1 00:02:14,925 --> 00:02:16,426 (RELEASES BREAK) 2 00:02:29,065 --> 00:02:30,316 Ahhh. 3 00:02:39,116 --> 00:02:40,325 (BOTH GRUNTING) 4 00:02:48,417 --> 00:02:49,626 (SCREAMING) 5 00:03:19,573 --> 00:03:22,325 (CAR HORN HONKING) 6 00:03:29,834 --> 00:03:32,878 Mr. Martin. Mr. Martin. 7 00:03:32,962 --> 00:03:34,380 Mr. Martin, come quick. 8 00:03:34,463 --> 00:03:36,173 There's a man up at my place. Take it easy. 9 00:03:36,257 --> 00:03:38,342 No time to take it easy. You've got to come right away. 10 00:03:38,426 --> 00:03:40,970 You know, Eli, in all the months I've been on this job, 11 00:03:41,053 --> 00:03:44,014 there hasn't been one week you haven't had three or four people 12 00:03:44,098 --> 00:03:45,557 skulking around your place. But listen... 13 00:03:45,641 --> 00:03:47,601 You got money in your mattress or something? 14 00:03:47,685 --> 00:03:50,646 This man wasn't skulking. He was, I don't know what, 15 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:52,231 staggering around like he was lost. 16 00:03:52,314 --> 00:03:54,065 Maybe it was just his weekend that get lost. 17 00:03:54,150 --> 00:03:56,610 Mr. Martin, this man ain't drunk. (TIRES SQUEALING) 18 00:04:03,659 --> 00:04:05,160 LES: If he's not. She sure is. 19 00:04:05,244 --> 00:04:07,913 Deputy, I'm telling you, this fellow's different. 20 00:04:07,997 --> 00:04:09,999 Well, you keep him that way, Eli. 21 00:04:10,082 --> 00:04:11,750 I'll drop in on you on my way back. 22 00:04:13,878 --> 00:04:15,963 (SIREN WAILING) 23 00:05:58,607 --> 00:06:00,400 (ENGINE STARTS) 24 00:06:35,769 --> 00:06:36,770 Hello there. 25 00:06:42,818 --> 00:06:44,820 You could have ended up like that. 26 00:07:05,549 --> 00:07:07,259 Officer, 27 00:07:08,636 --> 00:07:10,304 I know there's no excuse. 28 00:07:10,387 --> 00:07:12,889 I agree with you. May I have your... 29 00:07:17,227 --> 00:07:19,604 I was going pretty fast, wasn't I? 30 00:07:19,688 --> 00:07:21,773 You were going pretty reckless too. 31 00:07:21,857 --> 00:07:23,400 You know, this is an old road. 32 00:07:23,484 --> 00:07:26,737 It's tricky and dangerous, it's lined with signs 33 00:07:26,820 --> 00:07:29,823 that say 25 miles an hour, 15 miles an hour, 34 00:07:29,907 --> 00:07:32,326 “Caution: Winding road.” 35 00:07:32,409 --> 00:07:34,327 Now, those signs can be quite interesting 36 00:07:34,411 --> 00:07:36,704 if you're going slow enough to read them. 37 00:07:37,873 --> 00:07:40,041 I've read them all before. 38 00:07:40,125 --> 00:07:43,211 What do you think we put them up for, pedestrians? 39 00:07:43,295 --> 00:07:45,088 Can you give me one good reason 40 00:07:45,172 --> 00:07:48,508 why any sane person would drive the way you were driving? 41 00:07:48,592 --> 00:07:49,593 No. 42 00:07:49,677 --> 00:07:52,805 You surprise me. I was sure you would. 43 00:07:52,888 --> 00:07:55,682 Well, actually, Officer, I'm maladjusted. 44 00:07:55,766 --> 00:07:57,392 I come from a broken home. 45 00:07:58,394 --> 00:08:00,145 Want me to write that down for the judge? 46 00:08:00,229 --> 00:08:02,606 You're not going to throw the book at me, are you? 47 00:08:02,690 --> 00:08:05,359 Well, here's what I"m going to do. 48 00:08:05,442 --> 00:08:09,942 I'm going to reach into the hat and pull out just one of your violations. 49 00:08:10,239 --> 00:08:14,117 Forty-five miles an hour in a 25 zone. 50 00:08:15,536 --> 00:08:17,371 Sign there, please? 51 00:08:28,507 --> 00:08:30,050 Here's your copy. 52 00:08:37,433 --> 00:08:40,519 I'll save the reckless driving charge for next time. 53 00:10:05,729 --> 00:10:07,772 (DINGING) 54 00:10:07,856 --> 00:10:10,358 Operator! Operator! 55 00:10:10,442 --> 00:10:12,193 The sheriff's office, quick! 56 00:10:22,621 --> 00:10:24,706 Sure looks like he put up quite a struggle. 57 00:10:24,790 --> 00:10:26,458 Yeah. 58 00:10:26,542 --> 00:10:28,460 Be sure and don't touch any of this stuff, Eli. 59 00:10:28,544 --> 00:10:30,879 Don't worry. I know all about these things. 60 00:10:30,963 --> 00:10:32,965 (HUMMING) 61 00:10:33,048 --> 00:10:35,467 No identification of any kind. 62 00:10:35,551 --> 00:10:37,511 No wallet. Labels all cut out of the clothing. 63 00:10:37,594 --> 00:10:40,513 All we have for sure is that he wasn't a suicide. 64 00:10:40,597 --> 00:10:43,516 Not with his hands tied behind his back. 65 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,519 You should have listened to me. I told you to come up right away. 66 00:10:46,603 --> 00:10:48,104 Now, Eli. 67 00:10:48,188 --> 00:10:50,273 Remember the story about the boy who cried wolf. 68 00:10:50,357 --> 00:10:52,233 Don't you go trying to put the blame on me, Sheriff. 69 00:10:52,317 --> 00:10:54,235 Nobody's blaming anybody, Eli. 70 00:10:54,319 --> 00:10:57,196 If we followed up all your stories, we'd have to put on two extra men. 71 00:10:57,281 --> 00:10:59,866 Which, by the way, you taxpayers won't let us have. 72 00:11:02,369 --> 00:11:04,412 You know, it’s no wonder old El lives alone. 73 00:11:04,496 --> 00:11:06,831 No woman could stand to listen to him all the time. 74 00:11:06,915 --> 00:11:09,292 I wish I'd listened to him this once. 75 00:11:09,376 --> 00:11:12,796 There's not enough time in the day to stop and measure all the ifs. 76 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:14,381 You made the same choice I would 77 00:11:14,464 --> 00:11:16,674 and went after what you saw instead of what you didn't see. 78 00:11:16,758 --> 00:11:18,342 That's what you're paid to do. 79 00:11:18,427 --> 00:11:21,346 I know that. It doesn't make me feel any better. 80 00:11:21,430 --> 00:11:23,557 If I'd gone with Eli, that man might still be alive. 81 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:24,807 Now, look, boy. 82 00:11:24,892 --> 00:11:26,977 When I hired you, I hired myself a good lawman. 83 00:11:27,060 --> 00:11:29,395 I didn't think about what happened in Denver then. 84 00:11:29,479 --> 00:11:30,897 You stop thinking about it now. 85 00:11:34,651 --> 00:11:37,195 You shout your mouth and solve this case. 86 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:38,863 (ENGINE STARTS) 87 00:12:04,973 --> 00:12:06,599 Morning, Deputy. LES: Morning. 88 00:12:06,683 --> 00:12:09,060 Rising with the sun, or just going to bed? 89 00:12:09,144 --> 00:12:11,062 Hoping to catch some worms. 90 00:12:11,146 --> 00:12:13,940 I'm trying to get a line on a fellow. Thought maybe you could help me. 91 00:12:14,024 --> 00:12:15,275 I'll do my best. 92 00:12:15,359 --> 00:12:18,695 Fellow about 55, 60 years old, tall, 93 00:12:18,779 --> 00:12:21,907 grayish hair, distinguished-looking. 94 00:12:21,990 --> 00:12:26,490 When last seen, wearing a suit of thin, dark gray shiny material. 95 00:12:27,537 --> 00:12:29,622 Doesn't sound like anybody I've seen. 96 00:12:30,499 --> 00:12:32,000 Thanks anyway. 97 00:12:33,168 --> 00:12:36,212 Oh, if he turns up, do you want me to tell him you're looking for him? 98 00:12:36,296 --> 00:12:38,339 No, thanks. He's turned up already. 99 00:12:39,549 --> 00:12:40,967 (ENGINE STARTS) 100 00:12:49,393 --> 00:12:51,103 Oh, yeah, here it is. 101 00:12:51,186 --> 00:12:53,980 R.E. Wallace, El Trovatore Motel. 102 00:12:54,064 --> 00:12:55,273 That's all? 103 00:12:55,357 --> 00:12:57,067 Well, that's all you asked me. 104 00:12:57,150 --> 00:12:59,569 Well, that's all you've got? No permanent address or anything? 105 00:12:59,861 --> 00:13:00,945 Nope. 106 00:13:01,029 --> 00:13:03,322 Well, you must have asked to see his driver's license. 107 00:13:03,407 --> 00:13:04,950 Why? 108 00:13:05,033 --> 00:13:08,369 Well, most people do when they rent an automobile to a perfect stranger. 109 00:13:08,453 --> 00:13:09,996 Oh, he didn't rent the heap. 110 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,458 He bought it for a 150 bucks. C.O.L. Cash on the line. 111 00:13:14,459 --> 00:13:15,918 Well, registration? 112 00:13:16,003 --> 00:13:19,006 Oh, he hasn't gotten around to fill that out yet. 113 00:13:19,089 --> 00:13:20,882 Hey, look. You're the law. 114 00:13:20,966 --> 00:13:23,385 What do you think? Should I send it to him at the motel? 115 00:13:23,468 --> 00:13:25,344 No, send it to the county morgue. 116 00:13:25,429 --> 00:13:28,014 (LAUGHING) 117 00:13:29,141 --> 00:13:31,434 (HONKING) 118 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:09,055 Good morning. Morning. 119 00:14:09,139 --> 00:14:11,641 Looks like it's going to be another scorcher, don't it? 120 00:14:11,725 --> 00:14:12,809 Yes, ma'am. 121 00:14:12,893 --> 00:14:15,103 Are you selling tickets for the sheriff's rodeo, 122 00:14:15,187 --> 00:14:16,938 or are you just raiding the place? 123 00:14:17,022 --> 00:14:18,273 I wouldn't think of it. 124 00:14:18,357 --> 00:14:22,235 Just trying to track down some information on a Mr. R.E. Wallace. 125 00:14:22,319 --> 00:14:24,237 Oh, yeah. Number 8. 126 00:14:24,321 --> 00:14:25,947 I don't think he's here now, though. 127 00:14:26,031 --> 00:14:27,824 I don't see his old yellow car. 128 00:14:27,908 --> 00:14:29,826 You mind if I take a look in his room? 129 00:14:29,910 --> 00:14:31,411 Why should I mind? 130 00:14:32,412 --> 00:14:34,747 Can you tell me anything about this Mr. Wallace? 131 00:14:34,831 --> 00:14:37,041 Well, not an awful lot, I"m afraid. 132 00:14:37,125 --> 00:14:38,501 He's been here four or five days, 133 00:14:38,585 --> 00:14:41,296 but he's not gabby like most of us. 134 00:14:41,380 --> 00:14:43,465 Very quiet, fine-looking gentleman. 135 00:14:43,548 --> 00:14:48,048 I'd say a businessman of some sort, probably from the east. 136 00:14:48,178 --> 00:14:50,555 Has that funny way of talking. 137 00:14:50,639 --> 00:14:51,931 This is 8. 138 00:14:54,476 --> 00:14:55,560 What? 139 00:14:55,644 --> 00:14:58,021 What in the world could have happened? 140 00:14:58,105 --> 00:15:02,605 This is just awful. Why everything's ruined! 