Original subtitles

Tonight, on "The Dukes."

Bo and Luke are back in Hazzard.

Welcome home, fellas.

I'd sooner welcome the plague.

Ooh!

Woo-hoo.

Alright.

We're home for good.

♪ Just the Good Ol' Boys ♪

♪ Never meaning no harm ♪

♪ Beats all you never saw ♪

♪ Been in trouble with the law since the day they was born ♪

♪ Straightnin' the curves ♪

♪ Flattenin' the hills ♪

♪ Someday the mountain might get 'em ♪

♪ But the law never will ♪

♪ Making their way ♪

♪ The only way they know how ♪

♪ That's just a little bit more than the law will allow ♪

♪ Just the Good Ol' Boys ♪

♪ Wouldn't change if they could ♪

♪ Fighting the system like a true modern day Robin Hood ♪

'Yee-haw'

This is Hazzard.

But that ain't General Lee.

Sure acts like it though, don't it?

Frankly, I didn't know anybody in Hazzard

could drive like that except the Dukes.

But it can't be them because the Dukes

were at the Boar's Nest.

As are all other male corpuckles in Hazzard.

'Yee-haw.'

'Alright.'

That's the Tri-County Beauty Contest

which would stiffen the spine of any red-blooded American boy

except Cooter, 'cause he ain't here.

You see, he's supposed to be a judge.

And for Cooter to miss this

well, y'all know something is wrong.

Well, while the judges are busy scoring points

Coy and Vance are trying to pick out the best cook.

Anybody who believes that, will buy Tennessee beach property.

Of course, Enos has only got eyes for Daisy.

Who, as last year's queen, gets to crown the winner.

- Very nice. - What about the letter?

Not now, put that thing away. Now ain't the time.

- Ain't you through, yet? - There it is.

Alright, Jesse. Come on, now.

We gotta have the winner.

- Oh, let's here them now. - Now, that's a two and..

Oh oh oh, wait a minute, here. We got ourselves a tie.

'A tie.'

'How did that happen?'

Alright, well, we're gonna have more than one winner, folks.

Listen, everybody would you just hush up

so I can hear myself talk.

Alright, now, listen, since we got ourselves a tie, here

'it looks like we're gonna have to give out duplicate prizes.'

Anyhow, I'm very pleased to announce that the winners are..

Bo and Luke Duke?

'How y'all doing?'

- How are you? - Great.

You were due 45 seconds ago.

Well, Bo's slowing down in his old age.

Don't y'all wanna get a better look at the love..

What a horrendous surprise!

- Hey! - Hi!

- Uncle Jesse. - How are you? Good to see you.

I'll tell you, Daisy, you still are

the prettiest and healthiest girl in Hazzard.

Yeah, absolutely.

You come home for a visit, didn't write nor nothing.

Oh, we ain't home for a visit Uncle Jesse.

- We're home for good. - Why? What happened?

- Are you in trouble? - No, there ain't no trouble.

We'll talk about it later over dinner, alright.

Alright, you fellas stay here and have a beer.

We'll go home and fix a big welcome home party.

Alright, you do it, we're leavin'.

I wanna say something.

I'm just so thrilled I got my whole family

back together again.

You're just saying..

'Bo and Luke Duke back in Hazzard for good.'

Well, you know the "bad news" bad news

is the fact that Bo and Luke Duke

they're not, they're not gonna cotton to the idea of you

foreclosing on Cooter's garage

and then tearing it down just to put in your shopping center.

You mean the beautiful shopping center like this, don't you?

That's a doozy.

'Well, I'll tell you something.'

'I like the idea of them boys not liking it.'

Because there ain't nothing they can do about it.

But wait till Daisy sees that you put a Boss burger restaurant

in the place of Cooter's garage.

Yeah. Well, Daisy ain't gonna have a chance to see it.

On account of the first thing you're gonna do

is hide this here model.

Be careful of them little trees when you do it.

Wait, wait, wait just a pea-picking minute, here.

What do you mean hide this thing?

Where am I gonna find a space empty enough to put that thing?

- Try the inside of your head. - Oh.

That's the emptiest place in town.

Yeah, wait, listen.

Flash, get away from the trees.

- Oh, it's beautiful! I love it! - Isn't that great?

No, it ain't Christmas.

