Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973): Season 2, Episode 13 - Everything Else You Can Steal - full transcript
Blackjack Jenny, an honest middle-aged card dealer, meets our boys in New Mexico and asks them to keep a lookout for her son, who wrote her from the town saying he had a big score of some kind. When the letters stopped, she suspected the big score involved something illegal and that something bad happened to him. Both scenarios are true: the son and a partner, posing as Heyes and Curry, were tricked by a bank executive into posing as Heyes and Curry. When the executive (the banker's son-in-law) was able to figure out the combination to the safe, he then murdered them both. The executive has a girlfriend on the side, a restaurant waitress, whom Heyes and Curry try to charm into getting information on the impostors. Ends with a rather chilling description of vigilante justice as the only solution.
You're late.
What took you so long?
I was involved in a poker game
and I was winning.
Took me a little while to
convince other players that...
I had something more important to do.
All right,
get off your horses.
I'll tell you why you're here.
Is something wrong?
No. I just want the boys to
know your job here is finished.
Well, I don't understand.
We ain't done nothing yet -
just hung around town.
You saying, you know...
we're not gonna be doing the job?
That you're not gonna pay us?
I said you already done the job!
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry
The two most successful outlaws
in the history of the West
and in all the trains and banks
they robbed they never shot anyone.
This made our two latter-day
Robin Hoods very popular
with everyone
but the railroads and the banks.
There's one thing
we gotta get, Heyes.
What's that?
Out of this business.
The governor can't come flat out
and give you amnesty now
first you gotta prove you deserve it.
So, all we've got to do is
just stay out of trouble
until the governor figures
we deserve amnesty?
But in the meantime
we'll still be wanted?
Well, that's true
until then only you me and
the governor will know about it.
It'll be our secret.
That's a good deal?
I sure wish the governor let
a few more people in our secret.
Now Heyes, sometimes I wonder
if it'd really be so bad getting caught,
being locked up in the
Wyoming Territorial Prison.
What made you arrive
at that brilliant thought?
It's easy:
for 20 years we wouldn't have
to climb into a saddle
and ride a horse.
I was hoping that you would come up with a
bright side to our situation.
You didn't...
Yeah, what do we do first?
Check out the sheriff's office?
Or take the horses to the livery stable?
Now, I don't want to think about it.
I just want to sit here
and not think about it.
Kid?
Huh?
I don't know how to break this to you...
We're about to climb back
into those saddles.
What do we do?
We're gonna go to that town.
Now.
I got a better idea, Heyes.
Why don't we just turn ourselves in?
Heyes, you believe in omens?
Huh?
What do you mean?
Sheriff Coffin?
Well, only good omens.
Come on...
Let's go get a drink first.
You know how I feel about Sheriff's offices.
This is the one Sheriff's office
west of the Mississippi
you and I can walk in
like a pair of Texas Rangers.
Let's go get a drink first.
Let's go get a drink second.
Come on!
Sheriff Coffin?
Yeah, that's me.
My name is Joshua Smith,
this is my partner, Thaddeus Jones.
We're bounty hunters.
Well...
that's one way to make a living -
if you ain't too particular.
Oh, we just didn't have no choice, Sheriff -
after we got done shooting all the buffalo.
And we was on the trail of
Hannibal Heyes an' Kid Curry up north -
about 300 miles north -
when we heard that they'd
robbed a bank down here in your town.
Yeah, they did that sure enough.
They got away with over $100,000.
What makes you so sure
they were Heyes and Curry?
We were certainly
around their trail up north.
Yeah, 300 miles north.
Well, I'm certain you wasn't on their trail
up north 'cause they was here,
robbing our bank!
Sheriff, just why is it
that you're so certain?
Is there somebody here
in town who knows 'em?
All right.
There is somebody here in town,
who got drunk with him one night
and they identified themselves to him.
And they fit the description
of Heyes and Curry
you got over there on your posters?
Of course, they do!
In fact, when I found out who they was,
I tell you I was sick ashamed of myself
I didn't spot them right off.
Yeah.
Well, I guess we was on a cold trail.
You got any idea where
they might have headed?
No. No, they...
robbed the bank in the
middle of the night and then
just took off.
We sent a posse after looking,
but...
those fellas are professionals.
They didn't leave no trail.
One more thing, sheriff.
Can you tell us who it was
that identified 'em?
Nope.
Why not?
Because the person that did that -
before they ever identified 'em -
made me promise that I wouldn't tell.
That person was
afraid of what might happen to 'em.
Yeah, yeah, I see.
But we're huntin' Heyes an' Curry.
Now, if you told us it might help us.
I mean, in confidence.
Your bounty hunters?
Go hunt your bounty.
Oh...
by the way um...
the Bank is offering $10,000 for 'em,
if you return the money.
That makes 'em worth $30,000.
Not if I get my hands on 'em.
They ain't gonna be worth 30 cents!
Oh, that's the spirit, sheriff.
Yeah.
Thanks a lot sheriff, for your help.
All right, that does it.
There goes our amnesty.
Whoever they were, they're
gonna be in Mexico by now.
You know I'm short of going back
in there to the sheriff's office
and telling him we're Heyes an' Curry -
there ain't a thing we can do about it.
We have lost any chance for an amnesty.
Yeah...
No.
There's got to be something we can do...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, sure.
We get a hold of some money
and get down to South America.
No. No, we're go get a drink first.
Then we go to South America.
Oh yeah, it's probably
like the sheriff's office -
the one saloon west of the Mississippi
we can walk into
like a pair of Texas Rangers.
Boys!
Jenny!
Boys...
Hey, what are you doing here!
How are you!
And where were you?
Terrible, but feeling better
now that you're here.
I'm Joshua Smith and
the Kid is Thaddeus Jones.
Smith and Jones...
you couldn't do any better than that!?
Well, Lom Trevor's came up with the names -
and when Lom says something we just nod.
But what's the difference?
I'm just glad to see you two!
So you're doing here?
Hey, Jenny!
Finish this deal!
I think I got you beat!
Yeah, I'm coming.
Listen, listen.
I'll close the table.
And you come to my room later.
I gotta talk to you two.
Jenny where you staying?
The Touchstone Hotel.
I only got here three days ago myself.
I think you're here for
the same reason I am!
So you're in Touchstone
'cause Heyes an' Curry
didn't rob that bank, huh?
Sounds like you knew that
before we showed up, Jenny.
I did.
How?
Well, just what are you doing here then?
Trying to find out who did rob the bank.
Or kiss our amnesty goodbye.
Hey...
Jenny?
What's the matter?
You remember Billy?
Of course, I remember Billy.
