Original subtitles

- Who are you? - His brother.

Nobody said nothing 'bout him

having no twin brother.

As a matter of fact, we've come

to talk to you about a job.

You know one nice thing about kicking off,

I don't have to look at your ugly puss anymore.

Yeah!

Hey fellas, what's going on?

How did you know about me?

I mean that we look so much alike.

I felt the pain where you were stabbed.

Where have you been; What did you find?

- Hey! - Hold on.

♪

♪

Telling you Mr. Washburn, you didn't see anything.

Don't you tell me what I saw Billy Jones.

Luke Hollister gunned down my Charlie.

Nothing you or Clint Hollister can say

is ever gonna change that.

Now all I'm saying is it was awful dark out there.

That's all.

I don't care how dark it was.

We do have a witness say you were pretty well

into your cups last night.

Get off my land!

You pulling a gun on me artimus, forcing me to defend myself?

Now, you'd like that wouldn't you Billy?

Clint Hollister like it too

but that ain't the way it's gonna happen, Billy boy.

I'm gonna testify against Luke.

Luke is gonna swing.

Look at them veins stand out in your head.

Man like you's gotta be careful one of them don't bust.

Well I'll bless...

Ain't ' worth it pa, not on this scum.

You ain't ' got a chance.

That's what I've been trying to tell your old man, bettina.

A man like him sees red all the time ought to be careful,

liable to trip over something and break his fool neck.

I think my father invited you to leave.

Yes, he did.

You're looking right pretty today, miss bettina.

Give somebody a little free advice

and this is the thanks you get.

Get out of here.

For you darling, anything.

You know pa, there was one thing he was right about.

This ain't the first time that you flew off the handle.

Bettina look out!

♪

You let go of me!

♪

Ahh!

Mark?

♪

All that trouble for one little kiss?

We got to do this again sometime.

That's nice, very nice.

Oh, Billy, you...

Come on boy!

Whoo!

♪

Let him rest.

Mark, sit down.

Can you describe the pain?

A sharp, a tearing.

Like you were stabbed?

It throbs, Elizabeth,

more and more since we started on this new heading.

The heading has nothing to do with the way you're feeling.

Feel strong enough to go to sick bay now?

It does have something to do with it Elizabeth,

I'm sure of it.

Shift course.

West ninety degrees.

Mark.

Elizabeth, I want to make the experiment.

Jomo, a new heading please.

Yes sir.

Mark.

The answer is out there, Elizabeth, I know it.

There's nothing out there.

Water, nothing.

My instincts tell me otherwise.

Activate airlock please.

As medical officer of this ship, I...

You can go.

I do not know for sure but I must find out.

Thank you.

♪

C.w. On the line.

C.w.?

Elizabeth, Mark is ill?

We don't know that for sure.

Where is he, in sick bay?

Now look, that volcano isn't going critical.

I have that from Charlie singer

at the maritime research institute.

As far as I'm concerned, you can turn the cetacean

a hundred and eight degrees and come directly home.

Mark's not in sick bay, c.W.

He's out in the ocean.

Out of the ship?

Well, we're monitoring him.

Dr. Merrill, he's gone.

What do you mean, he's gone?

Well, one minute there was a bleep

and the next minute, well, it's like

he was snuffed out like a light.

Scan.

It's got to be an electronic malfunction.

Double check the circuits

Elizabeth?

C.w., don't worry.

We'll pick him again.

It's just a malfunction that's all.

♪

Billy!

Billy?

Why do you call me Billy?

Not one step closer, you hear me, Billy.

Not one step closer.

I mean it.

My name is not Billy.

It's Mark.

Sure.

You mistake me for someone else.

Someone I look like.

Someone you look like.

Billy, I don't know what you're trying to prove

coming here all naked like that

but it ain't just gonna wor... Your shoulder?

It couldn't have healed this quick, it just couldn't.

I did something to my shoulder?

It was sliced to the bone.

I did the slicing myself.

To Billy.

You're not him are you?

Well then who are you?

His brother.

Nobody said nothing about him having no twin brother.

No one said anything like that to me either.

It does makes sense, explains why I'm here.

