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(cheery orchestral music)

- [Matt] In 1854,

under urgent orders from Washington DC,

the Navy began construction

of Mare Island Navy Base in San Francisco Bay.

Almost immediately,

a gang of outlaws began intercepting supplies

to resell them in Seattle.

It got so bad the Commodore called for help

to escort the monthly payroll to the base.

We used a new trail.

The route was supposed to be secret.

(dramatic ominous music)

(fist crunches)

(blow thuds)

(dark ominous music)

(somber foreboding music)

(dramatic suspenseful music)

* Californiay

* Californiay

* There's gold

* In them there hills - "The Californians."

* In Californiay

* I've come to live where life is best *

* In the golden west

* I'm gonna strike it rich

* In Californiay

* Californiay

(soft foreboding music)

- Ships in, sir.

Here's the dispatches from Washington.

(knuckles rapping)

- What happened, Marshall?

- Ambushed, three miles out of town.

One of your men was wounded.

- They got the payroll, of course?

- Of course.

Do you think the Navy

has sprung a leak, Commodore?

- What do you mean by that?

- I was personally in charge of that payroll.

The time and the route

were closely guarded secrets from everyone,

everybody but the bandits, that is.

- Are you insinuating that... (knuckles tapping)

- You sent for me father?

- Yes, come in.

- This is Marshall Wayne.

Marshall, my son, David.

- David.

- Marshall Wayne, I've, uh, heard a lot about you.

Sorry to hear what happened to you, sir.

(Matt chuckles)

- So am I.

- I have good news, David.

Your papers arrived this morning.

Come and sit down and sign them.

David is going to attend the, uh,

new Naval Academy at Annapolis.

It's developing into a fine school, Matt.

I wish I could have gone there.

- I'm sorry, Father. I can't.

- What?

- You know I don't wanna go to the Naval school.

I don't want to go to sea.

- We'll discuss this later, David.

Wait in there.

- Yes, sir.

Marshall Wayne, sir.

- Has some silly notion

he wants to be a rancher up in Oregon territory.

- Oh? What's silly about that?

- His mother and I had planned a Navy career for him.

Unfortunately, she died two years ago.

Being father and mother both,

like fighting a war on two fronts.

But let's go back to our war.

Are you insinuating that someone in my command

is working with the outlaws?

- All I'm saying is that if I had that kind of luck

in a poker hand, I'd ask for a look at the deck.

- Marshall, I can personally vouch

for every man in my command.

Can you say the same for your San Francisco policemen?

- I can vouch for the two I appointed.

- 2 out of 50.

- That's all I'm allowed to.

By law, the city council appoints the rest.

- If there's a rotten apple,

it's in your barrel, not mine.

- I don't care whose barrel it's in.

I'm gonna find it.

(door clicks)

- David, come in here.

Now, what is this about you refusing

to go to Navy school?

Explain yourself.

- I just don't wanna go.

Our family has always had a Navy background.

Now you don't break a tradition

like that through some boyish whim.

- I am not a boy.

(Commodore sighs)

- The fact that you have to shave

twice a week does not make you a man.

- I suppose a Navy uniform will turn the trick.

- If you earn the right to wear one, it will, yes.

- Well, what's wrong with being a rancher?

- You have to be a man to be a rancher.

In the first place, you have to have land.

And what have you done about getting land,

except talk about it?

This is just your excuse to escape Navy discipline.

- That's not so, and I'll prove it to you.

- I'm eager to be convinced, David, believe me.

(tense music)

- [Matt] That afternoon, I dropped by The Quarterdeck

and bought the Navy some drinks.

Commodore's officers seem to be a steady-going bunch,

all married except one, and he was a chess player.

Maybe the Commodore was right.

Maybe the apple was in my barrel.

I gave up for the day and dropped in to pick up my laundry.

(foreboding music)

- $5 please.

- All right, Lee.

- Thank you.

- See you next week.

- [Matt] The last place I'd expect to find a clue,

and there, naturally, I found it on a barrel.

(suspenseful music)

Can I borrow these, young man?

- Yeah.

- Thanks.

(foreboding music)

Lee, these saddlebags.

Where'd your son get them?

- From me.

- Oh? Where'd you get 'em?

- I find them.

- Where?

- In alley.

- What alley?

- Alley behind Bolin house

where I deliver my laundry.

- Whose house?

