All language subtitles for Matlock s06e04 The Nightmare

Oh, look, antelope.

They're cows.

Ben, we're in the middle of Nevada.
They're antelope.

Cows. Oh, stop being a dick in the mud.

Well, it's just I don't get it. You go
to this charity auction, and of all the

trips you could have bid on, you had to
wind up with this one.

Because I thought that spending the
weekend with a bunch of friends at a

ranch sounded like fun.

And I hadn't thrown a party in a long
time, and the money went for a good

And if luck would have it, nobody else
bid on it.

There's going to be horses.

Of course there's going to be horses.

It's a dude ranch.

I don't know how to ride one.

Well, you'll learn.

I'm not going to get on one of them. Oh,
Ben.

I'm afraid of them.

as well get out and stretch your legs.
Oh, wow.

This is great.

Reminds me of a mini mall my ex -brother
-in -law talked me into buying.

Well, this isn't good.

Dude Ranch, is it, Julie?

No, I'm sure the driver's just taking a
break or something.

Yeah, that or he's looking for a fire
extinguisher. Oh, Beth.

Well, let me go see what's going on.

What's the trouble?

Edge is overheating.

Any reason why?

Out of oil.

Out of oil?

Yep.

Crank case is leaking like a sieve.

How long are you going to take to fix
it?

My job is to drive this bus, not fix it.

Well, what are you going to do about it?
Get on the radio, tell the boss to send

a mechanic out here.

May as well make yourselves comfortable,
folks.

Looks like I'm going to be here a while.

It's okay. He's got a radio.

It's not like we're going to be stranded
here for days or anything.

Come on, you guys.

It'll be fun.

Now, who wants to go exploring?

I vote we find a nice shady tree and
play a little game of chess.

Have a few cold ones.

Now you're talking.

Come on, let's flip around.

Want to go with us? No, thanks.

Hey, Ben, Julie, come here. You've got
to see this.

You're blocking the door.

They're talking to you.

That's Ned Salem.

Card Shark's Gil Briscoe.

Must be new in town.

That's old Bob.

Dead drunk.

Same as always.

Well, well. I don't believe I've had the
pleasure.

Welcome to Golden Spring, stranger.

My name's Michelle.

What's yours?

I need to talk to you.

It'll have to wait.

I'm busy.

Miss Thomas!

I just heard about Willis.

He drew on me, Conrad.

Drew on me in love.

Here's what I'm going to do, Sheriff.

First, I'm going to step over to that
bar and get me a drink.

Then I'm going to go get my gun, and I'm
going to come looking for you.

You do.

You're going to wind up just like your
uncle.

Not that stuff.

Good stuff under here.

They'll never let him pour from them
bottles up there. He'll water them down.

Thanks for the tip.

I'm Ben Matlock.

Conrad McMaster.

New in these parts?

Real new.

Where are you staying?

I don't know yet.

Any suggestion?

Julie's boarding house right down the
street.

She's about to have a vacancy.

She is?

Her brother's room.

He's a sheriff.

my brother told me about.

Need a room, do you?

Matter of fact, I do.

Gonna be in town long.

I'm not really sure.

This here's your room. Cost you a dollar
a day in advance.

A dollar?

That includes meals, of course.

Oh.

I'll take it.

What, some of these do?

My Lord.

I'm renting you a room, not selling you
the place.

This is just fine.

Well, you got yourself room and board
now for five days.

Oh. You, uh, with the railroad, mister?

Matlock. No, I'm not.

Men who carry all that cash usually work
for the railroad.

Or just got done robbing it.

No, I'm a lawyer.

I'll just get you some water so you can
wash up.

Actually, right now I'm more interested
in using the facilities.

You know, the restroom.

The men's.

Oh, of course.

It's right out back.

I ain't gonna tell you but one time,
Sheriff. If you don't stop messing in my

affairs, ten badger know you're gonna be
real sorry, you hear me?

Where's the Sheriff?

At the jail.

Hey, Willis is no good troublemaker,
Conrad.

He ain't worth dying for and you know
it.

A man's got to do what a man's got to
do.

Get your gun on.

You don't want to do this, Conrad.

You killed my uncle.

You didn't even like your uncle.

He raised me.

I owe him.

He raised you because he liked having
somebody around he could kick the tar

of. Get your gun on.

In my desk.

Bottom drawer.

Some folks are just too nice for their
own damn good.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Can I just slip in here?

