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[coyote howls]

[ragtime piano]

[eerie music]

[laughter and music from the saloon]

[panicky music]

- Samantha...

Samantha.

- Philby...

- You were having a nightmare

in the middle of the day. - Someone was trying to kill me.

That might just happen

if you are late for your Wild West Days meeting.

After all you're the chair person.

- Aw, Clint Lawson is going to be at this meeting.

- Oh. Famous television actor comes to a small town.

- He and his show are really going to pack'em in,

People are coming from miles to see him.

- You've put in a lot of time on this project.

- Well, Wild West Days is more than just a fun gimmick.

It's good for business.

It's been a tradition in Walden since we were a cow town.

You wanna come with?

- Uh, no I'll stay here.

[acoustic guitar riff]

- Hey, Mr. Lawson?

- You ran a tight meeting in there, Miss Kinsey.

- Well thank you.

I just wanted to tell you

that I really appreciate

you and your Wild West Show

coming to Walden.

- Well, it's a pleasure.

I hope every enjoys our little show.

- Are you kidding me?

Your little show has

been has been the biggest thing

that has ever happened to Wild West Days.

The ticket sales are going through the roof.

School building fund is going to profit big-time this year.

- I'm glad to know its going for a good cause.

- I liked your television series a lot.

- Only through reruns I'm sure.

That was a long time ago.

- My Uncle Bob was a big fan.

He had the whole collection on tape.

- You know I'm putting together a Red River Days feature film.

- Really?

- See I came up with the idea for the original series.

So I come up with an idea for a sequel,

in feature form.

Some equity investors are very, very interested.

- With the original cast?

- Yep most of the them.

Those that are left are in the Wild West Show.

See this little tour of ours

will help a great deal to get us

[horn blows] all back in the saddle.

Hey Dogie, come over here.

Miss Kinsey,

Dogie Jones.

Friend, and good right arm.

He worked stunts on Red River Days.

- Its nice to meet you. - Oh the pleasure is all mine.

- Did'ya pass out the posters?

- Yes sir. Every shop in town's got one in the window.

This is the only one left.

- Should of made more.

- Can I see that poster?

- Yes Ma'am.

- Oh that's great.

- We should get out to the fairgrounds

and start putting things together.

Well, can I have one of those posters for my bookstore?

- Yes Ma'am. All yours.

- Ma'am

- I'll see you tomorrow.

- Last time we tried this

you made the cinch to doggone loose.

You almost broke my neck.

- Yeah I've got it worked out now.

I tried it myself this morning.

It'll hold through the rear.

Just wait until all four feet come down

shift your weight one way or the other.

The cinch will give.

- Alright. Up Blanco.

- Woo who!

- Aye!

- Works good huh?

- Of course if you want people to believe you are hurt

you're gonna have to stay down longer.

- It worked great Dogie, worked great!

Now you just get set to call our friend

at Entertainment World.

- When are you gonna pull it off?

- First show tomorrow.

We are going to back

in the headlines again partner.

- You know Clint there is something

I've been wanting to talk to you about, for a long time.

- Can it wait? - No, I need to get it out.

- Well, ah what about tonight?

Hotel, my room. I got to go find Jeb,

get set for tomorrow. Okay?

[carnival noise]

[old-time piano]

- Miss Kinsey, that was a mighty fine speech you made.

We all feel very welcome.

- I want to thank you for mentioning my poster art.

- Ah well everybody in town just loves it.

So I thought they ought to know who the artist is.

- Well I sure thank you.

- Looks like Dogie's good for something

besides licking Clint's boots

- Be nice Strother.

- Wait a second, you're?

- I am.

In movies and TV

I have made more widows,

terrorized more towns,

and robbed more banks,

than Frank and Jesse James.

Now Clint, ah. How about a proper introduction to these fine ladies.

- Ya, sure.

Miss Kinsey, Ms. Hillman

This here is...

- Strother Elam

Pleasure.

- Pleasure.

Best character actor in TV Westerns.

- Character actor,

that means everybody

knows my face, can't remember my name.

Of course they never forget the hero's name do they Clint.

- Heh.

And this gentleman here

is Philby.

Miss Kinsey's associate.

- Pleasure Mr. Elam

- Well same here.

Philby huh? just Philby?

I'm a man of simplicity.

- Are you a Western fan?

- Well not in the true sense of fan.

But I enjoy good storytelling

and professional performance

no matter what the genre.

I particularly enjoyed your performance as

Judge Roy Bean in "The Devils Bowl"

- Well thank you sir.

- And this here is Miss Annie Boone.

You may remember in Red River Days

she was Annie Oakley.

- Howdy.

- Hope to see you again.

Mr. Philby.

Ladies, Philby.

I'll see you all later.

[whispers] Jerk

- I'll get us some seats.

- Okay, we'll meet you there.

You were so great

as Annie Oakley.

You could ride and shoot a gun better than any of the men.

- Thanks

- How'd you do all that?

- I grew up on a ranch.

Had lots of practice.

-It must have really disappointed your fans

when you left the show. Why did you leave the show?

- I'm the wrong person to ask.

Hey life takes turns honey.

None of us here, is who we planned to be.

Excuse me?

- I detect a little hostility there.

- More than just a little.

- I get the impression

she did not leave Red River Days happily.

- Mm-hmm.

- Now you loosen that saddle cinch.

Just like you did yesterday.

- Clint, I thought we were going to talk.

I went by your hotel room last night

but you weren't there.

- Well I, ah

I stayed here late last night...

I... I had some think'in to do.

- I really need to talk to you about someth'in.

- Not now Dogie, alright?

I gotta get my head into the show.

Tonight.

Yeah, we'll have a couple of drinks at the hotel.

And, and we'll talk.

- Alright, I...

I guess it can wait until then.

- Good.

- This is really exciting!

- I know. It looks like the

whole town turned out for this.

- Miss Kinsey,

Ah, Counsellor. I didn't recognize you in the hat.

- That's classic.

Bob Hope in Pale Face.

[announcer] You've been really patient ladies and gentlemen.

Without further adieu

Let's get back to the Red River Days.

There's Annie Boone riding shotgun on the stagecoach.

Look out Annie! Here comes the Dalton gang.

[crowd boos]

And I think one of those masked bandits

is none other than

Strother Elam!

Now let's return to yesteryear.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Clint Lawson!

[western music]

Look out there Clint.

- Up Blanco.

[Blanco neighs]

[grunts]

- Paramedics

Paramedics, paramedics to the arena.

- We need a paramedic now!

- How's your star attraction doing Miss Kinsey.

- He had a pretty good fall.

No broken bones.

- Seems your cowboy hero is

having a tough time keeping

his saddle on his horse.

- Philby will you show Chief Connors what you found?

- The saddle cinch was cut.

- Clint Lawson's fall was no accident.

- That cinch was deliberately cut to cause it to break.

- Sure this was off of Lawson's saddle?

- I took it off the saddle myself.

- Thank you Philby.

Well counsellor what do you think?

- The DA's office has some concern.

- I think we might really be on to something Chief.

- Thank you Miss Kinsey.

I'll take it from here.

Officer.

Alright, alright. Clear out of there you guys.

Give him some air.

Son, get these people up there for questioning.

Let's go.

Ladies too.

- Well, could have been worse.

It could have been your neck, Hon.

- Gee, thanks Annie.

- I'm... Chief of Police Connors.

How are you feeling? - Did you get the license number of that truck that hit me?

- It wasn't a truck Mr. Lawson.

And it wasn't an accident either,

somebody cut your cinch.

- Ah, I ... I don't get it.

