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Hello? Come here.

Come here, will you?

That's your mother.

Mama!

Oh, Leslie, darling, don't cry.

Listen, my...

Please, let me talk to her again. Listen, she's not well. She's under a

doctor's... Did you recognize the voice?

Honey, did you recognize the voice?

What did they say?

He wants money.

How much money?

He wouldn't even let me talk to her.

Oh, she's a little girl.

Oh, you can't. No.

We can't do this alone.

He said he'd kill her if we called the police.

We can get help.

Hello? Hello, Bob. This is Barbara.

Somebody take my little girl.

I need you, Bob.

Is that who I think it is?

And you're going to do everything they say, pay the money, and hope for the

best? Yes. Then why call me?

Well, so we won't do anything wrong and get them upset and panic them. Barbara,

there's only one way to deal with kidnappers. You go along with them, tell

you'll pay the money, make all the arrangements, and at the same time make

effort to find out who they are and where the child is.

Hey.

There's some food.

And there's aspirin in there. Take them.

Mr. Ironside, maybe we don't operate up here the same way you do down in San

Francisco. But this is still my county, and I'm going to run it the way I see

fit. From here on out, I'm taking over.

For every set -up.

You and that lame -brained brother are ruining it for me.

Ben.

Let her go.

There's too many of them. The FBI, the police.

Please, Ben.

That's what you want, isn't it, old sweetheart?

Me to go back where I came from and leave you alone, huh?

Yes, Ben.

You know, you've been living a lie for ten years. Nobody caught up with you.

Maybe I'll just do something about that.

Ben.

I'll do what you say.

That's my girl.

That's my old Molly.

Look, I'm going to give you a note to give her. You tell her you found out a

to work.

You tell her to fix those phones so that nobody else can hear.

How's she gonna do that?

She loves that kid of hers.

She'll find a way.

From the manpower the sheriff brought out here. He's either guarding us or he

doesn't trust us.

I'll give you one guess.

Bob.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Eve, good morning.

Well, you look remarkable for the kind of night you must have spent.

It passed somehow.

Some coffee, Bob?

No, thanks.

Chief?

Yes, please.

What is it?

Did you mean what you said last night about the sheriff?

Yes, I did.

Barbara, what is it?

I need your word on something first.

Well, that would depend, wouldn't it?

Molly found this stuck in the kitchen door this morning.

Can we do it?

Possible.

But I'm not going to let you deliver that money alone.

But if he... I don't care what he wants or what he says.

I won't let you risk your life without protection.

Barbara, don't ask the impossible of me.

When this terrible nightmare is over.

When

it's

over.

I suppose I owe you an apology.

Owe what?

For lying to you when I picked you up at the airport.

I wouldn't call it lying.

Strategic omission, then.

I let you think that everything was all right with us.

It wasn't.

Not as long as you were on our mind.

I've tried to hate you for a long time.

I can't seem to do a good job of it.

Thank you for that.

Barbara's still an amnesiac.

She doesn't remember her past with me.

I'm her legal husband.

That's the way I've held her.

I admit.

I feel guilty about it.

She chose to stay with you.

She chose to try.

It hasn't made me feel like much of a man, knowing she's doing it out of a

of obligation.

I watched the two of you tonight.

I was left out.

We didn't mean that to happen. No, no, I realized the need.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous.

It hurt.

Vic, this whole thing isn't fair.

Not to Barbara, to you or to me.

I know.

That's why I'm going to break the deadlock.

What do you mean?

I learned something with your being here.

I've learned I can't hold her to a legal contract. She doesn't even remember

signing.

So, I've decided to let her divorce me.

This is hardly the time for major decisions.

I should have made this decision before.

But there's one thing I've got to know.

And I've got to know right now.

I've loved Barbara ever since we were kids.

I still do.

Do you?

Yes.

Hello? Yes, this is Mrs. Richards.

Yes, I know, I couldn't keep them away.

But I can now.

Just tell me where you want the money, and I'll get it there. And there'll be

police, I promise you.

Yes?

Yes.

All right.

What is it? What did they say?

What did he say?

Dave, play it back.

What's wrong?

Nothing's happening.

What do you mean nothing's happening? The garble is distorted.

What did you do to it?

The head's been taped.

I thought I told you not to let this machine out of your sight.

Well, I didn't.

Well, just once.

This morning, this policewoman spilled coffee on me. I had to go change my

pants.

Why, Sheriff, do you think Officer Whitfield would have done that

Hi, Carl.

Still not working quite right.

Carburetor adjusted.

I was afraid I'd miss you, Carl.

What's going on?

You better go tell Ben not to go.

Get it. You heard me. I ain't going up there and sit with that kid while he

some money.