Come on, let's

go. I didn't kill him.

I didn't do it.

Somebody's got to believe me. I didn't
kill him.

I'm in.

And I guess he clobbered me.

Because the next thing I know, I'm lying
on the floor and he's lying across from

me with a big hole in his chest.

Where was your gun?

In my hand.

And I don't know how I got there, I
swear.

Then what happened?

I got up to take a look at the sheriff,
and then the deputy comes in and starts

hollering. You mean the deputy came in
and saw you standing over the sheriff

with a gun in your hand?

Yes.

Oh.

Are there any lawyers in this town?

Used to, but it seems like people always
get mad at them and wind up shooting.

Damn it, Willis!

If I'd have just shot at myself instead
of waiting around for the sheriff to do

it, none of this would have happened. I
thought he was your uncle. He's the

meanest man ever walked this earth.

Why'd you go after the sheriff like
that?

Willis was family.

A man's got to do what a man's got to
do.

Why is that? Why is what?

Why does a man got to do what a man's
got to do?

Do you realize how many people have been
killed in John Wayne movies all because

of that one line?

Men, women, children, towns, villages,
forts, all wiped out because

somebody strapped on a gun and said a
man's got to do what a man's got to do.

Somebody should have jerked that jackass
around and knocked the living hell out

of him.

A man's got to do what a man's got to
do.

If you want me to take your case, I
will.

As it happens, I'm a lawyer.

How come?

I like being a lawyer. No, how come
you'll take my case? You don't hardly

know me.

I don't know.

Somewhere in my mind, I feel like I do.

Well, I can't pay you much.

The fact is, I can't pay you nothing.

You don't have to pay me.

Just don't shoot me.

Any idea what time it was when you heard
the shot?

I didn't hear no shot.

You didn't?

A gun this big, I'd think you could hear
the shot all the way to California.

There's five bullets.

Six of them went through the sheriff and
stuck in the wall there.

You are going to run ballistics to make
sure the bullet came out of this gun,

aren't you?

I'm going to do what?

You're going to run a full
investigation.

Conrad said he was going to get the
sheriff. That's what he done.

Of course, if the sheriff had been
wearing his gun, that would have been

-defense. But since he weren't, that
just makes a cold -blooded murder cut

dried. Just the way a circuit court
judge likes it.

Ned Taylor.

I saw him out behind the boarding house
today giving the sheriff what for.

Sheriff was probably talking to him
about that cattle rustling.

What cattle rustling? The rustling he
thought Ned was doing.

Where can I find Ned Salem?

As ranch, I expect.

It's a lazy bee. It's about hours ride
north of town.

Hours ride.

Let's be friends. Yeah.

Now, I'm kind of... I'm kind of new at
this.

So, I'll... I'll take all the help I can
get.

Now, you... There you go.

Now, you stay right here. And I'm
still...

Stand still.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on. Come on.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Come on.

Oh, this saddle is getting... It's
getting a little hard, Brownie.

We're getting close, Brownie, but we're
going to get them. Come on.

Is that anyone?

I'm Ben Matlock.

Oh, I seen you earlier in the saloon.

You know, if you come to town to buy
some beef, you come to the right place.

no, no, no. I'm not buying.

I'm a lawyer.

Too bad.

Lawyers don't seem to fare too well
around here.

That's what I heard.

Anyway, I'm representing the man accused
of killing the sheriff.

Oh, that's a terrible thing. The sheriff
was a good man.

Yeah, I understand that he suspects you
of coming by some of these cattle

illegally.

I ain't no cattle rustler, and the
sheriff knew it. Why, him and me was

It didn't sound like it from what I
heard behind the boarding house today.

You look here.

I run a big outfit here, and I run it
right.

The army over at Fort Rye wants beef.
They buy it from me. I got me a

I got lots of contracts. Now, some of
the ranchers don't like that, so they

to make me look bad by accusing me of
things I didn't do.

Oh, yeah.

It's just that you were so mad, and then
an hour later...

He was so dead.

Well, I wasn't mad enough to kill him,
if that's what you're getting at.

McMasters.

Now, he was mad enough.

Briscoe, too.

Gil Briscoe? Yeah.

Sheriff threw him in the hoose gal for
cheating last week just when a bunch of

miners he was looking forward to
gambling with come to town. Well, Gil

was fit to be tied.

Swore he'd get even.

Oh, well, I... Appreciate the tip.

Glad to help.