- Somebody deliberately tried to hurt you.

Maybe even kill you.

- Kill me?

- Do you have any enemies?

- Yeah, time, arthritis...

- Heh.

Maybe we should go to the hospital.

- No!

No, no, no, no.

No. I... ah I don't like hospitals.

They are full of sick people and dangerous diseases you know.

I am fine. Really.

I'll stay right here.

Ok. I'll see you later cowboy.

[Chief whistles] Gather up!

I've got some questions to ask you folks.

- I'm going back to the store.

- But Philby you'll miss all of the excitement.

- I've had about all the excitement I can take for one day.

See you later.

- Who saddles Mr. Lawson's horse?

- Most of the time Clint handles it himself.

- Mmm hmm.

And you are?

- Jeb Fletcher. I'm the road manager

and announcer for the show.

- What do you mean, most of the time?

- Well sometimes, ah, he gets busy.

Then one of us does it for him.

- Mmm hmm. What about today?

- Oh not today. Not me.

Maybe one of the others?

- I never touch his horse.

He's no longer a star.

- And you are?

- I am Strother Elam.

- You have security on the horses?

- Never had a reason for it.

- So nobody is watching the horses?

Which means anybody could have tampered with Clint's saddle.

- Tampered?

- That's what I said.

- What do you mean, tampered?

- Nobody leave town.

- Fine.

- Ladies.

- Alright, we've got a show to do in an hour.

Let's get to it, huh.

- Will Clint be ready in an hour?

- He'll be fine.

- Bye.

- I've seen him take harder falls then that.

Still going.

He'll be alright.

Once he gets his wits back.

- I don't believe we've met?

- Zeke Foster ladies.

- Ex-stuntman and all-around hand.

- I am Samantha Kinsey

and this is my friend Cassie Hillman.

- Pleasure.

- A traveling Wild West show

must take a lot of hard work.

- Nothing but sweat.

Old Clint, he loves entertaining the folks.

You know, always did.

- What about Annie, and Strother?

- Annie, didn't have much of a career.

Once she lost her television series.

You know, in spite of her feelings for Clint,

she joined up to get back in the public eye.

You know Annie and Clint used to be real close.

- Strother had a career.

[Zeke laughs] Strother...

He lost every dime he ever made.

Now he is just ornery.

- So you were a stuntman?

- Dogie and me both.

If you'll excuse me, I've got to get back

for the next show.

But [clears throat]

real nice talking with you both.

- I'm going to go get a hot dog.

Do you want one?

- No. I'll meet you back at the stands.

- Okay.

- I am telling you the truth!

- Just keep your voice down will ya.

- I did not cut that cinch.

- I was working on the saddle and somebody

knocked me out cold.

- You're lying Dogie.

You're lying. You're supposed to loosen the cinch

[quietly] and you cut the thing by accident.

[quietly] And now you are trying to cover yourself

with some kind of fairly tale.

You almost got me killed.

Listen to me.

You call that Entertainment World.

And you tell them that cowboy legend,

Clint Lawson

got himself severely injured

in one of his Wild West shows.

- Severely injured? - Yeah.

- You don't look that hurt.

- And you tell them that the police

suspect it to be an attempt on my life.

Don't you see it Dogie?

Every news group

will pick up that story and come rushing here.

I will be back in the headlines, man.

- You're not think-in' straight.

- You know maybe that stunt worked better than we planned.

- You set up this whole thing yourself?

You're supposed to be the hero.

- Yeah, well ah...

I play a hero sweetheart.

I'm an actor.

What you see isn't always what you get.

You going to make that call or

do you need a kick in the right direction?

Come back and see me.

- You rigged that accident

to get yourself media attention.

- Well it wasn't supposed to be quite that violent,

but Dogie screwed up.

However, I survived.

It's really dishonest.

- I'll do whatever it takes to get publicity.

- What do you think your fans would think about this?

Or maybe you don't care.

It's shameless.

If you'll excuse, ah...

If you'll excuse me, I...

I got to get ready for the next show.

See my

fans, love me.

[gunshot]

[announcer] Look out Annie! Here come the Dalton boys.

[western music and crowd cheers]

- So I called Chief Connors,

and had him drop the attempted murder case.

Of course he had a very good laugh about it.

I ate a little crow.

- I feel like such a fool.

For he just pulled me right in.

- Hey, I went along too.

He suckered us both.

[hero western music]

- Paramedics to the arena.

Paramedics to the arena.

- He did it again.

- Oh He's getting a piece of mind in public this time.

- C'mon, c'mon.

C'mon.

- Easy. Easy, easy.

Dogie?

- It's not Clint. It's Dogie.

[ominous music]

Can you get me Chief Connors please?

- I thought it was Clint.

I mean he's dressed in Clint's clothes,

he's riding Clint's horse,

and then right in the middle of the act

he takes a shot through the chest.

He was probably dead before he hit the ground.

- Why did the deceased change places with Clint?

- I dunno.

Clint's shoulder was probably too sore for him to go on.

- Okay. Thank you Mr. Fletcher.

- Do you have any suspects?

- Take your pick.

They're all telling the same story.

Nobody shot Doggie Jones.

Nobody knows anything.

- Ah Chief, it's Dogie Jones,

as in 'Git along little...'

- I get it Miss Kinsey.

I've got my officers collecting the weapons,

then I'm going to invite them down to the station,

for a little talk after they clean up.

- Where is Clint Lawson?

- Nobody knows.

I got an APB out him right now.

Excuse me.

- I'll see you later.

- Are you okay?

- Awful huh?

Dogie was a good guy.

-It's really terrible.

Did you know that Dogie had taken Clint's place?

- Guess I did at last minute?

- Does it happen often?

- Heh, Dogie is...

He was, everybody's stand-in.

One of us got sick, Dogie would stand-in for us.

See folks in the audience don't see faces.

They just see costumes on horses.

Dogie used to stand-in for me.

He had to wear this big blonde wig.

You should've heard him complain about that one.

- Where's Clint?

- Why're you asking me?

- I thought you might know.

- His truck's gone.

Which means he is probably back at the hotel.

- I heard that you and Clint

were very close at one time.

- Well, that was a long time ago.

It didn't work out.

- So are you friends?

- I wouldn't say that.

- Do you love him?

[laughs]

I wouldn't exactly call my feelings for

Clint Lawson, love, honey.

- What exactly are your feelings for Clint?

- Miss Kinsey,

The whole big bunch of us here,

we're just like one big happy

very dysfunctional family.

[elevator bell]

- Mr. Lawson?

- Mr. Lawson?

- Miss Kinsey.

I..I am sorry. I thought you were the maid.

Dogie tell you I was here?

- What are you doing? - Wait'n for him.

He stood in for me today.

Shoulder's been killing me all day.

He's supposed to pick me up after the show.

- How did you and Dogie do the switch?

- Dogie changed his clothes in my trailer.

And I'd slip out when no one was around.

- Shoulder not so sore

that you can't do a little online gambling I see.

- Ah, just whiling away the time.

Look if Dogie didn't send you, why are you here?

- Why did you send Dogie in your place?

- He's my stand-in.

I don't want to disappoint my fans.

- You weren't afraid something might happen to him?

- What could happen?

- Same thing that happened to you?

- Nothing happened to me except

Dogie's not paying attention.

- Dogie denied cutting the cinch.

- Of course, he denied it.

He's afraid I'd fire him.

- Alright, you've convinced me.

You really don't know what happened, do you?

- What are you talking about?

- Dogie was shot.

I am sorry.

He's dead.

- Dead?

