Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962): Season 3, Episode 25 - The House I Enter - full transcript

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Hyah! Hyah!

HARDIE: I didn't know
this town of Bentonville.

I wasn't looking
for any trouble here,

just making a routine
check for Wells Fargo.

I'd been riding since morning,

and all I was thinking
about was bed.

In my business, there
are lots of surprises.

Come on. Let's get out of here.

Don't shoot! I'm Jim Hardie from
Wells Fargo. Did you know those men?

Nope. But they just emptied the
safe of $6,000 and shot Sam Riddle.

One of them lost his gun.



Yeah and I think I hit
one of them when I shot.

He's hurt bad, he can't
get far. I'll stick with them.

You get a posse and follow me.

Come on, men. Let's get some
horses here and get going. Come on!

There's a side trail
here, we'd better take it.

Somebody's closing in on us.

No, it's better if we split up.

Look, you're in no shape to
be having to carry that sack.

Let me take it. I'll
pull them off your trail.

Oh, no, you don't.

Let you take it, I might
never see you again.

What's the matter?
Don't you trust me?

How can I? You said there'd be
no shooting tonight, but there was.

What if you'd killed that man?



How would I know the
fool would pull a gun?

Look, kid. You can't travel
like that. You're hurt bad.

I'll go to my brother's place.

He'll put me up
till I'm fit to ride.

How you know he
won't turn you in?

I can handle Leroy.

He'll believe anything I tell
him and do anything I say.

You meet me up there. Then we
will talk about the money, not now.

HARDIE: I'd lost the trail.

I could hardly have
expected otherwise.

But somebody told me there was a doctor
living out here a few miles from town.

I thought, just maybe,

the wounded man
would know about him too.

Doc Forrester.

Somehow that name should
mean something to me,

but I couldn't quite place it.

Hardie. I never thought
you'd be knocking on my door.

Neither did I.

A long way from Fort
Seldon, isn't it, Doc?

Not far enough, apparently.

Heard you were around looking into
that robbery. What do you want with me?

Just want to ask you a
question about the robbery.

Has nothing to do
with the other matter.

Save your breath. I wouldn't
give you the time of day.

You're not gonna believe this,

but I didn't want to
testify against you.

I was subpoenaed.

I was asked under oath
if I'd seen you fight a duel.

I had no alternative
but to tell them the truth.

You knew dueling was
against army regulations.

A duel is a private matter.

Not when the man is killed.

Seems to me you
got off pretty lucky.

You could have gone
to prison, you know.

My country practice
isn't much better than a prison.

Well, ask your question.

Can I come inside?

They called me down to
dig a bullet out of Sam Riddle.

That's how I knew
you were in town.

How is he? He'll pull through.

The shot was high.

Well, you look like you're
pretty comfortable here, Doc.

Certainly these quarters are as
comfortable as any army quarters could be.

I'd trade it for my
old life in a hurry.

Yet there are men that'd give
their soul to get out of the army.

What do you figure you've lost?

I lost a practice I
love, I lost my wife.

I lost the leisure to
study my specialty,

the sanitary treatment
of battle wounds.

I was on the threshold of making a
real contribution to military surgery,

and that was taken away from
me along with everything else.

But I don't suppose you
could understand that.

I imagine there's a good
deal I don't understand.

You no doubt have a
good reason to be bitter,

but I hope you'll understand
that I was under oath.

I did what I had to do and I
couldn't do any differently,

even if I'd wanted to.

No...

I don't suppose you could.

Well... that's all
water under the bridge.

What about this holdup?

As you probably know, one of the outlaws
was wounded as he tried to make his escape.

We don't know how badly yet.

But you thought he
might come to me for help.

I haven't seen him.

Still a chance that
he might show up.

If he does, I'd expect you
to contact me or the marshal.

I'm aware of my
professional duties, Hardie.

I didn't mean it in that way.

Hey, Doc. Can you come
out to my cabin right away?

It's my brother. He's
been hurt. Your brother?

Well, come in. I'll just throw
some things into my bag.

I thought Ollie was in
Texas. They got in last night.

