1 00:00:37,410 --> 00:00:39,290 Whoa. 2 00:00:41,450 --> 00:00:43,596 It looks like somebody lost their horse, or it lost them. 3 00:00:43,620 --> 00:00:45,250 Wait here a minute. 4 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:57,420 Who does he belong to? 5 00:00:57,450 --> 00:01:00,230 I don't know. 6 00:01:01,580 --> 00:01:03,440 Do you see anybody? 7 00:01:03,470 --> 00:01:06,410 Not yet. 8 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:07,490 Anybody here? 9 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,560 Mister, what happened? 10 00:01:17,590 --> 00:01:20,500 Can you hear me? 11 00:01:20,530 --> 00:01:22,540 I better get you to the doctor. 12 00:01:22,570 --> 00:01:23,580 North Fork. 13 00:01:23,620 --> 00:01:25,620 I'm going to North Fork. 14 00:01:26,410 --> 00:01:28,530 Help me, before they come. 15 00:01:28,570 --> 00:01:29,546 You'll be all right, mister. 16 00:01:29,570 --> 00:01:30,520 Don't worry. 17 00:01:30,550 --> 00:01:31,490 Mark. 18 00:01:53,620 --> 00:01:54,750 Fred, give me a hand here. 19 00:02:03,670 --> 00:02:05,640 Doc. 20 00:02:05,670 --> 00:02:06,700 Doc. Morning. 21 00:02:06,730 --> 00:02:07,670 Is there someone ill? 22 00:02:07,700 --> 00:02:08,820 It's him, Doc. 23 00:02:09,620 --> 00:02:10,630 Easy with him, boys. 24 00:02:10,660 --> 00:02:12,710 Careful. 25 00:02:12,740 --> 00:02:14,660 Go get Micah, son. 26 00:02:14,690 --> 00:02:15,700 Who is he, Lucas? 27 00:02:15,730 --> 00:02:16,690 I don't know. 28 00:02:16,730 --> 00:02:18,130 I found him in a grove outside town. 29 00:02:18,610 --> 00:02:21,810 I was noticing, he's got a real mean-looking wound. 30 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,200 Thanks, boys. 31 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,920 There's some brandy in the desk drawer. 32 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:33,966 My Cousin Jeb got shot that way once. 33 00:02:33,990 --> 00:02:34,990 Uh-huh. 34 00:02:35,020 --> 00:02:36,880 Didn't live to say "amen." 35 00:02:36,900 --> 00:02:38,840 Now why don't you run along, Mr. Hannabury? 36 00:02:38,870 --> 00:02:39,810 We'll manage. 37 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:40,910 Glad to stay, Doc. 38 00:02:40,940 --> 00:02:41,990 That won't be necessary. 39 00:02:42,020 --> 00:02:43,900 Oh. 40 00:02:43,930 --> 00:02:44,970 Oh, sure, Doc, sure. 41 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,870 Glad to be of help anytime, Doc. 42 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:48,010 Well, so long, Doc. 43 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,810 So long, Lucas. 44 00:02:50,850 --> 00:02:51,866 Look for some papers in his jacket. 45 00:02:51,890 --> 00:02:53,890 See if you can find any next of kin. 46 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:54,940 Is it that bad, Doc? 47 00:02:54,970 --> 00:02:56,900 It's probably worse. 48 00:02:56,930 --> 00:03:00,870 He's had that bullet in him for a day or maybe two. 49 00:03:09,020 --> 00:03:11,810 Micah will be here in a minute. 50 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,010 No identification here, Doc. 51 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:14,900 Is he gonna be all right? 52 00:03:14,930 --> 00:03:16,000 The doc's not sure, son. 53 00:03:16,030 --> 00:03:19,920 He might... do you want to wait for me over at Hattie's? 54 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:22,000 Can I stay? All right, come on. 55 00:03:22,030 --> 00:03:23,850 A little bit more. 56 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:24,950 All right. 57 00:03:24,980 --> 00:03:27,940 Being born and dying are really simple experiences, Mark. 58 00:03:27,970 --> 00:03:29,800 I guess not knowing about them can be 59 00:03:29,830 --> 00:03:31,960 more frightening than knowing. 60 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,920 Marked deck, Doc. 61 00:03:33,940 --> 00:03:35,910 Well. 62 00:03:35,930 --> 00:03:37,266 Maybe that's our story, huh, Luke? 63 00:03:37,290 --> 00:03:38,220 Maybe. 