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01x06 - The Man Who Lied

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp". Aired: September 6, 1955 – June 27, 1961.*
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Series is loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp.

01x06 - The Man Who Lied

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NARRATOR: (SINGING) Well,

he cleaned up the country,

the old wild West country.

He made law and order prevail.

And none can deny it, the

legend of Wyatt for ever

will live on the trail.

Oh, Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp,

brave, courageous, and bold.

Long live his fame, and

long live his glory,

and long may his story be told.

Hold up your hands.

Now put them down.

Ah.

Yes, I think I have the

perfect fit, Mr. Earp.

Well, there's a slight

wrinkle below the collar.

Otherwise, very good.

The wrinkle is

there because Mr. Earp

keeps hunching his shoulders.

Stand normal, straight, Wyatt.

It just won't do.

You don't like it?

Well, I can't get at my g*ns.

That's because you

have it buttoned.

Please, let me show you?

There.

Now.

Now, when gentlemen who wear my

coats wish to reach for a g*n,

they brush the skirts

back with a quick motion.

So!

You won't be bothered.

You see, Mr. Earp, I have

made you my special model,

quick draw Prince

Albert frock coat.

Well, I guess I won't be the

first man bothered by a skirt.

[chuckling]

Tommy, I'll pay for the

coat, but I can't wear it.

Oh, now hold your

fire a second, Wyatt.

I see the trouble.

Where's the doeskin patch where

the skirt covers his g*n grips?

Oh, I always sew the patch

in after the final fitting.

Now see, the doeskin

is very slick.

Of course it will be black.

It slides over the

g*n grips inside.

Oh, I've never had a complaint

about a quick draw special.

Well, baste in the

patches and show him.

Oh, yeah, the patches.

Right away.

Yeah, quick.

I just don't like

it, Mr. Murdock.

I mean, that fancy vest and

those city slicker pants?

Now that you've gotten

rid of the vigilantes,

you've got a reputation.

Dress up to it, man.

Now let Tommy have

the coat, huh?

I'm not going to have

the marshal of Wichita

dressed like a busted cowhand.

All right.

The cowhands are going

to think I've gone fancy.

And that quick draw coat's just

liable to get myself k*lled.

I don't know.

That's fine.

Now you look like the

marshal of Wichita.

Ooh!

Like lightning he draws.

An hour's practice and

you'll be just as fast as you

were with the old clothes.

But I just may not

have an hour to practice.

I'll have to wear the

coat in back of the g*ns.

Oh, but Mr. Earp, that

will spoil the lines.

If I'm going to

wear that coat,

that's the way it's

going to have to be.

Oh, but it looks so

dressy the other way!

Tommy, you want me

dressed to k*ll, huh?

Hmm.

Well, cinched in this vest

and this actor's frock coat,

I may be dressed to be k*lled.

So give me half a

chance, anyway, will you?

Well, all right.

Whatever you say.

[g*nshots]

That'll take

care of you, Earp.

I thought you'd

come a-running.

Buff Yancy, is that his name?

That's right.

Never heard of him, Pete.

Did you?

No, but boys in his line

of work use a lot of names.

Where is he?

He's in his room.

I told him to stay there

until you could talk to him.

Let's go see him.

Where's your g*n?

Well, here in the rack.

Why?

I have to know

if he's really fast

and can sh**t as

good as you say.

You'd better get it.

Howdy, Graham.

Hello, Mr. Bennett.

We're making a little

visit on one of your guests.

No trouble.

He's a friend.

Yes, sir.

I don't want Earp to

find out about this.

Understand?

Yes, sir.

He gave us vigilantes

a bad time in court,

and we mustn't forget it.

[knocking on door]

It ain't locked.

Mr. Yancy, this

is Mr. Bennett.

All right.

Pete tells me you're

quite a gunfighter.

I do all right.

You put a head on Wyatt

Earp a couple of times?

Beat him on every draw,

if that's what you mean.

Why didn't you k*ll him?

No reason to.

Isn't he something, Dave?

Even had the drop on Earp

and he never k*lled him.

Just slapped him in the

face and took his g*n away.

It doesn't make sense.

