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No sign of violence, panic, nothing.

Apparently everyone just quit whatever he was doing and walked away from it.

Maverick.

Starring James Garner and Jack Kelly.

Produced by Warner Brothers.

Entertainment capital of the world.

Produced for television by Warner Brothers.

Morning.

You the man looking for a wagon master?

I'm the wagon master.

It's a professional guy you're meeting.

I'm Bart Maverick.

Poligris McKenzie.

I'd like to apply for the job.

You been to the Black Hills?

Quite a few times, sir.

What river crosses the Ockertiller Trail?

It's not much of a river. It's called Shale Creek, and it's dry this time of

year.

What river does the Cheval Trail follow?

I've never heard of the Cheval Trail.

I don't think you have either.

Drink? No, thanks. I wasn't offering.

I was inquiring.

I never touch the stuff.

Do you gamble?

I feel sorry for men that gamble, Mr. McKenzie. Downright sorry.

Be ye a God -fearing man?

Scared to death.

You're hired.

We start tomorrow at daybreak.

I'll pay you 200 in gold for the whole job.

Done.

I'll pack my war bag and be back in an hour.

Cindy! What are you doing here?

I was just about to ask you that.

You're no professional guide.

What are you up to?

Well, I was going to Deadwood anyway, and I'm broke.

This way, I'll get there with some money.

You're not here because of me.

You in some kind of trouble, Cindy?

I will be if certain people here in town find out I'm leaving.

Please, just forget you saw me.

I'll make a deal.

I'll forget you're leaving town if you'll forget I'm not a guide.

Hey, wagon train.

Howdy there.

You folks wouldn't be heading for the gold country, would you? Aye, we're

heading for the Black Hills.

Well, that's the right place.

Mind if I join you?

You got no supplies.

Plenty of game along the way.

I've heard tell there are a few grouchy Indians, too.

Might be we'll need each other.

My wife and I have enough grub supply for three extra hands.

What's your name, young fellow?

Lee Granger.

Well,

you can ride with us, Mr. Granger, just as long as you behave yourself and take

your orders from me or from him.

He's my guide.

That suits me just fine.

I think he's here because of me.

That's what you said about me.

But you told me you weren't, and I believed you.

I told you that.

Well, you are, aren't you?

Tell me what's got you so worried, and I'll answer that.

How long has it been since I last saw you?

Four or five months.

Well, for three of those months, I've been... I'm running away from Claude

Rogan.

Makes sense.

He kind of fell in love with me.

Maybe vice versa.

Until I found out he was a no -good thief.

I thought everybody knew that.

Well, I like to learn about people for myself.

So you're afraid Rogan sent him along to keep an eye on you.

Why wouldn't Rogan come along himself?

He's hiding out.

That Wells Fargo holdup?

That's what I think. When I decided he really was a thief, I got out fast.

That'd be a right, Cindy.

There's something about that fellow that just doesn't fit.

Maybe he is here for Rogan.

He better not be.

And he's a brilliant young man.

Old Baltimore family.

I'm sure they'll transfer him from Fort Bray. They're very... Mother, George

isn't really very interesting to people who haven't met him.

I don't know why you should say that, Charlotte.

And we will meet him when we get to Fort Braver.

What's taking you into the Black Hills, Mr. Chapman? I came into a little money

not long ago, and my wife persuaded me to invest it in some mining properties.

I've heard stories about prospectors selling good claims for the price of a

bottle of whiskey.

A wagon of mine is filled with everything they haven't got in the Black

I leave the digging to them that likes to gamble.

You don't think going to Deadwood is gambling?

No. That's enterprise.

Our young lieutenant couldn't have been more apologetic about us bringing

Charlotte way out here like this to get married, but... Well, other mother...

Who have you got in mind?

Now, who else would I have in mind?

I can think of at least two others.

I just came out here to say you haven't got me fooled here.

Well, you've got me fooled.

What are you talking about?

Claude sent you, and I know it.

Claude?

Don't play... You have to be smart to do that. Well, I am smart, and I still

don't know what you're talking about.

If I'm wrong, sorry.

If I'm right, tell Rogan it won't help him at all to know where I went.

Because I and he are as dead as that Wells Fargo man he shot.

Getting tired, Miss Benton? Not at all. I'm used to riding.

Ranger!

My husband was wondering if you'd like a little change.

He could take your horse while you drive the wagon.

Be glad to, ma 'am.

It was my wife's idea.

I know how a man feels about letting a stranger ride his horse, so if you don't

want to, I... Don't mind at all. Change the rest of us both up. Whoa!

Whoa, whoa.

You

think

this is a good idea?

I don't know. I had to do it.

I can't stand being with you like this and not being able to talk to you, to

touch you.

Well, get used to it or we'll be in trouble.