64 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:42,000 Doc. 65 00:03:42,030 --> 00:03:43,860 Who is he? 66 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:44,830 Don't know. 67 00:03:53,010 --> 00:03:54,830 Stoddard. 68 00:03:54,850 --> 00:03:55,870 You know him? 69 00:03:55,890 --> 00:03:57,256 We'll have to try a transfusion. 70 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:59,720 Micah, I asked you a question. 71 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:00,940 I know him. 72 00:04:00,970 --> 00:04:03,010 Do the world a favor, Doc... let him die. 73 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,586 What'd you say? 74 00:04:04,610 --> 00:04:05,620 I said let him die. 75 00:04:05,810 --> 00:04:06,810 Micah. 76 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:07,890 I'll be right back, Doc. 77 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:08,970 Lucas. 78 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,010 Come here. 79 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,800 Now, Mr. Stoddard is gonna die unless we 80 00:04:13,830 --> 00:04:14,920 do something right away. 81 00:04:14,950 --> 00:04:17,940 A transfusion might save him, and then it might kill him too, 82 00:04:17,980 --> 00:04:18,920 but we've gotta try. 83 00:04:18,950 --> 00:04:20,820 Are you willing? 84 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:21,820 Whatever you say, Doc. 85 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:22,836 Then we better get to work. 86 00:04:22,860 --> 00:04:23,986 Now I want you to take your shirt off. 87 00:04:24,010 --> 00:04:27,000 Marshal, do they know anything yet? 88 00:04:27,020 --> 00:04:29,950 Marshal? 89 00:05:14,950 --> 00:05:17,030 You think you'll be a doctor someday, Mark? 90 00:05:17,820 --> 00:05:19,830 I don't know. 91 00:05:19,870 --> 00:05:22,820 Not if I have to stick people with needles. 92 00:05:22,850 --> 00:05:24,896 Well, sometimes, it's the only way you can cure them. 93 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:26,880 Now you take this invention here. 94 00:05:26,910 --> 00:05:28,880 It's called an abling tube. 95 00:05:28,910 --> 00:05:30,960 It allows me to draw blood from your pa's arm 96 00:05:30,990 --> 00:05:34,830 and pump it over here into Mr. Stoddard's arm. 97 00:05:34,860 --> 00:05:36,820 Now if your pa's blood and Mr. Stoddard's blood 98 00:05:36,850 --> 00:05:38,850 mix together all right, Mr. Stoddard's 99 00:05:38,890 --> 00:05:41,890 got a chance to recover. 100 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,810 But suppose they don't mix. 101 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:46,160 Then Mr. Stoddard will have to cash in his chips, I reckon. 102 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,870 Thought he probably would anyway, Mark. 103 00:05:48,890 --> 00:05:50,170 It's what I call a stacked deck. 104 00:05:52,940 --> 00:05:53,890 You all right, Lucas? 105 00:05:53,910 --> 00:05:55,020 Fine. 106 00:05:55,810 --> 00:05:58,010 I was just thinking I'd like to know who dealt the hand. 107 00:06:01,020 --> 00:06:01,910 Whoa. 108 00:06:05,870 --> 00:06:06,810 Ho. 109 00:06:11,980 --> 00:06:13,800 Cam. 110 00:06:13,830 --> 00:06:16,020 You see any trace of him? 111 00:06:16,810 --> 00:06:17,820 Nope. 112 00:06:17,850 --> 00:06:19,130 Then we proceed along this road? 113 00:06:23,810 --> 00:06:25,950 Road to the right, Mr. Jethroe. 114 00:06:25,990 --> 00:06:27,990 Not more than an hour. 115 00:06:28,020 --> 00:06:28,990 North Fork? 116 00:06:29,030 --> 00:06:30,980 If he got that far. 117 00:06:31,020 --> 00:06:31,970 All right. 118 00:06:31,990 --> 00:06:32,980 North Fork. 119 00:06:33,020 --> 00:06:33,900 Hyah! 120 00:06:46,860 --> 00:06:47,910 You wait here for me. 121 00:06:57,020 --> 00:06:58,020 Micah? 122 00:06:58,810 --> 00:07:00,630 It's Luke. 123 00:07:01,950 --> 00:07:03,010 Micah? 