Nobody was paying

him to, he says.

Why all the chatter?

You fellas ask me here to talk

about that pea-sh**ting marshal

of yours?

You talk like Wyatt

was fast with a g*n.

If you made Earp

pull in his horns,

why wasn't there talk about it?

Wyatt didn't tell.

Why did you wait

so long to tell?

Nothing to brag about.

Any more stupid questions?

Keep your hands away from that.

I wasn't doing

nothing, Mr. Yancy.

I was just telling Dave--

Take it easy, son.

You look pretty fast.

Earp's pretty fast.

But you do it

quicker, don't you?

You're boring me.

And $ , would that bore you?

Yeah.

bore you?

Yeah.

, mightn't.

When I pay that kind of

money, I want to be sure.

Earp buffaloed me once.

I want to be sure I'm hiring

a man who can revenge me.

I like to see what

I'm buying, Mr. Yancy.

Yeah, Dave ain't hiring

nobody to commit suicide.

All right.

Stand over there.

Go on.

Mr. Bennett, you got to

[inaudible] One g*n apiece.

Is that a stopwatch?

For $ , , I want Earp

taken care of real good.

I'm not sending you against

him if you're an easy mark.

You say that real nice.

All set, Dave.

All right.

When I say go, go.

[click]

I don't believe it.

He's too old.

What was his time, Dave?

It's a deal, Yancy.

, in cash on the bed.

Oh, no.

now, and --

, on the bed.

Are you sure you

don't want to count it?

If it ain't right, I'll

g*n you instead of Earp.

Marshal Earp?

That you, Marshal?

I hardly recognized

you all dressed up.

Say, Dave Bennett's

telling it around,

there's a fellow here in town

who says he put a hit on you.

Oh?

What's his name?

Buff Yancy, Dave says.

Buff Yancy?

Well, thank you, sir.

Mr. Marshal Earp,

Mr. Marshal Earp.

Oh, hi, Henry.

How's your father?

He's fine.

Gee, thanks for getting

us back our horses.

Don't mention it.

Gosh, you're

going to a funeral?

[chuckling]

Well I hope not.

Well, you sure dress like it.

Yeah.

Well, what I came to tell

you, better look at how you

go into Dave Bennett's saloon.

There's a gunslinger in there,

and he's bragging after you.

Oh?

Is his name Yancy, Buff Yancy?

Don't know his name.

Just a big, mean-looking man.

Well, thank you, Henry.

We'll both look out for him, OK?

OK.

Now, you run along.

Wyatt, there's

a fellow looking

for you by the name of--

- Yeah, I know.

Buff Yancy.

Yeah.

You know him?

Not by that name, no.

Did anybody ever put a

head on you in gunplay?

Not that I recall.

I didn't think so.

Yancy checked into

the Wichita Hotel.

You know where he's from?

Registered from Abilene.

Clerk says he palled it up

in a bar with Pete Gammel.

Had a talk in his room

with Pete and Dave Bennett.

Oh.

Dave Bennett and the vigilantes

never give up, do they?

Well, you'd better

wait here, Mr. Murdock.

Oh, no.

If you get k*lled, I want

the story quick for my paper.

Thanks.

I'm looking for

a Mr. Buff Yancy.

Right here.

Are you really Mr. Yancy?

You know me, Earp.

We've never met

before, Mr. Yancy.

You're a liar.

Oh, now I hope you

don't mean that, do you?

Give me a chance to

get my g*ns off the rack,

and I'll show you.

All right.

But let's make it legal.

I'll wait outside and give you

time to buckle on your g*ns.

And you come out and submit

to arrest or make your play.

Fair enough?

Suits me fine.

He's wearing a tailcoat.

First time I ever

saw him with one.

It's bound to slow him up.

Fast or slow, I'll handle him.

Don't bet on that.

I'll take him fast.

What are you so scared about?

Don't try to hide, Earp.

Come on.

Step out and take

what you got going.

I hate to say it, but

Mr. Marshal Earp ducked

into the alley, Mr. Yancy.

Do me a favor, kid.

Yes, sir.

Tell Earp he

can't hide forever.