141 00:15:02,859 --> 00:15:05,403 I'll certainly have plenty to say to that Mr. Wallace. 142 00:15:05,487 --> 00:15:07,405 I don't think he did it, ma'am. 143 00:15:07,489 --> 00:15:09,407 How can I ever get it cleaned up? 144 00:15:09,491 --> 00:15:13,578 Don't touch a thing, please, as a favor to the state of Arizona. 145 00:15:22,504 --> 00:15:24,422 No label on this clothing either. 146 00:15:24,506 --> 00:15:26,382 Not even any laundry marks. 147 00:15:27,634 --> 00:15:29,636 All this expensive luggage. 148 00:15:29,719 --> 00:15:31,887 But no initials on it. Nothing. 149 00:15:31,972 --> 00:15:33,473 What does that mean to you? 150 00:15:33,557 --> 00:15:38,057 First I thought the killer was trying to cover up the identity of the victim. 151 00:15:38,562 --> 00:15:42,065 Now I think the victim destroyed his own identification. 152 00:15:42,149 --> 00:15:43,150 How do you figure that? 153 00:15:43,233 --> 00:15:46,319 Any man who buys luggage as expensive as this 154 00:15:46,403 --> 00:15:48,154 usually has his initials put on it. 155 00:15:49,739 --> 00:15:51,073 Could be. 156 00:15:51,658 --> 00:15:54,494 Could be, brother bloodhound. 157 00:15:54,578 --> 00:15:56,496 Don't just stand there. He ain't treed yet. 158 00:15:56,580 --> 00:15:58,582 Get out and see if you can pick up his track. 159 00:15:58,665 --> 00:16:03,165 It's sure funny how now, when I got nothing to say to you, you keep wanting me to talk. 160 00:16:03,670 --> 00:16:06,673 You've got to keep talking, Eli, till I can make some sense out of it. 161 00:16:06,756 --> 00:16:09,759 I can't remember crazy talk when it don't make sense. 162 00:16:09,843 --> 00:16:11,845 Well, try. Think. What else? 163 00:16:15,390 --> 00:16:17,100 Over. 164 00:16:17,184 --> 00:16:20,312 He did say something about over the rim. 165 00:16:21,188 --> 00:16:24,065 Over the rim. That must mean the Grand Canyon. 166 00:16:24,149 --> 00:16:28,278 Well, that narrows it down to Arizona anyway. 167 00:16:28,361 --> 00:16:31,739 Come on, Eli. Did he say anything else that you haven't told me? 168 00:16:31,823 --> 00:16:36,285 Well, but I'm not sure I heard it right. 169 00:16:36,369 --> 00:16:37,453 Come on. 170 00:16:37,537 --> 00:16:41,165 It sounded like “dancing in the bucket.” 171 00:16:41,249 --> 00:16:43,292 Dancing in the bucket? Uh-huh. 172 00:16:43,376 --> 00:16:45,503 At least that's what it sounded like. 173 00:16:46,004 --> 00:16:48,089 Got any idea what it could be? 174 00:16:49,299 --> 00:16:50,800 Over the rim. 175 00:16:51,885 --> 00:16:53,720 Dancing in the bucket. 176 00:16:56,097 --> 00:16:57,473 Bucket. 177 00:16:57,557 --> 00:16:58,808 Hey, wait a minute. 178 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:01,102 You just keep your mouth shut. 179 00:18:31,318 --> 00:18:34,029 Hey, Jack! Over here! 180 00:18:37,490 --> 00:18:38,491 Mr. Ward? 181 00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:40,451 Yeah. Oh, hi, Deputy. 182 00:18:41,453 --> 00:18:43,538 Say, what do you call that contraption out there? 183 00:18:43,622 --> 00:18:44,914 Tramcar. 184 00:18:46,750 --> 00:18:48,334 You see anything of him? 185 00:18:52,422 --> 00:18:54,048 Around here we call it the dancing bucket. 186 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:57,052 Who's he looking for? 187 00:18:57,636 --> 00:18:58,637 Charlie Piper. 188 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,431 Old Charlie's one of the guys that works here. He's missing. 189 00:19:01,514 --> 00:19:02,681 What's he look like? 190 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:06,644 He's about 30, maybe 35. 191 00:19:07,979 --> 00:19:09,730 You seen anything of a man about 60, 192 00:19:09,814 --> 00:19:12,608 grayish hair, 5'11", well built? 193 00:19:12,692 --> 00:19:15,569 No. Nothing around here but us chickens. 194 00:19:15,654 --> 00:19:19,240 You know what happened? One time a guy did end up down there. 195 00:19:19,324 --> 00:19:22,410 Can you imagine? He got so busy trying to get his ladder working, he just... 196 00:19:23,411 --> 00:19:25,454 walked right over the edge. 197 00:19:25,538 --> 00:19:27,581 How do you figure that? 198 00:19:27,666 --> 00:19:30,710 How long has old Charlie Piper been missing? 199 00:19:30,794 --> 00:19:33,671 I don't know for sure. He's a watchman around here on the weekends. 200 00:19:33,755 --> 00:19:35,757 When we come on today, he wasn't around. 201 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,467 And you didn't think of reporting this to the sheriff's office? 202 00:19:38,551 --> 00:19:40,886 Hold on. Don't take me in yet. 203 00:19:40,970 --> 00:19:43,681 We don't think nothing of it around here, when a guy's missing. 204 00:19:43,765 --> 00:19:45,057 What do you mean? 205 00:19:45,141 --> 00:19:46,934 The work. Gets them. 206 00:19:48,019 --> 00:19:49,270 See the bucket out there? 207 00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:52,065 Well, that thing travels 9,000 feet across that canyon 208 00:19:52,148 --> 00:19:54,150 to that cave on the other side. 209 00:19:54,818 --> 00:19:55,902 Inside that cave, 210 00:19:55,985 --> 00:19:59,738 there's about 500,000 tons of prehistoric bat guano. 211 00:19:59,823 --> 00:20:01,825 Man, that's a lot of fertilizer. 212 00:20:03,368 --> 00:20:05,953 The only way to get the stuff out's in that bucket. 213 00:20:06,037 --> 00:20:09,290 I figure old Charlie probably got tired of shoveling the stuff 214 00:20:09,374 --> 00:20:11,501 and riding the bucket, so he lit out. 215 00:20:11,584 --> 00:20:14,253 Next thing you know, he'll be sending us postcards 216 00:20:14,337 --> 00:20:16,172 from Las Vegas or somewhere. 217 00:20:17,215 --> 00:20:18,758 Hey, Jack! 218 00:20:19,634 --> 00:20:21,385 What about it? 219 00:20:21,469 --> 00:20:23,554 Bill, not a thing. 220 00:20:23,638 --> 00:20:25,640 All right, bring it on in. 221 00:20:26,224 --> 00:20:29,727 It's time we got back over at the other side and start hauling guano. 222 00:20:29,811 --> 00:20:31,854 I'll ride back over with you. 223 00:20:31,938 --> 00:20:33,648 Have you searched the other side yet? 224 00:20:33,732 --> 00:20:36,943 Nothing over there but that cave and the cliff 225 00:20:37,026 --> 00:20:38,902 and a lot of tired, worn-out bats. 226 00:20:38,987 --> 00:20:40,613 (CHUCKLES) 227 00:20:40,697 --> 00:20:44,450 Well, if you find anything, notify us, will you? 228 00:20:44,534 --> 00:20:45,701 All right. 229 00:20:45,785 --> 00:20:48,287 Want to ride over and take a look for yourself? 230 00:20:52,625 --> 00:20:54,043 No, thanks. 231 00:21:17,817 --> 00:21:18,943 Howdy, Deputy. 232 00:21:19,027 --> 00:21:20,236 Hi. 233 00:21:24,282 --> 00:21:26,075 Hi, Harry. Hi, Joe. 234 00:21:27,285 --> 00:21:28,369 Scotty? 235 00:21:28,453 --> 00:21:30,455 Les, what can I do for the long arm of the law? 236 00:21:30,538 --> 00:21:33,624 Well, I could use a double shot of bourbon, but I'm on duty. 237 00:21:33,708 --> 00:21:35,251 Coffee. 238 00:21:35,335 --> 00:21:36,502 Say, you know Charlie Piper? 239 00:21:36,586 --> 00:21:38,379 One of my regulars. 240 00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:40,840 Did he ever say anything to you about leaving his job? 241 00:21:40,924 --> 00:21:43,051 Well, he had dreams, just like everybody else. 242 00:21:43,134 --> 00:21:46,137 What about you? You want to wear that green uniform the rest of your life? 243 00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:48,306 I used to have other ideas. 244 00:21:48,389 --> 00:21:50,432 I got a terrific notion. Yeah? What? 245 00:21:50,517 --> 00:21:53,269 Well, here we are, two healthy boys, 246 00:21:53,353 --> 00:21:55,521 you with the good looks, me with the baby fat, 247 00:21:55,605 --> 00:21:58,357 hanging around a ghost town, waiting for the dry rot to set in. 248 00:21:58,441 --> 00:22:00,985 Now, ain't that a kick in the head? I won't argue. 249 00:22:01,069 --> 00:22:03,863 That ain't normal for two boys like us. 250 00:22:03,947 --> 00:22:06,741 I got an idea. Why don't you go out and disconnect the radio in your car? 251 00:22:06,825 --> 00:22:09,285 Sheriff won't like it, but that I can do. 252 00:22:09,369 --> 00:22:10,495 Good. 253 00:22:10,578 --> 00:22:12,288 Then we'll get rid of this thing. 254 00:22:12,372 --> 00:22:14,457 I'll take this packed house, the whole three of them, 255 00:22:14,541 --> 00:22:17,418 throw them out, lock the door, and (WHISTLES) we're off for Las Vegas. 256 00:22:18,253 --> 00:22:19,712 Scotty, I like you. 257 00:22:19,796 --> 00:22:21,172 And I like your notion. 258 00:22:21,256 --> 00:22:22,715 Tell you what. I'll donate my car. 259 00:22:22,799 --> 00:22:24,342 The siren will speed things along. 260 00:22:24,425 --> 00:22:27,052 Ah, we'll go for two, three days. 261 00:22:27,136 --> 00:22:28,262 Maybe the whole week. 262 00:22:28,346 --> 00:22:30,598 We'll do nothing but a lot of drinking and gambling, 263 00:22:30,682 --> 00:22:32,392 carousing and disturbing the peace. 264 00:22:32,475 --> 00:22:34,643 Building mind and body. 265 00:22:34,727 --> 00:22:37,938 Only one thing. I work for the county. I'm poor. 266 00:22:38,022 --> 00:22:40,607 Friend, money can't buy happiness. 267 00:22:40,692 --> 00:22:43,236 All the money we need is for that first drink. 268 00:22:43,319 --> 00:22:46,113 Then along comes this doddering, wealthy widow, 269 00:22:46,197 --> 00:22:49,283 somebody about 22 and eager to buy the next round. 270 00:22:49,367 --> 00:22:51,494 Keep dreaming, Scotty. We're one girl short. 271 00:22:51,578 --> 00:22:54,706 Tell you what. I'll drop in later, and we'll make more definite plans. 272 00:22:54,789 --> 00:22:56,123 Thanks for including me. 273 00:22:56,207 --> 00:23:00,127 Well, don't dawdle, boy, because youth is fading fast over the horizon. 274 00:23:00,211 --> 00:23:01,503 (GLASS BREAKING) 275 00:23:11,472 --> 00:23:14,016 None for me, thanks. I have to drive. 