He looks something like you, Kid.
Corn-colored hair, blue eyes, remember?
Well, Billy and a friend of his,
Caleb Willis,
come down here about a month ago.
They are the ones that claimed was
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry.
But they didn't rob that bank neither.
That safe wasn't blown,
it was opened
the way you'd do it Heyes -
working the combination.
Those kids couldn't have
done that to save their lives...
Billy wrote me a letter -
saying he and Caleb was onto
something real good down here.
Did he say what?
No, but I got the feeling
it wasn't something real good.
I don't think you can prove
who robbed that Bank here.
I think Billy's dead...
Caleb too...
What makes you think that, Jenny?
It's five weeks since
I got that last letter.
Billy never even went 2 weeks
without sending me some lines
you know, telling me he's
all right and what he's doing.
And if he don't have time
he sends me a telegraph -
he's been doing that three or four years now
as regular as clockwork.
Maybe they're just down in Mexico, Jenny...
No.
Well, they got mail offices in Mexico
telegraph lines, too.
No, Billy's dead.
I know he's dead.
Come down here to do something
he didn't want to tell me about.
Someone killed him.
Else I'd 've heard from him long before now.
That's why I set up my table.
I deal the cards...
I ask a question or two...
listen...
No answers yet...
but I'm not leaving here
'till I find out what happened to my boy.
That makes three of us, Jenny.
Excuse me, sir.
We'd like to see the owner.
I'm the assistant manager.
Can I help you?
Well, I'm sorry, but it's very
urgent that we see the owner.
Could you just tell me what it's about?
Mr. Blodgett is a very busy man.
It's about the robbery of his bank.
We have some important information for him.
Well, that's different.
I'm sure Mr. Blodgett is
most anxious to talk to you.
Excuse me.
Thank you.
Come in, please.
Thank you.
You've got exactly five minutes.
What can I do for you?
My name is Joshua Smith
and we're here to do
something for you, Mr. Blodgett.
This is my partner, Thaddeus Jones.
Sit down,
sit down.
My assistant manager tells me
you have information about the robbery.
What is it?
Before we tell you that...
are you offering a reward for
the capture of Heyes and Curry?
I'm offering a reward for
the return of my money.
Curry and Heyes are incidental.
How big a reward?
$10,000 -
that's 10% of what Heyes
and Curry got away with.
That's very generous, sir.
But Heyes and curry didn't get away with it.
What's that?
We're professional bounty
hunters, Mr. Blodgett.
We've been on the trail of Heyes
and Curry for almost a year now.
They were in Colorado
when your bank was robbed.
I'm afraid you're very much mistaken.
Oh, no we're not.
I just looked at your safe out there,
it's a Pierson & Hamilton 78.
We happen to know that Hannibal
Heyes spent an entire night once
trying to open a P&H 78
...in Denver.
But he couldn't.
You see the makers of that safe
built those tumblers so quiet
you can't open one by manipulation.
Hannibal Heyes finally
had to blow it with nitro.
It's all a matter of public record.
What are you getting at?
What we're getting at is
we think
somebody here in the bank
who knows a combination robbed it.
That's what we're getting at.
Not even my assistant manager -
who also happens to be my son-in-law,
knows that combination.
There's nobody in this bank who
knows that combination, but me!
What are you saying of that?
Well, I guess we'd say that you
robbed your own bank, Mr. Blodgett.
You better get out of here,
and get out fast!
It's the way you feel about it.
Telling us to leave doesn't
change our professional opinion.
Just a minute.
I happen to be a deacon
in the Baptist Church.
I'm also a faithful husband,
the father of 3 fine daughters
and a very wealthy man!
And you dare to come in here and tell me
that I would rob my own bank!?
Pardon you, Mr. Blodgett,
now we owe you an apology.
You don't sound like a man
who would rob his own bank.
We'd like to make you a deal:
If you would tell us who identified
those two fellows as Heyes and Curry
we'll figure you're willing
to cooperate with us
and you're not trying to hide anything.
What makes you think
I know who identified them?
Because you're a very wealthy man
and a deacon in the Baptist Church
and it was your bank that got robbed.
So, we know you know.
But I promised Sheriff Coffin
I wouldn't reveal that information.
Look you want your money back, right?
We're gonna get it back for you,
but you've got to help us
by telling us who identified those
thieves as Heyes and Curry.
Mr. Blodgett, if you don't help us
we're gonna go over to the saloon
and start telling people exactly
why we think it was an inside job.
That would be slander and
I'd have you thrown in jail!
Then we'd all be in trouble, wouldn't we?
We want to help you
but we can't do it
if you won't help us.
I'd certainly like to get my money back.
You seem to be able and resourceful men.
If I tell you
you got to promise me one thing in return.
That you'll never say
who told you who identified those two.
You got our solemn oath on that.
All right, she's a very nice lady.
She works in the restaurant
across the street.
She's a waitress.
Name is Louise Carson.
What's the specialty of the house?
Beef stew.
What else you got?
More beef stew.
You know, I think I'll have some beef stew.
Good thinking.
Make it two.
She's innocent.
Of what?
Everything!
A girl looks like that
couldn't be involved
in anything worse than a bundling party.
Kid, did you mother think you were perfect?
Matter of fact, she did.
Did yours?
Yeah.
But yours was wrong.
Anything to drink?
Coffee's still hot.
No, no, thank you,
but we would like to talk to you.
There's nobody here but us,
can you sit down?
What do you want to talk about?
Sit down, we'll tell you.
It's important, Louise.
You know my name.
Who are you?
We're bounty hunters.
We're on the trail of two of the
most vicious criminals in the West -
Kid Curry and that other fella.
Hannibal Heyes is that other fellas name.
Oh, they're the two
that robbed the bank here.
We understand they hung
around for a couple of weeks
and they ate here regular.
Yeah, they did.
Did you talk to 'em much?
A little.
Did they ever say anything that
might help us get on their trail?
Find 'em?
No, no, they were just
nice, pleasant young men.
Hannibal Heyes and what's-his-name
were nice Pleasant young men!?
Yes.
They seemed to be.
Louise, don't go.
You left out something important.
Which one of them got drunk
and told you who they were?
Told me?
Louise, we're bounty hunters.
That puts us on the same
side of the fence as the sheriff.
He told us what you told him.
The sheriff had no right to tell you that.
That's true.
The sheriff didn't tell us.
He kept his promise to you.
All right,
now that you've tricked me
into telling you, I'd like to go.
I have work to do in the kitchen.
Louise, those two fellas
weren't Heyes and Curry.
We were tracking Heyes
and Curry up in Colorado
when the bank was robbed.