- Mr. James Bolin,

big gambling man.

Anything wrong, Marshall?

- No. Thanks very much, Lee.

(suspenseful music)

(roulette wheel squeaking) (customers chattering)

- Ah Sung, who's been sitting on this wheel?

- I think the (indistinct) got rusty, Mrs. Fansler.

- Hmm, better oil it then.

I don't want anyone accusing the El Dorado

of operating a rusty wheel.

- Oh, Matt Wayne.

When did you get in?

- A few hours ago.

- A drink?

- Thanks.

- Ah Sung, get a tall, cool drink

for Marshall Wayne.

- But why I'm buying you a free drink, I can't imagine.

- Why? What's the matter?

- You may recall that we were going sailing

in the Bay this morning?

I even fried a chicken.

- Yes, well I was busy getting my brains knocked out.

- Good.

- You-

- By whom?

- Somebody who knew I was carrying the Navy payroll.

- Oh, I didn't know you were convoying the Navy payroll.

- That eliminates you as a suspect.

(Matt chuckles)

No, you weren't supposed to know.

Nobody's supposed to know except for me,

a Navy lieutenant and Commodore Cameron.

- Why don't you let the Commodore run his own risks?

- What have you got against the Commodore?

- I don't like the way he treats his son.

- David?

- Hmm.

- What's he to you?

- Well, I met him and his mother

about two years ago coming out here, in Panama.

I was with Mrs. Cameron when she died.

And I've been seeing quite a bit of David.

He comes in here quite often.

- To gamble?

- No, to talk.

The poor kid's lonesome.

His father's a bully.

- Why do you say that?

- Well, David wants to be a rancher,

and his father insists that he joins the Navy.

- All of which is none of your business,

but I didn't come in here to chat about David.

Do you know a gambler by the name of Bolin?

- Yeah, he's a crook.

I had him thrown out here about three months ago.

- Any idea where he might be now?

- He works the Lucky Seven.

What about him?

- I have him to thank for a cracked skull, I believe.

- You be careful, he's dangerous.

- Yes, he proved that this morning.

(foreboding music)

- Do you know where I can find

a man named Bolin?

(gamblers chattering)

(chips rattling)

- Lose again, son?

- You know I did.

- Maybe you better quit bucking the game.

- [David] That's why I pay you off.

- [Bolin] Doesn't take cash for that.

Let's have a drink.

Or does your father forbid it?

- Deal me in a hand?

(chips rattling)

(David coughing)

- Well, what's new at Mare Island?

- Nothing.

- Oh, there must be something new,

such as the old cat had kittens,

or, uh, Bosun Mate's got a new girlfriend.

There's a new shipment due in or out of the place.

Something might interest me.

- Don't you ever get enough?

- Of course not. I am greedy.

- [David] Why don't you lay low for a while?

- Can't afford it.

I gotta support my poor old mother.

I asked you a question, kid.

- I'm not gonna give you any more tips.

- Oh yes you are,

else I'll have to tell your father

how deep you're into me

and, uh, he'll take you over his knee

and spank you,

and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you, kid?

- Quit calling me kid.

- That's what you are.

Kid, scared kid.

Afraid of your father,

not half as much as you are of me.

- That's a lie.

- Oh is it?

Calling you a kid and a coward to your teeth.

What are you gonna do about it?

(foreboding music)

That's better.

How about the answer to that question?

(suspenseful music)

(customers chattering)

- Wanna talk to you.

- A drink for the Marshall.

- Uh, no thanks.

- Have you been to the Lucky Seven?

- Yes. This boy, David Cameron.

What do you know about him?

- I told you about him this morning.

- I thought you said he didn't gamble.

- He doesn't.

Oh, he did once,

the first time he came in here.

He lost $100 and I gave it back to him

and sent him home.

He came back the next day and thanked me.

We talked about his mother

and he's been coming back ever since.

- Looks as though you're taking his mother's place.

- I feel sorry for him.

- Well so do I if what I suspect about him is true.

I saw him in the Lucky Seven.

He was gambling with Bolin.

David lost,

and the two of them got up and went off together,

and I asked around

and people said that they'd been seen together

a lot recently.

- Oh, that doesn't prove he's done anything wrong.

- Hmm, maybe it doesn't to you,

but I think it will do his father.

Your customers need you.

(dark foreboding music)

I think I owe you an apology, Commodore.

I checked your officers.

