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00:00 ♪ (dramatic music)
00:21 (thud)
00:22 ♪ (dramatic music)
00:34 - Hey, hey Joe.
00:36 Look who's coming.
00:38 - Yeah, that's what I call a real fine looking woman.
00:43 - Yeah, you mind your manners 'cause she's a married woman.
00:46 (footsteps)
00:49 - Hi, Ms. Edwards, this is a real pleasure, ma'am.
00:52 - Hello, horse.
00:53 Hello, little Joe.
00:55 - My pleasure, ma'am.
00:56 - Uh, little Joe, why don't you see after
00:57 Ms. Edwards' horse while I help her down?
00:59 - Well, little brother, why don't you see after her horse
01:01 while I help her down?
01:02 - Hey.
01:03 (horse whinnies)
01:10 - Joyce!
01:11 - Ben!
01:12 - Oh!
01:13 - Oh, Ben!
01:14 Oh, it's so good to see you again.
01:17 - It's wonderful seeing you.
01:18 - You'll stay for supper.
01:20 Adam, you remember Mrs. Edwards?
01:22 - Hello, Adam.
01:23 - I remember her.
01:25 I just wasn't speaking because I was so busy looking.
01:28 - You Cartwrights certainly know how to please a woman.
01:30 - Joe, run in and tell Hoppsing we'll have a guest for supper.
01:33 - Right, fine.
01:34 - Oh, Ben, I-- - Adam, Adam.
01:35 Down in the cellar by the north wall,
01:37 there are two cases of Lapeet.
01:38 Bring up a couple of bottles there.
01:40 Now look, you've come all this way,
01:42 surely you can stay for a little while.
01:44 Now we need a lady in this house, you know.
01:46 I've got these three grown sons
01:47 and somebody has to teach them manners.
01:49 Now please, come here.
01:51 - All right, but just for a little while.
01:54 (dramatic music)
01:57 - I wouldn't go in there if I was you, Mrs. Edwards.
02:04 - It's nothing, Ben.
02:05 He's just our new hired hand.
02:07 He must be lost.
02:08 Pay no attention to him.
02:10 - Suit yourself, ma'am.
02:13 Only Mr. Edwards ain't gonna like this.
02:15 - Ezekiel?
02:17 - You can tell Mr. Edwards anything you want to,
02:19 but Mr. Cartwright is an old friend and I'm going inside.
02:23 - Anything you say, ma'am.
02:25 But I'll be waiting for you.
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03:14 (dramatic music)
03:22 - Your house is so attractive, Ben.
03:25 It gets nicer with the years.
03:26 - It's been years since you've been in this house, Joyce.
03:30 - Yes, I know.
03:31 I've missed seeing it.
03:33 - I've missed seeing you.
03:36 All of us have.
03:39 How's Tom?
03:44 - All right.
03:51 Just all right.
03:52 How is he really?
04:02 - He's still bitter.
04:06 He's been bitter ever since the accident.
04:08 All day long, he just follows me around in his wheelchair.
04:14 And every night in front of Ezekiel, he calls me names.
04:20 Says the most awful things.
04:21 - Ezekiel, that man outside, the hired hand?
04:26 - He's more than just that.
04:28 Tom spends half the night drinking and gambling
04:32 with his hired hand.
04:34 - Drinking and gambling?
04:35 I thought the accident left him incapacitated.
04:38 - Only from the waist down.
04:39 Tom drinks himself into a stupor,
04:46 and Ezekiel carries him upstairs.
04:49 He never knocks.
04:51 Just brings him right into the room.
04:54 And he puts him down on the bed next to me.
04:57 And he straightens up.
05:00 And he looks at me lying there.
05:03 And he says, "Good night, Mrs. Edwards."
05:08 And goes.
05:10 Every night it's this.
05:11 But last night...
05:18 Usually Tom can't turn over,
05:20 but somehow last night he managed to.
05:23 I woke up.
05:25 I saw him bending over me
05:28 with a carving knife in his hand.
05:30 He didn't move.
05:33 He just sort of smiled at me.
05:35 So beautiful.
05:39 I can't bear to think of my going first.
05:44 - Joyce, surely you must know Tom meant no harm.
05:48 - I don't know.
05:49 He's always talking about death.
05:52 His death.
05:53 My death.
05:54 I, uh, I've got to go.
05:58 - Joyce, please, stay.
06:02 - I can't, Ben.
06:03 Oh, Tom will be all right.
06:08 If only he could find something to do
06:12 to take his mind off himself.
06:16 Oh, I, I've got to go.
06:18 (dramatic music)
06:25 - Lojas, would you get Mrs. Edwards to us, please?
06:30 - Right, Paul.
06:31 - Joyce.
06:34 I don't like the idea of his following you.
06:37 - Oh, it's all right, Ben.
06:39 He'll keep his distance.
06:40 - I'll ride along partway with you.
06:45 - All right.
06:46 Thank you.
06:48 - Here you are, Mrs. Edwards.
06:52 - Oh, thank you, Lojas.
06:54 - Good-bye.
06:56 (dramatic music)
07:00 - Hey, boy.
07:01 (gunshots firing)
07:04 - Yeah, well, I heard once it was Pa's gun that hit him.
07:23 - Well, that's a lie.
07:24 Eat yourself up, both of you, and stop talking about him.
