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Ben Cartwright is forced to kill a man in self-defense after the man attempts to kill him in a drunken rage. The deceased man's teenage son, Todd, arrives in Virginia City convinced that Ben murdered his father because he is wealthy and powerful. Despite the tension, Ben takes the boy into his home, trying to help him overcome his vengeful convictions.
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00:30Thank you, Mr. Brown.
00:31Howdy, Bert.
00:32Ben.
00:33Another hot day?
00:34That sure is.
00:39Hello, horse.
00:41Hi, Bert. Good driver.
00:43They sure are. I'll put them on your bill.
00:46Bert, you put them on horse's personal bill.
00:48Say, I got a long list of supplies here I'd like you to put together for us.
00:51Leave me alone.
00:52I said leave me alone.
01:00Some of that sweet wine, Bert.
01:02Doctor said, take a little with my meals.
01:05Proud of the brand you like, Luke. Maybe later today we'll have some in.
01:08Luke.
01:11Honey, you heard what he said. Look, you can come back later.
01:13I don't want no woman telling me what to do.
01:18Who do you think you're for?
01:19You think I haven't got any eyes?
01:22I'll get them myself.
01:23Oh, wait a minute, Luke. You stay out of there.
01:25Luke.
01:27Uh, Hossa and I are just going out to have some breakfast.
01:29Why don't you come along with us?
01:31Now, you Cartwrights, stay out of this.
01:33I don't like you.
01:35I never did.
01:38We ain't gonna put up with this, Luke.
01:40You get out of here and stay out of here.
01:41Honey, please stop.
01:42I don't want you to get hurt.
01:48No stinking storekeeper's gonna tell me what to do.
01:52You high and mighty Cartwrights.
01:55You don't mean nothing to me.
01:57Luke, honey, please stop.
02:01I've always wanted to kill me, you Cartwright.
02:05No.
02:12Luke.
02:16Luke.
02:17Luke, honey.
02:20Please, will you?
02:23Now, how'd this happen?
02:28I'm afraid it's too late for a doctor.
02:30Luke's been drinking for a week straight, Sheriff.
02:32He plumbed one out of his head.
02:33There wasn't nothing Ben could do.
02:37Luke Grayson's been heading for this for a long time.
02:41Maybe so.
02:43Miserable end for a man like Luke Grayson once was.
02:46You had to do this, didn't you, Ben Cartwright?
02:50You had to kill him.
02:51Lord, he's on the list.
02:56We'll be right back for a long time.
02:57He's on again.
03:02He'll be right.
03:03He'll be right back.
03:03First time the night hatte to come.
03:04The young man's been going.
03:06The young man was大哥, too.
03:16Is lay down on it?
03:25The End
04:08Well, Todd, this is the end of our long journey in Virginia City.
04:14Doesn't look like either of us are going to get much of a welcome.
04:17Paul must have got my letter.
04:19I wrote him right after he sent me the money for the fair.
04:22Time's pretty valuable to a man as rich and important as you say your pa is.
04:26He probably left word for you.
04:28Let's ask around.
04:29Well, that's the thing to do.
04:31I want to thank you anyway for looking out for me the way you have.
04:35Agent?
04:37Yes, sir?
04:38You know a man called Luke Grayson?
04:41Sure, who don't?
04:43Well, he was supposed to meet this stage.
04:45Well, now, he ain't going to meet this stage or any other.
04:48You'll find him over yonder.
04:52You don't mean he's dead.
04:54Well, now, Ab Jenkins ain't buried alive one recently.
04:57However, I think the townspeople would have been willing to make an exception in this case.
05:02No.
05:04No, he can't be dead.
05:08Can't be dead.
05:15Isn't that terrible?
05:16That boy came all the way from Boston to see his father.
05:19Father?
05:21Is that Luke's kid?
05:26Are you sure there's nothing more, Haas, than I can do?
05:29Appears to me you've done too much already.
05:32I don't like the way you said that, Mr. Jenkins.
05:35Everybody knows it was either Paul or Luke.
05:38You know that ain't what I mean, Haas.
05:40I was referring to all the expense.
05:43Paying for the best funeral.
05:45The sheriff has a special fund to foot that kind of bill.
05:47Well, the sheriff didn't gun Luke down.
05:49I did.
05:51We'll see you at the services.
06:00Get out of my way!
06:01Get me through!
06:18Is that Luke Grayson?
