The Rifleman S04E28
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00:00See, the two cattle barons are back from the big city.
00:17We got $18 a head, Micah.
00:19Well, that's a pretty good price for beef these days.
00:22You get all 20 heads safe to market, Lucas?
00:24No trouble at all.
00:26Thanks for cutting your trip short.
00:27When are you leaving for the Marshal's Convention?
00:29Tonight?
00:30Now that you're back.
00:31Right after church.
00:32Well, we're heading that way now.
00:33Sit with us?
00:34My pleasure.
00:35Hope you don't mind the town council voting on a new preacher while you were gone.
00:42He and his son arrived sooner than expected.
00:44It's fine with me.
00:45I'll always go along with the majority.
00:46You know Preacher Jamieson?
00:47Micah, did this man tell you anything about himself?
01:09He did.
01:11We took into consideration he was outside the law for a spell,
01:15but he served his time in prison and paid his debt to society.
01:18Did he tell you how he rode the Oklahoma border?
01:20Burning out settlers, stealing their lands,
01:22dishing out misery for so many dollars he could spend in a saloon?
01:26What I did in a wild youth was inexcusable.
01:30And all I can do is ask forgiveness for those I hurt.
01:33Whatever may have been done to you, I ask your forgiveness.
01:38Forgiveness?
01:39Did you tell him everything, Jamieson?
01:41How you were hunted like an animal after you grew too old and slow?
01:44After you lost your nerve with a gun?
01:46How you finally had no place to turn to, no more rocks to crawl under?
01:50Is that the only way you can get a peaceful night's sleep?
01:53Hiding behind that collar?
01:55Lucas!
01:56Jamieson, I swear I'd kill you if I ever...
01:57Lucas!
01:58Lucas!
01:59Jamieson!
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02:12Jamieson!
02:13The Rifleman.
02:30Starring Chuck Connors.
02:31That was a fine sermon, Mr. Jamieson.
02:51Thank you, Marshal.
02:52I'm glad you enjoyed it.
02:53Some of the townsfolk will be working on the rectory this afternoon.
02:56We're trying to hurry you out of that hotel room and into a fit house for you and your
03:02Thank you again.
03:03Good day.
03:04Good day.
03:05Mark, I'm sorry you had to witness what happened at the church.
03:12I understand, Pa.
03:14You had a good reason for talking to Mr. Jamieson like that.
03:18Must have been nearly 25 years ago.
03:21Jamieson rode the Oklahoma border country before there was any law.
03:24He'd do anything to force a farmer out.
03:30Anything short of killing.
03:31He was too smart for that.
03:33I remember you telling me once how you watched your own Pa's farm burn.
03:39House and barns and fields.
03:42A lifetime of my Pa's work.
03:45When he died, my Pa was an unhappy man.
03:49The Army finally came in and put an end to Jamieson's raids.
03:53Pa, I'm not taking Mr. Jamieson's part, but...
04:00But maybe he's really sorry for all that he's done.
04:02Mark, it's more than what he's done.
04:04It's the hypocrisy...
04:06Mark!
04:11Micah, how could you and the town council be taken in by Jamieson?
04:14Still a question whether we were taken in, I'd say.
04:16Well, there's no question in my mind.
04:18Jamieson is nothing but a coward hiding behind the cloth.
04:21I was just telling him, when you cool down,
04:23you'd be the first to say a man has a right to another chance.
04:26Wait a minute, Micah.
04:29If you'd come into North Fork to open up a general store
04:31or to buy a piece of land and farm it,
04:32you wouldn't hear one word from me.
04:34Every man out of prison has a right to a fresh start.
04:36But to use the church...
04:37Do you think your feelings about the preacher
04:39will have an effect on your work as a deputy while I'm gone?
04:41Why would it?
04:42Because he's a citizen like everybody else
04:44and he deserves your protection.
04:46Now, look, Micah.
04:47I despise the ground Jamieson walks on.
04:49From now on, Mark and I will go to the Marinette Church.
04:52But I'll treat Jamieson just like anybody else
04:54as long as I'm wearing your badge, all right?
04:56That's good enough for me.
