't even know what I'm talking about.
18:23Come on!
18:24Come on!
18:29Now, listen.
18:32You can learn to talk and to hear, just like other people.
18:40Only with these.
18:42With your hands.
18:46Well, let me see how I'm going to do this.
18:53First page.
18:55Now, look.
18:59A flower.
19:00See the picture?
19:03A flower.
19:05Just like the picture.
19:09A flower.
19:10You see?
19:13Flower.
19:14This is the sign.
19:16Flower.
19:17Now you do it.
19:21All right, watch me once more.
19:24Flower.
19:26Just like you're smelling a real nice flower.
19:35What's the matter?
19:39There's nothing in my hand.
19:40I'm not trying to fool you.
19:43Forget that.
19:44We're going to go to another one.
19:48Girl.
19:50You.
19:53Girl.
19:54Girl.
19:55Because your cheek's real, real nice and soft.
19:57Give me your hand.
19:59Just like that.
20:02Girl.
20:07Wow.
20:10Boy.
20:12Boy.
20:14Just like tipping my hat.
20:16My boy.
20:17Like you tip my hat.
20:22You don't understand, do you?
20:28It's going to be a lot tougher than I thought.
20:32At least I can't make it any plainer.
20:33I don't know why you can't understand it.
20:41That's it.
20:42That's it.
20:44What's this for?
20:47Oh, Annie.
20:49Look, this isn't some kind of a game.
20:51I'm doing my best to teach you this sign language.
20:55Look, I want you to be able to talk.
20:57And to understand people when they talk to you.
20:59Can't you see that?
21:04Well, I guess you never will.
21:13You couldn't hear that.
21:17Why, of course.
21:20Of course, you'll feel it.
21:21Here.
21:23Here, you feel that?
21:25That's what talking is.
21:26Feel it.
21:28Here.
21:29Feel it.
21:31Feel the ground.
21:33Look, you can talk like that.
21:37Look.
21:43See that?
21:44I'm talking to you with my hands.
21:52That's it.
21:53That's it.
21:54You understand.
21:57You do understand.
21:59This girl.
22:02Boy.
22:04Boy.
22:05Tipping your hat.
22:07A beautiful flower.
22:12There isn't a person who can talk.
22:16Or here that can ever understand the way you feel.
22:20I'm so happy.
22:30It's raining.
22:37Rain.
22:40Rain.
22:41Just like the drops coming down.
22:46Come on.
22:47Stop.
22:48Stop.
22:57You want to learn it all.
22:59All right, you will.
23:01It'll take time.
23:02And it'll take work.
23:04But you will.
23:06You will.
23:07You will.
23:13You trying to tell me that there's any hope when I've lived my whole life with a weight
23:19of a pressing on me heart like a stone.
23:22Now, will you watch, Sam?
23:24You see for yourself.
23:28Now, you are going to talk to your father.
23:32Father.
23:36Understand?
23:40Boy.
23:46Girl.
23:53flower
24:01book
24:06that ain't talking
24:07that's just like Indian sign
24:09that's right
24:10that's right only better
24:12you're a fool little Joe
24:14she's just waving her arms around
24:16how do you know she understands
24:18what she's doing
24:19see for yourself she understands
24:21all right
24:23you know what them signs mean do you
24:27you girl
24:29he boy
24:31what am I
24:34what am I
24:37what am I
24:41what am I
24:43I'm scaring her Sam
24:44I tell you she does understand
24:45no no
24:47no
24:48she's not an animal Sam
24:50help her
24:50bring her to town if you don't believe me
24:52let the doctor see her
24:54no doctor can give that poor girl
24:56what she was robbed of at birth
24:59she'll never change
25:00she can learn to understand
25:02but not if you don't help her
25:03not if you don't give her a chance
25:11Sam
25:15look at her
25:16look at her
25:16she's talking to you
25:16with her hands
25:22she's telling you
25:23she went out into the rain
25:24and got the book
25:27now do you believe me
25:30she's not one of your sheep
25:31Sam
25:31she's your daughter
25:56I don't know
25:57I don't know
26:02you
26:37Hey, you wait here. I'll save the doc's in.
27:12Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Look out! Get out of the way!
27:24Hey! Oh! Ann! Ann, you're near, got killed!
27:37Ain't that the old coot who lives up in the mountains?
27:40Yeah, Sam Croft. He only comes down about twice a year.
27:44You know, I thought he'd live by himself.
27:47He's been holding out on us.
27:49Yeah.
27:56Well, Sam Crawford.
27:58Now, where'd you get a pretty little thing like her, huh?
28:01You been holding out on us, Sam?
