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Bonanza S1E22 Blood On The Land
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00:00Jim! Jim! Jim! Jim!
00:31I got the lay of it just the way you told me, Jeb.
00:36It's good forage land, as far as you can see. With a clear pass through the Sierras, off to the left.
00:41Looks like our luck is running for a change, Billy boy.
00:44Desert south, nothing but rock and bramble north.
00:47And right in front of us, it's opening up like the Red Sea into the land of milk and honey.
00:52Right in front of us!
00:53That's the Ponderosa, Jeb. We can't cut through there.
00:56You don't understand, Jeb. That's cart ride land, as far as your eye can see.
01:00You mean they own all that?
01:02Own? A man don't own nothing unless he's willing to die holding on to it.
01:07I worked out this way. I know Ben Cartwright.
01:10Why, he'd kill every last one of us before he'd let a sheep set foot on the Ponderosa.
01:14Start bringing up that flock. Now!
01:18I come a long ways with you, Jeb. But I ain't riding against Ben Cartwright for you or nobody.
01:24Start bringing up them sheep, Burton.
01:28I'm pulling out, Jeb. And you ain't got nothing to say can stop me.
01:33Don't appear there's much I can do to stop you, either.
01:38No hard feelings, Jeb. But I just ain't gonna ride against Ben Cartwright. That's all.
01:54All right, you two. Get them sheep moving.
01:59Leave him, Billy. He's past fussing.
02:02You got to learn to kill a man once you draw on him.
02:05But I shared second plates with him, Jeb. Just a few hours ago.
02:10Once a thing is dead, you got to get clear of it.
02:13The scruffiest whole squirrel knows that.
02:16Sure, Jeb.
02:17You're lettered, ain't you, boy?
02:20Yes, sir. I spell out, sir.
02:22All right. You read that to me, boy.
02:27And Moses went up from the plains, and the Lord showed him all of the land.
02:34I've been near 40 years myself, just like Moses.
02:38But the Lord has finally showed me my land.
02:41And I'm gonna take it to myself.
02:44I have to kill everything on it and burn it to the root.
02:52THE END
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03:52My, you're a rich gal.
03:56Little Joe, you reckon how long it's gonna take us to clear out all this stuff out of this drainage?
04:02I figure the rate we're going, I think it's about five or six years.
04:06Yeah?
04:08Hiya, Pa.
04:10Hi.
04:12I never see such a pair of working fools.
04:14Well, Adam, I wish some of that would rub off on you.
04:18Well, now, by the way I look at it, if a man expects to get ahead in this world, he's gotta use his brain instead of his back.
04:23Adam, with a place like the Ponderosa, a man has to be able to use both.
04:26Now, come on, let's give the boys a hand.
04:33Won't be over there.
04:35Must be Tucker. I put him out hunting strays.
04:38That don't sound like strays.
04:40Strays, all right, but the two-legged kind.
04:49That was just a warning.
04:51Where do you men think you're headed?
04:53Why, we're aiming across the Sierra.
04:55We'd better find another way.
04:57Nobody goes through the Ponderosa, that's been Cartwright's orders.
05:00You figuring to stop us all with that gun?
05:03Well, maybe not all of you, but I'll drop the first man that tries to come through here.
05:08How much is Cartwright paying you, mister?
05:11What's that to you?
05:14How much is Cartwright paying you, mister?
05:17What's that to you?
05:19Is it enough for a man to get himself killed for?
05:21Look, we're coming through.
05:23Now, you can shoot me if you were mine to,
05:26but as soon as you pull that trigger, you're the same as the dead man.
05:31All right, bring him through!
05:34And you better get out of the way, mister, before you get yourself trampled.
05:44I warned them, Ben. I give them clear warning.
05:47Well, nobody expects any more, Sam.
05:50You've been told you're on Ponderosa land.
05:53I'd be obliged if you turned the tails of those sheep and got them off.
05:56Are you, uh, Ben Cartwright?
05:59Drummond. Jeff Drummond is my name.
06:02We ain't bringing no trouble.
06:04We're just looking to pass through on the way to California.
06:06No more than that.
06:08Mr. Drummond, I'm sorry. I can't let you take those sheep across the Ponderosa.
06:11You mean you got all this here,
06:14and you ain't willing for us just to cut through?
06:17That's what I mean.
06:19Why, you got enough land here to parcel out of state of your own,
06:22and you're sitting fat right on top of it, ain't you?
06:25Let me ask you a question, Mr. Cartwright.
06:28What more right have you got to this land than me?
06:31It's mine. That's my land.
06:34What more right have you got to this land than me?
06:37It's mine. That's right enough.
06:40Every inch of this land's deeded in our name, if that's what's bothering you, Mr. Drummond.
