04x21 - The Renegade Brand

[bunniefuu]

Too bad the rest
of this place isn't kept up
as well as these records.

Everything check out,
Mr. Frazer?

With Daisy doing the bookwork,
I don't even have to look
at these entries.

You know,
it's a shame and a waste,
her stuck way out here.

Are you sure
she wouldn't come to work
at division headquarters?

No, I'm not sure.
But I'll tell you
one thing,

me and Slim
will give you a battle
if you try to get her.

Now is that any way for you
to talk to an officer

of the stage line?

Saddle me a fresh horse
while I finish up here.

For the amount of this money,
it better be a fast one.

You let me
worry about that.

You just run this
broken-down way station.

And another thing.
When I come through
here again,

see that Daisy's here
and not in town.

This is the only place between
Cheyenne and Medicine Bow

where a man can
get food fit to eat.

And I like to eat.

I'd be glad to fix you something
to eat right now, Mr. Frazer.

Uh.
I-I'm not that hungry.

They're right here,
Page.

Keep an eye on him.

We'd have been better off
to try on the road.

That's just where he'd be
expecting trouble.

What if there's more in there
than we can handle?

If that bothers you,
Tindall, you ride on.

What's he
trying to prove?

I don't know
and I don't care.

Come this far and
I'm not leaving empty-handed.

Let's do it the easy way,
mister.

Keep your hands
right where they are.

You picked the wrong man,
sonny boy.

Not with what's on that table,
we haven't.

Let's take it
and get out of here.

Touch that bag
and I'll break your arm.

You ain't
all that brave.

Boy, this place sure
has gone to seed
while I've been in town.

You know, I have
a strong suspicion

that you and Jess
work for Sheriff Cory

just to get out of
chores at home.

What,
me get out of work?

Now whatever gave you
that idea, Daisy?

Now don't worry
about it.

I've got a long list
of things for you to do

and you can start
by bringing in the supplies.

Give me a hand, Mike.

Slim, when I grow up,
I want to be a lawman.

Oh, you do, huh?

Chase outlaws.

Well, what if they
chase you?

That isn't the way
it works, is it?

Slim!
Come quick.

He's bleeding
awful bad, Daisy.

You better keep
pressure on it.

You're hurt yourself.

- I'll be all right.
- What happened, pard?

About 20 minutes ago,
three men robbed Mr. Frazer.

He needs a doctor,
badly.

Doc Phillips is over
at the Bates ranch.

Mike can fetch him.

We better
get on the trail.

You're not able to ride.

I can try.

All right,
you tried.

Did you see them leave?

Yeah, they went
up the slope.

I didn't get
a good look at them.

One of them was riding
a big spotted gray.

Well, this is going to be
their sorriest day.

MIKE: Slim.

You may not believe it,
Tindall,

but there are things
in this world

a man needs
besides money.

Since we met
in Cheyenne,

you've taken
enough chances to get it.

Forget all about that.

Well, as far as I'm concerned,
I never had it so good before.

Maybe you haven't ever rode
with a trigger-happy kid before.

It don't matter.

We're splitting up.

Well, now wait a minute.

Now we were good
as a team.

I'll take my share
of the money and run.

Fine, I'll get the saddle bags,
and we'll divide up now.

Now what did you have to go
and say that for?

We'd have done
real good with him.

He's heading for trouble,
the way he's going.

I don't want to be around
when it comes.

Rider coming,
and he's tracking.

Take those rocks for cover,
I'll mind the horses.

Why, that dirty little...

We'll take care
of the kid later.

Right now, we got
something else to do.

For a kid who ain't
interested in money,

he sure got away
with a lot of it.

Let's get our horses
and follow him.

There was a badge
on that rider.
What do you want to do?

Help him form a posse?
Come on.

All right, hold it.

Get up.

Slow and easy.

A lawman?

I thought you were
trying to hold me up.

Oh, you did, did you?

What's the trouble,
deputy?

I've ridden a long way,
been shot at by your partners.

And two friends of mine are hurt
pretty bad because of you.

That's what the trouble is.

I guess I'm supposed to know
what you're talking about,

but I don't.

Are you trying to say

you didn't rob
the relay station?

Well, there's a man there
that can identify you cold.

And that's where
we're heading.

