Original subtitles

Hold it quiet, please.

Someone's there.

Carl, I've got to prove that Jim Hedges is alive.

"Maverick..."

...starring James Garner and Jack Kelly.

Produced by Warner Bros.

From the entertainment capital of the world

produced for television by Warner Bros.

♪ Sweet and low ♪

♪ Sweet and low ♪

♪ Wind of the western sea ♪

♪ Low low ♪

♪ Breathe and blow ♪

♪ Wind of the western sea ♪

♪ Over the rolling waters go ♪

♪ Come from the dying moon and blow ♪

♪ Blow him again ♪

♪ To me ♪

♪ While my little one ♪

♪ While my pretty one ♪

♪ Sleeps ♪♪

Later, gentlemen, later.

Later, she sings for you again.

But now she must rest. Please go.

Please, please.

Well, Jenny.

Oh, your voice, it rings tonight, eh?

He was there again, professor.

Who was where again?

Oh, yeah, mister, Mr. Maverick. I see him.

Hey, hold it.

Well, hello again.

I hope you haven't been waiting for me.

Hup!

We were commencing to think that you may be had over slept.

Well, I didn't go to bed at all.

Matter of fact is, I had trouble scraping up the fare.

Good morning, ma'am.

Well, if you excuse me, I think, I'll say goodnight.

That was a short day.

♪ Some Sunday morning ♪

♪ We'll walk down the aisle ♪

♪ He'll be so nervous ♪

♪ And I'll try to smile ♪

♪ Things sure look rosy ♪

♪ For someone and me ♪

♪ Some Sunday morning ♪

♪ You'll see ♪

♪ There'll be an organ playing ♪

♪ Friends and relations will stare ♪

♪ Say can't you hear them saying ♪

♪ Gee what a peach of a pair ♪

♪ Some Sunday morning ♪

♪ We'll walk down the aisle ♪

♪ He'll be so nervous ♪

♪ And I'll try to smile ♪

♪ Things sure look rosy ♪

♪ For someone and me ♪

♪ Some Sunday morning ♪

♪ You'll see ♪♪

Oh, Carl, it just doesn't make sense.

No man travels 400 miles out of his way

just because he likes the sound of my voice.

Oh, I wouldn't say that.

But if you mean me, I'm not going out of my way at all.

Then it's just a coincidence that you're always out front

- whenever I sing? - Well, not quite.

You see, in my business which is poker

I have to keep movin' anyway.

And I've noticed that wherever you sing

there's always a good crowd in a good mood.

I see.

If you spend so much time in the audience

how can you do any business?

Oh, ma'am.

When you sing, there just isn't much poker bein' played.

Maybe it goes better, Mr. Maverick

if where the game is good

we all should stay a little while.

- All of us? - Yeah.

I keep telling my Jenny

she should not all the time be moving around.

Always moving.

One night, she wins a whole town

and then she throws it away.

Where one is winning, one should stay a while. Not so?

Well, sometimes it's better to quit

before you win too much.

That way you don't wear out your welcome.

So, I spent what's left of my life

inside a coach and horses.

♪ Too much love ♪

♪ Can make you unhappy ♪

♪ Too much love ♪

♪ Can leave you alone ♪

♪ Too many times ♪

♪ I've had it happen ♪

♪ Love caught me napping ♪

♪ Now I'm alone ♪

♪ Too much love ♪

♪ ls wasted in waiting ♪

♪ For the one ♪

♪ Who'll call you his own ♪

♪ That's why my heart ♪

♪ ls yours forever ♪

♪ Complaining never again ♪

♪ Of too much love ♪

♪ Too much love ♪

♪ ls wasted in waiting ♪

♪ For the one ♪

♪ Who'll call you his own ♪

♪ That's why my heart ♪

♪ ls yours forever ♪

♪ Complaining never again ♪

♪ Of too much love ♪♪

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh, has Professor Vegelius, come in, yet?

- No, sir. - Goodnight.

604, please.

This came for you by telegram, Mr. Maverick.

