Bonanza S1E26 The Avenger
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00:00Jim! Jim! Jim! Jim!
00:31I got the lay of it just the way you told me, Jeb.
00:36It's good forage land, as far as you can see. With a clear pass through the Sierras, off to the left.
00:41Looks like our luck is running for a change, Billy boy.
00:44Desert south, nothing but rock and bramble north.
00:47And right in front of us, it's opening up like the Red Sea into the land of milk and honey.
00:52Right in front of us!
00:53That's the Ponderosa, Jeb. We can't cut through there.
00:56You don't understand, Jeb. That's cart ride land, as far as your eye can see.
01:00You mean they own all that?
01:02Own? A man don't own nothing unless he's willing to die holding on to it.
01:07I worked out this way. I know Ben Cartwright.
01:10Why, he'd kill every last one of us before he'd let a sheep set foot on the Ponderosa.
01:14Start bringing up that flock. Now!
01:18I come a long ways with you, Jeb. But I ain't riding against Ben Cartwright for you or nobody.
01:24Start bringing up them sheep, Burton.
01:28I'm pulling out, Jeb. And you ain't got nothing to say can stop me.
01:33Don't appear there's much I can do to stop you, either.
01:38No hard feelings, Jeb. But I just ain't gonna ride against Ben Cartwright. That's all.
01:54All right, you two. Get them sheep moving.
01:59Leave him, Billy. He's past fussing.
02:02You got to learn to kill a man once you draw on him.
02:05But I shared second plates with him, Jeb. Just a few hours ago.
02:10Once a thing is dead, you got to get clear of it.
02:13The scruffiest hole squirrel knows that.
02:16Sure, Jeb.
02:17You, uh, you're lettered, ain't you, boy?
02:20Yes, sir. I spell out, sir.
02:22All right. You read that to me, boy.
02:27And Moses went up from the plains, and the Lord showed him all of the land.
02:34I've been near 40 years myself, just like Moses.
02:38But the Lord has finally showed me my land.
02:41And I'm gonna take it to myself.
02:44I have to kill everything on it and burn it to the root.
02:52THE END
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03:52My, you're a rich gal.
03:56Little Joe, you reckon how long it's gonna take us to clear out all this stuff out of this grain ditch?
04:02I figure the rate we're going, I think it's about five or six years.
04:06Yeah.
04:09Hiya, Pa.
04:10Hi.
04:12Nice. You ever see such a pair of working fools?
04:14Well, Adam, I wish some of that would rub off on you.
04:18Well, I follow the way I look at it. If a man expects to get ahead in this world, he's gotta use his brain instead of his back.
04:23Adam, with a place like the Ponderosa, a man has to be able to use both.
04:26Now, come on. Let's give the boys a hand.
04:33Won't be over there.
04:35Must be Tucker. I put him out hunting strays.
04:38That don't sound like strays.
04:40Strays, all right, but the two-legged kind.
04:49That was just a warning. Where do you men think you're headed?
04:53Why, we're aiming across the Sierra.
04:55We'd better find another way. Nobody goes through the Ponderosa. That's bent Cartwright's orders.
05:00You figuring to stop us all with that gun?
05:03Well, maybe not all of you, but I'll drop the first man that tries to come through here.
05:08How much is Cartwright paying you, mister?
05:11What's that to you?
05:14How much is Cartwright paying you, mister?
05:17What's that to you?
05:18Is it enough for a man to get himself killed for?
05:21Look, we're coming through.
05:23Now, you can shoot me if you were mine to, but as soon as you pull that trigger, you're the same as a dead man.
05:31All right, bring him through!
05:34And you better get out of the way, mister, before you get yourself trampled.
05:44I warned them, Ben. I give them clear warning.
05:47Well, nobody expects any more, Sam.
05:50You've been told you're on Ponderosa land.
05:53I'd be obliged if you turned the tails of those sheep and got them off.
05:56Are you, uh, Ben Cartwright?
05:59Drummond. Jeff Drummond is my name.
06:02We ain't bringing no trouble.
06:04We're just looking to pass through on the way to California, no more than that.
06:08Mr. Drummond, I'm sorry. I can't let you take those sheep across the Ponderosa.
