1 00:00:04,047 --> 00:00:05,875 Steven! 2 00:00:36,253 --> 00:00:38,124 Help me! 3 00:00:38,255 --> 00:00:39,865 Help me! 4 00:00:43,129 --> 00:00:45,305 The wagon skidded off the road! 5 00:00:45,436 --> 00:00:49,135 He made me jump or he would've got clear himself. 6 00:00:49,266 --> 00:00:50,528 Easy now, Millie. 7 00:00:52,008 --> 00:00:53,836 Well, he's-- he's still alive. 8 00:00:59,189 --> 00:01:01,017 [ gunshots ] 9 00:02:25,623 --> 00:02:27,103 It's the boss's boy. 10 00:02:27,190 --> 00:02:29,235 Ride for the doctor, quick. 11 00:02:29,366 --> 00:02:31,977 Closest one's in Laramie, that's a half a day's ride. 12 00:02:32,108 --> 00:02:32,935 Get him! 13 00:02:41,378 --> 00:02:42,553 Help me get this off. 14 00:03:03,313 --> 00:03:04,662 Where's Vic? 15 00:03:04,793 --> 00:03:05,707 Boss won't be home till midnight. 16 00:03:05,837 --> 00:03:06,925 How did it happen? 17 00:03:07,012 --> 00:03:08,666 The wagon turned over. 18 00:03:08,797 --> 00:03:09,580 Get some water, we'll clean him up. 19 00:03:09,711 --> 00:03:10,581 He needs a doctor. 20 00:03:10,712 --> 00:03:12,322 I've sent for one. 21 00:03:12,452 --> 00:03:13,540 Now stop making me say everything twice 22 00:03:13,671 --> 00:03:14,672 and get some water. 23 00:03:24,290 --> 00:03:25,770 You better go on home, Millie. 24 00:03:25,901 --> 00:03:27,206 We'll take care of him right. 25 00:03:27,337 --> 00:03:28,773 No, I want to stay here. 26 00:03:45,268 --> 00:03:47,357 If I've to start wrangling too, 27 00:03:47,487 --> 00:03:49,054 they'll pay me darn well for it. 28 00:03:49,141 --> 00:03:51,100 Oh, now, Mose, it wasn't Slim's fault 29 00:03:51,230 --> 00:03:52,231 the cattle broke through the fence. 30 00:03:52,362 --> 00:03:54,016 Well, where is Jess? 31 00:03:54,146 --> 00:03:55,800 Seems like there ought to be one of them here. 32 00:03:55,887 --> 00:03:57,759 He went into Laramie for some supplies. 33 00:03:57,889 --> 00:03:59,499 He'll be back in the morning. 34 00:03:59,586 --> 00:04:01,980 Now if you could stop complaining for a minute, 35 00:04:02,111 --> 00:04:05,244 I might tell you there's a cake in the kitchen. 36 00:04:05,375 --> 00:04:07,943 Now I'll have to make more than a half hour... 37 00:04:09,683 --> 00:04:11,033 What kind of cake, chocolate? 38 00:04:11,163 --> 00:04:13,557 It'll be ready when you are. 39 00:04:18,127 --> 00:04:19,911 You're sure bandaging Buttons' paw 40 00:04:20,042 --> 00:04:22,261 better than I was, mister. 41 00:04:22,392 --> 00:04:24,263 Maybe I've had more practice, son. 42 00:04:24,350 --> 00:04:26,352 You a doctor? 43 00:04:26,483 --> 00:04:28,833 I was long time ago. 44 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,792 I'm sorry for the delay. 45 00:04:30,879 --> 00:04:33,142 We have to tend our patient here anyway. 46 00:04:33,272 --> 00:04:36,493 Look how well he bandaged Buttons' paw, Aunt Daisy. 47 00:04:37,581 --> 00:04:39,191 It's wonderful. 48 00:04:39,322 --> 00:04:42,107 Would you accept a piece of cake as a fee? 49 00:04:42,238 --> 00:04:43,892 It was fresh baked this morning. 50 00:04:44,022 --> 00:04:47,199 I think that'd be a fair exchange. 51 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:49,462 Me too? 52 00:04:49,593 --> 00:04:52,378 Doctor's assistants usually get a fee. 53 00:04:52,509 --> 00:04:54,728 I'll only be a minute. 54 00:04:55,947 --> 00:04:57,601 I'll miss her cooking, 55 00:04:57,731 --> 00:04:59,951 but someday I'm gonna go to California too. 56 00:05:00,038 --> 00:05:01,735 You ever been there before? 57 00:05:01,866 --> 00:05:04,608 No, this is my first trip. 58 00:05:04,738 --> 00:05:06,305 Jess, he's my friend. 59 00:05:06,436 --> 00:05:07,480 He's been there. 60 00:05:07,611 --> 00:05:08,960 He says it's a place 61 00:05:09,091 --> 00:05:11,006 where a man can get a fresh start. 62 00:05:12,485 --> 00:05:13,965 I hope your friend is right. 63 00:05:14,096 --> 00:05:17,708 Here, I think, I think that should do it. 64 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:19,449 Now walk him a little 65 00:05:19,579 --> 00:05:21,451 and we'll see if the bandage is too tight. 66 00:05:21,581 --> 00:05:22,539 Thanks, mister. 67 00:05:22,669 --> 00:05:23,888 Come on, Buttons. 68 00:05:28,850 --> 00:05:31,896 [ horses approaching ] 69 00:05:42,254 --> 00:05:44,561 That's a good way to windbreak a horse, 70 00:05:44,691 --> 00:05:45,954 pushing him real hard. 71 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,744 Oh, it's them two from the Prescott Ranch. 72 00:05:53,831 --> 00:05:55,311 I might have known. 73 00:05:55,441 --> 00:05:56,442 Mose. 74 00:05:56,573 --> 00:05:57,922 You trying to see 75 00:05:58,009 --> 00:05:59,619 which one can kill his horse first? 76 00:05:59,706 --> 00:06:01,404 We're heading for Laramie, we need fresh mounts. 77 00:06:01,534 --> 00:06:03,058 I don't wonder 78 00:06:03,188 --> 00:06:03,885 from how you've been treating your own. 79 00:06:04,015 --> 00:06:05,321 Can't be help. 80 00:06:05,451 --> 00:06:06,496 We're riding for the doctor. 81 00:06:06,626 --> 00:06:08,193 What's wrong? 82 00:06:08,324 --> 00:06:10,065 Steve's hurt bad. A wagon rolled on him. 83 00:06:10,152 --> 00:06:11,544 You don't have to go all the way to Laramie. 84 00:06:11,675 --> 00:06:13,677 There's a doctor inside with Aunt Daisy. 85 00:06:16,288 --> 00:06:17,420 You sure, son? 86 00:06:17,550 --> 00:06:18,812 Well, he said he was. 87 00:06:23,469 --> 00:06:25,863 Mrs. Cooper, the boy says there's a doctor here. 88 00:06:25,950 --> 00:06:27,821 A doctor? 89 00:06:27,909 --> 00:06:29,214 Well, please, ma'am, we're in a mighty big hurry. 90 00:06:29,345 --> 00:06:30,868 You the doc? 91 00:06:30,999 --> 00:06:32,478 Why, yes, but it's been sometime 92 00:06:32,609 --> 00:06:34,002 since I attended anybody. 93 00:06:34,089 --> 00:06:35,307 Well, you better come with us, 94 00:06:35,438 --> 00:06:36,700 we got a man hurt real bad. 95 00:06:36,787 --> 00:06:37,919 Well, you don't understand. 96 00:06:38,049 --> 00:06:39,529 We do understand, 97 00:06:39,659 --> 00:06:41,226 the boss' son could be bleeding to death, 98 00:06:41,357 --> 00:06:42,488 while we stand here talking about it. 99 00:06:42,619 --> 00:06:44,229 Now can you help him? 100 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,536 Maybe I could, but if you'll just listen I'll-- 101 00:06:46,666 --> 00:06:47,754 We'll listen, 102 00:06:47,841 --> 00:06:49,017 after you fix him up. 103 00:06:49,104 --> 00:06:50,583 MOSE: Hold on, Manton. 104 00:06:50,714 --> 00:06:52,629 Don't you try to stop us, Mose. 105 00:06:53,847 --> 00:06:55,023 We're sorry, Mrs. Cooper, 106 00:06:55,153 --> 00:06:56,807 but it's Vic Prescott's boy. 107 00:06:56,938 --> 00:06:58,896 Ah, you'll be well paid for your time, let's go. 108 00:06:59,027 --> 00:07:00,550 No trouble, Mose. 109 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:02,508 You come along and help with the horses. 