One of those freak accidents, Doc.
He shot himself with his own gun.

Oh, I didn't know you
had a patient, Doc.

Just a visitor.

Hardie, this is Leroy Haggerty.

Jim Hardie is a special investigator
for the Wells Fargo company.

Pleased to meet you.

Pleased to meet you.

Sorry to hear about
your brother's accident.

How did it happen?
Don't answer that.

I have an idea Hardie thinks your brother
was involved in a holdup last night.

Holdup? Two men robbed

the Wells Fargo Agency
and shot Sam Riddle.

One of those men was
wounded as he tried to get away.

I had an idea he might
come to the Doc for help.

So, just because my
brother had an accident,

that means he's the
man you want, huh?

I'm afraid anyone carrying a bullet
hole in him today is under suspicion.

Did you see the accident happen?

No, I didn't. It
happened on the trail.

I see. You don't believe me.

With Hardie, a man's guilty
until he's proven innocent.

Come on, let's go.

How's Ollie?

Well, he's a little feverish.

Tina, do you have a fire going?

Yes, there's
plenty of hot water.

Fine. Now, the rest of you stay
out of the bedroom until I call you.

Tina, this is Jim Hardie.

My wife, Mr. Hardie. Hello.

Pleased to meet you, ma'am.

Sounds like you got a
fine healthy baby there.

He was mighty sickly at first, but
the Doc has done wonders for him.

You a friend of the Doc's?

Well, just an acquaintance.

I happened to be there when
your husband came after him.

Hardie is investigating a
holdup in Bentonville last night.

He's got the idea
Ollie was mixed up in it.

He's never been in any trouble,
Mr. Hardie. Not that we ever heard of.

Did he come here by himself?

No, Vince Garner came with him.

Where's Garner now?

We don't know.
He isn't here now.

I see.

Come on.

How did you manage to get a
wound like this from your own gun?

Brush knocked it
out of my holster.

It went off when
it hit the ground.

You think the slug would have
been traveling vertically, wouldn't you?

This bullet hole
is level as a rail.

I've treated many a bullet wound,
but I've never heard of a bullet

making a right angle turn
like this one must have done.

Get finished with it, will you?

Who'd you bring up here?

A man named Hardie.

He's a Wells Fargo detective
investigating a holdup last night.

I'm afraid he'll have some
questions to ask you, son,

in view of the nature
of your... accident.

A mighty tough man, Hardie.

Chunk of iron where
his heart should be.

Yeah?

Made some trouble for me once.

Went out of his way to...

help get me disgraced

and cashiered out of the army.

Isn't that water hot yet?

Why don't you relax?

Your brother is in good hands.

Or are you worried about
where he was last light?

Understand this, Hardie:

If you can't keep still about
my brother, you can leave.

Oh, stop being so unreasonable.

Naturally, Mr. Hardie
is suspicious.

Why should Ollie pull a holdup?

He makes good
money as a cattle buyer.

Are you sure of that?

A lot of people have lost
money in business before,

that's no crime,

and as a result of that they've
done a lot of foolish things.

He sends us money
when we're short.

He loaned me enough
for seed last spring.

Does that sound like he's
broke? Like he's a thief?

Ollie's a good man, Hardie.

If I wasn't tied down,
I'd like to be just like him.

How is he, Doc?

Just fine so far.

Can I talk to him now?

Go ahead.

Excuse me.

How do you do.

I'm sorry to hear
about your accident.

My name is Jim
Hardie... from Wells Fargo.

I'm wondering if you'd heard
about the trouble in town last night.

Yeah, just now, from Doc.

Is there anything you
could tell me about it?

Well, what would I
know? I wasn't there.

Are you sure?

Do you own a gun?

I lost it when I got hurt.

Now, look, if you...
Could this be it?

No.

I never saw it before.

That's funny.

We found this gun last
night where you dropped it.

OLLIE: All right, Hardie.

I've taken all I'm gonna
take off you. You're leaving.

Leroy, put that gun away.

Get over there with him, Doc.

You're trying to
pin a robbery on him

because he's too
weak to defend himself.

You don't know
what you're doing.