06:43Oh, a deed, huh?
06:46Why, a deed is only a piece of paper.
06:49Looks to me like all they got is some scribbling on paper.
06:52It's what backs up the scribbling, Mr. Drummond.
06:55That's what counts.
06:58How many of them you count, Billy?
07:05Five, Jeb. Just five.
07:11Less than we got.
07:23Well, there's no cause to draw down.
07:26I was just resting.
07:29Look, I'm only trying to get passage through to California,
07:33and I aim to pay for it, too.
07:36Drummond, I don't want any of your money.
07:39Well, it's getting on near to dark.
07:42You wouldn't mind if we was to camp here for the night.
07:46Well, all right.
07:49But you make sure you're gone by tomorrow morning.
07:52Is that understood?
07:55You won't find us here. I promise you that.
08:04Yes, sir, you can count on it, Mr. Cartwright.
08:08You won't find us here.
08:20Here you are, Billy.
08:23I saved you a char piece without no grizzles.
08:26Well, that's out of your help, Jeb. You best keep that for yourself.
08:29Oh, I had my fill for the night, boy.
08:32You take it.
08:35Thank you, Jeb.
08:38You know, you could still use fattening up.
08:41If you was one of my sheep, rib scrawny like you are,
08:44I'd have sold you off for hoof glue before now.
08:47You did fatten up some, though.
08:50When I first come on you and them wranglers was fixing to string you up,
08:53well, you didn't look like no more than a fence post.
08:56You've been mighty good to me, Jeb.
08:59I only hope I can pay it back sometime.
09:02There'll be a time come, boy.
09:05There's always a time.
09:08Well, you better get yourself some sleep before morning.
09:11What are we doing, Jeb? Going back?
09:14Well, I don't know yet. I gotta think on it.
09:17You see, the way I figured it,
09:20we'd have made California just about spring market time.
09:23That flock would have been fat and woolly.
09:26We'd have got a side of cash for them.
09:29But I don't know.
09:34Oh, I got another blanket for you, boy.
09:41That's Burton's, isn't it?
09:44What difference does it make? Ain't no good to him buried.
09:47I was just asking.
09:50Night, Billy.
09:53Night, Jeb.
09:59Burn it, little Joe. Cut it. Don't pull it.
10:02We wouldn't be having all this trouble if you hadn't gone and lost that chili bowl I always fit on your head.
10:06Just take it easy. It's getting thin enough up there like it is.
10:09Keep your head still.
10:12Are you still putting that salad oil on your hair?
10:15Hog lord.
10:18What you so worried about? You ain't gonna look any different when I get done anyway.
10:22What's the matter?
10:25He's doing a good job, ain't he?
10:28Oh, fine.
10:31Hey, let me see that mirror.
10:39Well, I got an idea.
10:42Well, about what, Adam?
10:45Well, I've been thinking. The way the country's growing, more people coming west to California,
10:48we could cut a road across the north section of the Ponderosa.
10:51Huh?
10:54Not a bad idea.
10:57I'll give it some thought.
11:00Well, I'd, uh, like to start on it, Pa.
11:03Well, Adam, I said I'd give it some thought.
11:06Oh, by the way, tomorrow morning I want you to ride out and see if Drummond and those sheep of his have cleared out.
11:09What if he hasn't?
11:12Well, then we'll make sure he's cleared out.
11:15Why do we have to take the law into our own hands?
11:18Now, we're not taking any law into our own hands.
11:21Now, what do you want me to do?
11:24Open up the Ponderosa to every scavenger that comes along?
11:27Drummond's kind turns the land to dust and then just moves on?
11:30Look, Pa, I'm not saying let Drummond in.
11:33But there are gonna be people after him. Farmers, traders, homesteaders.
11:36Now, what are you gonna do? Take a gun to them, too?
11:39Now, you know that isn't so, Adam.
11:42He's not Drummond's kind. He'll grab anything he can get his hands on.
11:45Now, tomorrow morning you go out there and see that he's gone.
11:48Is that understood?
11:51Yeah. All right, Pa. Anything you say.
12:01Come on! Roll out!
12:04Come on! Hustle it up!
12:07Come on! We gotta be making tracks!
12:11I'll lead out the bell sheep if you want.
12:14I ain't taking them out.
12:17You mean we're not crossing the Cartwright land?
12:20No, we're crossing, all right.
12:23But I've been thinking maybe we won't cross all the way.
12:26You heard what Ben Cartwright said.
12:29Cartwright. I'm through being shoved and hauled by his likes.
12:32A man takes something that's his.
12:35You gotta start learning that, Billy boy.
12:38Are we taking on a peck of trouble?
12:41Trouble. I'm an old man now.