110 00:07:02,639 --> 00:07:03,596 Do I've a choice? 111 00:07:03,683 --> 00:07:04,902 Not this time. 112 00:07:13,606 --> 00:07:16,000 We'll bring him back soon as he's finished, Mrs. Cooper. 113 00:07:16,131 --> 00:07:17,871 All right, doc, let's go. 114 00:07:26,489 --> 00:07:28,143 High-handed shenanigans, 115 00:07:28,273 --> 00:07:30,406 just 'cause they ride for Prescott. 116 00:07:30,536 --> 00:07:32,495 But if Stevie's badly hurt-- 117 00:07:32,625 --> 00:07:34,976 But they didn't ask the doc, they just took him. 118 00:07:35,106 --> 00:07:37,369 I'm gonna get Slim. 119 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:38,327 Mike? 120 00:07:45,725 --> 00:07:48,250 Mike, be careful! 121 00:08:02,655 --> 00:08:05,658 We were lucky, we found a doc at Slim Sherman's place. 122 00:08:05,789 --> 00:08:07,965 He wasn't much willing to help though. 123 00:08:08,096 --> 00:08:09,749 I never heard of a medical man holding back 124 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:10,837 when somebody is in trouble. 125 00:08:10,968 --> 00:08:12,448 Are you their employer? 126 00:08:12,535 --> 00:08:14,319 I'll do until Mr. Prescott gets back. 127 00:08:14,450 --> 00:08:15,451 I've been foreman of this ranch for 20 years. 128 00:08:15,581 --> 00:08:16,713 Now let's go-- 129 00:08:16,843 --> 00:08:17,627 Now just a minute. 130 00:08:17,757 --> 00:08:19,107 For what? 131 00:08:19,237 --> 00:08:20,369 If it's money you're worried about, 132 00:08:20,499 --> 00:08:21,979 you'll get more than enough. 133 00:08:22,110 --> 00:08:23,415 Money has nothing to do with it. 134 00:08:23,546 --> 00:08:25,026 Then the rest don't matter, does it? 135 00:08:25,156 --> 00:08:26,157 All that counts is you tending to Steve 136 00:08:26,244 --> 00:08:27,811 and no more talk about it. 137 00:09:15,815 --> 00:09:17,295 Just how bad is he, doc? 138 00:09:18,731 --> 00:09:20,298 I think I could save him, 139 00:09:20,429 --> 00:09:22,518 but I'll have to amputate his arm. 140 00:09:22,648 --> 00:09:24,650 No. 141 00:09:24,737 --> 00:09:27,827 Are you sure you know what you're talking about? 142 00:09:27,958 --> 00:09:29,177 You wanted my professional help 143 00:09:29,264 --> 00:09:31,004 badly enough to bring me here, 144 00:09:31,135 --> 00:09:33,746 now all I can do is tell you the truth as I see it. 145 00:09:33,833 --> 00:09:35,574 We should've kept on riding, 146 00:09:35,705 --> 00:09:37,533 should've gone for Doc Philips in Laramie. 147 00:09:37,663 --> 00:09:39,448 That's good that you didn't. 148 00:09:39,578 --> 00:09:41,102 The boy would've been dead when you get back. 149 00:09:41,189 --> 00:09:44,366 Hobey, what are we going to do? 150 00:09:44,496 --> 00:09:46,977 His only chance to live is for me to operate 151 00:09:47,108 --> 00:09:48,805 and stop the bleeding. 152 00:09:48,935 --> 00:09:51,590 Well, can you hold off until his father gets here? 153 00:09:51,721 --> 00:09:53,853 This boy means everything in the world to him. 154 00:09:53,984 --> 00:09:55,377 It's for him to decide. 155 00:09:55,507 --> 00:09:57,205 Can he get back here in a half hour? 156 00:09:57,335 --> 00:10:00,425 Not from out of town he can't, it's 25 miles. 157 00:10:00,556 --> 00:10:02,123 Well, then you're going to have to decide. 158 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:04,560 Me, huh? 159 00:10:04,690 --> 00:10:07,171 Somebody will have to, and now. 160 00:10:08,868 --> 00:10:10,827 Hobey, 161 00:10:10,957 --> 00:10:13,090 if it's his only chance... 162 00:10:17,094 --> 00:10:20,576 All right, go ahead 163 00:10:20,706 --> 00:10:22,926 but see to it that he lives. 164 00:10:27,844 --> 00:10:30,586 Just the high-handed way you went about it, that's all. 165 00:10:30,716 --> 00:10:32,631 It was the only thing we could do, Slim. 166 00:10:32,718 --> 00:10:34,416 There was no time to argue with him. 167 00:10:34,546 --> 00:10:36,853 The important thing was saving Steve's life. 168 00:10:36,983 --> 00:10:39,072 At the cost of his arm? 169 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,074 I hope Vic thinks the same way. 170 00:10:43,294 --> 00:10:44,687 How long they been up there? 171 00:10:44,774 --> 00:10:46,428 Almost an hour. 172 00:10:48,212 --> 00:10:49,474 It's gonna be rough on Steve. 173 00:10:49,561 --> 00:10:51,694 I'd hate to be in Hobey's boots. 174 00:10:51,824 --> 00:10:53,130 He's got to tell the boss. 175 00:10:59,180 --> 00:11:01,443 Will he be all right now? 176 00:11:01,573 --> 00:11:05,360 He's young and strong, a month, 5 weeks, 177 00:11:05,490 --> 00:11:07,231 he should be up and around the same as ever. 178 00:11:07,362 --> 00:11:09,277 But he won't be the same. 179 00:11:11,627 --> 00:11:13,498 If I were to tell you that his handicap's 180 00:11:13,629 --> 00:11:15,805 going to be more mental than physical, 181 00:11:15,935 --> 00:11:17,633 you wouldn't believe that, would you? 182 00:11:18,895 --> 00:11:20,157 No. 183 00:11:20,244 --> 00:11:22,594 Then I won't try to convince you. 184 00:11:22,725 --> 00:11:25,206 Let's both just be grateful that he's going to live. 185 00:11:40,264 --> 00:11:41,178 Will he be all right, doc? 186 00:11:41,309 --> 00:11:42,875 Is he gonna make it? 187 00:11:43,006 --> 00:11:46,792 All he needs now is rest, and plenty of it. 188 00:11:46,923 --> 00:11:48,229 Doctor, I'm Slim Sherman. 189 00:11:48,359 --> 00:11:49,708 I run the relay station 190 00:11:49,839 --> 00:11:51,536 where you stopped this morning. 191 00:11:51,667 --> 00:11:53,277 Well, I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Sherman. 192 00:11:53,408 --> 00:11:56,193 I'm afraid I've missed my stagecoach, haven't I? 193 00:11:56,324 --> 00:11:58,717 Well, there'll be another one along tomorrow. 194 00:11:58,804 --> 00:12:00,676 I just want you know that I'm sorry 195 00:12:00,806 --> 00:12:02,460 about the way all of this happened. 196 00:12:02,547 --> 00:12:03,679 No problem. 197 00:12:03,809 --> 00:12:06,377 I'm glad to have been able to help. 198 00:12:06,508 --> 00:12:07,900 We're mighty indebted to you, doctor. 199 00:12:08,031 --> 00:12:09,772 And it goes way beyond just saying thanks. 200 00:12:09,902 --> 00:12:11,513 I want you to know 201 00:12:11,643 --> 00:12:12,862 we'll be happy to pay you any amount you need. 202 00:12:12,992 --> 00:12:14,603 No need for that. 203 00:12:14,733 --> 00:12:16,126 I would like to ride back to the relay station 204 00:12:16,257 --> 00:12:17,823 with Mr. Sherman here though. 205 00:12:17,954 --> 00:12:19,695 I expect they've got all my baggage there. 206 00:12:19,782 --> 00:12:20,870 Sure. 207 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,741 Get his horse, Colie. 