07:27 - Well, look, I didn't mean he hit him on purpose.
07:28 I mean, he hit him accidental.
07:29 - Well, that's two lies.
07:30 - That's not what they say in town.
07:34 - Well, that's Mr. Edwards, Joe.
07:35 Sure he blames Paul.
07:36 He claims he crippled him.
07:38 - Well, did he or didn't he?
07:39 - He did not.
07:41 - Yeah, well, how do you know?
07:42 You weren't even there.
07:43 - I was there an hour later.
07:44 They were out after Wild Mountain Sheep.
07:48 - Mr. Edwards slipped and fell to a ledge,
07:50 and Paul risked his life trying to save him.
07:51 Ain't that right, Adam?
07:53 - They were climbing up off that ledge
07:54 when they fell to another ledge,
07:55 and that's when the gun went off, getting him in the spine.
07:57 - For whose gun?
07:58 - Mr. Edwards' gun.
08:00 - All right, then why does he blame Paul?
08:02 - Eat your supper.
08:06 It's getting cold.
08:07 - Boys.
08:14 - I'm sorry I opened the wine, Pa.
08:16 I didn't know she was leaving so soon.
08:18 - Well, we haven't had any of this since Christmas.
08:21 - Yeah, it's a miracle.
08:25 This wine, imprisoned in this bottle for 20 years,
08:28 and each year it seems to grow better.
08:30 - Yeah, well, I'm sorry Miss Edwards
08:32 couldn't make the dinner tonight,
08:33 but I'm sure glad to be taking part of this wine.
08:35 - Me too.
08:36 - Boys, I need your help.
08:38 What do you think Tom Edwards could do?
08:43 - What do you mean, Pa?
08:47 - Well, they're out of money.
08:50 He squandered everything they ever had.
08:53 They owe everybody and he's always gambling.
08:56 - That Zeke fellers, does he live with them?
08:59 - I'm sorry, Pa, I wouldn't want you
09:02 to talk with your mouth full.
09:03 - He not only lives with them, but they owe him too.
09:07 - Well, what about Virginia City?
09:09 Maybe he could clerk somewhere.
09:11 - You ever talk with him?
09:12 Every time he opens his mouth, like poison poured out.
09:15 - Now, Hoss, this was once a wonderful man,
09:17 but he was struck down.
09:19 Life struck him down.
09:20 - Pa, I didn't mean to offend you.
09:22 They've got a pretty good flow of water
09:23 on their place, haven't they?
09:24 - No, we just say that if we were struck down,
09:26 we wouldn't be pouring out poison too.
09:28 Now, what were you saying about water?
09:32 - Oh, well, I was thinking that if there's no mill around,
09:35 then if they have a pretty good stream there,
09:37 we could rig up a water wheel, build a small mill house.
09:41 They could grind grain.
09:43 - That's a wonderful idea.
09:45 A wonderful idea.
09:47 - Adam, I want to drink a toast to you.
09:49 - Hey, Pa, can we drink to him too?
09:51 He's a mighty bright fellow.
09:53 - Downright bright and a real pride and joy
09:55 to the Cartwrights.
09:56 - Well, thank you, gentlemen.
09:57 (dramatic music)
10:19 - Take care of my horse.
10:21 - Anything you say, Mrs. Edwards.
10:24 - Well, did you have a pleasant ride?
10:33 - Yes.
10:35 - I hope so.
10:36 At least that will compensate a little
10:40 for all that you have to put up with.
10:46 Darling, I know it's dreadful of me
10:49 to make such a fuss when you go out,
10:51 but you have no idea how awful it is
10:54 for me to sit here alone without you.
10:56 Let me kiss you.
11:00 Your skin is so lovely.
11:10 Your cheeks are pink.
11:12 Kiss.
11:15 I'm awfully tired.
11:16 I think I'll go up to bed.
11:18 - You told me where you've been.
11:21 - I went to see the Cartwrights.
11:27 - Why?
11:30 To complain about your husband?
11:33 - Tom, please don't start that again.
11:35 I love you.
11:36 I'll never leave you.
11:37 You know that.
11:38 - I expect Ben received you very warmly, didn't he?
11:43 Did you get any money out of him?
11:44 - Tom, please.
11:45 - He's very rich.
11:48 You're very attractive.
11:49 We need money.
11:50 - Yes, I did go about money.
11:53 You know that property that my father left me
11:55 in San Francisco?
11:57 Well, Ben sometimes goes to San Francisco
11:59 and I thought that he might sell it for me.
12:01 - Darling, what about that property
12:11 your father left you in San Francisco?
12:14 - What do you mean?
12:15 - Five acres.
12:17 That should be worth quite a lot, wouldn't it, Ezekiel?
12:19 - Now, Mr. Edwards, you don't want to go gambling
12:21 your wife's good land.
12:22 - Oh, no.
12:23 I'm doing it for her.
12:24 - How's that, Mr. Edwards?
12:27 - Well, she hates you.
12:30 This way she could get rid of you.
12:31 - Now, Ms. Edwards, you don't want to get rid of me
12:35 close as I've been to your husband.
12:37 - How would that get rid of him?
12:39 - I bet the whole five acres against all we owe, Ezekiel.
12:42 If he loses, then we don't owe him anything
12:44 and he clears out.
