Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973): Season 3, Episode 8 - The Day the Amnesty Came Through - full transcript

All right!

That was all I'm gonna take.
Ellen git to your room!

Why?
I haven't done anything.

I said git!

I warned you.

Now I'm telling you for the last time, leave her alone!

I can't even look at the girl at the supper-table?

You weren't just looking, you was...

you was looking

and she was looking back!

I can't help that. What do you want me to
do, tell her to go away when I'm around?



I don't care what you do,

but if you open them eyes or that mouth of yours in her direction one more time,

I'm gonna kill you!

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
Kansas cousins very popular.

With everyone
but the railroads and the banks.

One thing we gotta get Heyes.
What's that?

Outta this business.

The governor can't come flat out
and give you amnesty now.

First you gotta prove you deserve it.

Lom, are you saying that all
we have to do is stay out of trouble

until the governor figures
that we deserved amnesty?



And in the meantime
we'll still be wanted?

That's true.

Till 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 would let a
few more people in on our secret.

I just take 3 cards.

Haven?t you got that thing written yet?

How can I write it, till I know what I'm gonna say?

Are we gonna stay here or not?

Yeah, I guess we're stuck, Kid.

The railroad man's not offering much, but it's better than nothing.

Are we really gonna cut 2,000 railroad ties for $150?

Well, that?s all he?s paying.

That's seven and a half cents a tie, you realize that?

Yeah, I figured it out, too.

You know, Heyes, that railroad's robbing us!?

I don't like it any better than they did when we were robbing them.

Well, maybe we ought to put out a reward on 'em.

Get her alive.

I wish we could.

All right now, how is this?

To Sheriff Lom Trevors, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Dear Lom, as per your request this will let you know where we are.

Stop.

We are in Fort Morgan, Colorado and we'll be working for the...

railroad here for a month. Stop.

Yours truly, Thaddeus Jones and Joshua Smith.

It sounds terrible.

Let me have that.

Hey, wait a minute, what are you doing?

The telegraph company gets ten cents a word.

That's a lot in railroad ties, Kid.

Sheriff Trevors, Cheyenne, Wyoming

In Fort Morgan, Colorado

for months.

Stop.

Smith and Jones

It's all he needs to know.

Just put your John Hancocks on the bottom line there and drink up, boys.

Beer's on me.

You sure you can afford it?

What you're waiting for, sign the paper.

Mr. Magruder,

we don't mind a man making an honest profit, but robbery hidden honest not.

Couldn't you come up just a little?

That's the best I can do.
Sign the contract.

Mr. Magruder, I think your last contractor's blood dried on your pen.

Hey, you fellas,

got an answer to your telegraph.

It's kind of important.

Well, what's it say?

I can't believe what it says.

What you have been waiting for so long has finally come through. Stop.

Get to the Nolan Ranch as fast as you can. Stop.

Congratulations Stop.

Lom Trevors.

We got it!
All that miserable honesty paid off.

I don't believe it!
The governor wasn?t conning us!

Governor?
What's going on here?

You know, if we start right now, we can make the border by dark

and be at the Nolan Ranch by tomorrow afternoon.

Now, wait a minute, you boys have got a deal with the railroad.

Here, the pen's working fine now.

Deal?
Railroad?

But now look, maybe I was a bit tight with the railroad's money.

I'll come up another dollar per hundred ties.

Why are we standing here?

I don't know Joshua.

I'll make it $2 for 100 ties.

Now, that's a deal I'd be proud to offer the own father.

Hello, boys.

Lom, you haven't got the right expression on your face.

Lom, we didn't missread your Telegraph, did we?

It was about our amnesty, wasn't it?

It has come through, hasn't it, Lom?

That's what the telegraph was about, wasn't it?

Yeah, boys.

That's what the Telegraph was about.

Well, then what's wrong?

You should be smiling,

shouldn't you?

No.

Just 8 hours ago President Cleveland removed Governor Warren from office.

Boys,

I went by the Cheyenne Club on the way over here

and I picked up a bottle of their best champagne to celebrate with.

Now what do you say we'd open it anyhow?

I think we all could use a little cheering up.

I'll drink to it, Lom,

but I don't guarantee to cheer up.