But that's who they said they were!
Which one said it?
Caleb White -
they were calling themselves
Billy Black and Caleb White.
Caleb was the dark-haired one.
He came in one night -
terribly drunk and tried to...
make love to me.
I let him walk with me to my rooming house.
I guess I hoped the cold air
might clear his head.
Anyway, walking me home...he told me.
That he was Hannibal Heyes and that
Billy Black was really Kid Curry.
And then a few days later
they robbed the bank?
I don't know.
But they did leave town
the night it was robbed.
You know, if you say they
weren't Heyes and Curry,
I believe you.
They never seemed like
vicious outlaws to me.
If you'll excuse me,
I've got work to do.
Kid, she could be innocent -
Just someone who got used -
but she's all we got.
We've to see what she's
gonna do about us,
if anything.
We will watch her?
Yeah.
Around the clock?
Uh-huh.
Who's gonna take the night shift?
Call it.
Well?
Anything happened?
Nothing I care to talk about.
The girl went home,
she went in front door,
she turned on the light -
second room,
back bedroom, 2nd floor.
An hour later the light went off
and I sat and watched
both doors - front and back.
Nine hours later,
she came out the front door
and she went to the cafe
where she is right now,
ready to put in a 12-hour day
and serve you a nice breakfast.
Myself I'm gonna sleep for eight hours.
Well boys, the cards are running against me
and I think I'll just
close up the table for a while.
Hey, that ain't fair, Jenny!
Well, Mr. Jones,
mighty nice of you to buy lady a drink -
especially when she needs one!
It's my pleasure, ma'am.
And I'm Smith -
the Kid is Jones.
Do you mean it makes a difference?
Smith, I'd like a word with you!
You see?
It does.
Excuse me.
How come you and your
partner are still in town?
Alike you said -
they didn't leave no trail.
Expected to find one in this saloon?
You never know.
I don't think I can stand
to wait another day!
We have to.
What's got you so upset?
Ken, two bounty hunters came to the cafe...
I saw them.
They talked to my father-in-law.
By the way, where is your partner?
Oh, he's asleep.
He's had a problem with that lately.
They're probably just
what they claim to be -
bounty hunters trying to make sure
it was Curry and Heyes.
They can't prove anything
they can't even guess anything.
You said just the right things to 'em -
there's nothing to worry about.
Do we have to wait?
...so she's all we got to go on.
If nothing comes of it by tomorrow
the Kid and I are thinking about
borrowing some money from Soapy
or Diamond Jim Guffy
and going to South America.
South America!
Are you two - can't
even speak South American -
you wouldn't last two weeks down there.
I haven't done any
better here than you have -
but I'm not ready to quit tomorrow!
Six months from now
the robbery 'll be forgotten
and we can do everything
just the way we planned it.
Well come on, you cow pokes!
If you can count 21
you can take all I got!
And I got plenty!
Come on, put your money.
What are you doing?
How'd you like to take
Louise Carson on a picnic Saturday?
Heyes, are you all right?
All right?
I'm better than all right,
I'm brilliant!
I got it!
What is it you got?
The answer.
In the middle of the night?
I do my best thinking
in the middle of the night.
I thought of the Hanford job
in the middle of night, remember?
Heyes, I got shot in the leg on that job
and it netted us $73.
Remember?
The idea was good.
Blake's married to the
banker's oldest daughter, right?
Right.
Probably looks like her father.
Wrong.
That's impossible.
What did Blake do?
He falls in love with
the prettiest girl in town,
Louise Carson.
That's possible.
Okay...
Will I have to spell out
the rest of it for you?
Just to save time.
I need my sleep.
Blake wants Louise.
But he doesn't want to give
up the Blodgett money.
So he steals some of it,
but he's too smart to
steal it and run, see?
So, he finds two gullible young cowpokes
who sort of looked like
those notorious outlaws
Hannibal Heyes and what's-his-name.
Got it?
No.
Blake doesn't know the combination.
Ah, Kid you work in a bank
and you're related to the one man
that does know the combination
how long would it take you to pick it up?
A number here a number there...?
That makes me feel very bad, Heyes.
Bad!?
That would mean Jenny's right:
Billy's dead.
Blake killed him.
Well...
maybe Blake did give him some
of that loot and sent him to Mexico.
Oh sure,
if that's true, then how come
Jenny hasn't heard from Billy?
No, no, no.
If you're right,
that means that Blake brought 'em down here,
kept 'em around for a couple of weeks...
and then shot 'em and buried 'em
when he opened the safe.
You know your brilliant idea also means
that Louise Carson's part
of a cold-blooded murder.
And I don't like that either.
In fact, I don't believe it.
I don't either.
But it's still a brilliant idea.
They aren't bluffing!
They suspect me, I know it!
All right, all right, go with them!
Maybe they think you're
involved with Billy and Caleb -
which makes no difference!
Let them think!
I'm afraid!
Why do they want me to go someplace
where I'll be alone with them?
Sweetheart, I'll be there,
I'll be there close by.
Now we got to know what they suspect.
Wear your yellow scarf and
if it's as bad as you think, take it off.
What would you do?
Change our plans.
Now you're safe:
nobody will know you're involved,
because you weren't.
But...what those fellows
had guessed about me...
Well, I'll have to get out fast.
I'll go to Veracruz and wait for you there.
I see, the worst that can happen is
we'll be forced to do
what you've been wanting to do -
leave now.
That's the first time
I've seen you smile today.
I was afraid
you'd brought me out here to...
I don't know...question me?
Or even accuse me of something?
We brought you out here to help you.
You think I need help?
Why?
Because you could be
in serious trouble, Louise.
Even more serious than you know.
What are you talking about?
We know about you
and your friend, Kenneth Blake.
And just what is there to know?
Louise, I followed you the other night -
when you met him at that house.
And I was there the next time you met.
So, I don't see why it's...
any business of yours
that I...happen to fall in love
with a married man.
Oh, it wouldn't be - if it stopped there.
But it doesn't.
Curry and Heyes -
or whoever those two were -
didn't rob that bank.
Your friend Blake did.
How can you say an
insane thing like that?
Because there's no way to open
a Pierce & Hamilton 78
by manipulating the tumblers.
Heyes tried it in Denver in '79
and again in Kingsburg about 10 weeks ago.
Both times he had to use nitro.
If Hannibal Heyes can't do it,
nobody can.
So, it had to be Blodgett or his son-in-law,
and it wasn't Blodgett.
You're bluffing
and making wild guesses just because
you saw me meeting Kenneth Blake.
If you accuse me of meeting him,
I'll deny it!