12:45 - Go ahead.
12:49 Bet the land.
12:52 - You surprise me, Mr. Edwards.
12:57 You think I stay with you just for money?
13:00 You think I take care of you?
13:01 You think I carry you up them stairs night after night
13:04 and put you to bed just for money?
13:05 Believe you me, Mr. Edwards,
13:08 I know I ain't fit to tie your shoe,
13:11 but just living with you, sir, and Ms. Edwards here,
13:14 I've grown to you too like it was home almost.
13:17 No, sir, no offense, man, but I can't take that bet.
13:21 - All right, all right.
13:22 Play for $5.
13:24 Will you lend me $5?
13:29 (dramatic music)
13:35 - You did give me a scare, Ms. Edwards.
13:40 I thought I was gonna lose my home.
13:42 Good night, Ms. Edwards.
13:45 (dramatic music)
13:55 (tires screeching)
13:58 - Morning, Tom.
14:13 - What brings you around?
14:16 - Well, I was riding into town,
14:18 I thought I'd drop by.
14:20 - See me?
14:22 - See my wife.
14:25 - Good to see you both, Tom.
14:26 - Sit on the porch if you want to.
14:29 She's picking grapes.
14:31 - Morning, Mr. Cartwright.
14:33 - Yeah, that's a,
14:38 it's a mighty fine stream you have here on the property.
14:42 I hear my wife paid you a little visit yesterday.
14:46 - It was good to see her.
14:49 Good to see you, Tom.
14:51 - Is it?
14:54 Tom, I'll be straight out honest with you.
14:56 I made a definite point of stopping by here this morning.
14:59 I have a little business proposition
15:00 I'd like to talk over with you.
15:02 How'd you like to make some good money?
15:05 - There ain't much Mr. Edwards can do,
15:07 ailing chronic the way he is.
15:08 - Tom, I want to build something on your property.
15:14 A money-making operation.
15:16 When I get my money out plus 15%, then it's yours to own.
15:21 - Ha, did you hear that?
15:23 My wife goes to see my best friend
15:25 and suddenly I'm in business, I'm rich.
15:27 - What's the proposition, Mr. Cartwright?
15:32 - A mill, a grain mill.
15:34 Now there's none around here for miles
15:35 and people around here need a mill.
15:37 Now you have the water,
15:38 I have a son who knows how to put that water to work.
15:41 - What are you doing?
15:42 Trying to get something from me?
15:44 - Tom, I said this is a business proposition.
15:46 Now put up the money
15:48 and my sons and I will build that mill for you.
15:50 - What are you getting, Mr. Cartwright?
15:52 Water rights forever?
15:53 - I've already said what I want.
15:57 My investment back plus 15%.
16:01 If I have that, I'm satisfied.
16:04 - You mean?
16:05 - Hmm.
16:11 That sounds pretty good.
16:14 - Not to me it don't.
16:15 - Would you be good enough to let Mr. Edwards
16:19 make his own deal if he so sees fit?
16:21 - Of course, sir. Excuse me, excuse me.
16:22 - Nevermind, Zeke, Ben.
16:24 We've been thrown together so much,
16:25 we're almost like partners.
16:26 - My only thought, sir, is for Mr. Edwards.
16:29 - That's enough, Zeke.
16:30 Now you keep out of this.
16:32 - Mr. Edwards, we'd have all those people
16:33 coming around, all that excitement.
16:35 You don't hardly sleep nights as it is.
16:37 - Tom, what do you say?
16:41 Have we an agreement or haven't we?
16:44 - 15%, huh?
16:47 - 15.
16:48 Now you shake on that, we'll have that mill up in a week.
16:50 - Make it 10%?
16:51 - No.
16:52 - 12 1/2?
16:54 - 12 1/2.
16:57 I'm mighty glad, Tom.
16:59 Boy, that mill will be a great thing for everybody.
17:01 - What do you think of that, Ezekiel?
17:03 Wait till I tell Joyce.
17:04 - Well, all right, Tom.
17:06 Let's be getting on at the town.
17:07 Oh, say, we can start bringing the stuff in tomorrow
17:09 if that's all right.
17:10 - Oh, do that.
17:11 You do that, Ben.
17:12 Ben.
17:13 - We'll be friends again?
17:18 - Let me tell you, Ben, in my heart,
17:20 when I'm not in pain, I mean,
17:23 in my heart, I never blame you.
17:24 It was my gun, my fault.
17:27 - Bless you for coming.
17:30 - Goodbye tomorrow, Tom.
17:43 - Fine, Ben.
17:43 Thought you owned me, didn't you?
17:48 Thought I couldn't even get up to bed without you, huh?
17:50 I'll show you.
17:51 - I'll take you to your wife, Mr. Edwards.
17:54 Would you like to go pick grapes with your wife?
17:56 - I'll make me so much money,
17:57 I'll hire me a nurse from San Francisco.
17:59 It'll be a real one, too, not just somebody like you.
18:01 - I wouldn't get excited, Mr. Edwards.
18:03 You're gonna have another bad night.
18:05 - You hope I have another bad night,
18:06 and that ain't your hope.
18:07 I'll have to call for you.
18:09 Where are you taking me?
18:10 - To your wife, Mr. Edwards.
18:11 I'm gonna take you to your wife.