I guarantee not to.

Well,

here's to life.

Thought, we were only supposed to get 20 years.

Oh, come on, Kid,

you know what I mean.

Now drink up, make it feel better.

Yeah, you wanna bet?

You know, things are not quite as black as they look.

Yeah, they are.

When you look at it from our side, things are very black.

No, they aren't.

I happen to know the man that they're going to appoint as new governor.

It's George W. Baxter,

the rancher.

And I've known him known him for about 10 years.

What do you got in mind?

I'm gonna pay a call on George W. Baxter

and try to get from him the same kind of a deal that I got from Governor Warren.

Now, come on, drink up.

George W. Baxter,

the new territorial governor of Wyoming.

Where are you?

What's the matter with you two?

What's the matter with us?

Lom,

we're Custer walking in the middle of a Sioux war dance!

This is Cheyenne, Wyoming.

The chances are 100:1 we won't stay out of jail more than 5 minutes.

Now boys relax, it's almost midnight.

And it's very dark.

I can see you plain as day

Well now, look would you stop being so skittish, now get yourself together.

How do you look?

Like we're dressed up for a funeral, that's how we look.

That's good, because you are about to have an audience,

with the governor of the territory of Wyoming.

Well, I'll be a blue-nosed gopher.

Hey, Lom, what are you doing so far from home.

And in the middle of the night at that.

Brad, can you tell governor Baxter,

I'm here with those two gentlemen he's expecting.

I don't remember the governor saying he was expecting anybody.

Just tell him, Brad.

All right.

You?ve got a smudge there.

Here, put some wet on this.

Go right on in, the governor's waiting for you.

Lom, don't tell me that these two

are Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry.

Yes sir,

in the flesh.

Well, no wonder you don't get caught, you just

don't look like outlaws.

You don't look a thing like I pictured
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry!

I'm sorry, Sir.

Thank you.

You're Heyes?

He is.
Oh, I see.

Well, sit down, boys, sit down.

Lom's told me that you've two been staying out of trouble

for over a year now at the suggestion of my predecessor.

Yes, sir, we have.

You know, I'm glad to be governor of this territory, but

Frank Warren is a friend of mine and a very good man,

for a Republican.

I hated to see him removed from office that way.

Yes, sir...
and so did we.

I guess you know it's only because he didn't belong to the right party.

President Cleveland would have had him removed from office over a year ago,

if Frank wasn't so highly regarded.

Well, anyway,

I'm mighty impressed by what Lom told me about you two,

and I'm inclined to go along with you,

in an even stronger way than Frank Warren did.

You are?

That's right. I've got a friend, Eric Anderson, owns the Bucks A Ranch.

Now Eric's got a fine daughter, and she's missing.

Now, Eric insists that she's been kidnapped,

but I have information she wasn't kidnapped at all.

She got mixed up with a fella named Ed Starr

from the Red Sash gang and she just ran off with him.

You boys acquainted with the Red Sash gang?

Uh, we've heard of that group, all right, yeah.

You know this Ed Starr?

No, your honor, I don't believe we do.

How about Black Henry Smith?

We've heard stories about him, but we've never met him.

How about Charlie Taylor?

Well, we've talked to Charlie Taylor, yes.

Oh, that's fine that's going to help

Help what, sir?

Help you find out, if Ellen Anderson's up there on her own accord

or not.

Now, you do that

and I'm gonna give very serious consideration to this amnesty proposition.

And I don't think, I'm gonna make you wait 2 years either.

Well, that's just fine, sir.

Is that all you want us to do?

Just see if she's up there on her own accord?

That's it.

Oh, I could go in after them with a company of militia.

But if she's not being held there against her will,

I could get some fine men killed for nothing.

And...

what if she isn't up there of her own free will?

You'll report that to me and I will go in with a militia.

Well, that's the job, boys.

Being acquainted with Charlie Taylor,

you can go right into their hideout

in the Little Bighorns

and find out what I want to know.

You do that and do it fast,

and you've made a friend.

We got a deal?

Yes, sir,

we got a deal.

Don't start out tonight.

Heyes,

I wonder, if we should have been a little more honest with Governor Baxter.

