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Howdy.

If you're looking for a drink,
it's too early.

I'm looking for someone,
friend of mine.

Maybe just hit town.

He's about my height,
black hair, and a smooth talker.

We got a whole town
full of smooth talkers.

You might ask the clerk
at the hotel over there.

Thanks.

Will?
In here, Jenner.

I've been waiting for you.

Where are the others?

They're still sniffing that cold trail
you left back at Rim Springs.

Me, I play hunches.

Especially when it's worth $5,000.

Butler want me that bad?

That bad.

I got a better idea.

I'm coming around
with my hands empty, all right?

All right.

What's on your mind, Jenner?

Let's you and me make a deal.

Them plates are worth
more than 5,000,

even if we split between us.

You're too late. I don't have them.

That's too bad.

But there's still the 5,000.

You think $5,000 is gonna make you
that fast with a gun?

Butler said dead or alive.
I'm betting you want it alive.

That's a bad bet.

Hey, what's all the shooting about?

Someone better call the sheriff.

Help! Stop him, he's getting away!

Help, help!

Something's in his pockets.

All right, step aside.

He's dead.

Who did it?
He took off south.

But he's carrying a bullet in his side.
I seen him slump when it hit.

He won't get far.

This is the fourth robbery
and murder this month, marshal.

We're getting mighty sick of it.

Anybody know him?
No.

We was just trying to identify him.
Took these out of his pockets.

Anybody who's interested
can get signed up for a posse,

leaving as soon
as we can organized.

Find anything interesting there?

Nothing but $22 and a name.

Will Cartwright.

Well, come on,
we haven't got all day.

Yeah, come on, will you, Hess?
I'm getting kind of dizzy up here.

Something gonna make you
a lot dizzier

if you don't quit yapping at me.

Anyhow, it's about time
one of you fellas got on this rope.

No, that hook's dangerous.
You might hurt yourself.

Uh, I can't let you work up here, Hoss.
You're liable to slip and fall off.

We'd be half a day filling in the hole
where you hit the ground.

You two give me a pain.

Hey, Pa.

Joseph, will you stop fooling around
up there and come on down?

"Stop fooling around.
Come down." Heh.

"Stop fooling around."

I've got some news.

It was wired from the marshal
in Pine City.

My nephew, Will Cartwright,
was killed there this morning.

What happened, Pa?

I don't know, it doesn't say.

But I guess they must have made
positive identification.

Marshal just wanted to know
if he was any relation to us.

Well, Will's the cousin
that disappeared, isn't he?

Yeah.

Yes, the last time I saw him,
he was about 5 years old.

Adam and I were coming out west,

we stepped off in Ohio
to see my brother, John.

John was mixed up in one of those
hairbrained business deals of his

that never get anywhere.

You remember that,
don't you, Adam?

Well, not really.
I was about the same age as Will.

But I do remember you tried to find
him later on, when his father died.

Yeah.

I sure did try.
He disappeared without a trace.

I'm gonna go to Pine City,
make the arrangements.

Do you want us to go with you?
No, no, no.

I'll go pack a bag.

Hyah!

Whoa.

Ben Cartwright?

Yes.
Oh, I'm Marshal Hollister.

I got the wire you were coming.
Thank you for meeting me.

Well, I figured you'd like to get
this over with as quick as possible.

Well, yes, I would.

My office is just down the street.

If you're not too tired, we can take care
of a few details right now.

All right, good.

Hank, take
Mr. Cartwright's luggage to the hotel.

I wish I could tell you
we caught the killer,

but he cold-trailed us
about four miles out of town.

We found his horse with a broken leg.
I guess he stole himself another one.

We got a shaky description of him,
but maybe it'll be good enough.

I hope so. Marshal?

Can you tell me how it happened?

Afraid I can't tell you much
about that either.

Witnesses didn't get there
till after the shooting was over.

All they saw was the killer bending
over your nephew's body,

going through his pockets.

You think it was robbery.

Well, it sounds like it,
but there's one pad I can't figure.

Your nephew still had his watch
and $22 in his wallet.

The killer could've been scared off

before he found
what he was looking for.

Let's go inside.

Here they are.

The money is still there,
if you wanna count it.

No, that won't be necessary.

I gave this to his father.

There's some papers to be signed,
Mr. Cartwright.

