The Rifleman S04E23
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00:00Hey, Yonah.
00:08Well, Lucas, what brings you out this way?
00:23Trailing you with a wire message.
00:24Sheriff up at the county seat says you can take your prisoner into Santa Fe
00:27instead of going all the way to Indian Bend.
00:29Oh, that's fine. Shortens our trip a day.
00:32Sure sorry to trouble you like this, though, Lucas.
00:34No trouble, Micah.
00:35Mark and I were on our way to Little Butte to take in the county fair.
00:38Mr. Reynolds!
00:44Don't you remember me?
00:46No, can't say as I do, boy.
00:48Oh, about three years ago.
00:50You remember down in that ravine I was hurtin'.
00:53Oh, for gosh sakes. How you been, son?
01:00Three years ago, Mark was bit by a rattler.
01:02This man Reynolds found him and took him to the nearest town.
01:05Micah?
01:07What are they going to do to him in Santa Fe?
01:13I'm to be hanged, boy.
01:17He'll be hanged.
01:30The Rifleman.
01:38Starring Chuck Connors.
01:48But Micah, he saved my life.
01:53Pa.
01:56Come on, son, we better be going.
01:58Come on.
02:03Where you putting up, Lucas?
02:04Oh, I figured the river bottom.
02:06Why not stay here? It'll be an hour before you get to the river bottom.
02:09By the time you get up a good cookin' fire, Mark will be fallin' asleep.
02:16Boy, I wouldn't worry about him. Mark will be safe enough.
02:19Well, I guess it would be late before we got bedded down.
02:22All right, Micah, we'll take advantage of your fire.
02:24Son, you get the bedding down and I'll get the grub together. Fair enough?
02:29But I won't be eatin', Pa. I'm not very hungry.
02:32Five-hour ride and not hungry?
02:39All right, son, go on.
02:46Well, nothing like a long ride to make you appreciate bedding down by a campfire.
02:51We both ought to sleep good tonight.
02:53I guess so.
02:58Doesn't seem fair.
03:01Just don't seem fair, Pa.
03:03Him dyin' and gettin' nothin' in return for helpin' me.
03:07Some things, you just got no answers for.
03:15Boy, he's takin' it hard, Micah.
03:18Well, I can see where Mark might be addin' it up like two and two.
03:22Randall's savin' his life and losin' his own.
03:26To a boy, I reckon it just don't make sense.
03:30Well, there'll come a time in his life when he'll find out
03:33that nothin' is ever so simple as addin' two and two.
03:37I don't envy him that time.
03:40Hey, uh, you're gonna need this.
03:44Hey, my key. Thanks.
03:57Hey, boy, you've grown some since I saw you last.
04:01I guess I got a little bigger.
04:04I've heard about you now and then.
04:06Oh?
04:08I don't have to ask if it was anything good.
04:11Uh, I guess it wasn't.
04:15I'm...
04:17I'm sorry to hear about this here predicament that you're in.
04:22Like they say, make a bed.
04:26It's the one you're sure gonna lie in.
04:30Good night.
04:42Well, I reckon it's about time to turn in, Lucas.
04:45Yeah. Good night, Micah.
04:47Good night.
04:50I'll stake out the horses with Micah, son. Be right back.
04:53All right, Pa.
05:20You still awake, son?
05:23I can't seem to get to sleep.
05:26Mark, I told you before,
05:29there's nothing anybody can do about Mr. Reynolds.
05:33I know, but I sure wish there was.
05:37Well, maybe you can sleep if you think of something pleasant,
05:40like the county fair tomorrow.
05:43Maybe.
05:45You know, son, pretty soon,
05:48maybe in the next year or two,
05:50you'll kind of see things differently.
05:52Maybe it'll be for the better, and maybe it won't.
05:55But every boy comes to an age,
05:57a time when he knows certain things
06:01have to be the way they are.
06:03It's a good world, Mark. You'll see that.
06:06You'll see plenty of sunshine,
06:08but you'll also see some dark clouds coming.
06:11It's just the way the world is.
06:13Happy times, good times,
06:17but always some sad times.
06:25Good night, son.
06:27Good night, Pa.
06:42Aah!
06:44Aah!
07:00Mike!
07:04Mike, I think there's a mountain lion bothering the horses.
07:07You stay here, Mark.
07:11Aah!
07:32Easy, boy. Easy. Easy. Easy now.
07:36Easy, boy.
07:41Easy.
08:03Wait.
08:05All I want is a couple of minutes.
08:08You'd have died that day
08:10if I'd thought of my own skin instead of yours.
08:13Two or three minutes for saving your life.
08:16That's not too much to ask.
08:18You were in a bad way that day, real bad.
08:22If I'd have left, that'd have been the end.
08:25But I stuck my neck out for you.
08:28Thanks.
08:41Well, I guess he's given up on this meal.
08:44They generally only make one try.
08:46I think we can go to sleep.
08:48Yeah. Come on.