06:20I'm afraid so.
06:23Not the way I remember him.
06:26It's not the way at all.
06:33How did he die?
06:36I'm afraid this ain't the time or the place.
06:38Look, mister, I've got a right to know he was my father.
06:41Todd.
06:44Todd Grayson.
06:50I'd have known you anywhere.
06:53It's all Luke talked about the last few days.
06:56If there's ever anything I can do...
06:58What do you know about him?
07:00I'm Diane Jordan.
07:02Luke and I were...
07:04Your father and I...
07:06Well, he must have written you about me.
07:09How did he die?
07:10Now, look, son.
07:11There's no time to be talking about things like this.
07:13Isn't it?
07:14Why isn't it?
07:15I'll have to know the truth sooner or later.
07:18Your father was murdered.
07:20Shot down in cold blood by a man named Ben Cartwright.
07:24Now, you know better than that, Diane.
07:29Son, this ain't the same as back east.
07:31When a man draws a gun on another man...
07:33Ben Cartwright.
07:36Why did he want to kill my father?
07:38If you're Ben Cartwright, you don't have to have an excuse to kill a man.
07:42Diane, I won't have this talk.
07:44Now, look.
07:49Boy, you come with me a minute.
07:57It's your father's gun.
07:59Take a good look.
08:01It'll show he fired twice.
08:02There was no way back after that.
08:05He fired even before Ben Cartwright drew.
08:10My father's gun.
08:13He wore it proudly.
08:16It was a famous gun once.
08:20Son, the gun, I think I ought to turn that over to the sheriff.
08:24Why?
08:25It was Luke's gun, wasn't it?
08:26Well, yeah, sure, but...
08:27Then it should go to the boy.
08:30Everything Luke left should go to the boy.
08:34Your father left some other things over at my place.
08:37With me.
08:39I know he'd want you to have them.
08:44Nor is it for us to condemn the victor...
08:47even while we mourn the fallen.
08:51We can only hope that the soul of Luke Grayson...
08:54shall achieve in the everlasting life beyond...
08:56the forgiveness and peace denied him on this earth.
09:03Let us pray.
09:09You'd better say one for yourself, Mr. Cartwright.
09:13It's gonna...
09:13It's gonna be your last.
09:15You murdered my father,
09:17and now they're gonna bury you along with him.
09:18Don't be a fool, boy.
09:20Put up your gun.
09:22When I'm finished with it!
09:24Hey, son, this is your last warning.
09:25You might get off the first shot, but I'll get off the second.
09:28Oh, the sheriff...
09:29He's just a scared kid now.
09:32Sure, I'm scared.
09:34But that's not gonna stop me...
09:35Todd.
09:36For your own sake, listen to me.
09:38It was no murder.
09:40Ben Cartwright did everything he could to avoid bloodshed.
09:42Keep out of this.
09:43It isn't your fight.
09:44It doesn't have to be anybody's fight, son.
09:47If I'd done what you think,
09:49you believe I'd be a free man today?
09:52Oh, I've heard all about you, Cartwrights.
09:54You can even buy your way out of murder,
09:57but not this time.
09:59Wait!
10:00Let me go!
10:01I'll kill him!
10:01I'll kill him!
10:03Let me go!
10:05Let me go!
10:08It's all right!
10:09It's all gonna be all right!
10:10Just the way I promised your father.
10:12I don't want any favors from anyone!
10:18It's all right, Todd.
10:21Your father was that way, too.
10:24He wasn't the sort of man to ask anyone for a favor, either.
10:30You put him there, Ben Cartwright.
10:33Think of that when you try to sleep tonight.
10:42I've addressed a complaint to Judge Parker in Eureka.
10:46He should be there by the first of the month,
10:47and he can head straight back.
10:49Boy, that's fine.
10:50That should only take about three weeks.
10:51Now, what happens to the boy Till, then?
10:53Well, I reckon that taxpayers can stand the expense of another border.
10:57Hank, that old boy, you can't keep that boy behind bars.
10:59He's not a criminal.
11:00He's a 16-year-old kid.
11:02With a 16-year-old gun.
11:05Ben, do you realize that if that kid was just a split second sooner,
11:09you wouldn't be around to watch either one of them grow any older?
11:14That's right, Paul.
11:15The sidewinder is just as poisonous as the day he's hatched he is when he's full grown.
11:19Well, we're not talking about sidewriters.