124 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:04,926 Do you want me to help you break it down, Mr. McCain? 125 00:07:04,950 --> 00:07:05,900 Is Micah in there? 126 00:07:05,940 --> 00:07:06,940 Well, I reckon he is. 127 00:07:06,980 --> 00:07:07,990 I seen him go in. 128 00:07:08,020 --> 00:07:09,860 I seen him draw the curtains. 129 00:07:09,890 --> 00:07:10,930 I didn't see him come out. 130 00:07:11,870 --> 00:07:12,810 Micah? 131 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,810 Come in. 132 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:27,820 I'll see you later. 133 00:07:27,850 --> 00:07:28,830 Oh, sure, sure, sure. 134 00:07:28,860 --> 00:07:30,920 I'll just... sure. 135 00:07:30,950 --> 00:07:32,000 How's the patient? 136 00:07:32,030 --> 00:07:33,000 Don't know yet. 137 00:07:33,030 --> 00:07:34,890 Doc says it might be several hours. 138 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,800 He's taking out the bullet now. 139 00:07:37,830 --> 00:07:38,920 Bullet. 140 00:07:38,950 --> 00:07:42,880 That's something, isn't it? 141 00:07:42,910 --> 00:07:45,950 I'm gonna tell you a fact you won't believe, Lucas boy. 142 00:07:45,980 --> 00:07:48,860 I've worked 26 years out of my life as a peace officer, 143 00:07:48,890 --> 00:07:52,840 and I've never had as much faith in justice as I do right now. 144 00:07:52,860 --> 00:07:55,810 Not one day in 26 years has the whole pattern, 145 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,880 the rhyme, and the reason made as much sense as it has today. 146 00:07:58,910 --> 00:08:01,870 Who's Stoddard? Who? 147 00:08:01,910 --> 00:08:03,010 What's he to you, Micah? 148 00:08:03,030 --> 00:08:06,850 You wasted your blood, Lucas, and that's too bad. 149 00:08:06,870 --> 00:08:07,960 That was my decision. 150 00:08:07,990 --> 00:08:09,510 I'm just telling you he isn't worth it. 151 00:08:12,810 --> 00:08:15,810 Well then, he's not worth getting drunk over either. 152 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:18,880 I think that's my decision. 153 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:20,840 I'll see you later. 154 00:08:40,950 --> 00:08:41,910 We're going home, Mark. 155 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:43,890 Can't we wait? 156 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:44,920 No, we can't. 157 00:08:44,940 --> 00:08:46,900 It's out of our hands now. 158 00:08:46,940 --> 00:08:48,300 We best get about our own business. 159 00:08:51,830 --> 00:08:53,870 I don't want him to die, Pa. 160 00:08:53,900 --> 00:08:55,870 You barely knew him. 161 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:57,950 That don't matter. 162 00:08:57,980 --> 00:08:59,850 No, it doesn't. 163 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:00,820 Come on. 164 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:28,820 Morning. 165 00:09:28,850 --> 00:09:30,930 Morning. 166 00:09:30,950 --> 00:09:33,000 You a resident of North Fork, mister? 167 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,620 That's right. 168 00:09:35,650 --> 00:09:37,720 We people are from Talbert City. 169 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,600 Howdy. 170 00:09:40,630 --> 00:09:42,830 We folks represent a people's committee in Talbert City. 171 00:09:48,790 --> 00:09:51,690 Been traveling. 172 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,680 Looking for a man name of Stoddard headed this way. 173 00:09:54,710 --> 00:09:55,790 Gunshot. 174 00:09:55,820 --> 00:09:57,790 You seen him? 175 00:09:57,810 --> 00:09:59,770 Well, as a matter of fact, I found him in that 176 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,830 grove over there myself. 177 00:10:02,820 --> 00:10:03,956 He's at the doc's office in town, 178 00:10:03,980 --> 00:10:06,900 but he won't be going anywhere. 179 00:10:06,930 --> 00:10:09,920 Dead? 180 00:10:09,950 --> 00:10:12,010 Almost. 