Oh, why didn't I listen to him?

- About what?

- He, ah, kept trying to tell me something.

And, I never took the time to hear him out.

That could have been me.

[ominous music]

- So you were in the announcers booth,

and you didn't see anything unusual.

- [quiet] No.

-Wouldn't take very long would it,

to get from that booth down to another position,

around the arena.

- Suppose not.

- What would you say, a matter of seconds?

- Probably.

- But you didn't do that.

- I, I am sorry. I couldn't hear you.

- No.

- You're a convicted felon.

- I served my time.

- Manslaughter.

You killed a man.

- We were in a bar.

We were drunk.

We got into a fight.

I hit him.

His head hit the floor.

I didn't set out to kill him.

- But you did.

- No.

The floor did.

- You're in no position to be cocky Fletcher.

- I drank a lot in those days,

and I had a bad temper.

It's a part of my life, I'd like to put behind me.

- Did Clint Lawson know about that part of your life?

- Yes, he hired me anyway.

Fresh start.

I saw it as a chance for me

to start running the big shows again.

- Word has it that you and Dogie

had heated discussions over the money.

- I'm the new kid on the block,

people will talk I guess.

- Well? - We did.

Clint pays me a lot less than he did Dogie.

And I do three times the work.

And you didn't know that it was Dogie,

and not Lawson in the last show.

- As I told you before,

they didn't clue me into the switch.

- Alright.

Don't leave town.

- Have a nice day, Chief.

- Clint's no hero but I doubt he killed Dogie.

He seemed genuinely shocked

when I told him.

- He's an actor.

Maybe he was acting.

- You can fake a lot of things.

But not going pale.

When I told him about Dogie,

he went dead white.

- Hmm.

What else?

- When I came into the room,

he was hiding behind the door.

- Hiding?

- He said he was waiting for Dogie to come back

and tell him the show was over.

He thought I was the maid.

It sounds to me like Clint, was the only one who knew

Dogie took his place during the performance.

- Well, maybe he didn't want anybody else to know.

- But why?

- He's the hero.

The hero gets tossed,

he gets back up on his horse.

-It's the code of the West.

- That's what he told me.

- What else did you see?

- His computer was on,

Now a man who has just murdered

an old friend, probably wouldn't

unwind with a game of Texas Hold'em.

- That's a good observation.

- What if Dogie wasn't the intended target?

What if whoever shot Dogie,

thought they were shooting Clint.

- If you ever want to go to spy school,

I'll give you an excellent reference.

- And give up the excitement

of life as a book seller.

- What was I thinking? [chuckles]

That was excellent reasoning,

you've convinced me that Clint didn't kill Dogie.

- I have to change.

- So there is no way this could

have been an accident.

- Hardly.

We don't allow live ammunition

anywhere near the show.

- That doesn't mean someone didn't

accidentally slip that real bullet into the gun.

- Accidentally?

Look. If someone put a real bullet

into one of those old show guns,

and pulled the trigger,

it would probably blow up in his hand.

- Miss Boone, I see you told

the officer that you weren't in the second show.

- That's correct.

- Why not?

- I wasn't feeling well.

That old stagecoach is a rough ride,

I had one of the guys jump up there for me.

- I thought that was Dogie's job.

- I couldn't find him.

- Well I guess we know where he was.

- Every gun Chief Connors

took from the show had been recently fired.

They all tested positive for gunpowder residue.

- Well, that makes sense.

I mean everyone's in the show from time to time,

and everybody fires guns.

- Blanks. Not real bullets.

Somebody loaded their gun for real this time.

- Okay, Cassie.

If I were the killer,

I would put on gloves before I shot at my victim.

- That's because you are smarter

than most killers, Samantha.

In the real world,

people make incredibly stupid mistakes.

That's how we catch them.

- Is there any way to find if one of those guns shot a real bullet?

- We're working on it.

The guns were sent down to LA

to the forensic lab to be tested.

- Have all of the cowboys gone back to their hotel?

- I think they are at the Cantina.

[Cassie's phone rings]

Hello?

[Chief Connors] Counselor I'm just calling

to give you a heads up.

The news media has hit town

like a herd of locusts.

- News media is here.

Are they at the courthouse?

- No, they're over at the hotel

looking for cowboys I assume.

- Thanks Chief - Mmm hmm.

One other thing,

the ah, tour manager,

Fletcher, he's an ex-con,

did time for manslaughter.

He had heated words with the deceased over money.

Keeping an eye on that one.

- Thanks Chief.

- Bye, bye.

- Jeb Fletcher has a record.

Manslaughter.

He had words with Dogie over money.

- Money is always a motive.

Do you mind if we talk about this over dinner? I am starving.

- We can't go to the hotel. Too many reporters.

- I was thinking enchiladas.

[Chief Connors phone rings]

- Connors,

- Chief, this is Amanda in the ME's office,

we found a note in the deceased's shirt pocket.

- What kind of a note?

- It's a handwritten note Chief.

- Alright, I'll be right down.

[music coming from the Cantina]

- I'd like to say,

it's a crying shame that Dogie

got his self killed.

- You really believe that Strother.

Backstage after the show,

I got the distinct impression

that you didn't like Dogie.

- No, no, no.

Just because I thought he was a suck-up,

doesn't mean I didn't like him.

- But you didn't, did you.

- Well okey, dokey Mr. Philby,

outside of the fact you got some fine looking friends,

I can't think of one reason to answer your question.

- Is this reason enough to answer mine?

- Deputy District Attorney

what a waste of a good- looking woman.

- Did you dislike Dogie Jones?

- Nope.

- Yes, he disliked Dogie.

- Oh boy.

- Old Strother here doesn't like anybody.

- He's a mean, old man.

- I wouldn't talk if I were you Clint.

You sent Dogie out to be shot.

- I did no such thing.

- He was dressed in your clothes,

he was riding your horse.

Everybody thought he was you.

- I didn't know he was going to get shot.

Did you?

- What do mean by that?

- Jeb, you are in no position to be drinking in a bar,

and getting in fights.

Now if you ladies and gentlemen will excuse me,

my public is waiting.

- Okay, C'mon folks.

Let's not let the big star ruin our wake.

Punch them up for Dogie.

- Howdy everybody. Howdy.

I see you all here. [news media chatter]

I just want to apologize.

the rest of the gang is, ah

is feeling quite poorly over the

situation that we've gone through today,

and ah. So I will be answering any questions you may have.

[press conference chatter]

- [Sam] He brought the press with him?

Pretty happy for a man whose grieving.

- He is using Dogie's death as a photo opp.

You still think he didn't do it?

- Well the evidence is against him but...

He is behaving badly.

- People can behave badly.

Doesn't make them killers.

[approaching sirens]

- Looks like them, right here.

Ah, who knows?

Maybe...

[Chief] Alright, alright. Get back. Get back.

Put those cameras down.

No more pictures.

- What's going on? - Is that your stationary?

- Yeah, sure is. - Is this your handwriting?

- Yes it is, but ah,

- The coroner found this note in Dogie Jones's pocket.

- [Chief reading note] You lying lowlife I am going to get you for what you did.

Did you write this?

- Yes I did. Yes I did.

But it is not what you think.

- Clint Lawson you are under arrest for the murder of Dogie Jones.

Hook 'em up!

You have the right to remain silent.

[overlapping] [Clint] I didn't [Chief] Anything you say

can and will be used against you in a court of law.

- You want to hang on to this until next year?

- If there is a next year.

There's got to be an explanation

for that note in Dogie's pocket.

-You said Clint was trying to explain,

when Chief Connors arrested him.