Receipt for the personal effects,
a release for the body.

Yes.

Where is the, uh...?

Where's my nephew?

As a matter of fact, I wasn't sure
whether I'd get the answer

to that wire I sent you,
so I went on with a temporary burying.

Yeah.

Well, that takes care
of everything here.

Maybe it'd be better
if you checked in over at the hotel

and let me take care of the rest.

You'll be needing a wagon
to take the body back.

I can have everything ready
in the morning.

I think I'd like

to pay my respects
before I check in to the hotel.

Cemetery's just west of town
on the far side of the hill.

I'll find it.

Mr. Cartwright,

my horse is the bay right outside.

You're welcome to take him
if you want.

Thank you.

Hold it.

Drop it, Butler.

My name isn't Butler.

Now turn around.

Slow.

Who are you?

Name's Cartwright.

Ben?

Ben Cartwright?

Yeah.

You picked a rotten time

to visit relatives, Uncle.

Will?

All right, easy, Will. Easy.
Not all at once.

Nothing like coming back
from the dead, is there?

Well, I don't know what happened,
Will,

but whatever it was,
I thank God it wasn't you in that grave.

Well, I still got a fifty-fifty chance
of making it.

Well, we gotta get you to a doctor.

No. Look, I've been carrying
this slug around for two days.

A couple more isn't gonna make
any difference.

Oh, you're talking nonsense now.
No.

That grave, the one you just paid
your respects to,

belongs to a man named Jenner.

He was paid to kill me.

Now, there are half a dozen more
just like him

waiting to do the same thing,

unless they believe I'm in that grave.

I was waiting hereto see if someone
would come and check it out.

I never expected to find you.

Well, the marshal wired

when your identification
was found on the body.

No, no, you ride out of here.

Butler and his men, they don't like
anybody called Cartwright.

Who's Butler?

Like I say, he's a man
that doesn't like Canwrights.

We're getting to a doctor now.

Ben, I'm gonna do this my way.

You've gotta let me help you
out of here.

Would you get out of here? Wait--

That was a fairly nasty wound.

Must have been carrying that bullet
for quite a spell.

You said it was a hunting accident?

Yeah,
happened up in the mountains.

That so?

Slug looks like it come from a .44.

You fellows do your hunting
with pistols?

Of course, I guess a .44
will stop a deer quick as a rifle

if you're close enough.
Yeah.

You live around here, do you?

No, we're from Virginia City.
Oh.

Guess you haven't heard
about the shooting we had here.

Man named Cartwright was killed.

Witnesses say that the killer caught
a slug before he got away.

Oh?

More than likely just a grudge fight
between a couple of saddle tramps.

Yeah.

Unless maybe the fellow who got away
killed in self-defense.

Could have.

Of course, he'd have to be able
to prove that.

Well, maybe he can.

Oh, I don't know. The town's
all primed for a quick hanging.

Been too many robberies, murders.

Are you saying

that he's convicted already
even though he's innocent?

Well, I'm saying he'd be smart
to find a town

that's friendlier, to start with.

One like, say, Virginia City.

Oh.

Of course, being a doctor,
I'm more partial to saving lives

than to seeing them choked off
at the end of a rope.

But then I guess
I'm just plain getting too old

to enjoy a good Saturday hanging.

Well...

I doubt if you ever did enjoy one,
doctor.

You better have the doctor over
at Virginia City

check that wound
when you get back.

Thanks. I'll do that, doc.

How soon do you think
he can travel?

Tomorrow morning.

Oh, he can sleep on the cot
in the back room.

Now, just set yourself down easy.

Easy.

Don't worry.
He won't even turn over till morning.

Yeah. Oh, doctor--

I'm not interested in any speeches.

Past my bedtime. I gotta get up early
and make some ranch calls.

I'll be back about noon tomorrow,

which is when I'm gonna make
a report to the marshal

about patching up a bullet hole.

About noon?
Mm.

Thank you.

Here's a blanket.

There's the back door.

He's welcome to use either
anytime he feels like it.

Very good.

Well, I'm locking up. Good night.

Good night, doctor.

Now, Will...
Yeah?

I've gotta go back to the hotel
just in case the marshal comes by.

Ah.

Now, I'll be by to pick you up
in the morning, early.

You--

You never give up.

When you're yourself again,
you can take care of your own affairs.