They're 100% loyal.

- So it was one of your own men, eh?

- No, it wasn't one of my men.

- Well, it was a leak, you convinced me of that.

- Oh, there was a leak all right.

- You're certainly not pointing your finger at me?

- Not at you, Commodore.

- Nobody else had access to this office, except my son.

- That's what I mean.

(foreboding music)

- My son, David?

Bosun.

(footsteps tapping)

- Yes, sir.

- I'm going to my room.

Show Marshall Wayne off the premises.

(uneasy music)

- Take your hands off me.

(dramatic suspenseful music)

(foreboding music)

- Now look.

You better come along,

or the old man'll have you hung from the yardarm.

- Oh hello, Marshall.

Waiting to see my father?

- No, David. I'm not.

Come on in.

As a matter of fact,

I, uh, just had quite an argument with your father.

- Oh, what about?

- I don't know how I could have been so wrong.

I had a notion that one of his officers

might be acting as a spy for these payroll bandits.

- Oh?

- His officers are 100%,

just as he claimed them to be.

It's funny how things work out.

I never would have suspected who it was.

- You, uh,

you think you know who, who the spy is?

- Yes, this morning somebody

said he was awfully sorry

to hear what had happened to me.

And later I remembered that and I thought,

"How would this person

possibly know what had happened to me

unless he himself were involved?"

(tense foreboding music)

David, how did you know what had happened to me?

How did you get involved with this Mr. Bolin?

(tense melancholy music)

- Before I knew what happened,

I'd lost $500 more to Bolin.

It was about time that work started at Mare Island.

I couldn't pay.

I couldn't have Bolin going to my father.

So he made me tell him when the shipments were due.

(ominous music)

- Bosun. Bosun!

- Yes, sir.

- Place that man under arrest.

- I'll need reinforcements, sir.

- I mean my son.

- No, you don't.

(footsteps crunching)

- Have Lieutenant Saunders

write an order for my signature,

my resignation from the United States Navy.

(tense music)

- David, David, why did you do it?

- Because I wanted to get away from my father.

Mrs. Fansler, please lend me $300.

There's a boat leaving tomorrow.

I'll pay it back. I promise.

- David, it's not the money.

I'd give you 500 if I thought it would do any good,

but it would only make things worse.

- But what'll I do?

- Go to Matt Wayne.

- She's right, David.

- I suppose you've come to arrest me.

- Any reason why it shouldn't?

- Yes. It wasn't his fault.

It was Bolin.

I told you he wasn't any good.

- I'll take care of him later.

Right now I'm interested in Commodore Cameron.

- I suppose he sent out the shore patrol after me.

I needed the money to get away from him.

Always bossing me,

treating me like one of his deckhands.

- Tried to raise David by Navy rules and regulations.

- Yes, rules of honor and integrity

because all of his life

has been one of service to his country.

But all that's ruined for him now.

You're proud of yourself, David?

- You're not blaming David, are you?

- Oh no, no, I'm not blaming him.

I'm standing here admiring him.

He didn't wanna go to Naval School,

but instead of arguing it out man-to-man with his father,

he decided to run away,

but he didn't have the courage to make it on his own.

He had to have an easy way.

- Matt.

- Wait, instead of working

to make a living, you gambled,

but you couldn't take the consequences.

You had to sell out your father,

betray your country,

and turn its goods over to thieves.

Lucky thing for you there wasn't a killing.

You'd also be a murderer,

instead of what you are,

a lying, sneaking, thieving little coward.

- Don't you dare talk to David that way.

- All right, I'll let him talk for himself.

- Marshall, I could kill you,

but you're right.

I never looked at it that way before.

It was always easier blaming my father.

Oh, what a mess I've made of my life.

- Your father's also.

- All right, David, what are you gonna do about it?

Feel sorry for yourself, as usual?

Or cry on Mrs. Fansler's shoulder,

or go meekly off to jail with me?

- Aren't you arresting me?

- What was the latest information you gave Mr. Bolin?

- It was today.

There's a cargo of rifles

leaving for Vallejo in the morning.

- Where does he plan to intercept them?

- Near Black Rock.

- David, do you ever drive a wagon and a team?

- Yes. Why?

- Well it seems to me that Mr. Bolin

stole a lot from you,

your manhood, for one thing.

Wouldn't you like to meet him at Black Rock tomorrow

and get it back from him?