208 00:12:22,828 --> 00:12:24,613 Well, doctor, you're welcome 209 00:12:24,743 --> 00:12:26,441 to spend the night at our place if you'd like. 210 00:12:26,571 --> 00:12:28,094 That way, you'll save a trip into town 211 00:12:28,225 --> 00:12:29,922 and catch the morning stage after breakfast. 212 00:12:30,053 --> 00:12:32,316 Well, thanks, I'd appreciate that 213 00:12:32,403 --> 00:12:33,970 if it's not too much trouble to you. 214 00:12:34,057 --> 00:12:36,451 If anyone's been put to trouble has been you. 215 00:12:36,581 --> 00:12:37,713 And listen, if we hurry you can sample 216 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:39,236 some of Daisy's good cooking. 217 00:12:48,376 --> 00:12:50,813 How far is it to the ranch? 218 00:12:50,943 --> 00:12:51,988 Just over the hill. 219 00:12:52,118 --> 00:12:52,902 We'll be there by supper. 220 00:12:53,032 --> 00:12:54,773 Oh. 221 00:12:54,904 --> 00:12:56,819 Mr. Sherman, 222 00:12:56,949 --> 00:12:59,778 did you ever hear of John Wilkes Booth? 223 00:12:59,909 --> 00:13:03,129 Yeah, he was the assassin that shot President Lincoln. 224 00:13:03,260 --> 00:13:05,001 What about him? 225 00:13:05,131 --> 00:13:07,351 Well, it was a man who helped Booth to escape. 226 00:13:07,438 --> 00:13:08,744 He set his leg and patched him up 227 00:13:08,874 --> 00:13:10,833 on a little farm in Maryland. 228 00:13:10,963 --> 00:13:13,879 But I don't suppose you remember all that. 229 00:13:14,010 --> 00:13:17,666 Well, only that the traitors were convicted and executed. 230 00:13:17,796 --> 00:13:20,625 Well, not all those who were convicted were traitors 231 00:13:20,756 --> 00:13:22,671 and not all of them were executed. 232 00:13:22,801 --> 00:13:25,326 I don't understand, why are you telling me this? 233 00:13:25,456 --> 00:13:28,154 Because I think you have a right to know. 234 00:13:28,285 --> 00:13:30,287 I'm Samuel Mudd, 235 00:13:30,374 --> 00:13:33,508 the doctor who was convicted to helping Booth to escape. 236 00:13:46,521 --> 00:13:50,916 What was that doctor's name or did you think to ask, huh? 237 00:13:51,047 --> 00:13:53,354 No, I didn't. I thought you did. 238 00:13:53,484 --> 00:13:54,746 Vic sure ain't gonna like this. 239 00:13:56,139 --> 00:13:58,837 [ horses approaching ] 240 00:13:58,924 --> 00:14:00,926 Now there's his palomino now. 241 00:14:01,057 --> 00:14:02,928 I can tell by the sound. 242 00:14:03,059 --> 00:14:04,713 Yeah, he sure gonna blow sky high 243 00:14:04,843 --> 00:14:06,192 when you tell him. 244 00:14:06,279 --> 00:14:07,411 Don't you think I know that? 245 00:14:18,944 --> 00:14:19,815 Hobey. 246 00:14:22,992 --> 00:14:24,515 The place sure is quiet. 247 00:14:26,474 --> 00:14:27,388 I thought Steve was gonna talk to me 248 00:14:27,475 --> 00:14:28,650 then stay for supper. 249 00:14:28,780 --> 00:14:32,654 Yeah, well, he was, Vic, but... 250 00:14:34,264 --> 00:14:35,439 see, there's been an accident. 251 00:14:35,570 --> 00:14:36,788 What? 252 00:14:36,919 --> 00:14:38,486 The wagon overturned on Steve. 253 00:14:38,616 --> 00:14:40,096 What are you talking about, Hobey? 254 00:14:40,183 --> 00:14:41,227 Where is he? 255 00:14:41,358 --> 00:14:42,620 He's up in his room. 256 00:14:42,707 --> 00:14:44,317 But he's gonna be all right. 257 00:14:44,405 --> 00:14:46,189 Vic, we took care of it. We got-- 258 00:14:46,319 --> 00:14:47,495 Vic, listen to me a minute. 259 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,610 I know what you're thinking. 260 00:15:15,740 --> 00:15:18,787 But it was the only way to save his life. 261 00:15:18,917 --> 00:15:21,267 Almost better dead, crippled up like this. 262 00:15:21,398 --> 00:15:22,747 Oh, you don't mean that-- 263 00:15:22,878 --> 00:15:24,967 How can you say such a thing? 264 00:15:25,097 --> 00:15:27,056 Why did it have to be him? 265 00:15:27,186 --> 00:15:28,536 Why? 266 00:15:28,666 --> 00:15:30,494 He'll learn to live with it. 267 00:15:30,625 --> 00:15:32,801 I know it doesn't help any to say it, but he will. 268 00:15:34,803 --> 00:15:36,631 Doc Philips should have tried to save his arm. 269 00:15:36,761 --> 00:15:38,720 He's patched up broken bones before. 270 00:15:42,288 --> 00:15:43,812 It wasn't Doc Philips. 271 00:15:46,205 --> 00:15:47,990 What? 272 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,079 The boys found another doctor at Sherman's place. 273 00:15:50,209 --> 00:15:52,255 He was traveling through on the stage. 274 00:15:55,911 --> 00:15:56,781 They what? 275 00:15:56,912 --> 00:15:58,174 Well, Vicky-- 276 00:15:58,304 --> 00:15:59,305 Who was the doctor? 277 00:15:59,436 --> 00:16:00,393 I don't exactly know. 278 00:16:00,481 --> 00:16:02,265 You don't exactly know? 279 00:16:03,745 --> 00:16:05,703 You mean, you let a stranger, 280 00:16:05,834 --> 00:16:07,792 some butcher do this to Steve? 281 00:16:07,923 --> 00:16:09,533 Vic, he wasn't that kind of a man, Vic. 282 00:16:09,620 --> 00:16:10,926 He, he-- 283 00:16:11,056 --> 00:16:12,971 You don't know what kind he was. 284 00:16:13,102 --> 00:16:14,320 You should've gotten Philips. 285 00:16:14,451 --> 00:16:15,931 There wasn't time. 286 00:16:16,061 --> 00:16:17,672 He said that Steve would've died 287 00:16:17,802 --> 00:16:19,456 before Doctor Philips could've gotten here. 288 00:16:19,587 --> 00:16:21,850 He's said, of course he said. 289 00:16:21,937 --> 00:16:23,373 Where is he now? 290 00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:25,375 He's staying the night at Sherman's place. 291 00:16:28,291 --> 00:16:29,640 Where are you going? 292 00:16:29,771 --> 00:16:31,076 Where do you think? 293 00:16:31,207 --> 00:16:32,817 Well, I'm going with you. 294 00:16:32,948 --> 00:16:34,732 You stay here, right here until I get back. 295 00:16:39,215 --> 00:16:40,956 20 years or not, Hobey, 296 00:16:41,086 --> 00:16:42,523 you're going to answer for this. 297 00:17:17,862 --> 00:17:21,257 The stage doesn't leave until 9:00. 298 00:17:21,387 --> 00:17:22,824 If you get up early, 299 00:17:22,954 --> 00:17:24,652 we could go fishing down at the lake. 300 00:17:24,782 --> 00:17:27,045 Well, thanks, Mike, I'd like that. 301 00:17:27,176 --> 00:17:29,831 Come along, Mike, you run off to bed. 302 00:17:29,961 --> 00:17:32,137 If you oversleep, I'll wake you, huh? 303 00:17:32,268 --> 00:17:33,182 Fair enough. 304 00:17:33,312 --> 00:17:34,705 Mike... 305 00:17:36,098 --> 00:17:37,795 Ah, gee... 306 00:17:37,882 --> 00:17:39,754 Can Buttons come sleep with me? 307 00:17:41,233 --> 00:17:42,757 Oh, not tonight, tiger. 308 00:17:42,887 --> 00:17:44,236 He's had enough excitement for one day, 309 00:17:44,323 --> 00:17:46,412 and so have you. 310 00:17:46,543 --> 00:17:47,849 Goodnight, Mike. 311 00:17:47,979 --> 00:17:48,719 Goodnight. 312 00:17:50,068 --> 00:17:51,722 Doctor. 313 00:17:51,853 --> 00:17:52,984 I hope you're not sending him off to bed 314 00:17:53,115 --> 00:17:54,072 early on my account. 