06:12You mean you got all this here, and you ain't willing for us just to cut through?
06:17That's what I mean.
06:19Why, you got enough land here to parcel out a state of your own, and you're sitting fat right on top of it, ain't you?
06:25Let me ask you a question, Mr. Cartwright.
06:28What more right have you got to this land than me?
06:31It's mine. That's my land.
06:34What more right have you got to this land than me?
06:37It's mine. That's right enough.
06:39Every inch of this land's dated in our name, if that's what's bothering you, Mr. Drummond.
06:43Oh, a deed, huh?
06:46Why, a deed is only a piece of paper.
06:49Looks to me like all they got is some scribbling on paper.
06:53It's what backs up the scribbling, Mr. Drummond. That's what counts.
06:58How many of them you count, Billy?
07:05Five, Jeb. Just five.
07:11Less than we got.
07:23Well, there's no cause to draw down. I was just resting.
07:29Look, I'm only trying to get passage through to California.
07:33And I aim to pay for it, too.
07:36Drummond, I don't want any of your money.
07:39Well, it's getting on near to dark.
07:43You wouldn't mind if we was to camp here for the night.
07:47Well, all right.
07:50But you make sure you're gone by tomorrow morning. Is that understood?
07:55You won't find us here. I promise you that.
08:04Yes, sir. You can count on it, Mr. Cartwright.
08:09You won't find us here.
08:21Here you are, Billy. I saved you a char piece without no grizzle.
08:25Well, that's out of your helping, Jeb. You best keep that for yourself.
08:28Oh, I had my fill for the night, boy.
08:31You take it. Thank you, Jeb.
08:34You know, you could still use fattening up.
08:37If you was one of my sheep, rib scrawny like you are, I'd have sold you off for hoof glue before now.
08:43You did fatten up some, though.
08:46When I first come on you and them wranglers was fixing to string you up, well, you didn't look like no more than a fence post.
08:53You've been mighty good to me, Jeb.
08:56I appreciate everything you've done.
08:58I only hope I can pay it back sometime.
09:01There'll be a time come, boy. There's always a time.
09:06Well, you better get yourself some sleep before morning.
09:10What are we doing, Jeb? Going back?
09:13Well, I don't know yet. I gotta think on it.
09:17You see, the way I figured it, we'd have made California just about spring market time.
09:23That flock would have been fat and woolly. We'd have got a side of cash for them.
09:28But, I don't know.
09:34Oh, I got another blanket for you, boy.
09:41That's Burton's, isn't it?
09:43What difference does it make? Ain't no good to him buried.
09:47I was just asking.
09:50Night, Billy.
09:54Night, Jeb.
10:00Burn it, little Joe. Cut it. Don't pull it.
10:03We wouldn't be having all this trouble if you hadn't gone and lost that chili bowl I always fit on your head.
10:07Just take it easy. It's getting thin enough up there like it is.
10:10Keep your head still.
10:12Are you still putting that salad oil on your hair?
10:14Hog lard.
10:16What you so worried about? You ain't gonna look any different when I get done anyway.
10:19Yeah, but I'll feel different.
10:25What's the matter? He's doing a good job, ain't he?
10:29Oh, fine.
10:32Hey, let me see that mirror.
10:40Well, I got an idea.
10:42About what, Adam?
10:43Well, I've been thinking. The way the country's growing,
10:46more people coming west, California,
10:49we could cut a road across the north section of the Ponderosa.
10:53Hmm? Not a bad idea.
10:57I'll give it some thought.
10:59Well, I'd, uh, like to start on it, Pa.
11:02Well, Adam, I said I'd give it some thought.
11:05Oh, by the way, tomorrow morning I want you to ride out and see if Drummond and those sheep of his have cleared out.
11:11What if he hasn't?
11:13Well, then we'll make sure he's cleared out.
11:15Why do we have to take the law into our own hands?
11:18Now, we're not taking any law into our own hands.
11:21Now, what do you want me to do?
11:23Open up the Ponderosa to every scavenger that comes along?
11:26Drummond's kind turns the land to dust and then just moves on.
11:30Look, Pa, I'm not saying let Drummond in,
11:32but there are gonna be people after him.
11:34Farmers, traders, homesteaders.