- But Bolin's a killer, I...

- Yes?

- But he's never killed anyone more than once.

Do you think I'd really have a chance, Marshall?

- If you bribe the driver, I think you could.

(gentle hopeful music)

- You're sending him to his death.

- I'm giving him a chance to live with himself.

- That was horrible of you calling him a coward.

- I think he's gonna make a liar outa me.

- Where are you going?

- Maybe for a buggy ride.

- You might get killed too.

- Well if I do,

fry up another chicken.

We'll go for that sail in the Bay.

- Ah Sung, get my wrap and gloves, quickly.

(foreboding music)

(metal clicking)

(ominous music)

I wanna see the Commodore.

- [Bosun] Well, just a moment.

I'll have to announce you.

- [Wilma] It's imperative that I see him.

Am I glad I found you.

- Huh? Who are you?

- Mrs. Wilma Fansler, that's who.

I run a gambling house

where your son's been spending his time.

- In gambling, no doubt.

- No, he had to talk to someone.

- Look, he's not a sailor.

He hates the sea.

He belongs on land.

Can't you see that?

Your wife knew better, if you don't.

- What do you know of my wife?

- We were on the same ship from Norfolk coming out here.

She talked about nothing else but you and David.

Why do you think she was coming out here?

To talk some sense into you.

- Then you were with my wife in Panama?

- Yes.

- Is that why the boy is coming to you?

- He had to take his problems to somebody.

- I was always ready to listen.

- You were too busy talking.

- Of course, Matt Wayne

thinks I'm wrong for sympathizing with him.

But Matt's a man, stubborn as you are.

Might cost his life by morning.

- What do you mean?

Well he and David are going to deliver

those rifles in Vallejo.

They're gonna trap the bandits.

- Why in the world didn't you tell me that earlier?

- I don't want you to be killed too.

All I want you to do is be reasonable

with David when he comes back.

Commander...

(foreboding music)

(wagon rattling)

(suspenseful music)

- That's, uh, that's where they'll be.

- All right, but be on your toes.

And make sure you shoot straight.

(tense music)

(hooves pattering)

(wagon rattling)

(suspenseful music)

(gunshot cracks)

(blows thudding)

(fist smacks)

(hooves pattering)

(exciting suspenseful music)

(fist smacks)

(punches thudding)

(foreboding music)

(suspenseful music)

- But the boy is unarmed.

(gunshot cracks)

(bullet whizzes)

(energetic suspenseful music)

(punches thudding)

(dark suspenseful music)

(punches slamming)

(Bolin grunts)

(branches rustling)

(ominous music)

(David pants)

(subdued celebratory music)

(jubilant music)

(palm slapping)

- You fire a pretty good broadside for a civilian, son.

(David panting)

- As Matt Wayne said,

"He stole something from me."

I think maybe I've got some of it back.

- And you're not hurt?

- Nothing to speak of.

- In that case I,

I have to turn you over to Marshall Wayne.

Are you ready, son?

- I'm ready, father.

(palm slapping)

(dramatic tense music)

(jaunty solemn music)

- What do you mean

by getting me up at 10 o'clock in the morning?

- I thought you might like to read the good news.

- I was at the trial.

- That's only half the story.

Judge put David on probation.

- Oh, I'm glad.

I know he'll be all right.

All he needs is to get away from his father.

- The Navy refused to accept the Commodore's resignation.

- Wonderful.

- And David has been paroled in his father's custody.

- Oh Matt, that's terrible.

- No, it's wonderful.

- You mean the Commodore

isn't going to make them join the Navy?

- He won't have to.

David's enlisted.

- No.

- Now that he's proven to himself that he's a man,

he decided he might like a Navy career.

- Oh, what's that?

- A picnic basket.

I fried a chicken.

- Oh, Matt. (chuckling)

(cheery jubilant music)

* California

* Oh, I've traveled here, I've traveled there *

* I guess I've been most everywhere *

* But I like where I am today

* And here is where I'll stay

* Now one thing I just can't endure *

* Is bein' broke and bein' poor *

* So I've come west to take the cure *

* And here is where I'll stay

* I've come to Californiay

* Californiay

* There's gold in them there hills *

* In Californiay

* I've come to live where life is best *

* In the golden west

* I'm gonna strike it rich in Californiay *

* Californiay

* Californiay

* There's gold in them there hills *

* In Californiay

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