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The Rifleman.

Starring Chuck Connors.

Whoa.

All right, we'll meet you at Black Springs.

What about the money?

You'll get your share at Black Springs.

You'll meet us there?

You heard what I said, get going.

Ha.

Come on, Will.

Looks like we fooled them.

Well, for this time.

All right, Will, let's go this way.

Help!

Please don't.

Hey, Hank.

What is it?

Come here.

What is it?

Help, please help, please.

Hey, boy!

Stay right there, I'll get a rope!

Hurry!

There's a kid down there on a ledge.

It's too bad, let's get going.

We can't leave that kid down there.

There's a posse chasing us, come on, we can't waste time.

He might die.

If that posse catches us we will die, get on your horse.

Get on that horse!

Hurry.

I can't hold on, please help.

Help!

Help, I'm falling, anybody help me!

Will!

Will, come back here!

Help, please help.

I can't leave that boy down there.

OK, boy, here comes the rope.

OK, now don't try to come up, I'm coming down for you.

Ugh.

Hurry.

Take it easy now, take it easy, it'll be all right.

OK, come on down here.

Let me get this rope around you.

Careful, got it.

OK, now.

All right, Will, I'll pull him up.

Thanks Hank!

Hey!

Will, Will are you all right?

I think my leg's broken.

Will, here comes a rope, now tie it around you,

I'll pull you up.

Pa, Pa, I fell off the hill in the canyon,

and landed on a ledge, these men found me and pulled me up.

Boy, I could have been a goner.

Much obliged, Luke McCain.

What's wrong with him?

My brother broke his leg going after your son.

Mark.

Well, let's get him inside.

Easy boy, that's a boy.

I'll go for Doc Sedley right away.

We don't want a doctor.

That's right.

Let's get him inside.

Uh!

Well, there it is, he won't be able to do

much riding for awhile.

I was just thinking the same thing

myself, I was wondering if he couldn't

stay here tell he was better.

Will wouldn't have no broken leg,

and we wouldn't be asking no favors, except he

saved your boy's life.

All right, we'll fix you up a place here.

No, thanks.

I'll sleep out in the barn.

I like it better that way.

Suit yourself.

Come on Mark, we've got some chores to do.

I'm glad you're staying with us, Will.

Come on, son.

What's he so mad about, Pa?

Well, I don't think he knows, son.

But he can't be as mean as he makes out.

Well, why not?

Well, if he was he wouldn't have stopped to help you.

I'll leave the money here with you.

When will I see again?

It'll take about a month for your leg to get

better, we'll be by then.

Keep out of sight, don't worry about the sodbuster,

he's an honest man.

Take care.

Hey, Pa.

McCain, my name is Bennet, I'm the US

Marshal for Martinsville.

Oh, you're a long ways from home Marshal.

Yeah, well, our bank was robbed a week ago,

we followed the men who did it up into this area,

but we lost them somewheres.

There were four of them, three men and a young boy

about 19 or so, the three men have

been seen down around Black Springs,

the boy wasn't with them.

I got an idea he might be holed up around here someplace,

you wouldn't of seen him would you?

No, Marshal, I can't say I have.

Well, if you do just let me know, huh.

Sure will.

Suppose I'd told him you were here.

Then I'd a had to kill both of you.

You couldn't have done that if it hadn't a been for my leg.

Oh, yes, I could son.

And if you don't think so, try me when you get better.

Must be terrible to be so afraid of every little noise

all the time.

There's worse things.

You didn't come for breakfast.

Nah, I was sleeping.

You get this from me?

Yeah.

Why?

Thought it would make it a little easier for you.

By the way there's still some eggs and coffee left.

Mind if I watch you?

Fine looking horse.

You see a better looking chestnut

than this you let me know.

Must feel great to ride a horse like that.

It's the greatest feeling in the world.

I'm a good rider, Pa says I'm as good as most men.

How about that?

I rode all kinds of horses, I was never on one like that.

Want to ride my horse?

Well, would you let me?

Yeah.

Well, gee, thanks Will, thanks a million.

Don't thank me, I'm only letting you ride

him because he needs exercise.

It's going to be a surprise party,

Andy's mother is taking him downtown shopping,

and when they get back we'll all be there.

Well, sounds like fun.

It will be.

Do you have a present to take?

No, but I'm getting one tomorrow.

Sure is good apple pie, best I ever ate.

Glad you liked it, Will.

Do you have a particular present in mind for Andy, son?

Well, there's this kite in Taylor's store

he's always talking about, might get him that.

Well, I guess I--

guess I better be going to bed.

I'll see you at breakfast.

Want to play some checkers, Pa?

Not tonight son, I have to work on the books.

Hey, I'm a pretty good checker player.

You are?

Yeah.

Well, then why don't you play with Mark?

All right.

All right, I will.

Before you start let's clean that table off, both of you.

How's it feel without the splint?

Feels all right.

Good.

Boy, back-breaking work, anything to do with

farming it's back-breaking, I ought to know,

we used to own one.

Work from sunup to sundown barely

scratch a living, in the end they steal it away from you

anyway.

Is that what happened to you, someone stole your place?

Yeah, it wasn't my place, belonged to my folks.

Who stole it?

It was a man named Carlson, he was real big in those parts.