181 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,070 Cam, mount up. 182 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:17,230 We're much obliged, Mr... 183 00:10:18,030 --> 00:10:19,000 McCain. 184 00:10:19,030 --> 00:10:21,040 McCain. 185 00:10:21,070 --> 00:10:22,070 Today is our lucky day. 186 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:32,200 Why'd you tell them? 187 00:10:32,230 --> 00:10:34,080 They're a people's committee. 188 00:10:34,110 --> 00:10:35,050 I had to. 189 00:10:42,210 --> 00:10:44,230 What's a people's committee? 190 00:10:45,020 --> 00:10:46,110 Vigilantes. 191 00:10:46,140 --> 00:10:48,190 Some parts of the country don't have much law. 192 00:10:48,220 --> 00:10:53,200 Some people have to take things into their own hands. 193 00:10:53,230 --> 00:10:56,050 Maybe we better ride back to town for a while, son. 194 00:11:16,230 --> 00:11:18,100 Ho. 195 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:20,140 There it is. 196 00:11:20,170 --> 00:11:21,110 Yip. 197 00:11:29,050 --> 00:11:30,830 Ho. 198 00:11:41,530 --> 00:11:42,530 Yes? 199 00:11:42,570 --> 00:11:43,500 Dr. Burrage? 200 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:48,260 Yes? 201 00:11:48,290 --> 00:11:50,536 Doctor, you've got a wounded man inside named Stoddard. 202 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:51,630 Is that correct? 203 00:11:52,020 --> 00:11:53,080 Yes. 204 00:11:53,110 --> 00:11:54,710 We've come to claim Mr. Stoddard, Doctor. 205 00:11:55,030 --> 00:11:56,110 Please bring him out. 206 00:11:56,150 --> 00:11:57,850 Well, who are you? 207 00:11:57,870 --> 00:12:00,860 We represent the decent, honest folks in Talbert City. 208 00:12:00,890 --> 00:12:02,296 We're here in the name of the law. 209 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,300 Well, I'm sorry, gentlemen, but my patient's in a coma. 210 00:12:05,830 --> 00:12:07,166 Why, he'd die if he were moved. 211 00:12:07,190 --> 00:12:08,790 Doctor. 212 00:12:09,020 --> 00:12:10,980 You don't understand. 213 00:12:11,010 --> 00:12:14,030 We've traveled over a hundred miles to find Mr. Stoddard. 214 00:12:14,820 --> 00:12:16,090 He shot a man in a card game. 215 00:12:16,110 --> 00:12:18,020 He's going back to be hanged. 216 00:12:18,810 --> 00:12:20,176 Now you tell me what difference it 217 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,710 makes whether he dies en route or at the end 218 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,840 of a rope in Talbert City. 219 00:12:24,870 --> 00:12:26,990 It makes a difference to me. 220 00:12:27,010 --> 00:12:30,830 Good day, gentlemen. 221 00:12:30,860 --> 00:12:32,010 Let go of that door. 222 00:12:32,030 --> 00:12:34,870 Better listen to Mr. Jethroe, Doctor. 223 00:12:34,900 --> 00:12:36,850 It's easier that way. 224 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:38,850 I don't do things the easy way. 225 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:40,020 Now let go of that door. 226 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,850 You gonna bring Mr. Stoddard out, Doctor? 227 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:48,970 Or do we go in after him? 228 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,900 Mr. Jethroe. 229 00:12:50,930 --> 00:12:52,960 Well, good morning, Mr. McCain. 230 00:12:52,990 --> 00:12:54,850 We meet again. 231 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,920 Let the doc go back to his patient. 232 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,920 Let him go, I said. 233 00:12:59,940 --> 00:13:02,920 Mr. McCain's right, boys. 234 00:13:02,950 --> 00:13:05,030 Cam, let him by. 235 00:13:05,810 --> 00:13:06,950 We want no trouble. 236 00:13:06,990 --> 00:13:08,980 We're a legal committee. 237 00:13:09,020 --> 00:13:12,970 Now, Mr. McCain, you're a conscientious citizen. 