That's my brother's gun.
What are you doing with it?

No, that ain't mine. Same
make, but it ain't mine.

Now do you see
what I'm talking about?

Your brother's in this thing
as deep as a man could be.

We found that gun
last night at the robbery.

Well then, it couldn't be his,

because he was right
here all last evening.

If that's true, why didn't you
tell me that in the first place?

Well, I'm telling you now.

And if you don't believe it,
you'll have to prove otherwise.

Take the bullets
out of that gun, Doc.

Now get out.

And don't you come back unless
you bring a warrant with you.

All right. I will.

I'll see you later, Haggerty.

All right, give
him the gun, Doc.

Now get.

You're traveling with a pretty
fast crowd, aren't you, Doc?

A doctor goes where he's called.

To me, this was
just another case.

Was it?

You can prove
that if you want to,

by letting me know if you see or
hear anything of that Wells Fargo sack.

Maybe you've never
heard of the Doctor's Oath.

Whatsoever house I enter,

whatsoever things I see or hear,

I will keep silent thereon.

Seems to me you might
have left out a part of it,

something about refraining
from wrongdoing and corruption.

Howdy.

You're the sawbones, huh?

I'm Doc Forrester, yes.

How's Ollie? I'm his partner.

He's getting along all right.

If you're going in, don't
wear him out talking.

Well, I got some chores, Doc.

Good idea.

Good a way as any
to work off a worry...

Such as Jim Hardie.

Well, how you making it, boy?

So-so.

Wells Fargo man was gonna run
me in, but Leroy wouldn't let him.

He's gone after a warrant.

Well, we better see to it
he don't get no warrant.

Don't start anything. We're
in deep enough already.

Too deep to let him
ride back to town.

Vince, no!

HARDIE: There were some things
I didn't like about this business...

A young man and his
wife heading for trouble

because of a mistaken sense of loyalty
to a man who had taken the wrong road.

And there was the
doctor, Dr. Forrester.

He too was headed in the
wrong direction, and going fast.

Ollie Haggerty's partner,
Vince Garner, was overdue.

His name had come up several
times, but I had yet to see him.

Throw down that rifle.

Stand up.

Who are you? What
do you want with me?

My name's Hardie.
I'm from Wells Fargo.

I just missed you last
night in Bentonville.

You got the wrong man, Hardie.

Is your name Garner?
Sure is. What about it?

You're a friend of Ollie
Haggerty's. That's all I need to know.

Stick out your hands.

You can't arrest a man just
because he's a friend of somebody's.

Maybe I can't arrest you,
but I can put you away

and hold you till I find
out what I need to know.

How long before I
can set a-saddle, Doc?

Couple of weeks.

I can't wait that long. No...

not after what
happened to Sam Riddle.

Well, I didn't shoot
him. One of you did.

It wasn't me. Doc, I swear!

He came running out of the office
waving a gun, and Vince shot him.

Well, I admit it sounds
more like Vince than you,

but that won't make
any difference in court.

Well, that's why I can't wait
around here any two weeks.

I gotta get out of here
even if I can't set a-saddle.

There's that buggy of yours.

Doc, you gotta help me.

I'll pay, I'll pay you well.

What with? The
Wells Fargo money?

It's in the barn.

I hid it there.

I don't want any
part of it anymore.

You can have it all,
just get me out of here.

I could lose my license,

wind up in jail.

Doesn't the money mean anything?

Mean anything?

I could clean up the mess that
court-martial made of my life,

I could afford all the study
I wanted in my specialty.

Settle down in a
big city somewhere.

I could start over.

It might be worth the gamble.

Then it's a deal.

Leroy. What's wrong?

Well, I-I'm not sure, but I saw
Doc and Ollie going in the barn.

Ollie? He shouldn't
be out of bed yet.

I wonder what's going on. Wait.

Leroy, I wanna know
why you lied to Mr. Hardie,

telling him that Ollie was
here with us last evening,

and you know that he didn't
get here till after midnight.

Tina, look, I had to make
him understand he was wrong,

that it couldn't
be Ollie he wants.