Uh, Mr. Maverick.

Miss Hill has asked me to express

her thanks to you for the roses.

Tell Miss Hill, I broke even last night in Crystal City.

And I just had to share my good fortune with someone.

Of course, goodnight.

Come in.

Hello, professor. We missed you tonight.

How was it? Good, eh? Always good.

Even brilliant.

Tomorrow night by lottery, we sell the tickets.

Not tomorrow night, professor.

Listen to me, Jenny.

They will make a contract for two weeks.

One third of the total receipts and guaranteed $200 a night, eh?

I can't do it, professor.

Jenny.

I'm sorry but this is the way it has to be.

Now, you knew it from the start.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I-I knew.

I can build a pinnacle of fame for you.

And you have no desire for that?

Professor, I'm Jenny Hill.

I'm a saloon singer. I'm not Jenny Lind.

Alright, even so, must you always be moving?

Why always moving?

Well, it's no mystery, maybe I'm just restless.

But it's what I want.

Well, then, Jenny...

...tonight... I took supper with Lotta Franklin.

She is pretty and she sings. A manager she wants.

Yeah, it's me she wants.

Well, then...

...if Miss Franklin has made you an offer you like

please, professor, take it.

Jenny, she sings. It is no more than that.

She is half what you are. Oh, less than half.

Tomorrow afternoon, I'm taking a river boat to Kansas City.

If you wanna be with me, then I want you.

I will not do it.

No, I will not.

Lotta Franklin, I will accept her.

She will obey the old professor.

And I will make her great. So great.

Maybe, I'm wrong.

Maybe, you're a sweet, shy, simple-hearted boy

with stars in your eyes.

But I've run across a few of those

and you're hardly the type.

Do you really think I'd have to be simple

to be honest with you?

The reason you gave. The crowds, the poker games.

That wasn't honest, was it?

The crowds don't follow me when I leave, but you do.

I wanna know why?

And I wanna know why you're afraid of me?

I'm not afraid of you.

Then let me put it this way.

No, please. Goodnight.

Goodnight, Jenny.

Now back to "Maverick."

Oh, please, Bret, no.

Is there something I don't know, Jenny?

Is there somebody else, a husband, maybe?

No, there isn't. But I'm a widow.

No obstacle there.

My husband's only been dead for six months.

And I have a son. His son.

I'm afraid it isn't so easy for me to forget.

Wondered what you were running from.

You think if you keep moving

that you won't have time to remember?

I don't know. Maybe, that's it.

You'll have to stop somewhere and face it, Jenny.

He's dead and you're alive.

I suppose so.

But I'm not sure I'm ready to face it yet.

Goodnight, Bret.

Wait, Jenny.

You ready to go to your cabin, Jenny?

I'll walk you to the door.

I hope we haven't been keeping you up, Carl?

Not at all. Goodnight, Mr. Maverick.

[Jenny] Carl.

Carl.

Have you seen Mr. Maverick?

Not since we docked here in Marthasville.

- He got off. - What?

And he didn't get on again?

Well, no. I've been on deck all the time.

Why, I-I thought you'd be happy to get rid of him?

Isn't that what you wanted?

Oh, I-I suppose so.

But somehow I didn't think it would happen.

Uh not now anyway.

[Crowley] Gentleman of the jury, Mike McComb here stands accused

of the murder of three men.

Now the prosecution wants to make sure that

we all understand the defendants version of what happened.

Mr. McComb, you testified that the driver stopped

the stagecoach to pick up a man on foot.

And you say that both he and the shotgun guard

recognized this man and called him by name, Jim Hedges?

That's what I said.

[Crowley] Why did you get out of the coach?

Because I wanted to say hello to him.

I hadn't seen Jim in more than a year.

When I climbed down he pulled his gun.

That's when the two masked men showed up.

- Have I got that right? - Yes, sir.

The other passenger tried to go for his gun

and one of the men killed him.

Jim yelled for me to stand still and I stood still.

And then what happen?

Well, the masked men shot and killed the driver

and the shotgun guard.