18:12 - You forget about my wife, you hear me?
18:15 You get her right out of your head!
18:17 (dramatic music)
18:20 - Take me back in the house.
18:23 - Yes, sir.
18:25 - Ben!
18:34 - Joyce.
18:35 - Ben!
18:39 Oh, how wonderful to see you.
18:41 Does Tom know you're here?
18:43 - Yes, I just talked to him.
18:45 - You just talked to him?
18:46 - I've got some good news for you.
18:47 I suggested to Tom that we build a gristmill here,
18:50 and that he run it.
18:51 - What did he say?
18:53 - He's all for it, he likes the idea.
18:55 - Oh, Ben!
18:58 Oh, I'm so happy.
19:00 If only this could make Tom happy, too.
19:02 Remember the way he used to be?
19:04 - I'll help you pick some grapes.
19:07 - Ben.
19:14 - I think what you're doing is the most wonderful thing
19:17 anyone could do for us.
19:18 - Now, wait a minute, you're forgetting
19:20 I'm making a profit, too.
19:21 - I know what you're doing.
19:24 Ben, about, about yesterday,
19:36 I've never complained to you before, have I?
19:42 I've never complained to anyone.
19:44 But all these years, I've been dying, too.
19:48 - I know, Jess.
19:51 - Sometimes I think it would have been better for him
19:54 if I'd left him.
19:55 My health, my, just the sight of me
19:58 seems to infuriate him at times.
20:00 Just the sheer sight of me.
20:04 Just...
20:05 - Just your beauty.
20:06 - Oh, Ben.
20:09 I forgot about that a long time ago.
20:13 He's a cripple.
20:15 And I'm a cripple, too.
20:16 - How are you a cripple?
20:20 - Because I don't stand up to him.
20:21 Because I take every terrible thing he says to me.
20:24 Sometimes he eyes me like a stranger would.
20:29 He says things he shouldn't.
20:32 - This may all come to an end.
20:33 You know, he was so happy when I left him.
20:35 I think the mill may change everything.
20:38 - Oh, I hope so.
20:39 - It's gotta be a fine mill.
20:41 You know, Adam's very clever with that sort of thing.
20:43 He's made some wonderful drawings.
20:45 - You're so fortunate in your boys.
20:47 - Three fine sons.
20:50 They could be half your life.
20:54 - Only half.
20:55 - Sons can't be everything.
20:57 - Did you notice how blue the mountains were this morning?
21:07 - Yes, I saw them.
21:12 (dramatic music)
21:15 - Well, it's starting to look very good.
21:28 - Coming along fine, Pa.
21:30 - Hey, Pa, when's Hoss gonna get here with those millstones?
21:33 - Should be real soon.
21:34 - Well, we'll be ready for him any time now.
21:36 - That's fine.
21:40 - Oh, thank you.
21:42 Glad to see you pitching in.
21:44 - I wouldn't want to give you any wrong notions,
21:46 Mr. Cartwright.
21:48 I'm just doing this to please Mr. Edwards.
21:50 I still don't think any good's gonna come of it.
21:52 - Well, why don't you give it a chance?
21:55 - Well, I'll give it a chance.
21:57 I'm just wondering one thing.
21:58 What's really in this for you, Mr. Cartwright?
22:02 - Hey, Pa?
22:05 Pa, send me in some more nails, will you?
22:07 - Yeah, coming right up.
22:09 (nails clattering)
22:12 - It looks so complicated.
22:14 How did you ever figure it out?
22:16 - Well, it's really not original.
22:18 The design is actually a combination.
22:20 Some of it comes from the old New England mills,
22:23 and some comes from the wheels
22:25 that the miners built here in Nevada.
22:27 As you see, we've built a flume
22:28 leading to the top of the wheel.
22:30 Now, at the proper time,
22:31 we'll divert the water back through the flume.
22:33 It'll pass over the top of the wheel,
22:34 striking the blades, which will turn the wheel,
22:37 which will drive the shaft,
22:38 which will turn the upper millstone,
22:40 and presto, you're grinding wheat.
22:41 It's really quite simple.
22:42 - Oh, Adam, I think you're absolutely marvelous.
22:44 - Well, actually, the idea is thousands of years old,
22:47 but imagine what it meant to man before the steam age.
22:50 Pa should be here soon with the millstones,
22:52 which reminds me,
22:53 I'd better see our little Joes coming along.
22:54 - Oh, and I'd better see about Tom.
22:56 - Hey, Professor.
22:59 - Huh? - Come here.
23:00 That's a mighty pretty assistance you got there.
23:06 - Meaning what?
23:08 (laughing)
23:10 - Oh, you're a sly one.
23:12 I was watching you, standing close,
23:13 spinning over, sniffing her hair.
23:15 I know you bright boys.
23:17 - How would you like to shut your filthy face, huh?
23:20 - Well, I'm just doing you a favor, friend.
23:22 Don't let her husband catch you.
23:24 He's still handy with a rifle.
23:26 - Ezekiel!
23:28 Come get me!
23:30 - Excuse me, Professor.
23:33 I was so busy watching you and Mrs. Edwards,
23:36 I forgot all about her husband.
23:38 - I don't know what you're up to,
23:43 but don't make any trouble for Mrs. Edwards.
23:46 (laughing)
23:48 - That's about time you got here, Professor.