276 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:16,310 Bobby, why don't you go inside in the back room, 277 00:23:16,394 --> 00:23:18,479 lay down for a while, and then drive? 278 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,024 Did you snitch my keys out of my car again? 279 00:23:22,108 --> 00:23:23,442 No. 280 00:23:23,526 --> 00:23:25,528 You did, didn't you? No. 281 00:23:25,612 --> 00:23:26,738 Steady now. Steady. 282 00:23:26,821 --> 00:23:27,947 Oh, he’ll be all right. 283 00:23:28,031 --> 00:23:31,534 Marshal. How's law and order in the Old West? 284 00:23:31,618 --> 00:23:33,620 Could be better. Could be worse. 285 00:23:33,703 --> 00:23:35,287 May I see your driver's license? 286 00:23:35,371 --> 00:23:36,872 Of course you can. 287 00:23:41,210 --> 00:23:43,212 No, just the license, please. 288 00:23:45,256 --> 00:23:46,257 Thank you. 289 00:23:49,302 --> 00:23:51,304 You connected with the Kendon gold mines? 290 00:23:51,387 --> 00:23:52,596 I'm not bragging. 291 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,182 Any relation to Janice Kendon? 292 00:23:55,850 --> 00:23:59,979 Marshal, we don't bandy the names of womenfolk in our saloon. 293 00:24:00,063 --> 00:24:02,065 Scotty, can you keep an eye on his car? 294 00:24:02,148 --> 00:24:04,525 Maybe he'll be in shape to pick it up in the morning. 295 00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:07,153 Wait a minute, Sheriff. You're not going to lock him up for this? 296 00:24:07,236 --> 00:24:09,446 Nah, he can afford to feed himself. 297 00:24:09,530 --> 00:24:11,532 I"m going to take him home. Come on, boy. 298 00:24:39,727 --> 00:24:41,311 Here we go, friend. 299 00:24:41,396 --> 00:24:43,481 What did you bring me here for? 300 00:24:43,564 --> 00:24:45,774 Well, isn't this where you live? 301 00:24:45,858 --> 00:24:47,776 I just exist here, man. 302 00:24:47,860 --> 00:24:50,529 If I want to live, I gotta go someplace else. 303 00:24:50,613 --> 00:24:52,281 Hey, Jan! 304 00:24:52,657 --> 00:24:54,200 I'm back here. 305 00:24:54,283 --> 00:24:55,450 BOB: Come out! 306 00:24:55,535 --> 00:24:56,994 Come out wherever you are! 307 00:24:58,162 --> 00:24:59,538 Hi. 308 00:25:00,206 --> 00:25:01,707 Where did you find him? 309 00:25:02,625 --> 00:25:05,461 Well, your husband seemed to need a little help getting home. 310 00:25:05,545 --> 00:25:07,088 What shall I do with him, ma'am? 311 00:25:07,171 --> 00:25:10,299 Oh, he's no trouble. You just back him up like this and press firmly. 312 00:25:10,383 --> 00:25:11,384 Aaah! 313 00:25:14,178 --> 00:25:16,430 It's all right. He's only my brother. 314 00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:17,974 Oh. 315 00:25:18,057 --> 00:25:19,391 (SHOUTS) 316 00:25:22,437 --> 00:25:25,440 He always responds beautifully to cold water. 317 00:25:25,523 --> 00:25:27,942 Wish I knew why he had to drink so much. 318 00:25:36,951 --> 00:25:40,079 That step's a tricky one. 319 00:25:40,163 --> 00:25:43,457 If you’ll excuse me, | think I’ll slip into something more comfortable. 320 00:25:43,541 --> 00:25:45,626 If anyone asks for me... We will. 321 00:25:47,462 --> 00:25:49,213 Hi, Dad. 322 00:25:49,297 --> 00:25:52,049 If it were anybody but you, I'd say you needed a drink. 323 00:25:52,133 --> 00:25:53,634 So I drink. So what? 324 00:25:53,718 --> 00:25:55,720 Better get in and change your clothes. 325 00:25:55,803 --> 00:25:57,930 That's what I call a brilliant idea. 326 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,815 Good afternoon. How are you, sir? 327 00:26:07,899 --> 00:26:10,276 Hotter the weather, hotter his temper. Sure. 328 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,194 I haven't seen you around the place before. 329 00:26:12,278 --> 00:26:14,238 Oh, I'm sorry, Dad. This is Deputy... 330 00:26:14,322 --> 00:26:16,615 Les Martin, sir. Jim Kendon. 331 00:26:16,699 --> 00:26:18,492 Scotch, rye or bourbon? 332 00:26:18,576 --> 00:26:20,578 Well, do you have any beer around? 333 00:26:20,661 --> 00:26:21,953 We'd be dead if we didn't. 334 00:26:22,038 --> 00:26:23,956 Can all right? Yes, sir. Fine. 335 00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:26,959 What have you been doing these days 336 00:26:27,043 --> 00:26:30,087 besides chasing girls and giving them tickets? 337 00:26:30,171 --> 00:26:31,589 They letting you in on the murder case? 338 00:26:33,132 --> 00:26:37,632 You know, that was my old office where they found that man. 339 00:26:38,513 --> 00:26:40,056 Yes, we know. Thank you. 340 00:26:40,139 --> 00:26:42,266 When was the last time you were there, sir? (LAUGHING) 341 00:26:42,350 --> 00:26:45,227 | haven’t used it since the Battle of Gettysburg. 342 00:26:45,311 --> 00:26:48,939 The only time I go over there is when I get lonesome for the old days. 343 00:26:49,023 --> 00:26:50,774 Well, pleased to have met you, Mr. Martin. 344 00:26:50,858 --> 00:26:53,151 I'd better be getting back to my fossils. 345 00:26:54,612 --> 00:26:57,364 What kind of fossils? 346 00:26:57,448 --> 00:27:01,410 Dad likes to wander up and down the canyon picking up rocks. 347 00:27:01,494 --> 00:27:04,538 He's pretty much retired these days. 348 00:27:04,622 --> 00:27:07,458 I think it makes him a little sad to see the mines now. 349 00:27:07,542 --> 00:27:10,211 The way it does me. 350 00:27:10,294 --> 00:27:12,713 I go and wander around the place sometimes. 351 00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:14,715 Watch it fall apart. 352 00:27:15,675 --> 00:27:17,718 I'm sorry. Do you want to sit down? 353 00:27:17,802 --> 00:27:20,387 Oh, no thanks, Miss Kendon. I've got to get back to work. 354 00:27:20,471 --> 00:27:23,348 You're a real dedicated public servant, aren't you? 355 00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:26,144 Not dedicated enough, I'm afraid. 356 00:27:26,227 --> 00:27:29,688 Why do you always look as though you have something on your mind? 357 00:27:29,772 --> 00:27:31,732 Well, because I have. 358 00:27:31,816 --> 00:27:35,069 One thing I'll regret the rest of my life is 359 00:27:35,153 --> 00:27:37,989 chasing you the other day to give you that ticket. 360 00:27:38,072 --> 00:27:42,572 Why, Officer Martin, that’s the most gallant thing I've ever heard. 361 00:27:42,785 --> 00:27:44,077 Yup, that's me. 362 00:27:44,162 --> 00:27:45,955 Gallant but stupid. 363 00:27:46,038 --> 00:27:49,416 While I was handing out speeding tickets, 364 00:27:49,500 --> 00:27:51,585 that's when the man was being killed. 365 00:27:52,587 --> 00:27:54,505 Well, thanks for the drink, Miss Kendon. 366 00:27:55,548 --> 00:27:57,299 I didn't know. 367 00:27:58,509 --> 00:28:00,135 I'm sorry. 368 00:28:17,486 --> 00:28:18,445 Ward, hi. 369 00:28:18,529 --> 00:28:20,239 You got something? 370 00:28:25,077 --> 00:28:27,496 Remember that fellow I said had taken off for Las Vegas? 371 00:28:27,580 --> 00:28:29,707 Yeah. Not so sure about him now. 372 00:28:29,790 --> 00:28:33,043 That's his watch. One of my boys found it up the canyon. 373 00:28:33,127 --> 00:28:34,128 At the rim? 374 00:28:34,212 --> 00:28:36,214 Close to it. It was over by a boulder. 375 00:28:38,716 --> 00:28:41,427 Well, you know, even a dollar watch wears out sometime. 376 00:28:41,510 --> 00:28:43,011 Maybe he just threw this away. 377 00:28:43,095 --> 00:28:44,596 Not Charlie Piper. 378 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,849 Like a kid about that watch. Sort of a lucky piece, you know? 379 00:28:48,601 --> 00:28:52,313 You don't think he'd have gone to Vegas without this, huh? 380 00:28:52,396 --> 00:28:54,439 I don"t think he'd go anywhere without it. 381 00:31:16,457 --> 00:31:17,666 Look! Down there! 382 00:31:56,956 --> 00:31:59,041 It's Charlie, all right. 383 00:32:16,475 --> 00:32:18,935 Boy, he didn't make that kind of money with a shovel. 384 00:32:19,019 --> 00:32:20,937 Not shoveling guano, that's for sure. 385 00:33:46,065 --> 00:33:47,691 Hey, Eli! 386 00:33:54,448 --> 00:33:55,949 Eli? 387 00:34:02,373 --> 00:34:03,957 Eli! 388 00:34:24,436 --> 00:34:25,937 Hi there! 389 00:34:29,984 --> 00:34:31,485 Hi! 390 00:34:46,417 --> 00:34:47,626 This is a pleasant surprise. 391 00:34:47,710 --> 00:34:50,129 Well, it is for me too. 392 00:34:50,212 --> 00:34:52,047 You seen Eli around? 393 00:34:52,131 --> 00:34:54,508 He probably went into Kingman to get some groceries. 394 00:34:56,010 --> 00:34:58,012 Mind if I join you? Lots of room. 395 00:35:00,556 --> 00:35:01,974 What are you doing here? 396 00:35:02,057 --> 00:35:04,392 Oh, listening to the mills and the blasting. 397 00:35:05,394 --> 00:35:07,062 I can't hear them. 398 00:35:07,146 --> 00:35:10,482 That's because you never knew Kendon the way it used to be. 399 00:35:10,566 --> 00:35:12,568 You know, there were 10,000 people living here 400 00:35:12,651 --> 00:35:15,028 when the mines were going full steam. 401 00:35:15,112 --> 00:35:18,031 Oh, it was a wonderfully noisy place. 402 00:35:18,115 --> 00:35:21,159 The clatter of the big mills and the whine of the conveyor belts. 403 00:35:21,243 --> 00:35:24,412 And every now and then, a great big, beautiful explosion. 404 00:35:25,414 --> 00:35:27,124 And all day long, kids laughing 405 00:35:27,207 --> 00:35:29,459 and playing and howling at each other. 406 00:35:30,294 --> 00:35:32,212 It was a rip-roaring town too. 407 00:35:32,296 --> 00:35:34,548 You know, Scotty's saloon was just one of seven. 408 00:35:34,632 --> 00:35:36,175 Dance hall girls. 409 00:35:36,258 --> 00:35:38,176 Say, Methuselah, how old are you? 410 00:35:38,260 --> 00:35:40,345 It was less than 20 years ago. 411 00:35:40,429 --> 00:35:42,013 Look at it now. 412 00:35:42,598 --> 00:35:43,890 Yeah. 413 00:35:46,810 --> 00:35:49,687 You know, for a few moments there, I thought I could hear it too. 414 00:35:49,772 --> 00:35:51,523 Welcome to the club. 415 00:35:52,316 --> 00:35:53,483 Let me ask you something. 