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Buenos dias, senor.

Buenos dias.

Que tal?

Hey, it's wonderful.

It's wonderful to find someone in the middle of nowhere who speaks my

That is almost too much for one man.

But to smell that...

Don't get too comfortable, amigo.

I... I do not rob you, amigo.

I need your horse.

Please take off the gun belt, huh?

Hello.

Glad to see you with us again.

This week's story is about six people with 48 hours to live.

And one of them holds the answer.

The way out for the other five.

It's called The Burning Sky.

Here you are, Mrs. Baxter. Just hold it over your mouth.

Thank you, Mr. Bruss.

I can spare it. I bought a dozen of them in St. Louis.

Well, anytime you want to, just say so.

Are you going all the way to Yuma, Mr.

Connors?

That's right.

Live there?

Yes, I have a ranch there.

Shouldn't we be stopping somewhere pretty soon?

There's a way stationed up ahead.

Whoa!

It's our way over, folks. Rest up and eat.

You're late, boy.

I ain't late till it's tomorrow.

Right, sir.

Watch your step.

Thank you.

Take this for you. No, thank you.

Welcome, folks. We have stew.

Well, it's all right, I guess.

And coffee?

Coffee, Mrs. Baxter.

Yes, please. Coffee for me. Free coffee.

The senorita will do me the honor. Oh, no. Oh, please.

We're both riding on the same stage together.

We should know each other, see? Really, I... Oh, I'm lonely.

You come sit by me.

That's better. I am Juan Bolero.

I see you get off the stage, and I say to myself, Johnny Bolero, you are one

lucky fellow.

How do you mean?

Well, does the senorita not have a mirror?

The senorita's come a long way, huh? Yeah.

From the east?

Yeah, from the east.

You folks going to eat? You better order something.

My pleasure is yours, senorita.

Oh, just some coffee.

Two coffee, por favor.

The senorita's traveling alone.

Yeah.

It's dangerous.

Very dangerous, this country.

I've been traveling alone since I was 12.

It's too bad. Is it?

I was about to offer you my services for nothing.

Seems to me you're awful anxious to be friendly, mister.

You got some reason?

But of course.

You sure you don't want anything else but coffee?

No, sir.

Yes, sir. San Francisco's a great town.

City of opportunity, I always say. You'll like it, Mrs. Baxter.

Thank you.

You ever been there, Mr. Connors?

Yes, once or twice. Like it?

No, I prefer my ranch.

Well, everybody to his own taste.

Difference of opinion.

That's why we have horse races.

And juries.

Will you excuse me, please?

Certainly.

Brous.

Buy you a drink.

Not right now, Mr. Connors.

Thanks anyway.

I hope you're not feeling ill, Mrs. Baxter. Riding a stage can be real

I'm quite all right.

Do you know anyone in San Francisco, Mrs. Baxter?

No, I'm afraid I don't. Well, then maybe I can be of some help to you when we

get there.

I'm sure you think of yourself as being very subtle, Mr. Browse.

But it's not one of your virtues. It doesn't seem to be one of yours either.

I thought it would be lost on you.

You've made repeated references to St. Louis and juries. That's only because I

wasn't real sure that your name was Banning, Mrs. Baxter.

Well, now you know.

What do you want?

You're going to need a friend, someone who can keep a secret.

For a price?

I'd like to help you in an advisory capacity, help you make investments,

profit. Naturally, I'd expect a small commission.

You're a blackmailer.

You're a filthy, cheap little blackmailer.

Not at all.

I'm an investment counselor.

You know, a woman like you needs to be accepted in society.

You're a wealthy woman, a lady.

You should live like one.

You can as Mrs. Baxter, but not as Mrs. Banning.

Oh, you don't have to make up your mind right now. When we get to San Francisco,

you can... You all right, Mrs. Baxter?

Yes, thank you.

Been west very long, Mr. Brous? No.

Why? The man offers to buy you a drink, you accept?

Not unless you're thirsty.

And when we arrive in Yuma, senorita, I will... So

the

horse's leg was not broken, huh?

Oh, it was broke.

I had to shoot it.