11:22We're talking about a boy.
11:24Besides, things of this one have already been pulled.
11:27And I am to see that he don't get a chance to grow another set.
11:31Least ways until a circuit judge decides what happens to him next.
11:35A lot of things can happen till then.
11:38But not with the boy in here.
11:40Eating himself up with grief and all is just no good, Roy.
11:43What do you want me to do?
11:44Take him by the hand and tell him that nice little boy
11:46just don't go out and murder in their owners and turn him loose?
11:57I've come for the boy.
11:58The boy?
11:59Hold on, Diane.
12:01He's my responsibility, isn't he?
12:03Who else is going to look after him?
12:05He was Luke Grayson's son.
12:07And I'm the only one around here that cared anything about Luke Grayson.
12:10So that gives me a right to the boy.
12:12Diane, it's not a matter of who the boy's father is.
12:15It's just that, well, he's upset and he's kind of dangerous when he feels his way.
12:21Well, I could take care of him, Sheriff.
12:24I could give him a home.
12:25Where? In the saloon?
12:28Roy, please.
12:30You stay out of this cart, right?
12:33I don't care what you all think about me, but the boy has to have someone.
12:37Don't you understand that?
12:39He needs someone.
12:41I'm sorry, Diane, but I just can't turn him over to you.
12:47Well, could I see him?
12:48Well, of course, that's perfectly all right.
12:50Right over here.
13:03Todd.
13:03What do you want?
13:06Well, I brought you these things.
13:10They were your father's.
13:14Gold, watch, and chain.
13:16Remember this?
13:21Three silver dollars.
13:26That's all he had.
13:29But there must have been more.
13:30He wrote me.
13:31Oh.
13:34What exactly did he tell you, Todd?
13:37That when I got here, he'd buy a horse for me, and I'd help him build a house, and together
13:43we'd start a ranch.
13:47Yes, I know.
13:49How would you know?
13:50He never would have showed you any letters he wrote to me.
13:53No, that's right.
13:54He wouldn't.
13:56Besides, he never would have sent for me on a three dollar promise.
14:01He wasn't that kind of a man.
14:04Well, he's gone now.
14:06It doesn't matter.
14:08Well, it does to me.
14:10And it would to you, too, if you ever meant anything at all to him.
14:15Well, I don't know what I meant to him.
14:22But I certainly know what he meant to me.
14:32Leanne.
14:35Is there something I could do to help with the boy?
14:38What's the matter, Cartwright?
14:40Looking for something to ease your conscience?
14:42Oh, Diane, you know better than that.
14:44Paul's just trying to...
14:45I don't care what he's trying to do.
14:47How can he know what I must feel?
14:50How can any of you Cartwrights know anything about feelings?
14:53You've got everything you want.
14:55There isn't any room in your life for anything like feelings.
15:04Sheriff, I'm not going to leave that boy in that jail cell.
15:07Ben, now I know what you're thinking, but you're wrong.
15:09You don't owe that kid any favors.
15:11What makes you so sure the favor would be for him?
15:13Roy, both of us, we've been around a pretty long time,
15:16but not so long that we can take a man's life and just forget it,
15:19whether the man needed killing or not.
15:21I know, Ben.
15:21Now, I don't like keeping that kid in jail any more than you do,
15:24but what do you expect me to do with him?
15:25Turn him over to Diane?
15:26No.
15:28No, turn him over to me.
15:29To you?
15:31Paul, are you forgetting what that boy tried to do to you out at the cemetery?
15:33Hoss, he's a scared little boy who traveled 3,000 miles for what?
15:38For a funeral.
15:39He's hurt, he's confused, he's alone.
15:42If somebody doesn't straighten him out now, he'll wind up like his father or worse.
15:46Then somebody else will have blood in his hands.
15:48Paul, if we do take him, what are we going to do with him?
15:52Take him out to the Ponderosa.
15:54Show him what fresh air feels like.
15:56Give him a horse.
15:57Teach him how to ride.
15:58Don't you think I know what to do with boys?
16:01Sure you do, Paul, but this boy wants to kill you.
16:05He thinks he wants to kill me.
16:07But if he stays locked up like a criminal, he'll be sure of it.
16:10Now, Roy, please believe me, I know what's best.
16:12Ben, I have all the respect in the world for your judgment.
16:15I think you're wrong.