You can't just leave or stay.

That's right. He can't. So he just stays put and nothing happens.

But you know Ben.

He'll do what he says.

Let him.

I finally called me a lawyer and he told me something about a statute of

limitations.

He can't get me tried no more. It's been too long. It was a manslaughter case,

and I ain't responsible no more. What about me, Carl? What do I do now?

I don't know, sis.

That's your problem.

Ironside, you don't think much of me, do you?

Let's say I don't think much of your methods.

Man's got to do the best he can with what he's got and try to survive.

You don't know this country.

You look out yonder and what do you see?

Mountains, valleys, canyons.

What do you see?

You see people.

Little people.

Like me, with common everyday problems.

After a time, those problems get to being like mud in the spring rain.

They get to sticking to you.

Your hands, your fingers.

Feel it between your teeth.

Man gets awful tired of it.

He's got to get out of that mud.

Get out if you like.

But you really want to do it in the back of a kidnapped child?

What's wrong? Barbara hasn't shown up. You said she'd be there before Eve took

off.

She was supposed to be.

Check the reader.

It points to a room.

Strong signal.

Ed, see if she's still there. Fast.

But the reader says... The reader says the transmitter is there, and that's

Here's the keys, Mrs. Richards.

Thank you, Molly. Good luck.

She's not walking. Where's the jeep?

Yeah, but Ed will. Are you coming or do I have to drive it myself?

Look up there, a taillight.

How can we beat your turf?

We can't, but I think we have to take a chance.

Are you out there?

Are you out there watching me?

Look, I've got my part of the bargain is right here.

I didn't tell anybody.

Please, please let her go.

I'll leave now.

And you can come and get the money.

There she is.

Go back.

Go back.

Get to her, Mark.

Hey, the money.

Come get the money quick. I didn't tell him. Listen, it's not my fault.

Please, please don't hurt her.

It's not my fault.

I didn't tell him. I'll make him go away.

Oh, my God.

I can't do it alone.

Why don't you say it?

Say what?

What you're thinking, that I'm responsible?

You don't know how I wish you weren't in that chair.

You don't know how much I wish it.

I'll take you down and get the priest in here fast. Which one of you is the

husband? I am.

I'm afraid I can't hold up much hope.

I see you.

You better hurry.

Chief? Chief?

The kidnapper was there last night.

What are you saying?

They found Fred's cigarette butts, scuff marks in the dirt. He was waiting a few

yards away.

Then he could have helped her.

He let her fall.

Get me there.

They'll bring the evidence in. They're practically vacuuming the area. Not with

hate, they aren't.

Charlie, come up here.

Come on.

Take a check over there behind those rocks, where the car was behind those

rocks.

Hey!

Look at him!

Let me see you, then.

Chief?

Probably near where the money was.

Probably used it as a market.

Looks like a white cloth, which could be found at any

service station.

Around here? I'm checking!

Sheriff, you said there were cigarette butts.

There was an empty pack and a thread from his pants that was hung on a thorn

bush. I've already sent it to the lab to be checked out.

Ironside? We've covered every square inch of this whole damn mountain. Then

we'll go over it again.

I need all the help I can get, Sheriff.

Well, all right.

We'll go on down below. We might as well check out that slide.

Come on, a couple of you fellas go in there.

Susie Mae?

This is Dave.

Get me the sheriff.

He's up in the canyon.

This is Mark Sanger, the sheriff's down in the canyon.

Mark Sanger?

Well, what is it, deputy? The sheriff can't come to the phone right now. I

talk to him. It's important.

Just tell me what it is. I'll pass the word along. No, never mind. I'll be

out there.

Can we have some of your deputies check out this place again? Yeah.

Check it out a little more.

Loomis!

We checked her over cleaning the taproots. There ain't a dang thing down

Thank you, Sheriff.

Chief, maybe something here. I'm not sure. Some shiny little crumbs.

Seen this around here, Sheriff?

It's just some mica flakes, that's all.

Chief, we didn't see any more of it around here.

Well, you don't generally find it in formations like this.

Ed, that thread found on the thorn, that brush over there.

I found this on it.

We didn't see any more of it around anywhere either.

Sheriff. You have a different species of broom sage around here?

How are you getting that? Well, that's pollen, and that stuff down there is

past the pollinization stage.

Well, maybe it's a late -blooming flower. Or someplace where it would

later, like right now.

Well, think, man, a high -altitude mica deposit.

Milton, pass.

everybody. Dr. Milton, Pat.

This is an old silver mine.

It's the last place up here I can think of. Well, go ahead, but don't panic him.

All right, men, we're moving in. Wait a minute, what about the child?