416 00:35:53,567 --> 00:35:56,319 Is it possible there could still be a lot of gold here 417 00:35:56,403 --> 00:35:58,405 without you people knowing about it? 418 00:35:58,489 --> 00:35:59,656 Are you kidding? 419 00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:02,159 You're sitting on $20 million worth of gold 420 00:36:02,242 --> 00:36:05,286 and practically everybody knows about it. 421 00:36:05,371 --> 00:36:08,165 During the war, the government had to close down all the gold mines 422 00:36:08,248 --> 00:36:10,583 because they needed the manpower. 423 00:36:10,668 --> 00:36:12,670 Well, the war's over. What are they waiting for? 424 00:36:12,753 --> 00:36:14,921 For the price of gold to go up. 425 00:36:15,005 --> 00:36:17,424 I don't see anything wrong with $35 an ounce. 426 00:36:17,508 --> 00:36:19,051 Nothing wrong with it? 427 00:36:19,134 --> 00:36:21,052 In other countries, where there's a free market, 428 00:36:21,136 --> 00:36:22,929 it averages about $50 an ounce. 429 00:36:23,013 --> 00:36:24,556 Oh, well, that is a difference. 430 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,725 $24,000 a hundred pounds. 431 00:36:26,809 --> 00:36:29,019 Darn right it's a difference. Mm-hmm. 432 00:36:31,313 --> 00:36:34,566 My father spent a fortune sending me to college in New York 433 00:36:34,650 --> 00:36:36,568 to make me ladylike and dainty. 434 00:36:36,652 --> 00:36:40,072 You come along, and in five minutes, I'm just a miner's brat again. 435 00:36:40,155 --> 00:36:42,323 I think you still look ladylike and dainty. 436 00:36:42,408 --> 00:36:44,535 I'll slug anyone who says I don't. 437 00:36:46,203 --> 00:36:49,789 With all this gold here, how come they have only one man guarding it? 438 00:36:49,873 --> 00:36:52,292 Oh, Eli"s not here to guard it. 439 00:36:52,376 --> 00:36:54,086 He just keeps the fences in repair 440 00:36:54,169 --> 00:36:56,588 so that the tourists won't fall down the mine shafts. 441 00:36:56,672 --> 00:36:59,091 And that concludes the lesson for today. 442 00:37:00,884 --> 00:37:01,885 All right, teacher. 443 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,058 Here we go! 444 00:37:08,142 --> 00:37:09,184 Oh! 445 00:37:12,146 --> 00:37:15,607 Tell me, Les, what do you do when you finish a day's work? 446 00:37:15,691 --> 00:37:17,734 Go home, get your notes in order? 447 00:37:17,818 --> 00:37:20,612 Oh, | generally hang around the pool hall. 448 00:37:20,696 --> 00:37:24,449 Sometimes I get in with a group to go stealing hubcaps. 449 00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:26,618 You need some recreation. 450 00:37:26,702 --> 00:37:29,496 You mean like a hobby, like stamp collecting? 451 00:37:30,164 --> 00:37:33,792 Why don't you find yourself a nice, intelligent, well-rounded girl, 452 00:37:33,876 --> 00:37:35,627 take her out for dinner and dancing? 453 00:37:36,628 --> 00:37:38,546 I think you're well-rounded. 454 00:37:38,630 --> 00:37:42,050 You might try my house, say, 7:00 tomorrow evening? 455 00:37:42,134 --> 00:37:43,510 That sounds like a dare. 456 00:37:43,594 --> 00:37:44,886 Oh, it is. 457 00:37:45,179 --> 00:37:47,264 All right, you're on. Tomorrow at 7:00. 458 00:37:47,347 --> 00:37:48,848 Lightweight gloves. 459 00:37:57,357 --> 00:37:59,734 LES: Keep an eye out for cops. 460 00:38:21,256 --> 00:38:22,298 (CLANKING) 461 00:38:24,426 --> 00:38:26,344 Hey, what are you doing down there? 462 00:38:27,179 --> 00:38:29,097 What the hell business is it of yours? 463 00:38:29,181 --> 00:38:30,807 Get up out of there. 464 00:38:35,604 --> 00:38:37,022 What's your name? 465 00:38:37,105 --> 00:38:39,315 Suds Reese. What are you doing here? 466 00:38:39,399 --> 00:38:41,984 Minding my own business, that's what. 467 00:38:42,069 --> 00:38:44,321 I"m hitchhiking my way out of this lousy state, 468 00:38:44,404 --> 00:38:46,739 so I stopped for a couple of beers and I'm sleeping them off. 469 00:38:46,824 --> 00:38:48,534 In a gold mine? 470 00:38:48,617 --> 00:38:50,619 I just wanted a cool place to sleep. 471 00:38:51,453 --> 00:38:53,872 You county cops got nothing to do but give me a hard time? 472 00:38:53,956 --> 00:38:55,332 Wait a minute. 473 00:38:59,127 --> 00:39:01,379 Where did you get those? 474 00:39:01,463 --> 00:39:03,882 They're a graduation present from me mother. 475 00:39:03,966 --> 00:39:05,258 Yeah? 476 00:39:05,342 --> 00:39:07,552 You must have skipped a couple of grades you shouldn't... 477 00:39:07,636 --> 00:39:09,262 (GRUNTS) 478 00:39:12,975 --> 00:39:14,309 Get your hands up. 479 00:39:17,020 --> 00:39:18,521 Keep 'em up. 480 00:39:19,815 --> 00:39:21,316 Now turn around. 481 00:39:22,609 --> 00:39:24,402 Spread your feet. Come on! 482 00:39:26,989 --> 00:39:28,991 I ought to break your neck. 483 00:39:29,074 --> 00:39:31,284 What are you trying to pull, huh? 484 00:39:39,084 --> 00:39:41,669 No wonder you didn't want me to look at these. R.E.W. 485 00:39:42,671 --> 00:39:46,216 Mr. Reese, if you want to leave this state, ever, 486 00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:48,844 you better have a real good story about where you found those. 487 00:39:48,927 --> 00:39:50,929 What kind of a way is that to talk? 488 00:39:51,013 --> 00:39:53,015 I found them laying back down there. 489 00:39:53,098 --> 00:39:55,391 And you had no idea who to give them back to, right? 490 00:39:55,475 --> 00:39:57,727 I don't know any R.E.W. 491 00:39:57,811 --> 00:40:00,104 Reese, you're coming down to Kingman with me 492 00:40:00,188 --> 00:40:02,190 just to make sure you don't. 493 00:40:02,774 --> 00:40:04,358 LES: All right, get going. 494 00:40:04,443 --> 00:40:05,944 You heard me. Come on now. 495 00:40:06,028 --> 00:40:07,654 What's going on out here? 496 00:40:09,072 --> 00:40:11,157 LES: I've had enough trouble out of you. 497 00:40:12,159 --> 00:40:15,412 Book him for assault and battery and suspicion of murder. 498 00:40:15,495 --> 00:40:16,496 Murder? 499 00:40:16,580 --> 00:40:17,914 Suspicion of murder, huh? 500 00:40:18,790 --> 00:40:20,374 This guy sure gets around 501 00:40:20,459 --> 00:40:23,378 considering he just got out of jail in Prescott late yesterday. 502 00:40:23,754 --> 00:40:25,547 Late yesterday in Prescott? 503 00:40:26,256 --> 00:40:27,423 You know this guy? 504 00:40:27,507 --> 00:40:29,884 He's one of my star boarders. Suds Reese. 505 00:40:29,968 --> 00:40:31,511 He likes it, don't you, Sudsie? 506 00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:34,889 Sure, you got the best county jail in the county. 507 00:40:34,973 --> 00:40:38,726 Then why did he slug me when I started to look at these binoculars? 508 00:40:40,145 --> 00:40:42,063 Old Sudsie's like that. 509 00:40:42,147 --> 00:40:44,858 Look at the initials. R.E.W. 510 00:40:44,942 --> 00:40:46,818 That certainly could be R.E. Wallace. 511 00:40:47,402 --> 00:40:48,486 (TELEPHONE RINGING) 512 00:40:48,570 --> 00:40:49,862 Where did you get them? 513 00:40:49,947 --> 00:40:52,574 Like I told this joker, I found them. 514 00:40:53,784 --> 00:40:55,952 Sorry, Les. Probably true. 515 00:40:56,745 --> 00:40:58,788 Anyway, we can book him for assault and battery. 516 00:40:58,872 --> 00:41:01,666 Sheriff, the county attorney's on the telephone again. 517 00:41:02,459 --> 00:41:04,794 I'll take it in my office. Lock him up. 518 00:41:04,878 --> 00:41:07,714 Come on, Les. You might as well be in on this too. 519 00:41:07,798 --> 00:41:10,467 LES: I've met County Attorney Houghton. 520 00:41:10,550 --> 00:41:13,803 He doesn't think very much of the sheriffs department. 521 00:41:13,887 --> 00:41:15,930 The feeling's mutual. 522 00:41:20,769 --> 00:41:22,353 Mr. Houghton, Sheriff Edwards. 523 00:41:22,437 --> 00:41:23,896 Oh, that’s very reassuring, Mr. Edwards. 524 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:27,150 People around town are beginning to wonder if we still have a sheriff. 525 00:41:28,735 --> 00:41:32,822 I have in my office the mayor and Mr. Sanford of the Kingman Dispatch. 526 00:41:32,906 --> 00:41:35,491 They have the feeling that, though you may be on the case, 527 00:41:35,575 --> 00:41:37,410 you're not doing anything about it. 528 00:41:37,494 --> 00:41:41,122 Well, we are. Matter of fact, I got something on it this morning. 529 00:41:41,206 --> 00:41:42,999 Communication on Charlie Piper. 530 00:41:43,083 --> 00:41:45,001 Los Angeles Police Department. 531 00:41:46,294 --> 00:41:49,088 The old goat's just bluffing. Shuffling papers. 532 00:41:49,172 --> 00:41:52,800 If we don't win the election, it won't be his fault. 533 00:41:52,884 --> 00:41:54,385 Here it is. 534 00:41:55,846 --> 00:41:58,098 Arrested for hijacking a truck. 535 00:41:58,181 --> 00:41:59,390 Beat the rap. 536 00:41:59,474 --> 00:42:02,977 Apparently, the county attorney down there wasn't doing his job. 537 00:42:04,104 --> 00:42:08,399 July 6, 1953, was tried and convicted for the burglary of a warehouse. 538 00:42:09,818 --> 00:42:12,153 Yeah, yeah. Must have been a different county attorney. 539 00:42:12,237 --> 00:42:14,072 Edwards, I'll tell you one thing. 540 00:42:14,156 --> 00:42:17,826 Neither one of those county attorneys would have gotten a conviction if you'd been sheriff. 541 00:42:17,909 --> 00:42:21,078 Because your Mr. Piper would never have been arrested in the first place. 542 00:42:21,163 --> 00:42:23,248 Look, Sam, why don't you take care of your department 543 00:42:23,331 --> 00:42:24,832 and let me take care of mine? 544 00:42:29,504 --> 00:42:33,090 Sam Houghton backed my opponent the last time I ran for sheriff. 545 00:42:33,175 --> 00:42:37,137 It would make him very happy if we don't solve this case. 546 00:42:37,220 --> 00:42:40,264 Matter of fact, it might lose me the next election. 547 00:42:40,348 --> 00:42:44,226 You mean, for both our sakes, I'd better make some progress, huh? 548 00:42:44,311 --> 00:42:45,854 You got the message. 