Why did you disappear with that girl last night?

Haven't we got enough to worry about without you bringing up something like

that? Well, why did you do it? I didn't.

She came looking for me. Had some idea I was here to keep an eye on her.

I'm sorry.

find some way to be alone together, if only for a minute. Okay.

And don't ask me to drive the wagon again.

Please, Lee. No.

We're strangers.

It's the only way we'll be safe.

Cindy.

Isn't the last time we went to Deadwood together?

There's some things one never forgets.

Like measles and broken arms.

Oh, I remember now the nice things.

How you gave me your coat when I got cold. How you took my coat when I was

asleep.

Think you'll ever mount to anything, Bart?

Of course I will.

My pappy once told me, son, you're self -centered, shifty, and you know the

value of a dollar, so you're going to die honored and wealthy.

If I really thought you would, I'd hook you myself, one way or another.

I'll never be able to say you didn't warn me.

Maybe I'll do it anyway.

No, Cindy, it won't do for us to offend these good people we're traveling with.

Maybe you'd better go to bed now.

Who's being offensive?

Not me.

They'll think so.

Same.

Good night, Cindy.

Good night.

Do I have to carry you back to your wagon?

Would you like to?

You did not like this last time we were in these hills. Things were different

then. Sure were.

Oh, friend.

Keep eating.

Those two men with guns in my back.

Now just sit quiet.

I'm not here to bother anybody or steal nothing, so don't get nervous and there

won't be any trouble.

Tie that blanket in the knot, lady.

Now, she's got some things belonging to a friend of ours.

We come to get them.

What things?

Well, that ring for one, a red beaded dress, and a large doll for two more.

They're mine.

Claude gave them to you and you dodged out on him.

Now he wants them back.

Take a look in her wagon, Joe.

Which one's yours, Cindy?

Look through all of them, Jughead.

That's hers over there.

Thanks.

Claude's real sore at you, Cindy.

Real sore.

Sorry to interrupt your supper, folks.

Get my horse, Andy, quick.

What do you have in mind, young fellow?

Going after those two of you. Wave that in another direction.

They took nothing worth a quarrel or a delay.

You'll not be going anywhere.

You'd better have a quick private talk, Fergus. Over there.

I'm after an outlaw named Rogan. Those two men can lead me to him. Will you put

that gun down before they get any further away?

You're after an outlaw? Yes. You're an old man or something?

Why else would I be going after them?

I can answer that.

You're greedy like everybody else.

But he's no lawman.

Thanks, Cindy Love.

You're welcome.

And it isn't Rogan he wants. It's Rogan's money. Am I right? It's in that

No.

Then why would he have sent them out here? That other stuff isn't worth a

nickel. Well, the money was there, all right. But I took it out.

Nearly $30 ,000.

You can put that gun down, Fergus. I won't be leaving. I won't have to.

Rogan will show up in person next time.

Yes, I guess he will.

I'm sorry. I didn't think about that.

I've heard of Rogan. If you've got $30 ,000 of his, he'll be back right enough.

What do you think Walter did with you?

I didn't know about the money. I found it by accident.

And I'm going to turn it over for the reward.

You want to toss me out of the train for that, just say so.

Maybe I will.

Mad?

At you, Cindy.

Impossible.

Mr. McKenzie, I told you before we started that she wasn't the sort of...

minute, Mrs.

We've a serious problem that concerns a lot of us.

This lass recovered some stolen money.

Found it in that doll those felons ran off with.

It's my reckoning, the two of them, and maybe more.

We'll be a -coming back as soon as they get over the shock of finding they

didn't have the money.

Then shouldn't we be moving on?

We'll be doing that, Mr. Stanton.

Soon as we've settled, what's to be done with her?

We've a simple choice.

Send her back to Spring City by herself and forget the matter, or keep her with

us and try to make Fort Brader before the felons catch up with us.

Fort Brader is another ten days.

Oh, it doesn't seem like a hard choice, Mr. McKenzie. She stays with us, of

course. She had no right coming in the first place.

It's bad enough when decent folk are subjected to her kind of... Her kind of

what? Enough of that, ladies.

Anybody else here for sending her back alone?

All right, then it's settled.

We'll be moving out in five minutes.

I'll take that money in my wagon, lass, and turn it over to the authorities in

Fort Brader.

Well, I don't have it.

But you just told us you're dead.

I said I took it out of the doll.

I buried it where we camped last night.

You won't mind if we look in your wagon, will you, Cindy?

Not at all.

We haven't the time for that.

Let's get moving.

They caught up. Where?

I saw them for just a second on that ridge over there. About seven of them.

It could be anybody.

Uh -huh, but it isn't.

I suppose it's too late to resign.

No.

But either way, you'll be facing a gun.

You men, come up here!