People of Touchstone
like me and they like Ken.
No one will believe you!
Louise, I said we brought
you out here to help you.
What do you think
happened to Billy and Caleb?
I don't know what you mean.
Yes, you do.
Blake paid 'em to come into town
and just hang around, right?
And then he said he'd give
'em some of the stolen money
if they just disappear
someplace like maybe Mexico?
But he didn't do that.
He told you that, but he was lying.
He killed them.
You'll say anything to turn me
against him, won't you?
I can prove it!
We found the graves!
We found Billy and Caleb's bodies...
We guessed you didn't know
about that part of Blake's plans...
looks like we guessed right.
Is it the truth...?
Really the truth?
It's the truth.
Caleb and Billy are dead?
We could tell the sheriff
what we've seen and found
but we'd rather you do.
Why?
Well...
if we do then you'll be arrested
and tried right along with Blake.
but if you tell him, you'll be in the clear.
I can't!
I can't just turn him in.
Did he think about you
when he involved you in murder?
Louise, you owe yourself something
but you don't owe Blake a thing.
But I love him...
or at least I...
I fell in love with him a year ago...
and we decided to go away together.
I didn't know he robbed a bank
'till he asked me to tell
the sheriff that story -
about Caleb getting drunk and saying
they were Heyes and Curry.
That's when Ken told me
he'd given 'em some money
and set 'em to Mexico.
Are Billy and Caleb really dead?
Yeah.
Dead.
Murdered.
We'll show you the graves
if you want us to.
All right...
I'll go to the sheriff
and tell him what I know.
Well, just as I was beginning
to win this game, I get customers!
All right.
What's wrong?
Well, we don't know for sure yet,
Jenny, but...
you may be right about Billy and Caleb.
We think you are.
What'd you find out?
I can't tell you tonight, Jenny.
Why not?
'Cause we're gonna let
somebody else tell the sheriff.
In fact, the whole story be out by now,
except the sheriff had to take a
couple of drunken soldiers to Fort Briggs.
But you do know who robbed the bank?
Yes.
And did he use Billy and Caleb
to cover himself?
That's right.
But who was it?
Wait till morning, huh?
Was it Blodgett?
Come on, was it Blodgett?
Did he rob his own bank?
Wait till morning.
Jenny, it wasn't Blodgett.
Then it was that pretty son-in-law of his.
Just wait till morning, huh, Jenny?
Oh, oh Jimmy!
Come to get your money back, huh?
Sure gonna try.
Excuse me.
Better luck than we did, fellas.
Here.
Well, you'll have to try harder
than you did last night.
"Mr. Blodgett,
we found out that stealing made us feel bad
we brung back your money
it is in the house you're trying to sell.
We're sorry we've done it"
What's that?
Oh...
"and sorry we blamed it on
H. Heyes and K. Curry.
Signed Billy Black and Caleb White."
You suppose it's to some kind of crank note?
Sure sounds like.
We better have a look-see.
Hey!
Hey you!
Bounty hunters!
Can you come over here for a minute!?
I think you might be interested in this.
Hunt's over, fellas!
Here it is!
This is it!
It seems to be all here.
Oh, praise the Lord,
you gentlemen were right!
It couldn't have been
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry!
Hey, they brung the money back!
The thieves brung the money back!
Miss Carson,
we've got something
important to discuss with you.
Can you step out here?
So, you decided to do it
in your own peculiar way, huh?
Yes, I did.
Why?
The money's been returned, hasn't it?
Yes, but that doesn't answer his question.
I think it does.
I don't believe in killing.
How's that?
I don't believe,
anyone has the right to kill.
If Kenneth Blake murdered Caleb and Billy,
then he did a hideous unforgivable thing
and he'll be punished for it.
But I'm not going to help the
Territory of New Mexico kill him.
I saw Kenneth last night
and told him he had to return the money
and clear Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry or
I'd go to the sheriff.
So you're gonna make us
go to the sheriff, huh?
No,
because I don't think
you will, Mr. Smith.
I may be a woman,
but women have minds
and used them frequently.
You won't go to the sheriff.
You left the whole thing up to me
and I could have warned Ken
or even run off with him,
because you really aren't on the
same side of the fence as the sheriff.
You didn't really care what Kenneth did,
as long as Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry
weren't blamed for robbing a bank
they didn't rob.
Is what I'm saying clear to you?
I'm not sure.
Now, we'll work it out, eventually.
Good.
There's a train out of here at 2:40 today.
Will you be on it, Mr. Heyes?
Mr. Curry?
I mean you've done what you
came here to do, haven't you?
Louise.
We decided that you wouldn't warn Blake,
or run off with him either.
We were very clear about that.
I suppose, I should
take that as a compliment,
but I'm not feeling very
proud of myself right now.
Seeing us off, Louise?
I have a sister in Yuma.
She says I can find work there.
Maybe even a husband.
Does she have any
particular husband in mind?
All right.
I deserve that -
Even if I did have an excuse:
I fell very much in love with a married man.
I won't make that mistake again.
Sorry, I should've said that:
All three of us are trying to not
make the same mistake again.
I'm glad to hear that -
I mean about you two.
At least I won't have you on my conscience.
Just Kenneth Blake.
And if Blake is on our conscious, too -
and you're the only one
that can help us out with that.
Now we talked to Blodgett about
changing the combination of his safe - he's got to do that...
Isn't that Jenny
walking towards the bank?
Jenny!
What happened...?
She come in, sashayed over to Ken Blake,
said somethin' - bang - she shot 'em.
What'd she say to him?
Well, nobody heard except
Blake and he won't be tellin'
killed him deader 'n a fly in molasses.
She was Billy's mother.
Louise, you can't leave now.
She's gonna need you.
If you testify for her,
tell the truth about what happened...
there's no jury around here
that's gonna find her guilty.
You talked to Blake last night.
Did he admit he'd killed Billy and Caleb?
Yes,
he said he did it for me.
So we'd be safe.
So no one would ever know.
Louise, you've gotta stay.
You're a first-hand witness, Louise.
We're secondhand witnesses.
We lied to you about finding those graves.
I'll stay.
Goodbye, Louise.
You know something?
I'm really happy, I was right about you.
Goodbye.
Jenny's her name.
She's an old friend.
She'll understand why we had to leave.
Goodbye.
I'll be going to Yuma when I can.
If you've ever out that way
would you look me up?
We will.
That's a promise.
Hey Kid, how much would a headstone cost?
That's like asking me
how much would a horse cost.
Depends on the headstone.
What you've got in mind?
Oh, this one's gonna have
a few words carved on it.
Maybe 20 or so.