16:16But if I do turn him over to you,
16:18you're going to have to be responsible for him all the way.
16:20I'm perfectly willing to accept that.
16:22Boy, he's going to be a mighty big handful.
16:25Adam and little Joe both going out on a roundup.
16:27Well, we'll be able to manage him.
16:29But it's only a parole, nothing more.
16:31And if he steps out of line just one time,
16:33you're duty bound to turn him back to me now.
16:35You understand that?
16:35I understand perfectly.
16:37There'll be no trouble.
16:38Paul, I sure hope you know what you're doing.
16:40So do I.
17:06Mind if I join you?
17:08Don't you believe in knocking?
17:10Oh, that depends.
17:12Your kind never does.
17:14Now, just what is my kind?
17:17I've seen you in every mining camp
17:19and every tank town honky-tonk between here and Mexico.
17:23Maybe not the same face or the same fancy duds,
17:27but the same cold eyes,
17:30same way of walking,
17:32and the same stink of killing on you.
17:36Well, now that we understand each other,
17:38I'll have that drink.
17:44What a nice place you've got here.
17:47Fine taste in furniture.
17:51Now, you didn't come here
17:53just to talk about my taste in furniture.
17:55Now, don't be too sure about that.
17:58Let's just call this a sort of social visit.
18:02People like you and me.
18:03We never get enough chance to talk.
18:05Nobody much cares what we think or how we feel.
18:08Feelings?
18:10Can't afford them.
18:11Not anymore.
18:13No?
18:14And what's this still around for?
18:17Give it to me.
18:20That's all I have left of him.
18:22That.
18:23And the boy?
18:25He's on your mind whether you like it or not.
18:28He's nothing to me anymore.
18:31Now that I know he's in good hands,
18:34the hands that killed his father.
18:37That kid's got spunk.
18:39How long do you think he'll take
18:40what Ben Cartwright dishes out?
18:42Come on, admit it.
18:44Sooner or later, he'll make his play.
18:45Then he'll get himself killed then
18:47or hanged later.
18:49What can I do about it?
18:51He won't talk to me.
18:52Maybe he doesn't have to.
18:53Maybe he already has.
18:56What do you mean by that?
18:57I was at the funeral.
18:59He tried to kill Ben Cartwright
19:00and you didn't try to stop him.
19:05Well, I'm not responsible for what he tried to do.
19:08Maybe not.
19:09But you were hoping the boy would pull the trigger.
19:14Or weren't you?
19:16Well, how do you expect me to feel?
19:18After all, his father and I were...
19:20We're in love.
19:21That's very touching,
19:22but a little out of my line.
19:24I'm talking about killing Ben Cartwright.
19:28You'd kill Ben Cartwright?
19:30For a price.
19:31For a price, I could kill most anybody.
19:37What makes you think I've got the money?
19:40Well, not you, maybe.
19:41I was thinking of the kid.
19:43On the way out here,
19:43he told me about his father.
19:45That boy's gonna fall into quite an inheritance.
19:48I haven't sunk that low.
19:53Anyway, even if I wanted Ben Cartwright dead,
19:55I'd never hire a two-bit gun like you.
19:58No, I guess you wouldn't.
20:00You can let the boy do it for you.
20:04Wear something pretty
20:05when you go up to prison to see him.
20:11Think it over.
20:12I'll be around if you need me.
20:37That's the prettiest bunch of trees you've ever seen, Todd?
20:43Ever been to Boston?
20:45No.
20:46Can't say as I have.
20:47How do you know they don't have prettier trees there?
20:53Got something there.
20:54Never thought of it, I reckon.
20:56Guess there are lots of things you never thought of.
21:01Yeah.
21:03Yep, I reckon you're right at that, too.
21:07What about that horse?
21:08You think you can ride him?
21:09What's so hard about riding a horse?
21:13Come on.
21:16Yes, sir.
21:17There's a whole lot more to being a cowboy
21:19than just smelling like one or wearing boots.
21:21For instance, you always get up on the left-hand side of a horse.
21:24You walk up to him real easy, like so you don't spook him.
21:28Go and try it.
21:30Go on.
21:35Todd!
21:36The left side.
21:38Don't go it, boy.
21:40When are you going to get it through that ornery head of yours?
21:42We're trying to help you.
21:43Help me?
21:44You think I want to ride that sweaty old bag of bones?
21:47I don't give a hoot whether you want to or not.
21:49You're going to.