11:36Now, what are you gonna do, take a gun to them, too?
11:39You know that isn't so, Adam.
11:41But I will take a gun to Drummond's kind.
11:43He'll grab anything he can get his hands on.
11:46Now, tomorrow morning you go out there and see that he's gone.
11:49Is that understood?
11:50Yeah.
11:51All right, Pa, anything you say.
12:01Come on, roll out!
12:03Come on!
12:04Hustle it up!
12:06Come on, we gotta be making tracks!
12:08Want me to get the clock shifter around and hand it out to him?
12:11I'll lead out the bell shifter if you want.
12:13I ain't taking him out.
12:15Yeah?
12:16You mean we're not crossing the Cartwright land?
12:18No, we're crossing, all right.
12:21But I've been thinking maybe we won't cross all the way.
12:24You heard what Ben Cartwright said.
12:27Cartwright.
12:29I'm through being shoved and hauled by his like.
12:32A man takes something, it's his.
12:34You gotta start learning that, Billy boy.
12:36Yes, sir.
12:37But ain't we taking on a peck of trouble?
12:40Trouble.
12:42I'm an old man now,
12:44but I once had me a flock of sheep was like looking across a big white sea.
12:49I run them from the Snake River on the north to the Mexican border and back.
12:53Then the cattle come,
12:55and the farmers plowing up the earth.
12:59I've been pushed so hard, Billy,
13:01there ain't hardly a corner I can squeeze myself into.
13:05But I'm through being pushed now.
13:09All right, hurry it up, you men,
13:11and get that chuck wagon loaded.
13:13Them Cartwrights will be after us before it gets much lighter.
13:17Billy, you take them two and hang back to ride guard.
13:21And if them Cartwrights come tailing us, you let me know.
13:24All right, Jeff.
13:25And Billy, you make sure you stop whichever one of them it is.
13:31You mean kill them, Jeff? Is that what you mean?
13:33That's right.
13:34And leave them out there like bait to stink a trail for the rest of them.
13:38I can't see doing that to them, Jeb.
13:40What'd they ever done to us?
13:42Why, them Cartwrights would kill us if they got the chance, every one of us.
13:46You know that, Billy boy.
13:48Now, don't you shed no tears over them Cartwrights.
13:51They're the same kind that's tried to string you up.
13:54Why, they got, and we ain't.
13:58And knows that God ain't gonna give it up unless you shake them until their britches pop.
14:02I'm telling you, Billy, they'd kill every one of us if they got the chance.
14:06Only, they ain't gonna get the chance.
14:23This looks like about as good a spot as any to set up.
14:27Set up for what, Billy?
14:29You talking about an ambush?
14:31You just do like I say.
14:33I've been riding with old Jeb for a long time now.
14:36I know the way he thinks.
14:38How do you mean, Collier?
14:40That old buzzard.
14:43Thinking about killing himself some Cartwrights.
14:46You know I'm right, Billy boy.
14:49You spot yourself up there.
14:52Collier, you head on down a ways.
15:02Let's go.
15:25I'll tell you, Billy boy, I don't want to get mixed up in no range war.
15:28You just do like Jeb says.
15:30Well, can't we maybe scare him a little bit?
15:33The Cartwrights?
15:35That kind don't scare.
15:38Maybe you feel like having Jeb play the skin off you for not doing what he says.
15:43Jeb says shoot.
15:45Shoot to kill.
15:50Hey, Collier, what about all this?
15:53You mean about killing the Cartwright?
15:56I mean about getting strung up for Jeb Drummond.
15:59I don't plan to get strung up for Jeb Drummond or nobody.
16:03Come on, let's get out of here.
16:18All right, drop the gun.
16:27You win, mister.
16:29I... I lose again.
16:56Keep them bunched over to that side so they don't mill.
16:59And get them two moving there.
17:03Going to make a new camp, Jeb?
17:05No, not here. It's too rocky.
17:08I'd like to get to that draw up ahead.
17:11Faster up there, Jeb.
17:13That ain't no good for the sheep.
17:15No, not for the sheep it ain't.
17:18It ain't no good for the sheep.
17:20It ain't no good for the sheep.
17:22It ain't no good for the sheep.
17:24No, not for the sheep it ain't.