He offered to buy it from them for nothing,

when they didn't sell he run them off the place,

killed my folks.

Oh, that's too bad.

Same thing will happen to you, you'll make yourself old

fixing this place up, and somebody will come along

and steal it away from you.

What makes you so sure?

It's the way it always happens.

Who says so?

My brother Hank, Hank says he's seen

it happen time and time again.

Hank says a man that works for a living is a fool,

you know Hank told me that a guy--

I'm too busy to stand here listening to you spout

off your brother's nonsense.

My brother knows what he's talking about.

Look, the facts speak for themselves,

look around, there's a lot of first class ranch's in view.

They all started small like mine years ago,

and they all still belong to the same families,

how does that fit in with your brothers thinking?

Well, that's what happened to us, they stole our place.

Well, OK, they stole your place, that's tough.

But it doesn't mean the whole world is bad,

only a fool, or a child, would reason that way.

Well, I think I'll go down and check

the fence on the north pasture.

Well, don't work too hard.

Hello, I'm looking for Mr. McCain.

Oh, oh, you just missed him, he just want

out to the-- to the fences.

I rode over to ask him to dinner on Sunday.

Oh.

You work here?

Yeah.

I never saw you before.

Well, I'm the new hand, my name's Will.

Mine's Ann, Ann Bard, my folks own the next place.

How about that?

Well, I guess I better get back to work.

Will you give Mr. McCain my message, about coming to dinner

on Sunday?

Sure will.

It was nice meeting you.

And it was-- it was nice meeting you.

Well, bye.

Bye, hey, you ride down this way very often?

Once in a while.

Chance-- chances are I'll probably-- probably

be seeing you again then.

I just wouldn't be surprised.

Bye now.

Goodbye.

Guess it won't be much longer before your gang

comes to pick you up.

No, I guess not.

I guess you're pretty anxious for them to get here.

Yeah, why?

Well, I mean, it must be pretty dull around here

for you, I mean, compared to riding all

over with a bunch of outlaws.

I read a book about one of them gangs,

sure sounded like an awful lot of fun.

Yeah, fun.

Well, it seemed like a lot of things

to me in the last couple of years,

but it never seemed like fun.

What's fun about being chased all the time,

never staying in one place long enough to know anybody,

never knowing where your next meal is coming from,

never having anybody trust you, are being

able to trust anybody else.

Like right now we're sitting here playing checkers,

and all the time I have to keep my eye on that door.

That's not fun, that's not fun at all.

How's she coming along, Will?

Well, almost finished.

What are you going to do with her then?

Well, I think I'll give it to you.

Give it to me?

Well, sure what do you think I made it for in the first place?

Well, it-- it's sure a beauty.

You got some chores to do? Yeah.

Well, now you get about them, I'll call you when it's ready.

All right, Will.

How are you?

Fine, how are you?

Well, I'm fine.

Do you want to see Lucas?

No, I came to see you.

Yeah, what about?

I'd like to invite you to dinner on Sunday.

No, I can't.

Well, then Sunday after that.

I'm sorry I can't.

I see, you don't want to come any time.

Now look, that's not it, I--

I can't think of anything I'd rather do.

Well, why won't you then?

I-- I have some people I have to meet.

I see.

Well, then there's not much use of my riding over here anymore,

is there?

Bye, Will.

Ann, goodbye.

You through with it yet, Will?

What?

The bow, are you finished?

Yeah, I'm all finished, here take it.

Well, go on and pick it up!

Mark, Mark, Mark come on wait.

Please forgive me, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that, I

don't know what got into me.

Please forgive me, I'll finish the bow for you.

Get inside Mark, go on son.

You know what's wrong with you?

You want to quit that bunch, but you're

afraid to admit it to yourself.

You know why?

Because you've had a taste of regular life, and you like it.

You met a girl you might be in love with,

and you've probably even got a notion about settling down.

That stuff is for fools not to me.

Well, even if I wanted to settle down,

and I'm not saying that I do, what could I do about it?

That's easy son, when they come for you

just tell them you're through.

That's easy, but you don't know my brother.

Hey, Pa, look.

Here they come.

You sure.

Yeah, I recognize my brother's horse.

You going with them, Will?

I don't know.

Get inside Mark.

Why Pa?

Go on, do what your father says.

How are you, Will?

Feel pretty good.

That's good news, we're headed for Dallas, get your horse.

Look Hank, I got something I want to tell you.

Tell me later, we haven't got time, get your horse.

No.

What do you mean, no?

I mean I'm not going with you, not this time, not ever.

I'm quitting, I want to go straight.

What are you talking about?

Get your horse.

Get your horse!

Won't work Hank, not this time.

Who's been talking to you, this sodbuster here?

Nobody's been telling me anything,

I just woke up to the fact that I don't want to live

your kind of life anymore.

Let him quit, just more money for us.

OK, sucker, you can quit, give me the money Will.

Will, that money belongs to Martinsville bank.

Shut up sodbuster, give me the money Will.

Give me the money Will.

Well, you better get started Will,

I told the Marshall you'd be there by noon.

Aren't you going with me?

No.

Thanks a lot, Luke.

Goodbye Mark.

Bye ya, Will.

Wait for me, I'll be back.