But it sure felt like it with Bo and Luke back home.

Well, shoot. What's the matter, Uncle Jesse?

Don't you like what we got?

I love it. Look at the..

I think it's just great.

- What is it? - It's a food processor.

It'll help you in the kitchen.

Oh. Oh-oh, sure.

Sure. That's-that's lovely.

Look it there. That goes right on there.

'Alright, now, Luke.'

Why don't you and Bo..

'...tell us what it is you're keeping from us?'

What do you mean?

Well, now, ever since you've been home

we've been talking about everything

but what brought you home.

Go ahead and show him the letter, Coy.

It's from Aunt Bessie.

Uncle Elbert, he's in the hospital

'and looks like he'll be there a while.'

And what with two kids to raise, nobody to help with farm chores

we thought it'd be a good idea

if we went up there and helped her out.

Yeah, so Coy and Vance gave Luke and me a call

and, well, shoot, we figured that

we're coming on by this way anyway so we'd..

Just sort of fit in with our plans.

I'm sure Aunt Bessie needs the help

but gee whiz, you fellas didn't

get to do anything you set out to do.

We got one more surprise for you.

'Go get it.'

Wait a second. Hold on just a second.

- You wait till you see this. - What is it?

There she is.

Oh, my goodness!

How about that, huh?

Nascar Mobile Cup.

- Your names are engraved in it. - First place.

Ain't that great? "Bo and Luke Duke."

Yeah, we won in that Mobile last weekend.

And, shoot, it's the grand prize, Uncle Jesse.

We beat some of the best Nascar drivers in the country.

And then we was celebrating

and after that Luke and me got to thinking that...

'And we started talking about old times back here in Hazzard.'

You know, the Boar's Nest and you and Daisy and..

Well, we... kind of came to the point where we figured

we just loved y'all too much to stay away.

So we... figured we'll come on home.

Hazzard just sort of seemed the place to be.

Uncle Jesse, ain't you gonna say something?

Yeah.

I say we better get at that crawdad bisque

or it's gonna get colder than J.D.'s heart.

- I second that. Let's go - Let's do it.

- Come on. - Sure.

My, it's good to see you.

It's good to be back, I can tell you that much.

First place at Mobile, that's something.

Old Cooter looks a might peaked, don't he?

Well, he's working two jobs, day and night

to pay off the balloon mortgage payments to Boss..

Which have blown up 20 times normal.

Which is normal for Boss.

What brings you out at the crack of dawn, Boss?

I tell you what brings him out.

He knows you're an early bird and him being a worm

he plans on catching you.

What? Rosco, would you..

I think I said that backwards.

Well, of course you did. You've always been backwards.

Look, I'll tell you why I'm here, Cooter.

It's because that repair you done

on the hood of Rosco's patrol car last week done broke down.

'Yeah, it wasn't worth a doodley.'

'Would you mind?'

And listen, I ain't paying for no re-repairing work

that's for sure.

And speaking of paying..

You know that that balloon payment

on your mortgage comes due next week.

'And since you ain't been able to get yourself no loan'

from no bank in this here state, including mine

I know you won't mind if I just look around to see

where I can start my destruct work.

Boss Hogg, now you listen to me.

It ain't next week yet, so I want you off of my property.

Rosco, you can come back and pick up this car

in about an hour.

But you come back here by yourself.

- Yeah, well.. - Well.

That's no way for Cooter to talk to you

after all the things you ain't never done for him.

You know, I hate an ingrate that ain't grateful

for the things he ain't never had.

What? Oh.

Hey, you guys, when you get back in town

you gotta stop by the Boar's Nest, get some pop.

We hardly got a chance to talk.

We wanna thank you for bringing the car we came in.

Don't mention it.

Uncle Jesse, thank you for the kindness

you and Daisy showed us.

Oh, don't thank me just tell you what you do

you just write regular, that will be thanks.

'And, now, drive careful on the road'

and stop and eat once in a while on the road.

Give Aunt Bessie our regards and..

- Sure gonna miss you. - I'll miss you, too.

'Take care of yourself.'

Looks like I got some speck in my eye.

Listen, I made y'all a snack for the road.

Thank you, sugar.

I sure love you.

'Love you, too.'

I'm gonna miss you.

I'm gonna miss you so much.

Take care of these guys.