Come up, Brownie.

Come up.

Come up, Brownie.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

You ain't going to do this for a whole
hour, are you? Are you, Brownie?

Hey, Mr.

Briscoe. Hey, Ben Matlock.

Oh, yes, of course.

Word gets around fast in Golden Springs,
Mr. Matlock.

Pleased to meet you. Yes.

You know, I don't think I've ever seen a
lawyer up close before.

Not a live one, at least.

Oh.

I'd like to ask you some questions.

Where are you from?

Atlanta. They play five -card draw down
in Atlanta?

Thought I got to ask you some questions.

Well, nothing loosens my tongue quite
like a game of cards, that's all.

Oh.

$2 .80.

Well, you're not going to cheat, are
you? I have never cheated at cards in my

life, and I never will. That's God's
honest truth, Mr. Matlock.

Is that why the sheriff threw you in
jail last week?

He threw me in jail because I was
showing what he considered to be an

interest in his sister.

Cards.

Accusing me of something I never did and
temporarily depriving me of my

livelihood was his clever way of telling
me to stay away from it.

Oh, I bet that made you mad.

Yes, it did.

What you didn't stay away from?

Ray's.

No, I didn't.

Why, he wound up dead an hour later?

Looks like everybody but you and me is
folded.

What you got?

Three fives.

Three ladies.

Where were you around 1 .30 this
afternoon?

I'm afraid you're gonna have to ante up
before I answer that.

You've taken everything I've got.

Then our conversation...

Though it has been my pleasure.

It's over.

Well, hello, Ben.

I've been expecting you.

You have?

I have.

I've heard all about you.

And I just assumed in time you'd hear
all about me.

Hey, let me help you get more
comfortable.

I just came up here to talk.

I gambled all my money away. I mean,
every penny.

Poor thing.

What I mean is, I can't pay you.

Oh, well, sure you can.

Look, you've got these nice silver
cufflinks.

Oh, this beautiful gold pocket watch.

Why, if all I took around these parts
was cash, I'd have gone out of business

years ago.

I wanted to ask you about the sheriff.

What about him?

What do you want to talk to me about?

Same thing you always wanted to talk
about.

My leaving.

He was the only man in town who wasn't
pleased his pie had settled here.

Of course, that's because he was the
only man in town who hadn't availed

of my services.

He would have eventually if he hadn't
had such a prude for a sister.

I will just eat this right off. I just
came up here to talk.

And now that we've talked, I just soon
leave.

See, I'm kind of a prude myself.

Wait a minute.

I'll walk you out.

It's not often I get to be seen with a
lawyer.

Just hope nobody shoots you.

Hey, are you Michelle?

I am.

What's your name?

Blue. Just came down from Hollister. Buy
you a drink?

No, you didn't come all the way from
Hollister just to buy me a drink, now

you, Blue?

Hold it, Michelle.

I'm here to see you right now. Hey,
what's your turn? Stay out of this.

AHHHHH!

Bob? Bob!

Are you alright?

Some coward.

You ask you is that fair?

I say we do something about it.

And I say we do it now.

Unlock it, Tom.

Miss Julia, you know I can't do that.

You owe my brother, Tom.

Or did you forget how he saved your hide
that time Lenny Canfield come out after

you for accidentally shooting his own
son?

Judge Ogilvie has already been sent for.
All right, now if he gets here and he

finds Conrad has already been hung,
there's going to be hell to pay. And I'm

going to be the one paying it. Excuse
me, excuse me, let me through, let me

through. Excuse me, let me, let me just
through. Come, watch your feet, let me

through.

You can't do this.

Of course I can.

He killed my brother.

It just looks like he killed your
brother.

Well, that's good enough for us, isn't
it?

All right, all right, all right, all
right.

You want to string him up?

Okay.

But two points.

One, I'm his lawyer and he deserves a
fair trial.

And two, I'm a customer at your place of
business, your boarding house.

And that's a conflict of interest.

and might be viewed as against the law.

All right, everybody out.

Out. Out.

Hope you like beans, Mr. Matlock,
because that's what you're going to be

for lunch.

And dinner, more likely.

Breakfast, too.

there for a second i thought she was too
i i rode out to ned salem's place and

he said all this cattle rustling stuff
just a rumor well all i know is some

cowboy swore he saw a bunch of steers
with a broken rock and brandon with ned

salem's herd why didn't the sheriff take
a look himself well he did he wrote

that the same day the only brand he saw
in salem's herd was salem's this cowboy

what's his name rudy sims

You know where I can find him?