Now hold on, hold on.
Do you know who I am?

I don't much care
who you are.

Not with what you got
in those saddle bags.

- Now open them up.
- You've got no right to--

This badge gives me
all the right I need.
Now get moving.

[ g*nsh*t ]

What are you doing
on McGovern land?

Deputy sheriff,
from Laramie.

This man robbed
a stage line agent.

It's Hank.
He's dead.

I told you
it was his horse.

Hank wouldn't rob
nobody.

I say he did.

What makes you all
so sure he didn't?

We know him,
that's why.

You're going to swing
from a tall tree for this.

Hold on.

What for?
Enders, get a rope.

I said, hold on.

You admit
you k*lled Hank?

I didn't ask
what his name was.

Mister, that badge saves you
from dying here and now.

Who are you?

I'm foreman
of the McGovern's ranch.

You just shot
the boss's son.

Your boss did a rotten poor job
of raising him.

I ought to let the boys
string you up.

You do that
and you'll all hang.

Now you said
he robbed someone.

Where's your proof?
Where's the money?

He must have hidden it.

He wasn't carrying it
when I caught him.

He shot the wrong man, he's just
trying to cover up, that's all.

There's no mistaking
this horse.

I tracked him all the way
from Laramie.

Why all this talk?
Let him stretch rope.

JIM: Take Hank's body
back to the ranch.

Now or later,
it'll all be the same, Jim.

We'll take this badge-wearing
k*ller in to the sheriff.

Go on, Sprock.

Mount up.

And you better have proof
for what you say.

By your own words, you
said you were trying to
look in his saddle bags

and you didn't find
any stolen money.

Maybe he was afraid
I would.

Maybe?

So Hank's dead
on a maybe?

I've known him
since he was weaned.

He couldn't have robbed
anybody.

I don't care
how long you knew him,

or how well
you knew his family.

As a lawman, I shot him
in the line of duty.

But how do we know you've got
a right to wear that badge?

The only thing we know
is that my son is dead.

What I want to know is

when you're going to
hang the k*ller.

There's no call for you to
ride in from the ranch, Ellen.

Did you think
I wouldn't?

You had done what
the others wanted,

this would all be over
and done with.

Mrs. McGovern,
he's wearing a badge.

He isn't wearing it now.

Hold on, Ellen.
There's no reason to--

My husband helped put you where
you are, Lief Tulman.

Don't think I can't change
things now that he's gone.

Mrs. McGovern, if you just
hear me out, I'll tell--

Hank was shot down
in cold blood,

don't stand there and
defend his m*rder*r to me.

I'm defending nobody,
but I ain't going to
let you take things

into your own hands
either.

I have four of my riders here,
or is it three, Jim?

Mrs. McGovern, I--

Never mind.

I have ten more
at the ranch.

If I need them,
I'll get them.

And the army post is just
outside of town.

You'd throw away 20 years of
friendship to defend a k*ller?

Hank's k*ller?

I got to do
what I think is right.

It's right
that he hangs.

Now that's
up to the judge.

It's a good thing
Adam didn't live to see this.

Mrs. McGovern.

My husband took a saddle tr*mp,
and made him into a foreman

of the biggest spread
in this territory.

This is how
you repay his memory.

Adam wouldn't
want you to--

You don't know
what he wanted.
I do.

He fought to bring law
to this town.

He wanted his son
to carry on for him.

And I promised him
I'd raise him so as he could,

raise him exactly like
he would have himself.

- Collins.
- Yes, ma'am?

You see to it that every
McGovern rider

hears what I have to say.

To anyone
that kills that man,

I will pay $1,000.

Mrs. McGovern said
she'd pay anybody.

You reckon that includes me,
Mr. Lassel?

I wouldn't
worry about it, Opie.

You haven't got what it takes
to face a man like that deputy.

Who says anything
about facing him?

Why don't you go crawl back
under your rock?

If you're all that
concerned,

why don't you send a telegram
to Mort Cory.

He'll verify
I'm his deputy.

Never you fret
about my doing that.

But can he also verify
that Hank McGovern

was one of the three that robbed
that relay station?

The only man that can do
that was shot.

For all I know,
he might be dead.

TULMAN: You better hope
he isn't.