You know this Billy?

You can take me to him?

Take you to him?

I wouldn't take nothing but a rattlesnake to him.

He has done something wrong?

Where have you been hiding boy?

I mean everybody's heard of Billy Jones.

You haven't have you?

If he is my brother, then tell me where I was born?

Where you were born?

Everybody knows where they were born, at least.

Now you see why I must talk to this Billy.

Yeah.

But he'll lie to you probably.

Come on.

Ranch house is over there.

You can't go to town as naked as a Jay bird.

♪

I do not have any money.

Shoot boy, these ain't gonna be

the kind of clothes you gonna pay for.

Told you what'd happened next time

you come on this property, Billy boy!

Pa, this ain't Billy, this is Mark.

Don't make no difference who's name is on the tombstone.

♪

Well one thing it isn't, an equipment malfunction.

Well what else could it be?

Mark couldn't have just gone poof in the middle of the ocean?

Scanners check out.

Sonar's working perfectly.

Coaxial grid systems in line.

Maybe he just went out of our search area.

I could lay a spiral pattern from the coordinates

we had him last fixed at.

No, I promised him we'd maintain position.

That's exactly what we're going to do.

If it ain't ' a trick, if he ain't Billy...

Pa, no cut heals that fast.

What makes you think

any brother of Billy Jones be less of skunk?

Mr. Washburn, I have never met by brother.

I don't even know if he is my brother.

That is what i'm here to find out.

Look, let me give you some advice stranger,

why don't you just go back from where you come from?

Nobody wants Billy Jones for a relative.

What has he done?

Everyone here says he's so evil.

Why is that so?

He's a hired gun.

Clint Hollister brought him in to...

Intimidate people to let that murdering kid of his go.

That's what.

Clint Hollister.

Big shot cattleman,

drives the herds through here once a year.

This year he put Luke in charge.

That's Clint's son.

Yeah, Luke's one of them spoiled rich kids.

Instead of walking around somebody,

he'd rather walk right straight through them.

Pa's talking about my brother Charlie.

Luke shot him in the back.

You really don't know.

♪

Looks good.

Almost as good as it used to look on Charlie.

Billy did not kill your brother.

Luke did.

I know that.

Look I ain't saying that Billy

ain't likeable but he is a hired gun.

Clint Hollister wants his son out of jail

and it's for Luke.

Billy ain't sunk that low yet.

♪

You really think you could talk to him Billy Jones?

♪

When he discovers he is not alone in the world,

when we see each other,

perhaps, for the first time since birth, yes.

♪

I don't think reforming a low life like Billy Jones

is going to be all that easy.

♪

Can you sit on a horse?

♪

Yeah.

Well, here you go Billy.

I mean Mark.

Virgil!

Oh now miss bettina,

you don't want to go messin' with tradition now do you.

Tradition?

Yeah, just put your left foot here in the stirrups easy.

That's what's hanging down from the saddle.

Pa, you can't let him get...

Easy.

I said easy.

If he, easy fellow, if he should go too fast for you,

you just pull back on the reins and you holler whoa!

You got that?

- These are the reins? - Yeah that's right.

- Yep. - Thank you.

Whoo hoo!

Whoa boy!

Ride him cowboy!

Whoo hoo!

Pa!

Mark!

Mark you all right?

You all right son?

I think I understand what you mean by tradition.

Nobody's ever stayed up on old dark hide.

Virgil, go get old Sam for him.

That will not be necessary.

Mark, you don't have to prove anything.

This is an excellent horse.

I am sure we will be quite good friends

once we are appropriately introduced.

♪

What's he saying to him?

Now, he thinks he's going to get

to anywhere talking to animals, he's wrong.

♪

He ain't bucking no more!

What in the world did you say to that animal, boy?

I suspected that what would work on dolphins

would not be too far wrong for a horse.

♪

With dolphins?

♪

Billy would be in a nearby town?

Land's end, down the road.

Thank you.

Hey, you watch out he doesn't leave you

as naked as I found you.

♪

What's the matter Billy?

I thought you liked dozing off in water.

Well, I do hon.

