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Good, now you're crazy.

It doesn't even make sense.

It don't supposed to make sense.

Poetry. Oh, poetry.

Hey.

Hey, where are we anyway?

Almost home, brother.

Home on the range.

Home.

Almost home.

What happened to the beautiful idea you have about stopping someplace at

midnight, huh? Well, I got a thinking about that little bride of mine.

All alone in that drafty house.

That's called Pikes Wagon, isn't it?

Hey, Joe.

Naimin?

Joe. Joey.

The FBI.

A QM production.

Starring Ephraim Zimbalist Jr.

Also starring Philip Abbott.

Stephen Brooks.

Lynn Loring. With guest stars Robert Blake.

Alejandro Rey.

R .G. Armstrong.

Tonight's episode, A Mouthful of Dust.

So?

And so.

I'll tell you one thing, Lewis.

Both these specimens were written by the same man.

Wagner? No question.

How about the paper?

No, American made.

Very familiar watermark.

But the letter was mailed from Brazil.

No question about that either.

Cancellation, eh?

Everything checks out.

What's he wanted for?

Oh, a little awful fight to avoid prosecution, embezzlement.

I think you're going to have a little trouble getting him out of Brazil.

If he's in Brazil.

Sends the letter to his brother, the brother turns it over to us.

Very cooperative.

Yeah, like shining a flashlight down a dark alley, isn't it?

That's where the eye goes, whether there's anything there or not.

Quinlan.

Inspector Erskine, he's right here right now.

San Lucas, New Mexico. The resident agent.

Erskine, who's this?

Oh, Dennis. How are you? Just fine, sir. Fine.

Um, I have a little problem, Inspector, and I tell you the truth, I'd appreciate

your help.

Shoot.

Well, a man named Pike was killed on the Apache reservation this morning.

You know, everything we found points to a simple case of manslaughter.

Pike had a mile -long arrest record, assault, peeping Tom, the whole bit.

Anyway, he apparently tried to attack an Indian woman in her own home. He must

have known the husband was away working in Albuquerque.

But the husband came back.

What kind of a statement did the husband make?

That's my problem.

He won't say anything except that he has to talk to you.

Why me?

Captain, Captain, this is Cloud.

Private Cloud.

Company C, Korea.

Did you hear that, sir?

Put him on.

Well, I told him. I said you can't disturb... What did you say, sir?

Put him on. I know who he is.

Yes, sir.

He wants to talk to you.

Captain, this is Private Cloud.

You remember me?

Sure, I remember, Cloud. How are you?

Fine. What's happening out there?

Well, I'd like to explain to you.

These policemen have been trying to make me talk.

And I keep telling them they don't have the right to do that.

Now listen, Cloud.

Special agents aren't policemen. They're investigators.

All they want to do is find out what went on so they can give the facts to

United States Attorney.

You think, Captain, I have to tell them everything?

That's right.

But I did tell everything.

The whole truth.

The time I was caught behind the lines, remember?

And they said I was a deserter.

Well, the charge was dropped, wasn't it?

Yeah, it was dropped. But you remember why?

Because you argued with the judge until you were blue in the face.

Listen, why do we do this?

I have to make a speech in Denver on the 19th.

Suppose I see you on my way home.

Captain, if you say it's okay, it's okay.

I will see you around the 20th.

I'll be there.

Oh, Inspector.

You are right about the material in the folds of the Wagner letter.

The botanist confirms that it's Barton.

Can he identify the tree?

Yes, sir.

Lost in Cyprus.

Good.

Good.

Good problem.

Thanks, Vic. Send a copy of your report over to Jim, will you?

I'll see you later.

Heavy date?

Lunch with Barbara.

Why don't you join us? We'll be at the Sorrento. Sorry, can't. Take a rain

check, though.

Oh, say, give that beautiful daughter of yours a big kiss for me.

Isn't that the assistant director?