Well, if he isn't,
you're going to have to
do some hard changing

of your opinions
of the McGoverns, aren't you?

Sherman, I got to go along
with what you claim, for now.

But don't you leave these parts
until I tell you.

You're telling me or not,
I don't intend to leave

until I find that money.

McGovern hid it, most likely
where I caught up with him.

When I find it, that's when
we'll talk about my leaving.

Howdy.

Howdy.

He's been ridden
long and hard.

Take care of him for me?

You're the one that k*lled
young Hank McGovern.

This is a small town,
and word spreads fast.

Give him
a bucket of oats too.

You are dead wrong about
that boy robbing anybody.

Everybody's pretty sure
about that.

Everybody but me.

Well, a boy with a family
as rich as his,
he's got no need to rob--

How soon can you
get to my horse?

No son of Mrs. McGovern's
ever done what you said.

Not the way
she reared him.

Mind if I sit?

I do.

I've heard it all, Lassel,
you've got nothing to add.

Now don't be too sure.

Look, I've had my fill of
what the folks think of
the McGoverns.

Ellen McGovern
has offered $1,000

to any of her riders
who kills you.

Are you suddenly
changing sides?

Or do you think that--

I think the same of you
as everybody else.

I might be
telling the truth.

It's as much a lie to me
as to anybody.

I just don't want her
mixed up in m*rder.

The law will take care of you
sooner or later.

And I'll take care of
anybody

who tries to sh**t me
in the back.

Now you stay out of sight
till this is over.

It's going to be over
when I prove what I've said.

Now Callaghan makes


So $1,000 looks
mighty big to him.

Lassel, for what it's worth,
I'm no greenhorn.

I carry this iron,
and I'll use it if I have to.

You just make sure
your men know that.

Sherman?

Are you the deputy
from Laramie?

Yes, ma'am.

You m*rder*d
my brother.

I'm Laurie McGovern.

I shot him,
yes, ma'am.

You m*rder*d him.

He drew on me.
I had no choice.

Why did he draw on you?

Somebody's probably told you
why by now.

Because you tried to search his
saddle bags, isn't that right?

That's part of it.

You forced him
to draw.

I didn't force him
to do anything.

What he did was
what he wanted to do.

If a stranger had done
the same to you,

what would you have done?

If I was innocent, and that
stranger was wearing a badge,

I would do nothing.

Hank wasn't innocent?

No, he wasn't innocent.

He was part of a robbery.

And for all I know,
he was the one

who shot that
stage line agent.

That's a lie.

It's a lie because you want
to believe it is.

It's a lie because Hank
would never do anything

to bring shame
to his family.

You wouldn't have known
any shame,

if I hadn't had
caught him.

TULMAN: All right,
that's enough.

All right, everybody,
move along.

It's all over.

You should have waited
longer, sheriff.

Maybe I should lock you up
for your own good.

Maybe you oughta do the same
for your friends.

I'm telling you, the way
he rode off after Hank,

he never got a look at us.

You suppose
he caught him?

Maybe.

Maybe he's got
the money now.

Seems like folks around here
don't cotton much to him.

Even the law don't.

Wonder why.

It ain't healthy for us
to be all that curious

in this strange town.

Let's have that beer.

Maybe we can
pick up something.

Yeah, then what?

Two drinks,
we'll be flat broke.

Something always
turns up.

Or we turn it up.

[ laughs ]

Do you realize
what you're doing?

You're offering to pay
one of your own hands

to commit m*rder.

My reward offer
still stands.

You have no right,
no right whatsoever,
to question my orders.

You're working for me.

Yes, ma'am, that's right.

And I've always worked
for your best interests.
Yours and Adam's.

You think Adam
wouldn't have done the same?

He'd have left this whole thing
up to Sheriff Tulman.

He would have gunned down
that murdering deputy himself.

In the old days, maybe,

but not after he brought
law and order here.

Jim, you better decide
right now.

Either you do things
my way or you're through.

Now you can fire me
after this is over if you want.

But I'm not leaving now.

I have run this ranch,

and I have raised
my children

since Adam died,
in my own way.

And I shall continue to do that,
just as long as I am able.

Do you understand?

Did you ever stop
to think that your way

excluded help from anybody,
including your own son?

That's enough.