549 00:42:49,024 --> 00:42:50,692 What are you all dressed up for? 550 00:42:50,776 --> 00:42:52,027 I'm not all dressed up. 551 00:42:52,110 --> 00:42:53,611 You've got shoes on. 552 00:42:53,695 --> 00:42:55,196 It gets cold around here at night. 553 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:57,407 (DOOR BELL RINGS) 554 00:42:57,491 --> 00:43:00,118 If you must know, I have a young man calling for me. 555 00:43:00,202 --> 00:43:02,204 Obviously, you can't think too much of him 556 00:43:02,287 --> 00:43:04,247 if you're not even going to keep him waiting. 557 00:43:07,918 --> 00:43:08,835 Hi. 558 00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:09,878 Hi! 559 00:43:15,509 --> 00:43:16,968 How are you, sir? Fine, thanks. 560 00:43:17,052 --> 00:43:19,429 How about a drink? I'll intoxicate him. 561 00:43:19,513 --> 00:43:20,889 Come on, Les. 562 00:43:21,973 --> 00:43:25,059 Let's live dangerously and take my car, huh? 563 00:43:25,143 --> 00:43:27,145 Not that dangerously. You can drive. 564 00:43:27,229 --> 00:43:28,480 Well, in that case... 565 00:43:29,397 --> 00:43:30,773 Good night, sir. Good night. 566 00:43:38,657 --> 00:43:41,076 I keep coming back to one theory. 567 00:43:41,159 --> 00:43:44,370 Could somebody be sneaking gold out of your father's mine? 568 00:43:44,454 --> 00:43:48,954 Your somebody would have to sneak it out by the truckload to make it worthwhile. 569 00:43:49,042 --> 00:43:52,253 Well, if you had a big truck and taking ways, 570 00:43:52,337 --> 00:43:54,213 where would you take the gold? 571 00:43:54,297 --> 00:43:56,340 I've been accused of having fetching ways, 572 00:43:56,424 --> 00:43:58,008 but this is the first. 573 00:43:59,636 --> 00:44:03,222 This is hardly a big girl's idea of a gay night out. 574 00:44:04,266 --> 00:44:05,517 Can't we talk about us? 575 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,351 I'm just trying to protect you. 576 00:44:07,435 --> 00:44:10,813 Somewhere in these hills, there's a murderer on the loose. 577 00:44:10,897 --> 00:44:12,356 You frighten me. 578 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,609 If you don't answer my question, I"m really going to frighten you. 579 00:44:15,694 --> 00:44:17,028 Yes, Sir. 580 00:44:17,112 --> 00:44:20,532 Well, if I were stealing gold, we miners call it high-grading, 581 00:44:20,615 --> 00:44:22,241 I'd take it down to Mexico. 582 00:44:22,325 --> 00:44:24,535 Fifty dollars an ounce, remember? 583 00:44:25,871 --> 00:44:27,873 Would you have to know a lot about mining 584 00:44:27,956 --> 00:44:29,749 to discover a rich vein? 585 00:44:29,833 --> 00:44:33,211 Yes, and that's the last of your questions. 586 00:44:33,295 --> 00:44:35,130 Where are you taking me, Mr. Deputy? 587 00:44:35,213 --> 00:44:38,216 To Scotty's. I want to ask him some questions. 588 00:44:39,301 --> 00:44:41,803 This is turning out to be a fabulous evening. 589 00:44:42,387 --> 00:44:44,847 I was hoping to combine business with pleasure. 590 00:44:45,724 --> 00:44:47,600 Then let's get down to business. 591 00:44:48,476 --> 00:44:50,394 Ah, here we are. 592 00:44:53,064 --> 00:44:54,607 Thanks. 593 00:45:09,456 --> 00:45:11,040 Looks like your brother's here. 594 00:45:11,124 --> 00:45:12,667 He's always here. 595 00:45:13,585 --> 00:45:15,545 What else does Bob do? 596 00:45:16,630 --> 00:45:18,923 He's supposed to be a geologist. 597 00:45:19,007 --> 00:45:20,091 Supposed to. 598 00:45:20,175 --> 00:45:21,176 How's that? 599 00:45:22,010 --> 00:45:24,262 Well, he just does it to keep peace in the family. 600 00:45:24,346 --> 00:45:26,348 I wouldn't say he worked at it. 601 00:45:26,431 --> 00:45:28,433 Or at anything else, for that matter. 602 00:45:28,516 --> 00:45:30,309 Except flying maybe. 603 00:45:34,481 --> 00:45:37,108 Mademoiselle Kendon. 604 00:45:37,192 --> 00:45:40,612 Reserved table, up front, not too near the music. 605 00:45:40,695 --> 00:45:43,280 Inspector, champagne, of course. 606 00:45:43,365 --> 00:45:44,491 Hi, Scotty. Hi. 607 00:45:44,574 --> 00:45:46,200 I'll join you in a minute. All right. 608 00:45:46,284 --> 00:45:47,868 Come on. Drinks are on me. 609 00:45:51,248 --> 00:45:52,624 Hi, Sis. 610 00:45:52,707 --> 00:45:55,459 Stud or draw, deuces wild. You name it. 611 00:45:55,543 --> 00:45:57,336 Why didn't you come home last night? 612 00:45:57,420 --> 00:45:58,838 Why should 1? 613 00:45:58,922 --> 00:46:01,507 Well, Dad and I were worried about you. 614 00:46:02,259 --> 00:46:05,512 I'm sorry that you were worried, but I don't give a damn about him. 615 00:46:06,388 --> 00:46:07,514 Look, Bobby. 616 00:46:08,223 --> 00:46:10,308 No one wants to interfere with you. 617 00:46:11,309 --> 00:46:13,602 Boy, when I think of you driving those turns at night, 618 00:46:13,687 --> 00:46:16,022 absolutely pie-eyed. (SHUDDERING) 619 00:46:16,106 --> 00:46:17,774 I drive better drunk. 620 00:46:17,857 --> 00:46:20,109 That's because you've had more practice at it. 621 00:46:21,695 --> 00:46:23,196 How's the new fellow? 622 00:46:24,197 --> 00:46:26,699 And this is the specialty of the house for the carriage trade. 623 00:46:26,783 --> 00:46:29,494 Ha! Speaking of the carriage trade, 624 00:46:29,577 --> 00:46:31,412 have you seen any strangers around? 625 00:46:31,496 --> 00:46:34,707 In a ghost town? What would they be doing here? 626 00:46:34,791 --> 00:46:37,960 Well, just in case, if you do, anyone, anyone at all, 627 00:46:38,044 --> 00:46:40,171 get in touch with me right away, will you? 628 00:46:40,255 --> 00:46:43,758 If I see any strangers here, I'm going to grab them, pull them in here, then roll them. 629 00:46:43,842 --> 00:46:45,301 Then I'll call you. (LAUGHING) (LAUGHING) 630 00:46:46,219 --> 00:46:47,720 You have my blessing. 631 00:46:47,804 --> 00:46:49,597 You're a little premature. 632 00:46:49,681 --> 00:46:51,808 You usually get what you're after. 633 00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:54,143 I can't get you to stop drinking. 634 00:46:55,645 --> 00:46:57,563 You've got to lose sometime. 635 00:46:57,647 --> 00:46:59,148 You've got to stop sometime. 636 00:46:59,232 --> 00:47:01,234 Tell you what I'll do. I'll cut for it. 637 00:47:05,655 --> 00:47:08,199 (LAUGHING) See? It's impossible. 638 00:47:08,283 --> 00:47:10,159 (SIGHS) 639 00:47:10,243 --> 00:47:12,245 Okay, but take it easy, huh? 640 00:47:12,329 --> 00:47:13,872 You too, Sis. 641 00:47:15,457 --> 00:47:17,459 Hey, Scotty, how about another drink? 642 00:47:37,479 --> 00:47:40,398 For an arm of the law, you're very light on your feet. 643 00:47:40,482 --> 00:47:42,400 And on yours. 644 00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:44,694 You're a lot younger than your jokes. 645 00:47:44,778 --> 00:47:46,070 Where did you learn to cha-cha? 646 00:47:46,154 --> 00:47:48,072 I sent away for a mail-order course. 647 00:47:48,156 --> 00:47:50,992 But the left foot never arrived. Are you tired? 648 00:47:51,076 --> 00:47:53,328 Uncle. I'm glad you said it first. 649 00:47:55,288 --> 00:47:58,666 When you're not drag racing with policemen or rinsing out your brother, 650 00:47:58,750 --> 00:48:00,334 what do you do to keep busy? 651 00:48:00,418 --> 00:48:02,086 I'm a domestic. 652 00:48:02,170 --> 00:48:05,923 When summer comes, Dad pretends the housekeeper needs a long vacation. 653 00:48:06,007 --> 00:48:08,092 So I keep house for him and Bobby. 654 00:48:08,176 --> 00:48:10,761 Uh-huh. What do you do in the winter? 655 00:48:10,845 --> 00:48:13,097 Now I know why you became a policeman. 656 00:48:13,181 --> 00:48:15,183 You just like to sit around asking questions. 657 00:48:15,266 --> 00:48:16,767 (LAUGHING) I's my turn now. 658 00:48:16,851 --> 00:48:17,977 All right. 659 00:48:18,061 --> 00:48:21,230 What did you do before speeding tickets and the cha-cha? 660 00:48:21,314 --> 00:48:23,441 Well, actually, I started out to be a lawyer. 661 00:48:23,525 --> 00:48:25,485 Mail-order? 662 00:48:25,568 --> 00:48:27,278 University of Colorado. 663 00:48:27,362 --> 00:48:31,074 I passed my bar exams. I practiced for two years in Boulder City. 664 00:48:31,699 --> 00:48:33,992 But I... It just didn't get me. 665 00:48:34,077 --> 00:48:35,828 Not enough excitement? 666 00:48:35,912 --> 00:48:38,539 Not enough fresh air, I guess. Then what? 667 00:48:39,207 --> 00:48:41,209 On one of the cases I was handling, 668 00:48:41,292 --> 00:48:44,253 I met a police sergeant from Denver. Homicide. 669 00:48:45,380 --> 00:48:48,383 And his job seemed much more interesting than mine, 670 00:48:48,466 --> 00:48:50,468 so I became a policeman, homicide. 671 00:48:50,552 --> 00:48:51,886 A detective. Mm-hmm. 672 00:48:51,970 --> 00:48:54,430 That's interesting. Were you a good detective? 673 00:48:54,514 --> 00:48:56,432 They seemed to think so. 674 00:48:56,516 --> 00:48:59,227 There was even talk of running me for district attorney. 675 00:48:59,310 --> 00:49:00,853 I'd have voted for you. 676 00:49:00,937 --> 00:49:02,271 (LAUGHING) 677 00:49:02,355 --> 00:49:04,315 Another round, please. 678 00:49:06,109 --> 00:49:07,985 Well, you can't finish the chapter there. 679 00:49:08,069 --> 00:49:09,779 No personal life? 680 00:49:09,863 --> 00:49:11,197 No policewomen? 681 00:49:12,073 --> 00:49:15,951 Well, I did meet a girl. We fell in love, got married. 682 00:49:16,035 --> 00:49:17,578 Had three wonderful years. 683 00:49:17,662 --> 00:49:19,080 Then she became ll. 684 00:49:20,331 --> 00:49:22,082 Everyone was very understanding. 685 00:49:22,167 --> 00:49:25,420 I couldn't keep my mind on what I was doing, 686 00:49:25,503 --> 00:49:29,089 and... I messed up a terribly important case. 687 00:49:29,174 --> 00:49:31,676 The department was Kind of glad to see me go. 688 00:49:33,428 --> 00:49:37,390 And when she died, I just couldn't stay in the same town. 689 00:49:38,725 --> 00:49:40,935 We don't have to talk about it if you'd rather not. 690 00:49:41,978 --> 00:49:43,854 Oh, it’s finished now, | think. 691 00:49:43,938 --> 00:49:46,273 I became somewhat of a drifter for a while. 