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I'm sorry, I thought you were Garth.

Oh.

It's a game we play.

We see who can beat each other.

Well, you're pretty fast,

but you just shot my horse.

That would've been the first thing

I shot since I took this job.

Can I help you?

Yeah, I'm looking for Sheriff Matt Dunsen.

- Business? - Friendly.

I'm on my way to Kansas

and figured I'd stop by and pay my respects.

Well, he should be back in a little while.

Old man Collins got liquored up.

It happens about once a month and Matt

went to blister his ears.

I can do that real good.

You been with him long?

Well, my folks died from the fever when I was 12

and Matt's raised me as his own.

Some people think he even favors me over Garth.

Garth?

Garth, that's his older boy, isn't it?

- Yes. - Yeah, Matt used to show me

pictures of him.

Say, how is Matt?

He's edgy.

He's not as loose and free as he used to be.

You mean like, before the war?

Well, he seems to run a peaceful town.

Oh, believe it!

So peaceful that sometimes I don't even think

I'm earning my pay.

Frank, ya better come quick!

Matt?

Matt, it's me, Johnny Yuma.

Dukes'll kill 'em all!

What got into him?

Saw it happen at Chancellorsville.

Sergeant ran amuck.

We'll give it to him anyway.

What do ya say?

Gonna need doctoring.

Frank?

Frank!

Where can I find the doc?

It's two buildings down on this side.

Who are they?

Collins and Garth.

Why?

Why?

Well, we can find out why later.

Right now, you better round up some men

and cover the stable so he can't break out.

Well, come on, Frank.

You better get with it.

Huh, you can start earning that pay of yours.

- Doc fix ya up? - Yeah.

I got in all the bodies.

He's bottled up tight.

What're we gonna do about it,

just sit here until he decides to come out

and then maybe kill somebody this time?

I don't know what to do.

Rotten killin' world!

What made him take cover?

A man loses reason would've stayed in the street

till he was killed.

Did you ever see a steer go bad?

He'll hook anything and everything

he can get his horns into, and he gets cagey.

He takes off into the brush

and makes you come after him

because he knows you're goin' to kill him,

but he's gonna make you work at it while you're doin' it.

Matt's just like one of them steers.

We don't have to go after him.

Burn the stable, cut him down as he runs out.

No, there are horses in there

that couldn't get out.

You'd rather we die?

I don't wanna kill him!

We might try to take him alive.

I don't want to kill him anymore than you do.

He sat at my dinner table many a night,

but he shot my wife, the woman who served him the meals!

That's not Matt Dunsen in there,

it's a mad animal gone berserk!

All right!

When Collins' bullet hit him.

It's two hours before dark.

We wait another hour and if it doesn't work,

we do it for Picquete's way.

Why waste that hour?

He gets outta there in the dark,

no tellin' what'll happen.

He said one hour.

Mrs. Dunsen?

Ma'am, you shouldn't be here.

I came as soon as they told me.

Is that the only way?

Please, there must be another way.

Mrs. Dunsen, I'm Johnny Yuma.

I served under your husband.

Johnny Yuma?

Oh yes, I remember Matt talking about you.

Johnny, you know my husband.

You know he's a good man.

He needs help now.

We're gonna try and take Matt alive.

Thank God!

Forgive me.

Maybe if I talked to him.

Well, he's already shot three people he knows, maybe more.

Better wait till I see if it'll do any good.

Whatever you think's best.

Can you tell anything that might help me?

When he came back after the war,

he'd have spells of quiet, go off by himself,

then there were the dreams.

- What dreams? - Of the battles he'd been in.

He'd yell out military orders, call men's names.

Do you remember any of those names?

There was Cline, Bennett, Danforth,

and quite a few others.

They were all men in our outfit,

most of 'em killed.

Anything else?

There's only one thing to upset him.

If a man didn't turn in his guns in town,

Matt'd lean on 'em hard.

Yeah, I noticed the no guns in town sign

- when I rode in. - It's one law

that Matt wouldn't fool about.

We haven't had a shootin'

since he come back, until today.

My youngest son, my only son.

You don't wanna kill my pa, do you?

No Andy, I don't.

Well, Mr. Picquete and the others do.

Why?

Andy, you're a little boy.

It's hard to tell a little boy

why grownups do the things they do.

Remember this, we're gonna do what we can

to help your father.

Killin' him won't help him.

Ma'am, you best take him home.

Come on, Andy.

Can ya think of anything?

Is there a back entrance to the stable?

There's a door on the right side.

Give me a couple minutes,

then start firing to distract him.

And we could keep Matt busy

while you slip in through the back.

That should work.

No, that's my job.

I have no call to ask you to do that.

You ever go after a man who wanted to kill ya?

Oh, I'm not gonna play a hero

and I'm not gonna get killed either, if I can help it.

You can help by having these men

do what you tell 'em.

He ain't fired a shot.

Could be he's out of cartridges.

Hold your fire!

Hold!

Matt!

Matt, ya haven't got a chance.

What'll we do now?

We wait.

They'll burn ya out if they have to.

Captain, there's no reason to die like that.

All right, burn us out!

Burn us out!

Danford?

Cline?

You hear me?

No surrender.

Matt, it's me, Yuma.

Johnny Yuma.

Yuma?

Like so many of them died.

No reason.

It's not your fault, Matt.

People'll understand.

Ya need help, Matt.

There's no time for that!

We're gonna take those blue bellies with us.

Now Yuma, Cline?

You hear me?

No surrender!

Matt, what about little Andy?

What about your son?

Andy will average to live in a world of hate.

It'll never change.

We've gotta make it change or keep trying.

Yeah, but will it?

Will it ever change?

- Yeah? - Tell the men

when the shaft comes out, kill him.

All right.

It's better this way, Frank.

Shut up, just shut up.

It won't ever change!

We'll do the same as before.

Get around back and when you hear the firing,

- move in and light it up. - How do we make sure

- he don't see us? - Well, wait to hear him

return our fire.

Go on.

Pa, Pa!

- Andy! - Pa, Pa!

He's gonna take care of you.

Well, did you say your goodbyes

to Andy and the missus?

I did at home, better that way.

Well, I guess I'm ready.

Captain, you remember a lady, the name of Dorothea Dix?

Yes, she was a superintendent of nurses

for the Union forces.

Well, she founded St. Elizabeths.

That's the hospital you're going to.

Doc says it has the finest medical staff

in the country.

Yeah, I'm sure it has.

Well, thank you for everything.

♪ He got fightin' mad, this rebel lad ♪

♪ He packed no star as he wandered far ♪

♪ When the only law was a hook and a draw ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪ ♪ Away ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪ ♪ Away rode the Rebel ♪

♪ He searched the land, this restless lad ♪

♪ He was panther quick and leather tough ♪

♪ And he figured that he had been pushed enough ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

This has been a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Production.

♪ John Yuma ♪