09x16 - A Girl Named George

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Bonanza". Aired: September 12, 1959 - January 16, 1973.*
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Set during and after the Civil w*r, "Bonanza" is the story of Ben and his 3 sons on the family's thousand-acre spread, known as the Ponderosa, near Virginia City.
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09x16 - A Girl Named George

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Prisoner will rise.

You've been convicted
by a jury of your peers

of the m*rder of a Ponderosa
cowhand, name of Walter Finn Harrell,

which he come to town to play
a friendly game of stud poker

and wound up
getting hisself k*lled.

It is therefore considered and ordered
by this court that you, Isham Troxell,

shall suffer the punishment
of death by hanging

in the week commencing
Sunday, September 6th,

the year of our Lord 1868,

and may God have mercy
on your miserable soul.

My brother's being victimized.

And let that be a lesson
to any other scissor bill

which they get caught
with an ace up their sleeve

and try to sh**t
their way out of it.

- Your Honor!
- [BANGS GAVEL]

Court's adjourned.

I demand a hearing!

Don't worry, Ish. He ain't
gonna get away with this.

- Judge.
- Ben, boys.

Judge, how are you?

When are you coming
out to visit us again?

Not soon.

Socializing after a hanging case ain't
quite seemly for a man of public office.

But I thank you kindly.

- I want a word with you, sir.
- Case is closed.

If my brother dies because of
that preposterous sentence of yours,

you'll die too, just as sure
as my name is Cato Troxell.

You're a bigger fool than
I thought you was, Troxell,

making a thr*at like that in
front of all these witnesses.

I mean it, sir.

Then it'll be Troxell
and Troxell on Boot Hill

instead of in that new
law office across the street.

If my brother
hangs, I'll k*ll you.

And I won't end up on Boot Hill.

I'm gonna let that last
remark go by for two reasons.

First, your blood brother
just got sentenced to hang,

which it would naturally
lather you up a mite.

Second, because
it's 12 o'clock noon

and it's time for me to go
home and eat my dinner.

Fried chicken, northern style.

Hey, you know, I think there's
something wrong with me.

I really do. I really do.

Look, here I am, I'm a young man,
I... I got a little money in the bank.

I ought to wanna go someplace,
see something different.

- Like where?
- Like where? I don't know. Back east.

Look at all the places I could go.
St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati.

Cincinnati? Why would
you wanna go to Cincinnati?

I don't wanna go to Cincinnati.
That's what I think is the matter with me.

I ought to wanna go to
Cincinnati, but I like it here.

Sometimes, Joe, there ain't no
way to figure that mind of yours.

I know what you mean.
That's bothering me too.

You're looking for
something different,

it may be coming
right over there.

Whoa.

Howdy. Are you
Mr. Ben Cartwright?

- That's right.
- It's him! I should have known.

They said you was a
bossy-looking galoot.

[JOE AND HOSS LAUGH]

With two sons, one
fat and one pretty.

Yes, that seems to be
a pretty fair description.

This here's Hoss, the fat one.

And this here's
the pretty one, Joe.

- And who are you?
- Oh, I'm George.

And that there's my Uncle Enos.

[MOUTHS]

Enos Blessing at
your service, sir.

- Hello, Mr. Blessing.
- How do you do, sir?

I am here to remind
you of your mortality.

Someday a stone like this is
gonna mark your final resting place.

Well, there’s a happy
subject just before supper.

Sad, ain't it, mister?

But one of these days them
boys are gonna have to buy you

a stone just like that one.

Now, don't you believe it, Pa.
We'd never let you down like that.

- We’ll get a great big granite thing.
- We're
gonna buy you an expensive one.

I mean a great big one. It's gonna
say, "Ben Cartwright of the Ponderosa."

Thank you very much, boys. It's really
very touching, your concern for me.

But I feel rather hail and
hearty at the moment.

I don't think I could
use one of those just yet.

Ah, exactly. What could a cold
stone say of this handsome gentleman?

Could it speak of his warm
smile, of his upright character,

of his manly appearance?

Certainly not. What he needs
is a different kind of memorial.

You know, you're right.

You're absolutely
right. And he's got one.

His fine sons. We
will be his memorial.

Yeah, that's right, Pa,
and don't you forget it.