Yeah, I better take care

of that speck in Uncle Jesse's eye, too.

- Alright, then. - Take care.

- Bye. - Bye.

- Bye. - Bye-bye.

Well, here you go. Take this thing, would you?

- Here, take this. - That's alright.

Sure looks like ya'll took good care of the General Lee.

The General took good care of us.

- Yeah. - One thing.

Cooter fixed the radiator last week

and we ain't had time to test it.

- Well, we'll take care of that. - Y'all take care of yourself.

- We will, if you will. - Alrighty.

The keys to General Lee.

Dang, this is kinda like Changing of the Guard

at Buckingham Palace.

- Here you go. - Here you go, Coy.

So you take care of yourselves. Stay out of trouble.

Thanks for holding down the fort, alright.

Keep between the ditches, alright.

Oh, wait a minute.

Alright, buddy.

Vance, the door's open.

'Kind of need practice, you know.'

Yeah.

'Don't be strangers, you two.'

Alrighty.

If Rosco ever chases you up our way

you stop by and say hey. Alright?

- You got it. - Alright.

Yee-haw!

What a pair!

I tell you, coz, I never thought I could miss anything

as much as Hazzard.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

The trees are a little taller, the soil's a little redder.

Just something real special about it, you know.

'You hear that?'

'I sure do.'

- Now I know we're back. - That's old Enos on our tail.

- Welcome back, Bo. - Shall we?

- May as well. - Bye, Enos. Whoo-hoo!

Oh, shoot, the radiator blew.

Didn't Coy say Cooter fixed that?

I thought so. Pull it over.

- How are you doing, Enos? - Hi, Enos.

What's the matter with it?

You know, Coy said he didn't get a chance to test it right.

Well, Cooter ain't..

Go ahead, Enos, write us up. We ain't gonna argue.

Why would I do that, Bo?

I was buzzing y'all to stop

'cause I wanted to escort you into town.

This being your first day back.

I'm proud of you.

That's mighty kind of you.

After we let the General cool down

we plug that hole in the radiator

and fill her up with water.

- Yeah. - Back off it.

Uncle Jesse, I am so glad Bo and Luke are back.

You know, I think being on the road has matured them some.

Used to be, they'd just go tearing off into Hazzard

like every night was New Year's Eve.

Now, I'll bet they're just kind of moseying in

like little kittens on padded paws.

'Hey, come on out and welcome back to Hazzard'

'two of Hazzard's finest citizens.'

Oh, must be a parade.

- Would you look at that. - Oh, what?

There's Enos in a patrol car. That's county property.

Yeah.

And he's parading them Dukes around like they was..

Well, conquering heroes or something.

'Bo and Luke Duke.'

'Hey, county, come on out.' 'Hey, y'all.'

'Hey, Augusta, Sonny.'

'Hey, y'all, come on out.' Yee-haw!'

'Two of Hazzard's favorite citizens, let's hear it.'

'Favorite citizens, Bo and Luke Duke!'

'Let's hear it!'

We don't have to listen to that noise.

We'll just shut this window.

Ooh!

'Two of Hazard's favorite citizens, Bo and Luke.'

Say, Luke, what is that ugly lookin' thing sticking

out from underneath that hood?

Well, I'll be danged if it ain't a Cooter Davenport.

Ugly.

- Who are you calling ugly? - We're still fooling alright.

Good to see you. Good to see you.

Hey, man, I got your card from Talladega.

- You did? - Oh, yes, yes.

Who taught him to print big letters?

- He did. - I did that.

How'd you like the front of that?

Mmm-hmm. Yeah.

I heard y'all done good on the track.

- Yes, sir. - He did alright on the track.

But he saved his fancy moves for off-track.

As matter of fact, you come out to the house for dinner

I tell you about it.

I wish I could, but, you know..

Well, shoot, we got crawdad bisque and a peach pie.

And you know that I could never resist Uncle Jesse's cooking.

I'm gonna have to take

a rain check this time, I'm afraid.

What am I looking for?

How about these for starters?

'You're slipping up there a little bit, ain't you, buddy?'

Yeah, I reckon I've been kind of burning

at both ends, you know.

It appears to us that our buddy

might have a bit of a bobcat biting at his tail.

Maybe we can help you out.

Look, y'all, if I got a bobcat biting at my tail

I'd just as soon keep it personal. Alright?

