30min | Western | Episode aired 10 August 1960
Tate tags along when grudge-holding Amos returns home to kill the little brother who wooed away and wed Amos' sweetheart during his long absence.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Harry Julian Fink
Stars: David McLean, Robert Redford, Anne Whitfield
Tate tags along when grudge-holding Amos returns home to kill the little brother who wooed away and wed Amos' sweetheart during his long absence.
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Harry Julian Fink
Stars: David McLean, Robert Redford, Anne Whitfield
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00:00You got here fast.
00:21Where is he?
00:23It was a fair fight, Amos. You know it.
00:25This one too.
00:27Only I'm not an 18-year-old boy.
00:30Where is he?
00:33At the bar.
00:58Which one of you is William Essie?
01:01Do I know you, friend?
01:03My brother. Two years ago in Houston.
01:05You killed him.
01:08That might be...
01:10I don't remember.
01:12He was 18.
01:13In a card game. He called you a cheat.
01:1818.
01:21I... I thought he was older.
01:24Your belly shot him.
01:26It took him a long time to die.
01:30You've been hurting me two years now.
01:33It took him a long time to die.
01:38I'll make it easier for you, friend.
01:43What about you?
01:45I'll watch.
01:52I had no choice.
01:54You know that.
02:01All right.
02:04This is something to you.
02:08And don't be a fool.
02:25Two years, a thousand miles.
02:29Nothing on your mind but killing a man.
02:35Let's go home, T.
02:37It's been a long time.
02:39Not my home, Amos.
02:41Sometimes I wish it was.
02:43Or a place like it.
02:45I guess I got used to your company.
02:47There's a place there for you if you want it.
02:49Oh, I thank you, though.
02:51Oh, I thank you, though.
02:53I'll go as far as Kesserling with you.
02:55Good.
02:56The fellow I met said there's a letter for you there.
02:58From Ted?
02:59He said it looked like a woman's writing.
03:01Probably Lucy.
03:04Let's go get it, then.
03:09You remember that pretty blue dress in the Kesserling store?
03:12Uh-huh.
03:13You think she'd like it?
03:15Oh, I think so, Amos.
03:17But you better give it to her after the wedding.
03:19Otherwise her pa might take a shotgun to you.
03:24He might at that.
03:33Bacon, coffee, sugar, flour.
03:36I guess that's about it.
03:40I said I guess you got everything you need.
03:43A box of shells, 44.
03:46Here, sir.
03:53You want to tell me what it's about, Amos?
03:55Or just to mind my own business?
04:03I'll get some of the gear and saddle the horses.
04:15Amos?
04:19I'm sorry.
04:21For who?
04:23For me or for my little brother Ted?
04:35There's no hurry, Amos.
04:36We could wait.
04:38No.
04:39I wouldn't want to miss the wedding.
04:41You better wait how long now?
04:43Two years.
04:46Sometimes things happen, Amos.
04:49Things people don't want but can't help.
04:53Man and a woman fall in love, want to get married.
04:56It's their right.
04:58You be a man.
05:00If he's wearing a gun when I get home, I'll kill him.
05:03What about Lucy?
05:05You gonna kill her too?
05:10I give you my thanks.
05:12I'll go your way.
05:22I think I'll go south for a while.
05:52I'll be back.
06:21Thoughts of sweet yesterday or bitter tomorrow, Amos?
06:25You always was a school teacher.
06:28They've been pushed hard.
06:30A couple of days rest do them a lot of good.
06:32In a couple of days we'll be home.
06:34They can rest then.
06:37Let's get some sleep.
06:40It's an ugly hate, Amos.
06:45It's ugly.
06:49It's ugly.
06:52And you don't have to see it.
06:55Well, I didn't take this stinking trip to see it.
06:58To stop it, gunfighter?
07:00You try a man's patience, Amos.
07:04Why'd you let me come this far with you?
07:08I don't know.
07:11Maybe I thought you could get him to run.
07:13Where?
07:17He's your brother, Amos.
07:20I don't want you to forget it.
07:23Why not?
07:24He did.
07:55You better get a shovel.
07:59That was a woman.
08:02Her name was May Crowley.
08:0428 years old.
08:08If anyone ever tells me a Comanche is a human being like you and me...
08:13Speak of the devil.
08:17Comanches.
08:19Can you talk?
08:21Can you talk?
08:23Some.
08:35Apache arrow.
08:38Apaches are bad Indians.
08:42Comanches are good Indians.
08:44Everyone knows that.
08:46Is it not so?
08:48The whole world knows how noble the Comanches are.
08:52You got tobacco?
08:54No.
08:56My pleasure.
09:04Let me see your gun.
09:06The gun that spits six times?
09:08That's right.
09:10No.
09:13Nothing would please me more than to show my Comanche friend my gun.
09:17But I have taken an oath.
09:21If I take it from its holster, I will kill with it.
09:29You, let me see yours.
09:31You've got your tobacco, now don't you push us.
09:35We're friendly.
09:37You're pigs.
09:41Six wild pigs can kill a pair of wolves.
09:45And die in the doing.
09:52Six bullets.
09:55Two guns.
09:58Enough to kill us twice.
10:03Another time.
10:06Another place.
10:09How shall I kill you?
10:13I shall dwell on it.
10:29I feel like I've been close to dying.
10:33So did they.
10:44You want to say something over them?
10:51The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh.
10:55Such is the way of the Lord.
11:00I wish we'd made a fight of it.
11:05He was right about the wild pigs, Amos.