17:27But for what I got in mind, it's fine.
17:29Come on, get them sheep moving.
17:38Jeb, what?
17:40One of the Cartwrights come upon us unexpected like.
17:43Well, did you kill him?
17:45No, he got Wheeler.
17:47There's nothing I could do about it, Jeb. He had position on me.
17:50He'd have finished me off too if I hadn't got clear.
17:54I didn't give you a job. I mean to have it done right.
17:57Now, instead of the rest of them coming looking for him,
18:00he'll tail back and tell them which way we went.
18:04Well, maybe it's for the best.
18:07If we can get us to that draw ahead of them,
18:10might be they get a little surprise, huh, Billy boy?
18:14All right, drive them.
18:17Oh, we want them.
18:24Should have run that bushwhacker off for good last night.
18:27Want me to ride in the town, tell the sheriff?
18:30I don't need any sheriff.
18:32That flock of sheep, he couldn't have gone more than a few miles.
18:34We can get rid of them before dark.
18:36Now, wait a minute, Pa. Let the law do it this time.
18:39What's wrong with you, boy?
18:41You want to sit here and twiddle your thumbs
18:43while drumming sheep eat our land bear?
18:45By the time the lawyers and the sheriff
18:47and the court in Virginia City get through haggling with what should be done,
18:50the whole North Pass will be torn up.
18:52Get your guns. We got work to do.
18:54What kind of work, Pa?
18:55Get those sheep off our land.
18:57Now, look, Pa, I don't want you running after Drummond. Now, just settle down.
19:00You're going soft, boy.
19:02Pa, you're just as bad as he is.
19:04I'm what?
19:05You and Drummond both think you're a law unto yourselves, and you're not.
19:08Without the law, a man's no better than dirt.
19:10Now, you listen to something from me.
19:12I cleared that land that Drummond's driving his sheep through.
19:15I worked it till my hands cracked open and the sweat blinded my eyes.
19:18And I planted that grass, and with the Lord's help, it grew.
19:20And I'm not going to let a sheepherder who never did an honest day's work in his life ruin it.
19:26Now, are you coming with me or not?
19:51All in, Jeb.
19:53That's good.
19:55Now, it's the contrites who are going to be in open ground.
19:58Jeb, you sure you ain't picking off a bigger piece than you can chew?
20:02It's a blind draw, Jeb.
20:04If you let them come in here, it's us that's going to be trapped.
20:07Well, if that's what they thought,
20:10it might turn out just a bit better.
20:13Well, we'll see about that.
20:15Well, if that's what they thought,
20:18it might turn out just a bit different.
20:21It don't matter if they got us trapped, as long as we get one of them.
20:24Just one.
20:26You let them walk in here, what's going to keep Ben Cartwright from killing off the whole lot of us?
20:30Of course, Cartwright is the kind of guy that don't shoot unless somebody else fires the first shot.
20:36Well, I don't like sitting here like a treed squirrel.
20:39I say we get out there and face them straight off.
20:43All right, go ahead.
20:46Well, what's the matter?
20:48You ain't going, are you?
20:50Because you ain't smart enough to tackle a man like Cartwright.
20:53He'd chew you right up and spit you out on the ground.
20:56Any fool can go out and get himself shot dead.
20:59If you ain't got a place, then what are you going to do?
21:05You ever see engines go after a herd of buffalo?
21:09They dog out the strays one by one.
21:12Then pretty soon the rest of them are scared and running over each other.
21:17Collier, I want you to take two men and hide yourselves up there on that ledge over there.
21:23Billy, I want you to get back down the path by the draw there.
21:28Because if we split them up, that's where some of them are liable to run for it.
21:33Well, sounds good, don't it, boy?
21:36Yeah, I guess so.
21:39That ain't what you're thinking, is it?
21:41What are you thinking, boy?
21:44You're asking us to shoot those men down like there's nothing but a bunch of bounty pelts.
21:51Well, sure I am. What's wrong with it?
21:55I didn't say nothing was wrong with it.
21:58That's good.
21:59Because I hope you ain't forgetting how I first come on you.
22:02Strung up for a horse thief.
22:04You didn't do it, but you had a rope around your neck anyways.
