The Rifleman S04E26
The Rifleman S04E26
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00:00Are you all right?
00:26What's your business, mister?
00:43Well, no need for that gun.
00:47I'm Lucas McCain.
00:48This is my son, Mark.
00:49We're your neighbors.
00:52We just stopped by on our way to town to say hello.
00:59All right.
01:00You've said hello.
01:02Now clear out.
01:03Please, go.
01:11And stay away from my wife!
01:13The Rifleman, starring Chuck Connors.
01:31To drive the neighbors away with a gun?
01:43How can we live here after that, Jake?
01:47Big man, that McCain.
02:03Like Andy Travis.
02:06No, not like Andy Travis.
02:08Like you were once, Jake.
02:11A man I could look up to, respect, a strong man.
02:18Jake, this is the third time we've moved in a year.
02:23It's already starting.
02:26I didn't ask him here, and I don't want him around.
02:29The horse reared and threw me because you beat her.
02:33He was helping me to my feet.
02:35You don't believe that?
02:37Not when you have to flirt with every man you meet.
02:39If I just talk to a man, you say I'm flirting.
02:43I can't live this way, Jake.
02:48I'm shut away from people, and shut away from you.
02:59I sure can't get over that Mr. Owens.
03:01We were just paying a neighborly call, that's all.
03:04Oh, he's a strange man, Sonny, I agree.
03:06I want a few words with Micah.
03:08Maybe you better pick up the mail,
03:09and I'll meet you at the barbershop.
03:11Barbershop?
03:12Was just a month ago, Pa.
03:18Well, maybe you can wait another week.
03:22I'll meet you back here.
03:31Thought you were on a diet.
03:34A diet doesn't mean I have to starve myself to death.
03:37Why not do it the easy way?
03:38Just stop eating.
03:39You'll lose that 10 pounds in no time.
03:42Stop eating?
03:43What'll I do for energy to get my work done?
03:46What work?
03:48The heaviest thing you've picked up in 20 years
03:50is a cell key.
03:54You know, that's the trouble with this job.
03:56People think that all it is is wearing a star
03:58and shaking enough hands to get elected again.
04:01By the way, did you meet your new neighbors yet?
04:05Yeah, I met them.
04:08I just saw them for a minute when they arrived.
04:09They were busy moving in.
04:11You'll like Jake and his wife.
04:13They're nice people, Lucas.
04:17How well do you know Jake Owens?
04:19Oh, about as well as I know you.
04:22Of course, till he moved here, I haven't seen him
04:24in, oh, maybe four or five years.
04:27He was wearing a badge then in Rebels Falls, Missouri,
04:29but he'd already made a reputation for himself.
04:32Owens wore a badge?
04:33That's right.
04:34Gave it up to become a cattle rancher.
04:36I'm glad they moved here.
04:41What's the matter with you?
04:42I don't know.
04:43I'm just worried about Jake.
04:46What's the matter, Lucas?
04:47You said you met Jake.
04:48What do you think of him?
04:50Now, maybe he's changed a little, Micah, since you knew him.
05:05How long will you be?
05:06About half an hour.
05:08Half hour to pick out a hat?
05:10Well, I have a few other things to get.
05:12All here?
05:15I'll be back.
05:18Travis, there's a boy coming to town.
05:27Heading right for the saloon.
05:30Still likes his liquor, I see.
05:45You'd say I blame Jake for building
05:47a fence around that filly.
05:48She's pretty tempting.
05:50If you like arrogant women.
05:54Turned you down, huh?
05:58Well, Jake Owens doesn't think so.
06:00I saw to that, and it's torturing him.
06:03He even gave up his badge to get her out of town.
06:08You know, that lady, he put a bullet in,
06:10I'd say he's eating with you.
06:12Is that supposed to be a sample of your wit?
06:15Put it away, Simms.
06:17I've told you a dozen times, it won't
06:18be done in a handgun fight.
06:20Be the easiest way.
06:22With Jake Owens' temper, I'd throw a couple of words
06:24at him in the saloon.
06:26He drowns, he dies.
06:29Maybe he dies.
06:31No, that would be too easy for him.