315 00:17:54,203 --> 00:17:55,030 He's a fine boy. 316 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,771 Yeah. 317 00:17:56,901 --> 00:17:58,120 But in 10 minutes, he'd be fast asleep 318 00:17:58,250 --> 00:17:59,295 in his own chair. 319 00:18:01,471 --> 00:18:04,169 Doctor Mudd, you made a point 320 00:18:04,300 --> 00:18:07,259 of telling us quite a bit about yourself before supper. 321 00:18:07,390 --> 00:18:09,479 Is that because you're expecting trouble? 322 00:18:10,959 --> 00:18:12,656 I guess I've grown used to it. 323 00:18:12,743 --> 00:18:14,658 I just didn't want accept your hospitality 324 00:18:14,789 --> 00:18:17,792 without first letting you know what you might be in for. 325 00:18:17,922 --> 00:18:21,186 Oh, but the Lincoln trial was years ago. 326 00:18:21,317 --> 00:18:23,406 Surely people must realize 327 00:18:23,536 --> 00:18:25,060 you wouldn't be a free man today 328 00:18:25,190 --> 00:18:26,931 if you haven't been able to clear yourself. 329 00:18:27,062 --> 00:18:29,194 I'm afraid some people only believe 330 00:18:29,325 --> 00:18:30,456 what they want to believe. 331 00:18:30,587 --> 00:18:31,719 Sit down, doctor. 332 00:18:35,592 --> 00:18:38,464 Ever since John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln 333 00:18:38,595 --> 00:18:40,162 and then came to me for help, 334 00:18:40,249 --> 00:18:42,773 it's been hard to separate his life from mine. 335 00:18:42,904 --> 00:18:44,732 I thought you said you didn't know Booth. 336 00:18:44,862 --> 00:18:46,516 I didn't until he came to my house 337 00:18:46,647 --> 00:18:49,214 and asked me to put a splint on his injured leg. 338 00:18:49,345 --> 00:18:52,217 I had no way of knowing he was Lincoln's assassin. 339 00:18:52,348 --> 00:18:55,438 To me, he was just like your young friend Prescott. 340 00:18:55,568 --> 00:18:58,223 Somebody who was hurt and who needed doctoring. 341 00:18:58,354 --> 00:19:02,575 And for that you were sent to prison at Dry Tortugas. 342 00:19:02,706 --> 00:19:04,403 Well, it could have been worse, 343 00:19:04,534 --> 00:19:05,796 at least I wasn't executed 344 00:19:05,927 --> 00:19:08,103 like Mary Surratt and the others. 345 00:19:08,190 --> 00:19:09,974 Actually if Mary Surratt's son 346 00:19:10,061 --> 00:19:11,628 hadn't told all he knew about it, 347 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:13,021 I would have gone to the gallows 348 00:19:13,151 --> 00:19:13,848 the same as they did. 349 00:19:15,284 --> 00:19:15,980 Well, the... 350 00:19:18,156 --> 00:19:20,202 newspapers printed anything about your release? 351 00:19:20,332 --> 00:19:22,726 Probably not out here. 352 00:19:22,813 --> 00:19:24,902 And President Johnson who signed my pardon 353 00:19:25,033 --> 00:19:27,296 isn't likely to put out any statement about it. 354 00:19:27,426 --> 00:19:28,776 Why not? 355 00:19:28,906 --> 00:19:31,169 It hasn't anything to do with me. 356 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:34,042 But there's talk that Johnson may be impeached. 357 00:19:34,172 --> 00:19:35,957 So I guess he has troubles enough of his own 358 00:19:36,087 --> 00:19:38,133 without having to defend me. 359 00:19:38,263 --> 00:19:40,265 Oh. 360 00:19:40,396 --> 00:19:41,963 I still can't get over it, 361 00:19:42,093 --> 00:19:44,574 your spending 6 years in prison 362 00:19:44,705 --> 00:19:47,882 when you hadn't committed any real crime at all. 363 00:19:48,012 --> 00:19:50,841 I've learned to live with that part of it. 364 00:19:50,972 --> 00:19:52,538 The worst of it is, 365 00:19:52,669 --> 00:19:54,366 there are some people who'd like to see me 366 00:19:54,497 --> 00:19:58,109 back in Dry Tortugas or maybe even dead. 367 00:20:12,384 --> 00:20:13,559 Nice country out here... 368 00:20:16,214 --> 00:20:17,781 lot of it. 369 00:20:17,912 --> 00:20:20,262 Good place to start over again. 370 00:20:20,349 --> 00:20:22,743 That's what I'm looking for, a place to start over, 371 00:20:22,873 --> 00:20:24,179 haven't found it yet. 372 00:20:24,309 --> 00:20:26,181 That's why I'm heading west. 373 00:20:27,704 --> 00:20:29,227 So this could be it. 374 00:20:29,358 --> 00:20:31,664 I don't know. 375 00:20:31,795 --> 00:20:35,973 Makes the past seem a long time ago. 376 00:20:36,104 --> 00:20:38,323 You know, I'm wondering if I'd feel the same way you do 377 00:20:38,454 --> 00:20:39,281 if it happened to me. 378 00:20:39,411 --> 00:20:41,109 I think you would. 379 00:20:41,239 --> 00:20:42,980 It doesn't make much sense to hate something 380 00:20:43,111 --> 00:20:45,156 it's over and done with. 381 00:20:45,243 --> 00:20:48,203 You hold no anger for the men who convicted you? 382 00:20:48,333 --> 00:20:50,509 Well, I'm not all that of a man. 383 00:20:51,554 --> 00:20:52,990 I'm afraid I do. 384 00:20:55,427 --> 00:20:57,299 You know, Mr. Lincoln was kind of a special man. 385 00:20:57,429 --> 00:20:59,431 I remember I've read all of his speeches 386 00:20:59,518 --> 00:21:01,216 I could get my hands on. 387 00:21:01,346 --> 00:21:03,348 He had the gift of making people feel 388 00:21:03,479 --> 00:21:05,350 he was talking straight to 'em, made 'em feel like 389 00:21:05,481 --> 00:21:07,613 they counted for something. 390 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:09,180 And of course to lose in the-- 391 00:21:11,052 --> 00:21:13,141 Have him killed the way that he was, 392 00:21:13,271 --> 00:21:15,578 it's just natural that people would feel like 393 00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:17,188 they lost part of their family. 394 00:21:19,495 --> 00:21:21,366 Well, I was born and raised in the south, Mr. Sherman, 395 00:21:21,497 --> 00:21:24,805 so it's hard for me to believe in everything he did, but-- 396 00:21:24,935 --> 00:21:27,198 I can't deny he was a great man. 397 00:21:27,329 --> 00:21:30,375 To punish those who killed him was obviously right. 398 00:21:30,506 --> 00:21:34,640 Some of us were carried along in the storm, that's all. 399 00:21:34,771 --> 00:21:36,338 That storm ought to be over now. 400 00:21:36,468 --> 00:21:40,124 But it isn't, for just the reasons you've said. 401 00:21:40,255 --> 00:21:43,084 As long as anyone can remember my name, 402 00:21:43,171 --> 00:21:45,390 they'll always be those who were quick to judge 403 00:21:45,521 --> 00:21:46,827 and quicker to hate. 404 00:21:48,698 --> 00:21:50,308 Well, we better turn in. 405 00:21:50,439 --> 00:21:51,832 If I know Mike, he'll be waking you up 406 00:21:51,919 --> 00:21:52,963 with at crack of dawn to go fishing. 407 00:21:53,094 --> 00:21:54,791 No problem there. 408 00:21:54,922 --> 00:21:56,924 I haven't had a fish pole in my hands for years. 409 00:21:57,054 --> 00:21:58,403 I'm looking forward to it. 410 00:21:58,534 --> 00:22:00,492 [ horse approaching ] 411 00:22:00,623 --> 00:22:01,842 Sherman... 