Oh, say, listen, we got a little bit of business

to talk with you, anyway.

- Yeah? - Oh, that's a fact.

You know that radiator you fixed for Coy and Vance.

Well, it's gonna need a little re-fixing

- Because she blew up on us. - Yeah.

Blew up?

Well, lookie here, maybe if y'all didn't go lead-footing

around in General Lee like you was still on a Nascar circuit

'it wouldn't just blow up, you know what I mean?'

You wait just a minute now.

You got no call to talk to us like that.

Don't you tell me what call I got and what call I ain't got!

This is my garage and your coming in here and..

You know, this is one of those times that you hope friendship

overrides circumstances.

Luke, I ain't believing what I just heard.

We sure picked us one rotten time to come back to Hazzard.

Well, look at it this way, Bo.

If Cooter's so tore up inside that he treats us like that

we couldn't have picked us a better time

to come back to Hazzard.

But what are you to do for a man full of pain

and won't tell you where it hurts?

Look for symptoms, I guess.

Let's go see Daisy. Maybe she heard something.

No, I think we're gonna need a specialist for this.

- Jesse? - Yes, sir.

Give him a call, have him meet us in town.

You got it.

'Would you look at that?'

'That's a nice looking machine, ain't it?'

- 'That's Petey Willis' car.' - 'You're right.'

Why don't we go and talk to him?'

'Have a beer, say hello.'

'Let's not forget to talk to Daisy.'

'That's what we're here for.'

Alright.

That would give the General a run

for his money, don't you think?

- Here you go. - Thank you.

Oh, thank you!

Hey, Daisy.

You gotta guess who's sitting over there.

Oh, you mean, Petey Willis?

Him and Bo are almost drinking buddies.

It's just like that.

What we came in for is... you haven't heard

about trouble with Cooter, have you?

No, no. Well, didn't y'all see him?

We went by the garage and saw somebody

that looked a lot like Cooter.

He wasn't acting himself.

Boss ain't putting any burrs under his saddle, is he?

Nothing that I know about.

Well, keep your ears on and your eyes open.

Let's go see Petey.

- Grab me a beer. - Me, too.

- Sure hope he remembers me. - I sure hope he does too.

Excuse me, Mr. Willis.

I don't know if you remember me or not, but...

- Bo Duke. - Yeah.

And Luke Duke.

- Good to see you. - I remember you boys.

Great.

This is my daughter, Sarah-Ann.

- Pleased to meet you. - Pleased to meet you.

My backup driver and friend, Joey Bryan.

Nice to meet you.

Pull up a couple of chairs. Sit down.

Yes, sir.

- Here you go. - Anybody using that?

Thank you.

'What are you two doing here?'

I thought you were riding high on the circuit.

Well, Luke and me kind of retired.

This is where we grew up, so we made it back here.

Wish some of that would rub off on my daddy.

'The retiring part.'

- But your daddy is retired. - Was retired.

The barn got too small for the horse.

Joey's right about that. I was planning on a comeback.

'In the Atlanta 500 next week.'

You're kidding.

I want one more trophy to balance up my mantelpiece.

Then it's back to the barn.

That would make it an even thousand?

You boys don't know a good mechanic in Atlanta, do you?

'Cause Petey here needs someone to fine-tune his car.

Luke and me know the best mechanic in the world.

That's a fact.

'His name's Cooter Davenport.'

That kind of recommendation's good enough for me.

Well, then, that does it.

If you all excuse me, I wanna go

confirm our reservations in Atlanta.

Yes, sir.

Daddy, isn't there any way I can talk you out of this?

Now, honey, you can put me out to pasture

but not until after one more race.

Now, you two tell me about that barn burner

you won up in Mobile.

Yeah, Emma. Yeah.

You can stop worrying. We ain't gonna lose that bet.

A couple of hicks just opened a door

to the vault, only they don't know it.

We took the checkered flag, bam, just like cat's whiskers.

Yeah, well, that's what I figured.

Yeah. Come on, now.

That gives me an idea.

After your friend Cooter has my engine singing our song

I was thinking of letting her out a little.

You wouldn't happen to know two young men

'preferably mostly retired'

'who'd like to give me a little push, would you?'

Well, yes, sir, we sure do.