Hello, Barbara. Hello, Mr. Ward. Hello there, Roach. Good afternoon, sir.

Switchboard told me your father was here.

Oh, yes, he ought to be along any minute. We've been expecting him.

I'll bet you have.

Hi, Daddy.

Hello, Lewis.

May I speak to you, too, for just a minute?

This won't take long.

of pressure, you gentlemen, but will someone please tell me why Nicholas

is still a fugitive after seven months?

He's had a very stimulating talk with the director.

What, are we dragging our feet here a little bit loose, or what?

If he's still in Brazil... He's not in Brazil.

He's somewhere along the California -Oregon border, probably around Eureka.

He may be working in a lumber camp.

What did he do, send you a telegram?

No, he sent a letter to Brazil.

And he had someone in Brazil mail it to his brother in New York.

We found some minute wood particles in it. Lost in Cyprus, bought off at Cedar.

Now, the only place it grows is in northwestern California and southwestern

Oregon.

Nobody likes a show -off, Lewis.

Rode, you fly to the coast this afternoon.

Yes, sir. And I want you here to coordinate this.

Yeah, but Art, I'm scheduled to make a speech in Denver tomorrow night. Well,

cancel it.

Let the SAC handle it.

Yeah, but you see it. What's more important, delivering a speech or

Nick Wagner?

Another redskin bit the dust. Huh?

I'm not arguing with you, Counselor. I'm just asking you to make it smooth. All

right, Crowley. I will speak to him.

About time you got here.

Where have you been?

Mr. Cloud, you aren't my only client. I'm the only client you've got that

matters to me, mister.

Where did you find him?

He was in the county courthouse. Now, just steady down, Joe.

Hey, mister, come on.

All right, Mr. Cloud, what's on your mind?

Who do you think is on my mind?

I tell you to get me out of here, and instead they are sending me to Santa Fe.

Mr. Cloud, don't you listen to anything I say, huh?

You're a federal prisoner.

That means you've got to be tried by a federal judge.

Now, the federal judge is in Santa Fe.

Tried for what?

I didn't do anything.

Don't you listen to anything I say?

Cloud, you killed a man. You already said that.

A man?

Pike?

I wrung a chicken's neck.

She's fine, Joe.

I'm going to bring her home from the hospital tomorrow.

She has her ribs taped, okay?

Okay, let's go.

Have fun.

Why don't you write a petition or something?

Tell them I take back everything I said.

Maybe I said too much.

I want to wait for Mr. Erskine. He'll know what to do.

He's my friend.

He will talk to them.

What's wrong?

Will you listen to me, Joe?

Mr. Erskine called.

He's not coming.

You're kidding.

He's a busy man or something, huh?

Believe me, it's true.

Everybody's busy.

This our boy, Sheriff?

Yeah.

Sign both these copies, will you, Gene?

TV said it'd be 104 by noon.

Well, I'd better have a sandstorm the way it looks.

Yeah, crazy weather, ain't it? Like something wild got loose.

Thank you, Marco.

Hey, will you loosen it for me?

It's got to be a long ride.

I'm going to double lock those things.

Yeah, I know.

You mean there's no trace of him?

What about the car?

We found out this morning in a canyon 60 miles west of town.

Is he armed?

Just with that cuff.

Well, that brings up another problem.

A marshal he hits in a pretty bad way.

Fractured skull.

The people around here are getting scared.

And they're mad.

We may get a little vigilante activity.

All right, if there's a flight open, I'll be there tonight.

Lewis, that Indian I told you about. Well, I gathered that one... Can it

Thelma?

One Indian.

Unarmed.

He's the fox and the hounds are after him.

Lewis, the director gives you a good deal of autonomy because you deliver and

because he trusts you.

You've got more important things on your docket than... Than what?

A man has got some rights, Art. And among them is the right to be brought to

trial alive.

Let Denison handle it. Where do we stand if he's lynched?

Let Denison handle it.