21:50You think you can make me?
21:51You dadgum Tommy Tootin' I can.
21:53Hey, hey, hey.
21:54What's going on?
21:55Oh, I don't know.
21:56I've tried my best with this boy.
21:58I can't seem to do nothing to please him.
22:00Well, that seems to be the trouble, son.
22:03Look, I came out here because the sheriff made me.
22:06That doesn't mean I have to like it.
22:07Now, look, Todd.
22:09When you're here in the Ponderosa,
22:11here's a guest, not as a prisoner.
22:13You try to remember that?
22:16Howdy, Ben.
22:17How are you?
22:20Well, Roy, it's good to see you.
22:21How are things in town, Sheriff?
22:23We're in a minute.
22:24How are you getting along with young Todd here?
22:25Oh, just fine, Roy, just fine.
22:27Everything's going fine.
22:28We're going to make a rancher out of him yet, aren't we, Todd?
22:32Ben, I've been thinking maybe I overstepped my bounds
22:35in letting you take that boy.
22:37Well, I said I'd assume full responsibility.
22:40Yeah, but just the same, technically,
22:42you're still in my custody.
22:44What are you figuring on sleeping in?
22:47Well, most of the hands are out with Adam and little Joe
22:50in Roundup.
22:51I figured I'd give him the foreman's room there
22:53so he could have a place of his own.
22:54Mm-hmm.
22:59Mm-hmm.
23:09Seems solid enough,
23:11except for that wind in the back.
23:12You can see that from your room, though, can't you?
23:15Now, wait a minute, Roy.
23:16This is a boy's room.
23:17It's not a jail cell.
23:19Not as far as I'm concerned.
23:21And, Ben,
23:23put a lock on that door
23:24after the kid goes to bed tonight, you hear?
23:27Well, I'll be heading back to town.
23:28Roy, we've got supper on the table in there
23:30and won't stay and eat with us.
23:31I wish I could, Hoss,
23:32but I've got to get back.
23:50I'm sorry we're late, Paul,
23:52but Todd here couldn't quite make up his mind
23:54whether he wanted to eat or not.
23:57Well, believe me, Todd,
23:58I never had any trouble like that with Hoss
24:00when he was your age.
24:01Not since, either.
24:13Mmm.
24:15You know something, Hoss?
24:16This beef is about the tastiest we've ever had.
24:18Mmm.
24:19Gravy looks good, too.
24:21Mmm.
24:22Mmm.
24:26Now, there's no sense in this, boy.
24:28I know you're hungry.
24:29Why don't you sit down and eat?
24:30Do you think I'd eat at the same table
24:32with the man that killed my father?
24:35Todd, we're just trying to help you.
24:36Can't you understand that, boy?
24:38Don't do me any favors!
24:40Now, look, I'm not afraid of you
24:41or any other Cartwright,
24:42and I'm not going to take orders from you either.
24:43Now, I said I wasn't going to eat at this table,
24:45and I won't!
24:52Don't let him spoil your supper, Paul.
24:54You've done all you could.
24:57The boy's been through a pretty rough day, Hoss.
25:00Probably hasn't eaten since breakfast.
25:02Maybe even longer.
25:04Made up his mind to hate everything about this place.
25:08Starting with us.
25:10He didn't exactly choose to come here.
25:15Look at it another way.
25:16I suppose I'd been the one who'd been gunned down.
25:20How'd you feel about breaking bread with Luke Grayson?
25:25Yeah.
25:27I reckon I never looked at it like that, Paul.
25:32Hoss.
25:35Pick this supper out to the bunkhouse.
25:37Boy's got to eat.
25:39Yes, sir.
25:41Don't be surprised if I come back with a finger,
25:42I bet off.
25:59Paul thought you might change your mind about supper.
26:01I'll bring you something to eat.
26:03No, you can take it right back to him.
26:04I said I don't want anything from you Cartwrights.
26:07Look, Todd,
26:09I don't care how mad a man gets about something.
26:12His stomach goes right on needing something to eat.
26:14You think you can make me eat that?
26:17No.
26:17No, I can't.
26:19And I wouldn't want to make you eat it.
26:21But if Paul thought you was down here hungry
26:23and there wasn't no food here for you,
26:24he'd feel real bad about it.
26:26Your father didn't care anything about me?
26:29Todd,
26:30what makes you say that?
26:32What makes me say it?