692 00:49:46,357 --> 00:49:48,650 I had nowhere to go, nothing to do. 693 00:49:48,735 --> 00:49:51,988 Until I ran into Sheriff Edwards here in Kingman. 694 00:49:52,071 --> 00:49:53,864 He knew about me 695 00:49:53,948 --> 00:49:57,159 and practically bullied me into becoming a deputy, 696 00:49:57,243 --> 00:49:58,953 bless his overweight old heart. (CHUCKLES) 697 00:49:59,037 --> 00:50:00,788 I'll go along with that. 698 00:50:01,539 --> 00:50:03,457 And what about the future? 699 00:50:03,541 --> 00:50:05,543 You could still run for district attorney. 700 00:50:06,294 --> 00:50:10,423 Well, the main thing at the moment is to do a good job right where I am. 701 00:50:10,507 --> 00:50:12,675 There's nothing to stop you. 702 00:50:17,555 --> 00:50:18,639 SAM: Hello, Deputy. 703 00:50:21,643 --> 00:50:23,561 Good evening, Mr. Houghton. 704 00:50:23,645 --> 00:50:26,189 Miss Kendon, do you know Mr. Houghton, our county attorney? 705 00:50:26,272 --> 00:50:27,773 Yes, we've met. 706 00:50:27,857 --> 00:50:29,692 I'm glad to see you’re relaxing. 707 00:50:32,695 --> 00:50:36,407 Someone ought to tell him that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 708 00:50:36,491 --> 00:50:39,368 Yeah, well, I think I'd better start getting real dull. 709 00:50:39,452 --> 00:50:40,661 Check, please. 710 00:50:42,372 --> 00:50:45,375 I don't know about you, but Mr. Houghton just lost a vote. 711 00:50:45,458 --> 00:50:46,876 Mine. 712 00:50:49,254 --> 00:50:51,881 (GUNSHOTS ON RADIO) 713 00:50:54,050 --> 00:50:56,177 MAN: (ON RADIO) I'm sorry, Mad Dog, 714 00:50:56,261 --> 00:50:58,388 you wouldn't have it any other way. 715 00:50:58,471 --> 00:51:02,099 MAN 2: Well, Lieutenant, I guess that closes the books on Mad Dog Cooley. 716 00:51:06,896 --> 00:51:08,898 Should've listened to 'em, Mad Dog. 717 00:51:27,417 --> 00:51:28,835 (KNOCKING ON DOOR) 718 00:51:34,966 --> 00:51:39,011 Well, you couldn't have picked yourself a better time to have dropped in. 719 00:51:39,095 --> 00:51:40,805 I just made a discovery. 720 00:51:40,888 --> 00:51:44,308 That fellow who was murdered is sitting right here next to Mr. Kendon. 721 00:51:44,392 --> 00:51:45,768 (DOOR CLOSING) Look. 722 00:51:47,395 --> 00:51:51,023 Oh. Here, have yourself an apple while I phone the sheriff. 723 00:51:51,107 --> 00:51:52,691 Oh, peel it? 724 00:51:55,570 --> 00:51:57,572 (GRUNTS) 725 00:52:08,124 --> 00:52:09,750 Is this the coroner's inquest? 726 00:52:09,834 --> 00:52:11,001 Yes, Miss Kendon. 727 00:52:11,085 --> 00:52:14,046 SAM: According to your previous testimony, before coming here, 728 00:52:14,130 --> 00:52:17,925 you were a lieutenant in the homicide division of the Denver Police Force. 729 00:52:18,009 --> 00:52:19,510 Yes, Sir. 730 00:52:19,594 --> 00:52:22,888 You're experienced in homicide cases therefore. 731 00:52:22,972 --> 00:52:26,100 Well, yes, sir. I've had some experience, yes, Sir. 732 00:52:26,184 --> 00:52:29,020 Perhaps you can explain why you seem to have no leads at all 733 00:52:29,103 --> 00:52:31,396 as to the murderer's identity. 734 00:52:31,481 --> 00:52:33,983 As I explained in my previous testimony... 735 00:52:34,067 --> 00:52:38,404 Is this your testimony about your discovering this body or the body earlier this week? 736 00:52:38,488 --> 00:52:40,072 Or the body last week? 737 00:52:40,156 --> 00:52:42,158 When you have as many murder cases as we have, 738 00:52:42,241 --> 00:52:44,159 you have to be a little more specific. 739 00:52:44,243 --> 00:52:45,410 I'm sorry. 740 00:52:45,495 --> 00:52:48,831 We're talking about three unsolved murder cases. 741 00:52:49,916 --> 00:52:51,250 We have three bodies. 742 00:52:51,334 --> 00:52:53,419 It could be we have only one murder case. 743 00:52:53,503 --> 00:52:58,003 While the manner of these three deaths shows no similarity, 744 00:52:58,925 --> 00:53:01,385 we believe there's a strong connection between them. 745 00:53:01,469 --> 00:53:04,388 Would you mind defining that connection? 746 00:53:04,472 --> 00:53:08,392 When I can define it, that will close the case. 747 00:53:09,602 --> 00:53:12,938 We know generally that John Doe and Eli Jones 748 00:53:13,022 --> 00:53:16,775 had met shortly before John Doe was hanged. 749 00:53:16,859 --> 00:53:19,278 Both men died in the same place, 750 00:53:19,362 --> 00:53:23,282 a place that's visited by probably not more than a dozen people a year. 751 00:53:23,366 --> 00:53:26,577 The office of the inactive gold mine at Kendon. 752 00:53:26,661 --> 00:53:28,371 Mm-hmm. 753 00:53:28,454 --> 00:53:30,372 And the third man? 754 00:53:30,456 --> 00:53:32,124 Charles Piper. 755 00:53:32,208 --> 00:53:35,252 We know that Charles Piper leaped or fell 756 00:53:35,336 --> 00:53:38,714 or was pushed over the rim of the Grand Canyon at Granite Gorge. 757 00:53:38,798 --> 00:53:40,549 Yes, but we don't know why. 758 00:53:41,300 --> 00:53:43,468 When we know why, we'll probably know who. 759 00:53:43,553 --> 00:53:46,806 Well, that's a well-made phrase. Mr. Deputy. 760 00:53:47,724 --> 00:53:49,225 Let's go back to Denver. 761 00:53:51,644 --> 00:53:52,645 Thank you. 762 00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:54,731 The last case that you handled there... 763 00:53:55,606 --> 00:54:00,106 involved the murder of a 16-year old boy, one Harris Knight. 764 00:54:01,154 --> 00:54:03,030 Now, according to my investigation. 765 00:54:03,114 --> 00:54:04,615 Now, wait a minute, Sam. 766 00:54:04,699 --> 00:54:07,576 This has nothing to do with this inquest, and you know it. 767 00:54:07,660 --> 00:54:09,995 I know nothing of the kind. 768 00:54:10,079 --> 00:54:11,371 But I do know this. 769 00:54:11,456 --> 00:54:12,957 I'm the county attorney, 770 00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,500 responsible to the good citizens of Mohave County, 771 00:54:15,585 --> 00:54:18,004 and they're very upset, with good reason, 772 00:54:18,087 --> 00:54:20,714 over these three unsolved murders. 773 00:54:22,008 --> 00:54:25,052 Mr. Coroner, it's up to you to see that he sticks to the inquest. 774 00:54:25,136 --> 00:54:26,846 I'd like to answer him, Sheriff. 775 00:54:27,847 --> 00:54:29,890 Might as well have everything out. 776 00:54:29,974 --> 00:54:32,184 You may continue the questioning. 777 00:54:35,521 --> 00:54:36,605 Mr. Martin, 778 00:54:37,523 --> 00:54:40,150 according to my investigation, 779 00:54:40,234 --> 00:54:44,404 you had the police department in Denver holding the wrong man for trial. 780 00:54:44,489 --> 00:54:47,825 It wasn't until you were relieved of your job and another officer replaced you 781 00:54:47,909 --> 00:54:51,120 that the true murderer was found and convicted. 782 00:54:52,288 --> 00:54:53,372 Yes, Sir. 783 00:54:53,456 --> 00:54:55,624 In other words, you were guilty of several mistakes 784 00:54:55,708 --> 00:54:58,627 and some carelessness in the matter of Harris Knight. 785 00:55:01,005 --> 00:55:02,006 Yes, Sir. 786 00:55:02,089 --> 00:55:06,093 And then again, according to your testimony, 787 00:55:06,177 --> 00:55:07,636 the deceased, Eli Jones, 788 00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:11,807 intercepted you on the morning of the 16th of this month 789 00:55:11,891 --> 00:55:15,603 and he begged you to come with him to interview a John Doe, 790 00:55:15,686 --> 00:55:18,313 a man known as R.E. Wallace, 791 00:55:19,816 --> 00:55:22,819 who was Killed later the same day in the Kendon Mine office. 792 00:55:22,902 --> 00:55:25,905 Now, have I made any misstatements of fact up to this point? 793 00:55:25,988 --> 00:55:26,863 No, sir. 794 00:55:27,698 --> 00:55:29,991 According to your own report, 795 00:55:30,076 --> 00:55:33,913 you disregarded Eli Jones's request and went chasing after a girl. 796 00:55:33,996 --> 00:55:35,747 I wasn't chasing after any girl. 797 00:55:35,832 --> 00:55:37,834 I was taking care of a traffic violation. 798 00:55:37,917 --> 00:55:39,627 You gave her a ticket? Yes, I did. 799 00:55:39,710 --> 00:55:41,503 What was the ticket for? 800 00:55:41,587 --> 00:55:44,006 Forty-five miles an hour in a 25-mile zone. 801 00:55:44,090 --> 00:55:46,967 Well, that doesn't sound SO serious to me. 802 00:55:47,051 --> 00:55:49,428 Certainly not as serious as murder. 803 00:55:49,512 --> 00:55:51,764 Or even a request for help from Eli Jones. 804 00:55:51,848 --> 00:55:54,767 When Eli Jones asked for help, I didn't know of any murder. 805 00:55:54,851 --> 00:55:57,061 And I did see somebody breaking the law. 806 00:55:57,144 --> 00:55:59,813 You can call it a mistake only now, after the fact. 807 00:55:59,897 --> 00:56:03,483 You made a mistake in the case of Eli Jones and John Doe. 808 00:56:03,568 --> 00:56:06,195 You made a mistake in Denver in the matter of Harris Knight. 809 00:56:06,279 --> 00:56:09,407 Now, why should we have any reason to assume 810 00:56:09,490 --> 00:56:11,533 that there won't be further mistakes? 811 00:56:11,617 --> 00:56:14,077 I can't give you any guarantee. Nobody can. 812 00:56:14,161 --> 00:56:15,912 Mr. County Attorney, 813 00:56:15,997 --> 00:56:20,126 our sole purpose here is to establish the identity of the deceased 814 00:56:20,209 --> 00:56:22,377 and to determine the cause of his death. 815 00:56:22,461 --> 00:56:24,921 Mr. Coroner, I'm just trying to do my job. 816 00:56:25,006 --> 00:56:28,092 And I assume that all of us are trying to do the same. 817 00:56:28,676 --> 00:56:30,177 It seems clear to me 818 00:56:30,261 --> 00:56:33,806 that those of us who haven't met with violent death so far 819 00:56:33,890 --> 00:56:37,184 might be reassured if there were fewer mistakes 820 00:56:37,268 --> 00:56:38,602 and more progress. 821 00:56:38,686 --> 00:56:42,272 Perhaps this entire community would all feel a little more secure 822 00:56:42,356 --> 00:56:45,359 if someone with a different record was handling this case. 823 00:56:45,443 --> 00:56:47,903 (CROWD MURMURING) 824 00:56:52,283 --> 00:56:53,742 You seen the morning paper? 