But they left you alive.

The only witness to three cold-blooded murders.

But I told you, Jim and me used to be friends.

Besides, I wasn't trying to be no hero.

How fortunate for you, Mr. McComb.

And then what happened?

Well, Jim shot the lock off the strongbox

and all three of 'em felled to cussin'.

Seems there wasn't any cash, only lot of papers and such.

As far as I know, they didn't get a thing.

And after they were gone, you put the three bodies

in the stagecoach and drove it 15 miles into town.

Why, Mr. McComb?

I paid me full fare.

You wouldn't want me to walk, would you?

Alright, gentlemen, in simple words

Mike McComb's whole defense rests on his claim

that Jim Hedges engineered that robbery three weeks ago.

Mr. McComb, I'd like you to look at the man

in this picture and tell me whether or not

you'd like to change your story?

Yeah, sure I'd like to change it.

I wouldn't want to change it too.

Who is the man in this picture?

Jim Hedges.

Gentlemen, according to the records

of the stagecoach company here in question

Jim Hedges, was employed as a guard

in their depot in Winesburg

when that depot was robbed

and burned to the grounds six months ago.

Now you see by this death certificate that Jim Hedges

was killed at that time.

And has been resting in his grave

in Winesburg, ever since.'

The prosecution rests, Your Honor.

Guilty. Can you imagine, me guilty?

Well, it's not hard to imagine, believe me.

You're about the guiltiest looking innocent person

I've ever seen.

I'd like to know who the fellow was who says

"Honesty is the best policy."

I-I don't know, but I think it depends on

how long the policy has been on effect.

You don't look like the world's worst liar

till you try telling the truth.

Then why didn't you tell me that before I tried it?

Well, how was I to know? Never heard you try it before.

How long do you think I've got for it?

I mean after that lawyer of mine

if you pardon the expression

files his appeal.

Just long as it takes to review your case.

And you're still no closer to finding Jim Hedges

than you were before, eh?

Nope. I'm not the only one that's looking for him.

You mean, his widow knows he's alive too?

Well, I'm not sure she knows.

Now, I think it's more hope than anything else.

The way she keeps going from town to town

if he is alive, she's making it awful easy for him to find her.

Ah, she must know. That's what we need.

Somebody to prove that he's alive and that I'm not a liar.

I think, proving he's alive will be sufficient.

But, you know, Mike, I don't think she's seen him

since he took that job in Winesburg.

I think she believed he was dead.

Till she started this singing tour about a month ago.

Then he must have gotten in touch with her.

Or something happened to give her hope.

There's something your not telling me, Bret?

Like what?

When you talk about her, I can see

you don't like what you're doing.

Oh, it's not that, Mike.

If her husband weren't alive

I think, I'd have to consider falling in love with her.

But she's hopin' he is alive.

So, that's your only hope too.

Whatever I feel about her doesn't matter.

Oh, fine.

Well, if he ain't alive, do come to me hangin'.

I'll give him a gold watch for a wedding present.

Well, that's a real nice thought, Mike.

Goes way down deep. I'm sentimental.

♪ If a body meet a body ♪

♪ Comin' through the rye ♪

♪ if a body kiss a body ♪

♪ Need a body cry ♪

♪ Ev'ry lassie has her laddie ♪

♪ None they say have I ♪

♪ Yet all the lads they smile at me ♪

♪ When comin' through the rye ♪♪

[Bret] Jenny.

Bret.

My name is Maverick.

I was looking for a kind of shy young widow.

Well, it was a surprise to find you here.

And surprises foster me.

If you're trying to explain why you kissed me

you don't have to.

Unless you're explaining it to yourself.

I suppose that's what I've been doing.

How silly of me?

But why did you get off the boat without a word?

Oh, I had something to do in Marthasville.

But why? You've hardly been out of my sight for weeks--

Jenny, I haven't asked you any questions.

Alright.

Maybe, you'd like to try again? Over dinner?

Alright, it'll only take me a minute to change.

You might tell Carl if you see him.