I want Nick Wagner, and I want you on this case until it's completed.

Thelma, get me Mr. Rhodes and Eureka.

Well, that's why I rang you, sir. Mr. Rhodes called.

He wanted you to know they've captured Wagner.

He said to tell you that Wagner was right where you said he'd be.

Maybe you'd better get Rhodes anyway, Thelma.

Yes, sir.

I suppose you'll want him to meet you in San Lucas.

You're a good man, Art.

I love him.

I'll try to remember you in my prayers you say that but you never do it

Don't make us out.

Anybody in the house? Just me.

Any food?

In the newspaper.

you

Oh, by the way, Crowley's given us a search party. Men who really know this

country. Is that the sheriff Cloud got away from?

First prisoner he ever lost.

Crowley's a good man.

Fine man.

But he's going to bring Cloud back if he has to bring him back slung over a

horse. It's a point of honor now.

Inspector Erskine, I'm Crowley.

Sheriff, this is my partner, Jim Rhodes. How do you do, sir?

Well, we got a couple of extra horses. You can pick whichever one you want.

No highways back where we're going.

You have a pretty good idea where Cloud is, do you?

I've got a couple of ideas.

We'll take him.

Alive, of course.

Mr. Erskine, can I ask you a question?

How come the FBI decided to send their chief investigator on a case this small?

Well, Sheriff, I might say that the FBI doesn't consider it a small case.

Also, I have to tell you that Cloud happens to be a friend of mine.

Oh.

I knew him in Korea.

He was a good soldier.

Good killer, sir?

He killed because he was ordered to, not because he wanted to.

There's a difference, Sheriff.

Nobody ordered him to hit that marshal over the head.

The man's liable to die.

And if he dies, Cloud ought to be brought to trial for murder alive.

Wouldn't he, Sheriff?

Yes, sir.

No doubt about that.

Well, shall we get started?

Do we have a minute? I'd like to talk to his brother.

I don't think Peter's seeing you. He's getting ready to burn the house.

To do what?

It's an Apache custom.

Someone dies in your Hogan, you burn it down.

Are we going in?

Yes, sir.

Mr. Clark.

This is Inspector Erskine, Special Agent Rhodes.

You finally made it, huh?

What did you bother for?

Don't you know that sometimes it's better never than late, Mr. Erskine?

I tried to get here sooner.

Look at that.

That's Joe's wife.

I bet you never saw an Indian woman cry before, did you?

It's funny.

Carl Pike have killed her, but she didn't cry.

They must have hurt her bad in the hospital, but she didn't cry.

They put her husband in the jailhouse for trying to save her life, but she

didn't cry.

But let the medicine man burn down this lousy, miserable hole of a house, and

she comes apart.

While she's young yet, she will get over it.

She will find another man and have too many children, and most of them will

She'll move to another house and another one, another one.

It's just that this was the first house, her honeymoon palace.

You know where Joe is, Mr. Cloud?

You want me to flush him out for you?

Mister, if they cut your wrists, gall would flow out, not blood.

He's my brother.

I'm not going to help you kill him.

I want you to help me save him.

Okay, maybe I could whistle him out of whatever cave he's hiding in. But

one thing I couldn't do, mister.

And that's watched those men out there kill my brother when he reached out to

take my hand.

If you whistle him out, I give you my word of honor, he won't be shot.

All right, now, you tell me.

What is a white man's word of honor supposed to mean to an Apache?

Pete, please help them.

Annie, go back to Grandma's house and stay there. You don't want to see this

place burn down, Mrs. Clark.

By tomorrow, there may be a lot of the wrong people looking for your husband.

We've got to get there first.

Annie, you can't trust this man any more than we can trust the others.

Pete, please.

Go to Grandma's house.

For Joe?

Go on, go on. Will you?

Yes. All right, go.

All right, well, um, I'll leave the helicopter to spot for us. Check it out.