You can do whatever you wanna do.
Good night.

See you in the morning.

Mr. Cartwright?
Yes?

Uh, forgive me for intruding
upon your moment of sorrow,

but may I have a word with you?
It's quite important. My name is Butler.

Butler. Uh, come in, please.

Thank you.

I see we share
the same inconvenience

in the quality of our lodgings.

I just arrived in town,
had to settle for an oppressive room.

Excuse me, Mr. Butler,
I'm just in the midst of packing here.

You said it was quite important?

Oh, yes, to the point.

Well, your nephew
was a business associate of mine.

My business is of a financial nature.

I deal in investments,
securities and stocks.

You understand.
Yes.

Shortly before his tragic death,

your nephew resigned
from the business without notice.

He took some valuable securities
with him.

To be blunt, Mr. Cartwright,
he stole them.

I'm sorry to hear that.

I wouldn't have thought
my nephew capable of dishonesty.

Excuse me.
Yes. Uh, to be sure.

However, as a relative, you obviously
inherit your nephew's personal effects.

For that reason, I wonder
if you would mind if I examined them,

uh, only to ensure any recovery
of stolen goods.

Uh, I'm sure you'd like the Cartwright
name to remain unsullied.

Yes.

Here.

There was nothing else?
No package?

No.

No, just the gun and this.

That's all the marshal gave me.

Perhaps the, uh,

securities were the reason
for my nephew being killed.

Hmm. Perhaps you're right.

My condolences, Mr. Cartwright.
I won't trouble you any further.

No trouble at all, Mr. Butler.

I'm sorry that I couldn't have been
more helpful.

I'm sure you are. Good day.

Well, has he got them?
I'm not sure yet.

Maybe I ought to talk to him myself.

Your percentage in this little operation
depends entirely

upon a successful and inconspicuous
recovery of the plates,

not on your ability to kill.

As long as I get my cut.

I have every intention
of making absolutely certain you do.

Did you find Jenner?

Ah, he's disappeared.

And I scraped this town clean too.

Hmm.
Hey. Uh...

Maybe he took the plates

and decided to go in business
for himself. What do you think?

Jenner's greedy, but he's not stupid.

You forget I still have the press,
the paper and the ink and the skill.

Without these,
the plates are absolutely useless.

Ah, he could be holed up
somewhere.

Remote possibility.

So, what now?

I think you will keep an eye
on the grieving uncle for a few days

in the event that he may have
discovered something else

in his nephew's possession,
more than he would care to claim.

If I get a line on the killer,
Mr. Cartwright, I'll let you know.

Sorry everything took so long.

I'm very grateful
for everything you've done, marshal.

The mare's kind of bit shy.

You might have to whip her across
the rump a couple of times

before she settles.
I'm sure she'll be fine.

By the way,
there was a gent looking for you.

I sent him over to the hotel.
I suppose he saw you.

Yes, yes, he did, marshal.
It was a personal matter.

Bye, marshal. Thank you.
Goodbye.

Hyah!

Well, I think I'll go to the café
and have me some breakfast.

You wanna join me, Bixby?
No, thank you, marshal.

I've got a whole stable full
of customers

waiting for their own breakfast.

Morning.

Oh, morning.

Something I can do for you?

Yeah, you can saddle up that chestnut
in the second stall.

I knew there was something I forgot.

The one with the loose shoe, ain't it?
Right.

Well, it'll only take me a minute
if you wanna wait.

That's all right, I'm in no hurry.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Uncle,

that's the second time
you've almost got it from me.

I got a wagon outside. Let's get out.
No, no, this is where I check out.

We settled this last night.
That was last night.

But I feel better this morning.

That's good, then let's go.
Now, now, wait a minute.

You helped me out of a tight spot,
and I'm grateful.

The only way to show how grateful
is to put some distance between us.

Oh.

Yeah.
Well...

All right.
Oh, uh, your friend Butler is in town.

Came to see me early this morning.

Imagine some of his friends
are with him.

You can go out there
and face them down single-handed

or you can get under that wagon tarp
I've get outside and come with me.

Well, when you put it that way,
it sounds pretty clear-cut, doesn't it?

Yeah, pretty clear-cut.

All right, let's go.

Give you a hand.

This way. Now, easy.

Hyah! Hyah!

Whoa.