Think about it,
Mrs. McGovern.

It's true.

And if Sherman's
telling the truth...

If what?

You held a hard rein
on Hank.

Me and the whole crew
watched him like hawks,
on your orders.

He was young.

But a man,
with no way to show it.

And all at once, you let him
take this trip to Cheyenne.

Or maybe
something happened.

Maybe Hank had to try his hand
at proving himself.

You don't believe that.

Maybe he just tried
the wrong way.

And I don't believe it.

You mean
we don't want to!

If you're not off
of this ranch in one hour,

I'll have you run off.

Mother,
what was that between--

Laurie, I--
I want to talk to you.

What was that
between you and Jim?

That doesn't concern you.

You fired him.

Collins told me what happened
in town today.

Jim's been with us
since I was a little girl.

And now you're almost
a grown woman,

- and all but brawling
on a public street.
- I didn't--

You should know better
than to make a public
spectacle of yourself.

What was
I supposed to do?

For one thing, you could avoid
someone like Sherman.

I will not talk about it
any further.

I just do not want you to repeat
yourself as you did today.

Is that understood?

Yes, Mother.

Now go see if Collins

has brought your
brother's horse around.

He's waiting outside.

Laurie...

have I been
a good mother to you?

Of course you have.

Sometimes a little too strict,
a little too demanding?

I don't--
I don't think so.

Just remember
I love you.

You're all I have left.

Well.

He looks good, Collins.
Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Hank loved him
very much.

I know, ma'am.

From the time he was a colt,
no one else ever rode him,

- except Hank.
- I know, ma'am.

Well, take him up
the high pasture

and turn him out.

And remember, no one's
ever to ride him again.

Yes, ma'am.

Come on, boy.

I told you
not to leave town.

The sooner
I find that money,

the sooner I can shake the dust
off this place.

I'll be back.

You're riding out
to the falls?

It's got to be
where the money's hidden.

That's also McGovern land.

I'd be careful
if I was you.

If you were me,
you'd have probably

covered up
this whole thing.

[ knocking on door ]

Yes?

There's a couple of men here
to see you, ma'am.

I wouldn't bother you
but they claim it's about Hank.

Yes?

Uh, we're...
we're sorry about
what happened, ma'am.

We got to know your boy
in Cheyenne,

thought you might like to
hear about it.

You know, his last days,
so to speak.

It's all right, Collins,
I'll see them.

Yes, ma'am.

Come in here.

What did you want to tell me
about my son?

Well, like he said, ma'am,
we knew him in Cheyenne.

I sent him there on business,
for supplies.

About the only thing he bought
was poker chips and whiskey.

He drank one
and lost the other.

I beg your pardon.

But it's true,
Mrs. McGovern.

That's why
he joined up with us.

He never would tell us
who he was.

But now we know about you,
it's plain to see

he didn't want to come
back here flat busted.

Why are you telling me
these lies?

For one good reason...
money.

You can leave now.

Not so fast,
Mrs. McGovern.

You see, Hank did rob
that relay station with us.

It was him
who shot that man too.

Considering
what we heard in town

about that
clean-living boy of yours,

you wouldn't want
that known.

Now would you, ma'am?

You never knew my son.

We knew him all right.

He's the one
that stole that money
we got from the holdup.

I don't believe it.

Hank once told me about a woman
who was always interfering,

never would let him
lead his own life.

I kind of figure
that would be you.

I told you,
you can leave.

Hank sure admired
that gray horse

we just saw outside.

He wouldn't let
nobody ride him.

Told me himself nobody
ever sat that horse

but him from
the day he broke him.

I'll give you $200.

Five hundred.

Five hundred.

Apiece.

I have to get it
for you.

And you'd better ride a long way
from this territory.

We'll do that, ma'am.

Folks said that lawman
from Laramie claims

Hank hid
the holdup money

out near a spot called
Rainbow Falls.

Yeah, so?

We'll take
the lady's money,

but there's a lot more than that
stacked away in them hills.

I think we better
have a look around.

Maybe we ought to let him
find the money for us.

And take the chance of him
getting away with it?

We'll close in
on both sides.

Get going.

When you pick up the mail,
come straight home, Laurie.

Yes, Mother.

Under no circumstances
do I want a repeat of yesterday.