The women stay in the wagons to get flat on the boards. What is it? What's

wrong? We don't know yet, Mrs. Stanton. Just stay out of sight.

Back to your wagon.

What's wrong? Have you seen them?

They'll be here in a minute, so get back to your wagon and don't use that unless

someone else does first. You know how I feel about gunfire.

Hurry.

Why all the firearms, friends?

We ain't here for trouble.

Pretty blonde girl in that wagon.

She's got something that belongs to me.

I want it.

When I get it, me and my friends will ride off.

So let's keep it peaceable, shall we?

What has she got that belongs to you?

Hey, Cindy!

You there?

You know what I want? Bring it here.

I'll go away.

You don't even have to come with me.

Unless you want to.

Bring what there? You took back everything you ever gave me.

Everything.

Except what you found in that doll.

You put something in my doll?

Should have guessed that's why you had him take it back.

If it wasn't there, those two jugheads took it for themselves.

Did they?

And restuffed it with one of your skirts?

I want it.

And I want it now.

You best tell her to bring it to me.

She hasn't got it.

She buried it about a hundred miles back.

You don't say.

I'm going to take her wagon apart.

If my money ain't there, I'm gonna take the next wagon apart, then the next.

Till all you got here is a pile of lumber and a big stack of wheels.

You'll have to get past us first.

And if you're as peace -loving as you say you are, we're gonna be a mite of a

disappointment to you.

Donald, get down!

I said I didn't want any trouble.

You folks feel so strong about it, guess there's not much we can do.

Come on, boys.

We'll call it a day's work.

How bad is it?

In the shoulder. I was lucky.

We were luckier.

Well, you were a big help.

But you said you would be when you joined on, didn't you?

Oh, Mr.

Maverick.

Aren't you a long way from camp?

I wish I could pretend it was an accident meeting you here.

Isn't it?

No, I wanted to talk to you alone.

I don't even know what I... why I wanted to talk to you.

You need a reason?

When will we get to Fort Brader? Five or six days.

When those men rode up yesterday, I watched what happened.

It made me sick to watch it, but I couldn't look away.

Seeing them fall and die.

Like a nightmare.

Hearing those bullets, seeing them tear up the ground all around you.

You didn't even move.

You make it sound like I was all alone.

Ben Chapman and Fergus were right there with me.

I was too scared to move.

I never dreamed that things like that really ever happened.

Or that I'd ever meet someone like you. I guess my mother made me feel that I...

A man was nothing if he didn't simper and wear lace cuffs.

That impression you've got of me is a little, um... I didn't move because I

that men on milling horses would have a hard time shooting straight.

And I wear lace cuffs every chance I get.

You're teething me, but I don't mind.

You know, it's funny, but I could never talk with George like this.

He the man you're gonna marry?

You in love with him?

That sort of thing is storybook nonsense.

Your mother says.

I agree with her.

My pappy had a different slant on it.

He once told me, son, love is the only thing in life you've got to earn.

Everything else you can steal.

Does George Simperin wear lace cuffs?

He's very nice, really is.

He just hasn't had my disadvantages.

I guess I do mind being teased.

I don't know what I need or what's wrong, but something is.

How old are you, Charlotte?

Seventeen.

I'm afraid I'm not the one you should be talking to.

Another thing my pappy said when I left home.

Make a lot of mistakes, son.

But always be sure they're your own.

You're about to make someone else's.

No, it was my own choice.

Was it?

You shouldn't have done that.

I shouldn't have let you.

I decided I should.

It'll give you something to think about between here and Fort Brader.

Going to be best man at the wedding, too, Miss?

Well, you didn't even move.

Well, I never dreamed I'd ever meet someone like you.

You don't like her, huh?

Not as much as you do, Mr. Maverick. Of course, that's probably because I'm a

girl. Maybe that's why women dislike other women.

They understand each other.

Where's Ben and Mr. McKenzie?

Still hunting.

I told him I didn't feel good.

All right, tell me what's bothering you.

Bothering me?

Well, ever since that gunfight, you've been looking at me like something that

crawled out from under a wet log.

Please, let me hear you.

Well, I want to know how things are between us.

Should they be any different?

No.

You're acting like they are.

Just remember, you talked me into this.

And now that I'm out here in the middle of nowhere, I don't want any last

-minute changes.

If I decide not to go through with it, I'll say so.

If you decide, how about me? Don't I count?

If you get doubtful, let me know.

And I'll give you back some of those... Fine arguments you gave me.

Remember?

What if we don't feel the same?

And we'll feel exactly the same as soon as we can stop acting like a pair of

strangers.

And we knew this wouldn't be easy.

Let's keep our heads.

Maybe when we decided on this, that's when we weren't keep...

I'm glad you did that.

You told me something I wasn't really sure of.

You know, you make a lot out of nothing.