04:58And I hope by the time I get back,
05:00your opinion of him will change a little.
05:01Bye, Mark.
05:02Have a good trip, Micah.
05:06Stay away from that red-eye at the convention.
05:08Three drinks at convention is my limit now.
05:28Well, what do you know?
05:32There he is, Brother Charlie,
05:34just like we've been told.
05:36Running himself another church again.
05:38You reckon he's wearing a gun yet?
05:40I've told you, I no longer carry a gun.
05:42Yeah, I wonder why that be.
05:44I hear a man has a powerful liking for a gun
05:46all of a sudden figuring he's better off not wearing one.
05:49Well, maybe he figures that wearing that turnabout collar
05:53makes him a whole lot safer.
05:56Is that right, Mr. Jamieson?
05:58Why do you follow me?
06:00Uh, well, we got business here.
06:02Peaceful business.
06:04I guess you might sort of call us, uh,
06:06goodwill ambassadors.
06:08You see, we come into town and sort of tell folks
06:10all about their new preacher.
06:13Oh, that church is going to be so empty
06:16when we get through giving our sermon.
06:20Can't you leave my son and me alone?
06:23Can't you leave my son and me live in peace?
06:26Why, sure, Preacher.
06:28Now, all you got to do is strap on a gun one time.
06:31And you see the last of him.
06:33But he ain't going to be able to see much
06:35with a foot of dirt over his eyes.
06:39Now, we'll be back later, Preacher.
06:41As soon as we have some refreshments.
06:43You won't go away now, will you?
06:53Well, it's a nice day.
06:55Mark, when you finish your lunch,
06:57bring me back a sandwich, please.
06:59All right.
07:07I see we've got visitors.
07:13Who are they, Pa?
07:15They're the Breen brothers.
07:17A couple of vultures.
07:19Trying to build up a reputation
07:21as gun hands, but being mighty sure
07:23their man is either old or sick
07:25or has a bounty on him
07:27so they can shoot him in the back.
07:29You run along.
07:37Brother Willie, we got visitors.
07:44What do you boys want in North Fork?
07:48Well, Marshal, we're just in town
07:51for the day. Right now, we had
07:53intentions of going in here and getting ourselves
07:55a drink. Can't say this anyway
07:57for the town lawman to greet a guy.
07:59Well, I'm giving you two
08:01fair warning. Don't try
08:03and notch your guns while you're in North Fork.
08:07Marshal, me and my brother
08:09Charlie, we're just peaceful men
08:11going our peaceful way.
08:13Your way better be peaceful.
08:15Right up until the time you ride out.
08:17Don't you two
08:19ever take a bath?
08:25Seems like the county marshal
08:27gets mad over nothing.
08:29The way he's talking, maybe he's taking the preacher's
08:31side.
08:33Brother Charlie,
08:35Marshal always stays on the side of the law.
08:39Now, the law ain't gonna worry us none
08:41if we get that preacher riled up enough
08:43to come gunning for us.
08:46I'm kind of getting tired of waiting for the preacher to get riled up.
08:50Maybe we've been going at him wrong.
08:54Maybe we ought to do something today to make the fur fly.
08:56Huh?
08:59Hmm.
09:15I hope you don't mind me coming in like this, Mr. McCain.
09:19What do you want, boy?
09:21Well, I...
09:23I don't write no, I guess.
09:25Maybe I do, but I just don't know how to say it.
09:29If you were gonna talk to me about what happened this morning,
09:31I want to say I'm sorry.
09:33The differences between your pa and me
09:35shouldn't have been said in front of other people.
09:39Well, that makes me feel better, Mr. McCain.
09:41I mean, better a little.
09:47Mr. McCain,
09:49I sure like this town.
09:51Having a real house to live in.
09:53Since my ma died, we haven't been living in real houses.
09:55Did your pa send you over here to talk to me?
09:57Oh, no, sir.
09:59I'm supposed to be on an errand to the livery stable.
10:03Well, maybe you better get on with that errand, boy.
10:07Yes, sir.
10:09Mr. McCain,
10:13when I grow up and do something bad,
10:15I mean, if I do something bad,
10:17will it always count against me?