Well, I see him.

Carl, I'll be having dinner with Mr. Maverick.

Alright, Jenny.

Jenny missed you, Mr. Maverick.

- Well, I can't imagine why. - Oh, I think I can.

I think you remind her of her husband.

- Her late husband. - Well, yes, of course.

But it's hard for me to think of him that way.

It's been hard for Jenny, too.

Well, he was a very vital person.

He gambled too in a charming way of shunning responsibility.

You've been with Jenny a long time, haven't you?

Yes, I was her accompanist before she was married.

She, uh, she gave up her singing to settle down with him.

Only he never settled down.

You didn't like him much, did you?

Well, it's difficult not to like the man.

The point is that Jenny loved him.

She accepted him.

She... she accepts a great many things.

There, I wasn't much more than a minute, was I?

Jenny, your timing was perfect.

You still planning to leave in the morning, Jenny?

Oh, yes.

Well, I'll have your trunk taken to the dock.

Goodnight.

I'm beginning to wonder if he'll ever come.

Carl, I hope you don't think I've been waiting for him.

Well. I'm sorry, I only meant--

It's just that moonlight on the water tonight

is so lovely that I'm not a bit sleepy.

Well, I'm afraid it has just the opposite effect on me.

Jenny, I wonder if you'd mind very much being left alone.

Oh, not at all, Carl. Don't worry about me.

Goodnight.

Goodnight, Jenny.

I was beginning to wonder if he'd ever leave.

Hello, are you winning tonight?

No, which forces me to bring up a very unpleasant subject.

- What's that? - Work.

Work?

I need a job and you haven't

replaced the professor yet.

You mean that you wanna take his place?

Well, I've got to, if I'm gonna stay with you.

Following you around is costing me a fortune.

- But why, Bret? - Why what?

Why have you been following me?

Jenny, we've covered that remember?

What do you know about managing a singer?

Not a thing. So, I'm exactly what you need.

You don't really want a manager, but you do need somebody.

If you plan to go any further.

- Well, Carl is with me. - Carl plays the piano.

- And you play poker. - I knew you'd see the point.

I'm used to handling other people's money

I can handle yours.

You do need somebody to talk for you.

- Well, I also talk. - Oh, yes, you do and very well.

And you're right I do need someone.

- How about $30 a week? - Fifty.

But up till now you've been traveling with me for nothing.

Honey, that was for love. This is business.

Alright, 40.

Forty-five.

Fifty.

I'm so tired.

Why does that river boat have to leave so early?

And why do we have to leave at all?

Maybe, all managers start sounding like this

after the first week.

But is there any reason

why we can't stay here a few more days?

Is that what you want, professor?

I want what you want.

And what you need is rest.

What are you lookin' for, Jenny?

I think I've stopped looking, Bret.

Do you mean that?

Mm, I've just about decided that

what I've been looking for doesn't exist

And what was that?

Never mind.

But if you want me to stay, I'll stay.

Are you sure about this?

As sure as I'll ever be, I guess.

Goodnight.

Don't light that lamp.

Close the door and sit down.

We got some waitin' to do.

Am I permitted the usual questions?

Who are you? What do you want?

Well, I come here to give you a message from Jim.

Jim? Where is he?

Ma'am, I can't tell you that.

What's he done?

Why has he let me think he's dead?

You mean, you really don't know.

Oh, tell me.

Well, ma'am, the law don't look for no man

who's dead and buried.

Why should the law wanna look for him at all?

Well, ma'am, when we hit that stagecoach depot on Winesburg

Jim was workin' there.

He was our inside man.

Well, one of our boys was killed, so...

...Jim put his watch and ring on the dead man's body.

So they'd think it was him after the fire.

You still haven't told me why.

Well, I guess he figured it'd be easier

if he didn't have to answer no questions.

Oh, I see.

What does he want from me now?

Well, Jim needs some money, he needs it real bad.

Now, he figures you're doing so good

you'd have some cash to spare.

Now, like I said, he needs it.