06:35Besides, he was no slouch with a gun as a marshal.
06:39Don't scare me.
06:40It's the way I like it.
06:41Gun against gun.
06:43Simms, I'm satisfying your pocketbook,
06:45not your sense of enjoyment.
06:48We'll dispose of Owens my way.
06:51You're flipping the bill.
07:09Sorry, I usually look where I'm going.
07:12That's all right.
07:15That's very pretty.
07:17What is it, ma'am?
07:19It's a hat.
07:20Oh, a hat.
07:25This is one of woman's small pleasures,
07:27and one I haven't indulged in for a long time.
07:32You know, North Fork is a surprise to me.
07:34It's so much bigger than I expected.
07:36It's a growing town.
07:39You're a surprise too, Mrs. Owens.
07:41Oh, in what way?
07:42Well, you don't fit the pattern, living on a ranch.
07:45It's like finding a thoroughbred pulling a plow.
07:48Thank you for the compliment.
07:50I was born and raised in the east,
07:51and life there is a little different for a woman.
08:00It's not easy running a small ranch.
08:02Woman's work is never done.
08:04I'm mad.
08:05I've told you to keep away from my wife.
08:06Jake, you have no right to presume.
08:07Shut up.
08:09This is your second warning, McCain.
08:11You're not going to get a third.
08:12You're making a scene.
08:13Would you take me home?
08:18You call yourself a husband?
08:21She's my wife, McCain.
08:23And the next time I have to tell you that,
08:25it'll be with a gun in my hand.
08:27Jake.
08:28Jake, what's the matter with you?
08:30What's the trouble?
08:31Ask him.
08:32He's an old friend of yours.
08:35Micah, how well do you know McCain?
08:37As good a friend as I have in the world,
08:38and a man you can trust.
08:39I don't trust any man where my wife is concerned.
08:42Keep him away from me, Micah.
08:47What's wrong with you, Jake?
08:49What's happened between you and Faye?
08:52Nothing that concerns you.
08:59Jake, look at me.
09:01Jake.
09:05I always knew you were jealous of Faye,
09:06but I never thought I'd live to see the day
09:08you'd treat her like you just did.
09:10I don't want any trouble with you over McCain.
09:13Any trouble will be of your own making.
09:16And hers the minute my back is turned.
09:19McCain's a friend of yours.
09:20Keep him away from me.
09:22And a long way from my wife.
09:31Whom the gods would destroy, they first
09:33make mad with an assist from me.
09:37What's that mean?
09:39I've made Jake Owens think he merited an incurable flirt.
09:42And it's driving him berserk, and making
09:45both their lives miserable.
09:48I thought you just wanted him dead.
09:50Oh, I do in time.
09:52And if he keeps antagonizing that sodbuster
09:54they call the rifleman, he won't be long for this world.
09:58What do you mean I made a trip for nothing?
10:00Sims, if Owens dies, it doesn't make any difference
10:03who the executioner is.
10:05You are, McCain.
10:18You better hurry, son, before Miss Pritchett
10:20puts you to chopping kindling wood for being late.
10:23Yeah, she doesn't miss a chance of getting
10:24somebody on that wood pile.
10:26I'd say that's a practical way of setting
10:28aside winter firewood.
10:29Well, you wouldn't think it was so practical if you were the one
10:32chopping more than half the pile.
10:34I guess that would slam my outlook on it.
10:40Mark, ever since you got up this morning,
10:43you seem to have something on your mind.
10:45Well, I was thinking, Pa.
10:47Today we're studying about English kings,
10:50and well, I was just figuring it was more important for me
10:54to help you finish fixing those fence posts on the North Line.
10:58You're worried about that North Line being too close
11:00to the Owens ranch, aren't you?
11:03Sort of.
11:05Well, no sense me telling you not to worry about it.
11:08Worries don't shed too easy.
11:10That's certainly the truth.
11:12He sure is an unreasonable man.
11:14That's the truth, too.
11:16There's an old saying, Mark.
11:18The things we worry about most never come to pass.
11:21So with that in mind, why don't you start riding
11:22and try and beat that school bell?