12:44But I once had me a flock of sheep.
12:47It was like looking across a big white sea.
12:50I run them from the Snake River on the north to the Mexican border and back.
12:53Then the cattle come.
12:56And the farmers plowing up the earth.
12:59I've been pushed so hard, Billy,
13:02there ain't hardly a corner I can squeeze myself into.
13:05But I'm through being pushed now.
13:08All right, hurry it up, you men.
13:11And get that chuck wagon loaded.
13:14Them Cartwrights will be after us before it gets much lighter.
13:17Billy, you take them two and hang back to ride guard.
13:20And if them Cartwrights come tailing us, you let me know.
13:23All right, Jeff.
13:26And Billy, you make sure you stop whichever one of them it is.
13:29You mean kill them, Jeff? Is that what you mean?
13:32That's right.
13:35And leave them out there like bait to stink a trail for the rest of them.
13:38I can't see doing that to them, Jeb.
13:41What have they ever done to us?
13:44Why, them Cartwrights would kill us if they got the chance, every one of us.
13:47You know that, Billy boy.
13:50Now, don't you shed no tears over them Cartwrights.
13:53They're the same kind that's tried to string you up.
13:56Why, they got, and we ain't.
13:59They ain't gonna give it up unless you shake them until their britches pop.
14:02I'm telling you, Billy, they'd kill every one of us if they got the chance.
14:05Only...
14:08they ain't gonna get the chance.
14:23This looks like about as good a spot as any to set up.
14:26Set up for what, Billy?
14:29You talking about an ambush?
14:32You just do like I say.
14:35I've been riding with old Jeb for a long time now.
14:38I know the way he thinks.
14:41How do you mean, Collier?
14:44That old buzzard, thinking about killing himself some Cartwrights.
14:47You know I'm right, Billy boy.
14:50You spot yourself up there.
14:53Collier, you head on down a ways.
15:24I'll tell you, Billy boy, I don't want to get mixed up in no range war.
15:27Not for what we're getting out of it.
15:30You just do like Jeb says.
15:33Well, can't we maybe scare him a little bit?
15:36The Cartwrights, that kind don't scare.
15:39Maybe you feel like having Jeb flay the skin off you for not doing what he says.
15:42Jeb says shoot.
15:45Shoot to kill.
15:49Hey, Collier, what about all this?
15:52You mean about killing a Cartwright?
15:55I mean about getting strung up for Jeb Drummond.
15:58I don't plan to get strung up for Jeb Drummond or nobody.
16:01Come on, let's get out of here.
16:18All right, drop the gun.
16:37You win, mister.
16:40I lose again.
16:49Keep them bunched over to that side so they don't mill.
16:52And get them two moving there.
16:55Going to make a new camp, Jeb?
16:58No, not here. It's too rocky.
17:01I'd like to get to that draw.
17:04I'd like to get to that draw.
17:07I'd like to get to that draw.
17:10I'd like to get to that draw.
17:13I'd like to get to that draw.
17:16I'd like to get to that draw up ahead.
17:19Faster up there, Jeb. That ain't no good for the sheep.
17:23No, not for the sheep it ain't.
17:26But for what I got in mind, it's fine.
17:29Come on, get them sheep moving.
17:37Jeb, what?
17:40One of the Cartwrights come upon us unexpected like.
17:43Well, did you kill him?
17:45He got Wheeler.
17:47There's nothing I can do about it, Jeb. He had position on me.
17:50He'd have finished me off too if I hadn't got clear.
17:53I'd give you a job, I mean, to have it done right.
17:56Now instead of the rest of them coming looking for him,
17:59he'll tail back and tell them which way we went.
18:02Well, maybe it's for the best.
18:05Well, maybe it's for the best.
18:08If we can get us to that draw ahead of them,
18:11might be they get a little surprise, huh, Billy boy?
18:14All right, drive them.
18:17Are we running?
18:24Should have run that bushwhacker off for good last night.
18:27Want me to ride in the town, tell the sheriff?
18:30I don't need any sheriff.
18:32That flock of sheep, he couldn't have gone more than a few miles.
18:34We can get rid of them before dark.
18:36Now wait a minute, Pa. Let the law do it this time.
18:39What's wrong with you, boy?
18:41You want to sit here and twiddle your thumbs
18:43while Drummond's sheep eat our land there?
18:45By the time the lawyers and the sheriff
18:47and the court in Virginia City get through
18:49haggling with what should be done,
18:51the whole north pasture will be torn up.
18:53Get your guns. We've got work to do.
18:55What kind of work, Pa?
18:57Get those sheep off our land.
18:59Now look, Pa, I don't want you running after Drummond.
19:01Now just settle down.