22:08Well, this ain't no different.
22:10And the Cartwrights ain't no different neither.
22:12They'll kill you if you give them the chance.
22:15Maybe not with a rope, but they'll do it.
22:19What are you gaping at?
22:22Nothing, Jeb.
22:23Well, you get back there where I told you.
22:27Now look, boy.
22:30I've been pulling myself through this world for a long time.
22:33And when you get right down to it, it's a fact.
22:36You got to fight back, whichever way you can.
22:39Or you'll just get beat to the ground.
22:44All right, get back there where I told you to go.
22:47All right, Jeb.
22:48And boy, remember.
22:50Remember what I want.
22:52I want one of them Cartwrights.
22:55Alive.
22:57Yes, sir.
23:01And put a jacket on, boy. There's a chill coming up.
23:07All right.
23:21Well, what do you make of it, Hoss?
23:24I can't figure out why, Paul.
23:25But it looks to me like he took him sheep right up into that blind canyon.
23:30That old scavenger.
23:32He isn't leaving the Ponderosa at all.
23:34He's planted a camp here.
23:35What makes you say that, Paul?
23:37Why else would he be heading up into that blind draw?
23:40Up there he can protect his flock and have a good chance of standing us off.
23:44There sure ain't no sign of him anywhere else, Paul.
23:47That's the way it appears.
23:48Except there's no pasture for his sheep in that draw.
23:51If he can stand us off, that means we can do the same to him.
23:53Starve him out.
23:54Why wait for that? Why don't we just ride in and get it over with?
23:57Wouldn't Mr. Drummond love that?
23:59The four of us bunched up together like so many flies on flypaper.
24:03No, we're going to have to spread out and stay spread.
24:07Hoss, you and Joe, you move up on the left side.
24:10Adam and I will ride straight in.
24:13Paul, there is another thing we could do.
24:16What's that?
24:17Well, you could stand watch on him while I get the sheriff.
24:20I thought we'd settle that.
24:23Well, we could pin him down like Adam says.
24:25And wait for some judge to serve a paper on him?
24:29The court in Virginia City doesn't own the Ponderosa. We do.
24:32And if we're not willing to fight to hold on to it,
24:34we might as well turn it over to the first settler who feels like staking a claim.
24:55Carl, yeah?
24:57Take your men and move them out into the open.
24:59What for, Jeb?
25:00We got good position on them cart rides right here.
25:03Just do like I say. Take those men and move them out in the open.
25:07But Jeb, them cart rides will be sitting ducks from here.
25:10We could wipe them all out.
25:12I don't want to wipe them out.
25:14Or maybe just miswiping them out.
25:17I just want one of them cart rides alive.
25:20Now you take those men and move them out in the open where they can be seen.
25:31They're there all right.
25:33We're riding slow.
25:35Adam will come with me. You boys cover us from the rocks.
25:49Don't fire. I'll tell you when to shoot.
25:51You hold your ground right there.
25:54The first one breaks to run, I'll kill him.
25:58The first one breaks to run, I'll kill him all by myself.
26:08I hear you, cart ride.
26:10My son and I are coming in there.
26:12You fire one shot, there won't be a one of you ever comes out of that drawer alive.
26:28Drummond, take this.
26:50I ain't drawing.
26:53Drummond, I ought to let you and your sheep starve.
26:57You broke your word to me. You're not gonna break it again
26:59I'm gonna give you one last chance to get those sheep out of here. Maybe we can make ourselves a little deal
27:06No deal Drummond clear those sheep out
27:10He don't give a man much space to twist in does he he means it
27:16Now either you get out or you get starved out
27:21All right boys put down your guns
27:27Getting the sheep out of here come morning
27:30You get your sheep out right now
27:33Sure beats me
27:35Here you own half the world
27:37And me all I'm asking is the right to drive a few miserable sheep across the corner of your land
27:42You'd think you could do a man that little good
27:46You got a mighty unreasonable old man boy
27:51Drummond get those sheep out now
27:53All right boys you got your orders
28:24You look like a reasonable fella, maybe we can make us a little deal you heard what my father said
28:31All right, you men. Let's get him moving
28:33I
29:03I
29:34I
29:44Cut off and I've got to get to him. Oh, you can't make it down there
29:48Joe
29:49Yeah, I'm gonna try to make up along that ledge
29:54Boy you can't make it got Adam in there. I'll make it
30:03I
30:15Can't get a shot at him from here
30:34Boy throw down your gun
30:38You heard him drop Adam make for that path behind you
30:51Come on Billy cut him down
30:57Drop it kid
31:00You're gonna kill me ain't you? Come on kid. I said drop it
31:06I'd get out of the way. I can't
31:11Get out of the way, I can't Jim give me order
31:23I'm gonna put up your hands
31:25All right, I'll come on down here
31:40Conrad all right. Can you hear me? You call your men off or I'll kill your boy right now
31:47Oh
31:51Boss hold your fire
31:55All right now clear out you're still trapped in that hole Drummond am I
32:02You got yourself an empire ain't you? Mr. Cartwright? Is it worth your boy's life?