238 00:13:12,990 --> 00:13:15,820 You've already proved that. 239 00:13:15,850 --> 00:13:17,856 Suppose you go inside and explain to the good doctor 240 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,960 that he's got no choice. 241 00:13:19,990 --> 00:13:23,970 Suppose you tell him that harboring a fugitive's a crime. 242 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,990 We wouldn't want anyone to be guilty of that. 243 00:13:27,020 --> 00:13:29,870 Will you tell him, Mr. McCain? 244 00:13:29,900 --> 00:13:31,180 We'll talk about it, Mr. Jethroe. 245 00:13:31,820 --> 00:13:33,810 Well, that's fine. 246 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:35,120 Now we're gonna rest and feed up. 247 00:13:35,820 --> 00:13:37,830 It's been a long trip. 248 00:13:37,860 --> 00:13:41,830 But we'll be back, in, say, an hour. 249 00:13:41,850 --> 00:13:44,800 You think about what I said, Mr. McCain. 250 00:13:44,830 --> 00:13:46,940 You'll see I'm right. 251 00:13:46,970 --> 00:13:48,860 We don't intend to leave North Fork without him. 252 00:13:54,010 --> 00:13:55,830 Come on, boys. 253 00:13:55,850 --> 00:13:57,850 Mr. McCain. Mr. McCain. 254 00:14:09,010 --> 00:14:09,950 How is he? 255 00:14:09,980 --> 00:14:10,920 Same. 256 00:14:12,940 --> 00:14:13,946 Whether we like it or not, they 257 00:14:13,970 --> 00:14:15,990 are a legal committee, Doc. Where? 258 00:14:16,020 --> 00:14:18,860 In Talbert City? 259 00:14:18,890 --> 00:14:22,860 What are his chances if he's not moved? 260 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:23,886 I don't think that's the point. 261 00:14:23,910 --> 00:14:24,900 Do you? 262 00:14:24,930 --> 00:14:25,870 No. 263 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:42,910 Well, it is a legal committee. 264 00:14:42,950 --> 00:14:44,996 While we may not agree with their laws in Talbert City, 265 00:14:45,020 --> 00:14:46,970 we've got to respect them. 266 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,920 Well, the doc says he'll die if he's moved. 267 00:14:49,950 --> 00:14:51,990 He may die anyway. The quicker the better. 268 00:14:52,020 --> 00:14:55,890 Since when did we become judges? 269 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,020 I've never judged anyone in my life, Lucas. 270 00:14:58,810 --> 00:15:00,806 I've walked out in that street and a hundred like it 271 00:15:00,830 --> 00:15:01,986 for the scum of the earth, and I've never complained. 272 00:15:02,010 --> 00:15:03,910 Well, I'm complaining now! 273 00:15:03,940 --> 00:15:05,006 I'm telling you Stoddard isn't worth it. 274 00:15:05,030 --> 00:15:06,800 I know! 275 00:15:06,820 --> 00:15:07,820 Suppose he isn't. 276 00:15:07,850 --> 00:15:08,906 You let those vigilantes take him, 277 00:15:08,930 --> 00:15:10,820 and it's another name for murder. 278 00:15:10,850 --> 00:15:11,920 What's got into you? 279 00:15:11,950 --> 00:15:13,936 I'm just a plain, ordinary human being, full of love, 280 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,020 or greed, or hate. 281 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,830 And by hate, I mean hate! 282 00:15:17,870 --> 00:15:21,020 Oh, I'm... I'm not like you. 283 00:15:21,810 --> 00:15:24,850 Lucas McCain, the honest protector of our morality. 284 00:15:26,020 --> 00:15:28,830 You know, we ought to bottle it, son. 285 00:15:28,860 --> 00:15:31,810 Yes, sir, we ought to bottle it and sell it in a general store. 286 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:33,800 You got troubles? 287 00:15:33,830 --> 00:15:35,590 Well, take a good deep drink of Lucas McCain. 288 00:15:35,820 --> 00:15:36,910 You're bound to be cured. 289 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:38,810 All right, that's enough, Micah. 290 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:40,840 Sure, sure, Lucas. 291 00:15:40,870 --> 00:15:41,910 Here. 292 00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:43,860 Here, this is what you want, isn't it? 293 00:15:43,890 --> 00:15:44,896 Well, go ahead and take it. 294 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:45,850 Go ahead. 