26:33Because it's the truth, that's why.
26:34Ben Cartwright's a liar.
26:36Now, you listen here, boy.
26:37No, you listen.
26:38You must think I'm two years old or something.
26:40You and all your talk about,
26:41about teaching me to ride.
26:43Well, I don't want to ride, see?
26:44And I've had just about enough of your father's talk
26:46about me being a guest here.
26:48Todd, he meant that.
26:50You are a guest here as far as we're concerned.
26:52Oh, am I?
26:54I suppose you put locks on the doors of all your guests.
26:58There's your supper.
27:00You can take that back to him
27:01and tell him I'm sick of his kind of favors.
27:30You can take that back to him and tell him I'm sick of his kind of favors.
27:45That's what I'm saying.
27:48I'm sick of his kind of favors.
27:50You can take that back to him so I'm sick of his kind of favors.
27:55You can take that back to him and tell him I'm sick of his kind of favors.
30:26All right, Cartwright.
30:32Todd, what is this?
30:37I guess you know what it is.
30:40Todd, listen to me.
30:41Come any closer.
30:42Don't come any closer.
30:44Don't come any closer.
30:53Todd, give me the gun.
30:54No.
30:55No, no!
30:56Todd!
30:59Todd!
31:16Paul.
31:17It's all right.
31:21what's the matter
31:24it's todd
31:26stole an empty
31:27empty gun out of the destroy
31:30tried to kill me
31:31tried to kill you
31:33with a little varmint
31:34where is he
31:36outside somewhere
31:38probably hiding like a
31:39scared animal waiting for you and me
31:41and a dozen other grown men to come chasing after him
31:45paul you ain't going to just let him go are you
31:47no i'm not going to let him go
31:49i'm not going to go running after him either
31:51paul he tried to kill you
31:52with an empty gun
31:53yeah but paul he didn't know it was empty
31:54dad burned it how far does your obligation go with this
31:56boss please
31:57please nothing paul after all you've done for that boy
31:59you gave him a home
32:00the least i could do after what i did to him
32:03sheriff roy coffee
32:05i have to think of his position
32:09regardless of what i think
32:10i'm gonna have to tell roy what happened
32:14probably stole one of our horses
32:15and halfway to san francisco by now
32:18how far do you think he could get
32:20you saw the way he rode didn't you
32:21yeah but i got a sneaking hunch
32:23he wasn't doing his best neither
32:25well
32:26probably
32:27try to find his way back to virginia city
32:30if you did we'll
32:30we'll find him there
32:33i'm not gonna run after him
32:34not tonight anyhow
32:39let's try to get some rest
32:41we'll go see the sheriff first thing in the morning
33:06it's getting late honey why don't you go to bed
33:10go to bed
33:12i haven't slept since he died
33:14you gotta go on living kid
33:16yeah
33:18that's just the trouble
33:20living and
33:22thinking
33:25look at him nothing but this day and night
33:28you really loved him didn't you
33:32sure
33:34funny isn't it charlie
33:37me falling in love with a guy like luke grayson
33:52really wasn't much huh
33:56couldn't keep a job
33:58always getting in fights
34:00always getting drunk
34:02half the time he didn't even know i was alive
34:07funny isn't it charlie
34:10you're not laughing
34:11nope
34:13i ain't laughing
34:17remember how he was
34:19when he'd walk down the street all the women would get mad that they'd met their own husbands
34:24i was just like him
34:27my eyes would follow him wherever you went
34:29he was so
34:30so tall and straight
34:34and that smile
34:35it was like that to me until the day he died
34:47you want another drink kid
34:50yeah i guess so
34:52better than trying to get to sleep
34:58thanks
34:59you
35:11you
35:12you
35:13you
35:15Let's go.
35:43Sure, I'm open for business. What can I do for you?
35:46I want to buy a gun.
35:48Guns cost money, boy.
35:49I've got money. It's not much. It's $3, but that ought to buy a gun of some kind.
35:54I don't have a gun I can let go for $3.
35:56Look, mister, any gun, an old one.
35:59Maybe you've got something here, somebody left on a bill or something like that.
36:03Son, you might as well know, I wouldn't send a gun to Luke Grayson's boy for $3 or $3,000,
36:09and nobody else in town would either.
36:10Now just run along and forget it.
36:13Come here.
36:34I don't care.
36:43Oh, my God.
37:22Oh, my God.