It makes feel good, sort of, I don't know, soothes me.

How come you splashed up all of sudden like that?

Well, I don't know.

A dream I guess.

Bad dream?

Naw, big fat stupid one,

me seeing me gallop into town.

Big deal, huh?

Well, now that you're wide awake again Billy...

Not now Carla, please.

What's the matter?

I don't know, just a feeling I guess.

Oh Billy, is it Clint looking over your shoulder?

You're afraid he's going to come busting through that door

all of a sudden, aren't you?

That I can handle.

No it ain't that.

I don't' know, maybe I've been hiring

myself out too long that's all.

Oh, that's pretty sad talk for a kid in the legend business.

Well, maybe all the excitement's gettin' gone.

Maybe that's it.

I mean, I can predict every move, every reaction

of someone from a young punk kid out to make a name for himself

to big a big old fat sheriff who just wants to be left alone.

For instance,

what do you want to bet that Clint Hollister

is going to want me to burn out

the editor of this paper tonight?

Carla, you in there?

Right there Clint.

You wouldn't be with somebody n there would you Carla?

Now who would I be with, huh?

Not the window.

He's probably got Blake watching from outside.

Then it's out the same way I came in.

Right.

My gun!

Oh.

Carla, what's taking you so long?

Girl's gotta get decent doesn't she?

You ought to be flattered sweetheart.

I'm attracted to you enough to be jealous.

So.

So?

What's the matter, you have headache, too tired or what?

Tonight, it'd be more romantic.

All right a drink then.

You know how much I adore your company.

All right, down in five minutes.

You know you are a treasure.

♪

Billy, I kind of thought you might be upstairs someplace.

Whatever gave me that idea?

Blake?

Billy just rode into town Mr. Hollister.

Making 'em think you're one of them

in these sod buster clothes, huh.

Very heartwarming William.

It just so happens, I got work for you to do in town tonight.

Mr. Hollister.

Mr. Hollister, formal.

A lot of character, don't you think?

I do not think anyone in town really knows my character.

Well, it's not really your character

that concerns me, Billy.

You've got this newspaper editor to take care of first.

In the office down the street?

Daily sentinel.

That's the boy, Dwayne metcalf.

He thinks he's the Horace greeley of land's end.

He doesn't seem to care for me,

going around town suggesting that

Luke might be getting a raw deal if he got hanged.

You wish for me to speak to this editor metcalf?

Wish to speak to... Billy boy,

I want to burn the man out.

Destroy his establishment?

Did you see the headlines of this morning's edition

calling my only son a vicious rabid animal,

telling everybody he ought to be put out of his misery?

And I wonder if metcalf has any kids.

Wonder if he ever held them up over his shoulders

when they were babies, set a broken arm

or told him what to say with his first girl?

Look, I don't care if metcalf is in his place

or not when you do it Billy, I just want to see

the sky get orange tonight,

real bright orange.

♪

Lordy, lordy, lordy.

♪

Now, which one of us billies

is going to do that job on editor metcalf, you or me?

♪

It's like looking in a mirror.

Who are you?

My name is Mark Harris.

You come looking for me you say?

Well, how did you know about me,

I mean that we look so much alike?

I felt a pain where you were stabbed.

Oh, yeah the pain.

Every now in then in odd places.

You feel it also?

Hey you talk funny.

You know that don't you?

English is not my native language

nor is it yours is it?

Would you not like to know about your past,

who you are, where you come from,

why are you... Why are we different from all the rest?

Who says I'm different?

We are.

You know we are.

Water people.

Water breathers.

Are we alone in the universe?

Somewhere, there are others like us.

Where?

I do not know.

I was hoping you could tell me.

Do you have any memory of your childhood,

of home, of growing up, of your people?

What do you know of your past?

Waking up on beach, not knowing where I was or who I was.

Later figuring out I'd been beaten and rolled up there,

of picking the first name that come to me

and learning how to use a gun.

Who cares about the past anyway?

I'm more interested in what's happening in the future

and right now, do you understand that?

This man you work for...

Clint Hollister?

He pays well.

You are not like him.

You can tell that by looking at me, can ya?