You still all right?
Oh, I'm just fine.

Get up and stretch a bit.

Where are we?

We're just outside Virginia City.

We should make the Ponderosa
by nightfall.

Mm.

The Ponderosa.

I remember
my father talking about it.

He said it was such a beautiful name
for such rough and rugged country.

Yep, rough and rugged it was,

and rough and rugged it is.

He always said that you'd make
a success of anything you ever tried.

He had his big dreams too.

Only he died chasing gold in
every wild-goose corner of this world.

I'll tell you something about him.

He may have died broke,

but that man was never poor.

Oh.

Piece of roti?
No.

You know,

I went looking for you after he died.

You'd left without a trace.

Well, I...

I didn't wanna be pan
of any other family.

You see,

I loved and admired my father.

Maybe that's why I'm like him.

I've chased my dreams
around the world too.

As you can see,

not too successfully.

Well, let's get on to your Ponderosa.

We'll see what you've got.

Hmm?
Yeah, I'm okay.

Hyah! Hyah!

Hey, I wanna send a wire.

Yes, sir, where to?

Pine City Hotel.

Mr. E. J. Butler.

Have found Will alive.

Kind of a long jump, isn't it?

Give up?

Never.

You know, Pa should have been back
by now.

Yeah, if he don't hurry up,
supper's gonna be all dried up.

He didn't say for sure
when he'd be back.

Well, I still think one of us
should have gone with him.

Yeah.

Even though none of us
did know this cousin Will.

Couldn't have been easy for Pa.

Whoa.

Hey, that's him now.

Whoa.

Now, let me see
how we can manage this.

I'll give you a hand there, Pa.
Boys.

Thank you.

I have a surprise for you.

That wire from the marshal
in Pine City?

It was a mistake.

It's your cousin, Will.

Howdy, Will.

That's Hoss.
Hoss.

Little Joe.

Will, a pleasure to see you.
Little Joe.

Adam.
Adam.

Like Lazarus rising from the dead.
Welcome to the Ponderosa, cousin.

Now, we're kind of tired.
You boys save us any supper?

We sure did, Pa. Come on, Will.

Oh, what do you got there, Pa?

Tell you about it later.

Let me get this straight.
You were gonna bury that man there

under your name, right?

That was my plan
till your father showed up.

Well, Will figured that if Butler
accepted the fact that he was dead,

Will could feel safe.

Safe? Safe to do what?

Spend the rest of his life running
using somebody else's name,

living like an outlaw?

If it'll make you feel any better,
I make a rotten outlaw.

I think I proved that.

You mean with this fellow Butler
you were talking about?

He cranks out a very fancy $20 bill.

Oh, yeah? So it's counterfeiting
this Butler was involved in, huh?

Well, our friend prefers
to call it the investment business.

Huh.

Well, nobody can say the Canwrights
don't go in for trouble in a big way.

Tell me.

How did you ever get hooked up
with a fella like Butler?

Well, when you're between jobs,
Uncle, you take what's handy.

Handy?

You can hardly call counterfeiting
handy.

Now, just relax.
I didn't circulate any phony money.

Butler said he needed a bodyguard.

The money looked good,
so I signed on.

That's when I found out the money
wasn't quite good enough.

I didn't bother to say goodbye.

And he wanted to kill you for that?

Oh, well, not exactly. Uh...

On my way out,
I borrowed his engraving plates.

Ah. That's what Butler
was looking for.

Well, this food
has made me feel like a new man.

Now, if someone can lend me a razor,
maybe I can look like one.

Well, there's some hot water
and a razor in the kitchen. Come on.

Looks to me like our cousin Will
has got himself into a little trouble.

Yeah.

All that talking he did about taking
these plates from that fella Butler,

he didn't mention nothing about
turning them over to the authorities.

That's right. And what about
this running away, Pa?

You're not going along with that,
are you?

I wanted him to give himself up.

But I couldn't let him do it in Pine City.
They'd have strung him up.

It's an open and shut case
of self-defense,

so I'm hoping that he'll give himself up
to Sheriff Coffee here in Virginia City.

Yeah. Did he agree to that?

No, not yet, but I think he will.

At least I hope he will.

And I think we ought to try
to persuade him to.

I got a feeling our cousin needs
a little more help than just a shave.

That's exactly
what we've been talking about.