Then why doesn't he come to me himself?

I spent most of what I earn on-on travel, on publicity

so he'd always know where to find me.

Ma'am, Jim's gotta stay where he's at.

Everybody knows you and him was man and wife.

How is it gonna look if he comes callin'?

Well, then I'll go to him.

I'm sorry, ma'am,, that's out of the question.

He can't take that risk.

He just got to stay dead for a spell.

H-how do I know he isn't dead?

If you robbed that place, if you saw him killed

well, this could be a scheme to get money out of me.

Well, yeah, could be that way.

But it ain't.

Well, then take me to him.

Ma'am, Jim laid it out awful flat.

He just can't take the chance.

I can't just give money to you or anyone

who comes here and tells that Jim sent him.

Alright, ma'am, I'll tell him.

Um, my next stop is St. Joseph.

I'm leaving tomorrow, I'll be very easy to find.

I better tell you, though, I don't think he'll come.

Much as he wants to see you, I don't think he'll come.

Please, if Jim is alive, he has a son he hasn't seen for a year.

I've gotta talk to him.

If he'll come to me himself, I'll give him the money.

Will you tell him that?

Alright, ma'am.

Uh, would you see if there's anybody out in that hall?

Anybody else coming?

No, it's just between the three of us.

Now, back to "Maverick."

We've brought you a message, Mr. Maverick.

You see, we had a real good friend, Jim Hedges.

He died about six months ago.

Well, the message we got for you is...

...you stay away from his widow.

Yeah, we're kind of old-fashioned.

You see, we sorta figured that, uh

widow women ought to have at least a year of mourning.

Why, you both got the wrong idea.

See, I happened to work for Ms. Hill. I'm her manager.

Oh, we know all about that.

You was her manager.

You just quit. That's the rest of the message.

You, uh, you won't forget it, will you?

Not if I can help it.

Well, if you need any help, we'll be back.

Mr. Maverick?

Can you hear me?

Yeah, yeah, I hear you.

W-What happened here?

I cut myself shavin'. Now, help me up.

Is it alright?

Yeah, sure. It's just great. Help me up.

You know, some days it just doesn't pain to get up at all.

Who did it?

Some friends of a friend.

Well, that cheapo tells, mirror make me look all lumpy.

[Carl] Jenny's gone for bandages.

[Bret] You told her?

Of course, when I came in

and found you like that.

Wouldn't it been neater just to keep it between the two of us?

Neater?

I-I don't understand?

You don't, huh?

No, I guess, you don't.

So, you don't think, I had anything to do with this?

Bret?

Oh, Carl, shouldn't you be taking Jenny's truck

to the depot or the dock or somewhere?

Oh, yes, the, uh, the truck.

Well, Jenny I got a message from your husband.

What?

Wel, two of his friends were kind enough

to deliver it for him.

Seems they wanna protect his interest in you.

What did they say?

Well, it's not what they said

it's the way they said it.

They sort of felt that Jim...

...rest his soul, wouldn't approve of me.

Or is there some other explanation?

Jenny, are you sure your husband's dead?

No, Bret, I'm not.

It's Jim I've been looking for all along.

But you said, you were ready to stop looking.

I was till this happened.

I was ready to-to tell myself that he was really dead.

I was ready to give up.

Maybe-maybe that's what I wanted to believe.

Well, why didn't you believe it in the first place?

Everyone else did.

Jim and I were married with only a wedding band.

But he always said that someday he'd buy me an engagement ring.

And five weeks ago, this came in the mail.

Just this? No letter?

No, just the ring. But then I had to find out.

I had to know if I still had a husband.

If my son still had a father.

Why didn't you tell me this before?

If he was alive, I knew

he must be in some terrible kind of trouble.

Afraid to come to me.

And I was afraid too.

Afraid someone might try to get to him through me.

Someone like me?

Oh, that's what I thought at first, but I don't now.

But this is the end of it, Bret.

What do you mean?

I don't know how you felt, but I was falling in love with you.

I can't let that happen now.

I'm sorry.