11:25You mean if I keep on worrying about being late,
11:27then it won't come to pass and I'll be early?
11:31You can try it.
11:32You can also try hustling just to play it doubly safe.
11:34Now get going.
11:35Ah.
12:07Mrs. Owens, I'm sorry I disturbed you.
12:12You didn't.
12:13This is my North Line.
12:14I'm replacing some fence posts.
12:16Well, I rode out here just to get away from the house,
12:18someplace where I could think.
12:20Well, then I better let you be.
12:21I can start further down.
12:22Stay, please.
12:29I don't really like being alone.
12:32Sometimes it has its advantages.
12:35I suppose so.
12:37But then it takes a certain kind of strength
12:39to face loneliness.
12:40I'm afraid I don't have that strength.
12:48Actually, I have another reason for being here.
12:50I saw you repairing fences yesterday,
12:52and I wanted to apologize for the embarrassing scene in town.
12:58It's just a man doing some early day drinking.
13:02You're very kind.
13:06You're a widower, Mr. McCain.
13:08You know what loneliness is.
13:12My wife died a long time ago.
13:15Did you ever doubt her?
13:17Were you jealous?
13:20I loved her.
13:22And you believed her when she told you she loved you?
13:28Lucky man.
13:36Thanks.
13:47Except for a minute, one's had something in them two
13:48meeting out here like this.
13:51It's all quite innocent.
13:52But rugs have been woven on a few threads.
13:55Putting it another way, Sims, I think we've got enough here
13:57to start a snowball rolling.
13:59And this would be the perfect spot to end it.
14:02Come on.
14:05Well, I guess that's a good sign your schooling's paying off.
14:19No, I've been thinking about a way dishes could wash themselves.
14:24Suppose you had a box, I mean a box that didn't leak water, and you put the dirty dishes in
14:28it.
14:29Well, I guess that could be arranged.
14:31Well, the rest would be simple.
14:32You'd just tie the soapy water box on the back of a horse and jog him around the house
14:36a few times.
14:37Oh, no, I guess it wouldn't be too practical.
14:42No, I don't think so, son.
14:43Well, I've got to get these wire cutters sharpened and then get out to the north line and replace
14:48some fence posts.
14:49I'll have my chores done by the time I get back.
15:00Hello, Micah.
15:01Lucas, Mark.
15:02Could I have a word with you alone, Lucas?
15:03Sure, son.
15:04Oh, I'll get the wagon hitched up for you, Pa.
15:13What's up, Micah?
15:20What's going on between you and Fay Owens?
15:25What are you talking about?
15:26Is it true that you two had a meeting at your north fence this morning?
15:30Well, what do you want to hear?
15:31That I've been seeing Jake's wife?
15:32Well, have you?
15:34Not the way you mean.
15:35Is there another way?
15:36You know there is.
15:37Fay Owens is an unhappy woman.
15:39No man has a right to treat her the way Jake does.
15:40I agree, but after all, they are man and wife.
15:43What's between them should be settled between them.
15:45Who told you about our meeting this morning?
15:48Nobody.
15:49Near as I can figure, the talk started in the saloon and spread all over town.
15:52Well, talk is the one thing I never listen to.
15:54I wouldn't do anything to add to it, Lucas.
15:57Oh.
16:00I'm sorry for him, Micah, that's all.
16:03Being married to a man who doesn't trust her.
16:07I don't know what's happened to Jake.
16:09He always did have a quick temper, but this jealousy of his, I...
16:14I'd stay away from him, Lucas, and from Fay, too.
16:51Aren't you drinking a lot?
17:22Maybe I've got good reason to get drunk today.
17:25What do you mean?
17:32I heard about you and McCain.
17:35You heard what?
17:37There's nothing to hear.
17:38You deny meeting him at the North Line?
17:41No, I don't deny it.
17:43I went there to apologize to him for your behavior.
17:46Oh, I heard a different story in town.
17:50I don't care what you heard.
17:52How about today?
17:54Feel he needs another apology today?
17:57The betting in town is McCain will be fixing fence again today with you right there helping him.
18:01Jake, this is ridiculous.