We don't happen to be the first ones
there.

Rudy Sims?

Yeah. I'm Ben Matlock.

Boy, that was some brawl, wasn't it?

I remember seeing you there.

Well, I spend most of my time under a
table. I have this strong sense of self

-preservation.

I'm trying to help Conrad McMasters
prove that he was not the one who shot

sheriff. I'm his lawyer.

Yep. Well, I hear that you told the
sheriff that you thought Ned Salem had

stolen some capital.

Yep, that's right.

You want to tell me how that happened?

Well, you know, the last time it rained,
about a week ago.

Actually,

I'm kind of new in town, so no, I don't.

Go on.

Well, I was riding watch around
midnight, northern flank of the herd,

always, when the rain started.

Let me tell you, bored.

So hard I couldn't see two feet in front
of my face.

Come morning when the rain let up, those
pointy heads were missing.

I looked and I looked, but I'll be
damned if I could find them.

And a couple days later, when I was
riding by Ned Salem's herd,

This morning I saw a bunch of stairs in
the Broken Rock brand mixed in with his.

So I told the sheriff.

He rode out there and took a look.

He didn't see no Broken Rock stairs.

That was the end of it.

Any idea what happened to him?

Maybe I just plummeted a mistake.

Yeah, I guess you did.

Oh, could I, uh...

Yeah, there you go.

Stand real still.

Stand real still.

Stand still now. Here I come.

Bye.

Come on, come on. Come on up here. Come
on up.

May I come in?

Not if all you want to do is talk.

This time, I'm buying.

Well, what are you standing out there
for? Come right in.

Well, that was some fight, wasn't it?

It was disgraceful.

I swear, I just don't know what gets
into you boys sometimes.

What did Rudy want?

Rudy? The cowboy that started it.

Same thing you want.

He seemed determined to get it.

Well, some men have needs that just
can't be denied.

So he was just a customer?

Just like you.

Well, not exactly.

You leaving?

Well, I said I was buying, but I didn't
say what.

Bug soda with a lime.

Whiskey.

Something wrong with your drink?

Smells like stain remover.

Want me to taste it for you?

Just don't get it. Why would Michelle
pay off Rudy?

Rudy.

Now, there's a walking testimony to the
goodness of man I've ever seen.

Just last week, he come walking down the
back stairs from Miss Michelle's room.

Sees me lying in the alley trying to
sleep in the pouring rain.

Gives me a dollar.

So as I can spend the rest of the night
in the boarding house.

A man's truly a monument to charity and
mercy.

Here.

Have another.

Have it all.

You're a genius.

Thanks. I always thought so.

Oh, that's all right. I'm just on my way
to the boarding house.

But on second thought... On second
thought... What the hell?

I've been riding so much lately, I've
got bruises in places I've never seen.

This is a much more civilized way to
travel.

You're rigged?

Uh -huh.

When I go somewhere, I like to go in
style.

You like it?

Yeah, it's nice.

I need cushions the real nice.

Well,

here we are.

Well,

thanks for the lift.

Should have known you two'd get
together.

Why, Miss Julie, I do believe you're
jealous.

scene was Conrad standing there with his
gun in his hand.

The next thing he seen was the sheriff,
shot through the chest, dead as Moses.

Wasn't wearing his gun or nothing.

Where was his gun?

Bottom desk drawer.

Yeah, Conrad come in and shot him before
he could even get it open.

Objection. Witnesses speculating.

I know that.

Sit down.

Well, what about them?

Well, they ain't standing up. I mean,
aren't you going to tell them to

what he just said?

is asleep.

Other half wouldn't know what I was
talking about if I told him.

Now, sit down.

But, Your Honor.

I've had about enough of you, Mr.
Matlock.

I gotta be in Carson City come sundown
because at sunup I gotta preside over

Buck Macy's trial because if he ain't
hung pretty quick, them outlaws he's

running around with is gonna bust him
out of jail and a whole lot of people

gonna get killed in the process.

Now, I can't get down there if you keep
jumping out of your chair every ten

seconds like some jackrabbit.

You sit down!

How many times was the sheriff shot?

Once. And there was only one bullet
missing from Conrad's gun.

Thank you. You can go sit.

What about my cross -examination?

I don't want a cross -examination.

Anybody else got anything to say? Yes,
sir.