Cost you at least $100.
Whose headstone you got in mind?
$100?
That's not bad: $50 apiece.
Apiece?
Whose headstone you got mind, Heyes?
Oh, our good friend Kenneth Blake -
it would say:
"The only thing in life
you have to earn is love.
Everything else you can steal."
Heyes,
I didn't know you were a poet.
I'm not.
I stole it.
What took you so long?
I was involved in a poker game
and I was winning.
Took me a little while to
convince other players that...
I had something more important to do.
All right,
get off your horses.
I'll tell you why you're here.
Is something wrong?
No. I just want the boys to
know your job here is finished.
Well, I don't understand.
We ain't done nothing yet -
just hung around town.
You saying, you know...
we're not gonna be doing the job?
That you're not gonna pay us?
I said you already done the job!
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry
The two most successful outlaws
in the history of the West
and in all the trains and banks
they robbed they never shot anyone.
This made our two latter-day
Robin Hoods very popular
with everyone
but the railroads and the banks.
There's one thing
we gotta get, Heyes.
What's that?
Out of this business.
The governor can't come flat out
and give you amnesty now
first you gotta prove you deserve it.
So, all we've got to do is
just stay out of trouble
until the governor figures
we deserve amnesty?
But in the meantime
we'll still be wanted?
Well, that's true
until then only you me and
the governor will know about it.
It'll be our secret.
That's a good deal?
I sure wish the governor let
a few more people in our secret.
Now Heyes, sometimes I wonder
if it'd really be so bad getting caught,
being locked up in the
Wyoming Territorial Prison.
What made you arrive
at that brilliant thought?
It's easy:
for 20 years we wouldn't have
to climb into a saddle
and ride a horse.
I was hoping that you would come up with a
bright side to our situation.
You didn't...
Yeah, what do we do first?
Check out the sheriff's office?
Or take the horses to the livery stable?
Now, I don't want to think about it.
I just want to sit here
and not think about it.
Kid?
Huh?
I don't know how to break this to you...
We're about to climb back
into those saddles.
What do we do?
We're gonna go to that town.
Now.
I got a better idea, Heyes.
Why don't we just turn ourselves in?
Heyes, you believe in omens?
Huh?
What do you mean?
Sheriff Coffin?
Well, only good omens.
Come on...
Let's go get a drink first.
You know how I feel about Sheriff's offices.
This is the one Sheriff's office
west of the Mississippi
you and I can walk in
like a pair of Texas Rangers.
Let's go get a drink first.
Let's go get a drink second.
Come on!
Sheriff Coffin?
Yeah, that's me.
My name is Joshua Smith,
this is my partner, Thaddeus Jones.
We're bounty hunters.
Well...
that's one way to make a living -
if you ain't too particular.
Oh, we just didn't have no choice, Sheriff -
after we got done shooting all the buffalo.
And we was on the trail of
Hannibal Heyes an' Kid Curry up north -
about 300 miles north -
when we heard that they'd
robbed a bank down here in your town.
Yeah, they did that sure enough.
They got away with over $100,000.
What makes you so sure
they were Heyes and Curry?
We were certainly
around their trail up north.
Yeah, 300 miles north.
Well, I'm certain you wasn't on their trail
up north 'cause they was here,
robbing our bank!
Sheriff, just why is it
that you're so certain?
Is there somebody here
in town who knows 'em?
All right.
There is somebody here in town,
who got drunk with him one night
and they identified themselves to him.
And they fit the description
of Heyes and Curry
you got over there on your posters?
Of course, they do!
In fact, when I found out who they was,
I tell you I was sick ashamed of myself
I didn't spot them right off.
Yeah.
Well, I guess we was on a cold trail.
You got any idea where
they might have headed?
No. No, they...
robbed the bank in the
middle of the night and then
just took off.
We sent a posse after looking,
but...
those fellas are professionals.
They didn't leave no trail.
One more thing, sheriff.
Can you tell us who it was
that identified 'em?
Nope.
Why not?
Because the person that did that -
before they ever identified 'em -
made me promise that I wouldn't tell.
That person was
afraid of what might happen to 'em.
Yeah, yeah, I see.
But we're huntin' Heyes an' Curry.
Now, if you told us it might help us.
I mean, in confidence.
Your bounty hunters?
Go hunt your bounty.
Oh...
by the way um...
the Bank is offering $10,000 for 'em,
if you return the money.
That makes 'em worth $30,000.
Not if I get my hands on 'em.
They ain't gonna be worth 30 cents!
Oh, that's the spirit, sheriff.
Yeah.
Thanks a lot sheriff, for your help.
All right, that does it.
There goes our amnesty.
Whoever they were, they're
gonna be in Mexico by now.
You know I'm short of going back
in there to the sheriff's office
and telling him we're Heyes an' Curry -
there ain't a thing we can do about it.
We have lost any chance for an amnesty.
Yeah...
No.
There's got to be something we can do...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, sure.
We get a hold of some money
and get down to South America.
No. No, we're go get a drink first.
Then we go to South America.
Oh yeah, it's probably
like the sheriff's office -
the one saloon west of the Mississippi
we can walk into
like a pair of Texas Rangers.
Boys!
Jenny!
Boys...
Hey, what are you doing here!
How are you!
And where were you?
Terrible, but feeling better
now that you're here.
I'm Joshua Smith and
the Kid is Thaddeus Jones.
Smith and Jones...
you couldn't do any better than that!?
Well, Lom Trevor's came up with the names -
and when Lom says something we just nod.
But what's the difference?
I'm just glad to see you two!
So you're doing here?
Hey, Jenny!
Finish this deal!
I think I got you beat!
Yeah, I'm coming.
Listen, listen.
I'll close the table.
And you come to my room later.
I gotta talk to you two.
Jenny where you staying?
The Touchstone Hotel.
I only got here three days ago myself.
I think you're here for
the same reason I am!
So you're in Touchstone
'cause Heyes an' Curry
didn't rob that bank, huh?
Sounds like you knew that
before we showed up, Jenny.
I did.
How?
Well, just what are you doing here then?
Trying to find out who did rob the bank.
Or kiss our amnesty goodbye.
Hey...
Jenny?
What's the matter?
You remember Billy?
Of course, I remember Billy.
He looks something like you, Kid.
Corn-colored hair, blue eyes, remember?
Well, Billy and a friend of his,
Caleb Willis,
come down here about a month ago.
They are the ones that claimed was
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry.
But they didn't rob that bank neither.
That safe wasn't blown,
it was opened
the way you'd do it Heyes -
working the combination.
Those kids couldn't have
done that to save their lives...