19:03You're going soft, boy.
19:05Pa, you're just as bad as he is.
19:07I'm what?
19:09Dirt.
19:11Now you listen to something from me.
19:13I cleared that land that Drummond's driving his sheep through.
19:15I worked it till my hands cracked open
19:17and the sweat blinded my eyes.
19:19And I planted that grass, and with the Lord's help, it grew.
19:21And I'm not going to let a sheepherder
19:23who never did an honest day's work in his life ruin it.
19:27Now, are you coming with me or not?
19:39Hold it!
19:59All in, Jeb.
20:01That's good.
20:03Now it's the Cartwrights
20:05who are going to be in open ground.
20:07Jeb, you sure you ain't picking off
20:09a bigger piece than you can chew?
20:11It's a blind draw, Jeb.
20:13You let them come in here, it's us that's going to be trapped.
20:15Well, if that's what they thought,
20:17it might turn out just a bit different.
20:21It don't matter if they got us trapped
20:23as long as we get one of them.
20:25Just one?
20:27You let them walk in here, what's going to keep Ben Cartwright
20:29from killing off the whole lot of us?
20:31Of course, Cartwright is the kind of guy that don't shoot
20:33unless somebody else fires the first shot.
20:35Well, I don't like sitting here like a tree squirrel.
20:37I say we get out there
20:39and face them straight off.
20:41All right, go ahead.
20:45Well, what's the matter?
20:47You ain't going, are you?
20:49Because you ain't smart enough
20:51to tackle a man like Cartwright.
20:53He'd chew you right up and spit you out on the ground.
20:55Any fool can go out
20:57and get himself shot dead.
20:59You ain't going to face them, what are you going to do?
21:05You ever see engines
21:07go after a herd of buffalo?
21:09They dog out the strays one by one.
21:11Then pretty soon
21:13the rest of them are scared
21:15and running over each other.
21:17Collier, I want you to take two men
21:19and hide yourselves up there
21:21on that ledge over there.
21:23Billy, I want you to get
21:25back down the path by the draw there
21:27because if we split them up
21:29that's where some of them are liable to run for it.
21:32Well, sounds good, don't it, boy?
21:35Yeah, I guess so.
21:38That ain't what you're thinking, is it?
21:40What are you thinking, boy?
21:43You're asking us to shoot those men down
21:45like there's nothing but a bunch of bounty pelts.
21:50Well, sure I am.
21:52What's wrong with it?
21:54I didn't say nothing was wrong with it.
21:57That's good.
21:59Because I hope you ain't forgetting
22:01how I first come on you,
22:03strung up for a horse thief.
22:05You didn't do it, but you had a rope
22:07around your neck anyways.
22:09Well, this ain't no different.
22:11And the Cartwrights ain't no different neither.
22:13They'll kill you if you give them the chance.
22:15Maybe not with a rope,
22:17but they'll do it.
22:19What are you gaping at?
22:21Nothing, Jeb.
22:23Well, you get back there where I told you.
22:26Now, look, boy.
22:29I've been pulling myself through this world
22:31for a long time.
22:33And when you get right down to it, it's a fact.
22:35You got to fight back,
22:37whichever way you can,
22:39or you'll just get beat to the ground.
22:43All right, get back there where I told you to go.
22:46All right, Jeb.
22:48And, boy, remember.
22:50Remember what I want.
22:52I want one of them Cartwrights.
22:54Alive.
22:56Yes, sir.
23:00Put a jacket on, boy.
23:02There's a chill coming up.
23:20Well, what do you make of it, horse?
23:22I can't figure out why, Pa,
23:24but it looks to me like he took him sheep
23:26right up into that blind canyon.
23:28That old scavenger.
23:30He isn't leaving the Ponderosa at all.
23:32He's planning to camp here.
23:34What makes you say that, Pa?
23:36Well, why else would he be heading up
23:38into that blind draw?
23:40Up there, he can protect his flock
23:42and have a good chance of standing us off.
23:44There sure ain't no sign of him anywhere else, Pa.
23:46That's the way it appears,
23:48except there's no pasture for his sheep in that draw.
23:50If he can stand us off,
23:52that means we can do the same to him.
23:54Starve him out.
23:56Why wait for that?
23:58Why don't we just ride in and get it over with?
24:00Wouldn't Mr. Drummond love that?
24:02The four of us, bunched up together
24:04like so many flies on flypaper?
24:06No, we're going to have to spread out and stay spread.
24:08Horse, you and Joe,
24:10you move up on the left side.
24:12Adam and I will ride straight in.
24:14Pa, there is another thing we could do.
24:16What's that?
24:18The sheriff.
24:20I thought we'd settle that.