412 00:22:05,628 --> 00:22:06,542 Howdy, Mr. Prescott. 413 00:22:06,629 --> 00:22:08,283 Is this the one? 414 00:22:08,370 --> 00:22:09,893 What are you talking about? 415 00:22:10,024 --> 00:22:11,895 Is he the one who crippled Steve? 416 00:22:12,026 --> 00:22:13,897 I operated on your son, if that's what you mean. 417 00:22:14,028 --> 00:22:15,464 You butchered him. 418 00:22:15,594 --> 00:22:17,205 And-- Wait a minute. 419 00:22:17,335 --> 00:22:18,554 Stay out of this or you'll get the same as him. 420 00:22:18,684 --> 00:22:20,338 Nobody rides on my ranch 421 00:22:20,469 --> 00:22:23,080 and threatens me or any of my friends. 422 00:22:23,211 --> 00:22:26,649 Sherman, this ten-horn quack ruined my boy's life 423 00:22:26,779 --> 00:22:28,042 and he's gonna pay for it! 424 00:22:29,913 --> 00:22:31,349 I'll fix you, so you will never-- 425 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:33,003 Hold it, hold it, Prescott, right now! 426 00:22:35,484 --> 00:22:37,878 Samuel Mudd, 427 00:22:38,008 --> 00:22:40,402 you call him a friend? 428 00:22:40,532 --> 00:22:41,359 Do you know who he is? 429 00:22:41,446 --> 00:22:42,491 Yes, I do. 430 00:22:42,621 --> 00:22:43,448 He's welcome here? 431 00:22:43,535 --> 00:22:44,972 Yeah. 432 00:22:45,059 --> 00:22:46,756 Sherman, when folks hear about-- 433 00:22:46,887 --> 00:22:49,150 you're harboring this traitor, 434 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:51,065 you'll be run out of the territory. 435 00:22:51,152 --> 00:22:52,893 Three months ago, President Johnson signed 436 00:22:53,023 --> 00:22:54,546 an order for my release. 437 00:22:54,677 --> 00:22:56,418 I've got it inside if you want to see it. 438 00:22:56,548 --> 00:22:58,637 Any man slippery enough to break out of prison 439 00:22:58,768 --> 00:23:00,335 could get himself a paper. 440 00:23:00,465 --> 00:23:02,990 You'll have to do better than that, 441 00:23:03,120 --> 00:23:05,340 especially since you owe your life to me. 442 00:23:05,470 --> 00:23:06,602 Now what are you talking about? 443 00:23:06,732 --> 00:23:08,430 Take a look, doctor, 444 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,171 a real good look. 445 00:23:12,042 --> 00:23:14,915 Prescott is the name, Major Prescott. 446 00:23:15,045 --> 00:23:17,526 It was my detachment that arrested you. 447 00:23:17,613 --> 00:23:19,354 I stopped some of your neighbors 448 00:23:19,484 --> 00:23:21,486 from stringing you up to the nearest tree. 449 00:23:21,617 --> 00:23:22,748 Remember? 450 00:23:22,879 --> 00:23:24,925 Yes, I remember. 451 00:23:25,055 --> 00:23:27,710 And I saved you to do this to my boy. 452 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,626 If there were any justice, you'd have been dead long ago. 453 00:23:30,756 --> 00:23:31,975 That's enough, Prescott. 454 00:23:32,106 --> 00:23:33,368 He's coming back with me. 455 00:23:33,498 --> 00:23:34,717 What for? 456 00:23:36,153 --> 00:23:37,546 I want to hear from Doc Philips 457 00:23:37,676 --> 00:23:38,982 that he did the right thing. 458 00:23:39,113 --> 00:23:40,331 Well, then you go ask Doc Philips! 459 00:23:41,854 --> 00:23:43,334 Hobey is getting him now. 460 00:23:43,465 --> 00:23:45,336 Are you that sure you did right? 461 00:23:45,467 --> 00:23:47,948 Would you face a real doctor with what you did? 462 00:23:48,035 --> 00:23:49,514 Of course I will. 463 00:23:49,645 --> 00:23:50,907 You don't have to. 464 00:23:51,038 --> 00:23:52,082 You did what you knew was right. 465 00:23:52,169 --> 00:23:53,823 You don't have to prove it. 466 00:23:53,954 --> 00:23:55,477 No need to involve you any further. 467 00:23:55,564 --> 00:23:57,870 If Doctor Philips knows his profession, 468 00:23:58,001 --> 00:23:59,916 he can clear this up once and for all. 469 00:24:00,047 --> 00:24:01,135 I'll get my things. 470 00:24:04,225 --> 00:24:05,617 He's not going with you. 471 00:24:05,748 --> 00:24:07,010 Keep out of this, Sherman. 472 00:24:07,141 --> 00:24:08,925 You didn't send for Doc Philips. 473 00:24:09,056 --> 00:24:11,319 You just want to get him away from here. 474 00:24:11,449 --> 00:24:13,321 That's right. 475 00:24:13,451 --> 00:24:16,237 Now I've got two reasons to settle things with him. 476 00:24:16,367 --> 00:24:17,542 Well, you're not gonna get the chance 477 00:24:17,673 --> 00:24:18,761 'cause I'm gonna-- 478 00:24:34,733 --> 00:24:36,039 Easy. 479 00:24:38,128 --> 00:24:39,434 Give me that gun, Sherman. 480 00:24:39,564 --> 00:24:40,783 Easy now. 481 00:24:45,657 --> 00:24:46,832 Saddle him a horse. 482 00:24:46,963 --> 00:24:48,399 Get over there with him. 483 00:24:48,530 --> 00:24:50,314 You're getting in over your head. 484 00:24:50,445 --> 00:24:51,576 Shut up. 485 00:24:51,707 --> 00:24:53,361 Get that horse saddled. 486 00:24:53,491 --> 00:24:55,015 You don't have to threaten him, major, I'm going. 487 00:24:55,145 --> 00:24:56,842 You bet you are. 488 00:24:56,973 --> 00:24:58,844 You won't live long enough to reach his place. 489 00:24:58,975 --> 00:25:00,324 I said shut up. 490 00:25:00,455 --> 00:25:01,238 Get going. 491 00:25:07,766 --> 00:25:09,725 Mr. Prescott, 492 00:25:09,855 --> 00:25:12,597 there's a 12-gauge shotgun aimed right at your back, 493 00:25:12,728 --> 00:25:14,164 don't make me use it. 494 00:25:14,295 --> 00:25:16,819 SLIM: You want to argue with her? 495 00:25:16,949 --> 00:25:18,516 I wouldn't try that. 496 00:25:18,603 --> 00:25:20,344 Now give me that gun, both of them. 497 00:25:20,431 --> 00:25:24,566 This ain't the end of it, Sherman. 498 00:25:24,696 --> 00:25:26,872 I don't know whether I could have fired it or not. 499 00:25:27,003 --> 00:25:29,179 Neither did he, 500 00:25:29,310 --> 00:25:30,746 but I'm glad for all of our sakes, 501 00:25:30,876 --> 00:25:31,834 he didn't chance it. 502 00:25:31,964 --> 00:25:33,314 Now inside. 503 00:25:33,444 --> 00:25:34,358 No. 504 00:25:34,489 --> 00:25:35,533 Let him go. 505 00:25:35,620 --> 00:25:37,361 Let him go? 506 00:25:37,492 --> 00:25:39,581 He had every intention of killing you. 507 00:25:39,711 --> 00:25:41,191 I still have. 508 00:25:41,322 --> 00:25:43,498 It's over now. Let him go. 509 00:25:43,585 --> 00:25:45,804 Why, he'd be back within 2 hours with half his wranglers. 510 00:25:45,935 --> 00:25:47,023 Now inside! 511 00:25:59,122 --> 00:26:01,603 Sherman, you got my word on it. 512 00:26:01,733 --> 00:26:05,824 You'll regret this, the longest day you live. 513 00:26:05,955 --> 00:26:08,523 And I'll catch up with you, wherever you go. 514 00:26:08,653 --> 00:26:10,960 You're in no position to threaten anybody, Prescott. 515 00:26:11,091 --> 00:26:13,093 You keep it up and you'll be wearing a gag. 516 00:26:13,223 --> 00:26:14,616 You can't hold me forever. 