- Once Clint admitted to writing the note,

Chief Connors stopped listening.

- Clint wrote it.

But he said it wasn't a threat.

- It doesn't make sense does it?

- It reminds me of that novel

by Owen Lassiter

"Deadly Suspicions"

- All the evidence points to one man,

while the real killer slips out of town.

- To kill again.

But you and I both think that

Clint was the intended victim.

- Chief Connors isn't thinking that way.

That note is all the motive he needs.

- Shouldn't he wonder how

Clint could be both the killer

and the victim at the same time?

What are you thinking?

- I am thinking we don't know anything

about Dogie Jones.

Or the rest of them for that matter.

[phone rings]

Hello? This is Sam.

- Hey, it's me.

Clint wants to talk to you.

- He does?

- He sent word through the Chief

You don't have to talk to him it you don't want to.

- There's a catch isn't there? - Chief Connors wants to know

everything that Clint tells you.

- Alright. I'll see ya.

- Miss Kinsey.

You know I didn't kill Dogie.

Don't you?

- Clint I am going to lay it out straight for you,

Dogie's dead.

He was taking your place when he was shot.

For all anybody knows,

You had a grudge against Dogie.

Sent him out in your place.

Shot him from cover.

And then snuck back to the hotel.

- You really don't believe that.

- It doesn't matter what I believe.

I am not a jury.

- What about whoever cut my saddle cinch?

They were trying to kill me.

- Dogie did that, remember?

- What if he was telling the truth,

about somebody clobbering him over the head,

and then they shot Dogie

thinking it was me.

- Look.

You need to pull yourself together.

Hire a lawyer or you are going to be in here a really long time.

Chief Connors is convinced you did it.

He found that note in Dogie's pocket.

- That's why I needed to see you.

You see that note is,

isn't a note.

- Well then what is it?

- It's dialog.

From an old script from my TV show.

I wrote it down for Dogie.

See, he wanted to have something to say in the Wild West Show.

He was tired of yelling, Yee Haw!

- Can you prove that it was dialog from an old script?

- I have an original script, somewhere.

- Okay. Then you need to turn it over to Chief Connors.

I can get it.

As soon as I get out of here.

- Clint,

you are going to be convicted of murder

if you don't start telling the truth.

And if you have any evidence

now is the time to produce it.

- No jury is going to convict me.

I'm an American icon!

- Don't call me again.

- So frustrating.

- How do think Clint is going to take it

when he discovers his beloved media has left town.

The second he got arrested.

- Better news in LA.

Some singer got arrested for shoplifting.

- I think Clint's 15 minutes are up.

Do you have that note

the ME found in Dogie's pocket?

- A yeah, I have a copy of it.

- Can we get a couple of ice waters please?

[Sam reading] You lying low-life...

I'm gonna get you for what you did.

Wait a second.

They're quotation marks at the beginning and at the end.

- Who puts quotation marks on a death threat?

- Nobody.

But somebody copying lines

in a script might use quotation marks.

- Clint may be a fallen idol,

but at least he is grammatical.

- Nobody's all bad.

Clint says he has the original script,

but he either can't or won't produce it.

I can't tell which. He is being pretty vague.

- Maybe he is hiding something.

- Still the evidence him is circumstantial.

I mean, nobody has placed him at the scene of the crime.

Or put him in possession of the murder weapon.

And there is no murder weapon at this point.

- That's what his lawyer is going to argue.

At the bail hearing.

- So who is the celebrity attorney?

The famous Jerry Spence?

- Sam Marshall.

- The public defender?

[waiter] Ladies? - Oh.

El gauchito please.

[phone rings]

- Mystery Woman bookstore

may I help you please.

[sam] Hey Philby Clint's lawyer

Sam Marshall. - The public defender?

- Why would a guy who is loaded

and considers himself an American hero

settle for a public defender?

- He'd hire the best, get a haircut and go on Court TV.

- I think Clint Lawson might be keeping some secrets.

- I am doing research on all those people.

- Well,

I think I know someone

who might know those secrets. I got to go.

- Alright Samantha.

- How's Annie Oakley doing today?

- Okay.

-It's Annie on this end.

- So where are all the guys?

- Hanging out at that Cantina

drinking their tears away.

- I just came from seeing Clint.

He wanted me to say hello.

- He did?

- He can have visitors.

You can go see if you want.

- You know what? The heck with him, let him rot.

- Annie, what did he do to you?

- We're just going for a ride. You're gonna have to excuse me hon.

- I used to ride a-lot.

And I loved it.

Is there maybe any chance I could go along?

- I suppose so.

Let's saddle you up.

I was young, impressionable.

Clint Lawson ripped my heart out.

I don't think I've ever really forgiven him.

- But you're working with him.

- Yeah. I need the money.

It's a shot at a second chance I guess.

Probably still chasing rainbows huh.

- You still have feelings for him?

- From time to time,

I think about it and I come back to my senses!

At least you have a handle on it.

Yeah. Clint's the one who ruined my career.

He says not, but I know better.

Clint just always has to come first in everything.

The way he is.

- Clint's supposed to have money,

but he hired a public defender.

- That's odd.

Maybe it has something to do with the movie.

Maybe he put all his money in that.

- He told me about it.

- Heh, it's no secret.

We're doing a Red River Movie.

Big budget, I'm the leading lady.

We're going to start shooting in a few months.

Big chance for all of us.

Zeke's going to be one of the producers.

- There might be a little delay.

Your leading man got arrested for murder.

- Clint didn't do it and that's that.

He's a lot of things honey, but he's not a killer.

- Well who do you think did do it?

- I've been wondering about Strother.

He's been acting a little strange this whole tour.

He was always ragging on Dogie.

- What do you mean strange?

- He gets these big boxes delivered every town we're in.

Suspicious huh?

Well, that depends on what's in the big boxes.

You don't like Strother do you?

- He can't keep his hands to himself.

- I'll tell you Philby this murder has done some serious damage in Walden.

Wild West Days shutdown.

All the tourists gone home.

- Mystery Woman has a stack of westerns we didn't sell.

- Everybody took a hit one way or the other.

Western Days is the big tourist event here.

Supposed to be a big fund raiser too.

Why couldn't those folks just, go do their

murdering someplace else.

- Or not at all.

I hear you've been making

some deliveries up at the hotel.

- You think the deliveries had something to do with the murder?

- Don't know. Just checking.

- I did deliver a big box,

and I mean big.

To one Strother Elam.

He is one unhappy looking man.

-Where did it come from?

- The Used Saddle Company in Billings, Montana.

I remember because we don't get many shipments from there.

- The Used Saddle Company?

- And that isn't all.

There's more.

- Go on Otis.

Strother's become one of Otis's best customers.

- Now why would an older character actor

be buying saddles when he is supposed to be broke?

- Strother is not broke.

He has a considerable account

in a bank in Nevada.

- Oh Philby you've been hacking again.

- Cyberspace investigation is not hacking.

- If Strother has this much money in the bank,

why is he working for Clint?

- It could be tied in with those shipments,

He brought the saddle back to be shipped to parties in Denver.

- This still doesn't tell us anything

about the bad blood between Clint and Strother.

- It might be time to talk to Strother.

- Annie said the guys are hanging out at the Cantina.

Will you come with me?

- Absolutely. I love the smell of stale beer.

- Hey Bud, could get a soda?

Strother?

Are you enjoying our town?

-[drunk] I hate, small towns.

- You like the wide open prairie.

- No, I like Las Vegas.

Bright lights.

Some women.

And the, ah

smell of money.

So you heard anything about Clint?

