The Rifleman S04E10
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00:00Hello, Mr. Loomis. What's wrong?
00:26Well, the axle put in here busted in the hand. Where's your pa?
00:30In the barn.
00:31How much longer are we going to continue this lopsided limping?
00:35It ain't going to limp no more, Mr. Clemens. We're lucky to get here.
00:39Where are we?
00:40Luke McCain's place. I'm going to need help with this wheel if we expect to make North Fork.
00:47I bought a ticket for Santa Fe.
00:49I'll get you there just as soon as possible, Mr. Clemens, but we have to lay over on North Fork for repairs.
00:55Lay over? How long?
00:59Oh, a day, maybe two.
01:02Well, what are you waiting for, boy? Go get your daddy before we're too old to continue the journey at all.
01:08Yes, sir. I mean, Pa'll be right here. He'll be right here, Mr. Twain. Don't worry, he'll sure help you.
01:18Well, I'll be a coyote's uncle, Mark Twain.
01:23Uh...
01:33The Rifleman
01:41Starring Chuck Connors
01:45The Rifleman
01:51Well, let's see what we can do.
01:58That wheel doesn't seem too badly damaged. Can't you complete the repairs?
02:02Not so. It'll hold all the way to Santa Fe. I don't have the proper tools.
02:05Don't worry, Mr. Twain. You won't miss that lecture engagement.
02:09North Fork's got the best blacksmith in these parts.
02:12Some of his machinery came through from Chicago.
02:15What? Oh, of course, of course.
02:20I always hoped that I'd meet you, Mr. Twain.
02:23Pardon me, we've read all your books.
02:27My name's Mark, too.
02:29Of course, I know that Mark Twain's not your real name.
02:32It's, uh, uh, Nome de Plume.
02:35Someday when I'm a writer, I'm gonna think one up, too.
02:39Paul says it takes hard work to get to be a writer.
02:42Lots of studying, too. That's the only part I don't quite like.
02:49We play the history post game at school.
02:52That's the game that you thought up to help your children learn important dates.
02:57You play that here?
02:59Yep. It's swell fun. There's only one part we don't quite understand.
03:04What's that?
03:06Well, suppose you get tagged before you pass the Columbus Post.
03:11Do you have to go all the way back when it gets to be your own turn?
03:14Well, that depends.
03:16Depends on your running speed.
03:19Eleven posts, and when you...
03:21When you...
03:23When you...
03:24I haven't time for all these questions, boy. Puzzle it out for yourself.
03:28I didn't mean anything. Why did he get so riled up?
03:31Mr. Twain's had a long trip, son.
03:33He's probably tired and a little edgy.
03:37Yeah. Yeah, that's what it is.
03:40He's tired. He's plum-tuckered out.
03:45Well, actually, start working on that wheel just as quick as I get her unloaded.
03:48Very well.
03:49The hotel has feather mattresses, billiard tables.
03:52Best accommodations west of Denver.
03:54My dear sir.
03:56I'm afraid you're going to have to do it.
03:58I'm afraid I'm not.
04:00I'm afraid I'm not.
04:02I'm afraid I'm not.
04:04I'm afraid I'm not.
04:06I'm afraid I'm not.
04:08I'm afraid I'm not.
04:10I'm afraid I'm not.
04:12Best accommodations west of Denver.
04:14My dear sir.
04:16I hope that I will not be marooned here long enough to make comparisons.
04:37Finish the game.
04:39I'll be right back.
04:43Uh, sorry. Sorry to keep you waiting.
04:46I was just, uh...
04:48Uh, could you sign right here, please?
04:52Hey, Eddie, come back and finish the game.
04:54Not right now. I'm busy.
05:01Uh, just a...
05:02You can play arrangement.
05:04Give me a room where I won't be disturbed.
05:06Yes, sir. I think I've got just the thing for you, Mr., uh...
05:09S. Clemens.
05:11Clemens.
05:13Wait. You're...
05:15You're Mark Twain.
05:17A book writer? What's the room number?
05:19Uh, 24.
05:21This is a pleasure. A real pleasure.
05:23I'll show you what, Mr. Twain...
05:25You're the one that wrote about traveling on the Oberlin stage, you know?
05:27I've always had a hankering to meet up with you.
05:29What was it you called that book?
05:31The book is called Roughing It, a title that should come easily to you.
05:34Yeah, well, I was one of them station keepers you described.
05:36Right this way, Mr. Twain.
05:38Filthy half-savages, that's what you called us.
05:40Said we fed the travelers water with dish rag and sand to flavor it.
05:44Now, you get out of the way, Russell.
05:46Your book caused such a stir, the company sent men out to check the outlying stations.
05:50Your lies cost me a job.
05:52The power of the pen is mightier than the sword.
05:55How fortunate for travelers that you are no longer an employee of the Oberlin company.
05:59Fortunate.
06:00Fortunate!