295 00:15:45,880 --> 00:15:46,910 Act the part. 296 00:15:46,940 --> 00:15:48,810 Be the honest protector of our morality. 297 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:49,930 Make us toe the line. 298 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:50,990 Set the fine example. 299 00:15:51,030 --> 00:15:53,800 After all, Stoddard's got your blood in his veins. 300 00:15:53,830 --> 00:15:54,926 He's worth something now, isn't he? 301 00:15:54,950 --> 00:15:55,956 Well, go ahead and take it. 302 00:15:55,980 --> 00:15:56,930 You heard what I said. 303 00:15:56,950 --> 00:15:58,020 Take it! 304 00:15:58,820 --> 00:15:59,830 I don't want it! 305 00:16:24,930 --> 00:16:28,980 Mr. McCain. Mr. McCain. 306 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,900 Are you gonna talk to them vigilante fellas all alone? 307 00:16:31,930 --> 00:16:33,990 Oh, I think I can handle them alone, Mr. Hannabury. 308 00:16:34,020 --> 00:16:35,830 No! 309 00:16:35,860 --> 00:16:38,810 That's what my Cousin Jeb said before they shot him. 310 00:16:38,850 --> 00:16:40,030 No, no, Mr. McCain. 311 00:16:40,810 --> 00:16:42,886 When the chips are down, you can bank on Old Man Hannabury, 312 00:16:42,910 --> 00:16:44,940 and that's a fact. 313 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,960 Moral support, Mr. McCain, right to the grave. 314 00:17:04,930 --> 00:17:06,920 Will you join me, Mr. McCain? 315 00:17:06,950 --> 00:17:08,820 We won't be staying. 316 00:17:08,850 --> 00:17:10,630 Well, that's too bad. 317 00:17:15,930 --> 00:17:19,970 You have a way of acquiring responsibility, Mr. McCain. 318 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,880 You're leaving North Fork, Mr. Jethroe, right now. 319 00:17:22,910 --> 00:17:25,020 We'll deliver Mr. Stoddard when he can travel. 320 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:26,990 That's a promise. 321 00:17:27,030 --> 00:17:30,030 I'm sorry, but we gotta take Mr. Stoddard with us. 322 00:17:30,820 --> 00:17:31,970 That's an obligation. 323 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,820 You understand. 324 00:17:33,860 --> 00:17:34,970 I'm afraid not. 325 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,890 Your law and our law are two different things. 326 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,940 What's your stake in this, Mr. McCain? 327 00:17:41,970 --> 00:17:43,020 What's yours? 328 00:17:43,810 --> 00:17:45,030 Simple justice. 329 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:48,860 I hate to see a guilty man go unpunished. 330 00:17:48,890 --> 00:17:51,800 I'm not talking about innocence or guilt. 331 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:53,880 What are you speaking about? 332 00:17:53,900 --> 00:17:55,990 Your method of simple justice. 333 00:17:56,010 --> 00:17:57,850 Yes. 334 00:17:57,880 --> 00:17:59,950 I'm an idealist too. 335 00:18:02,910 --> 00:18:03,930 Hands up, you varmints! 336 00:18:03,950 --> 00:18:04,900 Up! 337 00:18:04,930 --> 00:18:06,900 Now get out. 338 00:18:06,930 --> 00:18:08,980 That was very foolish, Mr. McCain. 339 00:18:09,020 --> 00:18:12,830 We have a very vindictive citizenry in our town. 340 00:18:12,860 --> 00:18:13,980 Make a threat, Mr. Jethroe. 341 00:18:14,010 --> 00:18:15,970 I'm listening. 342 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,800 Then I'd be the one that was foolish. 343 00:18:19,830 --> 00:18:21,810 You hold all the cards. 344 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:22,890 Right now. 345 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,920 I never play against a stacked deck. 346 00:18:25,950 --> 00:18:28,800 We'll be back in a week, Mr. McCain. 347 00:18:28,820 --> 00:18:30,880 Don't come back in a week, Mr. Jethroe. 