The child comes first, whatever happens.

All right, some of you get back on this side. Gather on out around there. One

guy get up on top. We don't want him sneaking out. Couple of you get over

Don't bunch up now. Rest of you get lined out along that way. Johnny, get up

top, will you? I don't want him sneaking out.

This is a ship!

You're safe now, honey. I want to go home.

Ed, get a hold of Vic Richards at the hospital.

We didn't let you down, Ben.

I know Carl didn't come out and stay with the girl, but...

He helped me get the car to Mrs. Richards, and then he brought me home.

Both of you are hoping I've fallen into a trap to have solved all your problems.

Thanks, old man.

No?

Well, I'm going to give you a chance to prove it.

I've got to get out of here now, and you're going to help me do it.

How?

The police are all over. They must be watching the road.

Well, we'll just have to figure out a way, won't we?

Got any money?

Hmm?

A little.

Get it.

Well, I guess I could spare a little.

Ben, I've been saving you.

$35 ,000.

$200 ,000 right under my nose and I couldn't get near it.

That cop, that one in the wheelchair, he sat there all night long waiting for

the others to come and get her.

Doug, step out of the cruiser and get a cast of those footprints.

Johnny, see if you can lift any prints off those timbers.

Uncle Bud.

Uncle Bud, come here. I got something.

What is it? Come on. Come on over here. I don't want to be heard. Look, I ain't

got time to play games. What is it? Look, I think I know where he is.

What? Quiet. They'll hear you.

Never mind them.

What do you got?

I'm trying to help you.

Don't you see?

Look, you and me, we go up there, we grab him.

Takes care of all the mistakes. Everything's going to be all right

Where is he?

Molly's.

I was watching the front of her house, and I got to remembering that old road

that passes long behind, and I went back just to take a little look, see?

There's a jeep, and the engine's still warm. Now, there ain't gonna be nobody

coming down that road and sneaking into her house unless he's wanted.

And you didn't try to pick him up?

You didn't try to get a hold of us on the radio?

Well, I just told you, this is your chance.

Now, come on, Uncle Bud. Let's you and me do it together.

Give me that badge.

And when you get back to the office, turn in the rest of your gear.

Why?

If you don't know why, I can't explain it to you.

We have her. She's all right. All right, boys! Everybody in the cars, on the

double! It's all right, Vick. We've got to get out to Molly's place right away.

There's something funny going on out there. She's not alone.

Where's the deputy who was supposed to be watching that house?

I fired him for not bringing us that information sooner.

You know what you've done to her?

Took her poor child and then you killed her.

Look, I didn't make her fall off that edge. Now, don't go blaming me. You told

me it'd all be so simple. You promised me a couple of days and she'd have her

back. Where's that child, Ben?

Where's Leslie? Where I left her, what do I know?

Where? In the cave?

Well, look, what do you want me to do, carry her around with me?

Is that no food or no water?

Ben, you've got to go get her. Get out of here, will you?

Ben, that's murder.

Come on now, you've got to go get her.

I'm not going to let that poor child die.

Where do you think you're going?

I'm going to tell them where to find her. They'll know you're in on it. I

care. You know what the penalty for kidnapping is? It's death.

I don't care.

What about our kid?

He don't know nothing about us. You shoot your mouth off to the police, I'll

tell them his mother was hung for kidnapping.

You won't know where to find him. I'll find him.

Ben, you wouldn't.

All right, Molly.

We'll go together.

It's all over.

Come on, Molly.

For old time's sake.

And a hug, Molly.

For old time's sake.

Get on that right away.

Shoot another one from this angle. I just talked to Highway Patrol.

They'll pull the roadblocks in closer.

Good. The tighter the noose, the quicker we get him.

Sheriff, how soon will you be able to conduct the house -to -house search?

Just as soon as I get the holes plugged up so he won't flip through.

Don't worry, he ain't gonna get away.

Shoot that hand.

I ought to put you out of your misery. Oh, I can't. Please.

Please, please.

Why didn't you show last night? I couldn't. You don't understand.

I couldn't help. You couldn't help, huh? You couldn't help. You helped Molly.

You'll help anybody come to your door, but you won't help me, will you? Take it

easy. Well, you're going to help.

We're going to help, Tom.

We're going to get in that heap and drive me out of here.

It ain't running.

It ain't running.

It ain't running.

We'll just make it run, won't we, Carl?

Highway Patrol says they pulled their roadblocks in.

He's in a one -square -mile area now.

Good.

The house has already started, so all we've got to do now is just sit tight.

No such thing as sitting tight.

Eve, you still have that statement Molly gave to Torrance? Yes. I want it, and

any other reports on her, including the man who was assigned to follow her.