825 00:57:03,586 --> 00:57:05,421 You want my resignation? 826 00:57:06,631 --> 00:57:08,633 No, | don’t want your resignation. 827 00:57:08,716 --> 00:57:11,677 But if this sort of thing keeps up, I'm going to have to accept it. 828 00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:16,098 MAN: Hey, Martin, you've got a stack of unanswered phone calls out here. 829 00:57:17,266 --> 00:57:18,725 Janice Kendon called. 830 00:57:18,809 --> 00:57:20,811 Miss Kendon called to report she's a missing person. 831 00:57:20,895 --> 00:57:21,896 Janice Kendon would like... 832 00:57:21,979 --> 00:57:24,481 JANICE: Would like to send you a food package. Where? 833 00:57:24,565 --> 00:57:26,608 I see at least you got the messages. 834 00:57:26,692 --> 00:57:28,443 He's been working like a dog, Miss Kendon. 835 00:57:28,527 --> 00:57:30,278 He is a dog. 836 00:57:30,363 --> 00:57:31,530 Not being a girl, 837 00:57:31,614 --> 00:57:34,575 you can't imagine how embarrassing it is if you keep chasing a man 838 00:57:34,659 --> 00:57:37,036 and he keeps hiding from you. 839 00:57:37,119 --> 00:57:38,120 I'm sorry. 840 00:57:38,204 --> 00:57:40,789 All right, Deputy, put your hat back on and take the silly look off. 841 00:57:40,873 --> 00:57:42,374 You're gonna buy me a hamburger. 842 00:57:42,458 --> 00:57:45,502 All right, you're on. I'll just put these things away. 843 00:57:47,755 --> 00:57:51,592 Oh, I had a professor of medieval history had a jacket almost like this. 844 00:57:51,676 --> 00:57:52,885 Yeah? In New York? 845 00:57:52,969 --> 00:57:54,971 Of course. That"s where Norman James is. 846 00:57:55,054 --> 00:57:57,806 Who's Norman James? Your history professor? 847 00:57:57,890 --> 00:58:01,894 He is the man who makes these jackets with the funny little round lapels. 848 00:58:01,978 --> 00:58:04,397 Oh, Les, you are a country boy. 849 00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,358 Back in the effete east, you could be ostracized for asking a question like that. 850 00:58:09,860 --> 00:58:11,403 What are you talking about? 851 00:58:11,487 --> 00:58:14,948 Norman James is the most exclusive gentlemen's tailor in New York, 852 00:58:15,032 --> 00:58:19,077 and this jazzy lapel and these crazy pockets are his trademark. 853 00:58:19,161 --> 00:58:20,704 Where could I find this Norman James? 854 00:58:20,788 --> 00:58:22,831 Would he be in the New York telephone book? 855 00:58:22,915 --> 00:58:25,083 You don't think he'd have an unlisted business number? 856 00:58:25,167 --> 00:58:27,002 He's not all that exclusive. 857 00:58:28,004 --> 00:58:30,798 What's that for? For being the best girl a deputy ever had. 858 00:58:30,881 --> 00:58:32,465 Well, hey, how about my hamburger? 859 00:58:32,550 --> 00:58:35,135 Stay right there. I'll get you a truck full of hamburgers. 860 00:58:36,012 --> 00:58:37,972 Rush this out, will you? 861 00:58:38,848 --> 00:58:40,432 (TYPING) 862 00:58:41,851 --> 00:58:43,769 To New York Police Department. 863 00:58:44,770 --> 00:58:48,106 Contact immediately, Norman James. 864 00:58:48,691 --> 00:58:53,191 EDWARDS: “Norman James made suit as described for only one customer, 865 00:58:53,696 --> 00:58:55,406 “Randall E. Whittemore, 866 00:58:55,489 --> 00:58:57,908 “Claiborne Towers, New York. 867 00:58:57,992 --> 00:59:02,121 “Whittemore, Executive Vice President of Kendon Mining Corporation, 868 00:59:02,204 --> 00:59:03,914 “currently on extended business trip.” 869 00:59:03,998 --> 00:59:06,250 Pretty smart of you to recognize that jacket. 870 00:59:06,333 --> 00:59:08,460 We hicks out here probably never would have known about it. 871 00:59:08,544 --> 00:59:10,045 Janice recognized it. 872 00:59:10,129 --> 00:59:12,923 Do you think Mr. Kendon is connected with this somehow? 873 00:59:13,007 --> 00:59:15,676 Well, let's face it. He and Whittemore belonged to the same company. 874 00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:17,845 Daughter recognized the jacket. 875 00:59:17,928 --> 00:59:20,680 What if you go out and have a little talk with Kendon? 876 00:59:20,765 --> 00:59:21,974 Yeah. 877 00:59:22,975 --> 00:59:26,186 On second thought, it'd probably take half the time if I went out there. 878 00:59:26,270 --> 00:59:27,479 Well, if you want. 879 00:59:27,563 --> 00:59:29,565 No, no. You know your way around. 880 00:59:29,648 --> 00:59:32,317 Besides, why send an old man to do a boy's job? 881 00:59:33,194 --> 00:59:35,362 (BOTH LAUGHING) 882 00:59:43,204 --> 00:59:45,581 (DOOR BELL RINGS) 883 00:59:49,585 --> 00:59:51,211 Hi. 884 00:59:52,588 --> 00:59:55,048 I'd like to see your father. 885 00:59:55,382 --> 00:59:57,300 My father? 886 00:59:57,384 --> 00:59:59,052 Isn't this rather sudden? 887 00:59:59,136 --> 01:00:01,096 It's line of duty. 888 01:00:01,180 --> 01:00:03,557 Oh. Well, he and Bob are fighting again. 889 01:00:03,641 --> 01:00:05,976 They're in the den. 890 01:00:06,060 --> 01:00:07,478 Did you find out about the jacket? 891 01:00:07,561 --> 01:00:08,728 Yeah. Well, that's good. 892 01:00:08,813 --> 01:00:10,523 You're getting somewhere. I don't know. 893 01:00:10,606 --> 01:00:13,317 This case is better in some ways, worse in others. 894 01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:14,526 JIM: We'll not discuss it any further. 895 01:00:14,610 --> 01:00:17,070 That’s fine with me, because I'm sick of it. 896 01:00:17,154 --> 01:00:18,280 Dad? 897 01:00:18,364 --> 01:00:20,574 Mr. Martin is paying us an official visit. 898 01:00:20,658 --> 01:00:21,909 Howdy. 899 01:00:21,992 --> 01:00:25,370 Well, which one of you two's in trouble this time? 900 01:00:25,454 --> 01:00:27,038 Oh, they're not in any trouble, sir. I am. 901 01:00:27,123 --> 01:00:28,165 Oh? 902 01:00:28,249 --> 01:00:30,042 Uh, Mr. Kendon, 903 01:00:30,126 --> 01:00:33,337 when was the last time you saw Mr. R.E. Whittemore? 904 01:00:33,420 --> 01:00:35,338 Randall Whittemore? Yes, Sir. 905 01:00:35,422 --> 01:00:37,257 Let's see. 906 01:00:37,341 --> 01:00:40,635 Last May at the stockholder's meeting in New York. 907 01:00:40,719 --> 01:00:42,178 You haven't seen him since? 908 01:00:42,263 --> 01:00:44,640 No. Why? 909 01:00:44,723 --> 01:00:46,558 Well, the man who was found dead 910 01:00:46,642 --> 01:00:49,186 at the Kendon mine office was Mr. R.E. Whittemore. 911 01:00:49,270 --> 01:00:50,229 What? Yes, Sir. 912 01:00:50,312 --> 01:00:52,314 Oh, no! I"m afraid I'll have to ask you 913 01:00:52,398 --> 01:00:54,566 to come down and identify him at the morgue. 914 01:00:54,650 --> 01:00:57,194 (TELEPHONE RINGING) Of course. 915 01:00:58,112 --> 01:00:59,530 This is shocking. 916 01:00:59,613 --> 01:01:01,531 You didn't even know he was coming out here? 917 01:01:01,615 --> 01:01:03,116 I had no idea. 918 01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,619 Hello? Yes, he's here. Just a minute. 919 01:01:05,703 --> 01:01:07,413 Bob, it's for you. Who is it? 920 01:01:07,496 --> 01:01:08,997 I don't know. A man. 921 01:01:10,207 --> 01:01:13,043 Mr. Kendon, isn't it kind of strange, 922 01:01:13,127 --> 01:01:15,045 Hello? Oh. his not getting in touch with you? 923 01:01:15,129 --> 01:01:17,464 Yes. It is strange. Why don't you sit down? 924 01:01:18,507 --> 01:01:19,508 I'll be there right away. 925 01:01:20,342 --> 01:01:21,551 I wonder... 926 01:01:23,012 --> 01:01:25,597 I wonder what he was here for? 927 01:01:27,099 --> 01:01:31,186 My guess is he found someone was taking ore out of the Kendon Mine. 928 01:01:32,605 --> 01:01:34,565 I think you're on the wrong track. 929 01:01:34,648 --> 01:01:37,484 First place, you don't just walk into a mine 930 01:01:37,568 --> 01:01:39,861 and fall over a high-grade pocket. 931 01:01:39,945 --> 01:01:41,905 You have to know something about gold mining. 932 01:01:41,989 --> 01:01:45,075 A lot of people around here know about that. 933 01:01:45,159 --> 01:01:46,368 Yes. 934 01:01:46,452 --> 01:01:47,703 But even after you discover the ore, 935 01:01:47,786 --> 01:01:49,412 you still have to blast it out. 936 01:01:49,496 --> 01:01:51,498 Now, that's hard to do. Quietly. 937 01:01:53,209 --> 01:01:55,127 Do you have to blast? 938 01:01:55,794 --> 01:01:57,921 I suppose under some circumstances 939 01:01:58,005 --> 01:02:00,966 you could get it out with jackhammer and pick. 940 01:02:01,050 --> 01:02:04,136 But you still have to get it out and sell it somewhere. 941 01:02:04,220 --> 01:02:06,222 (CAR MOVING AWAY) 942 01:02:07,139 --> 01:02:09,975 Taking a few hundred pounds of gold ore at a time, say, 943 01:02:10,059 --> 01:02:14,313 six or seven thousand dollars' worth, 944 01:02:14,396 --> 01:02:17,315 you could load it onto a truck or even a small plane. 945 01:02:18,734 --> 01:02:20,694 JIM: Yes, I suppose so. 946 01:02:20,778 --> 01:02:22,696 Excuse me. I think I'll make some coffee. 947 01:02:22,780 --> 01:02:24,615 None for me. Thanks. 948 01:02:26,158 --> 01:02:27,492 Mr. Kendon, 949 01:02:28,619 --> 01:02:31,121 have you told me everything you know about this case? 950 01:02:31,205 --> 01:02:32,623 (DOOR CLOSING) 951 01:02:33,916 --> 01:02:36,001 What do you mean? 952 01:02:36,085 --> 01:02:39,379 I don't have to steal from my own mine. 953 01:02:39,463 --> 01:02:42,257 I"m sorry I have to ask you these questions. 954 01:02:52,142 --> 01:02:54,227 Where's she going? 955 01:02:54,311 --> 01:02:55,812 I have no idea. 956 01:02:55,896 --> 01:02:57,731 You have any idea where Bob went? 957 01:02:58,732 --> 01:03:01,818 Well, if he's not in a bar, where he probably is, 958 01:03:01,902 --> 01:03:03,904 he might be out at the crop duster's strip 959 01:03:03,988 --> 01:03:05,823 where we keep the old company plane. 