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06:25Now, Mark, you better keep your mind on your supper.
06:27Oh, I'm sorry, Pa.
06:30Pa, if Mr. Twain does come down before we leave,
06:34can I ask him to go fishing in the morning?
06:36He loves to go fishing.
06:38Mark, when you're as famous as he is,
06:40I imagine people swarm around wherever you go.
06:43I guess they do.
06:45Doesn't give you much of a chance for, well, just thinking.
06:51You mean I shouldn't even talk to Mr. Twain?
06:56Wait till he talks to you.
06:57Give him some thinking room.
07:00All right.
07:02There he is, Pa.
07:05That's Mark Twain!
07:07Mark, sit down.
07:09Remember, uh, thinking room?
07:15Good evening, Mr. Twain.
07:17Good evening.
07:18We have some delicious roast beef
07:20and apple pie that'll melt in your mouth.
07:22Just bring me a bowl of soup.
07:24It doesn't matter what kind.
07:27Yes, sir.
07:30Yes, sir.
07:38Hey, McCain, how about a little game?
07:40No, thanks.
07:41I'll spot you 10 points out of 20,
07:42play you for a quarter of a point.
07:43Now, you can't hardly afford to turn that down.
07:45I never play for money, Mr. Russell.
07:47Trouble with folks around here.
07:48Always scared to lose.
07:50Not scared, just smart.
07:52You finish up, son.
07:53We've got to be getting home.
07:54$50 says ain't nobody in town can beat me.
07:58I know someone who can, Mr. Twain.
08:01Playing billiards is his hobby.
08:03Why, you know, he's beaten most everybody in the East.
08:06You don't know what he's talking about?
08:08Anything about Mark Twain, Mark McCain knows.
08:18Hey, uh, I hear you're quite a billiards player.
08:22$50 says you can't beat me.
08:24Think you can?
08:26I don't think of you at all, sir.
08:29Well, here's $70.
08:30My whole roll says you play billiards like you write.
08:33Rotten.
08:36I won't play with you, Mr. Russell.
08:38But you may set up the balls.
08:40As difficult a three-cushion shot as you choose.
08:43Winner take all.
08:46You mean you're going to make any three-cushion shot I set up?
08:49Exactly.
08:51Come along, Mr. Ryder, man.
08:53Mr. Ruffinette's going to give me a present.
09:03Come on.
09:06All right.
09:08It's all yours, Mr. Ruffinette.
09:23Come on.
09:53Shh.
10:24Will workers.
10:28Bragging and braying is the same thing, Mr. Russell.
10:31The only difference is the latter noise.
10:33It comes from the throat of an animal with much longer ears.
10:36Good evening, sir.
10:40There you go.
10:42You're welcome.
10:43You're welcome.
10:44You're welcome.
10:45You're welcome.
10:46You're welcome.
10:47You're welcome.
10:48You're welcome.
10:49You're welcome.
10:50You're welcome.
10:51You're welcome.
10:53He called me a mule.
10:56All right.
10:59Excuse me.
11:22Excuse me.
11:52Where'd you say that fishing hole was?
12:13Over there, behind those trees.
12:14Well, you go ahead and bait up for both of us.
12:16I'll hobble the horses so they can graze.
12:18All right.
12:23Good morning.
12:25Good morning, Mr. Twain.
12:31You got a bite, Mr. Twain?
12:33Hurry, before it gets away.
12:35Land him, boy.
12:36You land him.
12:38Sure.
12:39Thanks.
12:46You got a bite, Mr. Twain?
12:48You got a bite, Mr. Twain?
12:50You got a bite, Mr. Twain?
12:52He sure is a beauty.
12:54Want me to clean him for you?
12:56No.
12:57No, thank you, boy.
12:58You keep him.
12:59Oh, thanks.
13:01Say, Mr. Twain, some of us kids have been saving money
13:04from our chores, and we sent for a subscription
13:07to that magazine that's been printing
13:09chapters from your new book.
13:11Huckleberry Finn?
13:13Uh-huh.
13:14Sure is exciting.
13:16They print a chapter each month.
13:18Only thing is, it takes an awful long time for mail
13:21to get here from Boston.
13:24It does.
13:25Yep.
13:26And so seeing as you're here, some of the kids
13:29were wondering if maybe you could
13:31tell us what's going to happen in the next chapter
13:33so we won't have to wait so long to find out.
13:37Will you, Mr. Twain?
13:39What's the matter with you, boy?
13:41Why do you keep bothering me?
13:43Huckleberry Finn is dead.
13:49He's dead.
13:51I tell you, he's dead.
13:57Wait!
13:59Wait, boy.
14:09Twain, you shouldn't have talked to the boy that way.
14:12You were his idol.
14:14A boy's idol shatters easily.
14:17You ought to know that, you bitter son.
14:48I found your Tom Sawyer book in the wastebucket.
14:54I don't want it anymore.