They hang him yet?

- Well,

We usually have a trial before the hanging.

Well, that's too bad.

- Sounds you've got a big problem with Clint.

- Ah, no.

Don't pay me no attention.

I've had too much to drink.

Look.

Clint and me, we're buddies.

- If he did to me, what he did to you,

he wouldn't be my buddy.

- Well, that's water under the bridge.

You know that story?

- Just Clint's version.

What's yours?

- I bet he told you

that my wife left me because I hit her.

- Did you? - No, I did not hit my wife.

It's more like Peaches

threw herself at Clint.

Until he noticed, then Clint took her bait.

She started swimming up the food chain.

- So she divorced you.

And married Clint.

- After she cleaned me out. Yeah.

- Is she still married to Clint?

- Hmm hmm.

She stayed with him long enough to ah,

sock away some big bucks.

and then just took off.

- Clint marries your wife,

and your not mad at him?

- Wasn't his fault, was it?

It was her fault.

- Still taking your wife

isn't a very nice thing to do.

- No it wasn't.

- Strother's lying through his teeth.

He and Clint have had more than one argument over the woman.

- You were there when it happened?

- Before my time.

I have reliable sources.

- But you don't know firsthand.

- I'm not lying about this.

- Have you been part of the Wild West Show for the whole tour?

- Every dusty little town from

Nitpick, Wyoming to Ashcan, Arkansas.

- Who do you think killed Dogie?

- Clint, same as everyone else.

Dogie must have had something on him.

- Nobody's saying it except you.

- Clint's not dangling a carrot over my head.

- What does that mean?

- I don't do movies.

I do big road shows.

Or at least I did. I'd like to do them again.

Clint's movie doesn't bother me

one way or another.

- You have no interest in movies.

-No. - I heard you did some prison time.

- Hard to keep something like that a secret.

What's your point?

- No point.

I just wanted to see your face when I asked.

[Philby] 319.

- You hacked into the hotel's computer system?

- The H word offends my senses.

- You didn't by any chance get a key did you?

- Didn't have time.

You know you are breaking into a man's room.

- We've got to find something to connect Clint to Dogie's murder.

- And Philby,

The B word offends my senses.

[Philby chuckles]

- What a mess.

- Easy to search this room.

Everything that Dogie owns is on the floor.

- It's hard to tell if Dogie is this messy or

if the police did this when they came through.

- Newspaper clippings.

These are from the towns that they appeared in.

They got pretty good reviews.

- Old boots, dirty clothes

yikes, looks like Dogie forgot his quarters for the washing machine.

Philby look.

[music stinger] - Don't move.

[western dramatic music]

- How can I thank you?

- Just glad to be of help Ma'am.

[Chief] You want to tell me what you two were doing here?

- We thought we might want to find some significant in Dogie's room.

- So you were snooping.

- This isn't a crime scene.

We didn't break any rules.

- So breaking and entering is no longer a crime?

- We didn't break.

We just entered.

The maid must have left the door open.

- You've got a dead rattlesnake.

and a gun.

I don't think Philby and I are so important.

- What are you doing here?

- Well, I was on my way to my room,

but they said the door was open a crack.

I heard the snakes rattle.

- You heard the snake rattle

from all the way out there in the hallway?

- I used to wrangle rattlers.

- So you are experienced with snakes?

- Are you accusing me of putting that snake in this room

you better have some proof.

- If you did it, I'll find it.

Let me ask you something.

You ever seen this gun before?

-It's hard to tell.

It's in that bag.

- I'm going to ask you again.

Have you ever seen this gun before?

- No. but, ah...

- But what...

- Well, it reminds me,

Clint has a collection of old western six guns.

- Really?

- Why would Dogie put a rattlesnake

in a box on top of a gun?

- To keep someone else from finding the gun.

- "Crazy Dutchman's Mine"

- Excuse me? - Red River Days.

It was the episode where miner

used a rattlesnake inside of a box to protect his gold.

- Then why didn't the police find it

the first time they searched the room?

- Because it wasn't there?

And Dogie was already dead.

- You just might make spy school yet.

- Okay, this is getting more and more complicated.

We have a gun in Dogie's room,

protected by a deadly snake.

That's pretty suspicious behavior.

- It makes one think that Dogie is the killer.

- Except he was the one who got murdered.

- Here we go again.

We got a killer who is also the victim.

- Unless...

Mr. Foster.

- Call me Zeke.

- I wanted to thank you again.

- Well, there is no need.

- I also wanted to ask you about Clint's gun collection.

- Should have kept my big mouth shut.

Anyway I only saw it once.

And that was years ago.

It was right Clint had bought his ranch.

And he had invited all of us down for a barbecue.

His way of showing off a little bit.

- Did you resent him?

- He earned it.

- Not everybody feels that way.

- Where'd you hear that?

- People talk.

- Talk is cheap.

You should know that.

Besides show business breeds jealousy.

Excuse me.

- I think I'm gonna go talk to Clint.

- I'm going to get back to Mystery Woman

and get on my computer.

- More hacking?

- Informational research.

On our suspects.

- Right.

-[Clint] What gun? What snake?

- There was a box in Dogie's closet,

Inside the box was a rattlesnake.

- Well, that doesn't make sense 'cause,

Dogie hated snakes.

- What about you?

Do you hate snakes?

- Only the two legged kind.

We used to have a couple around the place, just to show visitors.

- Did you handle them yourself?

There's not much to it.

Just stay away from the head.

- The snake was coiled up on top of a six gun.

An old six gun.

- What did this gun look like?

- Sliver, chrome a long barrel.

Wooden grips.

A small silver star on the grips.

- I got to get out of here.

- Why is that? - Food's lousy.

- Your bail hearing is coming up.

You might get lucky.

- I don't need luck.

I didn't kill Dogie.

- Clint, this is not a traffic ticket.

Why do you have a public defender?

- I like Sam Marshall.

He's a good enough lawyer.

He has the entire collectors edition

of Red River Days.

I told him I'd sign the cover.

Hey, do me a favor? - Is it legal?

- If you see Annie,

ask her to bring me a burger and fries.

- If I see her.

- Thank you very much.

According to ballistics,

none of the guns they tested was the murder weapon.

- I'm not surprised.

Dogie's gun is in the evidence room.

- Was it fingerprinted?

- I would hope so.

- What if it doesn't belong to Dogie?

- Dogie's room, Dogie's closet.

I guess you are right. It wasn't there in the initial search.

- Which means it was put there after the fact.

If it is the murder weapon.

- By the killer for safekeeping until he needed it.

- Like to place it in Clint's room and pin it on him.

- You still think he is innocent.

- He is too self- centered to be guilty.

- I'll get the answers on that gun asap.

- Call me.

- Hi [Sam] Hi

You look different.

- Sometimes you've got to dress up and feel like a girl.

- What can I do for you?

- You're friends with that blonde DA aren't you?

Did she say anything about when Clint might be getting out?

- Well soonest would be after the bail hearing.

I think Chief Connors is still collecting evidence.

- I'm worried about that movie Clint is doing.

- Can't he delay it?

Assuming he'll be out of jail.

- I need the job. I'm broke.

- And if the movie is delayed...

- Put it off too long and the people financing it

are going to get antsy and pull out.

- So all of the work would be for nothing.

- Pretty much.

- Except for Jeb.

- He has nothing to do with the movie.

- Jeb was supposed to be in on it.

Clint promised him he could be one of the producers with Zeke.

Then a couple of days ago.

Clint reneged on it.

- [Jeb] You gave me your word Lawson.