And I aim to g*n him on sight.

Yes, sir.

Why don't you go after him?

Get shot in the back?

He's a marshal.

Let him come after me.

He'll have to do that or

be laughed out of town.

I still think you

should have gunned him.

I'm sure that's what

Dave Bennett figured.

What Dave figures

I try not to do.

You know, this Yancy

just doesn't make sense.

He ran a bluff on you in

front of a lot of people.

Sure, but why?

You can't afford to let that

stick, Wyatt, and stay marshal.

I'm afraid I'm

gonna have to let it

stick for a while, Mr. Murdock.

Why?

They'll think you're

afraid of Yancy.

Come on.

Use your head.

Use my head?

It's as simple as ABC.

How can you control

the hoodlums if you let

Yancy get away with his bluff.

You just can't wear that

badge and duck this issue.

Every drunken cowhand in Wichita

will start gunning for you.

Don't you see?

Mr. Murdock, you sure don't

know much about gunslingers.

Oh, sure.

Yancy doesn't make sense.

I suppose you do.

Well, maybe not.

Not yet.

I sent my Deputy

Davis down to see

if he could recognize Yancy.

I sure couldn't.

What'll that get you?

Well, a real

gunslinger wouldn't

let me get more than three

steps into that saloon.

Yancy checked his

g*ns, and he gave me

a chance to invite him outside.

He also gave me a chance

to duck out of the fight.

And top g*ns just don't

operate that way, Mr. Murdock.

Do you think Bennett only

hired him to run a bluff?

No, Bennett wants me k*lled

for breaking up his vigilantes.

And he also knows that

I know he's a crook.

But Yancy is a

liar and a fake.

That it?

Well, he's a liar because

I never saw him before.

But I'm going to have to

find out whether he's a fake.

How'd you like to be a

mighty big help, Mr. Murdock,

by trying to get

a line on Yancy?

Anything, Wyatt.

But you've got to work fast.

Marshal Earp, Marshal Earp.

He says you can't hide forever.

He says he'll g*n you on sight.

Thanks, Henry.

Now, you push along.

I don't want you

getting yourself hurt.

Gosh, you sure ain't

scared of him, are you?

Sure I'm scared.

I'm awful scared.

Now you go tell him I said that.

Well, I'll tell him.

It'll take hours, maybe

days to get a line on him.

Let's just go sh**t them

and have it over with.

Is that what you

brought me to Wichita for?

But he's a k*ller!

He's hired out to Bennett.

He-- Just wound

him, buffalo him.

Do something.

I like Yancy.

What?

There's always a big reason

why a man brags that much.

Oh?

There's something that goes

on in a man's eyes when he

challenges you to a gunfight.

I don't know exactly

what it is, Mr. Murdock,

but you catch a glimmer

of what he really is.

For him, it might be the

last few seconds of truth.

All right.

You like Yancy.

Why?

Well, he just doesn't

have that real k*ller look.

Oh, he acted tough,

talked tough,

but his eyes told me he was

driving himself to the job.

If it ever came to

a real showdown,

I just couldn't wound him.

He'd want to go all the way.

I'd have to k*ll him.

And that isn't a

good marshal's job.

All right, Wyatt.

I'll get right to work on it.

Thanks.

I'm going to go down and check

out the rest of my deputies.

Maybe one of them

has heard of Yancy.

Is that right?

Thanks, Gus.

We sure got Earp hunting

for a whole, Yancy.

Yes, sir.

He hid out in

Murdock's office,

then hightailed it over to jail.

Probably begging his

deputies to protect him.

[laughter]

[tapping]

Big favor to ask, Mr. Murdock.

From Mr. Earp.

Thought we better not

send us through the wire

down at the station.

Will you send the

telegram for us?

Sure.

What are you doing,

going outside of Wichita

for information?

This time we are, sir.

Put on the wire, will you?

[tapping]

[g*nshots]

[shouting]

You hear that?

I told you what would happen.

Yeah, I know, you told me.

You hear any news from Arkansas?

Never heard of Buff Yancy.

No record.

Nothing in the newspaper files.

All right.

I guess the time's run out.