14:57Maybe you'll change your mind, son, when you read this.
15:00Mr. Twain left it at the stream.
15:02It's from his wife.
15:04It explains a lot of things.
15:06I don't want it.
15:07I don't want it.
15:08I don't want it.
15:09I don't want it.
15:10I don't want it.
15:11I don't want it.
15:12I don't want it.
15:13I don't want it.
15:14I don't want it.
15:15It's from his wife.
15:16It explains a lot of things.
15:19I don't care about anything that has to do with him.
15:21Don't read it.
15:23He has a deep sorrow, Mark.
15:26Well, just because he's sad doesn't mean he has
15:29to treat everyone else like dirt.
15:32Once you said you wanted to be like Mark Twain,
15:35you're acting exactly like him now.
15:40What do you mean?
15:41Shutting folks out because you've been hurt.
15:45The letter says his son Langdon died a few months ago.
15:52Died?
15:53Mm-hmm.
15:54Newspapers tried to spare the family.
15:56That's why we didn't hear about it out here.
15:58Mr. Twain blames himself for the boy's death.
16:03But why?
16:04Well, he took him riding in an open carriage
16:07on a very cold day.
16:09The blanket slipped off.
16:10Mr. Twain didn't notice because he was thinking
16:13about the story he was writing.
16:15That night, Langdon came down with diphtheria.
16:19Mr. Twain never forgave himself.
16:20He's been running ever since.
16:23So that's why he said that Huckleberry Finn was dead.
16:28That's the story he was thinking about in the carriage.
16:31He hasn't written a word since.
16:35I'm going to return this to Mr. Twain, Mark.
16:37Pa?
16:40Can I go with you?
16:42Sure.
16:43Come on.
16:56Hello, Eddie.
16:57Oh, hello, Lucas.
16:58Is Mr. Twain in his room?
16:59No.
17:04He's been standing there looking out of that window
17:06for about 15 minutes.
17:08Son, I want to talk to him alone.
17:09You stay here.
17:18Mr. Twain, you, uh, drop this by the stream.
17:25Thank you for returning it.
17:27Losing a son is, uh, it's hard, Mr. Twain.
17:30I know how I'd feel if I lost my son.
17:32How could you know?
17:34How could you possibly know?
17:36You've still got two daughters and a wife who I'm sure...
17:38How could you possibly understand what it feels like
17:40to kill your own son?
17:42You didn't kill your son.
17:43That's what I did, Mr. McCain.
17:45I murdered Langdon.
17:47Murdered him.
17:49For a barefoot urchin, Huckleberry Finn.
17:52Hey, I've been looking for you, Mr. Ruffin.
17:53You got to give me a chance to win back what I lost.
17:55Get out of here, Russell.
17:56Well, I got the same loser's rights as anybody else.
17:58Mr. Twain and I are talking.
17:59Leave us alone.
18:00Just a minute.
18:02Nothing you want to say?
18:05Nothing you will say can possibly help.
18:08The past is unchangeable.
18:11Name your stakes, Mr. Russell.
18:13I'll play you five points for anything you want.
18:15$100?
18:18All right.
18:28I'll break.
18:34I'll break.
19:05Ugh.
19:15All right, you shot. That's three for me.
19:35I'll break.
19:36I'll break.
19:37I'll break.
19:38I'll break.
19:39I'll break.
19:40I'll break.
19:41I'll break.
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19:53I'll break.
19:54I'll break.
19:55I'll break.
19:56I'll break.
19:57I'll break.
19:58I'll break.
19:59I'll break.
20:00I'll break.
20:01I'll break.
20:02I'll break.
20:03I'll break.
20:09Nervous, huh?
20:10The cue's a little heavier in the pen, ain't it?
20:17Mm-hm, mm-hm.
20:32Yes, sir.
20:44Well, that makes us about even, Mr. Ruffin.
20:56Mr. Twain's got loser's rights, too.
20:58All right, kid, I'll give him a chance to get even.
21:01This here's solid gold, ain't it?
21:03Ought to be worth $100.
21:04Tell you what, I'll play you for it.
21:06Oh, no.
21:07I can't wager it.
21:09Well, you know you can't beat me, huh?
21:10I can't wager the fob.
21:12It has a sentimental value.
21:14It was a gift to me to celebrate the birth of my son.
21:19Sentimental value?
21:20You're afraid of losing it.
21:22I am not afraid, sir.
21:25I am not afraid.
21:27I am not afraid.
21:28Oh, he's right, Mr. Twain.
21:30You're afraid.
21:31Well, the past took something you loved,
21:33and now you refuse to go on living.
21:36You can't do that, Mr. Twain.
21:37You haven't the right.
21:39Your future belongs to the world.
21:41Well, if you're not afraid, Mr. Twain,
21:44why don't you, uh, wager your past against your future?
21:49Just how much was your son worth to you?
21:57I don't know.
22:18Five points, my break.
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