Yeah, but there is no reason to shoot me.

Maybe I'll break your leg.

That'd be a reason.

I can understand your anger.

But my need was greater than yours.

And I'm going to stay right here until I see what you're going to do about it.

All right, Johnny.

You can get up.

Senor Marbury.

Your horse is outside.

Yeah, I saw my horse.

Take about a week for it to rest up.

If the senorita will permit, I'd be glad to take care of your so heavy bag.

No, thanks.

Thank you. It isn't that heavy.

Oh, I'm sorry. You should have awakened me.

You're right, honey.

You had a nice little nap.

What is it, Maverick? Take a look.

It's not like Apaches to chase a stage.

They usually hit patrols and ranches.

There's an adobe rowan not far up the road. If we can make it, it'll give us

cover.

They probably cut across to pick up the road further on.

Get those women out of there in a hurry.

Senorita. All right.

You all right, Mr. Baxter?

Hey, amigo.

We are easy now.

All right, stay right there.

He's dead?

Yeah, he's dead.

Hey, Connors, get those women out of here.

Hey, amigo, it looks like there's no place to go from here.

I said if we did go, we'd never get there.

How

many

of them did you count?

Twelve. That's what I got.

Eleven.

Why don't they rush us?

I said that, Mr. Brous.

There's a better way to do it.

They'll let the sun work for them.

How much water we got?

That's it.

That's all of it.

They're as bad off as we are.

Too bad that's not true, Mr. Brous.

Yep.

Their horses are probably behind the high rock.

They could send somebody for water whenever they need it.

We could go out the other side, keep low. They won't see us.

Yeah, you could do that, Mr. Browse. It wouldn't be long before they did see

you. Then where would you go?

Jump on a horse or two and run you down.

There wouldn't be anything you could do about it.

You better just make yourself real comfortable, Mr. Browse.

You know how hot it can get out here?

Nope. And I don't want to learn.

The last one, maybe two days at the most.

There's a return stage due from Yuma. It's got to pass right by here.

A couple of shots from us, and I know we need help. If it comes.

If? Lock it. It may be two, four, eight days. That stage only runs when there's

mail or enough passengers to make it pay.

Keep cheering me up, Connors.

what three hours has done to us already.

Yeah.

We can last out today.

I'm not so sure about tomorrow.

What do you want from me? A rain dance?

No. No, I was just thinking we ought to try and get out of here tonight.

I thought of that, too.

But I keep coming back with the same answer.

They won't let us.

They'll stick pretty close behind those big, cool rocks all day, and at night

they'll be all around us.

I still think we should try it.

We did get away. Where'd we go?

Oh, not we. Just one of us.

Now, one of us could circle around behind that high rock, get to their

grab one, drive the rest of them away, and bring back help.

Connors, as long as you're not asking for volunteers, I think that's a great

idea.

Now, there you go.

What's that for, Johnny? He's carrying a white flag.

See?

He was carrying a white flag, but he had a gun attached to it.

I know these Apaches.

He'll kill as many of us as he can, even if he get killed, too. No Apache would

wave a flag of truce and then start shooting.

That was no Apache.

Didn't even look like one. Didn't walk like one.

I've lived around him for more than 20 years, and that was no Indian.

He wanted to parley with us.

He killed any chance we had.

I do what is best for all of us.

All right, Johnny.

Since how you have our best interests at heart, we're going to let you do

something about it.

One of us has to try to get out of here tonight to get to their horses.

I know how anxious you are to make up for that little mistake you just made.

Oh, no, amigo. I'm not anxious.

I think we vote, see?

Good. I'll vote for you.

So do I.

Maybe the others, they vote?

Oh, I think they'll vote for you, too.

You're a leading candidate.

The people's choice.

Johnny don't pass up a good bet.

I think the man who gets out of here might be the only one to get out alive.

See?

Sure quiet out there.

See?

Johnny.

You've got just five minutes left.

Amigo, they must have a guard on those horses.

I could kill for sure.

True.

Any last words, like who those nice, quiet fellas out there might be?

I, Johnny Bolero, should know this.

I agree with Connors, Johnny. I don't think they're Patches at all.