Hardie is gonna build a case
against him if he possibly can.

But if we stand by Ollie,

you and I, well,
he can't touch him.

But don't you see that if we lie
for Ollie, we have to lie for Vince.

And I don't wanna do that.

I can't. I'm afraid of him,

afraid of what
he's doing to Ollie.

Look, we'll talk about it later.

Let's go to the barn.

OLLIE: There, under
the saddle blankets.

That's it.

You understand if it wasn't
for what Hardie did to me, I...

I'd never touch this.

We had a deal.

Now do your part.
Get me out of here.

DOC: Sure, sure.

LEROY: So...

you knew nothing
about that holdup.

Everything Hardie said was true.

I didn't plug that man in town.

It was Vince. Vince shot him.

I'd never even have been there
if I hadn't had too much to drink.

On account of you, I ran
Hardie off with a shotgun.

OLLIE: And what about that
money you used to send me?

I suppose that was stolen too.

It was honest, kid, every cent.

I worked my guts
out for that money.

How did you ever get mixed
up with a man like Vince?

Couldn't you see what he was?

Not at first.

He hired me to help move
some cattle he was going to buy,

but he never did buy any.

Then he started talking about
easier ways of making money.

And you, Doc...

What's your part in all of this?

The two men in all the
world I'd have put my faith in.

I'm taking Ollie away from here

before Jim Hardie has a chance
to hang that robbery on him.

But you can't travel like this.

Oh, leave him alone. Let him go.

She's right.

If I hang around here, there
will only be trouble for you both.

Mr. Hardie!

Doc, you're bringing my
prisoner in for me, aren't you?

I'm taking him to my place.
He... he needs proper care.

And that money? You're
gonna take care of that too?

Hardie, you got me and
Vince. Ain't that enough?

OLLIE: The others have nothing to do
with the holdup. Believe me, they didn't.

I'll remember that.

Leroy, you go get your horse.

Doc, you and Ollie
get in the buggy.

We're all gonna
go in and have a...

talk with the marshal
in Bentonville.

Listen, Hardie. You gotta
leave Leroy out of this.

I tell you, he ain't guilty.

All I want him for is a witness.

Witness?

Against my brother?

No, not against your brother.

I need a statement as to where
the money was found. Nothing else.

Oh. I'll take the money, Doc...

Just give me an excuse, brother,

just one.

All right, partner.
Get on that horse.

No. I'm not going
anywhere with you.

OLLIE: You and me are quits.

All right, suit yourself.

I don't need you to
help slow me down,

or to split the loot with.

That leaves you.

I ain't gonna leave
you on my back trail.

No, you can't!

You don't want your
wife to see a killing,

you better get in the house.

Somebody stop it!

Tina, you'd better go inside.

Give me the keys to
these things. Come on.

I suppose you'll want this?

Later. Take it now.

Get up and get over there.

Thank you, Doc.

Here. You'll want
the rest of this.

Take it.

I don't know what got over me.

For a while I was ready to put
myself down on a level with him.

You mean you
were gonna steal it?

But I couldn't have
gone through with it,

not after watching
what happened just now.

Whatever I may be,
I'm not that breed.

HARDIE: I don't
think you are either.

Anyone can be tempted.

It's funny what'll go through a
man's mind every now and then.

I know.

Maybe I was just trying to
make up for a wasted life...

buying myself some importance.

From what Leroy tells me, Tina
and the baby wouldn't be alive today

if it wasn't for you.

What more importance
can a man want that that?

You're right.

Looks like I was
wrong all the time.

I never saw it quite
that way before.

Ollie, you're gonna have
to go back and stand trial,

maybe even serve a prison term.

But if there's nothing else
on the record against you,

I'll do my best to see
that it's a short one.

Whatever it is, I
want to serve it.

Kid, you once said you
wanted to be like me...

now you know where it ends up.

OLLIE: If you only knew.

You've got everything in
the world worth wanting.

I'm ready to go.

Let's go.

HARDIE: A man in my business doesn't
always like the things that he has to do.

But sometimes the pain
he gives brings a cure,

and he figures that maybe
he's in the right business after all.