And I think we're the ones
that ought to help him.

If he'll accept it.

He seems to be pretty satisfied
with his own plans.

Look, Pa,
we know he's a Cartwright.

We know he's a relative, but how do
we know he's telling the truth?

I may not be the best judge
of character in the world, but I think--

And not because he's a Cartwright
or a relative.

I think that, basically,
he's an honest man.

Yeah, but how are we gonna
persuade him to give himself up?

I don't know.

But at least let's show
a little faith in him.

All right.

Bullet holes in these plates?

That's right.

I put them there myself

just in case I didn't get a chance
to turn them over to the law.

Now, get me a horse and I'll leave.

Put the coffin out in the barn.

We'll tend to it in the morning.

Thanks.

For what?

Well, for finally agreeing with me.

What are we agreeing about?

To bury that coffin out there
under my name.

Oh.

You still think that's the thing to do?

Of course it is.

Listen,
when Jenner doesn't show up

and Butler remembers
that you brought a body back here,

he's gonna come nosing around,

the way he would have at Pine City
if you hadn't shown up.

Well, so he noses around

and finds a grave with Will Cartwright's
name on it. Then what?

Well, show it to him.

I'll be out of here by then.

Where you going?
Maybe China.

I've never been to China.

The world's full of places, Ben.

That's right, world's full of places.

Full of people too.
What about people, Will?

Have you ever found people
more important than places?

Well, sure. A girl now and then,
a few friends. What are you getting at?

I'm just trying to figure out
who you are.

Well, that's simple.

I like the sea, I like French food,

I like to dance a fandango,
if the girl's pretty.

Cards, anything that's going.
That's me.

You might put all that together
and say that I'm my father's son.

Are you?

Did you forget
that I knew your father?

We were boys together.
We grew up together.

I went to sea,
but whenever I came back,

we managed to meet somewhere,
somehow.

We'd talk and plan and dream.

But there comes a time
when a man stops dreaming

and settles down
to make one dream a reality, like I did.

Like your father would have done
if he'd lived.

What about you?

Not me.

And not my father.

I knew him better than you did.

Hmm.

Yeah, maybe you did.

Maybe you did.

I guess we'll never know what
your father would have done, will we?

But there's one thing
that we both know about him.

He was a proud man.

Yes, he was.
Yes, he was.

And he was proud of his name.

And he would never have done
what you wanna do.

Discard his name, bury it,
run off to China or wherever

on the pretext that it's adventure.

Not John Cartwright.

Maybe Will Canwright,

but not John.

Well, I guess I had a long trip.

I'm tired. I'm going to bed.

Oh.

Tomorrow we'll put whatever name
you want on that grave.

I sure hope we're doing right by Will.

Those counterfeit plates
he's gonna turn in,

the government
will give him a medal.

Yeah, after we dispense
with that little item.

Well, they'll believe him, all right.

What about that fellow Butler?

Well, after he gets through telling
the sheriff his story,

it'll be Butler
who'll wanna get his name changed.

Hmm. Hey, Joe, come on.

Yeah, I'm coming.

Better tell Pa we're ready to go.
Yeah.

Everything's all set, Pa.
Good.

Sure glad you made this decision,
Will.

One thing I learned
drifting around the world,

there are a few men, not too many,
mind you,

that are smarter than me.

Will.

Your resurrection
is a most welcome surprise.

May I introduce a business associate
of mine, Mr. Gannett?

And another member of my staff.

And in the unlikely event they should
require some assistance, three others.

It's me you want, not them.

You're only partially right.
I want you and the plates.

I buried them.

Now, if you'll let them go,
I'll show you where.

Will.

How about it, Butler?

Do we ride out of here or not?

All right, hold it.

Take care of them, Hoss.

Yes, sir.

You should have let me go with them.
You could have all been killed.

What, after you'd decided
to keep the Cartwright name?

We couldn't let
the likes of them change that.

We ain't about to lose a cousin
that easily.

Especially we've hardly had a chance
to get acquainted yet.

Yeah, give it a little time,
you'll get used to us.

How about it, Will?

You got the time?

All for one, huh?

Well, it's better than one all alone.

Well,

I kind of think it's gonna take
some getting used to.

Well, take your time, Will.
Take your time.

You might get to like the idea.

Let's get to town, boys.

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