Good. I'll see y'all here in town, later.

- Alright. - Alright.

Yeah, just like that.

I gotta go. Bye.

Miss Willis, listen, I wouldn't worry too much about your daddy.

Shoot, he's forgot more about driving

than most guys ever learn.

That's just what worries me, the things he's forgotten.

What do you suppose that's all about?

I ain't got the slightest idea.

Well, you could tell things was getting

back to normal in Hazzard County.

Boss had ordered Rosco to ticket the Dukes on any charge

as a welcome home present.

Feels good, don't it?

Don't look now. There's two hound dogs

ready to take a bite out of our tail.

With that radiator still not up to snuff

we can't do much about it.

Well, give it a try.

Oh oh! Look over there. I'm gonna crash!

One of them hound dogs just went down.

'Ah ah!'

Ah! Ooh.

Well, there goes hound dog number two.

We must be doing somethin' right.

'Boss, this is your local sheriff'

'Rosco P. Coltrane calling.'

- 'Come back.' - This is J.D. Hogg.

Come back, yourself.

Listen, Boss, Enos and I

well, we run into a little mechanical problem here

chasing the Duke boys.

'It's Cooter's fault.'

'See, he fixed our hood and then he re-fixed it.'

'Well, it's come unfixed.'

In fact, the tire on Enos' car come unfixed. It blew out.

Luke, you know, I ain't so sure I should've put

Mr. Willis onto Cooter.

He just ain't really been himself lately, you know.

I hope you're wrong about that.

I sure hope you're right..

About me being wrong... about that.

- Oh, here he is. - I'd recognize him anywhere.

About time you showed up.

What's going on with Cooter?

Oh, I don't know.

We got in the General Lee, and the radiator blew.

- Yeah. - He's already fixed it once.

When Bo and Luke filled in Uncle Jesse

on how everything mechanical Cooter touched

was falling apart

old Jesse figured the best way to handle it

was a subtle approach.

Now, Cooter, I don't know what went on between you

and the boys here.

Maybe you had a right to snap, maybe you didn't.

The important thing is that we're

the best friends you got, and friends has got rights.

So, what in the world is going on here, now?

You're right, Uncle Jesse.

Y'all, I'm sorry about what happened a while ago.

'You're right, you're the best friends'

I ever have had or ever will have.

You see, it's just, it's like you said.

There are some burdens that a man's gotta carry for himself

or he ain't much of a man.

Well, if money will help, you're welcome to all we got.

We saved up a whole bunch on the circuit.

I appreciate it, y'all.

Shoot, ain't there a dang thing we can do?

No, it's personal business.

Best thing is to just let it stay personal.

Even if it gets in the way of your work?

Hey, if it's your friend Petey Willis' car here

that you're worried about.

This car ain't getting out of here

unless and until it's absolutely perfect.

See y'all later.

Shoot, what are we gonna do now, Uncle Jesse?

Well, there ain't much we can do.

Except to keep an eye on Cooter and just kind of be there

in case he needs us.

Oh, hey, I want you to meet these folks.

Nice looking truck.

Hello.

Petey Willis and his daughter, Sarah-Ann.

This is our Uncle Jesse.

- Mr. Willis. - Hi.

- How are you? - Pleased to meet you.

Your friend Cooter suggested we run her out

at C.W.'s spread, private property.

About an hour?

- Yeah, we'll be there. - Yes, sir.

- See you out there. - Bye-bye.

That way nobody will bother us.

Oh, say, I wanna thank you for putting me onto Cooter.

He seems like a man who knows what he's doing.

- He does. - Yes, sir, he's the best.

Uncle Jesse, you wanna come out

and watch Luke and me warm Mr. Willis up?

Seein' what's been going on around here, yes.

And if that thing goes as fast as it looks

nobody'll see anything anyway. Ha ha.

- I got some shopping to do. - Hey, pick up me some socks.

'Will that.'

Pick him up some socks, please.

If we're gonna do Petey any good

we better get the General over to Smitty, the blacksmith

and see if he can fix the radiator.

At least we're spreading our business around, huh?

Yeah. Oh, we ain't the only ones.

Hey, hey, Joey.

- Friendly cuss, ain't he? - Yeah.

Well, let's get out of here.

Hey, I think the General needs a gentle hand today.