960 01:03:07,908 --> 01:03:09,326 I'll be back. 961 01:03:09,410 --> 01:03:11,787 That will be a pleasure I can for ego. 962 01:03:41,108 --> 01:03:43,068 You know you're not supposed to call me at home. 963 01:03:44,903 --> 01:03:46,863 Well, merciful heavens, 964 01:03:46,947 --> 01:03:49,574 look who got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning. 965 01:03:49,658 --> 01:03:51,242 You know who was there when you called? 966 01:03:51,327 --> 01:03:53,370 No! The deputy sheriff. 967 01:03:53,454 --> 01:03:55,414 Let's finish loading the plane. 968 01:03:55,497 --> 01:03:57,207 I dug it all myself. 969 01:03:57,291 --> 01:03:59,209 And then we're off to Rio. 970 01:03:59,293 --> 01:04:00,836 Rio? Are you crazy? 971 01:04:00,919 --> 01:04:02,754 Why the sudden change in our plans? 972 01:04:02,838 --> 01:04:04,881 We sell the stuff in Mexico and then we head south. 973 01:04:04,965 --> 01:04:07,884 Kid, I know places in Rio that make Las Vegas 974 01:04:07,968 --> 01:04:11,596 look like a Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia. 975 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:13,306 You know, you remind me of Charlie Piper. 976 01:04:13,390 --> 01:04:15,975 I had him figured for a lazy loafer from the start too. 977 01:04:16,060 --> 01:04:18,353 I'm glad I got rid of him. 978 01:04:18,437 --> 01:04:21,690 I got news for you. If I could fly this crate, I wouldn't need you either. 979 01:04:21,774 --> 01:04:23,650 You mean you killed Charlie Piper? 980 01:04:23,734 --> 01:04:25,402 Onh, I should have, but I didn't. 981 01:04:25,486 --> 01:04:26,862 What a character. Just like you. 982 01:04:26,945 --> 01:04:28,738 Never did anything right. 983 01:04:28,822 --> 01:04:30,949 I give him a job, busting up some rocks. 984 01:04:31,033 --> 01:04:33,660 He lets an old geezer with a trick suit catch him at it. 985 01:04:33,744 --> 01:04:36,705 So I said to him, “All right, Charlie, let him follow you up to the canyon. 986 01:04:36,789 --> 01:04:38,290 “Then you shove him over the edge.” 987 01:04:38,374 --> 01:04:41,460 Gets into a fight and he can't even lick an old man. 988 01:04:41,543 --> 01:04:43,586 Who's going to take care of him? 989 01:04:43,670 --> 01:04:45,213 Good old Scotty. 990 01:04:45,297 --> 01:04:46,423 That's cold-blooded murder! 991 01:04:46,507 --> 01:04:48,425 Oh, come off it, kid. 992 01:04:48,509 --> 01:04:50,636 This might have been a cut caper of yours 993 01:04:50,719 --> 01:04:53,012 to get back at your old man for being twice the man you are. 994 01:04:53,097 --> 01:04:55,265 Me? I went along for the loot. 995 01:04:55,349 --> 01:04:57,934 That's worth the lives of two men? 996 01:04:58,018 --> 01:04:59,894 Two? (CHUCKLES) 997 01:04:59,978 --> 01:05:01,854 I forgot to tell you about Eli. 998 01:05:02,940 --> 01:05:04,691 You murdered Eli! 999 01:05:04,775 --> 01:05:06,777 What do you want from me? 1000 01:05:06,860 --> 01:05:10,446 He sees a picture of the old snooper up on the office wall in Kendon. 1001 01:05:10,531 --> 01:05:12,616 If I don't get rid of him and the picture, 1002 01:05:12,699 --> 01:05:15,201 everybody in the whole county would know who the guy was. 1003 01:05:15,285 --> 01:05:16,452 They already know! 1004 01:05:16,537 --> 01:05:18,288 Know who? 1005 01:05:18,372 --> 01:05:20,749 The headman of the whole mining combine, that's all. 1006 01:05:20,833 --> 01:05:22,793 Well, now, don't that take the cake? 1007 01:05:22,876 --> 01:05:24,878 Before the day's over, they're going to know who we are. 1008 01:05:24,962 --> 01:05:26,880 (SCOFFS) 1009 01:05:26,964 --> 01:05:30,676 Here we are all wrapped up snug as a bug in a rug and ready to roll. 1010 01:05:30,759 --> 01:05:32,302 Now you go to work, daddy-o. 1011 01:05:32,386 --> 01:05:34,554 We put on the lap strap, turn on the no smoking sign... 1012 01:05:34,638 --> 01:05:36,598 (WHISTLES) and away we go. 1013 01:05:37,599 --> 01:05:38,641 No! 1014 01:05:39,226 --> 01:05:41,853 Oh, kid, come on. Don't be that way. 1015 01:05:41,937 --> 01:05:44,648 If I said anything about your old man you didn't like, 1016 01:05:44,731 --> 01:05:46,733 I'll apologize all along the way. 1017 01:05:49,027 --> 01:05:50,403 Come on. 1018 01:05:50,487 --> 01:05:51,863 I'm not going. 1019 01:05:52,739 --> 01:05:55,992 Oh, kid, don’t be a drag. You know I can’t fly this thing. 1020 01:05:59,371 --> 01:06:01,081 Kid. 1021 01:06:01,165 --> 01:06:03,458 I'm going to have to knock you off the company payroll. 1022 01:06:11,175 --> 01:06:12,676 (GUNSHOT) 1023 01:06:30,402 --> 01:06:31,903 Bobby! 1024 01:06:33,530 --> 01:06:35,031 Bobby! (CRYING) 1025 01:06:38,744 --> 01:06:40,245 Bobby. 1026 01:06:55,844 --> 01:06:58,429 Doll baby, I didn't mean to knock him off, 1027 01:06:58,514 --> 01:07:00,307 but you're going to be my ticket out of here. 1028 01:07:00,390 --> 01:07:02,392 Now come on. Your car, let's drive. 1029 01:07:05,854 --> 01:07:07,772 Nobody's going to dare to throw a rap at me 1030 01:07:07,856 --> 01:07:09,774 for fear of hitting you, how's that for a hot flash? 1031 01:07:09,858 --> 01:07:10,984 Back it up. 1032 01:07:11,068 --> 01:07:12,778 I kid you not. Back it up. 1033 01:07:14,404 --> 01:07:16,531 (SIREN WAILING) 1034 01:07:17,324 --> 01:07:18,742 (GUNSHOT) 1035 01:08:19,511 --> 01:08:21,763 Car 3 calling KOA 776. 1036 01:08:24,933 --> 01:08:26,142 Come in Car 3. 1037 01:08:26,226 --> 01:08:28,228 George, let me talk to the sheriff. 1038 01:08:28,312 --> 01:08:29,938 Les. 1039 01:08:30,022 --> 01:08:32,524 Yeah, Scotty O'Brien's our man. 1040 01:08:32,608 --> 01:08:36,528 He's killed Bob Kendon, taken off in Janice's car with her as hostage. 1041 01:08:36,612 --> 01:08:37,779 EDWARDS: Where are you? 1042 01:08:37,863 --> 01:08:39,030 Crop duster's strip. 1043 01:08:39,114 --> 01:08:41,199 With a flat tire and a broken radiator. 1044 01:08:41,283 --> 01:08:43,660 Now, he's heading north. 1045 01:08:43,744 --> 01:08:46,705 Better notify Buzz to warm up the planes. We're going to need them. 1046 01:08:46,788 --> 01:08:48,039 Okay. I'll pick you up. 1047 01:08:48,123 --> 01:08:49,791 George, get the emergency band. 1048 01:08:53,378 --> 01:08:54,629 Attention, all units. 1049 01:09:13,106 --> 01:09:14,816 (SIREN WAILING) 1050 01:09:43,387 --> 01:09:45,097 Faster, hon, faster. 1051 01:09:46,890 --> 01:09:48,641 I said faster! 1052 01:09:51,019 --> 01:09:52,729 That's better. That's better. 1053 01:10:14,626 --> 01:10:17,295 (SIREN WAILING) 1054 01:10:44,448 --> 01:10:46,867 (JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING) 1055 01:10:55,792 --> 01:10:57,502 (LAUGHING) 1056 01:11:58,063 --> 01:12:01,232 MAN: (ON RADIO) We interrupt this broadcast for a special news bulletin. 1057 01:12:01,316 --> 01:12:05,570 Mohave County's multiple murder case came to a violent climax today 1058 01:12:05,654 --> 01:12:07,489 with the fatal shooting of Robert Kendon 1059 01:12:07,572 --> 01:12:09,907 and the kidnapping of his sister, Janice, 1060 01:12:09,991 --> 01:12:13,619 by a Mohave County innkeeper, Scotty O'Brien. 1061 01:12:13,703 --> 01:12:18,124 O'Brien and his cap five are apparently headed for Pierce Ferry on Lake Mead 1062 01:12:18,208 --> 01:12:21,044 where O'Brien possibly hopes to pick up a boat 1063 01:12:21,127 --> 01:12:25,627 and lose himself in the vast reaches of the lake and its 550 miles of shoreline. 1064 01:12:27,759 --> 01:12:30,887 And now we return to Don Hale's musical favorites. 1065 01:12:30,971 --> 01:12:33,306 Stop the car. Stop it! 1066 01:12:35,392 --> 01:12:37,894 Back it up. Back it up. 1067 01:12:42,440 --> 01:12:43,941 Now hold it. 1068 01:12:44,025 --> 01:12:46,277 To the right. Let's go. 1069 01:12:50,866 --> 01:12:52,701 (LAUGHING) 1070 01:13:20,979 --> 01:13:22,981 MAN: (ON RADIO) No sign of them at Pierce Ferry. 1071 01:13:23,064 --> 01:13:24,648 Check the other road. Out 1072 01:14:02,187 --> 01:14:03,980 Let's get out, doll baby. 1073 01:14:06,232 --> 01:14:07,358 Come on. 1074 01:14:07,651 --> 01:14:09,069 Billy Boy! 1075 01:14:10,695 --> 01:14:13,114 Where are you, Billy Boy? 1076 01:14:14,616 --> 01:14:16,868 Scotty, you lost your marbles? 1077 01:14:16,952 --> 01:14:19,496 Look, Billy Boy, I've got a boat waiting for me on the other side 1078 01:14:19,579 --> 01:14:21,289 and I need a ride, and you're gonna give me one. 1079 01:14:21,373 --> 01:14:24,292 Now, this thing is loaded. How do you like those apples? Let"s move. 1080 01:14:24,376 --> 01:14:25,794 Do as he says. He killed Bob. 1081 01:14:25,877 --> 01:14:27,253 Move! Move! 1082 01:15:00,078 --> 01:15:02,371 I see her Thunderbird outside the tram shed. 1083 01:15:02,455 --> 01:15:04,039 Seen any sign of them? 1084 01:15:04,124 --> 01:15:05,667 No, they must be inside. 1085 01:15:05,750 --> 01:15:07,418 We're landing now. 1086 01:15:07,502 --> 01:15:09,504 We'll be right there. Get going. 1087 01:15:19,764 --> 01:15:20,890 Billy Boy, let's go. 1088 01:15:20,974 --> 01:15:23,142 If you don't pull that switch, I'll have to pull this trigger. 1089 01:15:23,226 --> 01:15:25,102 That's going to make hard feelings all the way around. 1090 01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,315 Now, do you get the message, or does she? 1091 01:16:32,837 --> 01:16:35,089 (SCREAMING) 1092 01:17:05,286 --> 01:17:07,538 (BOTH GRUNTING) 1093 01:17:38,319 --> 01:17:39,320 Stop the bucket! 1094 01:17:39,404 --> 01:17:41,114 Stop the bucket! 1095 01:17:51,833 --> 01:17:54,043 Help me! Somebody, help me! 1096 01:17:58,089 --> 01:17:59,465 SCOTTY: Help me! 1097 01:18:02,677 --> 01:18:04,345 Save me! 1098 01:18:04,429 --> 01:18:05,763 Oh, my God! 1099 01:18:09,559 --> 01:18:11,644 Somebody, help me! 1100 01:18:11,728 --> 01:18:13,396 I can't make it! 1101 01:18:19,819 --> 01:18:21,529 I can't make it! 1102 01:18:22,739 --> 01:18:25,742 (SCREAMING) 1103 01:18:50,350 --> 01:18:52,435 Oh, Les. 1104 01:18:52,518 --> 01:18:54,686 Darling, don't let me go. 1105 01:18:54,771 --> 01:18:57,064 Don't you worry about that. 1106 01:18:57,148 --> 01:18:59,233 I've no intention of it, ever. 1107 01:19:04,572 --> 01:19:07,241 Hey, Ward, take us back. 1108 01:19:08,451 --> 01:19:09,660 And be careful.