37:56Well, good night, Charlie.
37:57Good night, Charlie.
38:27I don't care what they do to me.
38:29We can't stand here talking like this. Someone will see us. Here, come with me.
38:44Ben.
38:44Ben, it's just bad seed. I knew Luke Grayson when he amounted to something, but he still had that bad
38:48streak in him.
38:49That boy's got it now just the same as the old man had. You got any idea which way he
38:52headed?
38:53Well, he came this way as close as we could figure.
38:55Well, I'll get a couple of deputies.
38:57If I could have you come along, Hoss.
38:59Ben?
39:02Might as well get started.
39:03Good.
39:12Bert!
39:14What happened to you?
39:15Well, Luke Grayson's kid came in the store and wanted to buy a gun.
39:19I refused to sell it to him.
39:20When I turned around, he hit me on the head with an axe handle.
39:23Don't you think you'd better have a doctor take a look at you?
39:25I don't know.
39:26It kind of stunned me for a minute.
39:27I kept seeing the kid taking the gun,
39:29and I couldn't make my legs work quick enough to stop him.
39:32He took a gun?
39:33That's right.
39:34Sick shooter and some shells.
39:36He knew what he was doing.
39:38Ben, you better take him up to the doctor.
39:40Hoss will go along with me.
39:41All right.
39:42And, Ben, it's not just a 16-year-old boy we're dealing with.
39:46It's Luke Grayson's kid, and he's got a loaded gun.
39:49All right, boy.
39:50All right.
39:53I asked you, where did you get that gun?
39:55I told you.
39:56I just got it.
39:57That's all.
39:59Now that you've got it, what are you going to do with it?
40:01I'm going to kill Ben Cartwright.
40:03What do you think I'm going to do with it?
40:04Now, listen to me.
40:06I want him dead just as much as you do.
40:08But what chance do you think a kid like you will have against all those grown men?
40:11All I need is just one clear shot.
40:14Don't you realize that they'll cut you to ribbons the minute you walk outside this room?
40:19Todd, what are you going to do?
40:21I'm getting out of here.
40:22Don't, Todd, wait.
40:24There's another way.
40:26What are you talking about?
40:29If I help you, will you promise me that you'll leave Virginia City and never come back here again?
40:35How can you help me?
40:48This is a draft on the First City Bank of San Francisco.
40:52$500.
40:53If I sign it, it'll be payable to bear it.
40:56$500.
40:58Then I was right.
40:59Right about what?
41:01This is my father's money.
41:02You were holding out on me.
41:04Holding out on you?
41:05Todd, I'm just trying to help you.
41:07Look, if my father gave you this, you'd keep it.
41:09I don't even want to hear about it.
41:12Maybe you don't need it, kid.
41:16But I do.
41:18You won't need that gun.
41:20I'm on your side.
41:21Right, Diane?
41:22What are you doing here?
41:24I told you I'd be here when you needed me.
41:27I think you do now.
41:28And I know you stole that gun.
41:30So does the sheriff, and he's coming to get you.
41:32I've got to get him out of here.
41:33Get him to San Francisco.
41:36Do you think you could do it?
41:38I can do it for $500.
41:40You see, I was listening outside your door.
41:42Now, that's not socially correct, maybe, but it's a way to find things out.
41:46Now, you just sign it, and I'll get the kid out of town.
41:52There's only one thing.
41:55You mustn't cash it until you get to San Francisco.
41:58Sure, I'm in no hurry.
42:00What are you doing?
42:00I don't want anything from you.
42:02Look, my father wouldn't have anything to do with a woman like you.
42:07Now, look, boy.
42:09You do as you're told, or I'll let the sheriff have you.
42:28Cash that for me.
42:32$500.
42:33That's a lot of money.
42:34You've got that much in the till.
42:35Just go ahead and cash it.
42:38I've never seen anything quite like this before.
42:41Mr. Cartwright!
42:42Yes, Charlie?
42:43Would you take a look at this for me?
42:45Yes.
42:45What is it?
42:46It's a bank draft.
42:47You know about these things.
42:49I wish you'd look it over.
42:50He doesn't have to look it over.
42:51It's good.
42:51It's got Diane Jordan's signature on it.
42:58Why did she give you this?
42:59I don't think that's any of your business, Cartwright.
43:02This has something to do with Todd, doesn't it?
43:03What's the matter, Cartwright?