Yes, indeed, boys,
you certainly will be.

But what kind of different
memorial were you thinking of?

Well, I was thinking,
sir, of a photograph.

- Ah.
- A photograph?

Like a tintype, only it's a...
That’s the new process, isn't it?

Quite right, sir.

A veritable likeness, produced
by the chemical action of light

on paper sensitized by the
mysterious properties of precious metal

to reproduce his very image.

George. George.

- The samples.
- Oh.

Is George... George is my niece.

Oh.

Is that where you... you do
your work, in that contraption?

Yes, sir, that is my
traveling portable dark room.

I've just opened a new
studio in Virginia City.

- Have you?
- Enos Blessing, Portraits In Silver.

- The samples, George, if you please.
- You should do very well there.

Thank you, sir. May I
show you some of my work?

Vice president of
the Union Pacific.

Hmm.

- BLESSING: Ship captain.
- Hey.

BEN: Mm-hm.

BLESSING: Sheriff.

Very good.

Oh, how did this
get in here, George?

A horse thief.

Oh. Horse thief.

Hey, you know, Pa, they're pretty
fancy. You know what we could do?

We could frame you and hang
you right up over the fireplace.

What you should ought to do
is get one taken of each of you,

and then you could
hang 'em all up together.

Hey, exactly. A father and his
sons. What an inspiring subject.

I could do it right here,
right in front of the house.

Ah, as a matter of fact,

I can even throw in a group
picture of all your ranch hands.

Hey, you know,
the fellas'd like that.

Well, right now? I
mean, it's suppertime.

No, no, no, that would be tomorrow,
when the light's a little better.

That is if you could bed
me down for the night?

I think we ought to do it, Pa.

- I'm all for it.
- Might not be a bad idea.

Certainly, we can put
you up in the bunkhouse,

and we have a spare
room for your niece.

No, no, thank you. George has to
go back to town for some supplies.

Come here.

Hey, these are
nice, aren't they?

I want that new hypo.
It's back at the studio.

- We have plenty of...
- Shh! I want the new hypo. And listen.

When you get into town, I
want you to find Mr. Cato Troxell

and tell him I'll be making the
Cartwright pictures at noon tomorrow.

- Do you understand?
- No. Why do you want...?

Never mind why. Just do it.

And be back here early tomorrow
morning, you hear? Come on.

Yes, sir.

There, now, we're all ready.
I'm just waiting for Mr. Hoss.

Where's Hoss?

Can't you hurry up, Hoss?

Well, now, we can't
hurry this, Mr. Cartwright.

- This is gonna take all morning.
- All morning?

Yeah, well, this is a
complicated chemical process.

I have to prepare every one
of these plates in the dark room

before I can expose them.

[BEN SIGHS]

[LAUGHTER AND CHEERING]

What took you so long?

Well, I figured if we were
gonna get our picture took,

I didn't wanna look like no saddle
grab, so I been in there duding up.

Now, get him posed, George.

Just loosen up now, Mr. Hoss.

You're stiffer than a
hard-shell deacon, all of ya.

Been a whole sight better off

to have settled for that
tombstone, I'll tell you that.

All right, now.

Now, look this way, everybody.
I want you to watch Georgie.

That's fine. Now, smile.

Hold it.

[CLICKS]

[CLICKS]

Now, take a deep breath.

[BOTH INHALE]

That’s fine, fine. Now, hold it.

[CLICKS]

And smile.

[CLICKS]

Now, very dignified,
Mr. Cartwright.

Ah, that's fine,
now. Now, hold it.

[CLICKS]

Now, watch the birdie, Mr. Hoss.

Bee-beep! Bee-beep! Bee-beep!

BLESSING: That's fine. Hold it.

[CLICKS]

[LAUGHTER]

BLESSING: All right, now, smile.

That’s fine. Now, hold that.

[LAUGHTER CONTINUES]

[CANDY LAUGHS]

Ha, ha, ha, ha. What’s
so funny? What’s so funny?

You think it's funny I
got my picture taken?

You're gonna get
your picture taken now.

BLESSING: Now, just a moment.
Mr. Cartwright, you're forgetting,

I promised a picture of
you and your whole bunch,

all the cowboys and all
the visitors, everybody.