But there was a family in

Arkansas as Davis remembered.

Had a boy named Calvin

Turner, called Bud.

Deserter from the w*r.

Family no good, and

this boy no better.

I'd like to know more

about these people, Davis.

Did they work steady?

Were they pleasant to people?

They send their kids to school?

What do you remember?

Well, there's not

much I can remember.

The old man was grouchy

and kicked the kids around.

This-- this Bud, was

he handy with g*ns?

Must have learned something

about them in the army.

Otherwise, he was shy and timid.

Went off to w*r young.

Probably made him more timid.

Mr. Davis, you know where

Mr. Yancy's g*ns are?

In his room.

He don't trust public racks.

Can you get a pass

key to that room?

Yes, sir.

Let's go.

Watch the hall.

Earp isn't coming after you.

Never expected him to.

Well, I think it's about

time you went after him.

Sure.

Might as well get it over with.

I'll kick in that jail door--

Good evening, Mr. Yancy.

You do have a little nerve.

Where are your g*ns?

In my room.

Good.

We'll settle it there.

Alone.

Take your time, Mr. Yancy.

I'm in no hurry.

You better be.

You'd better check

your g*ns, Mr. Yancy.

[click]

[click]

Any time.

You're a brave man, Mr. Turner.

Don't be foolhardy.

I'm going all the way!

[clicking]

Dead cartridges!

Well, give me

what's coming to me!

Your real name Bud Turner?

Helena, Arkansas?

Yeah.

[thud]

What happened to

you during the w*r?

I was afraid.

I ran away.

Well, everybody's afraid

at one time or another, Bud.

It's only common

sense to be afraid.

They punish you

for running away?

No.

The living ones didn't notice,

only my dead friends saw me.

You think they accuse you?

I don't know.

But sooner or later,

a man accuses himself.

So I hit the trail

and I bought me g*ns.

I wandered around, trying to be

brave enough to face a fight.

Found out it's the

only way to exist.

You faced it.

With dead cartridges

and a slow draw.

I came to Wichita because

I heard you were the best.

That was brave, Mr. Turner.

I did draw against the drop.

That was stupid.

Sure was.

Why didn't you sh**t?

I might have been

a m*rder*r if I had.

See, I got a key to your

room, and I came in and put

dummy cartridges in your g*ns.

Now, just one more thing.

Did you take money

from Mr. Bennett?

Yeah.

$ , .

Stuffed it under the rug.

You had quite a little

personal problem, didn't you?

All right.

You proved to yourself you have

a lot of courage, haven't you?

I tried to.

You know, I had a cousin once.

Devil of a fear lived

inside of him for years

until one day he had to face it.

Like you did.

You're no coward, Mr. Turner.

You proved you had

a lot of courage.

Now give yourself a

little extra proof.

Return this to Mr. Bennett.

Yes, sir.

Been up there an

awful long time.

I haven't heard any shots.

I think I'll go check.

Did you get him?

No.

Yancy, what's the

matter with you?

Yancy!

Don't anybody mess

with Wyatt Earp.

He was faster than me.

And he'll handle any of you.

[g*nshots]

All right, the fun's over!

Throw your g*ns in the road!

[g*nsh*t]

Ugh!

Man, get off that horse!

I'm glad to see

you, Mr. McCready.

Pick up their g*ns

and start in the jail.

Help this man!

Where you heading, Mr. Turner?

Arkansas, I reckon.

Well, Helena's a good town.

I hope you settle there.

Yes, sir, Mr. Earp.

I can handle things from now on.

Wyatt, what happened?

Nothing much.

You know, that tailor did an

awful nice job on this coat.

Yeah, but that k*ller, Yancy?

Well, like I told you,

there's always a big reason

why a man brags that much.

Right now nice fellow,

once I got to know him.

He took off for Arkansas.

NARRATOR: (SINGING) Well,

he cleaned up the country,

the old wild West country.

He made law and order prevail.

And none can deny it, the

legend of Wyatt for ever

will live on the trail.

Oh, Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp,

brave, courageous, and bold.

Long live his fame, and

long live his glory,

and long may his story be told!

Long may his story be told!