32:09Well, is it
32:13What do you want Drummond
32:15You hear that Billy boy
32:19What I want mr. Cartwright ain't that what you said
32:23Well, I'll tell you flat-out
32:26First off. I'm gonna run my sheep across your land and I'm gonna graze them till they're full enough to bust
32:32And your son he's gonna be with me every step of the way
32:36And if you try stopping me, I'm gonna put a bullet right in the back of his skull
32:41It's been a long ways to hear mr. Cartwright
32:44a
32:44Long ways in a lot of time and if you got any doubt about my meaning what I say
32:51Well, you just make you play
32:54All right, Drummond. I can't stop you
33:00Would you listen to me you listen good if you put a scratch on my boy
33:06I'll find you and I'll kill you if I have to follow you clear to hell
33:14Oh
33:17We we got to do something
33:21Maybe Adam was right. Maybe we should have called the sheriff in in the first place. I don't know
33:27He was right
33:32My fault
33:35Paul
33:37You know, you know, we don't blame you for nothing
33:40It's just the way things turned out
33:42Awesome, I would have done the same thing if it were up to us. That's right. I
33:47Made Adam do it my way
33:50I let drumming out smart me
33:53Paul you heard little Joe
33:55Any of us would have done the same thing. I
33:59Couldn't have done it any differently
34:02But just invite him in and ask him to make himself and a sheep at home in the best pasture
34:09Paul we know you couldn't do any such thing
34:13Don't blame yourself
34:16Should have thrown him and his sheep right out the property right away. I
34:22Was soft
34:24Paul we've we've all learned our lesson
34:28From now on we'll know better than to try to fight this sort of thing ourselves. We'll
34:33We'll go for a sheriff
34:35I
34:37Mean from now on the cartwrights don't fight their own battles anymore
34:41Is that what you're saying from now on whenever we get into any kind of trouble?
34:43We have to go begging for help not begging. It ain't better than what is it if it isn't begging?
34:47It's asking
34:49It's asking like other folks do when their rights are violated Paul
34:52It's asking folks who sworn duty it is to uphold the law to come and help us
34:57Paul is that what you always tried to teach us?
35:00Well, you know, I've always wanted us to take care of our own troubles
35:04But this time they've got Adam. I just don't think there's anything else we can do
35:11Yeah
35:14Yeah
35:17All right, you two saddle up right in the town tell the sheriff what's happened I think I can go first about myself
35:22You and I were riding at a terminus camp I
35:26Got an idea how to keep drumming busy till the sheriff gets there. I don't trust him for then. I can see him. Yes
35:33All set Jim you look at them sheep they're resting in quiet
35:38I bet they ain't felt as good in their bellies in a month of Sunday
35:42You know, I'm around here all day. Thank you
35:45You look at them sheep. They're resting in quiet. I bet they ain't felt as good in their bellies in a month of Sundays
35:52Grazing on all this nice fat cart ride grass sure is good pasture Jeff. You know something Billy I
35:59Been thinking there ain't nothing we can find in California as good as we got right here now is there I guess not Jeff
36:06Good land lots of it
36:08Why we can raise ourselves the biggest fattest flock of sheep in the whole country right here
36:14And I'm gonna take it Billy all of it. How are you gonna do that? I?