09:11My key.
09:13He had my key.
09:15I must have lost it when I got up.
09:18Well, I guess I take the prize for stupidity.
09:23Mark, did you see what happened here?
09:26Did you see Reynolds find the key?
09:29I wasn't looking at him.
09:31You must have seen him leave.
09:33There must have been time to call out or...
09:36Mark, answer my question.
09:38Could you have called out or run to us?
09:47You saying you deliberately kept quiet?
09:49You deliberately let Reynolds escape?
09:51Pa, I couldn't call out.
09:54I just couldn't. He saved my life, Pa.
09:57I wouldn't be here if it weren't for him.
09:59Mark Reynolds was a pain in the neck.
10:03I wouldn't be here if it weren't for him.
10:05Mark Reynolds was a prisoner, an outlaw.
10:07You had no right to let him get away.
10:09Not when you could have stopped him by calling out to Micah or me.
10:12It's not his fault, Lucas.
10:14He feels he owes Reynolds a debt, and it's got him a little mixed up.
10:17There's no mixing up right or wrong, Micah.
10:19You get our things together.
10:21Micah, Reynolds probably headed north toward the Badlands.
10:24Logical place for him to hide out.
10:26I'll saddle up and get on his trail.
10:28I'm sorry, Pa.
10:30We're not going to the county fair this year.
10:32I'm taking you over to Abe Mirar's. You're going to stay there.
10:35I'm coming back and help Micah track down your friend.
10:45Howdy, Abe.
10:47Hello, Lucas. Haven't seen you in quite a while.
10:49Hello, Mark.
10:51Hello, Mr. Mirar.
10:52Abe, you mind if I leave Mark here with you for a while?
10:55Micah and I have to head north after a prisoner who got away from us last night.
10:59Why, of course you don't mind. Be glad to have you, Mark.
11:02Got several little jobs around here I could use a little help on.
11:05If you're willing.
11:06I'd be glad to.
11:08Be back when I can.
11:12I'm sorry, Pa.
11:21Hello.
11:25You been caught in trouble, young fella?
11:27Sure have. Pa's all riled up at me.
11:30Well, I wish I had a young fella like you to get riled at.
11:33I've never seen my Pa so mad.
11:36It was my fault that that prisoner got away.
11:39Pa and I were starting out for the county fair down in Little Butte.
11:43Then we kind of took a deep tour and we had to give this message to Micah for...
11:50All I know about this squirrel gun I found in your barn, old man, is that it's loaded.
11:55Now, straight it shoots, we'll both be finding out you moved one finger the wrong way.
12:05I wouldn't put too much confidence in that gun if I were you.
12:09I got the same advice for you, old-timer.
12:13I wouldn't put too much confidence that it's going to go over your head.
12:16Go in the house. You too, boy. Come on.
12:25Come on.
12:38You will not get away with this, fella.
12:40Maybe.
12:42Now, look, old man, all I want from you is food, water, and a horse.
12:47And this handgun.
12:50Now, you be real obliging. There'll be no trouble.
12:53Got no horse to spark.
12:54That one out by the barn, you're returning, that'll do fine.
12:58You go out and saddle him.
13:01Boy, get these canteens. Fill them.
13:11Didn't you two hear me?
13:14What you take at gunpoint, you take.
13:16What of it, darn, if I just hand the horse over to you?
13:23Now, look.
13:25That sheriff and the boy's father are about a half mile north.
13:30And the sound of this in this room will carry more than 100 yards.
13:34Now, do we understand one another?
13:37I'll say it again.
13:39You take it, but I'm giving you nothing.
13:46You'd better do as Mr. Reynolds says.
13:49The boy's got sense.
13:54Hey, I hope your pa didn't take it out of your hide.
13:56My pa's never hit me.
13:58Well, I'm glad you didn't do any woodshed yelping over me.
14:01I figure we're pretty good friends by now, huh?
14:03I'm no friend of yours.
14:04I know you won't be that gentle.
14:07Mr. Marar!
14:08You old fool.
14:10Don't worry, son.
14:12I've carried bigger pieces of lead than this.
14:14Well, you'll be carrying a bigger piece between your eyes.
14:17Try something like that again.
14:19He's only nicked. You can't hurt those old buzzards again.
14:21Come on, get those canteens filled.
14:23I'll get some food.
14:24I'm putting advantage on Mr. Marar first.
14:35Well, it doesn't make sense, Micah.
14:37Reynolds leaving such an easy trail to follow.
14:39All he'd have to do is stick to those rocks up ahead and he'd have his guessing.
14:43Now look, he was running along there.
14:45I seem to recall a creek up ahead.
14:48Well, if he's backtracking, he's probably used that creek to throw us off.
14:51We'd better get moving.
14:58Come on, he's had enough attention.
15:00Get those canteens filled.
15:02We've got a long way to go today.
15:03We?
15:04Yeah, you're going with me as far as the border.