What do you have in mind, Chief?

There's got to be somebody else, Ed. An accomplice. Why?

Because Molly never explained how she got home last night after Barbara took

car. Someone had to have given her a lift.

What's the matter? Why won't it start? I told you, it's flooded.

Will you do something? Will you do something?

I am. I am. Come on, will you, for crying out loud. We're going to sit here

day.

There you are.

All right, let's get out of here.

Ben, someone's coming.

Hi, Andy.

Fill her up.

You can't possibly get out this way. There's a deep canyon runs all through

here.

According to this report, she came right home from the ranch almost every time

except for stops at the gas station.

No phone calls either. There was a man on her line.

You had her phone tapped?

The FBI got a court order, Sheriff.

Well, there were a lot of stops at the gas station in that report.

One of Torrance's men heard her say something about a faulty carburetor.

cloth tied to the stick is a marker. Wasn't that a garage wipe cloth?

Yes. Mark, Molly's car. Check the carburetor. See if it's faulty.

All right.

That gas station within our one square mile search area?

It's Carl Sutter's. It's about a half mile down this road.

Thank you, Andy. Come back again.

Get this thing back on. Let's get out of here. Come on.

We can't. He just told us. They got all the roads blocked off. What are you

worried about? They'll always let an ambulance through.

Not without surgery.

Please,

Ben.

Give me a break.

Let me get out of here, huh?

Look, buddy, they nail me, they nail you.

Now it's got to be the ambulance. That's all we've got.

They won't let us through without checking it.

Not after I get through with it.

They'll be too busy.

Hey, got any wire?

Yeah. Where?

Inside. Get it.

Come on, come on. Get it, get it, get it.

Inside.

Carburetor's fine. Nobody's touched in weeks.

That's it, then.

Carl Sutter.

I don't believe it.

Well, if he was in, Art, why, he'll tell us where Ben is.

Oh, we'll find Ben there. Let's go.

Right, I'll tell him.

I believe that Carl is Molly's brother. And her link with the kidnapper. She

received all her messages from him. She's a report from that print check

came in. Ben Ames.

Released from prison last month. He's done ten years for manslaughter.

He's made the big league now.

Kidnapping and murder one.

Now, where's the light tank?

Right out here.

Well, I don't know what good this is going to do.

Here, now, pay this back to the office.

Come on, come on, will you?

Help me with this, will you?

Come on, move, will you? Get up.

Okay.

Quiet, buddy.

We separate these two little babies.

Just watch and learn.

Not what?

Not what, huh?

Just watch.

Now, just touch his other wire here, see?

And boom, you get the biggest firecracker this county ever saw.

My whole place will go up. You'll be okay here.

There'll be so much noise and smoke that anything can be coming from any

direction. Nobody will ever know.

Yes. Too late now.

Better this way.

It's better than we wait till he gets close to the pump, see? And then we blow

it. See?

There'll be so much noise and so many sirens that an ambulance can get lost in

it. Big!

Big!

Get behind the tree! Get your guns ready! Sheriff!

There's someone in there. Watch him. I saw something move.

I'll tell Ironside.

They're still in there, Ironside.

At least one of them is.

I don't see any moving around inside.

What do you want me to do, Chief?

All right, setter, aim.

Come out with your hands up.

What?

I can't. Now I got him, will you?

All right, move in.

Slow and easy, man.

They're not gonna kill us.

Gotta get to us first.

That's it. Keep on moving. Keep moving.

Seems like we're walking into something.

All right, man.

Let's go on in.

Be a little closer.

Chief, message from the hospital. It's urgent.

Oh, Chief Ironside. She's conscious.

Her husband and the children are with her.

I think you're better, Mom.

Daddy's promised us a picture.

Oh, it'll be a while then.

Hello, Chief.

Mick.

Dear.

This is Chief Ironside.

How do you do?

It's so nice to meet you at last. To meet you at last.

You know, there have been times when I've been anxious about who I am.

Scared a little when I think about it.

Now I think I'm getting desperate.

We can handle whatever comes along.

Vic tells me we owe you a great deal.

I'm sorry I can't be more coherent about it, but I... My

memory... Perfectly all right, Mrs. Richards.

I hope you'll be staying a while so we can get better acquainted.

I have to be getting back to San Francisco.

I just dropped by to see that... If...

Everyone was all right.

Will you excuse me?

Goodbye. And thanks again.

You're not going to say you're sorry?

No, I can't.

But I do want to tell you, I'm grateful.

Take care of them.

Next this morning, things have come to a head for Gary as he's in the unique

position of becoming a dad two years before he's even been born himself.

Confused? He certainly is. Goodnight, sweetheart, who's next?