43:05Can't you hear good?
43:06Where's the boy?
43:07You've got my money.
43:09I said, where's the boy?
43:12I don't like people touching me.
43:15And I don't like them grabbing my money.
43:17If this is yours, legitimately,
43:19you'll get it back.
43:21But not until I've talked to Diane about this.
43:24Ben!
43:32Here.
43:41Diane?
43:43Are you in there, Diane?
43:45It's Ben Cartwright.
43:47The door's open.
43:58I think this belongs to you.
44:01Where did you get that?
44:03From the two-bit gunman
44:04who's been hanging around town.
44:06He tried to cash it downstairs.
44:08He tried to cash it?
44:12Well, what business is it of yours?
44:16Maybe I owed it to him.
44:19Maybe he did me a favor once.
44:20Oh, did he?
44:22Or was he about to do you a favor?
44:24Like killing me?
44:27It was Luke's money.
44:28Luke owed it to Appley.
44:29Diane, Luke never had $50 as long as I knew him,
44:32much less $500.
44:33Get out of here.
44:34I don't have to sit here and listen to you
44:35saying these things about Luke.
44:37You killed him.
44:38Isn't that enough?
44:39Don't you think the whole town knows
44:40it was you who supported Luke?
44:42Don't you think they know it was you
44:43who fed him, who clothed him,
44:45who even gave him his drinking money?
44:46And all the time,
44:47he didn't even know you were alive?
44:49That's not true.
44:51Luke was good to me.
44:53He loved me.
44:54Did he?
44:55Do you think Luke was capable of loving anyone,
44:58or even of thinking of anyone other than himself?
45:00Stop that.
45:01I won't listen to you saying such things.
45:03I won't listen to you.
45:04Here, I won't listen.
45:05Diane,
45:08you know that what I'm saying is the truth.
45:11I wonder you're going to have to face that truth.
45:16Where's the boy?
45:20Right here, Cartwright.
45:22It's easy to lie about a man when he's dead
45:23and can't talk back, isn't it?
45:25Todd, put away that gun.
45:26I'll put it away after I kill you.
45:29And this time, I'm not going to miss.
45:32This time, I got bullets in the gun.
45:34Todd, don't wait.
45:37Todd, stop!
45:38He killed my father.
45:39You're forgetting that?
45:40No, I'm not forgetting,
45:42but everything he said about your father was true.
45:43No, it's a pack of lies.
45:45No, it wasn't a pack of lies.
45:47Look, I knew your father better than anyone in the whole world.
45:51He wasn't any good.
45:53Just like Ben Cartwright said,
45:56he was no good.
45:58No, you're lying.
45:59He sent me money.
46:01He wanted me to come out here and live with him.
46:03He never sent you a dime.
46:05Every honest dollar that Luke got,
46:07he drank faster than he could walk to the post office.
46:10That $500 that I gave to Appling was mine.
46:14The money,
46:16the check that you got every month to keep you in school,
46:19that was mine.
46:21Even the money that you were sent to bring you back here to Virginia City was mine.
46:26See, I thought if he saw his own son,
46:29that that would help him straighten out.
46:32It wouldn't be if he was so bad.
46:35Why would you...
46:36Why did I stick to him?
46:39Because I loved him.
46:42I loved him from the first moment I saw him.
47:02Give me the gun, boy.
47:18I keep trying to remember him the way I wanted him to me.
47:23He was such a wonderful man.
47:27Such a rotten, lousy,
47:30stinking,
47:32wonderful man.
48:08Paul, you all right?
48:10Charlie just told us what happened.
48:12Yeah, I'm all right, hoss.
48:14That boy,
48:15he's going to be all right now, too.
48:17I'm still going to have to take him in, Ben.
48:19He stole a gun.
48:21Did he, Roy?
48:23An empty gun.
48:25Now, what do you think that would be worth?
48:28The lives of two people?
48:32I guess it ain't worth a thing, Ben.
48:37Oh, Roy,
48:38in case you happen to think about it,
48:40that horse of ours,
48:42the boy didn't steal it.
48:44I just gave it to him.
48:46Is that right, horse?
48:48Yes, sir.
48:48That's right.
48:49Roy, you tell him to write him out
48:51and pay us a visit.
48:52And tell him to bring his new moth.
48:55No, I don't remember.
48:56No, no, no, no.
48:59No, I don't remember.
49:07No, I don't remember.
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