- Yes. So you'll drive. - Yeah.

Cooter, you did one heck of a job on that engine.

I'm gonna buy you the biggest cup of coffee in Hazzard.

Mr. Willis, it's just a pleasure to work on a machine like that.

How far you want us to push it, Mr. Willis, uh, Petey?

I want you to give me all you have.

But I don't want you taking any chances.

Now, when I get up to speed, I'll give you a sign

and then I'll move on past you.

If you can.

You hear that engine?

She ain't never purred like that before.

I'm mighty obliged to you, Cooter.

- You ready? - Yeah, let's go.

Let's hit her.

Good luck.

Sarah-Ann, come with me.

Okay.

You be careful, Bo.

Yes, sir.

Alright, you ready, Petey?

Go.

Alright, so far so good.

Looks like we're crying over milk

that Cooter ain't even spilled yet.

Let's hope so.

Eee! Ha ha.

See who they're fooling with.

Mechanical eyes, Rosco P. Coltrane.

'Enos, this is your superior officer Rosco.'

Listen, if Jesse and Daisy try to keep us

from catching Bo and Luke

use the figure-eight maneuvers I taught you. Come back.

Couldn't we drive up side of them and say "hey?"

Enos, you might say "hey" to them

but you'll say "goodbye" to your salary.

Got it, you dipstick?

Well, we don't need no party crashers.

'Hang on.'

Jesse.

Hey, Uncle Jesse.

Daggum 'em.

Hey, Daisy.

'Oh!'

Ah ha ha ha! Ya-hoo!

'Get out of the way!'

Hot dog! Right in the middle of the Hazzard car wash.

That ought to cool them off.

Enos, you dipstick! You flea brain!

Look what you done now.

I'm sorry, sheriff.

Look, I'll make it up to you, sheriff.

I'll catch, I'll catch you a catfish for supper.

Dang, that thing's fast.

Now you're looking at a man with a problem.

And Cooter is gonna get blamed.

Pull over. Let's go get him.

There he is. Come on, Bo. He's over here.

Pete? Petey?

- Is he, um.. - He's alive.

Now, turn him, turn him over real easy.

Real gentle-like.

- There you go. - I guess I..

I'll go call an ambulance here right away.

We ain't got time to wait for an ambulance.

Get the others and somehow rig some kind of stretcher, alright?

- Alright. - And hurry!

Ol' Bo told everyone what they had to do

and how little time they had.

Your daddy had..

Just get over there. Cooter, help her out.

We gotta get him to the hospital.

I'll help you, Uncle Jesse.

He's alive. He's gonna be alright.

Daddy! Daddy!

Don't worry. He's gonna be alright.

We'll get him to the hospital. They got the best doctors there.

Just like you got the best mechanic in the world

right here in Hazzard.

You sure do a lot of easy recommendin'.

He's got a fightin' chance.

More than he'd have, if you two didn't get him here so fast.

Well, we sure appreciate that, doc.

Well, I guess I can thank you two for that.

And also for my daddy being here, in the first place.

Y'all excuse me, I'll go get us some coffee.

Sarah-Ann, I know you're upset.

But you can't blame anybody for this.

I mean, we don't even know for sure what happened out there.

Ma'am, I..

Now, Cooter. Nobody knows for sure what caused that accident.

Sarah-Ann didn't mean nothing by what she said.

- No. - She's just all upset.

You know, about me lettin' my personal life

get in the way of work...

- Cooter, you're just tired. - No no, you were right.

I'd have bet my life on the job I did for Petey, and turns out..

I bet his life on it.

For crying out loud, Cooter, Petey ain't dead.

And I'll bet

that there's more to that accident than meets the eye.

I'm never gonna be able to open a car hood again

without seeing his face

or hearing what that little girl said back in there.

Y'all, I'm gonna sell the garage and leave Hazzard

and just go up in the hills... and think about all this.

You know him as well as I do

and it couldn't have been his fault.

Yeah, we both know that

but we have to find some way to prove it.

What are we gonna do if we can't prove it?

I don't know.

But in a way, we're more responsible

for this whole mess than Cooter is.

We put Petey onto him.

- Welcome home, huh? - Yeah. Come on.

I'll give you $7500 for it, cash.

- Done. - Done.

- I keep my truck and tools. - Done and redone.