23:55 Did some of the heavy work.
23:56 - Don't call me that.
23:57 - What's the matter with you?
24:00 - Just don't call me Professor.
24:01 - Here, let me get that.
24:04 I'm perfectly capable of doing this myself.
24:07 - Anything you say, ma'am.
24:08 - Wheel me down there.
24:09 I wanna see how things are going.
24:12 - Yes, sir.
24:13 You think it'd be all right?
24:14 - All right?
24:15 Why shouldn't it be all right?
24:16 Come on.
24:17 - I mean, the ground's so rough, your leg's being so weak.
24:21 - Must you always remind him of that?
24:22 - I didn't mean no harm, ma'am.
24:25 I was just thinking.
24:27 - Come on, come on!
24:34 - You know, Adam, I gotta hand it to you.
24:35 I think this thing's gonna work.
24:36 - Thanks.
24:37 I'm sorry about blowing off all that steam a while ago.
24:43 - Yeah, well, that's all right.
24:44 I'm used to taking all the guff around this family.
24:46 That's what I'm here for.
24:47 - Oh, sure, you're really abused, aren't you?
24:49 Here, put this plank up there.
24:51 - See what I mean?
24:54 - Got it?
24:58 - Yeah, why don't you get some light wood?
24:59 - Well, Ben, you're really making progress.
25:03 - Moving right along, Tom.
25:05 Any reason why I can't be of some help?
25:08 - Why, not at all.
25:09 As a matter of fact, I think I've got
25:11 the very thing for you.
25:12 Ezekiel, move this chair in closer to the wheel.
25:15 See these binder rods?
25:18 - Yeah.
25:19 - They need tightening.
25:19 Now, here's a wrench.
25:20 Get to work.
25:21 - Fine.
25:22 - Oh, Adam, isn't it wonderful to see Tom working again?
25:26 - Sure is.
25:27 What's the matter?
25:31 - I just think you have the most wonderful father.
25:33 (gunshots firing)
25:35 - Dummy alarm, folks, just a signal.
25:37 - Signal for what?
25:39 - The arrival, look to the east.
25:40 Horse Cartwright, charioteer.
25:43 Charging up with a ton of millstones.
25:45 Come on, horse, drive 'em.
25:49 - No!
25:50 Stay back!
25:52 Come on, take it.
25:57 (cow mooing)
26:02 - How was it, horse?
26:03 - Fine, Paul.
26:04 - Have any trouble getting this load across the river?
26:06 - No, a little bit.
26:07 Been swimming with it.
26:08 (laughing)
26:10 - Can I get this?
26:13 - Yeah, I got it.
26:14 I got it.
26:15 - Well, I don't know about you, Mr. Edwards,
26:18 but I always go by the rule you ought to lock the barn
26:22 before the horse gets away.
26:24 - What are you talking about?
26:25 - Just a certain party and your wife.
26:30 - You know what I think I'll do with you?
26:31 When this mill is finished,
26:32 I'll put a rope around your neck
26:34 and hang you from one of the rafters just to celebrate.
26:36 - Mr. Edwards, you know I'm just protecting your interest.
26:40 - Listen, you filthy snake, I trust my wife.
26:43 And I trust Ben Cartwright, he's my friend.
26:46 And if you ever again put one of your rotten,
26:48 suspicious thoughts in my mind,
26:50 so help me heaven, I'll kill you.
26:51 - Your friend, Mr. Edwards?
26:54 I wasn't talking about him, I was talking about his son.
26:57 - I'm not talking about him.
26:58 I was talking about his son, Adam.
27:00 (dramatic music)
27:03 - Watch your hands down there with that pole.
27:06 - All right.
27:07 - Let me get this under there.
27:08 - It's heavy.
27:09 Easy now.
27:11 Easy, easy.
27:15 - Okay, let her slide down.
27:21 Easy does it.
27:22 Watch your hands, Pop.
27:23 - Now, let her slip.
27:27 - I ain't saying she did anything, but the point is--
27:32 - Look, just tell me if you saw anything
27:33 or you didn't between her and Adam.
27:35 - Mr. Edwards, I don't want you getting excited.
27:37 - Never mind about that, just tell me what you saw.
27:39 - Well, Adam was, well, he was kind of
27:43 brushing up against her here and there.
27:47 - Did he touch her?
27:49 - No, not exactly.
27:50 Well, it's his eyes, you know,
27:54 when she wasn't looking at him.
27:57 His eyes was, well, you know what I mean.
27:59 They just kind of touching her all over.
28:03 Of course, gotta admit that Adam is a good looking boy.
28:08 - And with a little bit of luck,
28:11 we'll have this mill running by tonight.
28:12 - Tom, Tom, they think they'll have the wheel
28:16 going by tonight.
28:17 Isn't that wonderful?
28:19 Do you know what I think we should have?
28:20 A party, and let's dance,
28:22 and let's grind the first grain and have the neighbors in.
28:25 - Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful to have music again?
28:28 - I'll bet you'd like to dance, wouldn't you?
28:30 - Dusty, the music would be enough.
28:33 - I bet you'd like to dance with Adam.
28:35 - I beg your pardon?
28:38 - What's all this between you and Adam?
28:40 - Between me and Adam?
28:41 - Ever since the mill started,
28:42 you've been tagging each other around.