517 00:26:14,746 --> 00:26:16,096 I don't intend to. 518 00:26:16,226 --> 00:26:17,314 I'll turn you over to the sheriff 519 00:26:17,445 --> 00:26:18,750 in Laramie tomorrow morning. 520 00:26:18,881 --> 00:26:20,448 Save your talk for him. 521 00:28:45,897 --> 00:28:46,681 [ door opens ] 522 00:28:51,816 --> 00:28:53,122 Hi, Button. 523 00:29:19,061 --> 00:29:21,716 [ dog barking ] 524 00:29:21,846 --> 00:29:22,934 Shh. 525 00:29:23,065 --> 00:29:24,371 You wake anybody up 526 00:29:24,501 --> 00:29:26,242 and you'll have to sleep outside. 527 00:30:17,075 --> 00:30:18,381 [ clattering ] 528 00:31:04,122 --> 00:31:08,126 [ gunshots ] 529 00:31:08,257 --> 00:31:09,214 It's too dark out there. 530 00:31:09,301 --> 00:31:11,129 I missed him clean. 531 00:31:11,216 --> 00:31:13,044 I want you to know how sorry I am for causing all this. 532 00:31:13,175 --> 00:31:14,916 It's not your doing. 533 00:31:15,046 --> 00:31:16,918 Well, the result's the same, bringing things down on you 534 00:31:17,005 --> 00:31:18,006 and everyone else around here. 535 00:31:18,136 --> 00:31:19,877 Forget it. 536 00:31:20,008 --> 00:31:21,792 We'll have a chance to settle with Vic Prescott. 537 00:31:21,923 --> 00:31:22,924 They'll be back. 538 00:31:23,054 --> 00:31:24,316 And he won't be alone. 539 00:31:24,447 --> 00:31:25,883 And I can't let that happen. 540 00:31:26,014 --> 00:31:27,189 There's nothing you can do about it. 541 00:31:40,028 --> 00:31:41,377 Steve. 542 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:50,386 Hobey, where is Pa? 543 00:31:50,517 --> 00:31:51,996 He'll be here soon. 544 00:31:52,127 --> 00:31:53,781 You just rest easy. 545 00:31:53,911 --> 00:31:55,565 Hobey, my arm. 546 00:31:55,696 --> 00:31:57,567 Oh, you're gonna be all right. 547 00:31:57,698 --> 00:32:00,004 Why did you let him do that to me? 548 00:32:00,135 --> 00:32:01,832 Because I didn't want you dead. 549 00:32:03,573 --> 00:32:05,880 Listen to me, boy. 550 00:32:06,010 --> 00:32:07,403 There ain't nothing you did before 551 00:32:07,534 --> 00:32:09,536 that you can't learn again. 552 00:32:09,623 --> 00:32:11,320 This doesn't stop you from living. 553 00:32:14,236 --> 00:32:15,846 Yeah, tell me. 554 00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:18,022 You get no sympathy from me. 555 00:32:18,153 --> 00:32:19,589 I don't want any. 556 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,027 Good, because that's for the weak. 557 00:32:23,114 --> 00:32:24,725 Truth is with the strong. 558 00:32:24,855 --> 00:32:25,900 Get out. 559 00:32:28,163 --> 00:32:30,992 I helped raise you strong, 560 00:32:31,079 --> 00:32:32,341 so you get the truth. 561 00:32:32,472 --> 00:32:36,432 The truth is, I'm a cripple. 562 00:32:36,563 --> 00:32:39,522 The truth is, you got a lousy break. 563 00:32:39,609 --> 00:32:41,002 The truth is you lost an arm. 564 00:32:41,132 --> 00:32:42,569 And the truth is, 565 00:32:42,699 --> 00:32:43,961 if you're the man I think you are, 566 00:32:44,048 --> 00:32:45,485 it'll make you a better man. 567 00:32:48,226 --> 00:32:50,968 You sit there 568 00:32:51,099 --> 00:32:55,364 all whole tell me some more, huh. 569 00:32:55,495 --> 00:32:57,409 I'll tell you that I'd have given my life 570 00:32:57,497 --> 00:32:59,760 to spare you this. 571 00:32:59,890 --> 00:33:02,414 But that isn't the way life is, it deals the cards 572 00:33:02,545 --> 00:33:03,764 and you play the hand you get. 573 00:33:05,635 --> 00:33:07,071 Now you can lie there and snivel 574 00:33:07,202 --> 00:33:08,203 and you'll get no help. 575 00:33:08,333 --> 00:33:10,379 You'll do it alone 576 00:33:10,510 --> 00:33:12,512 or you can make up your mind to start over again 577 00:33:12,599 --> 00:33:14,862 and you get all the help you can use. 578 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:20,563 Hobey, I'm scared. 579 00:33:20,650 --> 00:33:22,826 What's wrong with that? 580 00:33:22,957 --> 00:33:24,219 I can't. 581 00:33:24,349 --> 00:33:26,221 Now listen, Steve, 582 00:33:26,351 --> 00:33:29,224 before I joined your father's detachment in '63, 583 00:33:29,311 --> 00:33:32,270 I served with a man that didn't know that word, 584 00:33:32,401 --> 00:33:34,185 his name is Oliver Howard. 585 00:33:34,316 --> 00:33:36,013 General O.O. Howard 586 00:33:36,144 --> 00:33:38,929 was one of the toughest men in the union army. 587 00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:41,584 He rode like a Comanche and he led his soldiers 588 00:33:41,715 --> 00:33:45,719 like a born fighting man and he had one arm! 589 00:33:47,634 --> 00:33:49,897 And he was worth any 10 men under him. 590 00:33:58,079 --> 00:33:59,776 He was different. 591 00:33:59,907 --> 00:34:02,126 You bet he was different because he chose to be 592 00:34:02,257 --> 00:34:03,040 just like you can. 593 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,265 Can I hope? 594 00:34:10,395 --> 00:34:14,138 You can and if you fall I'll be right there to kick you 595 00:34:14,269 --> 00:34:15,531 until you get up again. 596 00:34:27,891 --> 00:34:29,806 Oh, after doing this to you, 597 00:34:29,937 --> 00:34:32,417 I don't see how that man would dare to come back. 598 00:34:32,548 --> 00:34:34,202 You don't know Prescott, Daisy. 599 00:34:34,332 --> 00:34:35,682 He'll be back. 600 00:34:37,335 --> 00:34:39,424 As soon as I finish this, I'll leave. 601 00:34:39,555 --> 00:34:41,470 That way there'll be no reason for any trouble 602 00:34:41,557 --> 00:34:43,037 even if he does show up. 603 00:34:43,167 --> 00:34:45,126 And how far do you think you'd get? 604 00:34:45,213 --> 00:34:46,867 Wandering around the country in the middle of the night. 605 00:34:48,259 --> 00:34:50,174 I don't think it matters. 606 00:34:50,305 --> 00:34:53,613 This is something just between myself and Prescott. 607 00:34:53,743 --> 00:34:56,137 Not anymore, it isn't. 608 00:34:56,267 --> 00:34:57,486 Slim's right. 609 00:34:57,617 --> 00:34:58,922 Way that man is acting, 610 00:34:59,053 --> 00:35:01,751 he's a menace to the entire area. 611 00:35:01,838 --> 00:35:03,840 That's a hard thing to understand. 612 00:35:03,971 --> 00:35:05,581 How can a man be sane one minute 613 00:35:05,712 --> 00:35:08,062 then go completely haywire the next? 614 00:35:08,192 --> 00:35:10,891 Hate's a hard emotion to live with. 615 00:35:11,021 --> 00:35:13,023 What's happening to Prescott 616 00:35:13,154 --> 00:35:14,764 now probably has been building up for a long time, 617 00:35:14,895 --> 00:35:17,027 he just needed someone like me to set it off. 618 00:35:17,114 --> 00:35:19,116 Here are the bandages you wanted, Aunt Daisy. 619 00:35:19,247 --> 00:35:20,378 Thank you, Mike. 620 00:35:20,509 --> 00:35:21,292 Now you go back to bed. 621 00:35:21,379 --> 00:35:23,164 Do I have to? 622 00:35:23,294 --> 00:35:26,123 I can't sleep just thinking about what about. 