All you gotta do is sign this here grant deed over to me.

'And this here is your money.'

Seventy-five hundred dollars, cash.

Less my ten percent commission for arranging the sale.

Well, there's one good thing about this deal.

At least, I'm free of you.

What did you say?

Meanwhile, Bo and Luke was reassembling the engine

of Petey's car, hoping to find a clue to the accident.

And Daisy and Jesse was hoping to find out

what was eating old Cooter.

No wonder Cooter's been

acting as nervous as a long-tailed cat

in a roomful of rocking chairs.

What've you got?

Payroll check stubs from the Chikasaw County Garage.

He's been working over there weekends and nights

for the last couple of months.

He hasn't had any sleep.

Why'd he go do a thing like that?

I got the answer to that. Look at this here mortgage

contract that Cooter's got with Boss.

It says at the end of next week

Cooter's got a balloon payment of $5000.

I knew it was money.

Why not tell us? We'd help him out.

We'd have covered a chunk of that.

And the rest of it we could have sold something.

Shoot, Cooter knows we'd do that for him.

That's what he meant by "A man's gotta carry his own burden."

That's some burden.

Knowing all this makes it easier though, doesn't it?

Well, maybe it does and maybe it don't.

Cooter must have been worried sick, working two jobs

and not sleeping, like you said.

Man's bound to make mistakes.

Oh, even so, Cooter wouldn't make a mechanical mistake.

- It ain't likely. - I don't think so, either.

That's what we need to find out.

Come on, Bo, let's get back at it.

Pete?

Hey, Petey?

Hey..

I want you to have this, here.

I know it ain't much, but..

I want you to have it.

- Comin' off? - Yeah, I got it almost.

Wait a minute, y'all.

Holy smokes! Right here is the problem.

Fuel pressure must have burst a hole in it

and sprayed gas all over the manifold.

I'm surprised it didn't burn up.

He's lucky to be alive.

Well, Luke, this don't make no sense at all, now.

Cooter's got high-performance line all over this engine..

Except for that piece there.

Why in the heck would Cooter put a store-bought

fuel line on that?

He wouldn't.

Which means... somebody else had to put that on

knowing that it would blow.

Who'd do that? And why?

Now wait just a minute. Didn't we see Joey coming

out of Rhuebottom's Store with a package so big?

But Joey's a friend of the Willis'.

He came into town with 'em.

Well, it wouldn't hurt to check, though.

Daisy, run over to Rhuebottom's and find out what Joey bought.

Sure.

Uncle Jesse, talk to Cooter.

Because I'm sure he'll remember whether he put this in or not.

- What're you boys gonna do? - We're gonna go see Sarah-Ann.

Maybe she'll shed some light on this.

I'll call when I find Cooter.

- Got it. - Got it.

- Stick out your tongue. - Well, that ain't nice.

Well, alright, I know it ain't

but just this one time it will be alright.

Okay.

- There. That's sealed now. - I hate that.

Alright, now you take that deed to Atlanta, get it registered.

Before Bo and Luke find out

I slickered Cooter out of his garage.

- Now scat. Will you? - Yeah. Come on, come on.

Get rid of that dog, will you?

Lost Sheep, Lost Sheep. Come in. This is Bo-Peep.

Daisy, what you got?

Fellas, Mr. Rhuebottom said Joey bought

an ordinary fuel line, just like you said.

Thanks a lot, Daisy. Talk to you later.

'...figure out right now is..'

is there any reason why Joey would..

When Bo and Luke told Sarah-Ann what they suspected about Joey

well, Sarah-Ann said Joey didn't cotton

to Petey's final race because Joey wanted to drive

in the Atlanta race, himself.

If he wanted to drive, he wouldn't wrecked the car.

- It goes back to square... - No, wait a minute.

I do recall Joey telling a friend that he was expecting

to come into some money after the Atlanta race.

Something about a big bet.

Do you remember whether he mentioned it before or after

'your dad decided on his comeback?'

'Before. Is it important?'

'So Joey bet on someone else.'

He would've lost that bet unless he made sure

your dad didn't make it to the starting line.

There he goes. Come on.

There he goes. Come on, Bo.

Luke, we gotta give that rat his due.

'He sure is a first class wheelman.'

'Boss, this is Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane reporting in.'

We're seven miles north of Chikasaw on Route 7.