Billy wrote me a letter -
saying he and Caleb was onto
something real good down here.
Did he say what?
No, but I got the feeling
it wasn't something real good.
I don't think you can prove
who robbed that Bank here.
I think Billy's dead...
Caleb too...
What makes you think that, Jenny?
It's five weeks since
I got that last letter.
Billy never even went 2 weeks
without sending me some lines
you know, telling me he's
all right and what he's doing.
And if he don't have time
he sends me a telegraph -
he's been doing that three or four years now
as regular as clockwork.
Maybe they're just down in Mexico, Jenny...
No.
Well, they got mail offices in Mexico
telegraph lines, too.
No, Billy's dead.
I know he's dead.
Come down here to do something
he didn't want to tell me about.
Someone killed him.
Else I'd 've heard from him long before now.
That's why I set up my table.
I deal the cards...
I ask a question or two...
listen...
No answers yet...
but I'm not leaving here
'till I find out what happened to my boy.
That makes three of us, Jenny.
Excuse me, sir.
We'd like to see the owner.
I'm the assistant manager.
Can I help you?
Well, I'm sorry, but it's very
urgent that we see the owner.
Could you just tell me what it's about?
Mr. Blodgett is a very busy man.
It's about the robbery of his bank.
We have some important information for him.
Well, that's different.
I'm sure Mr. Blodgett is
most anxious to talk to you.
Excuse me.
Thank you.
Come in, please.
Thank you.
You've got exactly five minutes.
What can I do for you?
My name is Joshua Smith
and we're here to do
something for you, Mr. Blodgett.
This is my partner, Thaddeus Jones.
Sit down,
sit down.
My assistant manager tells me
you have information about the robbery.
What is it?
Before we tell you that...
are you offering a reward for
the capture of Heyes and Curry?
I'm offering a reward for
the return of my money.
Curry and Heyes are incidental.
How big a reward?
$10,000 -
that's 10% of what Heyes
and Curry got away with.
That's very generous, sir.
But Heyes and curry didn't get away with it.
What's that?
We're professional bounty
hunters, Mr. Blodgett.
We've been on the trail of Heyes
and Curry for almost a year now.
They were in Colorado
when your bank was robbed.
I'm afraid you're very much mistaken.
Oh, no we're not.
I just looked at your safe out there,
it's a Pierson & Hamilton 78.
We happen to know that Hannibal
Heyes spent an entire night once
trying to open a P&H 78
...in Denver.
But he couldn't.
You see the makers of that safe
built those tumblers so quiet
you can't open one by manipulation.
Hannibal Heyes finally
had to blow it with nitro.
It's all a matter of public record.
What are you getting at?
What we're getting at is
we think
somebody here in the bank
who knows a combination robbed it.
That's what we're getting at.
Not even my assistant manager -
who also happens to be my son-in-law,
knows that combination.
There's nobody in this bank who
knows that combination, but me!
What are you saying of that?
Well, I guess we'd say that you
robbed your own bank, Mr. Blodgett.
You better get out of here,
and get out fast!
It's the way you feel about it.
Telling us to leave doesn't
change our professional opinion.
Just a minute.
I happen to be a deacon
in the Baptist Church.
I'm also a faithful husband,
the father of 3 fine daughters
and a very wealthy man!
And you dare to come in here and tell me
that I would rob my own bank!?
Pardon you, Mr. Blodgett,
now we owe you an apology.
You don't sound like a man
who would rob his own bank.
We'd like to make you a deal:
If you would tell us who identified
those two fellows as Heyes and Curry
we'll figure you're willing
to cooperate with us
and you're not trying to hide anything.
What makes you think
I know who identified them?
Because you're a very wealthy man
and a deacon in the Baptist Church
and it was your bank that got robbed.
So, we know you know.
But I promised Sheriff Coffin
I wouldn't reveal that information.
Look you want your money back, right?
We're gonna get it back for you,
but you've got to help us
by telling us who identified those
thieves as Heyes and Curry.
Mr. Blodgett, if you don't help us
we're gonna go over to the saloon
and start telling people exactly
why we think it was an inside job.
That would be slander and
I'd have you thrown in jail!
Then we'd all be in trouble, wouldn't we?
We want to help you
but we can't do it
if you won't help us.
I'd certainly like to get my money back.
You seem to be able and resourceful men.
If I tell you
you got to promise me one thing in return.
That you'll never say
who told you who identified those two.
You got our solemn oath on that.
All right, she's a very nice lady.
She works in the restaurant
across the street.
She's a waitress.
Name is Louise Carson.
What's the specialty of the house?
Beef stew.
What else you got?
More beef stew.
You know, I think I'll have some beef stew.
Good thinking.
Make it two.
She's innocent.
Of what?
Everything!
A girl looks like that
couldn't be involved
in anything worse than a bundling party.
Kid, did you mother think you were perfect?
Matter of fact, she did.
Did yours?
Yeah.
But yours was wrong.
Anything to drink?
Coffee's still hot.
No, no, thank you,
but we would like to talk to you.
There's nobody here but us,
can you sit down?
What do you want to talk about?
Sit down, we'll tell you.
It's important, Louise.
You know my name.
Who are you?
We're bounty hunters.
We're on the trail of two of the
most vicious criminals in the West -
Kid Curry and that other fella.
Hannibal Heyes is that other fellas name.
Oh, they're the two
that robbed the bank here.
We understand they hung
around for a couple of weeks
and they ate here regular.
Yeah, they did.
Did you talk to 'em much?
A little.
Did they ever say anything that
might help us get on their trail?
Find 'em?
No, no, they were just
nice, pleasant young men.
Hannibal Heyes and what's-his-name
were nice Pleasant young men!?
Yes.
They seemed to be.
Louise, don't go.
You left out something important.
Which one of them got drunk
and told you who they were?
Told me?
Louise, we're bounty hunters.
That puts us on the same
side of the fence as the sheriff.
He told us what you told him.
The sheriff had no right to tell you that.
That's true.
The sheriff didn't tell us.
He kept his promise to you.
All right,
now that you've tricked me
into telling you, I'd like to go.
I have work to do in the kitchen.
Louise, those two fellas
weren't Heyes and Curry.
We were tracking Heyes
and Curry up in Colorado
when the bank was robbed.
But that's who they said they were!
Which one said it?
Caleb White -
they were calling themselves
Billy Black and Caleb White.
Caleb was the dark-haired one.
He came in one night -
terribly drunk and tried to...
make love to me.
I let him walk with me to my rooming house.
I guess I hoped the cold air
might clear his head.
Anyway, walking me home...he told me.