18:03Maybe I'm upsetting that by cutting short my business in town.
18:06Will you not start with this unreasonable jealousy again?
18:09Unreasonable?
18:12What about Andy Travis?
18:15And all those times I saw him riding away from our house?
18:18I will tell you again, there was nothing between us.
18:21He was never in my house.
18:22I never saw him anywhere near the house.
18:24Oh, I heard a different kind of talk.
18:26Talk, that's all it was.
18:29For the hundredth time, Travis was a braggart.
18:33A loathsome creature who bragged about all women who rejected him.
18:37You shot him for his bragging.
18:39Nothing else.
18:42Jake, your jealousy is destroying us.
18:46It's already robbed you of the most important thing in your life.
18:48Your job as a lawman.
18:51The most important thing in my life is you.
18:54And I intend to fight for you.
18:59You don't have to fight for me.
19:03I'm your wife.
19:04I love you.
19:11Mr. McCain is expecting a visitor at the North Lodge.
19:15We don't want to disappoint him.
19:20Jake!
19:26Jake!
19:28Jake, believe me, please!
19:37Come on now, Impatience.
19:40Owens ought to be along pretty soon now.
19:42I say we should cut down on Owens whenever he shows and head out.
19:45Nobody would know the difference.
19:47I'd know the difference.
19:50No, we'll let McCain take care of the job.
19:53And if Owens comes out of it alive, we'll take care of him then.
19:57What about McCain being a witness?
20:00It hardly seems sensible to leave such a loose end, Angling, does it?
20:03It hardly seems sensible to leave such a loose end, Angling, does it?
20:24I warned you, McCain.
20:27The third time I talked to you would be with a gun.
20:30If you came out here because of that talk in town,
20:34you're making a mistake.
20:36No mistake!
20:38That kind of talk don't start by itself.
20:42You got your gun.
20:44Use it.
20:45You're making a mistake, Owens.
20:47I got a belly full of lies, McCain!
20:49Use it!
20:55Well, I'll take McCain.
20:57How am I going to convince you?
21:28Jake.
21:29It's all right.
21:30Who was it down there?
21:31Andy Travis was one of them.
21:34Travis?
21:38And you saying it was just talk.
21:41He even followed you here.
21:43Jake, he must have started the rumors here in North Fork just as he...
21:50Oh, Jake, no.
21:53Wanted me out of the way?
21:56You'd go to him.
22:04You're a fool, Owens.
22:09This fellow Travis, you think he just wanted you dead?
22:12That could have been easily arranged.
22:14Ambush, no witnesses.
22:17Are you so blind you can't see that he just wanted your jealousy,
22:21your sickness to cause your death?
22:27You are a fool.
22:37Fool.
23:01This one isn't too clean, Pa.
23:03Well, I guess the best dishwasher is still a woman, huh?
23:06I guess so.
23:08Ma was as pretty as Mrs. Owens, wasn't she?
23:11Yes, she was.
23:13Were you ever jealous over Ma like Mr. Owens was?
23:16Oh, maybe a little while we were courting.
23:19But not after we were married.
23:23You know, son, being jealous means a man doesn't...
23:28Doesn't really trust himself.
23:31And he doesn't trust his wife to know her own mind
23:33when she says she loves him.
23:35You know, Ma always knew her own mind.
23:38Yeah.
23:41Say, Pa, about that dishwashing box idea,
23:45I've been thinking about it some more,
23:47and suppose we had a little windmill.
23:49Windmill?
23:50Well, sure, we could attach the windmill shaft
23:53to sort of a rocking chair,
23:55and every time the windmill turned,
23:57the rocker would go back and forth
23:59and rock all the dishes clean.
24:01That's a good idea.
24:03But how about the days the wind doesn't blow?
24:08Oh, I never thought about that.
24:14Hey, Pa, Tommy Hamilton once let his dog lick his plate clean,
24:18and his ma never knew the difference.
24:21So what if we had one of those old farm dogs
24:24with one of those big old lapping tongues
24:26who's always hungry?
24:27Why, he...
24:33I guess that'd sort of be an unsanitary dishwasher.
24:36Yeah.
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