We were honest.

Not exactly.

We said we knew Charlie Taylor, we didn't mention Charlie hates our guts.

What? I always got along fine with Charlie, it's you he doesn't like.

Correct me if I'm wrong, you're planning on going in alone?

No, but if you want to go in single file, I'll ride ahead of you.

Oh, that's wonderful.

If you ride in first, I'm the one Charlie Taylor can shoot in the back.

All right, then you can ride in first, and I'll leave my back exposed.

That's very courageous of you, Heyes.

Thank, Kid, but as you well know

being courageous has never been a problem for me.

True. Every time you decide to get courageous, it becomes a problem for me.

All right, then we'll ride in side-by-side.

Heyes, I hope you know what we're doing.

Heyes, have you heard any of the stories about this bunch?

Like Black Henry Smith for instance?

I heard, Black Henry's the silent type,

and if you say anything about it to him, he's liable to kill you.

I won't.

You won't what?

Say anything about it to him.

Fact is, when it comes to people

I'll take the silent ones to the noisy ones every time.

Yeah, I will too, Kid.

My granddaddy used to say a loud mouth is a sure sign of a small brain.

I'm a poor lonesome cowboy

I'm a poor lonesome cowboy

I'm a poor lonesome cowboy

A long long way from home

My granddaddy was right.

Heyes, I hope you know what we're doing.

Hold your fire, we're friends!

Just stay right there, don't move.

Just keep them hands grabbing air.

What do you want up here?

Looking for a friend of ours, Charlie Taylor.

He around?
None of your business.

Just who are you anyway?

I'm Hannibal Heyes

and this here's Kid Curry.

And I'm General Grant,

and these two fellas here they're

Stanley and Livingstone, just back from Africa.

Look, if you don't want to believe us, you ask Charlie Taylor.

He knows who we are.

All right,

lead out of that Canyon.

Go on around there, don't try nothing.

Hi, Charlie, look who we got.

Well, doggone me, look who's here.

It's been a long time, Heyes.

It sure has, Charlie.

Say, how about telling your cautious friends here that we're all right?

Well, Heyes, I always thought you was all right,

but I can't say the same for the Kid here.

But like you said, Charlie, it's been a long time.

It's so long, I can't even remember why you're mad at me.

Oh, you can't, huh?

You know something?

Blamed, if I can either.

Ain't no foolin'?

You two guys really Kid Curry and Hannibal Heyes?

Now, that's what it says in the wanted posters.

Say, let me guess,

Black Henry Smith.

And how did you figure that out?

Come on, let's go inside.

You two sure are a sight for sore eyes.

And believe me up here we get sore eyes, just looking at each other.

Only four of you up here, Charlie?

No, there's Ed Starr, too.

He's out riding with some girl he hauled up here.

Hey,

you fellas figuring out joining up with us?

That'd really be great.

Heyes and Curry, riding with the Red Sash gang.

We didn't exactly come up here to join you.

You didn't?

And what'd you come up here for?

Now, we had a little trouble down in Carbon County.

And we needed a cooler climate, if you know what I mean.

And then there's a deal we got going up in Montana.

What deal?

We don't know too much about it ourselves.

We're meeting Wheat Carlson up there in a week.

It's a real big deal.

And if there's room for you fellas,

I'll get the word down to you.

Well, we might take you up on that.

Pickin?s have been a little lean around here lately.

It'll be all right then, if we stay here for a while?

We could sure use a place to lay low, till it's time to head up to Montana.

So, I got a little carried away, I said I was sorry, didn't I?

Oh honey, I'm only human after all.

Honey, I'm sorry.

I?ll do it, honest I will. It?s just gonna take a little time, is all.

Charlie, what was that?

Well, they do a lot of that.

It don't mean nothing.

It kind of keeps us entertained.

Aw, come on, honey.

How long are you gonna keep on like this?

Please Ed, I'll see you in a little while out there.

Same old sad story, Ed?

Uh, she's got a one-track mind.

You promised we'd get married, Ed.

You promise to prove up a homestead and settle down, Ed.

When you're gonna send for the preacher, Ed?

Hey whom we got here?