Complimentary. No charge.

That's a good deal
if I ever heard one.

Well, why not? We've wasted
the whole morning anyway.

[CHEERING]

All right, that's fine. All right,
now, everybody line up over there.

MAN: Get over here.
Come on, let's get on it.

Come on, now. There we are.

Now, all set, now?

All right, now,
everybody freeze, now.

And smile a little.

Oh, that's just fine.

[CLICKS]

JUDGE: Mrs. Neely, I'm here!

I made you a promise, sir.

I'm here to keep it.

I'll make you one.

You pull that trigger, you'll
hang higher than your brother did.

[g*nsh*t]

- Don't he lope pretty, Uncle Enos?
- Huh?

Ulie. His gait's so smooth.

I wished I could sit somewhere
and watch me ride him.

- What you looking at?
- Ah, this landscape here.

Just look at those hills.

First chance I get, I'm coming back out
here and make some pictures of them.

You know, I'll bet I could sell those
pictures to a magazine back east.

Hey, here comes Mr. Troxell.

Whoa!

Georgie, maybe you better
take a little ride somewhere.

I wanna talk to
Mr. Troxell private.

- Did you make them?
- Yes.

- The group photograph too?
- Yes.

- Do you have the plate prepared?
- Certainly.

All right, get out your camera.

Not before I see the
color of your money.

[CHUCKLES]

Here you are. You
can count it later.

Well, I guess I'll be arrested
as soon as I ride into town.

Yeah?

There'll be a coroner's
hearing in the morning.

That’s enough. I don't
wanna hear about it.

I don't know how I got
into this in the first place.

Well, you got into it on
account of Georgie, Enos.

That was a very unselfish
thing for you to do.

But all I care about is will
it be ready in the morning?

- It'll be ready.
- It better be.

It'll be ready. Now, you, you
just get in front of the camera.

All right.

Uh, no, no, no,
no. That's too close.

You'll have to go back
about five, six feet.

Right there. That's fine.
Now, turn around, face me.

Let's see, now.

Ah, we've got it. There we are.

Now, don't move.

Right, now, hold still.

Ready?

[CLICK]

I sure do like them Cartwrights.

What d'you wanna talk
to me about, Uncle Enos?

Just give me a little
time. I'll get around to it.

Sure do like that Little Joe.

He's as handsome
as a new steamboat.

- Didn't you think so?
- He sure is handsome.

I saw you gawking at him.

He didn't see me
gawking at him, did he?

That's not the point.

The point is was
he gawking at you?

Oh, no.

Course not. He
thought you was a boy.

Just look at yourself.

When did you
wash your face last?

- I forget.
- Exactly.

Well, you're all
through being a tomboy.

You're going to a female academy
back east to learn how to be a lady.

Oh, that old subject again.

How can I go to a female academy?
Them places cost big money.

I got big money.

Here.

Well, go on, go on, open it.

20-dollar gold pieces.

50 of them. A thousand dollars.

Where'd you get all this?

Well, you might say
it's my life savings.

Oh, Uncle Enos, I don't
wanna go to no female academy.

I wanna stay here with you.

Well, you can't
stay here with me.

You're going back east to
school, to Illinois or Missouri.

- I don't wanna be a lady.
- That's final.

I'll join a medicine show.

I'll become a saloon girl.

I'll marry a gambler.

You can marry a Paiute if you
want to but not until you're a lady.

Who's gonna help you pose your pictures
and work with you in the dark room,

and... and poach your
eggs the way you like 'em?

I'll poach my own eggs.

Then you did not hear
the sh*t, Mrs. Neely?

Might have, might
not. I was cooking.

Using pine knots to get a hot fire and
everything was popping and snapping.

Well, just one more
question, Mrs. Neely.

What time would you say it was when
you discovered the body of your husband?

Well, I can't say exactly, Doc,

but I think I can come to it
through my fried chicken.

I always give my chicken
a good 40 to 45 minutes,

put it on about half past 11,

'cause he adjourns
his court right at noon.

Then it takes him ten minutes
to come home, feed his horse.

Then he washes up and
sits down at a quarter past.

I mean he used to.

Anyway, my chicken was just about
done when I heard him come riding up.