Well, he's got no holds on me, ok.

Something better comes along, that's fine too.

That's right, there are other things you can turn to.

Oh yeah, like what?

I'm associated with a foundation to study the oceans.

We work off of a submersible.

Off a what?

A vessel that travels underwater.

It brought me to land's end.

Oh yeah?

Well where is it now?

Less than a mile off the shore.

Well, marky boy that covers a whole lot of territory.

It is not far off the beach where the inlet runs.

Yeah, I know where that spot is.

Of course it is several hundred feet underwater.

You said water breathers?

Without water we can not survive.

Well, anyway, I'd sure like to see that boat of yours.

You would be welcome.

I will take you.

Alone.

Why?

Because a man can get real tired

of places like this and this line of work.

Webbed hands?

Now what good are webbed hands to a gunfighter?

Now they took you for Billy Jones in this town.

They'll sure take me for Mark Harris on that boat of yours.

You didn't come ashore dressed in duds like that did ya?

I have swimming trunks.

Well, I'd sure like to see myself in them swim trunks.

Up in the loft, Billy Jones.

♪

Dr. Merrill.

Yes Jane.

I've got a man sized underwater object approaching the ship.

It's a man all right.

Can you give us a visual?

Camera six on the monitor now.

Mark.

Voice channel operating.

Mark do you read?

Are you coming in?

Answer me please.

What is it; What's wrong?

Head for the airlock, under the ship.

♪

Mark, what's wrong?

Are you all right?

Good to have you back.

Oh, Mark.

Where have you been?

What'd you find?

Why I almost forgot what I was out there looking for.

What about your...

Oh, well,

we want to hear all about it after you've had a rest.

Did you find what you were looking for?

Um hmm?

Are you going tell us about it?

Yeah, sure.

♪

Hi.

Oh, I've been looking for you Billy.

I kind of thought you'd be out this way.

Get in.

Are you going passed the washburn ranch, to the ocean?

You want to go there?

Sure any place you say.

We know each other quite well it seems.

Well, well enough for me, maybe too well for Clint.

♪

C.w., it's all very strange

ever since he came the way he came back.

Elizabeth?

He hurt himself when he was out there,

a gash on his shoulder?

Where he said he felt that pain.

Um hmm, it's all backwards,

the pain first and then a wound?

Hi there.

This is some underwater boat

you got lady but there is not single gun on board.

Now what would you do if you were attacked?

Who would attack us?

It don't matter who?

Mark, is that you?

Who said that?

C.w. On the radio phone.

I don't see nobody?

On the phone?

Mark, what's wrong with you?

Can he hear me?

Of course.

Well, hi c.W. Wherever you are,

who ever you are.

Mark, Elizabeth and I are both concerned about you.

Well, I'm worried about you too

and her running around here on a defenseless boat.

Mark.

Dr. Merrill.

What'd you do to him?

He's all shrunk up.

C.w.?

I think you better set a course for home.

Now.

Setting course yes, sir.

Oh, no.

All right, how do you work this thing?

You want me to activate the airlock sir?

That's right red and make it snappy.

Mark you can't go back outside.

Elizabeth, Mark what's going on in there.

Pretty Dr. Merrill,

Mark Harris is a lucky man.

Dr. Merrill.

Elizabeth, will somebody speak to me.

♪

Oh, night.

Whoo.

Oh night, I'd love to tell you

where I've just been and what I just saw,

even you wouldn't believe it.

Whoo!

♪

Hey Clint, what are you doing this far out here?

I didn't know you were one for salt water baths.

Hey fellas.

What's going on?

I do not know if you will ever see Billy again.

You should know, sir, that whatever Billy is,

Clint Hollister is worse.

You saying Billy held him down some?

Without Billy, there is no telling what Clint might do.

I wish there was some way I could help you.

This ain't your fight son.

No, but I do wish you well.

Good bye.

Bye Mark.

♪

Mark!

♪

I don't see no marks.

Sure ain't nothing better

for a pulled muscle than some liniment.

Too bad it smells so awful.

It is not a pulled muscle bettina.

Billy has been hurt.

You really think you can feel everything that he does?