348 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:33,880 Don't you ever come back. 349 00:18:33,910 --> 00:18:35,890 Now when Stoddard can travel, we'll 350 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,830 bring him to you, or his body. 351 00:18:39,860 --> 00:18:42,030 Well, I consider that a statement of honor. 352 00:18:42,820 --> 00:18:45,860 We'll be expecting you. 353 00:18:45,890 --> 00:18:46,800 Well, that's that. 354 00:18:59,910 --> 00:19:00,870 Mr. McCain. 355 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,240 Well, thanks a lot, Mr. Hannabury. 356 00:19:11,830 --> 00:19:13,810 Oh, think nothing of it, Mr. McCain. 357 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,030 You know, it's a good thing my rifle wasn't loaded. 358 00:19:16,820 --> 00:19:17,910 Wasn't loaded? 359 00:19:17,940 --> 00:19:19,986 I got so mad at them buzzards in there, I could've killed one 360 00:19:20,010 --> 00:19:21,860 of them cold turkey for sure. 361 00:19:21,890 --> 00:19:22,960 If it was loaded. 362 00:19:22,980 --> 00:19:24,800 Yeah. 363 00:19:24,820 --> 00:19:26,910 Of course. 364 00:19:26,930 --> 00:19:28,000 Moral support, Mr. McCain. 365 00:19:39,810 --> 00:19:40,840 Lucas. 366 00:19:40,870 --> 00:19:41,810 Yeah? 367 00:19:47,930 --> 00:19:50,990 I'm putting your badge on the table, Micah. 368 00:19:51,020 --> 00:19:52,830 Do you think your hand will be steady enough 369 00:19:52,860 --> 00:19:54,840 to pin it back on? 370 00:19:54,870 --> 00:19:57,820 Or maybe I ought to buy you another bottle first? 371 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:01,850 Lucas. 372 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,910 30 years ago, John Stoddard was my closest friend. 373 00:20:09,940 --> 00:20:11,990 Stood up for me at my wedding. 374 00:20:12,020 --> 00:20:13,930 I married Elizabeth Cook, the prettiest girl 375 00:20:13,950 --> 00:20:15,830 in Montana territory. 376 00:20:15,870 --> 00:20:18,960 And I guess I was just about the happiest man anywhere. 377 00:20:18,990 --> 00:20:23,900 Elizabeth was 18, I was 22, and nothing was impossible for us. 378 00:20:23,930 --> 00:20:25,960 You know the feeling, Lucas. 379 00:20:25,990 --> 00:20:27,860 Yeah, Micah. 380 00:20:27,890 --> 00:20:30,800 I know the feeling. 381 00:20:30,830 --> 00:20:32,020 John was a wild kid. 382 00:20:32,810 --> 00:20:33,510 Irresponsible. 383 00:20:33,820 --> 00:20:34,010 Gambled. 384 00:20:34,030 --> 00:20:35,860 Drank a lot. 385 00:20:35,890 --> 00:20:38,960 But Elizabeth being like she was, a natural-born mother, 386 00:20:38,980 --> 00:20:43,000 she decided to take John under her wing and reform him. 387 00:20:43,030 --> 00:20:45,830 We bought a little farm, and she decided 388 00:20:45,870 --> 00:20:47,950 to have him come work for us. 389 00:20:47,990 --> 00:20:50,890 Well, things went very hard. 390 00:20:50,910 --> 00:20:53,990 But Elizabeth, she just cooked, and sewed, and made 391 00:20:54,020 --> 00:20:55,850 do with what she had. 392 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,010 Why, whenever there was a dance or a party in town, 393 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,776 she'd put on the very same dress she was married in 394 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,880 and laugh about it, never say a word. 395 00:21:02,910 --> 00:21:04,930 That's how she was. 396 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:08,830 And all the time, Stoddard kept looking off at the hills, 397 00:21:08,860 --> 00:21:12,020 talking about gold and how he wish he'd had a stake. 398 00:21:12,810 --> 00:21:14,870 Elizabeth and I used to laugh about it. 399 00:21:14,900 --> 00:21:17,960 We were rich without any gold, and we knew it. 400 00:21:17,980 --> 00:21:20,870 I know what you mean. 401 00:21:20,910 --> 00:21:24,870 Well, that spring, there was a draught. 402 00:21:24,910 --> 00:21:26,860 And every dollar we had was in the ground. 403 00:21:26,900 --> 00:21:28,820 We were scared. 