Oh, I'm sorry too.

Because I can't let you do this.

Bret, if anything ever happened to you

I'd never forgive myself.

Jenny, since I'm breaking a very important rule of mine

which is to be cowardly at all cost.

Please, remember

if anything happens to me, it's my own stupid fault.

♪ Some Sunday morning ♪

♪ ls going to be ♪

♪ Some Sunday morning ♪

♪ For someone and me ♪

♪ Bells will be chiming ♪

♪ An old melody ♪

♪ Specially for someone and me ♪♪

You looking for the exit?

No, I-I'm looking for the door I came in by.

Oh, that's it?

You see, it works two ways.

From the outside, it's an entrance

and from the inside, it's an exit.

Well, what do you know?

They got everything up-to-date around here.

[Bret] Jenny?

Oh, Bret, come in.

Something's wrong. What is it?

I don't know it.

Bret, he's alive. I'm sure of it this time.

What's happened?

I've had word from him and this time I know he said it.

- Where is it? - It wasn't written down.

- What did he say? - I can't tell you that.

You have to.

There's only one thing I have to do now, that I'm sure.

Don't make me say it.

You don't love him, Jenny.

I did and I'm married to him.

Jenny, you have to tell me what that message was.

What do you mean?

I wish you hadn't been honest with me, it'd make it easier.

Easier?

To tell you why I've come this far

and why I can't stop here.

What are you saying?

Your first guess was right, Jenny.

I was using you to get to him.

And that's how it began.

And I believed what you told me.

I had to make you believe me.

But why? What does Jim mean to you?

More and more every day.

You see, he and two other men robbed a stagecoach

about a month ago. There were three people killed.

There was one passenger left alive.

He was a friend of mine.

He knew Jim.

Now, they're gonna hang him, because he said Jim was there.

And Jim is dead.

I got to prove he's alive.

That's all I ever meant to you?

You know better than that.

And now you are asking me to help you?

Guess, I am.

He's a thief, Jenny. Maybe a killer.

Well, whatever he is, it's my fault.

When Jim and I were married, I...

...I expected to go on living as well as I had on my own.

When he couldn't provide the money we needed, I used my own.

Without ever thinking what that would do to him.

And he was too much in love with me to take that.

So, if he's a thief, I made him one.

- Did you make him a killer too? - I don't believe that.

If he was a killer, your friend wouldn't be alive.

He won't be for long.

Then let me do what I have to.

After that, I'll testify for your friend.

I'll tell them Jim's alive. That's all you need.

I could've bought a dozen witnesses

who would tell them that.

Why, you won't get him. Not with my help.

I think, you better leave. I have a performance to give.

It's time I got ready.

- Over here. - Hey.

You're not the fellow I thought you're going to be.

No, but I'm the one who told the bartender to send you out here.

Don't I know you from some place?

Oh, yes, you are the fellow over there in that place.

That's right. We have a mutual friend.

Uh, the lady you went calling on tonight.

Oh, yeah, her.

Y-y-y-you mean the flower that sings.

That's right. Jenny Hill.

- Uh, you took a message to her. - Message?

Yeah, Ms. Hill forgot part of the message

and she wanted to hear it again.

So, if you'll tell me, I'll tell her.

Oh, well, well a fellow just wanted her

to sing a special song tonight.

- What song? - Huh?

"Sweet Betsy from Pike."

What's wrong with that?

He gave you money to go backstage

and ask for "Sweet Betsy from Pike?"

Well, he'd... Money?

You see, I've been dogging your trail

all over town tonight through every salon.

And the bartenders tell me you must come into some money.

Well, it looks like you've come into small.

I have?

As soon as you tell me the message.

Oh-oh, I couldn't do that, you see.

It-it was wrote down and-and put in an envelope

and I don't know what it said.

You lie to me once more and I get mean.

Well, that fellow said he'd kill me

if I told anyone but her.

Yes, but he isn't here and I am. And I'll kill you, if you don't.

I liked it better when you talked about the money.

Well, take it.

