The Rifleman S04E21
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00:18Micah, what's he doing in town?
00:21I wish I knew.
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00:39Cory!
00:44Get back on that horse and ride out.
00:47Man usually gets told to ride out of town
00:48when he's broken the law, Marshal.
00:50I'm not waiting for you to leave a body lying in the street, Cory.
00:52I'm telling you what we tell all killers riding into North Fork.
00:56Keep on moving.
00:58You got a lot of faith in that badge you're wearing, Marshal.
01:00I'd say offhand that that badge is worth about what it weighs.
01:07Two ounces of tin don't bring much to the market these days.
01:10You told me to get out of town, Marshal.
01:12I'm not going to tell you that.
01:14You go on living in this town.
01:16You grow old, you die in bed here.
01:19But that badge...
01:20I want to see it lying in the dirt at sundown.
01:24If that badge is still pinned to your vest at sundown, Marshal,
01:27you'll be lying in the dirt with it.
01:29You'll be lying in the dirt with it.
01:50The Rifleman.
01:52The Rifleman.
01:58Starring Chuck Connors.
02:08Who? Who?
02:11That tendon acting up again?
02:17Yep, it sure is.
02:22Hi.
02:24Hi, Bart.
02:26Something I can do to help?
02:28Yeah, you can trade horses with me.
02:31Wouldn't be such a good swap from where I look.
02:35That all depends.
02:37Realize that a bent-up gold piece might not look as pretty as a silver dollar,
02:41but it's a better deal.
02:43Might be you have a better horse, but it's a better deal.
02:46Well, that's a good point.
02:48Might be you have a better horse, but it's a better deal.
02:50Might be you have a better horse,
02:52but I've raised mine from a colt and I sort of like him.
02:56I ain't in the horse-trading business, son.
03:00I'll take you into town, Coco, and get you fixed up real proper.
03:04Well, my pa's ranch is just around the bend.
03:06If you want to take him there,
03:08I could make a bandage and make up a salt pack to take down the swelling.
03:12That's right kind of you.
03:17All right.
03:25How's this, Mr. Gorey?
03:28Just fine.
03:33Oh, no, I don't want any pay for it.
03:42Nice farm.
03:44Real nice.
03:46What do you think about standing on your own land,
03:49working it,
03:51knowing that you'll get out of it what you put into it?
03:54I guess the harder you work, the better the crops.
03:57That's the way it usually turns out.
03:59Sleeping good?
04:02Eating good and being with people?
04:05Being with people? You mean like town hall meetings.
04:08We're having one tonight.
04:10Picnic, supper, games later on, things like that.
04:13Listen to me.
04:16You're a land boy.
04:18Always be a part of it.
04:20Part of the community.
04:24People looking at you, smiling at you,
04:27always being glad to see you.
04:30Maybe I shouldn't ask, Mr. Gorey,
04:34but are you a wagon train scout?
04:36Huh?
04:38Well, I mean, you don't often see people wearing buckskins in these parts.
04:42Well, I guess buckskins are just a habit with me now.
04:45I used to work with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
04:48Guess I kind of got used to wearing them.
04:51You mean you knew Buffalo Bill?
04:53I was with him for four years.
04:56I mean, what did you do in the circus?
04:59Oh, gun handling. Fancy shooting, mostly.
05:02Fancy shooting?
05:04Would you show me?
05:08All right, boy. Sit over there.
05:12That'll be the best seat in the house, right there.
05:15Surround me with all types of people.
05:17It all came from the big show, right?
05:19And all of a sudden, the ringmaster comes in and he says,
05:21Ladies and gentlemen,
05:23we present to you
05:25the fastest gun in the West,
05:27Tip Corey!
05:29And I'd come riding in with Coco over there.
05:31He slows down just enough
05:33to let me kind of slide off nice and easy.
05:35Then I'd give it one of these here.
05:37And all of a sudden, the crowd kind of comes to a quiet.
05:39Then I start my tricks.
05:41Flat spins, all kinds of spins,
05:43catch the eye, everything like this here.