I'm Hannibal Heyes and this here's Kid Curry.

You don't say?

Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry.

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!

What brings you up here to the hindquarters the outlaw world?

Oh, we're just passing through.

Well...we don't get many visitors up here

especially famous type desperados like you two.

Hey, honey, come on over here.

We got some visitors.

Ellen Anderson meet Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry.

Delighted, Mr. Heyes.
Mr. Curry.

Ma'am.

We're delighted too, Miss Anderson.

It's almost supper time.

Maybe a better offer to help with the biscuits.

If you don't mind, Curly Red.

Mind after what the boy said about my biscuits? Yeah.

Say, would you pardon us a minute?
We got to take care of those horses.

Oh, I better put up our horses too, honey.

Hey, you know, I wasn't thinking in there just now.

If I had my wits about me, I wouldn't have told Ellen who you are.

That's all right, Ed.

The man that's welcome here, has got to be wanted, she must realize that.

No, she's kind of...

well, simple you might say.

You know Heyes,

put a string tie on you and take off that gun you'd pass for a parson.

Yes sir, I could have told Ellen you was here to marry us off.

It would have made things a lot quieter around here.

And a lot more fun for me, if you know what I mean.

Oh, Kid,

what did he mean?

I bet if we ask him, he'd draw us a picture.

He might even, if we don't ask.

Kid, you guess trying.

She's not being held here against her will.

So in the morning we'll tell Charlie and head for Montana, right?

Maybe that's not right.

Maybe we could try for something better.

And I think I know what you got in mind, but tell me anyway.

Let me ask you a question first.

What do you think George W. Baxter would do if we didn't just bring back a message,

but we brought back the girl.

I guessed right.

And I think it's a fine idea, but how do we do it?

I mean, she's giving it a hard time, but she likes him.

So, what do we do, huh?

Kidnap her?
No!

No, I work on her.

I turn on my boyish charms, and I win he away from good old Ed.

Now, Kid you have a lot of fine qualities,

but women doesn't happen to be one of them.

Woman's my strong point.

So, if one of us is gonna win her away from Ed it's just gonna have to be me.

Heyes,

let me point out some grim, but undeniable facts.

Ed Starr, as you well know, is awfully good with that gun of his.

He's also not a very good loser.

Now, he might just try to console himself for his loss by shooting you dead.

Well, I didn't say that you were bad with women.

In fact, when you put your heart into it, Kid,

you just might have a chance.

So, you go ahead.

Yes sir,

you win her away from good old Ed.

Thanks, Heyes, I thought you'd see my point.

Yeah.

Here you are - three little threes.

How much longer you're gonna play, Ed?

Oh, no much longer, honey.

Just till I win all the money.

Come on, ante up in here, boys,
let's get this game going.

Deal me out this hand.

It's beautiful night, isn't it?

Out here I mean, not in there.

Yes, it's beautiful.

Ed was gonna take me for a ride to the top of that hill.

I thought, the view from up there in this moonlight would really be lovely.

Well, by the time he gets through playing poker, it's gonna be daylight.

You know, I'd be happy to go along with you up there, Ellen.

I couldn't do that, Mr. Curry.

Why couldn't you?

I don't think Ed would understand that...

well, you were just being a gentleman.

Well, that may be.

But it also might shake him up a little bit in just the right kind of way.

How do you mean?

Well, he might start paying a little more attention to you.

Seems, he takes you a little too much for granted.

I guess, that's because he knows how much I'm in love with him.

Well, then he's a lucky man.

It's too bad he doesn't appreciate how lucky he is.

Thank you.

You know, I still think you ought to let me ride along with you

while you take a look at that view from up there.

Well, you may be right.

Maybe I should give Ed something to think about.

I accept your offer to ride with me.

Let's go.

Wyoming must be the most beautiful place in the whole world.

You've been to places thousands of miles from here, haven't you,

but have you ever seen anything so beautiful?

No, I don't believe I ever have.

You're not even looking.

I'm sorry, I'll look.

You're right,

it's very beautiful, too.

I think we'd better go back now.

Ellen, wait a minute, please.

Why?

You're Eric Anderson's daughter, aren't you?

You know my father?

I know of him.