That he was Hannibal Heyes and that
Billy Black was really Kid Curry.
And then a few days later
they robbed the bank?
I don't know.
But they did leave town
the night it was robbed.
You know, if you say they
weren't Heyes and Curry,
I believe you.
They never seemed like
vicious outlaws to me.
If you'll excuse me,
I've got work to do.
Kid, she could be innocent -
Just someone who got used -
but she's all we got.
We've to see what she's
gonna do about us,
if anything.
We will watch her?
Yeah.
Around the clock?
Uh-huh.
Who's gonna take the night shift?
Call it.
Well?
Anything happened?
Nothing I care to talk about.
The girl went home,
she went in front door,
she turned on the light -
second room,
back bedroom, 2nd floor.
An hour later the light went off
and I sat and watched
both doors - front and back.
Nine hours later,
she came out the front door
and she went to the cafe
where she is right now,
ready to put in a 12-hour day
and serve you a nice breakfast.
Myself I'm gonna sleep for eight hours.
Well boys, the cards are running against me
and I think I'll just
close up the table for a while.
Hey, that ain't fair, Jenny!
Well, Mr. Jones,
mighty nice of you to buy lady a drink -
especially when she needs one!
It's my pleasure, ma'am.
And I'm Smith -
the Kid is Jones.
Do you mean it makes a difference?
Smith, I'd like a word with you!
You see?
It does.
Excuse me.
How come you and your
partner are still in town?
Alike you said -
they didn't leave no trail.
Expected to find one in this saloon?
You never know.
I don't think I can stand
to wait another day!
We have to.
What's got you so upset?
Ken, two bounty hunters came to the cafe...
I saw them.
They talked to my father-in-law.
By the way, where is your partner?
Oh, he's asleep.
He's had a problem with that lately.
They're probably just
what they claim to be -
bounty hunters trying to make sure
it was Curry and Heyes.
They can't prove anything
they can't even guess anything.
You said just the right things to 'em -
there's nothing to worry about.
Do we have to wait?
...so she's all we got to go on.
If nothing comes of it by tomorrow
the Kid and I are thinking about
borrowing some money from Soapy
or Diamond Jim Guffy
and going to South America.
South America!
Are you two - can't
even speak South American -
you wouldn't last two weeks down there.
I haven't done any
better here than you have -
but I'm not ready to quit tomorrow!
Six months from now
the robbery 'll be forgotten
and we can do everything
just the way we planned it.
Well come on, you cow pokes!
If you can count 21
you can take all I got!
And I got plenty!
Come on, put your money.
What are you doing?
How'd you like to take
Louise Carson on a picnic Saturday?
Heyes, are you all right?
All right?
I'm better than all right,
I'm brilliant!
I got it!
What is it you got?
The answer.
In the middle of the night?
I do my best thinking
in the middle of the night.
I thought of the Hanford job
in the middle of night, remember?
Heyes, I got shot in the leg on that job
and it netted us $73.
Remember?
The idea was good.
Blake's married to the
banker's oldest daughter, right?
Right.
Probably looks like her father.
Wrong.
That's impossible.
What did Blake do?
He falls in love with
the prettiest girl in town,
Louise Carson.
That's possible.
Okay...
Will I have to spell out
the rest of it for you?
Just to save time.
I need my sleep.
Blake wants Louise.
But he doesn't want to give
up the Blodgett money.
So he steals some of it,
but he's too smart to
steal it and run, see?
So, he finds two gullible young cowpokes
who sort of looked like
those notorious outlaws
Hannibal Heyes and what's-his-name.
Got it?
No.
Blake doesn't know the combination.
Ah, Kid you work in a bank
and you're related to the one man
that does know the combination
how long would it take you to pick it up?
A number here a number there...?
That makes me feel very bad, Heyes.
Bad!?
That would mean Jenny's right:
Billy's dead.
Blake killed him.
Well...
maybe Blake did give him some
of that loot and sent him to Mexico.
Oh sure,
if that's true, then how come
Jenny hasn't heard from Billy?
No, no, no.
If you're right,
that means that Blake brought 'em down here,
kept 'em around for a couple of weeks...
and then shot 'em and buried 'em
when he opened the safe.
You know your brilliant idea also means
that Louise Carson's part
of a cold-blooded murder.
And I don't like that either.
In fact, I don't believe it.
I don't either.
But it's still a brilliant idea.
They aren't bluffing!
They suspect me, I know it!
All right, all right, go with them!
Maybe they think you're
involved with Billy and Caleb -
which makes no difference!
Let them think!
I'm afraid!
Why do they want me to go someplace
where I'll be alone with them?
Sweetheart, I'll be there,
I'll be there close by.
Now we got to know what they suspect.
Wear your yellow scarf and
if it's as bad as you think, take it off.
What would you do?
Change our plans.
Now you're safe:
nobody will know you're involved,
because you weren't.
But...what those fellows
had guessed about me...
Well, I'll have to get out fast.
I'll go to Veracruz and wait for you there.
I see, the worst that can happen is
we'll be forced to do
what you've been wanting to do -
leave now.
That's the first time
I've seen you smile today.
I was afraid
you'd brought me out here to...
I don't know...question me?
Or even accuse me of something?
We brought you out here to help you.
You think I need help?
Why?
Because you could be
in serious trouble, Louise.
Even more serious than you know.
What are you talking about?
We know about you
and your friend, Kenneth Blake.
And just what is there to know?
Louise, I followed you the other night -
when you met him at that house.
And I was there the next time you met.
So, I don't see why it's...
any business of yours
that I...happen to fall in love
with a married man.
Oh, it wouldn't be - if it stopped there.
But it doesn't.
Curry and Heyes -
or whoever those two were -
didn't rob that bank.
Your friend Blake did.
How can you say an
insane thing like that?
Because there's no way to open
a Pierce & Hamilton 78
by manipulating the tumblers.
Heyes tried it in Denver in '79
and again in Kingsburg about 10 weeks ago.
Both times he had to use nitro.
If Hannibal Heyes can't do it,
nobody can.
So, it had to be Blodgett or his son-in-law,
and it wasn't Blodgett.
You're bluffing
and making wild guesses just because
you saw me meeting Kenneth Blake.
If you accuse me of meeting him,
I'll deny it!
People of Touchstone
like me and they like Ken.
No one will believe you!
Louise, I said we brought
you out here to help you.
What do you think
happened to Billy and Caleb?
I don't know what you mean.
Yes, you do.
Blake paid 'em to come into town
and just hang around, right?
And then he said he'd give
'em some of the stolen money
if they just disappear
someplace like maybe Mexico?
But he didn't do that.