24:22Well, we could pin him down like Adam says.
24:24And wait for some judge
24:26to serve a paper on him?
24:28The court in Virginia City
24:30doesn't own the Ponderosa. We do.
24:32And if we're not willing to fight to hold on to it,
24:34we might as well turn it over to the first settler
24:36who feels like staking a claim.
24:48Roger?
24:50Take your men and move them out into the open.
24:52What for, Jeb?
24:54We got good position on them cart rides right here.
24:56Just do like I say.
24:58Take those men and move them out in the open.
25:00But Jeb,
25:02them cart rides will be sitting ducks from here.
25:04We could wipe them all out.
25:06I don't want to wipe them out.
25:08Or maybe just miswiping them out.
25:10I just don't like it.
25:12You don't like it?
25:14You don't like it?
25:16I don't mind miswiping them out.
25:18I just want one of them cart rides alive.
25:20Now you take those men
25:22and move them out in the open where they can be seen.
25:36They're there all right.
25:38We're riding slow. Adam will come with me.
25:40You boys cover us from the rocks.
25:46Don't fire.
25:48I'll tell you when to shoot.
25:50You hold your ground right there.
25:52The first one breaks to run,
25:54I'll kill him all by myself.
26:02I hear you, cart ride.
26:04My son and I are coming in there.
26:06You fire one shot,
26:08there won't be a one of you ever comes out of that drop.
26:10You hear me?
26:12You hear me?
26:14There won't be a one of you ever comes out of that draw alive.
26:44I ain't drawing.
26:46Drummond,
26:48I ought to let you and your sheep starve.
26:50Looks like I did work myself into a hole, Connor.
26:52Drummond,
26:54you broke your word to me.
26:56You're not going to break it again.
26:58I'm going to give you one last chance
27:00to get those sheep out of here.
27:02Maybe we can make ourselves a little deal.
27:04No deal, Drummond.
27:06Clear those sheep out.
27:08He don't give a man much space
27:10to twist in, does he?
27:12He means it.
27:14Now, either you get out,
27:16or you get starved out.
27:18All right, boys.
27:20Put down your guns.
27:24I'll get my sheep out of here come morning.
27:26You get your sheep out right now.
27:30Sure beats me.
27:32Here you own half the world,
27:34and me, all I'm asking is the right
27:36to drive a few miserable sheep
27:38across the corner of your land.
27:40You'd think you could do a man
27:42that little good.
27:44You got a mighty unreasonable old man, boy.
27:48Drummond, get those sheep out now.
27:52All right, boys.
27:54You got your orders.
27:56All right, boys. You got your orders.
28:10Go get those sheep.
28:22Hey, uh...
28:24You look like a reasonable fella.
28:26Maybe we can make us a little deal.
28:28You heard what my father said.
28:30All right, you men.
28:32Let's get a-moving.
28:34Take cover, men!
29:04Fire!
29:06Fire!
29:08Fire!
29:10Fire!
29:12Fire!
29:14Fire!
29:16Fire!
29:18Fire!
29:20Fire!
29:22Fire!
29:24Fire!
29:26Fire!
29:28Fire!
29:30Fire!
29:32Fire!
29:34Fire!
29:36Fire!
29:38Fire!
29:40Fire!
29:42That's good shooting, Hall.
29:44The batter's cut off in there. I've got to get to him.
29:46Boy, you can't make it down there.
29:48Joe!
29:50Yeah, Pa?
29:52I'm gonna try to make it up along that ledge.
29:54Boy, you can't make it.
29:56Got to have him in there or I'll make it.
29:58Fire!
30:00Fire!
30:02Fire!
30:04Fire!
30:06Fire!
30:08Fire!
30:10Fire!
30:12Joe! Yeah, Pa?
30:14That Drummond, he's behind the wagon.
30:16I can't get a shot at him from here.
30:18Fire!
30:20Fire!
30:22Fire!
30:24Fire!
30:26Fire!
30:28Fire!
30:30Fire!
30:32Fire!
30:34You're cut off, boy!
30:36Throw down your gun!
30:38Fire!
30:40You heard him. Drop it!
30:42Adam!
30:44Make for that path behind you!
30:46Fire!
30:48Fire!
30:50Fire!
30:52Come on, Billy! Cut him down!
30:54Fire!
30:56Drop it, kid.
31:00You're gonna kill me, ain't you?
31:02Come on, kid. I said drop it.
31:06Now get out of the way.
31:08I can't.
31:10I said get out of the way.
31:12I can't, Jib. Give me order.
31:14Cover me!
31:22Drop that gun and put up your hands.
31:26All right.
31:28Now come on down here.
31:40Conrad!
31:42Conrad, can you hear me?