Heard he's a very fine man.

He you send you up here?

No, no, I've never even met your father.

But what I know about him and the kind of home you come from,

it just doesn't make any sense

Your being in a place like this, with a man like ed Starr.

You don't even know Ed.

Well, I know him as well as I know you.

And from what I know about him,

he doesn't even belong in the same world with you.

My father sent you up here, didn't he?

No.
No, I swear, he didn't.

Well, then why are you preaching at me like this, just the way he does?

Because I've known a hundred Ed Starrs and I know how little they're worth.

And you've only met one,

and you're making a big mistake.

I want to go back now.

All right.

You know, there is one thing I admire about Ed.

His luck.

Alright boys, let's see your ante.

50 cents to stay in.

Ellen.

Hello, Ed.
Game's over?

Go inside.

I said go in!

Now, you're a guest of Charlie, so I'll just say this simply.

Stay away from her.

Well, it's kind of hard to do, Ed, in a small place like this.

You better find a way.

Well, you didn't want me to insult her, did you?

She was lonely and we went out for a ride.

What do you want me to do from now on?

Tell her to stay away from me?

That's exactly what you're gonna do.

Here you are.
I've been looking for you.

Mornin'.

Mmm, that smells good.

Good mornin'.

I thought everybody was still asleep.

Everybody else is.

Kid and me we're early risers.

He's already down to the creek, seeing if he can catch some trout for breakfast.

Well, I hope he has good luck.

I used to go fishing every Saturday with my father.

You know the Kid wanted to ask you to go along with him but I talked him out of it.

Why?

Well, don't you know?

Tell me why you talked him out of it.

Ed threatened trouble, if he didn't stay away from you.

Oh, I see.

Kid, didn't want to pay it no heed but I said we are gonna be leaving soon, so it

just might be better if he goes fishing alone.

Well, I'm sorry you did that, Mr. Heyes.

Your friend may be an outlaw, but he's a

gentleman, a warm and decent man,

and I'd have enjoyed going fishing with him.

I'm not married to Ed Starr.

I agree with that.

I mean, that he's a fine, decent fella.

You know, I ought to stay out of this.

He's just down around the bent there by the deep pool.

You know, I bet if you went down there, he'd

cut you a pole and bait you a hook.

Thank you, you I think I will go.

And bait my own hook.

Where's Ellen?

You see her here this morning?

Heyes, you seen Ellen out there?

Yeah, but she's gone now.

Gone?
Where?

She went fishing with the Kid.

Ed, don't get all riled up.

Shut up, Charlie, this is my business!

All right, Heyes,

the Kid's a friend of yours.

That's right.

Well, I told him last night, now I'm telling you.

I want him to stay away from Ellen.

If he is a friend of yours, you better make sure he gets my meaning.

You know something, Kid.

Actually, I'm glad you talked me out of winnin' Ellen away from him.

Well, it's not too late to switch.

You know, I think maybe you're right.
Women are your strong point.

Oh, no, in this case, she prefers you instead of me

for some odd reason.

You know something?
He just might be as good as you are.

He might be better than I am.

He was a little faster this time.

Yeah, he was.

Kid, I think we ought just go back and tell the governor that

she's up here of her own free will.

I don't want to do that.

Why not?

That's all the man asked us to do.

He said if we brought him back the information, we'd make us a friend.

Oh, sure.

Governor Warren was a friend of ours for almost two years.

If we go back there with nothing more than a little information,

Baxter's gonna say to us: fellas

I'm really gonna have to give this a lot of thought,

that he's gonna do the same thing that Warren did;

keep telling us that it's politically dangerous right now to give us our amnesty.

Now, we're gonna take that girl back there and we're gonna get our amnesty now,

Not next year!

Now listen to me, Kid.

You've gotta head over there backed into corner.

If you don't stay away from her, there's no telling what he might do.

So, I'll stay away from her.

How's that.

You just keep doing what you've been doing.

She won't be able to stay away from me.

Well, everybody seems to be doing their mending today.

Is there any coffee?

Just put on a fresh pot.

It'll be done in a minute.

I think we could use another piece of leather.

I?ll go out, see what I can dig up.

Am I imagining things or is he avoiding me?