404 00:21:28,850 --> 00:21:30,810 Plants had come up and parched brown in a week, 405 00:21:30,830 --> 00:21:34,820 and there was nothing we could do but haul water and pray. 406 00:21:34,860 --> 00:21:38,870 Did you ever see a field dry up and blow away, Lucas? 407 00:21:38,890 --> 00:21:43,880 It's quite a frightening thing, especially when it's your life. 408 00:21:43,910 --> 00:21:48,010 Well, in August, I went in a panic and borrowed $200. 409 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,850 Mortgaged everything I owned... the farm, 410 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,800 equipment, everything. 411 00:21:52,830 --> 00:21:53,986 When I got back that night, the three of us 412 00:21:54,010 --> 00:21:55,966 sat around the kitchen table, trying to figure out 413 00:21:55,990 --> 00:21:57,830 how we were gonna make it through the winter 414 00:21:57,850 --> 00:22:00,010 without losing the farm. 415 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:01,940 We made a budget, Lucas, accounted 416 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,950 for every penny and then some. 417 00:22:04,980 --> 00:22:09,850 The next morning, Johnny was gone, and so was the $200. 418 00:22:09,890 --> 00:22:11,906 Oh, he was kind enough to leave a note saying he'd be back soon 419 00:22:11,930 --> 00:22:12,880 and with the money doubled... 420 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:15,000 $400. 421 00:22:15,030 --> 00:22:17,010 But I never saw him again. 422 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,950 Until today. 423 00:22:19,980 --> 00:22:21,820 What did you do? 424 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,810 Do? 425 00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:24,916 Elizabeth died in September. 426 00:22:24,940 --> 00:22:27,000 She got the fever. 427 00:22:27,030 --> 00:22:28,950 I was forced to sell our horse the month before 428 00:22:28,980 --> 00:22:31,800 and had to run all the way to town to get a doctor. 429 00:22:31,830 --> 00:22:34,830 When I got back, she was dead. 430 00:22:34,860 --> 00:22:37,800 And thanks to Stoddard, she died all alone on a dirt farm 431 00:22:37,830 --> 00:22:39,030 that wasn't even mine anymore. 432 00:22:41,890 --> 00:22:43,900 Micah, Doc wants you to come on over. 433 00:22:43,930 --> 00:22:44,870 All right, son. 434 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:46,046 We'll be there in a minute. 435 00:22:46,070 --> 00:22:48,820 But Doc says Micah's gotta come over right away. 436 00:22:48,850 --> 00:22:49,830 It's Mr. Stoddard. 437 00:22:49,850 --> 00:22:51,930 You gotta hurry, Micah. 438 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:52,910 Micah. 439 00:23:07,810 --> 00:23:10,690 He wants to talk to you, Micah. 440 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:19,630 Here, Micah. 441 00:23:19,660 --> 00:23:20,770 Take it. 442 00:23:20,810 --> 00:23:23,780 I've been looking for you. 443 00:23:23,810 --> 00:23:25,800 To tell you how sorry I am. 444 00:23:29,710 --> 00:23:30,800 Please forgive me. 445 00:23:48,740 --> 00:23:49,610 What is it, Micah? 446 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:55,730 $400. 447 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:08,310 Why'd he have to die? 448 00:24:11,950 --> 00:24:13,870 The earth turns, Mark. 449 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:15,800 His time was up. 450 00:24:15,830 --> 00:24:17,820 I don't know what kind of a man Stoddard was, 451 00:24:17,850 --> 00:24:19,920 and I'm not sure we'll ever know, 452 00:24:19,940 --> 00:24:23,810 but he kept a promise he made 30 years ago. 453 00:24:23,850 --> 00:24:25,910 I think that's what we should remember him by. 454 00:24:25,930 --> 00:24:29,000 And so does Micah. 455 00:24:29,030 --> 00:24:30,880 Let's go home. 456 00:24:30,910 --> 00:24:31,860 So long, Doc. 457 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,830 So long.