28:44 - Tom, I don't understand you.
28:47 - You understand me.
28:48 You're a woman, aren't you?
28:49 You're young, you're lovely.
28:51 Don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about.
28:53 - Tom, on my word of honor,
28:54 no such thought for Adam ever entered my mind.
28:57 - Then why are you so happy?
28:58 Why have you been smiling ever since this mill started?
29:00 - Because of you.
29:02 Because I thought it would start your life again,
29:03 and my life.
29:05 - You haven't been tagging Adam around?
29:07 - No.
29:08 - Brushing against him, leaning against him.
29:10 Laughing with him at me?
29:13 - No.
29:14 - You have, both of you!
29:16 You've been tagging each other around
29:17 like a couple of simpering lovebirds.
29:18 - What's going on?
29:21 - I don't know.
29:22 - Looks like Ezekiel has done his work.
29:24 - Ezekiel, get me out of here!
29:26 - Excuse me, Miss Edwards.
29:28 You got him so upset,
29:29 I better take him inside and lay him down for a while.
29:32 - Ezekiel, do I have you to thank for this?
29:35 - No, ma'am.
29:36 I didn't tattle on you, if that's what you mean.
29:39 - If you come near my wife again, Adam Cartwright,
29:41 I'll kill you both!
29:42 (dramatic music)
29:44 (crying)
29:52 - Pa, I'll give you my word.
29:54 It's Ezekiel, he's warped and twisted Edwards' mind.
29:56 - Pa, maybe we better stop working the mill.
29:58 - What, after I lug these stones in here?
30:00 - We'll finish this mill.
30:02 - Pa, a man as mixed up as that's liable to kill somebody.
30:04 - Keep working.
30:07 (dramatic music)
30:11 Joyce!
30:18 Joyce!
30:21 Joyce!
30:22 Joyce.
30:25 - Ben, please go away and leave me alone.
30:28 - Joyce, come on now.
30:31 Let it out.
30:32 - I've never been so humiliated, so ashamed.
30:35 I don't know what to do.
30:37 - All right, now take it easy, Joe.
30:42 You're ruining the whole thing.
30:44 - Look, I told you it wouldn't fit, Adam.
30:46 You made the shaft too short.
30:47 Look, come on, now lift.
30:48 Now lift, horse!
30:49 - Dang it, Adam, if I lift anymore,
30:51 I'm gonna lift the whole earth up.
30:53 - Lift!
30:54 Oh, come on, will ya, Adam?
31:01 Let's call it quits.
31:04 - Quits?
31:05 - Yeah, quits.
31:07 We did enough work today for 10 men.
31:08 - Now, come on, Joe, give me a few more minutes.
31:11 - I'm hungry, Adam.
31:12 Adam, you give me one reason why I oughta break my back.
31:16 - Because I wanna see it work.
31:18 I wanna see this mill grind wheat.
31:19 I wanna eat bread from this mill that we built.
31:21 - You do?
31:23 - I do.
31:24 - He does?
31:26 - He does.
31:29 - Well, why don't you say so, brother?
31:31 Come on, let's get to work.
31:32 All right, all together now.
31:37 - All right, let's go.
31:38 One, two, heave!
31:40 - All right, in she goes!
31:43 - Hey, get the other side over there.
31:48 - Yeah, wait till I get this board up.
31:50 - Let's go, one, two, heave!
31:53 - Heave!
31:56 Hey!
31:56 - Hey!
31:57 - Hey, way to go, brother.
31:58 - Hey, look, it worked!
32:01 - Watch, get up to the diversion gate.
32:02 When I give you the signal, let the water in the flume.
32:04 - Right.
32:06 - Hey, Adam, don't you think we oughta wait for Pa?
32:08 - Pa said to get it done, that's what we gotta do.
32:10 Now, get up there and let up that sluice gate
32:14 when I tell ya.
32:15 - Aye, aye, sir.
32:16 (clanking)
32:18 - All right, horse, let her go!
32:30 (beeping)
32:32 (dramatic music)
32:37 Hey, it's filling up the flume, Adam.
32:45 (dramatic music)
32:47 - You all set?
32:48 - Let her go.
32:50 (thudding)
32:55 - Here she comes!
32:58 - Hey!
33:03 - Hey, boy, it's working!
33:05 - Hey!
33:06 - It's working!
33:07 - Hey!
33:07 - Watch, look down, boy, let's see it go!
33:10 - Oh, millstone!
33:11 Oh, grinder wheat!
33:13 - Let all wheat make our bread!
33:15 Let all bread make us as bright as our brother Adam!
33:19 - Hey, we're in, yeah!
33:21 - Wait, let's go!
33:21 - Wait, we gotta get some wheat!
33:23 - Get it!
33:24 - Let's go!
33:24 - Look at it!
33:25 - Tom?
33:30 (crashing)
33:33 - Hey, Adam!
33:34 - Hey, maybe we better get up there.
33:37 - No.
33:38 Come on in, whoever you are!
33:43 (laughing)
33:45 - Well, Cartwright, what do you want?
33:50 - The one thing I don't want is people
33:55 shooting at me without a reason.
33:57 - I got a reason, best reason in the world, my wife.
34:01 - Where is she?
34:02 - That's right, where is she?