623 00:35:26,254 --> 00:35:27,516 Yes, you can. 624 00:35:27,647 --> 00:35:28,952 Just don't think about it. 625 00:35:29,083 --> 00:35:31,085 Put your mind on something else. 626 00:35:35,611 --> 00:35:38,135 How can I when Slim's getting hurt 627 00:35:38,266 --> 00:35:39,049 is all my fault? 628 00:35:40,268 --> 00:35:42,139 All your fault? 629 00:35:42,270 --> 00:35:44,315 How do you figure that, tiger? 630 00:35:44,446 --> 00:35:48,189 Well, you know the storeroom where you tied Mr. Prescott up? 631 00:35:48,319 --> 00:35:50,234 Yeah, what about it? 632 00:35:50,365 --> 00:35:52,193 Well, I got up for a drink 633 00:35:52,323 --> 00:35:54,674 and I saw a lamp burning in there. 634 00:35:54,804 --> 00:35:56,371 And when I smelled something funny, 635 00:35:56,501 --> 00:35:57,938 like a rope burning 636 00:35:58,068 --> 00:35:59,809 but I thought it was the fireplace. 637 00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:03,117 I guess I should have yelled for you. 638 00:36:03,247 --> 00:36:04,988 It was lucky you didn't yell, Mike. 639 00:36:05,119 --> 00:36:07,774 There's no telling what Prescott might have done. 640 00:36:07,904 --> 00:36:09,253 You hightail into bed, huh. 641 00:36:09,384 --> 00:36:10,472 Okay. 642 00:36:13,605 --> 00:36:17,087 A man can stick to his beliefs, fight against any odds 643 00:36:17,218 --> 00:36:20,134 until it starts involving the young and the innocent. 644 00:36:20,264 --> 00:36:22,266 Then you'll wonder if it's worth it, 645 00:36:22,397 --> 00:36:25,226 and you start backing off. 646 00:36:25,313 --> 00:36:29,621 But, Dr. Mudd, don't all doctors take an oath, 647 00:36:29,752 --> 00:36:32,189 something about helping human beings 648 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,149 when they need it, no matter who they are? 649 00:36:35,279 --> 00:36:37,064 Yes. 650 00:36:37,151 --> 00:36:38,413 Yes, we do. 651 00:36:38,543 --> 00:36:39,980 And living up to oath 652 00:36:40,110 --> 00:36:42,547 has meant nothing but trouble for me. 653 00:36:42,678 --> 00:36:45,463 You did what you knew was right, as a doctor. 654 00:36:45,594 --> 00:36:47,509 Perhaps, 655 00:36:47,596 --> 00:36:50,294 but some people don't think I did right as a citizen. 656 00:36:50,425 --> 00:36:53,341 There's an oath of allegiance to our country too. 657 00:36:53,471 --> 00:36:54,951 And what do you do 658 00:36:55,082 --> 00:36:57,040 when one duty contradicts another? 659 00:36:57,127 --> 00:36:58,694 No matter which way you go 660 00:36:58,825 --> 00:37:00,435 somebody will say you are wrong. 661 00:37:00,522 --> 00:37:03,177 But at the Prescott Ranch, you had no choice. 662 00:37:03,264 --> 00:37:06,267 That boy would have died if you hadn't done something 663 00:37:06,354 --> 00:37:07,181 right then. 664 00:37:07,311 --> 00:37:09,096 Probably. 665 00:37:09,226 --> 00:37:11,707 But there's something I didn't do, Mrs. Cooper. 666 00:37:11,838 --> 00:37:13,970 I didn't tell them who I was. 667 00:37:14,101 --> 00:37:16,538 From what I hear, they didn't give you a chance. 668 00:37:16,668 --> 00:37:18,888 It's a good excuse I suppose. 669 00:37:19,019 --> 00:37:21,630 But if I'd really wanted to, I think I could have told them. 670 00:37:23,545 --> 00:37:25,155 Maybe I was afraid. 671 00:37:25,286 --> 00:37:27,767 But that would have caused a delay 672 00:37:27,854 --> 00:37:30,291 which might have killed Steve Prescott. 673 00:37:30,421 --> 00:37:32,162 You knew that. 674 00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:35,035 You weren't only protecting yourself. 675 00:37:37,428 --> 00:37:39,343 Well, it's done now. 676 00:37:39,474 --> 00:37:42,346 An oath or no oath I think I'm through being a doctor. 677 00:37:42,433 --> 00:37:43,870 Well, you can't do that. 678 00:37:46,568 --> 00:37:48,439 You got no right to stop helping the people 679 00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:50,050 who need you. 680 00:37:50,180 --> 00:37:51,965 I've no right to involve people like you 681 00:37:52,095 --> 00:37:54,402 and Mrs. Cooper and young Mike in the trouble 682 00:37:54,532 --> 00:37:57,100 my helping others always seems to cause. 683 00:37:57,231 --> 00:37:58,798 Oh, if it were just me, I wouldn't mind. 684 00:37:58,928 --> 00:38:00,495 I've been through enough 685 00:38:00,582 --> 00:38:02,062 so that no matter what they hand me now, 686 00:38:02,192 --> 00:38:03,803 I think I could face up to it. 687 00:38:03,933 --> 00:38:05,805 But I'm through dragging others down. 688 00:38:05,935 --> 00:38:08,198 There might be others that believe in you, doctor, 689 00:38:08,329 --> 00:38:11,811 that figure they liked a share in that trouble. 690 00:38:11,941 --> 00:38:13,900 Well, that's something I appreciate, 691 00:38:14,030 --> 00:38:16,206 but I certainly can't encourage. 692 00:38:18,774 --> 00:38:20,950 I'm going to turn in. 693 00:38:21,081 --> 00:38:22,038 Goodnight. 694 00:38:23,387 --> 00:38:24,606 Goodnight. 695 00:38:35,747 --> 00:38:36,836 Vic, what happened to you? 696 00:38:36,966 --> 00:38:38,359 It's no concern of yours. 697 00:38:38,489 --> 00:38:39,708 Oh, come off it, I'm Hobey, remember? 698 00:38:39,839 --> 00:38:41,188 I remember everything. 699 00:38:41,318 --> 00:38:42,667 You know who that doctor was? 700 00:38:42,798 --> 00:38:44,495 I told you I didn't. 701 00:38:44,626 --> 00:38:47,411 It's Samuel Mudd, the man who helped kill Lincoln. 702 00:38:47,542 --> 00:38:48,499 Well, I don't believe it. 703 00:38:48,630 --> 00:38:49,718 Nobody is asking to. 704 00:38:49,849 --> 00:38:51,372 Well, how could it be him? 705 00:38:51,502 --> 00:38:53,287 Mudd was sent to prison for life, wasn't he? 706 00:38:53,417 --> 00:38:55,245 He wouldn't be the first man to break his way out. 707 00:38:55,376 --> 00:38:57,117 The boss told us the whole story. 708 00:38:57,247 --> 00:38:58,509 And Sherman is helping him. 709 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,120 How do you know? 710 00:39:00,207 --> 00:39:02,035 He kept me tied up half the night. 711 00:39:02,165 --> 00:39:03,863 But, Vic, you got to be wrong about Sherman. 712 00:39:03,993 --> 00:39:05,821 You calling me a liar? 713 00:39:05,952 --> 00:39:06,822 I'm saying that Sherman wouldn't help 714 00:39:06,953 --> 00:39:08,519 an escaped convict, 715 00:39:08,650 --> 00:39:10,478 not one the likes of Dr. Mudd, if it is him. 716 00:39:10,608 --> 00:39:12,828 You've seem to forget our residuum. 717 00:39:12,959 --> 00:39:14,612 And he admitted who he was. 718 00:39:14,743 --> 00:39:17,224 Oh, so now you're going back after him, is that it? 719 00:39:17,354 --> 00:39:20,096 Listen, Vic, you can't do it! 720 00:39:20,227 --> 00:39:22,011 Don't tell me what I can do. 721 00:39:22,098 --> 00:39:22,882 Why... 722 00:39:30,454 --> 00:39:32,413 Slim, I don't want to leave. 