I called somebody else to the stand.

Who?

Michelle Thomas.

Don't tell no family secrets.

Mr. Jeff?

We can land you.

I suppose a woman in your profession
gets to know the cowboys around here

well.

That's one way of putting it.

What they do, where they work, when they
ride watch.

Most of them got better things to do
when they're with me and talk about

jobs, Mr. Bell.

Yeah. But they tell you, though, don't
they? Sometimes when they're down here

having a drink, especially when they
ride watch.

Then you pass that information along to
Ned Salem, and then between the two of

you, you decide which cowboy you'll lure
up to your room. And while he's busy

with you up there, Ned Salem and his
boys are busy helping themselves to the

cattle that cowboy is supposed to be
watching, aren't they? That's the

notion I've ever heard.

It's so crazy it worked every time,
didn't it?

Ned would sell the cattle right away and
give you your cut, and nobody ever

knew. because the cowboys you got up to
your room were too embarrassed or afraid

of being fired to say anything.

Until Rudy came along. Now, as it
happened, Rudy was with

you instead of watching the broken rock
herd that night it rained last week.

But a couple of days later, he came
across some of those stolen cattle.

Only by now they were part of Ned
Salem's herd. So Rudy told the sheriff

thought you and Ned were in cahoots.
Then the sheriff confronted you, and

thereafter, you shot him.

Me? Shoot somebody?

Why, I wouldn't even know which end of a
gun to point.

And then, then Rudy confronted you.

But you couldn't shoot him right there
in your room. You wouldn't have anybody

to frame.

So you paid him off.

with a solid gold candlestick made him
promise to keep his mouth shut about the

cowboys, your relationship with Ned
Salem, and everything else. And he was

prepared to do that until last night
when I explained to him

what perjury means.

Now, if I put him where you're sitting,
Miss Thomas, he's not going to lie.

Mr. Batlock, I don't reckon that... Half
the people in this room know what the

word conjecture means.

But I do.

And I've had enough.

Now, either you prove what you're saying
or stop saying it. And sit down. Prove.

Right. Prove.

Believe it or not, that's just what I
was coming to.

Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Hold it.

Everything's all right. Everything's
fine.

See, that's just Bob shooting Conrad's
gun off over at the J.

Order!

Order! Order in the corner! Everybody
back here!

Everybody back here and sit down!

I've always wondered why nobody heard
the fatal shot.

Yet you all heard that shot just now.
You even had a pretty good idea where it

came from.

So why didn't anybody hear it then?

I'll tell you.

Here's why.

Would you tell the judge what this is,
Tom?

Well, it looks like one of those
cushions off of Miss Michelle's buggy.

right.

Jake King watched me take it off her
buggy over at the livery stable this

morning, didn't you, Jake?

And this is why you didn't hear the
shot.

The other afternoon when Conrad came in
here wearing his gun looking for the

sheriff, you went and got this cushion,
didn't you?

And you also got a gun.

And you went over to the sheriff's
office, and not only was the sheriff

alive, but Conrad was unconscious.

And you saw your opportunity.

And you put your gun into this pillow
and fired through it so no one could

the shot and come around him.

And then, with the sheriff dead, you
walked over to Conrad, took one bullet

of his pistol, and put the gun in his
hand.

Then you slipped out without anybody
seeing you. And finally, you put this

cushion back in your buggy.

thinking no one would notice.

But I noticed.

Yesterday.

When you were so kind to give me that
ride.

Order!

Order!

All right, don't nobody move.

Now, sit here, young lady. Sit down!

Now, I'm leaving here, and if anybody
tries to stop me, the lawyer here gets a

bullet.

Get out of my way.

Nope. I'll kill him. I swear I will. I
got nothing to lose. Let her go.

She makes a good point, Tom.

Move. Nope.

No.

Ben,

are you all right?

That sign came loose and whacked you on
the head.

You're alive.

Of course I'm alive.

You've been out cold, Ben.

Mechanic's here.

Wait, wait, don't get up. You should
rest.

That's okay, I can get... I can get
plenty of rest.

On the stage, coach.

No, I mean, I mean it, bud.

You think it will take for you to get us
rolling again?

I don't know. Now get on the bus and sit
down.

She just asked you a simple question.

Look, I gotta be in Carson City come
Sunday because another one of these

broke down and if I don't fix it,
there's gonna be one mad busload of

Now a man's gotta do what a man's gotta
do. So get on the bus and sit down.