When we are in the same area, yes.

It's Virgil.

Well, I can't say Billy don't deserve it.

Deserve what, Mr. Washburn?

Well, I was out rounding up strays

and they was at with Billy out by the draw.

Hollister's turned on him, thinks Billy's been sneaking up

to see miss Carla behind his back.

They was whooping him something fierce from what I could see.

Virg, you better tell them where they said they was taking him.

Up the Ridge.

There's a big tree up there.

They gonna hang him?

Mark, there's more to it than just hanging Billy.

Hollister was talking to Blake slate about going

directly back to town afterwards and busting Luke loose.

A jailbreak.

If he had to level the whole town he said.

Oh pa.

Virg, watch the place.

You're going to have some company up that Ridge.

♪

Honey, you and Mark get up behind them rocks up there.

I'll get up here back of these bushes.

♪

Well, a little surprise necktie party just for me?

You shouldn't have, Clint.

Fell for her that hard, did ya?

You shut your mouth.

Oh, a man of your money,

guess it's true what people say about class coming out.

All right, Billy boy, this is for Carla

and for the job you didn't do on that editor metcalf.

It's too late, if we rush in,

they'll slap the horse out from underneath him.

If you really feel everything he feels...

Are you a good shot bettina?

The rope?

You must try it; It's the only chance we have.

♪

There'll be no last words for you.

You've said enough already.

You know one nice thing about kicking off,

I don't have to look at your ugly puss anymore.

Give it up Hollister!

We've got you surrounded!

Put those guns down!

Where do you think they are?

It doesn't matter.

We're not going to be trapped here for sure.

We've still got to get my son out of jail.

♪

Dangummit, I could have shot em all.

Where's Billy?

He's over there.

♪

My hands.

We've got to warn the sheriff at land's end.

That poor boy's got trouble coming.

You are in no condition.

Oh, gotta go brother Mark.

Ain't nobody tries to make a dead giraffe

out of me and gets away with it.

Ought to be you.

Of course you ain't strong enough after that whooping.

If there is water around?

I don't need no drink, brother.

A lot of water?

Easy boy, easy boy.

Here we go, here we go!

Well, at least we ain't going to have worry

about bathing for about a week.

Congratulations, brother, I'm wet.

Now what?

How do you feel?

I feel wet.

How do you expect...

Hey that's crazy.

That's wild.

No more pain?

No, no more.

We're ready to go to town.

All right!

♪

Thanks for the shower marky boy!

♪

Is it worth it to you?

I gotta look at it this way, brother Mark,

you're going to be leaving.

I'm going to be sticking around.

I think it's a good idea to make it legal from here on in.

Now don't sweat it friend.

We're on your side.

As a matter of fact, we've come to talk to you about a job.

We're coming to get you, Luke!

We're gonna get you out!

Billy boy, I never thought I'd see the day

and it's time we left.

♪

Well, after what you did to the door of the jail,

I know you can make it but not too sure about me.

You can make it.

This kind of thing go on a lot from where you come from?

Come and see for yourself.

Oh no.

One look at that boat of yours was enough for me.

But you're welcome to stay here if you want?

Yeah.

After you.

♪

Wish I had your confidence.

You do?

How 'bout if we come out of this in one piece,

we a team?

We are a team

with you in your world and I in mine.

Yeah, that's what I figured.

♪

It is very quiet.

There's only one left.

Hollister.

And he's mine.

♪

All right Billy.

Hollister!

♪

Billy?

Are you sure?

I want you to try that one more time.

And?

I'll help you.

It's a good thing you're not sticking around, brother.

If she's not going to be able to tell us apart...

♪

How's your shoulder?

Fine Elizabeth.

I found the cause of my pain and it no longer disturbs me.

Mark, what happened to you out there?

When you came back, you were acting very strange.

That was not me.

You mean you were not yourself; I can understand that.

No, that is not what I meant.

Maybe you just don't remember how you were.

What did you find me like?

Well, not quite yourself,

typical symptom of insipia dysteria

in which you actually produced surface manifestations

of an inner pain you were feeling.

We can talk more about this later if you are willing.

♪