There won't be.

And...

don't try to
see Jim Lassel.

Who's mending
that northland fence?

I'll get Sprock on it
right away, ma'am.

I told you about that
yesterday.

If you're gonna take
Jim Lassel's place,

you have to--

You draw that
and you're in trouble.

- What are you doing here?
- Where are they?

Where are who?

The two riders
that tried to ambush me.

I don't know
what you're talking about.

Your foreman told me
about that $1,000 offer.

And two of your hands just
made their play to collect it.

Well, I have to pay them
a bonus for trying.

The next ones that try
are gonna get six feet of dirt.

And that's a promise.

And here's another promise.

You'll pay
for k*lling my son

and for blackening the name
of McGovern with your lies.

You're doing a good job
of that yourself,

trying to buy a m*rder.

Don't preach to me.

You knew you couldn't make
your accusations stick,

so that's why you k*lled Hank,
but you k*lled the wrong person.

If I was lying,
do you really believe

I'd hang around here
and give you another chance?

Get off my land!

You just remember
what I said.

Go ahead.

You just give me the excuse
I'm looking for.

Now I'm gonna find that money
and the name of McGovern

can face up to its own.

Of course, I'm just
a stranger in town,

but it seems to me
your sheriff

ought to arrest
that Sherman fella.

Well, it's that badge
he's wearing

that keeps him free.

Maybe he is a lawman.

Oh, we'll know as soon as
Lief gets an answer

to that telegram he sent.

You know, it's a shame no one's
tried to collect that $1,000.

Well, somebody would be
doing this place

a good turn, getting him.

Uh, what--
What was this about $1,000?

MAN 1: Well, word is
Mrs. McGovern's offered it

for k*lling Sherman.

MAN 2: Well, nobody heard her,
but that's the talk.

MAN 1: I hear that's why
Jim Lassel quit her.

MAN 2: He didn't quit,
he was fired.

MAN 1: Well, either way
it's too bad.

All the years he spent
out there as foreman.

Believe me or not, sheriff,
I told you.

If I have to k*ll
any of her men,

you'll know it was
in self-defense.

Ellen never offered any money
to k*ll you, I bet on it.

Are you trying to say
you haven't heard talk?

There's always talk.
There's not a man
in this town

who wouldn't want to settle
with you for what you've done.

You know,
if nothing else,

this badge ought to
put you on my side.

If that badge is
really yours,

it still don't stack up
to my years in this town.

All right, she's been warned
and so have you.

If anyone makes
a wrong move with me,

they're gonna have to
answer for it.

It's Opie Holler.

- Looks like Sherman shot him.
- Let's take him.

Stay back, all of you.

Now that leaves me
four shots.

Who wants the first one?

Put that g*n down,
Sherman.

You get rid of these people
and listen to me,

then I'll put it down.

Meantime Opie Holler
can die.

Arrest him, Lief,
or we'll handle him ourselves.

You step up and try it,
big man.

You can't stop us all.

I can stop four of you.

Stop your yapping,
help get Opie to the doctor's.

Rest of you, stand off
till we hear what happened.

Sherman gunned Opie,
that's what happened.

This time
I will lock you up.

He tried to sh**t me
in the back.

Give me your g*n.

Why would I lie to you?

I'm telling you
the truth.

Sherman shot
in self-defense.

Miss Laurie,
you sure about this?

I saw the whole thing
from Doyle's store.

You heard her, Lief.

Sherman had every right
to fire on Opie.

There isn't a man
among you

who wouldn't have
done the same thing.

That kind of
settles it then.

You're a mighty
lucky man.

It's all over and done with,
now break it up.

- I want to thank you--
- Don't thank me, Mr. Sherman.

I don't think
I could stand it.

Let her go.

You're still
her brother's k*ller.

Why did she do it?

Something of what her mother
used to be came through,
that's all.

When I go to the bank,
then we'll be through.

Laurie, Ed has
some new material,

would you like some?

- No, I don't think so.
- Laurie--

Do you want me to
drive you to the bank?

No, thank you.
I'll walk.

Hello, Mrs. McGovern.

I thought
you left town.

We were leaving, but we
decided to change our plans.

Step in here,
I want to talk to you.

There ain't nothing you can do
about our still being here.