Come back.

Alright, alright, I got you. Now, what's your ETA?

Estimated time at Atlanta, I got it. Oh, that's marvelous.

Listen, that's approximately one hour, Boss.

'And, listen, don't you worry about a thing.'

Ol' Flash and me, we're gonna take that deed that Cooter

signed and we're gonna have it registered faster

than a man with pneumonia can sneeze through a mitten.

- 'Time's up.' - Dang it, we're too late!

Cooter already sold out to Boss.

But it won't be official until he gets that deed registered.

Give Daisy a call on the horn. She's gotta get that deed back

from Rosco before he hits Atlanta.

Hang on.

- Well, we lost him. - No. We just misplaced him.

Meanwhile, Boss was jumping the gun, so to speak.

Figuring now that he owned Cooter's garage

he was making ready to clear the block..

For that new shopping center of his.

Yep. Well, I feel pretty bad myself.

Well, we know one thing about Joey, he's dumb.

Shoot, Bo and Luke could walk through that, they're so mad.

'Shoot. There he goes. Think you can do it again?'

We gotta chase him, come on.

Daisy had herself a plan.

But it all depended on her taking a shortcut.

So she could get there ahead of Rosco

who was heading for Atlanta to record Cooter's deed.

Now, Cooter, feeling lower than a snake's shadow

was headed for the hills to become a recluse.

He figured that that was one job he couldn't mess up.

Now, Jesse was determined to find old Cooter

and bring him back... even if he had to hog-tie him.

Old Jesse had his work cut out for him.

Looks like he lost us, permanent.

We still got one more chance.

Now, if he stays on this road

and we take Cotton Lane, cut up the other side

and cut him off at the freight line.

Yeah, I'll bet we can.

Did y'all follow that?

What is that?

Hey there, Flash. Hey, come on, darling.

That's an 804, which means "a lady in distress."

A naked lady in distress.

Did you see that, huh?

Look at that.

It is a naked lady in distress.

Listen, don't worry. I'll rescue her.

But I promise, Daddy won't peek.

I wonder what I'm gonna do about

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Now, Rosco's a good sheriff.

He's just got too much on his mind.

And that gave Daisy enough time

to make sure Cooter's deed never got to Hotlanta.

'I'll look over here.'

You know something? You know something, Flash?

You know, somebody played a dirty trick on your daddy.

There wasn't no naked lady in distress, back there. When I..

I saw..

It was..

You know, Flash, they say, when a man gets my age..

His eyesight's the second thing to go.

Hey, there you are, you bummer.

Pull over.

What's up, Uncle Jesse?

Cooter, I just wanted you to know you had nothing

to do with that fire, over yonder.

Hmm?

When you went through that engine

you put all high-pressure hoses on it, didn't you?

- Sure. - Not on the fuel line.

It just had a plain old store-bought rubber hose on it.

Now, what's gonna happen

when that car gets to doing 120 or so?

Well, it would blow. But somebody switched it.

That's right.

You wanna come and help us find out who?

Yes, sir. Let's head back to Hazzard.

I was hoping you'd say that.

- Uncle Jesse? - Yeah?

Thank you.

I sure appreciate what y'all done for me.

Dang it, Luke. Ain't nothing coming our way.

Got that right.

Hey.

Let's cut him off at the old circus train.

Alright. You got it.

- Dang it! - Now, we're even.

Look out, Bo!

Joey ain't got no smarter, has he?

Shimmy up after him. I'll run this way and double back.

Alright.

Come on, Bo, bring him right down to me.

Alright, now.

- Real nice. - Real nice, yourself.

With Joey on his way to Hotlanta to the pokey

everything else fell into place.

- What you got? - Let's see.

Petey healed up in time to accept an offer

to design race cars from a big outfit in Detroit.

And he gave Cooter's money back.

Alright, alright, alright. Here.

Cooter gave the money back to Boss.

And the Dukes made sure that old Boss paid

for the repairs on Cooter's garage.

They made him promise there wouldn't be

any more balloon payments.

And Jesse finally got to cook his crawdad bisque.

Cooter ate six helpings.

Cooter gave the Dukes a free tune-up.

Bo and Luke were back home.

And things were back to normal in Hazzard County.

That just leaves one problem.

I still don't know who won that beauty contest.