He told you that, but he was lying.
He killed them.
You'll say anything to turn me
against him, won't you?
I can prove it!
We found the graves!
We found Billy and Caleb's bodies...
We guessed you didn't know
about that part of Blake's plans...
looks like we guessed right.
Is it the truth...?
Really the truth?
It's the truth.
Caleb and Billy are dead?
We could tell the sheriff
what we've seen and found
but we'd rather you do.
Why?
Well...
if we do then you'll be arrested
and tried right along with Blake.
but if you tell him, you'll be in the clear.
I can't!
I can't just turn him in.
Did he think about you
when he involved you in murder?
Louise, you owe yourself something
but you don't owe Blake a thing.
But I love him...
or at least I...
I fell in love with him a year ago...
and we decided to go away together.
I didn't know he robbed a bank
'till he asked me to tell
the sheriff that story -
about Caleb getting drunk and saying
they were Heyes and Curry.
That's when Ken told me
he'd given 'em some money
and set 'em to Mexico.
Are Billy and Caleb really dead?
Yeah.
Dead.
Murdered.
We'll show you the graves
if you want us to.
All right...
I'll go to the sheriff
and tell him what I know.
Well, just as I was beginning
to win this game, I get customers!
All right.
What's wrong?
Well, we don't know for sure yet,
Jenny, but...
you may be right about Billy and Caleb.
We think you are.
What'd you find out?
I can't tell you tonight, Jenny.
Why not?
'Cause we're gonna let
somebody else tell the sheriff.
In fact, the whole story be out by now,
except the sheriff had to take a
couple of drunken soldiers to Fort Briggs.
But you do know who robbed the bank?
Yes.
And did he use Billy and Caleb
to cover himself?
That's right.
But who was it?
Wait till morning, huh?
Was it Blodgett?
Come on, was it Blodgett?
Did he rob his own bank?
Wait till morning.
Jenny, it wasn't Blodgett.
Then it was that pretty son-in-law of his.
Just wait till morning, huh, Jenny?
Oh, oh Jimmy!
Come to get your money back, huh?
Sure gonna try.
Excuse me.
Better luck than we did, fellas.
Here.
Well, you'll have to try harder
than you did last night.
"Mr. Blodgett,
we found out that stealing made us feel bad
we brung back your money
it is in the house you're trying to sell.
We're sorry we've done it"
What's that?
Oh...
"and sorry we blamed it on
H. Heyes and K. Curry.
Signed Billy Black and Caleb White."
You suppose it's to some kind of crank note?
Sure sounds like.
We better have a look-see.
Hey!
Hey you!
Bounty hunters!
Can you come over here for a minute!?
I think you might be interested in this.
Hunt's over, fellas!
Here it is!
This is it!
It seems to be all here.
Oh, praise the Lord,
you gentlemen were right!
It couldn't have been
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry!
Hey, they brung the money back!
The thieves brung the money back!
Miss Carson,
we've got something
important to discuss with you.
Can you step out here?
So, you decided to do it
in your own peculiar way, huh?
Yes, I did.
Why?
The money's been returned, hasn't it?
Yes, but that doesn't answer his question.
I think it does.
I don't believe in killing.
How's that?
I don't believe,
anyone has the right to kill.
If Kenneth Blake murdered Caleb and Billy,
then he did a hideous unforgivable thing
and he'll be punished for it.
But I'm not going to help the
Territory of New Mexico kill him.
I saw Kenneth last night
and told him he had to return the money
and clear Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry or
I'd go to the sheriff.
So you're gonna make us
go to the sheriff, huh?
No,
because I don't think
you will, Mr. Smith.
I may be a woman,
but women have minds
and used them frequently.
You won't go to the sheriff.
You left the whole thing up to me
and I could have warned Ken
or even run off with him,
because you really aren't on the
same side of the fence as the sheriff.
You didn't really care what Kenneth did,
as long as Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry
weren't blamed for robbing a bank
they didn't rob.
Is what I'm saying clear to you?
I'm not sure.
Now, we'll work it out, eventually.
Good.
There's a train out of here at 2:40 today.
Will you be on it, Mr. Heyes?
Mr. Curry?
I mean you've done what you
came here to do, haven't you?
Louise.
We decided that you wouldn't warn Blake,
or run off with him either.
We were very clear about that.
I suppose, I should
take that as a compliment,
but I'm not feeling very
proud of myself right now.
Seeing us off, Louise?
I have a sister in Yuma.
She says I can find work there.
Maybe even a husband.
Does she have any
particular husband in mind?
All right.
I deserve that -
Even if I did have an excuse:
I fell very much in love with a married man.
I won't make that mistake again.
Sorry, I should've said that:
All three of us are trying to not
make the same mistake again.
I'm glad to hear that -
I mean about you two.
At least I won't have you on my conscience.
Just Kenneth Blake.
And if Blake is on our conscious, too -
and you're the only one
that can help us out with that.
Now we talked to Blodgett about
changing the combination of his safe - he's got to do that...
Isn't that Jenny
walking towards the bank?
Jenny!
What happened...?
She come in, sashayed over to Ken Blake,
said somethin' - bang - she shot 'em.
What'd she say to him?
Well, nobody heard except
Blake and he won't be tellin'
killed him deader 'n a fly in molasses.
She was Billy's mother.
Louise, you can't leave now.
She's gonna need you.
If you testify for her,
tell the truth about what happened...
there's no jury around here
that's gonna find her guilty.
You talked to Blake last night.
Did he admit he'd killed Billy and Caleb?
Yes,
he said he did it for me.
So we'd be safe.
So no one would ever know.
Louise, you've gotta stay.
You're a first-hand witness, Louise.
We're secondhand witnesses.
We lied to you about finding those graves.
I'll stay.
Goodbye, Louise.
You know something?
I'm really happy, I was right about you.
Goodbye.
Jenny's her name.
She's an old friend.
She'll understand why we had to leave.
Goodbye.
I'll be going to Yuma when I can.
If you've ever out that way
would you look me up?
We will.
That's a promise.
Hey Kid, how much would a headstone cost?
That's like asking me
how much would a horse cost.
Depends on the headstone.
What you've got in mind?
Oh, this one's gonna have
a few words carved on it.
Maybe 20 or so.
Cost you at least $100.
Whose headstone you got in mind?
$100?
That's not bad: $50 apiece.
Apiece?
Whose headstone you got mind, Heyes?
Oh, our good friend Kenneth Blake -
it would say:
"The only thing in life
you have to earn is love.
Everything else you can steal."
Heyes,
I didn't know you were a poet.
I'm not.
I stole it.