At least, you won't die broke.

He-he-he said to tell her

"N-no one else, but me could have sent you that ring."

- Not me, him. - What else?

"After the show, walk, uh, north

on Main Street and you will be met."

Or was it south?

Never mind, you did just fine.

[Carl] That's far enough.

I didn't believe it when she told me

you might try and follow her.

Well, you should have.

And I'm still going to. So, don't try to stop me.

- Why you're doing it? - A lot of reasons.

For one, a man's life depends on it.

Well, I'm sorry to hear that.

Carl, you're just not the type to shoot a man on a back.

I'm so sure of that I think I'll just be running along.

Don't move.

You'd be right if this was for myself.

But it's for Jenny.

And that makes you wrong.

She's on her way to meet her husband.

If that's what she wants, that's what I want.

Alright, there's no point

standing around here in the dark.

Lets go, I haven't had my supper.

Gun will be under my coat. Aimed at your back.

It's alright, ma'am. Just follow us.

Now, back to "Maverick."

Jim.

Jenny, Jenny. Can you forgive me?

Oh, Jim, how could you do that?

How could you let me think you're dead?

I don't know.

First, I thought I was doin' it for you.

For me?

I brought you nothing but grief, Jenny.

That hold up in Winesburg. I was in on that.

The agent killed one of my friends

and somebody else killed the agent.

I stood there, lookin' at my friend

thinkin' that could have been me.

And you'd be better off, if it was.

Oh, Jim.

I knew you would never divorce me, so...

...I thought, this is my chance to do something for Jenny.

So I planted my stuff on the body

and we set fire to the place.

I thought that would be the end of it only...

...I wasn't strong enough to go on without ya.

I had to see you again.

Just once, anyway.

Hold it quite, please.

Carl, I've got to prove that Jim Hedges is alive.

I'll never forgive you for this.

Carl's hurt, see what you can do for him.

- Carl? - No, wait, Jenny.

Carl came here with him.

He didn't come here with me. He was trying to stop me.

Bret, please. Give Jim a few days to get out of the country.

Just a few days, please.

I'll go back with you.

See what you can do for Carl.

I want to take you in alive, if you let me do it.

If you ever thought anything of Jenny, give me a break.

I never killed a man in my life.

Jim.

Jim?

He tried to use a gun, Jenny.

[Bret] Jenny?

It all worked out rather well for you, didn't it, Bret?

My friend's been released, if that's what you mean.

I just got the telegram.

Congratulations.

Your husband did try to use that gun.

I wanted him alive. You've gotta believe that.

Wouldn't change anything.

You used me to get to Jim.

Do you think I could ever forgive myself or you for that?

Yes, you can.

You killed him. We'd never be able to forget it.

We can try.

Would you change your name?

It's been in the papers here.

It will be in the ones back home.

My son will know it.

And hate it. But that isn't really it.

Together, we'd never be able to forget him.

And I've got to forget him.

So, I have to forget you too, Bret.

Goodbye.

Stay with her, Carl.

Ah, I always have.

♪ Who is the tall dark stranger there? ♪

♪ Maverick is the name ♪

♪ Ridin' the trail to who knows where ♪

♪ Luck is his companion ♪

♪ Gamblin' is his game ♪

♪ Smooth as an handle on a gun ♪

♪ Maverick is the name ♪

♪ Wild as the wind in Oregon ♪

♪ Blowin' up a canyon ♪

♪ Easier to tame ♪

♪ Riverboat ring your bell ♪

♪ Fare thee well Annabelle ♪

♪ Luck is the lady that he loves the best ♪

♪ Natchez to New Orleans ♪

♪ Living on jacks and queens ♪

♪ Maverick is a legend of the West ♪

♪ Riverboat ring your bell ♪

♪ Fare thee well Annabelle ♪

♪ Luck is the lady that he loves the best ♪

♪ Natchez to New Orleans ♪

♪ Living on jacks and queens ♪

♪ Maverick is a legend of the West ♪

♪ Maverick is a legend of the West ♪♪

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