Well, I'm glad you're here,
I have a job for you.

Sherman has to be
stopped.

I thought your ranch hands
were gonna do that for you.

My ranch hands are just that,
they are not gunmen.

Well, ma'am, we're more than
willing to take care of Sherman,

but you can
keep your money.

What Hank hid is
enough for us.

You don't know
where it is,

and you might get caught
trying to find it.

I'll pay you whatever you took
from that relay station

to make sure that
it's never found,

especially by Sherman.

That's close to $5,000.

When Sherman
is dead...

that's what
I'll pay you.

You just hired yourself two men
who ain't ranch hands.

Who was he, Mother?

I want to know.

That is not
any of your business.

I know he was
a friend of Hank's.

Collins told me that much
and he heard him say it to you.

- Be quiet.
- I won't be quiet!

Do you want to have
your father's name
dragged through the mud?

You've done that more than
Hank ever could.

Hank?
Hank was innocent.

You don't seem so sure
of that anymore.

And you've done nothing
about withdrawing

the reward
for k*lling Sherman.

I'm trying to see to it
that everything

your father worked
for isn't ruined.

You're seeing to it
that no one will know

how you dominated Hank
so much,

he robbed and maybe k*lled
to prove something to himself!

The fact that Sheriff Cory's
telegram vouches for you

doesn't prove
Hank's guilty.

You help me find that money,
it'll prove him guilty.

You find it yourself.

And when and if you do,
clear out of this town.

Yeah, you're less sure now,
aren't you, sheriff?

I'm sure of one thing.

I don't want anymore grief
to come to Ellen McGovern.

Any grief she's suffering,
she brought on herself.

That's enough,
Sherman.

All right.

You might feel a duty
to old friends,

I won't deny that,
but you've got a duty

to that badge
you wear, too.

It's the money.

How'd you know
where it was hidden?

Hank and I...

we used to play in the cave
when we were kids.

Please, just take them
and go.

Please,
don't go back to town.

Laurie!

Laurie!

Oh, Laurie!

You!
You did it.

Oh, honey,
I wasn't aiming at you.

I'd do anything to--

You'd do anything
to k*ll him!

She needs a doctor quick,
so you better save the talk.

Well, I'll drive her.

No, I don't want you to.

I don't want you
near me.

Oh, honey.

I think you got her here
in time, Sherman.

Yeah, she kind of
had me worried.

Passed out soon after
we left her mother.

It's an awful thing
to believe.

That's proof of it though.

Yep.

Well, I better show this
to the sheriff, be on my way.

Thanks, doc.

He found it all right,
I'll bet on that.

You were right about
waiting for him.

Take the other side
of the street.

Look out!

Thanks
for the warning.

You know, it could
have been that

nobody would've
known about this.

I would have.

And Laurie too.

How is she?

She's gonna make it,
with your help.

She won't want
any help from me.

I can't really
blame her.

Neither do I.

But maybe
if we both talk to her,

she might
change her mind.

This is the one
I'm gonna give Mr. Frazer.

Think he'll like him?

I'm sure he will.

Sure, now that Mr. Frazer's
feeling better,

he'll need
some good company.

You think his mom
will miss him?

Oh, I don't think so,
tiger.

At times, animals are
a lot smarter than people.

Well, how do you mean?

Well, people sometimes try to
hang on to things too hard,

love somebody else
so much that

it actually smothers a person
they really care about.

I don't see how love
could smother anybody.

No, it doesn't usually.

But while I was away,
I saw it happen to a family.

A mother did it
to her son.

You think
that could happen to me?

I mean,
getting smothered.

Oh, I wouldn't
worry about that, tiger.

When you're ready
you're going to be

pushed out of the nest so fast,
you won't know what happened.

Yeah, and the way
you're growing,

that's gonna be sooner
than you realize.

Now you hush, both of you.

He's just a little boy.

Oh, that's okay,
Aunt Daisy.

I'm not worried.

I figure by the time
I'm grown up,

I'll have to stay
around here

to take care of Slim and Jess
in their old age.

[ chortles ]

Are we gonna
take that, pard?

I don't know. You reckon
we can both handle him?

Get him, Slim.

Ha!

Now, boys.

[ dog barking ]

[ indistinct shouting ]