31:44You call your men off
31:46or I'll kill your boy right now.
31:50Joe!
31:52Hoss! Hold your fire.
31:56All right. Now clear out.
31:58You're still trapped in that hole, Drummond.
32:00Am I?
32:02You got yourself an empire,
32:04ain't you, Mr. Conrad?
32:06Is it worth your boy's life?
32:08Well, is it?
32:12What do you want, Drummond?
32:16You hear that, Billy boy?
32:20What I want, Mr. Conrad?
32:22Ain't that what you said?
32:24Well, I'll tell you flat out.
32:26First off, I'm going to run my sheep
32:28across your land,
32:30and I'm going to graze them
32:32till they're full enough to bust.
32:34And your son is going to be with me
32:36every step of the way.
32:38And if you try stopping me,
32:40I'm going to put a bullet
32:42right in the back of his skull.
32:44It's been a long ways to hear,
32:46Mr. Conrad, a long ways
32:48and a lot of time.
32:50And if you got any doubt
32:52well, you just make your play.
32:54All right, Drummond.
32:56I can't stop you.
33:00But you listen to me and you listen good.
33:02If you put a scratch
33:04on my boy,
33:06I'll find you
33:08and I'll kill you
33:10if I have to follow you clear to hell.
33:16Paul, we...
33:18we got to do something.
33:20Maybe Adam was right.
33:22Maybe we should have called the sheriff
33:24in the first place. I don't know.
33:26He was right.
33:32My fault.
33:34Oh, Paul.
33:36You know...
33:38you know we don't blame you for nothing.
33:40It's just the way things turned out.
33:42Hoss and I would have done the same thing
33:44if it were up to us.
33:46That's right.
33:48I made Adam do it my way.
33:50I let Drummond
33:52outsmart me.
33:54Paul, you heard little Joe.
33:56Any of us would have done the same thing.
34:00I couldn't have done it any differently.
34:02Couldn't just
34:04invite him in and ask him to
34:06make himself and his sheep at home
34:08in the best pasture.
34:10Paul, we know you couldn't do any such thing.
34:12But don't blame yourself.
34:14Should have thrown him and his sheep
34:16right off the property right away.
34:20I was soft.
34:22Paul, we've...
34:24we've all learned our lesson.
34:26From now on, we'll know better
34:28than to try to fight this sort of thing ourselves.
34:30We'll...
34:32we'll go for a sheriff.
34:36You mean from now on,
34:38the Cartwrights don't fight their own battles anymore?
34:40Is that what you're saying?
34:42From now on, whenever we get into any kind of trouble,
34:44we have to go begging for help?
34:46Not begging. It ain't begging.
34:48Well, then what is it if it isn't begging?
34:50It's asking. It's asking like other folks do
34:52when their rights are violated, Paul.
34:54It's asking folks whose sworn duty it is
34:56to uphold the law to come and help us.
34:58Paul,
35:00ain't that what you always tried to teach us?
35:04Paul, you know I've always wanted us
35:06to take care of our own troubles.
35:08But this time they've got Adam.
35:10I just don't think there's anything else we can do.
35:14Yeah.
35:16Yeah.
35:20All right, you two saddle up,
35:22ride into town, tell the sheriff what's happened.
35:24I think I can go first by myself.
35:28Hoss,
35:32you and I, we're riding into Drummond's camp.
35:34I got an idea
35:36how to keep Drummond busy till the sheriff gets there.
35:38I don't trust him, but then I can see him.
35:40Yes, sir.
35:42All set, Jeb.
35:44You look at them sheep?
35:46They're resting in quiet.
35:48I bet they ain't felt as good in their bellies
35:50in a month of Sundays,
35:52grazing on all this nice, fat, cart-ride grass.
35:54Sure is good pasture, Jeb.
35:56You know something, Billy?
35:58I've been thinking.
36:00There ain't nothing we can find in California
36:02as good as we got right here. Now is there?
36:04I guess not, Jeb.
36:06Good land, lots of it.
36:08Why, we can raise ourselves
36:10the biggest, fattest flock of sheep
36:12in the whole country right here.
36:14And I'm gonna take it, Billy.
36:16All of it.
36:18How you gonna do that?
36:20I knew that Providence would show me a way.
36:22Him?
36:24You mean young cart-ride?
36:26Before I'm done with him,
36:28Ben cart-ride is gonna be begging
36:30to give us the Ponderosa to get his son back.
36:32You remember one thing, Billy.
36:34You catch a man where he's soft,
36:36and you can most always squeeze
36:38anything you want out of him.
36:40You better take care of him.
36:42I don't want nothing to happen to him just yet.
36:44I'll take care of him.
36:46Yes, sir, Billy.