36:20Knew that Providence to show me away. Yeah, you mean young cart, right? Mm-hmm before I'm done with him
36:27Ben Cartwright is gonna be begging to give us the Ponderosa to get his son back
36:32You remember one thing Billy you catch a man where he's soft and you can most always squeeze anything you want out of him
36:39You better take care of him, I don't want nothing to happen to him just yet. I'll take care of it
36:45Yes, Billy. There ain't nothing at all in California. We ain't got more of right here
36:51Say you must be clean hungry eat some of them beans before the cold
36:56See you in the morning Billy
36:58night Jim
37:08I
37:16Brought you some beans I
37:21Can't untie you Jeff wouldn't pay for that. All right
37:31You could kill me yesterday when you had a chance
37:35Yes, I could if you had you wouldn't be here like it's now I guess that's true
37:44Why don't you do it then why don't you kill me when you had the chance I don't know just couldn't
37:49It ain't like Jeb said I mean about what you and your pod do to us. Oh
37:56What'd he say we'd do to you kill us first crack out of the barrel
38:00How long you been with drumming
38:03Oh a year, maybe a little more. I
38:06Met him when I first left off farming and took to the road
38:11Wasn't exactly like I'm Eddie
38:13Some drunk cow hands was gonna hang me up for stealing a pinto, but I never done it. Oh
38:20we're
38:2119 I
38:23I
38:26Guess that's how it happened. I didn't know much in like now
38:31All right, I bought the horse off a peddler fella
38:35But I never had sense enough to get get no papers for it. Just dumb trusting like
38:41Nice taught you not to trust anybody, huh?
38:43Jib saved my life
38:47That doesn't mean you have to live the way he does I owe him
38:50But I guess you wouldn't know what it feels like to have a rope strung around your neck
38:54Not with a regular family and live in the way you do
38:59No, sir
39:01Oh Jeb, he just come by and scattered him trail hands off. I knew think he did it for you
39:08Haven't you been around him long enough to know he doesn't do anything for anybody except himself. That don't make no difference. Oh
39:15I
39:17I
39:19Guess it weren't so much to save me as much as
39:22Well, Jeb just got it in for cattlemen and cow hands and I'd like
39:27He's bitter in his ways I like my Paul was
39:33What happened to him he got himself killed fighting over a few acres of bare rocky ground back in Kentucky
39:41What like I knew him much him or anybody
39:44Mostly I just sort of shifted around one can to the next doesn't mean you have to stay with him
39:50He's always done good by me
39:53Listen, he's no better than something that crawls after carrying
39:56You want to plunder your piece of land bad enough to have his taint rub off on you?
40:02You talk mighty big don't you mister?
40:04That's cuz you got it all a family and regular living and all this good rich land to hang on to
40:10All I got in this world is Jeb Drummond. You remember that mister. I got nothing in this world, but Jeb Drummond
40:40I
40:49Ran out of horses looks like the cartwrights
41:10I
41:22Left my gun drum, he ain't left his get that gun Billy boy
41:33Adam slow pop. All right. Now suppose you dismount and say your piece
41:40I
41:47Drummond let my son go take me instead
41:50You did I hear correct you here, correct?
41:55What are you figuring?
41:57You want a hostage?
41:59Well, I'll be a hostage no far
42:03Well come and what about it
42:06Well, I'll tell you I don't care much which of you cartwrights I hold as hostage
42:10But I got me another notion
42:13What's your notion woman? I've been thinking they had nothing in California as good as you got here
42:19So I'm gonna take it all of it and claim it as my own
42:24How you figuring on doing that mister?
42:27Planning on killing us all
42:30Ask your old man. I think he knows
42:32Billy boy, give me that paper
42:37Yes, sir, mr. Cartwright
42:40I've got it all right here a deed to 50,000 acres of your land
42:46Now all you got to do is
42:48Sign it and make it all legal
42:51Drummond, do you think that my signing a ridiculous scrap of paper like that is gonna make anything legal?
42:56Well the way I see it
42:57And you got something mighty important again, what's he got the game?
43:02You of course, unless he signs this deed. I'm gonna kill you and let your body rot where it drops
43:10Adam there's something you ought to know I sent little Joe to town for the sheriff
43:16Thanks, Bob. It looks like I've been wrong all along
43:20No, I'm not going to let you get away with it. I'm not going to let you get away with it
43:24Looks like I've been wrong all along
43:26No
43:28No, you weren't wrong
43:31I'm drumming with a sheriff coming. How do you think you're going to get away with all this?