34:03 Mr. Edward here's been worried about her,
34:05 and it ain't good for him to worry.
34:07 - How should I know where his wife is?
34:09 - You ought to know where she is.
34:11 She's with your father, ain't she?
34:12 He run off after her.
34:14 - Didn't think I knew, did you?
34:15 I know.
34:17 Ezekiel told me.
34:18 I know all about your father, too, from a long way back.
34:21 It's not the first time he betrayed me.
34:23 He shot me in the spine!
34:25 - My father didn't shoot you, and you know it.
34:28 - I don't know any such thing.
34:30 I know it was you Cartwright's caused all my trouble.
34:33 - Mr. Edwards, you're wrong, real wrong.
34:36 But I didn't come here to argue with you,
34:38 I just come to tell you that you're making a mistake.
34:40 I just come to tell you that your mill is finished.
34:42 We got it going.
34:44 - You think the mill solves everything, don't you?
34:45 You know what I'm gonna do with your mill?
34:47 I'm gonna destroy it, I'm gonna burn it to the ground!
34:50 Does Ben Cartwright think he can buy my wife with a mill?
34:53 You mock my words.
34:56 Before I let him steal my wife,
34:58 I'll kill him, and hurt you!
35:00 - Ezekiel, if you're really his friend,
35:06 you'll get these wild ideas out of his head.
35:09 - I am his friend, Mr. Cartwright.
35:11 But what's right is right.
35:13 A man has a simple duty to protect his home.
35:16 - Ben, I'll always remember this time
35:28 we've had together today.
35:30 It was as though we had escaped to another world.
35:33 - It's been that way for me, too.
35:38 (birds chirping)
35:41 - Ben, look!
35:44 The wheel is turning!
35:46 Oh, isn't it beautiful?
35:49 - It certainly is.
35:51 Joyce, I just can't let you go back.
35:56 - Ben, please, I--
35:58 - At least spend the night with us at the Ponderosa.
36:02 Don't go back to that house, not right now.
36:05 - I'm not afraid.
36:06 Tom and Ezekiel will be so drunk,
36:08 they won't even hear me come in.
36:10 Besides, with the mill and all,
36:12 perhaps it will be different again.
36:15 I've got to give him that chance.
36:18 - Well, just to be sure everything's all right,
36:25 I'll ride by first thing in the morning.
36:28 - Ben, thank you for everything.
36:34 (dramatic music)
36:36 - Pa, we've been waiting for you.
36:59 - Oh, well, I was a little worried about you.
37:02 - Mighty thoughtful of you, Adam,
37:04 but I have a feeling I'm old enough to take care of myself.
37:06 - I ran into some trouble over at the Edwards' place.
37:09 - What sort of trouble?
37:11 - Tom took a shot at me.
37:12 - No, I can't believe that.
37:14 - Neither could I.
37:16 I went up to the ranch to tell him
37:17 to finish with the mill,
37:18 and he and that hired hand of his were glassy-eyed drunk.
37:21 - What started it?
37:22 What brought it on?
37:23 - I don't know, Tom had some wild idea
37:24 about you and Joyce being off someplace together,
37:25 and he was making threats about killing you
37:27 if you didn't stay away from her.
37:28 Where are you going?
37:32 - I'm going right back to that house as fast as I can make it.
37:34 - That man touches Joyce.
37:35 - Pa? - What?
37:38 - Want me to go with you?
37:44 - No, you stay here, I'll handle this alone.
37:47 - Pa, Tom's suspicion about you and Joyce,
37:50 it isn't true, is it?
37:51 - Suppose it were, Adam.
37:53 How would you feel about it?
37:55 - I'd say that if there ever was a chance,
37:58 she couldn't do any better.
38:01 - I'd be happy for both of you.
38:03 Thank you for that, Adam.
38:07 (dramatic music)
38:09 (laughing)
38:20 - That does it, Mr. Edwards.
38:27 It's my house now.
38:31 - Your house.
38:31 Your money.
38:33 Your strength that packs me upstairs and puts me to bed.
38:39 This is my wife, Ezekiel, you hear that?
38:42 She's my wife!
38:43 - That's right.
38:45 Your wife.
38:47 You owe me quite a bit, Mr. Edwards.
38:51 - I've got a mill.
38:54 A little grind and plow.
38:56 I don't make money.
38:58 - Ain't you forgetting something?
38:59 I won that mill.
39:00 - I'll pay you someway.
39:04 I'll pay you.
39:06 - Now that you mention it, there is a way.
39:10 An easy way.
39:11 You like to gamble, don't you?
39:12 - What are you diving at?
39:15 - I just wanna make one more bet with you.
39:18 Just one cut of the cards.
39:20 If I lose, you don't owe me anything, Mr. Edwards.
39:24 Not a thing.
39:26 You get the house back and all the money you owe me.
39:28 - If I lose, what do I still own?
39:35 You don't already have.
39:36 - Well, just one cut of the cards can prevent that,
39:42 Mr. Edwards.
39:44 A gambler like you ought to jump at the chance.
39:46 - Somebody ought to kill you.
39:48 Somebody ought to stalk you.
39:51 (laughing)
39:53 - Well, maybe somebody will.
39:56 But that ain't gonna be you, is it, Mr. Edwards?