10:19No, of course not.
10:21But it counts against my pa? He's different?
10:25Now, look here, boy.
10:27I said I was sorry about what happened this morning.
10:29I am.
10:31It won't happen again.
10:33I won't say another word in this town about your father,
10:35good or bad.
10:39But make him believe he's not even in town.
10:41Well, that's even worse than yelling things at him.
10:47Don't you think you better get on with that errand?
10:55Come on.
11:25Something the matter?
11:27I don't know why your pa has to be so mean.
11:31Well, you got my pa all wrong.
11:33It's not meanness.
11:35I don't know what else you'd call it, then.
11:37My pa wouldn't hurt anyone.
11:39Maybe it's just because
11:41there's some things he can't forget.
11:43Well, lots of things were done to my pa, Mark.
11:45He forgets.
11:47Well, maybe they're different things.
11:49I don't know.
11:52Well, maybe they're different things.
11:54Some things you forget easier.
11:56Other things are kind of hard to forget.
12:12Me and my brother
12:14didn't catch the sermon this morning, preacher.
12:16What was it about?
12:18I spoke on transgressions.
12:21How an evil deed hurts the doer
12:23more than the victim.
12:25Transgressions, huh?
12:27I guess you ought to know
12:29firsthand about something like that.
12:37I'm sure I'm sorry I missed your sermon, preacher.
12:39You got a real good speaking voice.
12:42See, last time I heard it,
12:44must have been the time you and your boys
12:46run that shopkeeper out of town.
12:48I based my sermon
12:50on the transgressions of my former life.
12:52It served the dual purpose
12:54of telling the congregation all about me.
12:56I took real nerve.
12:58Yes, sir, I really got a hand into you, preacher.
13:00I guess you told them about the time
13:02you burned down a land office
13:04and showed up claiming people's land
13:06with a lot of phony deeds.
13:08I omitted nothing.
13:10It must have been a long sermon.
13:12I wonder if he told you about
13:14how his boys stopped the stage
13:17out of Tucson and left two ladies for dead.
13:19And then him and his boys rode away.
13:23I wonder if he did that.
13:25I know nothing about any stage holdup.
13:27Oh, you just must have forgot, preacher.
13:29Driver said it was you
13:31personally dragged those women out of the stage.
13:33That's a lie.
13:35I guess he told you folks about the old man
13:37his boys hung from a barn rafter.
13:39I wonder if he told you
13:41that the old man was still alive
13:43when they set fire to the barn.
13:46Wait.
13:48Wait.
13:50These are all lies.
13:52I've never taken a human life.
13:54If these things were true,
13:56do you think the law would permit me to be free?
14:00Wait.
14:02Please.
14:08They told lies.
14:10Those men told lies.
14:12I'm sure they did.
14:14Oh, preacher.
14:16We thought you told them everything.
14:20You saw the truth
14:22couldn't destroy me.
14:24So you lied.
14:26What town you gonna go to next, preacher?
14:28You know, Willie,
14:30it seems to me that a man
14:32of real godly ways
14:34would save us the trouble
14:36always looking high and low for him.
14:38How about it, preacher?
14:40A showdown here?
14:43Or are we gonna have to chase you to another town?
14:45There are no other towns!
14:51I hope he goes
14:53and puts on his gun.
14:55Then we got a right to protect ourselves, ain't we?
14:57He'll be wearing a gun
14:59all right this time.
15:01His spine and his back is right up against the wall.
15:03Hey, I seen the marshals
15:05can't go over to the office.
15:07That's good.
15:09That's good.
15:11With the preacher coming at us
15:13and the marshal taking his side,
15:15that puts us in a right.
15:17Yeah.
15:19You get ready to
15:21handle the marshal, huh?
15:29Awful things, Pope!
15:31They just kept on talking and talking
15:33and you could tell they were all lies the way they said them.
15:35But everyone seemed to believe it.
15:37Jameson, I'm sorry
15:40about the Breens. I'll run them out of town.
15:42No, let them be.
15:44They speak from ignorance.
15:46Their words can't hurt me. Lies never can.
