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Give me a hand. Yeah.

Hey, don't shoot.

Wait, here's my wallet. Take it. Take my truck.

Please, I'll give you more money.

Please.

You don't know who I am. Jimmy Farron. Farron Range.

My father will give you anything.

Anything. You name it.

Get up.

Does it hurt much?

Just trees.

I'm bleeding.

in that thing and drive.

The FBI.

A Quinn Martin production starring Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.

Also starring Philip Abbott, William Reynolds, with guest stars

Earl Holliman, L .Q. Jones,

Jim Davis, and special guest star Henry Silva.

Tonight's episode.

Dynasty of Hate.

On July 6th, an abandoned pickup truck with New Mexico license plates was found

near Schuyler, Arizona.

A check with the New Mexico Department of Motor Vehicles revealed that the

was James Farron, son of Mark Farron, millionaire owner of one of the largest

ranches in the Southwest.

When young Farron was discovered missing and ransom demand was telephoned to his

father, special agents of the FBI under the direction of Inspector Louis Erskine

entered the case.

What time did you receive the call, Mr. Farron?

I'd say about four o 'clock. Oh, gentlemen, this is Al Tanner, our head

It was a man's voice.

Said he had Jimmy, and for me to get 200 ,000, he'd call back.

Where was his son going yesterday morning?

He was hunting out past Larrabee. It's about a 50 -mile drive.

He would have taken secondary route 40.

I'd like to ask a question.

Is it possible, I mean, can we... Could we negotiate with the kidnappers alone?

If you wish.

I'd like to know what you have in mind.

Well, it's... I mean, all due respect to you, it's just that I think for Jimmy's

safety, it'd be better if we handled the payoff ourselves.

You're out of line, Drake.

We need these men.

We're talking about Jimmy's life.

We're talking about our family, Dad. Now, we've handled everything by

before. You mean I have.

Now, you follow my orders.

Dad, you're not in any shape to give orders. That's the point.

Now, I'll go find Jimmy, and I'll bring him back for you.

But we don't need any help from outsiders.

You do, sir!

There, you all right? Get away!

All right.

Tyler,

when you get him in his room, call the doctor, will you?

He's awful sick.

Inspector, I guess I'd better take charge. Now, what can I do for you?

I'd like to leave a couple of agents here in case the kidnappers call again.

All right.

Anything else?

Inspector?

One of the units reported finding a pickup truck just off the road on 40.

There were a number of large boulders blocking the road at that point. They

the license through DMV.

It had been a reported stolen.

Excuse us.

He's resting easy.

He'll be all right. Well, we won't. Now, what happened?

I, uh... I don't know.

I haven't been able to reach Cleary yet.

You better reach him, and I mean fast, you hear me? Just take it easy.

This could be a bluff.

I think Jimmy's dead already.

Dead or alive, we've been double -crossed.

And we're in big trouble, boy.

Frank.

Don't think about it.

You're no match for me.

Sit down.

Better eat.

Might be a long time before you get another chance.

I've been thinking.

No law against that.

About the way you robbed me.

Strange way to hold somebody up.

You're right.

I was paid to kill you. That make it look like robbery.

Paid?

By who?

There's nobody that hates me that much.

Who was it?

I don't ask questions.

The middleman pays me, that's all I care about.

Contact my father?

He agreed to pay for you.

Well, that's all settled then.

Maybe not.

It's easy to ask for a ransom.

Maybe not so easy to collect it.

My father wouldn't do anything to put me in danger.

I heard about old Mark Farron.

Real prideful.

He's the type who'd take more pleasure in getting me than saving you.

Maybe I ought to wind things up right now and move out.

You're right.

We're a proud family.

Kill me.

They'll find you if it takes the rest of their life.

My father can't. He's sick, but my brother will.

Drake will find you.

You're showing nerve.

Guess I should, too.

I always wanted to know what it'd be like to be rich.

I'm gonna give the old man another call.

Let me go if you get the money.

Depends upon my mood.

I can never tell about my moods.

Mr. Ward on the radio, Lou.

Yes, Art.

What have you got, Louis?

Well, the pickup was stolen three days ago from a parking lot in Larrabee.

We're still processing for latents. Have you found anything?

A glove and a cigarette butt.

The same kind we found in Jimmy Farren's Bronco. I see from your teletype that

the gasoline tank in the victim's vehicle was nearly full.

That's right. We're checking with all nearby service stations.

Any further word from the kidnappers?

Not yet, Art.

All right, Lewis.

Notify me as soon as you have any further developments.

Are the cigarettes same brand?

Let's hope he didn't use a lighter.

He didn't, Inspector.

It would be

helpful if we had a couple more letters.

I'll do the best you can, sir.

to Tanner. He told me what happened.

Did you double -cross me, Cleary?

Oh, no. Now, Drake, I swear... I paid you five grand to hire a gun. What

happened?

The gun crossed me.

Who crossed you?

Well, his name's Lee Chard.

He's a border drifter.

Look, I've tried, but I haven't been able to locate, but I'm working on it.

Yeah, you know what I think happened? I think maybe you guys just got your heads

together and decided to milk this thing for all the mileage, huh? No, that'd be

stupid. Uh -huh, that would be stupid.