And he didn't come in
and he didn't come in,

and so I went out to see
what was keeping him and...

there he was.

Fried chicken was his favorite.

Then you would say that he was sh*t
a few minutes after 12 o'clock noon?

- Yes, sir.
- That's all, Mrs. Neely. Thank you.

Ben Cartwright, will you
take the stand, please?

Do you swear to tell
the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?

- I do.
- Be seated.

On Tuesday, September 1st,

did you overhear a conversation
between Judge Neely and Cato Troxell?

- Yes, sir, I did.
- Would you like to tell us about it?

Happened right over there.

I heard Cato Troxell
thr*aten Judge Neely.

He said that if his brother was
hanged, he'd k*ll Judge Neely.

Thank you. That's
all, Ben. Thank you.

Just a minute.

Acting as my own attorney,

I'd like to ask the witness
a few questions, if I may.

- I guess it's your right.
- Thank you, sir.

Mr. Cartwright, yesterday a man
named Enos Blessing came to your ranch

and took a group photograph of you,
your cowhands and all your visitors?

That's right.

At what time was that
group photograph taken?

About... a little after
12 noon, I guess.

Well, then, anybody
who was at the Ponderosa

at the time that group
photograph was taken

couldn't possibly have
sh*t Judge Neely, huh?

Well, no.

Don't you remember seeing me
there at 12 noon or a little thereafter?

I certainly did not.

Well, you were facing the camera
at the time the photograph was taken.

All your visitors were
lined up behind you.

Yes.

Well, then I could have been there
and you mightn't have seen me.

Well, why would you wanna
come to the Ponderosa?

I came to make you an offer
on your Lake Tahoe property.

Mr. Coroner, he didn't make me
any offer on any Lake Tahoe property.

Well, you were so busy, I thought
it better to come back another day.

- No, sir, he didn't make any...
- Thank you, sir. That'll be all.

Mr. Coroner, may I
testify in my own behalf?

That'll be all, Mr. Cartwright.

You may take the
stand now, Mr. Troxell.

Do you swear to tell
the truth, the whole truth

and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?

I do.

Gentlemen, I'd like to make
a statement for the record.

Yesterday, at a few
minutes after 12 noon,

I was at the Ponderosa when
that group photograph was made,

and the photograph
will prove it.

- CORONER: You were in the photograph?
- I was.

Consequently, I couldn't have been in
Judge Neely's stable at the same time.

Where is this photograph now?

Well, I don't rightly know. I
suppose Mr. Blessing has it.

I didn't see him
in any photograph.

This hearing is adjourned
to the photographer's place.

The jury, the witnesses and the
prisoner will come along with me.

[BANGS GAVEL]

[MURMURING]

Weren't you going to
get your pony shod today?

- Yeah.
- Well, go on and do it.

Does it have to be in
that slab-sided east?

Ain't there no female academies in
this whole big, eagle-spreading west?

No. Now, go tend to your pony.

Right now.

- Yes, sir?
- I'm Dr. Martin, county coroner.

We're holding a hearing
in the death of Judge Neely.

Oh, yes, sir, I
heard about that.

Would it be all right if I
bring my jury in, please?

- Oh, of course.
- Thank you.

You may come in, gentlemen.

Now, did you take some photographs
yesterday at the Ponderosa?

Yes, sir, I did.

CORONER: I'd like you to produce them
for the inspection of the jury, please.

Well, now, those are the
property of Mr. Cartwright.

Mr. Blessing, I wish you would
produce those photographs.

Yes, sir.

The one you made about noon
yesterday, the big group photograph.

Uh, yes, sir.

Ah, here it is.

Yeah.

- Well, sir?
- Oh, you're in it all right.

Gentlemen of the jury,
looks like our verdict is clear.

Death at the hand
of an unknown party.

Well, I guess you won't
be needing me any further.

- No.
- Thank you, sir.

Thank you, Mr. Cartwright,
for furnishing me with an alibi.

Hm.

Good day, gentlemen.

[JOE SIGHS]

I wish we'd never
seen that photographer.

Gave Troxell a perfect alibi.

Well, if Troxell's innocent, Joe, I'm
glad we did see the photographer.

- I'd hate to see an innocent man hang.
- Well, I say he's guilty.