Once this is over, things will be just like they were with us.

Remember?

Thank you, Miss Cartman.

Hurt?

Well, I wouldn't want one in the other shoulder.

What's happened, Dottie?

Happened? Something good.

For a long while, I've had a feeling I lost you somehow or other.

Now, all of a sudden, I've got you back again.

You're imagining things.

You know, I don't have any imagination.

You used to tell me so.

Maybe I didn't used to know you very well.

After being married to me for seven years?

Yes.

I suspect a lot of women go through their whole lives never really knowing

men they're married to.

I think it took seeing you face those guns like that.

That man Granger, he ran and you didn't.

I suddenly realized I didn't really know you at all.

I couldn't run. I was afraid you might be watching.

Granger didn't have anyone he had to be brave for.

Oh, Ben.

Marcus!

What's the matter?

The fort's just up ahead, but something's all wrong.

The gates are wide open, and there isn't a sign of life anywhere.

Well, the army wouldn't leave a fort unmanned. The Indians would burn it

Real logical, but it is unmanned, and the Indians haven't burned it. Look! On

the hill!

Get him started. We'll run for it.

We're gonna make a run for the fort!

Get those wagons moving!

Fast!

The aliens have turned back. Come on, let's close those gates.

A sign of violence, panic, nothing.

Apparently everyone just quit whatever he was doing and walked away from it.

Indians are just standing there, like they're waiting to see what's going to

happen to us.

They're afraid to come near this place.

Why, isn't there anything here to tell us what happened?

No, Dottie.

Don't go in there.

Nothing would figure this out.

I agree with you, Mr. Chapman.

We'll make camp in the middle of the braid ground.

Put that fire out. Spread it around so it won't make any smoke.

I found out what happened.

The Indians are just waiting to find out what happened to us.

An enlisted man wrote this letter home.

He never finished it.

But then in the middle of this five -day powwow between the colonel and Chief

Red Crow, 17 men reported on sick call, nine of them Indians.

Four days later, they was all dead and 35 more sick and dying and 20 more

deserted.

Surgeon says it's cholera.

This was dated over two weeks ago.

Did it give the names of the ones who died?

No.

They're coming down the hill!

Don't fire.

You may still be afraid to come too close.

No matter what happens to us, we're not going through with it.

we ever really intended to.

How do you make that out?

You're no more capable of murder than I am.

Now, that tune has changed.

You threatened to go away, Lee. I'd have done anything to keep you.

Now it's all my idea.

No, no. No, it was mine.

I don't want it now.

Look, you drag me into this, and we may never come out alive, but if we do, the

wealthy widow Chapman is going to marry into that... The fine old Virginia

family of Granger.

There ought to be some cavalry showing up soon.

Have you decided what you're going to do if George is with him?

My plans were made a long time ago.

It's easy for you to think the way you do.

You're a man.

It's not the same for a woman.

If that's true, I feel sorry for half the world.

I'm going to look for him.

I'm going to look for him.

She's holding a gun.

She joined the fight too.

Show him an apology.

He was a brave man after all.

Charles, bring me those glasses.

What is it?

Not sure.

It's just dust so far.

It's a company of cavalry.

There's a troop of cavalry coming up.

We're going to be all right.

Charlotte, can you see him? Is he there?

Yes, Mother, he's there.

Say George is with them?

Yes, George is with them.

Mother, please don't.

What's come over you, Charlotte?

Pushing your mother away like that.

I didn't push you away, Mother. I just didn't want you to get excited.

I'm not going to marry him.

What do you mean?

What's got into you?

I'm going back home.

Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get married someday.

For the right reason.

Can't you see it, Martha?

Nothing you say to her will make the slightest bit of difference.

Not anymore.

What about you, Mr. Chapman?

Will you be going back with us?

Yes.

Strange, isn't it?

We're all going back.

Right where we started.

Just so it won't all be for nothing, Mr. McKenzie, how'd you like to share the

reward with me?

After all, you did help fight for it and you lost your whole wagon load of

goods. What about me?

I mean with me in part.

I wouldn't be a true Scotsman if I refused your kind offer, lass.

You could share my wagon, Fergus.

Then we should be getting her ready.

Like to share my wagon?

Better than a kick in the shins.

Who is the tall, dark stranger there?

Maverick is the name.

Riding the trail to who knows where. Luck is his companion.

Camper is his game.

Smooth as a handle on a gun. Maverick is the name.

Wild as a wind in Oregon.

Blowing up a canyon.

Easier to tame.

Riverboat, ring your bell.

Fare thee well, Annabelle.

that he loves the best.

That's a new Orleans living on Jackson Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.

Ring your bell.

Luck is a lady that he loves the best.

That's a new Orleans living on Jackson Queens.

Maverick is a legend of the West.