- [Clint] Yes, yes I gave you my word.

But you know things change in this business.

- Why, why? Because I'm an ex-con?

- No. The money guys are telling me they need somebody

with real movie experience to be a producer.

- Yeah, and you're just going to go along with it, right?

- I tried convincing them otherwise.

They wouldn't hear it.

They can't hire a guy who only has road show experience.

- I only agreed to do this lousy show

because you promised me I could be a producer on the movie.

- Considering your history bub,

you don't have much room to gripe.

And who else would hire an ex-con?

Look at it this way,

I got you back in show business.

- I would wipe the floor with you.

- I wouldn't try it.

- You owe me.

And I will collect.

I know you were a part of this Dogie.

I won't forget it.

- And Jeb stayed?

- Clint's holding him to his contract.

Mean huh?

- Mean enough for Jeb to want to kill Clint?

- Thing about revenge...

People take it on the spot,

a month later, years down the line.

The only that matters is that you get even.

- Have you ever thought about revenge on Clint?

- Heh. About every sleepless night for years.

I've put it behind me now.

- You're better for it.

- I guess I've just got to wait for Clint's bail hearing

to find out if I am looking for work again.

Part of me hopes that old lizard

just stays locked up forever.

- I saw Clint.

And he wanted me to ask you,

if you would bring him a burger and fries.

- Samantha, do I have a sign around my neck

that says use me I'm easy?

- See you around.

- Jeb Fletcher wasn't truthful about his interest in movies.

- And Zeke said Dogie's door was open a crack

when he passed it.

Well it wasn't because I closed

it behind me when I went in.

So he must have had a key. [Phiby's phone rings]

That's another un-truth.

- Chances are they are both at the Cantina.

- Yeah Otis?

That's great.

We'll be over there in a little while.

You are going to like this,

Strother made another shipment.

[Zeke] Howdy.

Looks like you overcame your scare Miss Kinsey.

- I was scared, but now I am just confused.

- About what? - You said the door to

Dogie's room was open when you walked by,

that's not exactly true.

- Excuse me?

You, ah, calling my friend a liar?

- Stay out of this.

- I have decided I do not like you.

- One can't please everyone. All the time.

- He's got a smart mouth too.

- This is none of your business.

- I'm making it my business.

- Philby maybe we should let Chief Connors handle this.

-I'm the handler.

Oh we'll fix you.

Oh yeah, I'm gonna fix you good.

- Do it.

- Forget it Strother.

He ain't worth it.

- Zeke, back to that hotel room door.

- I've said all I am going to say.

- Let's go.

- Hey.

You lied to me.

- I did?

You were supposed to be

a producer in that new movie

and then Clint changed his mind.

- Wasn't no big deal.

- Big enough it almost caused a fight.

- You're gettin misinformation.

- Okay

I intend to find out.

- Philby that was quite a move you laid on that guy.

You got any more.

- No. Shouldn't we go see Otis now?

- I'll call Cassie.

- Otis thought he heard some ticking in the box.

- So under the new Homeland Security guidelines.

I took it upon myself to

open the box.

- You said you thought you heard ticking.

- Why didn't you just call the police bomb squad?

- Otis was in bomb demolition in the Army.

He knows what to do when it comes to disarming explosive devices.

- Besides the closest bomb squad is in Los Angeles.

- So you called Philby.

- We did some work a few years back, ah,

We stayed in touch.

- And I'm here?

- In case there is something illegal in the box.

- Bingo.

- May I? - Please do.

- A saddle?

- These spurs?

- Got a horse in there to go with it?

- Clint Lawson's signature.

- And a certificate of authenticity

stating that everything in this shipment

belonged to Clint Lawson.

- And a bill of sale for

Six Thousand Dollars to

a company called

Western Memorabilia in Colorado.

- They're forged.

- What the saddle or the spurs?

- All of them.

The signature is the same on all three.

Identical.

No one's signature is always identical.

Especially on three different surfaces.

- It's probably one of those signature machines.

They traced over Clint Lawson's real signature.

- Like off a paycheck.

- Western collectors will pay a fortune

for memorabilia like this.

- If it's real, which this isn't.

- It looks like Strother is in the fake memorabilia business.

- I didn't know anything about fake goods,

I'm not in on this. No.

- Otis. Otis!

We know it wasn't you.

You are the one who reported the ticking.

- I did?

- And called the proper authorities.

Me. -Otis.

-You're a hero.

- I am?

- I'll have someone come down and pick up the evidence.

- I will guard this with my life.

- Good man.

- So are you going to get a warrant for Strother?

- The minute I get back to the office.

- Can you wait a little while?

- Why?

- Well, I've been adding up the evidence.

-Uh, uh. - And Dogie was killed

while he was dressed like Clint.

But nobody, but the two of them knew they had switched places.

So I've got to believe the killer was after Clint.

- So I am arresting Strother for fraud not for murder.

- With Strother in jail, it is harder to investigate him for murder.

- He could have killed Dogie thinking Dogie was Clint.

- And his motive for wanting Clint dead would be?

- Revenge born out of jealousy.

- Clint ran off with Strother's wife.

- Recently?

- Years ago.

- So if he kills Clint, he kills the face memorabilia business.

- When does the price on a star's memorabilia skyrocket?

- When he is dead?

- Bingo!

- You two.

- Alright. I'll hold off as long as I can.

- Thank you Mrs. Kramer.

I'll let you know when the

next Nora Roberts comes in.

- I've got some backstage info on Red River Days.

- Really? Gossip? Good.

- Clint and Annie were romantically involved.

- Old news. Next.

- Clint fired her.

- Why?

- Clint told the press

that Annie had an offer to star in her own show.

But the truth is,

Annie was getting more fan email than he was,

and he felt threatened.

- Did Annie know that Clint fired her

because he felt threatened or did she actually believe

she was getting her own show?

- She didn't find out until six months

after she had left Red River Days.

And by that time, she was going broke.

- Clint is a real piece of work.

If I were Annie, I would want revenge.

- Maybe she got some.

- She broke into his house,

and ripped up his upholstery

and painted his walls with mustard.

- Not bad. But not nearly enough.

- Maybe she thought so too

- Annie told me she was over Clint,

but maybe she joined the Wild West Show to kill him.

- People, do lie.

- You got all that info from your colleague?

- No. I got it from a website.

Guy used to be a writer for Red River Days.

His name is Lee Ramblin.

He sells old scripts and old gossip.

Very bitter.

But a great speller.

But this...

Is Clint Lawson's financial report from A to Z.

I think you might find it very interesting.

- I never would have guessed.

[Sam's phone rings]

- Hello?

- Hey - Hey Cassie.

Clint Lawson was just released on bail.

Miss Boone picked him up,

and is taking him back to the hotel.

- Really?

- Yeah. See you later?

- Okay thanks for telling me.

- Clint Lawson made bail.

Annie went to pick him up

and is taking him back to the hotel.

- Are you going over there?

- I am.

- Be careful.

- Oh Annie.

I heard Clint made bail. Where is he?

- I do have that sign around my neck.

Use me. I'm easy.

- What did he do this time?

- Nothing.

Just like always, nothing.

I pick him up at the courthouse,

I drive him here, and then,

he just jumps in his truck and drives off.

No thank you. No nothing.

- Wait a second. He can't just leave town.

The Chief will throw him back in jail.

- Oh Clint's not leaving town,

he just went to the fairgrounds.

He doesn't want me to go with him.

[ominous music]

- Clint?

- That would be trespassing.

We shoot trespassers where I come from.

- I'm not trespassing. I'm following you.

- Well I don't like being followed.