Now listen, Cleary, you better find this guy, and I mean fast.

Because if the FBI uncovers Jimmy and your gun and he talks, I guarantee you,

you'll go out of business before I do.

Get me reservations, please.

I'm going to speak to the old man.

He's pretty sick.

Is this about the ransom?

You got it?

Yeah.

You'll need an airplane.

Fly a direct route from Laramie to Benson.

Start out at 8 a .m. tomorrow.

Benson, Arizona. Is that where I make the drop?

No.

I will flash a mirror signal about 10 minutes after you cross the state

Wait a minute. What if I can't pick up that signal?

You will.

Put an axe under a wing.

Everything clear?

Yeah, listen. Is my brother all right?

He's fine.

If you want to see him again, don't bring the law into this.

Stay away from the radio.

Just follow instructions.

Well, you heard him.

What are your plans?

I'm going to do what he said.

I'll just use our plane.

The one outside?

Yeah.

Well, I might be able to get a twin engine. What do you think?

Don't ask me. I don't know anything about airplanes.

Mr. Farron is asking for you.

See if you can find that aeronautical chart in New Mexico, okay?

Yeah.

Here, you want to see me?

Any news on Jimmy?

Yeah, we just got another call.

Find out tomorrow to make the ransom drop. Oh.

Where? Well, I don't know for sure. Someplace over Arizona. They're going to

signal me from the ground.

Is the FBI going along?

No, they're not.

I'm going by myself.

Couldn't that per se how Jimmy was?

Yeah, he says all right.

That's good.

I've been laying here thinking about him.

You remember when he was...

Ten years old, he cut out that rune all by himself.

Yeah.

That horse has spooked anybody else but not Jimmy.

Took him on like a 30 -year wrangler.

Yeah, well, I got a lot to do. I think I'm going to head downstairs.

Call Greg.

Yeah. Bring him back safe, please.

Mr. Driscoll, this is Inspector Erskine. Would you mind telling him what you

told me?

Well, I might have seen the man you're after.

Would you, uh... Would you take a look at these?

Yeah, that's him, I'm certain.

And he was in the Bronco.

Yeah, he was driving.

Looked kind of scared.

The other fellow did the talking.

Can you describe the other man?

Kind of lean, narrow face, maybe 35, dressed like a rancher.

Real nasty.

Told me to fill it up, then yapped at me when I tried to check under the hood.

Told the other fellow, drive off.

Mr. Driscoll, I'd like you to work with one of our artists on the likeness of

that man.

Would you mind doing that?

I'd be glad to.

I didn't get a long enough look at him, but I'll do all I can.

Thank you.

Unfortunately, Larrabee isn't that big a town.

Good work, Tom.

Michael Olsen's managed by a man named Sal Cleary who was out of town on

business. So I interviewed the bartender who was very cooperative.

He said that all the employees were accounted for and they accept Mr.

Was Jimmy Farron a customer there?

Yes, frequently.

According to the bartender, he had a reputation as a heavy drinker who made a

lot of enemies, usually over women.

Does this Cleary...

Have an arrest record?

Not locally.

Let's see if we can find out about it.

Great. Cleary skipped town.

Well, what... Nobody's talking.

But the FBI was at Michael Olsen's asking questions.

About five minutes. He'll spill everything he knows.

Yeah, so I better ask around some more. He must have told somebody.

What if I locate him?

I don't think you better come back, do you?

Well, how do I arrange that?

I don't care how you arrange it.

You told me that accidents happen every day. Isn't that what you said?

Yeah.

I located Cleary.

Where is he?

Albuquerque. What's he doing in Albuquerque? He's selling off all his

Then he's going to try to get out of the country.

Well, you better get up there, hadn't you?

I'm leaving now.

Drake? Yeah?

You sure you got the stomach to go through with this?

I mean, it was easy enough to arrange to have somebody else kill Jimmy, but if

you have to do it yourself...

You just take care of Cleary. I'll handle Jimmy.

Go ahead.

Use it.

Before I kill you.

Why? You don't know why, do you?

What do you want, a list?

You want me to show you the scars on my back?

You want me to tell you about the 18 -hour days I put in for you since I

walk?

Look at me. I'm pushing 40. What have I got?

I got no wife. I got no kids.

Are you scared every woman away from here ever looked at me twice with all

talk about disinheritance?

You were so afraid somebody might separate me from the land, might steal

slave away.

All I ever had was you.

Till your precious baby boy came along.

Go ahead, tell me how proud you are of him.

Let me hear that old story about what little man he was, how he separated that

wrong when he was only ten years old. Let me hear that again.

That's enough.

No, it's not enough.

I worked my back off for you. Jimmy never worked for you.

Jimmy was too good for work.

He shouldn't get his hands dirty.

No, just give Jimmy a free rent on your bank account, buy him a new car every

time he gets tired of the color.

Well, now you're gonna die.

And who gets control of the ranch?

That's right, little Jimmy boy.

Little... Little Jimmy boy.

I'm going grubbing for him just the way I grub for you.

So you paid somebody to kill your own brother?

Belongs to you, not to me.