Well now, Ellen, you know we're gonna be leaving tomorrow.

No, I didn't know.

But that doesn't answer my question.

Well, Ellen, if you want to know,

the Kid's wild about you.

He'd like you to go with us tomorrow.

Oh, I'm sorry, that Kid feels that way.

I never wanted him to.

I can't believe he's wild about me and never gave him any reason to be.

Well, he is.
He told me so.

And he'd have told you, if it weren't for Ed Starr.

Old Ed he's...

well, he's kind of hot-headed.

Yes, I know.

Say, why don't you get some of that coffee?
I think it's done.

No, I don't care for any right now.

Parsnips.

Jabber, jabber, jabber.

Talk a man's ear off, Henry.

I'm a man a few words and if that don't suit you, I'll kill you.

That suits me just fine.

All right!

That was all I'm gonna take.
Ellen git to your room!

Why?
I haven't done anything.

I said git!

I warned you.

Now I'm telling you for the last time, leave her alone!

I can't even look at the girl at the supper-table?

You weren't just looking, you was...

you was looking

and she was looking back!

I can't help that. What do you want me to
do, tell her to go away when I'm around?

I don't care what you do,

but if you open them eyes or that mouth of yours in her direction one more time,

I'm gonna kill you!

I don't mean that the way Henry does, I mean it my way!

I'll kill ya!

Ed,

What?

pass the biscuits.

I want to apologize for what happened last night.

There's nothing for you to apologize for, Ellen.

Not your fault, Ed's the way he is.

Hey, Curry.

I guess you didn't hear me last night.

Yeah, I heard you.

Don't you think it ought to be up to Ellen whether she talks to me or not?

I told you what would happen, if you talk to her.

You think I was just bluffing?

No, I figured you meant it.

I spoke to him, he never said anything to me.

Move away from him, Ellen.

Now, I don't want anybody calling me a cold-blooded killer.

You all set and ready?

Ready for what, Ed?

To draw that gun of yours.

You're supposed to be pretty good with it, according to the yarns I hear.

Well, I know how to use it.

But I don't expect me to draw on you.

You're the one that wants to do the shooting.

I never said I was gonna kill you.

But if you're bound and determined to go through with this,

I'm sorry that's all.

You're finished talkin'?

Yeah, I guess I am.

By golly, that was really something, Kid!

Shooting that gun right out of his hand.

You know, he was aiming to kill you.

Well, you sure are something, Kid.

Ain?t he though, huh?

Yeah.

You know something, Henry? That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me.

I want to apologize for everything but I...

I don't know what to say so I'll just say goodbye.

What do you have to apologize for, Ellen?

Everything.
We both know I brought this all on.

Ed says I'm simple.

I guess he's right.

You didn't bring anything on.

Let me tell you something, Ellen,

we brought it all on.

And let me tell you something else

we're not gonna leave you here.

We're gonna take you back with us.

Back where?
Home.

Your home.

I can't.
I can't go back there.

Yes, you can.

We weren't exactly honest with Charlie and the rest of the fellas.

We came here to take you back.

Your father wants you home.

He did send you here!

No, a friend of his did.

But your father wants you back.

In fact, he wants you back so bad he asked the governor

to come in here with a militia and take you back.

You're not just telling me that,
it's really true?

Yes, Ellen, that's really the truth.

How soon can you be ready?

I'm ready right now.

How's this, Heyes:

To Sheriff Lom Trevors, Cheyenne, Wyoming

Dear Lom, we have great news.

Please meet us at the North Fork of Rock Creek

near the old placer mine flume in ten hours.

Oh, come on, Heyes!

Hello, Lom.
Hi, Lom.

Lom, how do you like our little surprise?

Lom.

Lom, you do know Ellen Anderson, don't you?

Hello, Ellie.
Hello, sheriff Trevors.

Lom, you're not supposed to be looking like that.

We did a whole lot more than Governor Baxter even asked of us,

we brought her back.

Yeah,

did quite a bit more than you asked.

Then why are you looking like that...

...again?

Governor Baxter was removed from office by President Cleveland 2 days ago.

That's not very funny, Lom.

It's a very bad joke.