05:45Kind of easing in all the way.
05:47Doing flat spins and everything like that.
05:49And then, finally, to wind up with one of these.
05:59Then I start.
06:01A nice easy trick.
06:03It's easy to me, but to the audience it looks hard.
06:05Tin can, for instance.
06:07Start it off. Always catches the public's eye.
06:13Now for the big trick.
06:15Every actor in the circus had a big trick to do.
06:17Something special that no one else could do.
06:19That's why Buffalo Bill hired me for this one.
06:23I want you to pay attention, boy.
06:25Take this nail.
06:27Make a mark.
06:29Right there.
06:31Take my knife.
06:35I'm gonna put a bullet hole right in the middle of that mark.
06:37I'm gonna put a bullet hole right in the middle of that mark.
06:41Then I'm gonna put the knife right over the bullet hole.
06:49Now, for the last lesson.
06:51Hold it.
06:53There won't be any last lesson.
06:57Get off this ranch and be quick.
06:59But Pa, Mr. Corey was just...
07:01You heard me, Corey.
07:03Mount up and get out of here.
07:05Certainly, Mr. McCain.
07:09Thank you, boy, for the bandage and all.
07:13All right.
07:15I'm sorry if I overstayed my welcome.
07:18Mr. McCain.
07:24Goodbye, boy.
07:30Why, you didn't let me explain. It was only a circus act.
07:32Used to be with...
07:34Mark, tip Corey's a killer.
07:38Killer?
07:40Wherever he goes, he leaves a dead man behind.
07:42Must be 12 men lining their graves because of him.
07:46Well, he said he used to be in the Buffalo Bill Wild West show.
07:50Then he discovered there was more money in hiring his gun out.
07:54He draws so fast, you...
07:56You can just barely see him.
07:58Come on, you better get washed up.
08:00They're supposed to help Mrs. Wingate at the town hall tonight.
08:02And I've got to go in and hold down Micah's desk for him.
08:05Yeah, I forgot about helping Mrs. Wingate.
08:07You gonna be deputy marshal tonight?
08:09Not until Micah gets back.
08:11Judge up there is preparing to send the boy to prison.
08:13Micah has proof he's innocent.
08:15Oh.
08:17Pa?
08:19Have you ever seen Corey do a circus act?
08:21No.
08:23Why?
08:25I don't know.
08:27Why?
08:29The things he can do with that gun.
08:31Go on.
08:33Come on.
08:55I'm sorry it took me so long in coming back, Pa.
08:58If I didn't forget about you, not for a second.
09:00It took me a while to search him out, that's all.
09:03But I found him, Pa.
09:05I finally found him and I killed him.
09:10I killed some others, too.
09:13It just happened, Pa.
09:17I went searching for just them five, but...
09:20Things just happened.
09:24Now they call me a fast gun.
09:26A killer.
09:28Nobody asked him why.
09:30Nobody.
09:33No matter where I go, Pa,
09:35there's always somebody waiting for me.
09:37Waiting to make me prove it.
09:39And that's all I do, Pa.
09:41I just keep proving it and proving it and proving it
09:43and I'm lonesome, Pa.
09:47Pa.
09:49Pa, I'm lonesome.
09:58I thought you were leaving early for the county court.
10:01I changed my mind.
10:03So you won't have to take over for me after all.
10:05Because of Tip Corey?
10:07Bill's just told me.
10:10Well, I'm certainly not going to throw my badge in the street
10:12so he can grind it into the dirt.
10:15Mike, he was just rolling off steam.
10:17He stopped at my place.
10:19When he left, he was headed south.
10:21South?
10:23There's nothing behind your place but High Butte.
10:25That's right. It's a five-hour ride.
10:27He's coming back this way, which I doubt
10:29he won't get here before midnight.
10:31Mike, you've got plenty of time to get up to the county court and back.
10:35Also, what's more important?
10:37A boy on his way to prison for something he didn't do
10:39or standing on your pride against a gunslinger?
10:43If I hustle, I can be back by ten.
10:50You know, Lucas boy,
10:52pride is a funny thing.