I saw the wildness in you a long time ago, Drake.

The craziness that I couldn't tame.

Maybe my ways were hard, but it's all I knew.

I couldn't let you have the land. I couldn't trust it in your hands.

Not something I've worked all my life to carve out.

A man wants to know that what he's built will go on.

Jimmy understood that, but not you.

There was always a wall between us, a wall I couldn't break through.

Why didn't you try?

Why didn't you just once try to talk to me?

Why didn't you before you did this?

Yeah,

this is the Farron Ranch.

Get me an ambulance right away, will you?

this man?

No, I don't.

I'm sure he's never been in here.

Where can we find Sal Cleary?

Well, I don't know.

Well, why should I?

I mean, I'm just an employee here.

He doesn't notify me every time he takes a trip.

You're not just his employee. You've been dating him recently.

Well, what of it?

That still doesn't mean he tells me everything.

Would you excuse me?

I got customers.

A man's life is at stake.

And Cleary may be involved.

That's why we have to find it. Will Sal be implicated?

His name is Lee Chod.

Don't ask me to spell it.

I only heard Sal mention it while they were talking.

Here.

Yes.

Chod came in a couple of times to see Sal.

I never heard what they were talking about.

Where's Cleary now?

Albuquerque. He owns a house there, but I don't know the address.

You sure there's nothing else?

Well, yes.

All right, thank you very much.

Mr. Farron just suffered a severe stroke.

They rushed him to the city hospital. His son, Drake, is with him now.

Call the Albuquerque office to bring him up to date and ask the Bureau for a

check on the name Lee Chard.

He's unable to speak.

But he wrote this shortly after he was admitted.

Seems he wants to tell you something.

Is he well enough for me to talk to him?

Mr.

Farron, see if you can...

Write down what it is you want us to know.

We'd better let him rest now.

I'll notify you if there's any improvement.

Hold on, sir.

Lou?

Mr. Ward.

Have some agents at the field when he takes off.

Yes, Art?

Lewis, I have the results of the name check on Lee Chard.

His true name is Lee Everett Chard.

He has an identification record of armed robbery and assault.

The late was found in a pickup truck and the station wagon match his fingerprint

record. Is there a current address on him?

No, but we're having El Paso check with his former parole officer for one now.

I'll get back to you as soon as I have anything.

Fine, Art. I'm leaving for Albuquerque. You can reach me there.

What are you doing here?

Little bird dogging.

You, uh, clearing out?

Heading back to Larrabee.

Are you now?

That why you got two big suitcases in your car up front?

Hey, look at that.

You know, that's the first time I've seen Larrabee.

Spell M -E -X.

I -C -O.

All right, I want out.

Do you blame me?

I guess not.

You know, if you're smart, you'll get out too.

I don't know.

I got a lot of time invested in this.

$5 ,000 make it worth your while?

Have to see about killing you.

Tanner, please.

Hey, now, why don't you have another little drink there?

All of it.

Kind of helps settle the nerves.

I can't drink all that.

that's very good.

Let's try a little more.

And we've located Cleary's address through city records.

It's at 4022 Rio Road. How far is that? About 20 minutes from here.

Drop the gun. This is the FBI.

Thank you.

Drop it!

Over against the rig.

See the cart.

And anything you do say may be used against you.

You can call a lawyer if you wish.

What do you want to know?

We want to know where Lee Chard is.

I never saw that man before.

Why did Tanner try to kill you then?

He robbed me and he tried to get rid of me.

Cleary, I don't have to tell you that if Jimmy Farron dies, it could make a big

difference to you.

Farron paid me to hire Chard.

What for?

To kill his brother.

Drake found out that his father was going to change the will and leave

everything to the kid.

Chard pulled a double cross with that kidnapping. I never heard from him

Drake, Farron took off a few minutes ago. I scheduled.

Go ahead.

What is your location?

We're just passing over a Heeler Cliff monument.

The additional Heeler company unit you requested is in the air now.

Godhead, Bella, Channel 3.

10 -4.

One, go ahead.

We've spotted a light shack in grid E2.

Vehicle parked nearby.

We're landing to investigate.

10 -4. We'll be there in a few minutes.

Hold it.

Right there.

I'm going to end it up right now.

Sorry.

Go where you are, Jimmy.

Pick up that rifle and finish him.

It's all right, child. We're in this together. I'm the one that hides you.

Finish him!

And then you finish me.

Self -defense, trying to rescue your brother.

You got one second to do as I tell you!

Get help, I'm here forever.

Okay, I got the best to try.

Please don't try anything, Drake.

I'm begging you.

Looks like it's all yours, Jimmy.

I never wanted it, Drake.

I'd have given it back to you.

You're the only guy I ever looked up to.

Why'd you turn on me?

on my father?

Yeah, we just heard him in the hospital.

He's doing fine.

Come on, let's get you home.

Drake Farron and Lee Everett Chard recovered from their wounds.

Chard was tried and convicted in federal court of kidnapping.

Farron and Albert Tanner were found guilty of assaulting federal officers.

Farron, Albert Tanner and Sal Cleary were convicted in state court for

conspiracy and attempted murder.