And I think you had some other reason for shooting that fellow with the white

flag.

What was it?

Amigo, you talking puzzles?

What a beautiful night.

I hope it's not my last.

I think we've got a very good chance.

Mr. Connors, are you always this kind and thoughtful, or have I

earned some special consideration without knowing it?

Well, let's say that I think you'd find a hard time convincing my ranch hands

that I'm always so thoughtful and considerate.

Now, speaking of the ranch...

something you ought to see.

Oh, it's as green as... All this is barren.

If we get out of this, I think we will.

You ought to stay there a while and rest up before you go on to San Francisco.

My sister lives there with me, and I think you and she have hit it off just

fine.

That's very kind of you, Mr. Connors.

But I'm afraid I have to say no.

I see.

I reckon I got a little carried away there for a minute.

Sorry.

Johnny, the night will be over before you get started.

I'm willing you should be.

I could get killed out there, I told you.

Are you hit?

I don't know.

I'm too scared to find out.

But, amigo, this I do know.

They all around us. We no get out of here.

There's only one thing left to do. We've got to talk to them.

Talk? Talk about what?

About how we got two swallows of water left, that the stage might come? They

want to talk to us. No, they don't. You don't understand.

Oh, Johnny, shut up. Go ahead, Maverick.

Well, it's pretty plain they want something.

Anybody in here know what it is?

Well, somebody will have to go out of here tomorrow under a flag of truce.

I go tonight.

Tomorrow somebody else go.

All right, we'll draw lots.

You think they'll honor our flag after the way Bolero shot their man?

Sure death. I don't see why any innocent person should have to risk his life.

Which one of us knows who is innocent?

Somebody in here knows what they're after.

Which one of us is it?

It's Bolero. That's why he shot that Indian or whatever he was.

I began not to like you.

I think I kill you too. Johnny, Johnny, take it easy.

Now look, one more day under this sun and we'll all be dead and they know it.

If no one here wants to give us the answer, we'll have to find it out from

For me, I'm willing to take my chances on drawing lots.

I'll go get it over with.

Mrs. Baxter, have you got anything we could use?

I have some paper.

Good. Would you mind tearing it into four strips?

Three long and one short.

Connors, why don't you go first?

All right.

After you, amigo.

Why don't we make it two out of three?

It would seem the birds have gone back to their nests.

All of them.

Where else would they be? That's the only place they got to hide in the

Well, if I'm not home before dark, don't wait up for me.

Amigo, come back!

What was that for?

They would kill him.

You were right, Senor Connors.

Those men out there are not Apaches.

They are my compadres.

Not in time to tell me that.

They would kill you.

I don't want you killed.

That means it's you they want.

No, they don't want me at all. I only say they are my countrymen.

Believe me, Senorita Letty, it pains me to say this, but it is the Senorita they

want.

You're a liar.

Forgive me, Senorita, but they are after the money.

What money?

A half million dollar.

Told you he was a liar.

He just wants to save his own skin.

Your turn, Johnny.

Amiga, when Senorita Letty leave Mexico, she take with her almost half a million

dollar. This I know.

She couldn't carry that much.

It wasn't paper money, United States paper money.

Then where is it?

You don't see it, do you?

Go on, rip open the bag.

Maybe you think I got it on me.

Maybe you'd like to search me.

Now, look, Lettie.

You've been hanging on to that bag like it was part of your arm.

It's hard to believe a few costumes would be that important.

The money was in the bag then, wasn't it?

No.

She could have buried it last night.

Where was she?

There. That's where she spent most of her...

See, when the Juaristas take over my country, the Benares have to get out.

They leave their gold behind.

It was very sad.

About a year ago, Senorita Letty come to Mexico.

And pretty quick, she's changing gold into dollars.

I did it for the Benares family.

They're in San Francisco now living like beggars.

You couldn't believe that, could you?

You couldn't believe anybody could be that honest.

See?

He's hard to believe.

I don't care whether you believe it or not.

I know the Banars.

I love them like they're my own.

Better than my own.

All right, Betty.

Go on with the rest of it.