36:48There ain't nothing at all in California
36:50we ain't got more of right here.
36:52Say, you must be clean hungry.
36:54Eat some of them beans before they're cold.
36:56See you in the morning, Billy.
36:58Night, Jeb.
37:00Night.
37:04Night.
37:16Brought you some beans.
37:20I can't untie you.
37:22Jeb wouldn't pay for that.
37:24It's all right.
37:30You could have killed me yesterday
37:32when you had the chance.
37:34Guess I could.
37:36If you had, you wouldn't be here like it's now.
37:38Yeah, I guess that's true.
37:42Why didn't you do it then?
37:44Why didn't you kill me when you had the chance?
37:46I don't know.
37:48Just couldn't.
37:50That ain't like Jeb said.
37:52I mean about what you and your pa do to us.
37:54Oh, what'd he say we'd do to you?
37:56Kill us.
37:58First crack out of the barrel.
38:00How long you been with Drummond?
38:02Oh, a year.
38:04Maybe a little more.
38:06I met him when I first left off farming
38:08and took to the road.
38:10Wasn't exactly like I met him.
38:12Some drunk cow hands was gonna hang me up
38:14for stealing a pinto,
38:16but I never done it.
38:18How old were you?
38:20Nineteen.
38:22I guess that's how it happened.
38:24I didn't know much then.
38:26More like nothing.
38:28I didn't know much then.
38:30More like now.
38:32I bought the horse off a peddler fella,
38:34but I never had sense enough
38:36to get no papers for it.
38:38Just dumb trusting like.
38:40Now he's taught you not to trust anybody, huh?
38:42Jeb saved my life.
38:46That doesn't mean you have to live the way he does.
38:48I owe him.
38:50But I guess you wouldn't know
38:52what it feels like to have a rope strung around your neck.
38:54Not with a regular family
38:56and living the way you do.
38:58No, sir.
39:00Old Jeb, he just come by
39:02and scattered them trail hands off.
39:04And you think he did it for you?
39:06Haven't you been around him long enough
39:08to know he doesn't do anything
39:10for anybody except himself?
39:12That don't make no difference.
39:14Oh, I...
39:16I guess it weren't so much
39:18to save me as much as
39:20old Jeb just got it in
39:22for cattlemen and cow hands and that like.
39:24He's bitter in his ways.
39:26Like my pa was.
39:30What happened to him?
39:32He got himself killed
39:34fighting over a few acres of bare rocky ground
39:36back in Kentucky.
39:38Wasn't like I knew him much.
39:40Him or anybody.
39:42Mostly I just sort of shifted around
39:44from one kin to the next.
39:46Doesn't mean you have to stay with him.
39:48He's always done good by me.
39:50He's always helped me.
39:52He's always done good by me.
39:54Listen, he's no better than something
39:56that crawls after carrion.
39:58You want to plunder your piece of land
40:00bad enough to have his taint rub off on you?
40:02You talk mighty big,
40:04don't you, mister?
40:06That's cause you got it all.
40:08A family and regular living
40:10and all this good rich land to hang on to.
40:12All I got in this world
40:14is Jeb Drummond.
40:16You remember that, mister?
40:18I got nothing in this world
40:20but Jeb.
40:22Jeb.
40:48Jeb.
40:50He ran out of horses.
40:52Looks like the cartwrights.
40:54Pull that wagon!
41:21I left my gun, Drummond.
41:23He ain't left his.
41:27Get that gun, Billy boy.
41:32Adam.
41:34All right.
41:36Now suppose you dismount and say your peace.
41:46Drummond, let my son go.
41:48Take me instead.
41:50You?
41:52Did I hear correct?
41:54You hear correct.
41:56What are you figuring?
41:58You want a hostage.
42:00Well, I'll be a hostage.
42:02No far.
42:04Well, Drummond, what about it?
42:06Well, I'll tell you, I don't care much
42:08which of you cartwrights I hold as hostage
42:10cause I got me another notion.
42:12What's your notion, Drummond?
42:14I've been thinking
42:16they had nothing in California
42:18as good as you got here.
42:20So I'm gonna take it.
42:22All of it.
42:24And claim it as my own.
42:26How you figuring on doing that, mister?
42:28You planning on killing us all?
42:30Ask your old man.
42:32I think he knows.
42:34Billy boy, give me that paper.
42:40Yes, sir, Mr. Cartwright.
42:42I've got it all right here.
42:44A deed to 50,000 acres
42:46of your land.
42:48Now all you got to do is
42:50sign it and make it all legal.
42:52Drummond,
42:54do you think that my signing a ridiculous
42:56scrap of paper like that is gonna make anything legal?
42:58Well, the way I see it,
43:00I'm willing to take the gamble
43:02because I ain't got nothing to lose anyhow.