Yes, sir. I'll get the walkie -talkies.

Mr. Erskine, if this is just another white man's treaty to be broken,

you remember, Joe is my brother.

Inspector,

I just got a call from town.

Joe Cloud beat and robbed a shepherd south of the reservation.

He stole a knife, a gun, and a horse. He's armed and headed this way.

I told my men to shoot to kill.

Okay, man up.

Has he been this way?

No.

That's fine.

Just fine.

Do you know what we're after, Apache?

We're chasing Joe Cloud, not a wild goose.

I know better than you what we're chasing.

If you don't like where I'm leading you, why don't you follow somebody else?

Sheriff, why don't we take a break?

It's been a long day. We're all tired and...

My eastern spine wasn't built for a horse anyway.

Dismount! Five minutes!

He thinks I'm after his brother because he's got a red skin.

You think that?

No.

I'm a lawman here, Mr. Erskine.

It's not an easy job.

A man learns to use a gun before he leaves grammar school. He gets a big

the law, and the first thing you know is his own law.

I'll quit before I see that happen, whether he's red, white, black, green,

purple.

Now I know what they mean by the hinges of hell.

Yeah, and it'll get hotter before it gets cooler.

It'll be like the wind blowing off a hot furnace.

Ain't a wet spring creek or waterhole within 100 miles.

That's what's gonna beat Joe Cloud, no matter where he is.

You don't think he's around here, then?

His brother's leading us, Inspector.

No, I don't think he's around here.

Joe's?

Mm -hmm.

The horse was going slow.

Almost done.

My brother is not far from here.

You make a good tracker, Pete.

Yeah.

It's like being a good hangman.

Look.

You're doing the best thing you could for your brother.

I don't know.

You find him, and we bring him in safe.

You heard the promise.

It's funny.

You keep wanting to trust people.

No matter what they do, you want to trust them.

You can trust Erskine. Why?

He's here.

I ask the same question, why?

This is not a war. It's one Indian alone in the desert.

Unit 2 to ground.

I've spotted him.

Where are you? Straight north from your present location.

There's a riot on the left about two miles.

He's headed right into it.

We spotted him, boys. Mount up.

Crowley. Crowley!

You don't need that gun.

He's not going anywhere.

All you have to do is take him.

You boys stay here and fang along the watch in case he doubles back.

Won't shoot.

Joe?

Now, there's a man.

Where's he headed for?

Hatchet Creek.

It's probably dry, too.

We'll go around. The bird will keep him in sight.

Coming?

No.

It's over now, Mr. Erskine.

The sheriff said it.

He's a man.

He won't quit now.

He will go on fighting like a man.

And he will die like a man without me to call him back.

Hey. Now!

I wouldn't do it now even if I could.

You go to him.

You find the words.

You tell him.

the wash over there.

I'll help you bring him up.

Well, clown.

You suppose the only time we're going to get together is when there's a war on?

This one was rougher than Korea.

Private cloud against the world, right?

I'll tell you something.

Nobody's got it made.

Everybody fights.

You, your wife, Crowley, your brother, me.

It's just that each person fights in a little

different terrain.

Joe, you've lost a skirmish.

But as long as a man fights...

Can't lose the war.

Can he?

I'm not here to spin you fairy tales.

You're going to go to prison.

But it won't be as rough as what you've come through.

And it won't last forever.

You'll have a wife to come back to.

And a new house to build.

Don't finish this on your stomach in the dust.

Now give me the knife.

We'll get you back to town.

I imagine you want to...

Clean up before Annie sees you.

You look terrible.

And what did he say when he heard the sentence?

Nothing. He knew it was fair.

He could have got life if either of the men he hit had died.

Well, I got an appointment with the director.

See you back at the office, Jim. Right.

Bye, sweetheart. Bye -bye, Daddy.

He's quite a man.

Yes, yes, he is.

I meant Joe Cloud.

He's quite a man, too.

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