Well, Joe, there he is,
right there in the picture.

Did you show the
picture to all the hands?

Yes, of course I did. Nobody
remembers seeing him there.

Look, what about the men in
the back from the Double H?

Maybe we talk to them.
Maybe they know something.

Joe, what good's that gonna
do? If he was here, he was here.

And he's there in the picture.

All right, so he was here.

Suppose Judge Neely's wife made a
mistake about the time he came home.

She testified she
was in the kitchen,

there was a lot of noise,
she couldn't hear anything.

Suppose he got home
at 11:30 instead of 12:15.

He'd have had plenty of
time to ride back out here.

Joseph, everybody knows that Judge
Neely was a man of habit. He was punctual.

At 12 o'clock sharp he shut his court.
At 12:15 he was home having lunch.

At 1:30 he opened up court
again. People set their clock by him.

There's gotta be something.

All right, he was here.

All right, he was here on the
Ponderosa when the picture was taken.

Suppose he
didn't k*ll the judge.

Suppose he hired somebody to k*ll
him. Troxell's got plenty of money.

There's plenty of g*ns
for hire in Virginia City.

All right, what
are you gonna do?

You gonna go round to
everybody who wears a g*n

and say, "Did Cato Troxell
hire you to k*ll Judge Neely?"

Is that what you're gonna do?

No, I'm gonna go
talk to Cato Troxell.

Oh. And what's he gonna tell
you he didn't tell the coroner's jury?

Maybe the coroner went
about it the wrong way.

- I guarantee you I can make him talk.
- Oh, can you? How? With your fists?

- Yes, if I have to.
- Oh, very good.

By all means use your fists. Why
don't you try using your head sometime?

- You might eventually get someplace.
- CANDY: Well, go on, start swinging.

- Haven't seen a good fight in weeks.
- You're not gonna see one now either.

We’re having a family talk.
Is that any of your business?


- No, not at all.
- Then why don't you stay out of it?

- Go take a ride or something.
- Joe.

You mean you're not extending
the famous Cartwright hospitality?

All right.

The boys said the
picture was here.

I'll just have a look
at that and leave.

[CHUCKLES]

Well, go on with
your family discussion.

[LAUGHS]

Were the boys, um, resisting one of
your fatherly lectures, Mr. Cartwright?

I'm not in the habit of
giving fatherly lectures.

And if I do, it's possibly
because they need it.

Might have been a good idea if
your father had given you a few.

Oh, he did.

Well, obviously they
didn't have much effect.

Oh, yes, they did.

I left home.

I can understand how
Troxell got into the picture,

but I can't understand how he got
this shadow on the side of his face.

What are you talking about?

Well, you got a funny kind
of sun at the Ponderosa,

because it casts shadows in
two different directions at once.

Well, that’s kind of
impossible, isn't it?

I don't wanna give
any fatherly lectures,

but that's a shadow, isn't it?

Yes, it is.

And do you see shadows
on anybody else's face?

It's funny, isn't it?

If you think that's funny,

you should have seen what
happened to me in St. Louis once.

Young fella was doing a
couple of tintypes of me.

He was new in the
business, he got mixed up,

and he put both pictures
on the same picture,

and I came out
looking like twins.

What’s that got to do with Cato?

I didn't say it had
anything to do with Cato,

but I just thought I'd throw it into the
general pot of interesting information.

Candy...

You said this... this fella made two
pictures of you... on the same picture?

Same picture. Called
it a double exposure.

[SIGHS]

Now, if a... if a photographer

can... can make two
pictures on the one picture...

by mistake... why couldn't he
do the same thing on purpose?

Couldn't Troxell
have got Mr. Blessing

to make this double exposure...
putting Troxell in this picture

without Troxell having
been here in the first place?

I think somebody better go
have a nice talk with Troxell

and ask him some questions.

No, no, not yet, not yet.

What are we gonna do?

Well, just let me think
for just a minute, will you?

Now, if... if this is a
photographic trick,

then there are two people
involved in this m*rder:

Mr. Troxell and
the photographer.

Now, let's take Mr. Troxell.
He's got a legal mind.

He thinks things
through very carefully.

He'd be prepared for
almost any eventuality.