- Quit pretending like you are going to shoot me.

Put that gun down.

- It isn't loaded.

- Why are you here?

- I always come here to think.

- You were looking for that gun.

- Yep.

It's not here.

Dogie must have taken it.

- Dogie didn't take your gun.

- It was in his room.

- Put there after he was already dead.

Did you put it there Clint?

- No!

That means, whoever shot Dogie

thinking he was me put it there.

- Any idea who that might be?

- A number of people,

I haven't exactly been upfront

with the truth in my dealings.

- You mean like this?

- This is supposed to be confidential information.

How did you get it? - I have my ways.

- Well,

Now you know it all.

I'm broke.

Busted flat.

Lost everything to ex-wives,

taxes and...

gambling.

I had to sell-off everything of value to live.

But I saved a couple of old guns,

just for the memories.

- If the report on that gun

comes back with your fingerprints,

and a ballistic match

to the slug that killed Dogie

you're in a lot of trouble.

-You know, I'd say most of my money went the way of gambling.

Welcome to my spread.

A beat-up old trailer and a couple of chairs.

And everyone thinks it's just my dressing trailer.

It's my home.

- I saw you playing poker online.

You have a gambling problem.

-Oh, only when I lose,

which is most of the time.

- Everyone thinks you have a fortune socked away.

- See I've always been the master of spin,

make'n anyone believe anything I wanted them to,

So ah,

a fortune is a slight exaggeration.

If I held onto that gun you saw,

'cause it was worth a lot of money.

It was my ace in the hole.

That was the gun,

that John Wayne used in his very first film,

"The Big Trail" 1929.

- It must be pretty valuable.

- I'd say about eighty thousand valuable.

And nobody but me and Dogie knew that gun was here.

Nobody knew this was your home.

So somebody broke in, took the gun,

and left everything else?

- You don't believe me?

- Goodbye Clint.

- Samantha!

You've got to believe me.

- You're a liar, a gambler, maybe a killer.

- You don't believe that. - Which part?

- I'm not a killer and I am not lying when I say things are gonna change.

When I get this movie off the ground...

- There is no movie Clint. Okay,

This whole road trip is about you trying to make enough cash

to keep your bookies at bay. It's a nice scam.

- No.! It's not a scam.

And I'll get my movie made.

- You told Jeb he could be one of the producers,

and then you reneged.

You blamed some non-existent money people.

- I couldn't be tied to an ex-con.

- It's how you got him to join the Wild West Show.

You gave him a shot at a future.

- Look, he'll make out alright.

And I will make My Movie!

- How, some magic falling out of the sky?

- No!

I'll make it happen.

That movie will lead to a new TV show.

I know it.

- Does Annie know you're broke?

- No.

- I think deep down she still cares about you.

- I wrecked her career.

I was young,

selfish.

- Now you're older,

selfish.

You ought to tell her the truth.

[Phiby] Enjoy your books.

[man] Thanks Philby.

[doorbell]

[customers] Hi Sam.

[Phiby] Cassie called.

She wanted to give me some information about that gun we found.

- Because Clint's fingerprints are on it?

- You talked to Cassie?

- No it's just an educated guess.

Anything on the ballistic report?

- No. Still waiting.

- When are they going to pick Clint up?

- Cassie doesn't think he is a flight risk.

- You know at times life can be kinda depressing.

- You must have just seen Clint Lawson.

- Yes I did.

He now knows what we know.

He's broke.

Totally self-centered.

An addicted gambler.

A liar and all-around not a nice guy.

- Clint's not really a bad guy.

He spent a lot of money.

- On gambling.

- And on building a

Children's Hospital in Texas.

- A Children's Hospital?

So he is a liar, a gambler and now a philanthropist.

- People are complicated.

Sometimes good people do bad things.

Sometimes bad people do good things.

And sometimes good people do bad things for good reasons.

- Like who?

- Spies.

- Okay Philby you got me there.

- Ah, Cassie said

that Chief Connors is going to pickup Strother tonight.

- She said she was going to wait.

I guess she couldn't.

- Makes it difficult to investigate a murder suspect,

sitting in prison for ten years.

- He certainly has motive.

- Maybe sitting in jail will make him more cooperative.

- Okay. So then there is

Zeke Foster, Jeb Fletcher

and Annie Boone left.

- You don't really think she is a prime suspect do you?

- No.

But we still need more information on Jeb and Zeke.

And we really don't know anything about Dogie.

- I'll see if I have any answers to my inquiry.

- Annie?

We need to talk.

- It's too late Clint.

- It's not even eight o'clock.

- I meant in our relationship.

A hundred years too late.

- Annie?

I'm gonna tell you the truth.

For the first time, in a long, long time.

- I can hardly wait to hear this.

- I'm broke Annie.

I have been for years.

- [chuckles] What kind of scam are you running now?

- Scam? - Hmm.

- Ah no, I'm telling you the truth.

I'm...I'm busted.

Lost everything.

- Really?

Your ranch?

- Gone.

-Ahh

Took me half my life to buy it,

and one night to lose it.

- What about the movie?

- It's a long shot at best.

I'm, I'm sorry.

- Sorry!

Sorry?

You lied to me.

You just strung me along.

Yes you are sorry.

You are the sorriest individual on this planet.

- Alright.

- Alright.

- I lied to you about the movie,

because I liked having you around.

- You have lied to me from day one.

You even lied when you fired me.

You said the network wanted me gone.

- That was a lie.

And, it wasn't about you gettin

too much fan mail either.

- Then what was it about?

- It was about me being a jerk.

I fired you because...

You were better than me.

Oh you were the real star of the show.

- You mean that.

Clint...

That must have been really painful for you

to tell me that.

- Yeah, it was.

- Well not painful enough.

- Oh!

- That's enough for one night.

I'm going back to my room.

- Annie? Annie?

- Oh thanks. I needed that.

- What are those numbers?

- What numbers?

- Looks like?

Philby you've hacked into a bank.

- That would be illegal.

You might want to take a look at this.

- Dogie's bank statement.

No money in the savings.

A couple of hundred in the checking.

Another flat broke cowboy.

- Take a look at line four.

- Safety deposit box?

But no key was found on his body.

Or in his hotel room.

- Why would a broke cowboy

keep a safety deposit box

and where is the key?

- Because he obviously had something of value to hid

and somebody took the key?

- Apparently but who?

- Whoever took Clint's gun?

And whoever shot Dogie.

[Strother] Look, I might be guilty of fraud.

but I did not kill Dogie.

- You wouldn't shot Clint would you?

- Ma'am, I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn if I was inside of it,

- So you liked Dogie.

- C'mon he was a harmless guy.

He was always sucking up to Clint.

Even in the old days. Clint...

Clint used him.

Dogie was his runner for gambling.

We all knew about it.

- Runner?

- Yeah, go between.

For Clint and the bookies.

You see Dogie would collect the winnings,

or he would deliver the losings.

Sometimes Dogie, he would get roughed up.

When Clint's payments were late.

- Roughed up?

-Yeah, busted lip, bloody nose,

- Did he ever get angry at Clint?

- Dogie Jones was not an angry kind of man.

I mean, ever since I got to know him,

I never seen him get mad, but a couple of times.

- Any time recently?

- The day we hit town.

We're sett'n up

and he and Zeke were goin at it.

Something over Clint. It's all I know.

[Dogie] It ain't no good Zeke.

I can't live with it anymore.

[Zeke] He owes you Dogie.

And me.

Live with it.

[Dogie] I need to get that key back.

- Make'n a big mistake Dogie.