10:54It can get you into trouble dealing with people
10:56but then without it,
10:58it can get you into trouble dealing with yourself.
11:02Did you take any spare shells for that scattergun?
11:04Why, sure.
11:06I always carry them next to the supply in my saddlebag, right here.
11:11Well, I didn't see you take any.
11:13Just wanted to remind you.
11:16Have a good trip.
11:18I'll tell Mrs. Wingate to save some food for you.
11:20Tell her I'll be back with a good appetite.
11:26See you wearing the marshal's badge, Mr. McCain.
11:30I'll be back in a minute.
11:56That's right.
11:59You going to be wearing that badge at sundown?
12:05You know what I told the marshal about that badge, don't you?
12:07I know.
12:10Well, if I were you, Mr. McCain,
12:12I'd take that badge and put it back where I got it from.
12:15You don't happen to be me, Cory.
12:17Mr. McCain!
12:22McCain, you got about an hour to think it over.
12:26Whether you should die for a badge that don't even belong to you.
12:30You happen to have the same hour, Cory.
12:36I'll be moving on, McCain.
12:38But when I do, I'll be looking down in the dirt and I'll be seeing that badge.
12:42Now, whether it's pinned to your shirt or not is your choice to make, not mine.
12:51Mark,
12:53you go on back to the townhouse till I come for you.
12:56Go on, son.
13:26Who is it?
13:28It's me, Mr. Cory.
13:30Mark McCain.
13:42You'll pass on you to talk to me, boy?
13:45No, sir.
13:48Good.
13:51I'm sorry, Mr. McCain.
13:53No, sir.
13:55Good.
13:58Hate to change my opinion about him.
14:01I just can't understand you, Mr. Cory.
14:04My pa's only a rancher. He never did anything to you.
14:08I know he didn't.
14:11Well, then why do you want to fight him?
14:13I don't.
14:15I like your pa, boy.
14:17I like a man who stands up straight, says what he means.
14:19It's that badge he's wearing.
14:22What it means to this town.
14:26Doesn't seem like you'd want to make a fool out of the town.
14:30But...
14:32Well, that's what you'd be doing if...
14:34If the marshal's badge was thrown in the dirt.
14:37Boy, behind your ranch on a hill is a graveyard.
14:41In that graveyard there's a cross up there that has unknown written on it.
14:46I know the one you mean.
14:49Every so often I...
14:51I pass it and I put some flowers on it.
14:55You planted flowers on that grave?
14:58Well, it's the only gravestone without a name on it.
15:01I guess I've always felt kind of sorry for whoever's buried there.
15:19My pa's buried there, boy.
15:22He was killed right out here in the street.
15:28By some drunken trailhands.
15:31I'm sorry.
15:33There were seven.
15:35We rode into town and we saw these drunken trailhands there were.
15:38The front end was a young Indian girl.
15:40He said to me, he said,
15:42boy, you go over to the marshal's office and you...
15:44You fetch him.
15:46I went over there.
15:49I got the marshal out, all right.
15:51He took one look at what was going on.
15:53He turned around and went right back into the office.
15:57Them drunken trailhands.
16:00They killed him.
16:05They knew there was nobody gonna stop them from doing what they wanted to do,
16:08so they killed my pa.
16:10That was a long time ago.
16:12And if you're blaming Michael, well, he wasn't here.
16:14And my pa wasn't here either.
16:16But the law was here.
16:20My pa believed in that law.
16:24Because he believed, he died.
16:28But I found him, boy.
16:31And I killed him.
16:35Now, there's only one thing left.
16:39The marshal's badge.
16:44My pa will never throw that...
16:46That badge in the street.
16:48He's got too much pride.
16:57Please, Mr. Corey.
17:01You're so good with that gun, I don't want nothing to happen to my pa.
17:06Please!
17:14You better go, boy.
17:25Boy.
17:28Thank you for planting the flowers in the grave.
17:32They never took.
17:34I don't know why, but...
17:36They just never grew.
17:39Maybe they never grew because he wanted you to come back and plant some more.