15:07This boy's father shows up, you tell him I'm holding a strong hold card.
15:11I want no rifle bullets flying around my ears if he catches up with us.
15:14I tell you once more to fill those canteens, I'm not going to be using words.
15:26Move!
15:35I didn't think it was bad.
15:44Where do you keep your tobacco?
16:15You're kind of pressing your luck, aren't you, old man?
16:18I quit using strong language some time ago or I'd tell you where to get off.
16:28Well, don't take it all.
16:38Reynolds!
16:40Anything happens to that boy, he's part of the hunt you down.
16:44Nothing's going to happen to him.
16:46He's just my insurance until I get to the border.
16:49Matter of fact, I like the kid.
17:01You mean you still haven't filled...
17:04Let's go.
17:10Let's go.
17:24Micah?
17:28I was right, he's circling to the south.
17:31That means he'll be cutting across the valley to steal a horse from one of the farms.
17:35Yeah, and Abe Moran's place is the nearest.
17:37Right where I left Mark.
17:40Let's go.
17:49Let's take a rest for a minute.
17:58What's bothering you, boy?
18:00Nothing's bothering me.
18:04You take it easy on that water.
18:06You'll be fine in any routine here on the border.
18:10Kerosene!
18:15Kerosene!
18:17You feared I'd slow us down, didn't you, boy?
18:19Well, you did.
18:21In fact, you slowed yourself down right about to a stop.
18:26Kerosene.
18:33Kerosene.
18:40Oh, kerosene!
18:42That took guts, boy, I like that.
18:44Yeah, wait till the boys hear that, they won't believe it.
18:49We can't get across these wastelands without water.
18:54And we'll have to veer east.
18:56There's a ghost town 10, 11 miles over that way.
18:58Get some water there.
19:02Come on, mount up.
19:09Reynolds is pretty sly.
19:11He said he's heading for the border.
19:13I'll bet he took another trail.
19:15Well, in this case, Lucas, he's headed south.
19:17So it's my guess he's trying for the border.
19:20Well, he probably felt safe enough talking about it,
19:22Mark, along with him as a hostage.
19:24Well, Abe, first farm we pass,
19:26we'll fetch you out a doctor.
19:28Don't worry about me, you take care of your boy.
19:30Take care of yourself.
19:40You ever been in a ghost town before, boy?
19:43Further up north.
19:46I remember when this was a hustling border town.
19:49Part of the regular stage run.
19:52Come on, let's go inside.
20:10Sure is a gloomy place.
20:13I'll give you a little light while you're waiting here.
20:16Waiting here?
20:18Yeah.
20:20Your father isn't too far behind us.
20:22No sense tying it with him unless I have to.
20:25But we're going to part company here.
20:28We're going to part company here.
20:30We're going to part company here.
20:32We're going to part company here.
20:34We're going to part company here.
20:36We're going to part company here.
20:37We're going to part company here.
20:41I'm going to tie you up
20:43so you can't cut short my time
20:45getting away by going back and forth.
20:47Don't you hear?
20:49Boy, I'm going to tap a gun butt off your head
20:51if you don't settle down.
20:54Put your hands behind you.
20:56That's more like it.
21:00Well, they've turned east.
21:02Yeah, couldn't have been too long ago.
21:04Mike, if he's harmed that boy,
21:05I'll bury him right where I find him.
21:07Come on.
21:12Kerosene.
21:14I ought to make you drink it.
21:17There's a pump across the street.
21:19I'm going to go over there and fill these up.
21:25And if you're loose when I get back,
21:27I'm going to hang you by your feet.
21:29Make sure you stay put.
21:35Come on.
22:06Help!
22:15Help!
22:28Yeah, yeah, let's move.
22:35Where are you, boy?
22:36Don't panic, I'll get you.
22:57You all right, boy?
23:06Are you all right, son?
23:09I think so, Pa.
23:12Boy, he saved my life again.
23:14Mike, I can't take him now, Pa, I can't.
23:16Mark, this wouldn't have happened
23:18if you hadn't interfered.
23:20Now, let's not start all over again, boy.
23:36Reynolds, the way I figure it,
23:38you got a fair trial and a fair sentence.
23:40Frankly, I don't think you deserve a break
23:42because I don't think you'll ever change.
23:44But, uh...
23:45Well, you tell him, Micah.
23:47Lucas and I have been talking it over.
23:49We're all going up to Santa Fe together
23:51to see the governor.
23:53Maybe he'll think you got a favor coming
23:55and swap your hanging for a prison sentence.
23:57Well, can't say as I object
23:59to a nice, airy cell instead of stretching some rope.
24:06I feel better now, Pa.
24:08I was doing something in return for Mr. Reynolds.
24:10You feel better, do you?
24:12Well, you just remember, when we get home,
24:14we've got a few things to talk about.
24:16Oh, yeah.
24:35Oh, yeah.
25:05Oh, yeah.
25:35Oh, yeah.
25:36Oh, yeah.