When they heard I was going to work in Mexico City, they come to me, tell me

about the gold, ask me to get it out for them.

Dolores Benares went with me.

They killed her.

I know they did.

The ones that wanted the gold killed her.

One night, I went backstage in the cantina to my dressing room.

Solaris was gone.

They took him.

You, what are you saying? Let him go.

They killed our sea.

But when I find out about it, I leave them. I want a part of them.

I'm a greedy man. See, I love money.

But I don't touch or kill a woman who get it.

That's why I'm not with them.

That's the money that they're after.

Well, they're not going to get it.

I'm going to take it to San Francisco with me and nobody's going to stop me.

Now, hold on just a minute. Let's be reasonable about this.

They want the money we want our lives, so I say give them the money.

You're not going to get it to San Francisco anyhow.

Letty, how much money is there?

Quarter of a million.

There should be more.

Much more.

There's only 300 ,000.

I left 60 ,000 behind, still in gold.

Where?

We're wasting time. We all know we can't last a day without water, so I say give

them the money.

Look.

You all voted on everything before.

Vote on this, too, please.

I can't go back to San Francisco to the Benares and then tell them Dolores is

dead and take them nothing else.

Well, maybe the stagecoach will come by today.

I vote we give them the money.

Connors?

Give him the money.

Johnny?

No.

I vote no.

How about you, Mrs. Baxter?

You better vote with me, Mrs. Baxter.

For what, Mr. Bross?

Just say yes.

Well, you'll tell everyone that my name is Banning?

This isn't the first time you've tried to blackmail me, Mr. Brous, but it's the

last.

What Mr. Brous is trying to say is that unless I vote with him, he'll tell

everyone that I was on trial for killing my husband.

I knew that, Mrs. Baxter.

You were also acquitted.

I saw some of the newspapers on my way through St. Louis.

And you still?

I'm sorry, Mr. Connors.

I'm going to have to see it Lettie's way.

How do you vote, Mr. Maverick?

Well, somehow I can't bring myself to vote for giving away a quarter of a

million dollars.

It's against everything I believe in. Think a minute. You'll die here.

Well, I hope not, Brous.

So I'd like to reserve my vote for a little later.

Maybe something might turn up.

Maybe even that stagecoach.

$1 ,000 bills.

They're just the kind I'm partial to.

What do you think, amigo?

And it's hot.

See?

It's not yet the middle of the afternoon.

Maybe it's better we give them the money.

Maybe.

We'll never make it.

There's no water left.

The heat will get to 110 or better if it's not there already.

There's still a chance that stagecoach will come through.

Give it up, Maverick.

If the stage does come, they've got to go back for help.

Sorry, Lettie.

Looks like we'll have to give it to them.

Oh, no.

There's nothing else we can do.

But it isn't ours to give.

It might buy our lives.

Oh, no, you're wrong. It won't.

Listen, everyone thought the Benares fortune was worth over half a million in

gold.

But it wasn't.

That's all there was, except for something I left back in Mexico.

So? Do you think those men out there will believe you when you tell them

all there is?

They'll want to know where the rest is.

You know she tell the truth?

The compadres out there are bad men.

Everybody in my country heard that the fortune is over a million dollar.

They'll never believe it.

We'll make them believe it.

You're a fool if you think that.

They kill before to get it.

They'll kill again.

Get back here.

Here it is, the money. Get back here, you idiot.

Here's the money. The money. Here's the money. Bruce!

Well, Eddie, now nobody's got it.

All they have to do is wait for the sun to bake us to a crisp.

Hey, amigo,

he is closer to us than to them.

We could get him.

What good will it do you?

Die wealthy?

Man could do worse.

But if I go out there, I will not do it for nothing.

I will be a brave man because I am a greedy man.

Senorita, for $10 ,000, I go bring you back the money.

That's all you take?

Oh, I never lie.

Steal, yes, but I never lie.

Amigo, you need a little help?

We're off my $10 ,000.

You insist.

Bueno, I need a little help.

The sun's got you both.

What good will it do you? If that stage comes by now with that money lying out

there, those boys will stop waiting.

They'll rush us for sure.