43:04And you got something mighty important to gain.
43:06What's he got to gain?
43:08You.
43:10Cause unless he signs this deed,
43:12I'm gonna kill you and let your body
43:14rot where it drops.
43:16Adam,
43:18there's something you ought to know.
43:20I sent little Joe to town for the sheriff.
43:22Thanks, Bob.
43:24It looks like I've been wrong all along.
43:26No.
43:28No, you weren't wrong.
43:30And Drummond,
43:32with the sheriff coming, how do you think you're gonna get away
43:34with all this?
43:36Well, like I said, I'm willing to take the chance.
43:38Yes.
43:40That's what you said.
43:42What about you?
43:44You willing to take a gamble too?
43:50Whatever Jeb says is good enough for me.
43:54You too?
43:56I'm willing.
44:00Look, Adam,
44:02do you think he cares
44:04if you get skinned and hooked like some coyote meat
44:06as long as he can use you to get what he's after?
44:08All right.
44:10You had your say, mister.
44:12Now, do you want to sign this deed
44:14or do you want to bury your son?
44:16Don't sign it, Pa.
44:18He won't shoot.
44:24That's the difference
44:26between you and me, Drummond.
44:28I'm not a gambling man.
44:30Give me that paper.
44:34Pa, don't.
44:3650,000 acres, it isn't worth it.
44:38Isn't it?
44:52Well, that's a mighty fine-looking signature.
44:56Much better than I could have done.
44:58But then I never owned 50,000 acres
45:00of prime land before, neither.
45:02You don't own it now.
45:04Don't move!
45:08Adam.
45:12I was going to make it an even deal.
45:14The land for your son.
45:18But it looks like I can't trust any of you Cartwrights.
45:20There's only one way to deal with you.
45:22Give me the gun, Billy.
45:24You can't just kill him, Jeff.
45:26Can I?
45:28You just watch.
45:30I ain't done nothing for you to kill him over, Jeff.
45:32You give me that gun!
45:34Jeff.
45:36Look, how many times I've tried to beat it into you, Billy.
45:38If you want something in this world,
45:40you've got to get it whichever way you can.
45:42But you go right on being woman soft.
45:44Maybe I should have let them Wranglers
45:46string you up for stealing them three pinnows.
45:48Three pinnows?
45:54Jeff, how'd you ever know
45:56they was looking for three of them?
45:58Well, they said, I guess.
46:02No, they never.
46:04They never said nothing after you came.
46:06Well, that don't make no difference, boy.
46:08Don't it?
46:10Well, I think it does, Jeff.
46:12Because you kill them straight off.
46:16I thought it was just to save me,
46:18but that wasn't it, was it?
46:20Well, you knew there was three pinnows
46:22because you was the one that stole them
46:24and sold them off yourself.
46:26I guess I really don't owe you nothing, do I, Jeff?
46:28Now, you know that ain't right, Billy boy.
46:30I mean, maybe I did lie to you about them pinnows,
46:32but I always done good by you,
46:34and I taught you things.
46:36Sure.
46:38Like shooting a man in the back.
46:40Like grabbing and thieving.
46:42Well, I learned good, Jeff.
46:44But I ain't learning no more.
46:46Now, look, Billy.
46:48Billy, you're like a son to me.
46:50The only reason I want this land
46:52is because I'm going to leave it to you.
46:54I promise it.
46:56No, Jeff.
46:58Give me that gun!
47:00How many times
47:02have I tried to beat it into you, Billy?
47:10Jeff.
47:12I...
47:14I should have let him hang you.
47:16You no good, thieving,
47:18dirty double-crosser.
47:20Shoot him, Kayak.
47:22Kill him.
47:29Hold it!
47:39Hey, Pa, how come Hop's thing got all this vinegar?
47:41Sorry, Pa, he didn't have no rutabagas.
47:44Guess I'll be leaving.
47:46Sure do thank you for all your help
47:48for the shirt, little Jeff.
47:50You're welcome.
47:52Where do you go now?
47:54I don't know exactly.
47:56Do you ever think of taking up homesteading?
47:58You mean a place of my own?
48:00Sure, but...
48:02Well, we got a lot of open land here in the Ponderosa.
48:04I figured that Adam here
48:06could probably help you pick out a good piece of it.
48:08You mean a piece of your land?
48:10Well, we got a lot of people
48:12coming out this way.
48:14I guess we'll have to make some room for them all,
48:16including the law.
48:20Well, Mr. Cartwright,
48:22I sure will try to live up to your faith in me.
48:24Well, Billy, you better,
48:26because if I catch you stepping out of line just once,
48:28well, you'll go get the shirt.
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