28:03What do you want, Tom?
28:05Well, you went out and got yourself a little company, huh?
28:10She's my daughter.
28:12Who you trying to fool?
28:14Leave us alone.
28:15Has old Sam been treating you right?
28:18Hmm?
28:20Well, what do you say?
28:21I'm talking to you.
28:22She...
28:23She don't talk much to strangers.
28:25Well, now, how come?
28:26Is she too good for fellas like us?
28:28Yeah, let me get a good look at her.
28:30No, no, don't give me that.
28:32You want it, Sam?
28:33Well, you gotta come and take it.
28:35Oh, please, leave us alone.
28:36We ain't doing you no harm.
28:39Now, Sam, if the girl wants a bonnet,
28:41let her ask for it real pretty like her.
28:45Now, I bet I can make you talk to us.
28:49Now, leave her alone.
28:50Leave her alone.
28:52No, no, man, where are you going?
28:54Leave her alone.
29:15It's only that old mountain goat, Sam Croft.
29:19Get out of here.
29:30Come on, Pappy.
29:32He ain't worth shooting.
29:35Oh, we just have a little fun.
29:44You both all right?
29:45Well, we ain't hurt.
29:47Good.
29:48Come on, Sam, the doctor's in.
29:49No, we ain't going to no doctor.
29:51We shouldn't have come here in the first place.
29:53Shouldn't have listened to you.
29:55What's the matter?
29:55What are you talking about?
29:56We belong in the mountains.
29:58Me and the girl both.
29:59We ain't fit for no town.
30:01And the town ain't fit for us.
30:03Sam, for once, think of what's right for Ann.
30:05That's who I'm thinking of.
30:07Now, get out of my way.
30:19How's it coming along, son?
30:21You know, you've been spending much more time up at the Crofts these past few months than here.
30:28If I just wouldn't believe it.
30:29Why, Ann's learned so much already.
30:31We can carry on a regular conversation.
30:34Uh, how's Sam Croft?
30:36Still as stubborn about it as ever?
30:38That man's impossible.
30:40He told me he'd never let us see the doctor, not ever.
30:43I sure hope I can get him to change his mind.
30:46Joe.
30:49You don't think you're, uh...
30:53over your head?
30:55Uh, what do you mean?
30:57Well, sometimes it's best not to, you know, push people too hard.
31:01Leave well enough alone.
31:03Now, why should I leave him alone?
31:04He's not gonna help her.
31:05Somebody has to.
31:06No, no.
31:09Sometimes helping...
31:11looks like meddling.
31:13Don't worry, Pa.
31:14I know the difference.
31:18Joe, take care of yourself up there.
31:20Sure I will, Pa.
31:26Sam?
31:37Sam, you in there?
31:38Sam, you in there?
31:57Well, there you are.
32:00I was awful lonely out in the traps.
32:06What's that, a new kind of game?
32:08Huh?
32:09You want me to play a little game with you?
32:14Gotcha.
32:15Old Albie's missed you a lot,
32:16but he's gonna make it all up to you.
32:27Now, Sam, there's no need to bring a gun up on me.
32:32Get away from her.
32:37And keep away.
32:39I don't see you running Joe Cartwright off a hill.
32:41Maybe you think he's a better man than I am.
32:45Joe Cartwright's teaching her to talk.
32:48I'll bet you he's teaching her to talk.
32:54Move, or I'll blow your head off.
32:58All right.
32:59All right, Sam.
33:05Just remember,
33:06with all that money and all them girls in town,
33:08Joe Cartwright ain't interested in marrying anyone like Annie.
33:27All right.
33:28This is the last one for today.
33:33This is gonna be a tough one.
33:37Love.
33:39Love.
33:41Your father
33:43helps you.
33:48Your father
33:49gives you food.
33:54You
33:55live
33:56in your father's
33:59house.
34:03You
34:05love
34:06your father.
34:09your father
34:11loves you.
34:23You see, I could say, uh,
34:26you love flowers,
34:29and you'd know that
34:30it was good.
34:36I teach you to talk, yeah.
34:42No, no, no.
34:46That's wrong.
34:48See, you
34:49don't
34:50love me.
34:57Now, that is wrong.
35:00You
35:01don't
35:01love me.
35:07Now, look,
35:08you don't love me.
35:10You don't love me,
35:11and I don't love you.
35:13You
35:14don't love me.
35:20Annie, I'm sorry.
35:26I'm sorry.
35:32Please, I, I didn't want to hurt you.
35:40Annie, please look at me.
36:45All of a sudden, for no reason, she tried to kiss me.
36:48She tried to kiss you?