Amigo, look.

Senorita, you are one lousy shot.

You ready, Johnny?

Si. I'll give it up, Maverick.

Let him give him the money.

I wish I could, Gunners.

I'd never get another good night's sleep again.

Senora Boxer, here, have a little fun.

Andale, amigo.

Did I kill it?

It's dead.

Then I killed it.

It's something you'll never know, Liddy.

He picked up another shot just now.

Mr. Connors?

Hmm?

This must be even worse for you.

You're so near home.

Almost close enough to smell the dew on the grass.

Ah, it's such a beautiful place.

The whole valley's as green as springtime.

Some miracle should get us out of here.

I still want you to stop with us a while.

You're a strange man, Mr. Connors.

The whole city of St. Louis thinks I deliberately shot my husband and claimed

thought it was a burglar.

That doesn't disturb you one bit.

The jury acquitted you?

The jury thought there was a reasonable doubt.

The whole city of St. Louis didn't get a chance to know you as I do.

You see, I think...

The whole city was right.

I knew he was no burglar.

I knew he was my husband when I shot him.

Once in Mexico City, I see a gun, a very strange gun.

It's made in your country.

I don't know how it's called, but it goes brrrr.

I sure wish we had it now, huh?

It'd make all the difference.

It's called a Gatling gun.

That's right, a Gatling gun.

Well, while you're at it, why don't you start wishing for a troop of cavalry?

I'm wishing.

Yeah. You do that.

Betty. Yeah?

About that 60 ,000 in gold you said you left in Mexico City.

What about it?

You think it's still there?

I'm sure of it.

If I get you out of here, would you tell me where I could find it?

Mr., you get me out of here, I'll get it for you myself.

You got a deal?

Johnny, we're gonna use that Gatling gun of yours.

Collins, how many bullets you got?

That's what I got in my belt.

Good. Toss them over, will you?

All right.

Is your revolver fully loaded?

Yeah. Mrs.

Baxter, you got any more of that paper left?

Yes. Bring it over.

I'll need a knife.

I got one.

I always got one, too.

That's good.

Pry the slugs off of the top of these cartridges.

Pour the powder right on top of this piece of paper and don't you spill any

Drop

the slugs in the canteen Johnny

I

Figured it'll take five seconds for this fuse to burn down

So I'm going to have to be pretty close to those rocks to make sure I toss the

bomb over them.

Amigo, a very unpleasant thought occurred to me.

Yeah, well, maybe you better not tell me about it, Johnny.

You're going to be out there alone and they're going to be shooting at you.

Maybe I better go shoot at them so then I cannot shoot too good at you.

You know, you've got a long way to run before you throw the bomb.

Then you'll get half of my 60 ,000.

If you insist.

I insist.

Bueno.

You're gonna need all the cover you can give us.

You'll get it.

I await your command.

Let's go earn that money.

Watch.

We got our miracle.

I want to ask you a question.

There's more to your story than what you told me, isn't there?

I was pretty sure I was right.

Yes, you were.

Would you like to tell me about it now?

It might be important to both of us.

He wanted a divorce to marry someone else.

I agreed, and then he learned she wouldn't marry a divorced man.

The night he died, he came home drunk and he tried to kill me.

We struggled.

I see.

Mr. Connors, I love his family very much.

I could never tell what really happened.

I never have till now.

Mrs. Banning, have I ever told you about my ranch?

Not nearly enough.

Feeling better, Letty?

Uh -huh.

Senorita, how about the money?

I left it in a hotel in Mexico City.

It's called the La Paloma. Si.

In the patio, the well.

And I put the gold in a canvas bag, dropped it in the well.

You know the hotel, Johnny?

Amigo, I not only know the hotel, I know the well, well.

You think the gold's still there?

Amigo, who's going to fish in a well except you and me?

Here. Very easy at first.

Thank you.

Connors, you want Johnny and me to ride along with you and the lady before we

head south?

Won't be necessary, Bart.

Johnny, we'd better go. See?

Connors, good luck.

Same to you.

Back, sir.

Thanks, Lettie. Thank you.

Hasta luego.

Let's go, John.