Our photographer friend, Mr. Blessing...
he's a different kind of man.

I think he could be
persuaded to help us out.

Pa, what are we waiting for?

[SIGHS]

For me to finish this lecture and
for you to get the horses ready.

Now, let's get.

Me and Candy'll wait
for you at the saloon, Pa.

All right.

Hello, George.

Oh, howdy. Can I help you?

I was looking for your
Uncle Enos. Is he around?

Oh, no, sir, he's out on the Carson
City cutoff making some pictures.

Ah.

He sure makes some
good pictures, doesn't he?

He sure does.

Had to put that one up 'cause everyone
was coming in and asking to see it.

BEN: Yeah.

Tell you what, George...

- George?
- Huh?

George, you tell your Uncle Enos

I'd like to have one of these
for every single person in it.

I sure will. I'll tell him the
minute he comes back.

The hands were all real pleased with
the picture 'cause it turned out so good.

We had one fella had a picture
taken in St. Louis, it was terrible.

Funny, he had two
heads and everything.

That's a double exposure.
Must have been a beginner.

Uncle Enos doesn't
make mistakes like that.

We'd better be getting along.

Tell your Uncle Enos we were in
to see him and we'll see him again.

- Sure will.
- Bye.

See you, George.

Well, Enos is
out in the country.

I sure want to see him.

Hoss, why don't we go to the courthouse,
finish up that business of ours?

Candy, I'd like you to
stay here, keep an eye out.

As soon as you see
Enos come back, get us.

Right.

[DOOR CLOSES]

- Hello.
- Howdy.

I thought I saw Ben Cartwright
come in here. I wanted to talk to him.

Come and gone, Mr. Troxell.

Oh, well, whatever he
wanted, it didn't take him long.

Oh, no. He came and bought a
whole bunch of them group pictures.

- Oh?
- Yeah.

They think a lot of
Uncle Enos's work.

Probably because one of their
hands had a picture taken by a beginner

and they got a double exposure.

Double ex...

Whatever that is.
Well, thank you.

Sure.

Who do you think that
you're bumping into?

- Let me go, Roscoe.
- How did you know my name?

How did you know my name?

Let me...

Candy, Candy, my
old friend Candy.

- How you been, Candy?
- I'm in a hurry, Roscoe.

Candy, I want your
unvarnished opinion of me.

You're an upstanding citizen,
Roscoe. Now, I gotta go.

Thank you, Candy.

There's a little apple-knocker in
there that says I am a big fat liverwurst.

He's drunk.

He's belligerent
and he wants to fight.

You go ahead and
fight him. Now, let me go.

Candy.

I'm sorry.

[GROANS]

Oh, oh.

Oh, why is everybody
so unfriendly?

[SOBS]

Here comes Candy in a big hurry.

Well?

After you left, Troxell came out
and went in the photographer's place.

When he came back out, he...
he mounted up and rode off south.

South? That'd be the Carson
City cutoff. That's where Enos is.

- Come on, let's go.
- CANDY: I'll get my horse and catch up.

Candy, old buddy, where have
you been? I been waiting for you.

- Roscoe.
- I'll tell you what I'll do.

If you'll whip this
little old stinker for me,

we'll go get a bottle of booze and a
couple of girls and we'll have a time.

[LAUGHS]

Sorry, Roscoe, it's
gonna have to be later.

You know, for an
upstanding citizen,

I'm down more
than I'm up lately.

[LAUGHS]

What are you doing here?

I came to warn you
about the Cartwrights.

They're after you
about Judge Neely.

How do you know? What happened?

Well, they went to your
studio looking for you.

You mean they were
looking for you, don't you?

You're the one who
pulled the trigger, not me.

Now, you know the only two
people who know that? You and I.

And that puts me in a
very unfortunate position.

Why?

Well, they’re gonna want you
to talk, and you probably will.

Oh, now, now, you
know I won't talk.

- I wish I could believe that.
- Why would I talk?

- Because you're a born loser, Enos.
- No.

It's an old adage:
never trust a loser.

No.

Now you're a dead loser.

Whoa.

Cato Troxell k*lled Mr. Blessing
the same as the judge,

and I'll stake my life on it.