17:44Come on.
18:01Mr. McCain.
18:03I don't think you can out-shoot me, do you?
18:06I don't know.
18:08But I'm not anxious to find out.
18:10Why are you going up against me?
18:12Are you compromising principles?
18:14I can't compromise principles either.
18:16I came in town for one thing, that badge you're wearing.
18:19One last bit of unfinished business.
18:22I wonder about your principles, Corey.
18:24I think you came into this town looking for an excuse to kill.
18:26Any excuse just to add another name to that long list.
18:30No.
18:32You're wrong, Mr. McCain.
18:34The trouble is that eventually that long list starts to ride with you.
18:39Corey, I doubt that anyone asks to face your gun.
18:42It's up to me when you use it.
18:44It's your choice, not theirs.
18:46Mr. McCain, what does it mean to you?
18:48I mean, throwing that badge into the dirt.
18:50It's a symbol.
18:52Pick it up when I'm gone.
18:54But it's important to me, Mr. McCain.
18:56Very, very important.
19:00What have you got to lose?
19:02You've got everything that I've ever wanted.
19:04You've got a son, a home, friends.
19:08All I've got is my reputation.
19:11Mr. McCain, let me leave this town with what little I came in with.
19:14I can't back down now.
19:16Not if I want to go on living.
19:20I have to live with myself too, Corey.
19:28Mr. McCain,
19:30I'm going to go to the livery
19:33and get my horse.
19:36I'm going to come back out.
19:38I'm going to call you outside.
19:41I might have to kill you.
20:11Come on.
20:33Marshal McCain.
20:37I'm waiting for that badge you're wearing.
20:41Unpin it, McCain.
20:44Unpin it and let it drop in the dirt or so help me,
20:46you'll drop when it's still pinned to your shirt.
20:48That's the only way you'll get in the dirt, Corey,
20:50by dropping me with it.
20:52But somebody else will pick it up.
20:54That's the one thing you don't understand.
20:56There'll always be somebody around to pick up for what's right.
20:59You mean somebody picking up that badge?
21:02McCain, you've got a lot to learn about this world.
21:05When this is all over and you're lying in the dirt,
21:07you'll be the one to pick it up.
21:09When this is all over and you're lying in the dirt,
21:11that tin star will be shining white hot.
21:14It'll be much too hot for anybody to touch.
21:17And when you're lying there in the dirt, McCain,
21:19I want you to look around.
21:22Take one look and you tell me who'll pick it up.
21:25Who'll pick it up?
21:38Nobody, McCain. Not a soul.
21:42Go ahead, McCain.
21:44Go ahead and ask them.
21:46Ask them who'll pick up the badge!
21:48I'll pick it up!
21:50Maybe not right away, but someday, somewhere,
21:53I'll pick it up and I'll come after you.
21:57Won't be for a long time yet.
22:00But someday, someday you're gonna see that badge again
22:03and I'll be behind it.
22:06So you just be ready, Mr. Corey.
22:09You hear?
22:11Because someday, somewhere...
22:14Mark. Stand back, son.
22:20A long time ago on this very spot,
22:22I said words very much like that.
22:37I'm calling you, McCain.
22:39Don't do it!
22:50Don't do it!
22:58We're slow.
23:01Man gets tired, McCain.
23:09Flowers?
23:11All right.
23:20Pa!
23:32Flowers?
23:35I know what he meant, Pa.
23:50Flowers didn't die off, Pa.
23:53Maybe they'll keep on growing this time.
23:55I'm sure they will.
23:57There's something I sure don't understand.
24:01Mr. Corey talks so nice sometimes,
24:03like... like he maybe liked everyone,
24:05like he wanted to make friends.
24:08How come he only...
24:10How come he only...
24:12How come he only...
24:14How come he only...
24:16How come he only...
24:18How come he only did things that didn't make him happy?
24:22Sometimes a man comes to a fork in the road,
24:25stumbles over a little stone,
24:27gets himself mixed up and takes the wrong road.
24:31Somebody once said,
24:33there but for the grace of God go I.
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