11:09Like he said, another time, another place.
11:15Which way you want to go?
11:17Across the river, over by the Frazers and Kimberleys?
11:21I'd rather go together, old buddy.
11:25Which way?
11:29The river.
11:31Well, you tell them what you saw.
11:33Take care of yourself.
11:35I'll see you in about three days.
11:38Amos.
11:42If you get to your home place before I do,
11:45remember, he's your brother.
11:47I'm going to tell you something.
11:50My father was a Bible-reading man.
11:52But he never forgave nothing.
11:56I look like my father, Tate.
11:59When I was born, they said as long as I live, he'd live.
12:04When I was born, they said as long as I live, he'd live.
12:08I am like him.
12:10I never took nothing that wasn't mine.
12:13And I never let no man take what was.
12:17That man of Montana,
12:19he took my brother's life away.
12:22Away from me.
12:24So I took his away from him.
12:28You tell Taddy not to stay for the wedding.
12:33I won't.
13:03You're always getting somewhere before me.
13:29You got a good horse.
13:31You look worn, Amos.
13:33I'm tuckered.
13:35How was it?
13:36Real party.
13:38Must be 150 Comanches raiding between the Pliant and the Vandika.
13:42They got the phrases before I did.
13:44They took off one of the Kimberly women.
13:48And more.
13:49Kimberly?
13:51I think I knew them. They had a nine or ten year old girl.
13:54She's 14 now.
13:56That makes her a woman.
13:59You?
14:00There's just one band across the river.
14:03Maybe five, six.
14:06They attacked the Dougherty place, but they got stood off.
14:09Dougherty's a neighbor.
14:11Forty miles.
14:13Maybe they'll come visit us.
14:22That's right, Amos.
14:23He's still here.
14:26Did you think he wouldn't be?
14:29No, I guess not.
14:31He always did like that paint.
14:34Ever since you gave it to him.
14:37My own home.
14:41I'm dead tired and I stay up here sitting in the saddle.
14:46Maybe it's not home anymore.
14:50Let's go hunt some Comanches, Amos.
14:53That's a thing we're both good at.
14:56Did you tell him?
14:59Yes.
15:02He's my brother at that.
15:07Amos.
15:10I'm married.
15:13You ever know me to stop anything I started?
15:16Or be stopped?
15:18This time.
15:27You choosing sides?
15:30I guess so.
15:31If I have to.
15:33You tell him I'll give him another hour here.
15:36If he's still around after that, I'll kill him.
15:56Hello, Amos.
16:10Tell me, Lucy.
16:12What kind of man is your little tad?
16:14As good a man as his brother?
16:15Amos, don't.
16:17Go on, tell me, Lucy.
16:18You know them both.
16:19You're an expert on the Dundee brothers.
16:22Go on and tell me.
16:24I'll wait outside.
16:25You're old enough to hear.
16:28You leave her alone with me, she might try to touch me.
16:31Make me sick to my stomach.
16:34You're a pig, Amos.
16:36I don't like you anymore.
16:40Amos, we fell in love.
16:43Maybe it was because he was your brother.
16:46So much like you.
16:49Give a lady a smile, Amos.
16:51Tell her to be happy.
16:53You brought her, get her out of here.
16:55You can listen.
16:58I looked at him and I saw you.
17:02You want me to get down on my knees, I will.
17:07Please, don't kill him, Amos.
17:12Father, brother.
17:15What was I to him?
17:17Mother to?
17:19Seems like I loved him always.
17:24How long have you been married?
17:26Three weeks.
17:28That little?
17:32It's been over an hour, Lucy.
17:34Send your husband out here.
17:36He can't look you in the eye, much less bite you.
17:40Get her off her knees and get her out of here, gunfighter.
17:44You use that like it was a dirty word.
17:47You're so high and holy, gunfighter.
17:49It means killer, don't it?
17:51That's right.
17:53Don't you forget it.
18:08I didn't ask to come into your life.
18:10You invited me.
18:12I've known Taddy since he wore knee pants too.
18:17Lucy since it was pigtails.
18:20What am I supposed to do?
18:22Let you kill him?
18:25No good?
18:43He's got this temper.
18:45You go inside with Lucy.
18:48No, I guess not.
18:54Amos?
18:56I'm out here.
19:01You hear me, Amos?
19:04I hear you, trash.
19:20Go get a gun.
19:23Don't make me do this to you.
19:27Lucy, you best go inside.
19:30Lucy.
19:31No.
19:32Go inside.
19:41Is it your fight?
19:43I don't know.
19:45Just tell me when.
19:51Pick it up.
19:54You'd best go ahead and kill me, Amos.
19:57I won't fight you.
20:00We'll see.
20:06You'll fight?
20:07You'll pick up that gun, trash, and you'll try to kill me?
20:37You'd best go ahead and kill me.
20:41I won't fight you.
20:44I don't know how to forget.
20:47And I can't forgive.
20:50It's a terrible thing.
20:55All right, Amos.
21:00If you want it a fight, you've got it.
21:11All right, old buddy.
21:13I'm gonna kill somebody.
21:15I'd rather it be you than him.
21:18You're right, Arm Amos.
21:21It'll be a long time before you use it to beat a man like that again.
21:25You're not that good.
22:09I'll take that arrow out of you...
22:28...and fetch her back.
22:59Glad to see you back.
23:06Where is he?
23:10Up on the hill.
23:28They took his life away from me.
23:57I took theirs away from them.
24:27I took theirs away from them.
24:55THE END