15:48But your words,
15:50your silence,
15:52that's destroying me.
15:54Mark, Aaron,
15:56you better wait outside.
15:58Go on, boys.
16:04Jameson, there's one thing
16:06standing between you and me. You're a fraud.
16:09You're a coward hiding behind that cloth.
16:11You proved it in Tucson the day that old man
16:13came after you with a gun.
16:15When you threw away your own gun and begged for your life.
16:17That's not the whole story. Can you deny it's true?
16:19It's true that I didn't have the strength to hold a gun.
16:21It's true I didn't have the strength to hold a gun
16:23until a strange thing happened.
16:25I saw an old man coming at me, an old man who couldn't even
16:27handle a gun. An old man who was
16:29a moment away from death.
16:31And then I saw myself.
16:39I saw myself.
16:43But from that day forward,
16:45I found myself
16:47becoming a part of
16:49every person that I met.
16:51Feeling their hurt and their joy.
16:53If I said an unkind
16:55word, I felt the hurt of it.
16:57As though the word was spoken
16:59to me.
17:01Now I can feel the torture that's going through your mind.
17:03Don't judge me, please.
17:05Let God do that!
17:09Jameson.
17:13Can you look me in the eyes
17:15and tell me it wasn't fear that made you turn
17:17into a preacher? I can't do that because
17:19I don't know myself. You don't know
17:21whether you're hiding behind that collar or not?
17:23I don't!
17:25It's possible that I might be motivated by cowardice
17:27and I pray each night that such is not the case.
17:31Why did you come to this town?
17:33Why do you put me into
17:35conflict with myself? Believe in me.
17:37Give me strength. Come to my church.
17:39Believe in you?
17:41You don't know how much I want to believe in you.
17:43But Jameson,
17:45you don't even believe in yourself.
17:47Believe in me for the love of God!
17:49Believe in me!
17:51I've got to have somebody's faith to hold on to.
17:53I'm wandering in darkness.
17:55Help me. I've got to have some time
17:57to prove myself.
17:59Please, give me a little time.
18:07Jameson, if you stay in North Fork,
18:09the people will come back to you.
18:11They'll realize those men lied.
18:17But as for myself,
18:20I can never listen to a man I doubt
18:22preaching a sermon.
18:26Especially a man that doubts himself.
18:29I understand.
18:32I guess this is the end of the line for me.
18:40Perhaps it wouldn't matter so much
18:43if only I knew the truth about myself.
19:02I'm sorry.
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20:02Paul?
20:08Aaron, I've been doing a lot of thinking about your father.
20:13A coward would never wonder if he's a coward.
20:16It takes a brave man to say he isn't sure.
20:19A brave and an honest man.
20:21Well, Paul sure is honest, Mr. McCain.
20:24Everything he says,
20:26you just know what's coming from way inside of him.
20:29Son, I'm going over to talk to your father now.
20:55He's a lot bigger man than he thinks he is.
21:11There's only one of them there, Pa.
21:19Boy, stay back.
21:26See, you kind of lost your collar there, Preacher.
21:38I've taken it off.
21:39I'll no longer wear it.
21:41Well, I reckon that's enough for us, just to see if you had nerve enough to wear a gun.
21:48That's all you wanted?
21:51You've got no intention of calling me?
21:53No, no.
21:55I reckon just seeing the collar off of you is enough for us.
23:06Had you forgotten something, Mr. Jameson?
23:24You're kind of undressed, aren't you?
23:29I broke my vow never to wear a gun.
23:33That collar belongs on a man of stronger faith than mine.
23:37A little while ago, you asked me not to judge you, that it should be left to God.
23:43Now you're trying to judge yourself?
23:48I won't ask you to shake my hand, Lucas.
23:51Now, sometime in the future, I hope you'll do me the honor.
23:55A few minutes back, I was on my way over here to ask you to do the same thing.
24:05Pa, everybody's going back to work at the rectory, and the lady's got some cake there.
24:13Won't be any left if we don't get over.
24:15Well, let's get over there.
24:19It looks like we're finally home.
24:20Well, come on, let's get some cake.
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