36:50Well, she did kiss me, as a matter of fact.
36:54I guess she got upset and she ran away.
36:57I should have been watching you all along.
37:07You should have been watching me.
37:13You should have been watching me.
37:15You should have been helping me teach her instead of being so stubborn.
37:19Teaching her what?
37:21Kissing?
37:22All kinds of sin?
37:24You keep away from her.
37:29All right, Sam.
37:31All right, I'll keep away from her.
37:34You're her father.
37:35You tried teaching her for a change.
37:58Goodbye, little Joe Cartwright.
38:12Ann!
38:14Ann!
38:24Hello, Sam.
38:26I'm looking for Ann.
38:28I told you I didn't like a gun thrown on me.
38:31How's it feel?
38:34Where's Ann?
38:35Have you got a...
38:36No, I ain't got a...
38:37But I will have, after you meet with an accident.
38:42You see, Sam, I'm going to be a hero.
38:45I'm going to take care of Annie after you die in an accident.
39:04So you just walked out.
39:05Oh, what was I supposed to do?
39:08She completely misunderstood.
39:10Oh, and then her father.
39:12I go in and I try to explain it to him and he starts accusing me of all kinds of
39:16things.
39:17That's really funny.
39:18He doesn't try to help her himself.
39:19If you insisted on starting this, you can't walk out before you finish it.
39:23I understand that.
39:23I'm not a little kid.
39:24Aren't you?
39:26If you understand it and still walk out, then you're just a little kid.
39:29Now, wait a minute!
39:30Don't you raise your voice to me, boy.
39:32And don't you call me a little kid.
39:38Joe, you opened a door to the world for this girl.
39:42You let her look out for the first time.
39:45Her gratitude for you must be overwhelming, to say the least.
39:48All right, fine.
39:50Fine.
39:50All I was trying to do was help her.
39:52You can't shove someone into the water and then not wait around to see if they can swim.
39:56She has a father.
39:57No.
39:58You started it.
39:59You were the one who tampered with those two lives and you can't abandon them now.
40:02What do you want me to do, marry her?
40:14Help me, Pa.
40:15I don't know what to do.
40:19Go back.
40:21No, I can't.
40:23I can't go back there and hurt her anymore.
40:26You must make her understand that what she feels for you is gratitude, not love.
40:34Or she'll be hurt a little bit, but she'll get over it.
40:37If you don't go back, she'll remain hurt forever.
40:47I think I'll go for a ride.
41:05I can't hardly feel nothing.
41:13What's to become of you, Ann?
41:18I've kept you up here, hidden, ashamed of me own flesh and blood.
41:25Forgive me, daughter.
41:27If you can, I love you, Ann.
41:31I always did.
42:08I love you, Ann.
42:23Well, I knew you'd be back sooner or later.
42:29You still playing games with me?
42:33I'm gonna teach you more than Joe Cartwright ever did.
42:47You're worried about your pa. Your pa ain't coming back, you're gonna stay with me.
42:51All right, now, look, now. Just take it easy.
42:53You be nice to Albie, and Albie's gonna be nice to you.
42:57I'll even buy you a new dress.
43:34I'll be right back.
43:51Come back. There ain't no place to go.
44:12Annie!
44:13Annie!
44:16Annie, Annie, what happened? Look at me! Look at me! What happened?
44:23Your father. Hurt. Needs help. Where? He fell!
44:34Stay out of this, Cartwright.
44:37You do this to her, Albie.
44:42What's she trying to tell you?
44:44What happened to Sam?
44:46What are you talking about?
44:48Annie says Sam's been hurt.
44:49What?
44:50Now, don't fool with me. You know she can't talk.
44:56Can't she, Albie?
45:01No on man.
45:02Oh, no.
45:08Yeah.
45:12Oh, no.
45:16Or him.
45:17And, and.
45:20Oh!
45:23Oh!
45:24Oh.
45:25Oh, yes!
45:26Come on.
46:12Come on.
46:50What would the doctor say?
46:52Well, he said he'd be all right, but he'll need a lot of care.
46:58Did you, uh, have you spoken to her yet about...
47:02Yeah.
47:04Good.
47:05You better tell her her father'll be all right.
47:07Yeah, right.
47:27Your father'll be all right.
47:32Well, doctor says your father'll be all right.
47:50What...
47:51What'd she say?
47:55She said she'd help you.
47:57Take care of you.
47:58She says she loves you very much.
48:05Joe.
48:07Yeah?
48:09What's the sign for daughter?
48:33It's easy.
48:35He...
48:42THE END
49:14THE END
49:36THE END
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49:50The END
49:52The END
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49:53The END
49:56The END
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