- Well then Zeke it's my mistake.

Where's the key?

-Well I don't have it on me.

I'll get it for you later.

But I would think long and hard before you told Clint.

- Well, I have thought long and hard about it.

I'll think on it some more.

- In the meantime

if you are going to stand in for Clint in the show,

please let me know beforehand.

- Why?

- 'Cause I don't want to miss

see'n if that big old white horse

is going to buck you off like it did in Tucson last month.

- Old Blanco,

he really stuck my head in the dirt.

My ears were ring'n for a week

[Zeke chuckles] In case you don't see me before the show

just pick up that fancy phone of yours and give my cell phone a call.

- Well I'll do it, but

he's not gonna surprise me again.

- I'll take it, wanna bet?

- How much?

- How 'bout ah ten cents?

- Dogie had a cell phone?

It was never found.

- Ah yeah a fancy one.

All the whistles and bells.

- Have you talked to Clint?

- Yeah he came by.

Sez he wasn't going to press charges.

And he was going to sign all of the stuff I sold.

I might be able to slide out of this.

- Why did you do it?

- Why?

Well my self-excuse...

was los'n my wife,

but think'in, think'in about it ah,

it's just an excuse.

It was just greed.

Greed.

- I really enjoyed you as an actor.

- Thank you.

- Did Clint mention the movie?

- Yeah, ah...

he said it was all a fantasy.

It's a shame though you know,

It'd be fun to be in front of the camera again.

- Do you think anybody else knew he was lying?

- Dogie.

Maybe.

He'd be the only one.

- Clint told me that Dogie

used his trailer to change his clothes.

- And you are thinking he dropped his cell phone

the day he was killed?

- Well if he did,

and we can find it

we might be able to weave

some of these strings together.

Here it is!

Strother said it was fancy

with all the bells and whistles.

Battery is dead.

- The battery is easy.

- What about retrieving other information,

like the last number called

date, time?

- It would be even easier, if I were at my desk.

- Use one of your special gadgets?

- No. I'd recharge the battery.

[Sam] I think we are approaching this from the wrong direction.

- Let's step back and look at all the information,

and draw a new conclusion.

- Dogie knew about Clint's trailer,

his money problem,

and his gambling.

- He more than knew about it,

he placed Clint's bets for him.

- So, maybe

Dogie became a victim because,

somebody knew his secrets.

Somebody who was using Dogie

to get to Clint.

- It's a good theory.

But who?

- Okay, Dogie had something important to tell Clint,

but he never got the chance.

- And Zeke knew what it was.

- And talked Dogie out of telling Clint.

- And then Jeb had a grudge against Dogie,

he even threatened him.

- You know. We've just been looking at motives

aimed at killing Clint.

- Well the mystery lies with Dogie.

The last number called,

time and date.

- Was the day Dogie was killed,

and right before the second show.

- You know,

they're having a memorial service for Dogie

at the fairgrounds tomorrow morning.

- That's a fitting place to put

Dogie's memory to rest.

- Every suspect, except Strother will be there.

- I assume you and I will be there.

- With Dogie's cell phone,

We might be able to flush out the killer.

- Spoken like a true hunter.

[solemn music]

[Clint] We're gathered here to say farewell

to a fallen comrade.

Some of you here,

didn't know Dogie Jones to well.

He was a standup man.

Filled with integrity and honesty.

His untimely death leaves a void

in all our lives.

I'm sure his killer will be brought to justice soon.

That's not what we are here to talk about right now.

We're here to remember Dogie Jones.

- You may want to invite Chief Connors.

- Yeah - What if it is a wild goose chase?

- We've had egg on our faces before.

[Clint continues] Dogie wanted to be cremated,

have his ashes spread across the vast West Texas badlands.

And that will happen as soon as all of this is over.

And he had a favorite poem.

I'll do it for you now.

Maybe somewhere Dogie is listening.

- I may as well do it now.

- Yeah.

- Last number Dogie called.

[Clint] It's ah, a simple poem.

Then again. [cell phone rings]

Dogie was a simple man.

- Hello?

- I was calling for Dogie.

Gotcha!

[crowd murmurs]

[Sam] He killed Dogie.

- Don't just stand there.

Mount up and help the lady.

[action western music]

- I got me a hostage.

- You may as well give up.

You can't get away.

- Git down off that horse.

- Or what? You'll shot me?

- They can only execute me once.

- You knew it was Dogie in Clint's clothes.

He called and told you.

- He wanted to tell Clint about the money.

- The money in the safety deposit box?

- Old Dogie, he'd been skimming Clint for years.

- Clint never caught on?

- Dogie would give a little of the winnings from time to time.

Old Clint just figured himself to be a big loser.

Which he is.

- So you shot Dogie

to keep the money for your self.

And then when the time was right,

you were going to lay the blame on Clint.

- He owed me big time.

I didn't like hitting old Dogie on the head though.

- You didn't mind killing him.

You stole Clint's gun.

You shot Dogie.

You placed the gun in the closet

with a snake for safekeeping

and then, when the time was right,

you were going to plant the gun in Clint's trailer,

where the police hadn't searched.

- I had a key to Dogie's room.

I was coming to get the gun.

And move it to Clint's trailer.

"Don't move"

So you figured the whole thing out huh?

- Not quite.

I still don't understand your resentment of Clint.

You know the idea for the Red River Days?

That was my idea!

- But he cut you out.

- I never saw a dime.

- Sounds like my posse is coming to rescue me.

- Get down off the horse.

- No! - No?

I got the gun lady.

- Up Blanco! [Blanco neighs]

[action music]

Now I really gotcha.

[posse yelling]

[sirens approaching]

- You got here quick.

- I was on my way here when you called.

To get him.

Clint Lawson I'm taking you into custody.

- Did he violate his bail?

- No counselor he didn't.

The ballistics report came back

from the gun found in Dogie Jones's hotel room.

It was the weapon used to murder Jones.

Lawson's gun and, Lawson's fingerprints.

- There might be a hitch in your plan.

[Chief Connors] A hitch?

-Hey. Look, over there.

[Blanco neighs]

[triumphant western music]

- There's the killer Chief.

Zeke Foster.

- Zeke Foster? What?

Do you want to explain what is going on counselor?

- I'll explain later.

In the meantime, can you get Snoopy some help?

- Men, go help the lady with her prisoner.

Get him down off that horse.

Zeke Foster you're under arrest.

[Sam] I felt like Annie Oakley out there.

[Annie] Well you looked just like her.

- That's a compliment coming from Annie Oakley.

- Thank you!

Well I just wanted to stop by before I left town.

- Where will you go?

- Hollywood.

- A new film career?

- I'm going to give it a shot.

I have a cousin who lives there.

She said I could stay with her while I get going.

- Years ago when you were mad at Clint...

- Hmm mmm. Which time?

- You ripped up all his furniture,

and then you painted his walls with mustard.

- That time!

- Why mustard?

- Why? I ran out of ketchup.

How did you hear about that honey?

[doorbell]

- Howdy everybody!

Oh am I glad I found ya.

I thought you left town.

- Hello Clint.

- We haven't got much time.

I'm signing a deal to sing at a new club in Vegas.

I have to leave today.

- Clint!

You don't know how to sing.

- I'll learn.

That's not the point.

I wanna marry you Annie.

- Good for you.

- That's great!

Does that mean yes?

- It means No!

And as Annie Oakley would say,

Y'all take care now.

- Bye.

- Bye

- Best of luck.

[Clint] You know you love me.

You know I love you.

C'mon marry me!

Annie!

- Philby would you call that true love?

- Personally?