But, Joe, I can't arrest a man without
evidence, and there ain't a shred.

You heard the verdict. "Death at the
hand of a person or persons unknown."

Motive: robbery.

And Enos had a
thousand in gold on him.

You're absolutely right. We
heard George testify to that.

There weren't any clues
at all, Sheriff? None?

Listen, I haven't had
any sleep in three days.

If any of you think you
can do better, put on a star.

Now, Milo, nobody's
criticizing you.

Well, I’m doing the best I
can, and that's all I can do.

Of course. We understand.

How did Mr. Blessing's
niece hold up at the funeral?

Well, as well as could be expected,
I guess, under the circumstances.

She certainly did.

She's a fine young girl, and it's
about time I went to call on her.

Milo, you get yourself
a good sleep, now.

You're not the
first peace officer

that's had an unsolved
m*rder on his hands.

See you, Milo.

- Pa, you want us to go with you?
- No, I'll go by myself.

- See you back at the ranch.
- Right.

Hello? Anybody here?

GEORGE: Just a minute.

Mr. Cartwright.

Hello, George.

Now, now.

Now...

Come on, now.

You gotta be a
brave young woman.

I'm trying.

You know what... You
know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna keep the studio and
follow in Uncle Enos's footsteps.

That sounds like a
very interesting idea.

Didn't... Didn't Uncle
Enos say something

about him wanting you to go
to a female academy, though?

I ain't got the money
for a female academy.

I wanna be a
female photographer,

the first one this
side of the Rockies.

Well, that’s... that's a
very laudable ambition.

You... You think
you could do it?

Sure I can. Come on, I'll show
you. I'm making some prints.

Here, give me your hand.
It's awful dark in here.

I've been working with
Uncle Enos for about a year.

I can pose the pictures.
You've seen me do that.

And I can work the camera.
I done it lots of times.

And I been helping him in the dark
room and, well, I think I can do it.

What’s that you're working on?

These are the pictures
Uncle Enos took that last day.

He thought maybe he
could sell 'em to a magazine.

So I thought if... if they turn
out, well, maybe I can sell 'em.

Sure. Why not? Good
idea. Maybe I can help you.

Oh, would you? Could you write a
letter for me? I can't write very well.

Of course. I'd be glad to.

Thanks.

Mr. Cartwright, does the sheriff
have any idea who done it?

No, not a one.

That’s awful. That's just awful.

That a man can do something
like that and get away with it.

Look. They're coming out.

Look. Look!

Get out.

You're not being very friendly.

I came by to see if
you might be interested

in buying one of my
Lake Tahoe properties.

I have no further interest in
your Lake Tahoe property.

What are your
interests, Mr. Troxell?

Chiefly, getting you off my back.
You're becoming a nuisance, Cartwright.

You're libeling my reputation,
besmirching my character

and damaging my legal practice.

I want it stopped. If it isn't,
I'm gonna take you to court.

Oh?

No, I think that might be
the last place I'd want to be

if I were under
suspicion of m*rder.

Now, if you're referring to
the m*rder of Enos Blessing,

there isn't a way in the world you
can connect me with that crime.

And if you mean Judge Neely, I've been
exonerated by photographic evidence.

And photographs don't lie.

Yes, you're right.

Photographs don't lie.
I must agree with you.

That’s why I thought you might
be interested in this photograph.

Ironic, isn't it?

One photograph
exonerates me of m*rder,

the other one convicts me.

Old Marcus would
have scorned me.

Marcus?

Marcus Porcius Cato, the
noble Roman I was named for.

Cato the Censor. The
enemy of crime and corruption.

Cato, the very model
of every Roman virtue.

[LAUGHS]

Come on! Yah!

Just like the judge predicted,

Troxell and Troxell...

on Boot Hill.

You ride Ulie once
in a while, you hear?

I don't want him to
get rusty in the hinges.

- I'll ride him, Georgie.
- You?

I don't wanna come back
here and find him swaybacked.

[ALL LAUGH]

All aboard, George.

Thanks for everything,
Mr. Cartwright.

You write, now.

Yeah.

Hey, don't forget, promise to
come see us on your vacation.

Well, I hope you
all recognize me.

I'll be as ladylike
as a hog on ice.

[ALL LAUGH]
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