43:35Well, like I said, I'm willing to take the chance
43:38Yes
43:39That's what you said
43:42What about you you willing to take a gamble, too?
43:49Whatever Jeb says is good enough for me
43:55You too, I'm willing
44:00Look at him
44:02Do you think he cares if you get skinned and hooked like some coyote meat as long as he can use you to get what?
44:07He's after
44:09All right, you had your say mister. Now. Do you want to sign this deed or do you want to bury your son?
44:15Don't sign it pop. He won't shoot
44:17That's the difference between you and me Drummond, I'm not a gambling man with that paper
44:28Pa don't 50,000 acres. It isn't worth it, isn't it?
44:33Well, that's a mighty fine-looking signature much better than I could have done but then I never owned 50,000 acres of prime land before neither
44:43You'd better be careful. You're not a gambler
44:46You're a gambler
44:48You're a gambler
44:50You're a gambler
44:52You're a gambler
44:54You're a gambler
44:56You're a gambler
44:58You're a gambler
45:00I
45:12Was gonna make it an even deal land for your son
45:18But it looks like I can't trust any of you Cartwright's
45:21There's only one way to deal with you
45:24Give me the gun Billy
45:25can't just kill him Jeff can I
45:28You just watch.
45:30I ain't done nothing for you to kill him over, Jeb.
45:32You give me that gun!
45:34But Jeb...
45:35Look, how many times I've tried to beat it into you, Billy.
45:38If you want something in this world, you've got to get it whichever way you can.
45:42But you go right on being woman soft.
45:44Maybe I should have let them Wranglers string you up for stealing them three pinnows.
45:49Three pinnows?
45:52Jeb, how'd you ever know they was looking for three of them?
45:56Well, they said, I guess.
45:59No, they never.
46:00They never said nothing after you came.
46:02Well, that don't make no difference, boy.
46:04Don't it?
46:06Well, I think it does, Jeb.
46:08Because you kill them straight off.
46:11Well, I thought it was just to save me, but that wasn't it, was it?
46:16Well, you knew there was three pinnows.
46:18Because you was the one that stole them and sold them off yourself.
46:22Well, I guess I really don't owe you nothing, do I, Jeb?
46:25Now, you know that ain't right, Billy boy.
46:28I mean, maybe I did lie to you about them pinnows,
46:31but I always done good by you and I taught you things.
46:35Sure.
46:36Like shooting a man in the back.
46:38Like grabbing and thieving.
46:40Well, I learned good, Jeb.
46:42But I ain't learning no more.
46:45Now, look, Billy.
46:47Billy, you're like a son to me.
46:49The only reason I want this land is because I'm going to leave it to you.
46:52I promise it.
46:54No, Jeb.
46:56You give me that gun.
46:59How many times I tried to beat it into you, Billy?
47:09Jeb.
47:12I should have let him hang you.
47:14Hang you?
47:15You no good, thieving, dirty double-crosser.
47:20Shoot him, Kayak.
47:22Kill him.
47:38Hey, Pa, how come Hop's thing got all this vinegar?
47:40Sorry, Pa. He didn't have no rutabagas.
47:44Guess I'll be leaving.
47:46Sure do thank you for all your help.
47:48For the shirt, little Joe.
47:50You're welcome.
47:51Where you go now?
47:53I don't know exactly.
47:55Billy, you ever think of taking up homesteading?
47:58You mean a place of my own?
48:00Sure, but...
48:01Well, we got a lot of open land here in the Ponderosa.
48:04I figured that Adam here could probably help you pick out a good piece of it.
48:09You mean a piece of your land?
48:11Well, we got a lot of people coming out this way.
48:13I guess we'll have to make some room for them all.
48:17Including the law.
48:19Well, Mr. Cartwright, I...
48:22I sure will try to live up to your faith in me.
48:25Well, Billy, you better.
48:26Because if I catch you stepping out of line just once, why, I'll...
48:29You'll go get the shirt.
48:41THE END
49:11THE END