39:59 (scoffs)
40:01 (dramatic music)
40:04 (laughing)
40:13 (dramatic music)
40:16 - Looks like my king beat your nine.
40:29 (laughing)
40:32 - Ezekiel, would you mind bringing Mr. Edwards
40:36 up to our room now?
40:37 - I don't have to do that no more, Ms. Edwards.
40:40 That's my room now.
40:43 That's where I'm gonna sleep.
40:45 - Even drunk as you are, you know that's not true.
40:51 - Isn't it?
40:52 You ask your husband.
40:53 - What does he mean?
41:00 - Ms. Edwards, there's some things going on here
41:01 I think you ought to know about.
41:03 - Tom, what is he saying?
41:06 - He won the bet.
41:07 - What bet?
41:09 What do you mean?
41:13 You're just as drunk as he is.
41:14 You don't even know what you're saying.
41:16 - No, he's right, Ms. Edwards.
41:20 I won the bet.
41:23 - Don't tell him to get away from me.
41:25 Help me!
41:26 - I can't help you, Joyce.
41:27 I can't help you.
41:29 - You might as well get used to the idea, Ms. Edwards.
41:32 From now on, there ain't gonna be nobody but--
41:36 - Get away from me!
41:37 You touch me and I'll kill you!
41:39 I don't know how I'll do it, but I'll kill you!
41:41 (Joyce sobs)
41:43 (Tom laughs)
41:46 (door slams)
41:48 (Tom laughs)
41:51 - Will she get over that?
41:54 Soon as she calms down a bit.
41:56 - Will she, Ezekiel?
41:58 Are you sure?
41:59 - Yeah, I'm sure.
42:01 Why shouldn't I be?
42:03 - You heard her.
42:04 She said she'd kill you first.
42:06 Maybe someone's gonna stop you after all.
42:11 (Tom laughs)
42:14 (gun fires)
42:23 - Hello, Mr. Cartwright.
42:31 You should knock before you come into my home.
42:34 (Joyce sobs)
42:37 - Ben.
42:38 - Get out of here.
42:48 - No, Mr. Cartwright, everything here belongs to me now.
42:52 You see, I've taken Mr. Edwards' place.
42:54 Even this chair belongs to me.
42:57 Come on, Joyce.
43:04 (Joyce sobs)
43:06 Now, stay right where you are, Mr. Cartwright.
43:11 I wouldn't wanna have to hurt you.
43:12 Now, you lay your pistol belt on that table.
43:16 (Joyce sobs)
43:19 - Why are you sitting in that wheelchair?
43:40 You're not crippled.
43:41 - That's right, I'm not.
43:42 I just wanna get the feel of it.
43:46 I wanna know how Mr. Edwards felt when he sat in it.
43:49 I wanna know how Mr. Edwards felt about everything.
43:53 - Come on, Joyce.
44:02 Let's get out of here.
44:03 - No.
44:05 Now, you can't, Mr. Cartwright.
44:06 She belongs to me too, don't you understand?
44:08 Look, I have it all here.
44:11 I kept track of every bet I made with Mr. Edwards.
44:13 He gambled away everything.
44:15 And tonight, he gambled away his wife.
44:17 - Well, if you won everything from him,
44:25 why did you kill him?
44:28 - Well, he tried to go back on a bet.
44:31 You know a man can't do that.
44:33 - Ezekiel.
44:38 You see,
44:44 you're very tired.
44:45 Why don't you rest and we can talk about it.
44:49 Go on, Joyce.
44:53 - No, no.
44:54 No, where's she going?
44:55 - Just outside.
44:58 - No, no, she can't.
45:00 Now, Mr. Edwards told you that if you tried
45:02 to steal his wife, he'd kill you.
45:04 I'm the same as Mr. Edwards now.
45:06 So if you try to take her,
45:08 I'm going to have to kill you.
45:12 (gun firing)
45:16 (gun firing)
45:18 (dramatic music)
45:21 (gun firing)
45:23 (dramatic music)
45:26 (gun firing)
45:29 (dramatic music)
45:31 (gun firing)
45:34 (dramatic music)
45:36 (gun firing)
45:50 (Joyce screaming)
45:53 (Joyce screaming)
46:00 - Ben!
46:02 (Joyce crying)
46:04 (Joyce crying)
46:08 (birds chirping)
46:11, - Joyce, this is, uh,
46:40 this is what you want to do.
46:42 - I've had a lot of time to think this past week
46:45 and, uh, well, I have friends in Denver.
46:48 I'd stay with them and then I'll move on east.
46:51 - All right, you go and after a few weeks or months,
46:58 well, then you can decide what you want to do.
47:02 - Now, whatever you do, don't sell the mill.
47:05 You use it.
47:07 - Now, Joyce, when you come back--
47:10 - Ben, I love you, but I could never come back.
47:15 - I need you.
47:24 - Remember you told me once
47:27 that when little Joe's mother died,
47:29 you had to get away, had to meet new people?
47:32 Well, think of it that way.
47:36 (somber music)
47:39 - Well, I'll drive you into Virginia City.
47:47 - I'd rather we say goodbye here.
47:49 It isn't easy for me either.
47:52 (somber music)
47:55 (dramatic music)
47:58 (dramatic music)
48:02 (dramatic music)
48:05 (dog barking)
48:30 (dramatic music)
48:33 (upbeat music)
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