723 00:39:32,543 --> 00:39:34,458 Bill Base would put you and Mike up at his place 724 00:39:34,589 --> 00:39:35,720 for the rest of the night. 725 00:39:35,851 --> 00:39:37,592 Well, of course he would. 726 00:39:37,722 --> 00:39:41,204 But if I was gonna run away every time trouble shows up, 727 00:39:41,335 --> 00:39:44,120 I'd have been gone long ago and for good. 728 00:39:44,207 --> 00:39:46,035 Well, look at it another way. 729 00:39:46,166 --> 00:39:47,471 If things do get hard around here, 730 00:39:47,602 --> 00:39:48,908 I'll be needing some help. 731 00:39:49,038 --> 00:39:50,605 By your going, 732 00:39:50,735 --> 00:39:52,650 you can get bait started on rounding up some men. 733 00:39:52,737 --> 00:39:54,043 Well, I still say I'd-- 734 00:39:54,174 --> 00:39:55,653 Now, Daisy, that's it. 735 00:39:55,784 --> 00:39:57,090 I want you and Mike to go. 736 00:39:59,048 --> 00:40:00,397 In fact you can take the doctor with you. 737 00:40:00,484 --> 00:40:02,051 If there is any gunplay around here, 738 00:40:02,182 --> 00:40:05,141 I don't want him getting mixed up with it. 739 00:40:05,272 --> 00:40:07,013 Do you really think the doctor would go 740 00:40:07,143 --> 00:40:09,363 if he felt there's gonna be trouble? 741 00:40:09,450 --> 00:40:11,060 I'm not gonna give him the choice. 742 00:40:13,497 --> 00:40:14,803 Dr. Mudd. 743 00:40:16,196 --> 00:40:17,023 Dr. Mudd! 744 00:40:18,415 --> 00:40:19,242 Slim! 745 00:40:21,592 --> 00:40:22,942 He left this for you. 746 00:40:24,944 --> 00:40:26,249 Well, if he wants to get killed, 747 00:40:26,336 --> 00:40:28,730 I can't think of a better way. 748 00:40:28,817 --> 00:40:29,992 What are you going to do? 749 00:40:30,079 --> 00:40:31,037 Going after him. 750 00:40:34,431 --> 00:40:35,955 He didn't take a horse, I would have heard him. 751 00:40:36,085 --> 00:40:37,521 And traveling at night, 752 00:40:37,652 --> 00:40:38,958 he'll probably stick to the trails. 753 00:40:39,088 --> 00:40:40,524 If there's trouble? 754 00:40:40,655 --> 00:40:41,873 I hope I can stop him. 755 00:40:42,918 --> 00:40:43,963 Goodbye, Daisy. 756 00:41:19,650 --> 00:41:21,522 Well, it looks like he's running out on you, 757 00:41:21,609 --> 00:41:23,306 Mr. Prescott. 758 00:41:23,437 --> 00:41:26,266 Only he's running in the wrong direction, boss. 759 00:41:26,396 --> 00:41:29,051 Anyway, you can leave Slim Sherman out of this now. 760 00:41:37,581 --> 00:41:39,192 What are you gonna do with him? 761 00:41:41,585 --> 00:41:44,371 That old tree back there, we'll see that he gets 762 00:41:44,501 --> 00:41:47,243 what Mary Surratt and the other traitors got, 763 00:41:47,374 --> 00:41:49,115 then I'll settle with Sherman. 764 00:43:14,809 --> 00:43:16,898 You've picked the wrong part of the country to hide in. 765 00:43:17,028 --> 00:43:18,813 I wasn't hiding and I've no reason to. 766 00:43:18,943 --> 00:43:20,162 If you'd only listen-- 767 00:43:20,293 --> 00:43:21,990 I'm through listening to you. 768 00:43:22,121 --> 00:43:23,948 I don't know how you escaped from that prison, 769 00:43:24,035 --> 00:43:25,559 but you'll wish you hadn't. 770 00:43:25,689 --> 00:43:27,691 I was pardoned by President Johnson. 771 00:43:27,822 --> 00:43:29,084 I already told you that. 772 00:43:29,215 --> 00:43:30,694 You were sentenced to life. 773 00:43:30,825 --> 00:43:32,131 I heard it with my own ears. 774 00:43:32,261 --> 00:43:33,393 Colie, tie his hands. 775 00:43:56,764 --> 00:43:58,244 Gag him, Colie. 776 00:44:22,355 --> 00:44:23,443 Get him on to that horse. 777 00:44:35,019 --> 00:44:35,846 You're not in on this? 778 00:44:35,977 --> 00:44:37,892 Of course not. 779 00:44:38,022 --> 00:44:40,242 Vic wouldn't be either if he's in his right mind. 780 00:44:40,373 --> 00:44:41,635 What are you doing here? 781 00:44:41,765 --> 00:44:43,158 Same as you. 782 00:44:43,289 --> 00:44:44,855 Vic knocked me out. 783 00:44:44,986 --> 00:44:46,335 Charged here to see if-- 784 00:44:46,466 --> 00:44:47,597 and the boys sent me after him. 785 00:44:51,253 --> 00:44:52,211 The rope. 786 00:45:05,876 --> 00:45:06,877 Get out of the way. 787 00:45:14,842 --> 00:45:15,669 Tie it off. 788 00:45:23,198 --> 00:45:24,808 What are you waiting for? 789 00:45:24,939 --> 00:45:25,940 I said tie it off. 790 00:45:30,901 --> 00:45:32,120 Everybody hold it. 791 00:45:32,207 --> 00:45:34,253 Don't do it, Vic. 792 00:45:35,863 --> 00:45:37,125 [ gunshot ] 793 00:45:48,267 --> 00:45:49,659 All right, get rid of those guns. 794 00:45:52,227 --> 00:45:53,272 You too. 795 00:45:54,925 --> 00:45:56,275 Now take him down. 796 00:46:14,771 --> 00:46:16,686 How is he? 797 00:46:16,817 --> 00:46:18,384 Ah, it will take more than one bullet to do him in. 798 00:46:18,514 --> 00:46:21,300 We better get him to Doc Philips. 799 00:46:21,430 --> 00:46:23,258 You picked a fine time to worry about him. 800 00:46:23,389 --> 00:46:24,694 He wouldn't have pulled this 801 00:46:24,825 --> 00:46:26,130 if you hadn't come along with him. 802 00:46:31,179 --> 00:46:32,398 How are you? 803 00:46:44,366 --> 00:46:46,107 Your place is nearest, Slim, 804 00:46:46,237 --> 00:46:48,588 see if I can do something for him there. 805 00:47:26,930 --> 00:47:28,192 Steve. 806 00:47:29,977 --> 00:47:31,152 Millie. 807 00:47:33,067 --> 00:47:34,677 You look fine, Pa. 808 00:47:34,808 --> 00:47:35,461 So do you, boy. 809 00:47:37,114 --> 00:47:38,159 Prescott. 810 00:47:38,289 --> 00:47:39,639 Sherman, I-- 811 00:47:39,769 --> 00:47:41,292 I hope you'll be able to forget 812 00:47:41,423 --> 00:47:42,729 what happened between us. 813 00:47:42,816 --> 00:47:44,383 I didn't come all this way not to. 814 00:47:46,036 --> 00:47:47,821 Eighteen months I spent thinking about 815 00:47:47,951 --> 00:47:49,388 what I was gonna say when I got out, 816 00:47:49,518 --> 00:47:50,867 but now that is happening, I-- 817 00:47:50,998 --> 00:47:53,000 You don't have say anything, Pa. 818 00:47:53,130 --> 00:47:54,871 I could have spent the rest of my life 819 00:47:55,002 --> 00:47:57,091 inside those walls 820 00:47:57,221 --> 00:48:00,703 if Dr. Mudd hadn't refused to testify against me. 821 00:48:00,790 --> 00:48:02,575 I just wish he were here so I could tell him 822 00:48:02,705 --> 00:48:05,273 how much getting another chance means to me. 823 00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,144 You wrote him, he knows. 824 00:48:09,016 --> 00:48:11,322 Well, Millie, do you think you can stand it, 825 00:48:11,453 --> 00:48:13,063 having me for a dad-in-law? 826 00:48:14,630 --> 00:48:16,893 We can talk about it on the way home. 827 00:48:16,980 --> 00:48:18,329 Here, I'll take your bag. 828 00:49:32,055 --> 00:49:33,970 ANNOUNCER: Produced in association 829 00:49:34,101 --> 00:49:36,146 with the NBC Television Network.