Well, I know it's not funny,

it's just true.

Lom, we were only gone 12 days.

Seems that
President Cleveland were...

I mean, that there are two sides of the story.

President Cleveland decided that

George Baxter had fenced in local government land

so he removed him from office.

Well, Lom, thanks a lot for all your help.

Please do us a favor, don't help us anymore.

Now here's the girl.
Goodbye, Ellen. Goodbye, Lom.

Now, wait a minute, where're you going?

What do you care, Lom?

Just as far away from Wyoming as we can get.

Now, don't do that!

As soon as I find out who's gonna replace Baxter

I want to meet you fellas at the Nolan Ranch.

Thanks, Lom, but no thanks.

Listen now, I'm gonna take Ellen back to her pa,

her father and George Baxter gonna be mighty grateful to you fellas.

That's nice.

Maybe Mr. Baxter will give us a job mending fences.

Aren't you going any farther with us?

No, Ellen, I'm not.
Goodbye.

I want you to meet my father.

Ellen, with the way our luck's been running,

your father's probably been replaced by your uncle.

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

Well, that makes two of us.

Boys, if you're not at that ranch tomorrow night,

you've lost a friend.

You don't want to be our friend, Lom.

All our friends get removed from office.

Where are we going, Heyes?

Well, I hate to say it, Kid, but we might as well meet Lom at the Nolan Ranch,

and find out what he's got to say.

That's the best you can think of?

I guess so.

You know, Heyes, you could be replaced, too.

Heyes,

did you really shoot this sage hen?

Sure, I shot it.

What do you think I did?
Kill it with a stick?

No, I thought maybe it just dropped dead of old age.

Chewing is good for the digestion, Kid, don't you know that?

Chewing is not good, swallowing is good.

And I can't chew this thing small enough to swallow!

Boys,

am I glad to see you!

We're glad, you're glad, Lom.

Guess what, we saved you a nice sage hen for supper.

Guess what happened.

Wyoming has been replaced by Wisconsin?

Boys,

do you know who's the new governor of Wyoming Territory?

Charles Moonlight.

Charles Moonlight?

Isn't that great news?

Lom, who is Charles Moonlight?
I never heard of him.

I don't even believe there is a Charles Moonlight.

Boys, I've talked to him.

Now, he's from Kansas, just like you fellas,

and he believes in small farmers not big ranchers.

And...

he doesn't much care for the railroads either.

Oh, well, that's great, Lom.

It sounds like he'll last about as long as Baxter did.

A man who doesn't like railroads and big ranches in Wyoming?

And he's a farmer?

From Kansas?

I give him about 48 hours.

He's a good man.

Big, fine fella.

And I told him about you.

Taught him about your problem.

And what did he say?

Well, he said, if you stay out of trouble,

he would consider giving you an amnesty.

But first, you gotta prove you deserve it.

Lom, are you saying that all we have to do is stay out of trouble

'till the governor figures we deserve amnesty?

And in the meantime,

we'll still be wanted?

That's true.

'Till then only you, me and the governor will know about it.

It'll be our secret.

That's a good deal?

Heyes,

do you believe it?

Believe what?

That somebody named Charles Moonlight is the new governor of Wyoming.

I hate to say it, Kid,

much as I like Lom and respect him, but no

I think he made the whole thing up.

A man named Moonlight, who hates ranchers and railroads,

and comes from Kansas and likes farmers,

and he's governor of Wyoming?

No, Kid, I don't believe it.

Neither do I.

Heyes, I've been thinking.

About what, Kid?

Let's suppose it really is a Governor Moonlight.

And he decides to give us our amnesty.

What then?

What do you mean, what then?

I mean, what can two former bank and train robbers do for a living?

How about going into politics?

I'm serious, Heyes, really.

What can we do?
Become ranch hands, trappers, doctors?

Doctors?

Well, we got to become something.

All I'm thinking about right now, is how we're gonna eat tomorrow.

And if you come up with any good ideas on that subject,

I'd appreciate it, Dr. Curry.

Well?

Heyes, I only have two things to say to you.

One is, the future is important

and by future I don't mean where your next meal is coming from.

And?
What's the other?

I'm hungry.