Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1973): Season 3, Episode 9 - The Strange Fate of Conrad Meyer Zulick - full transcript
Sorrell "Boss Hogg" Booke has the title role, as a mining-company executive who went from Arizona to Old Mexico to try to settle miners' grievances over unpaid wages, only to be taken hostage in his own right by the miners, who hope to use him as a bargaining chip. A mine supervisor has a particular interest in getting Zulick back to Arizona, but won't explain why. It turns out that Zulick is a lot more valuable than anyone suspected, for reasons that are hidden until nearly the last minute. Another surprise comes when the mine detective turns Heyes and Curry over to the sheriff and then refuses the reward on them in Wyoming, allowing the sheriff to set them free, because he is convinced his debt of gratitude is too great. Ironically, "Bonanza" was also floundering in the ratings in a new time slot against a Norman Lear situation comedy ("All and the Family" was "ASJ"'s nemesis; "Maude" was trouncing "Bonanza"); the two shows would end production and then leave the air less than a week apart.
Yes siree,
you boys are sure gonna help me in that election next month.
You know, I never did figure I had a prayer this year,
this feller running against me on the other ticket.
Young fella, just flat talk your head off.
Beats anything I ever seen.
You know, that's what I hate about these elections, all that speech making
and talking that you gotta do.
I'm kind of the quiet,
you know what I mean.
Just never seem to be able to think of nothing to say.
I got a feeling you'd have done just fine without our help, Sheriff.
Well, now that's right nice of you to say that young fella.
Of course, it don't matter now.
Looks like that elections in the bag.
Hey, Mitchell,
I'm gonna go on home and get some sleep, but
don't you lock up after me.
And don't you unlock that door for nobody.
That means nobody.
All right, Sheriff.
See you in the morning, boys.
You know something, Heyes?
Don't say it, Kid.
Next time, I'll listen to you.
Next time?
You sure got it right, Kid.
'Cause there ain't gonna be no next time, not for you two boys.
Man, oh man.
Lockpick and all.
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.
All right, everybody ante up.
God bless you, gentlemen
I'll open with 5.
Call.
Call.
Three.
Three.
Two.
Doc, I see here on the 12th right here.
I want to apologize again, for not telling you why it's so vital.
Believe me if I could tell you what it's about, I would.
I think I can wait four more days for an answer.
I will tell you this much:
it's the most important job you've ever done or ever will do.
Opener makes it 10.
Fold.
Call.
I bet 20.
Call.
Aces and tens.
Three kings.
You know mister, your luck is just a little bit too good to be true.
Well, poker's not a matter of luck, friend.
Maybe that's your problem, you think it is.
It's not my problem.
It's yours.
'Cause your luck just ran out.
Anybody got any idea what he meant by that?
Yeah, I'm afraid I do.
Phil's a bad loser and I think he went to get his gun.
He's a lot better with that, than he is with a deck of cards.
Good luck.
Hey, you!
Yeah you,
with the fancy fingers.
You talking to me?
That's right, gamblin man.
You just hand over what you took me for,
and I'll try forgetting how you got it.
Well, now nobody took you for anything.
You lost because you're a bad poker player.
You're also a bad loser.
Now we're gonna find out who the loser is here.
Now you pay up
or so help me, I'll cut you to pieces here and now.
I know there's none of my business but you gotta know
this man's next deputy sheriff and he's awful good with that gun.
Stay out of this, Doc.
And he don't mind using it either.
I figured that out already, but thanks anyway.
Now, you're gonna hand over my money
or am I gonna have to take it?
Hey, friend in case you haven't noticed,
there's two of us standing out here now.
You have got just exactly 5 seconds
and then this conversation is gonna come to an end.
As far as I'm concerned, the conversation ended 30 seconds ago.
What you're looking for, Doc?
Nothin Sam,
just passing time.
You know something, Heyes, we gotta give up poker.
The guy back there could have killed me.
I could have killed him, one of the two.
That's a fifth time that's happened over cards.
Why, I look crooked or something?
Well, there is that possibility.
That's why we got to give up poker.
What do you mean 'we'?
I don't look crooked?
If I look crooked, you look crooked!
You get into more scrapes than I ever doing.
If it wasn't for me getting you out of them again you'd have been dead
ten times already.
Is that so?
Yeah!
You don't think I can handle myself, huh?
With women and children, yes.
Whenever it gets too much for you and you want a part company
just say the word.
You really mean that?
I sure do.
You mean you'd go off on your own,
Like that!
With no regrets?
Anytime, anyplace.
All righty.
Hey, where you going?
Well you just said...
Not yet.
I'll tell you when.
Like I said before, Heyes, we gotta give up poker,
find something a little more respectable.
Yeah. First it was banks,
then it's railroads.
Now poker.
What's left?
Farming?
Howdy.
Howdy.
I got quite a scare when I heard you boys left town.
Why is that?
I want to talk to you.
I like the way you handle yourselves in the situation back there.
I could use a couple of men like you for a job.
Doing what?
Going down to Mexico and escorting somebody back home.
Who?
By name Zulick,
a lawyer.
Was sent down there to straighten out the affairs
of an American mining company that went broke.
Being held under house arrest by the miners until they get paid.
And you want us to get him out?
No, I want you to help me to get him out.
Well now, we were just saying we ought to find ourselves a job,
but that didn't sound like what we had mind.
Why?
Because it sounds dangerous?
That did occur to me, yes.
Not to mention, it also sounds a bit illegal.
Oh yes, the miners are within their rights in New Mexican law.
but the man I'm talking about, had nothing to do with the company.
He was hired to find out what was wrong.
It's a
ticklish situation but the
job doesn't call for gunplay.
Just a lot of nerve.
Like you're both showed back there.
Well, I'll tell you Mister, uh...
M. T. Donovan.
My friends call me Doc.
We were really thinking of some other kind of work like...
farming - for instance.
And you make $500 a week?
Farming?
Apiece?
Well, how about 300
apiece?
The mining camp's in Nacozari.
It's about 100 miles south of here.
Zulick is being held at the managers house in the camp.
It seems the manager and the other bosses disappeared with the payroll,
or just
disappeared.
Nobody knows.
The Mexican police involved?
No, not at the camp, just the miners.
How many miners are there?
I don't know.
But I think if we took a wagon full of farm equipment for sale,
we wouldn't draw too much attention to ourselves getting down there.
This Zulick sure must be a good friend of yours.
I don't even know him.
I've had a bad winter at my ranch
And I need the money,
just like you.
Incidentally we don't get paid if we don't have Zulick back here in 4 days.
4 days?
Heyes, I got an idea...
let's not give up poker.
I know I'm repeating myself,
but so did the man that hired me
for good reason.
The Mexicans are holding Zulick unjustly,
but we're in their country now,
and under their laws they got a right to do what they're doing.
So,
I don't want anybody getting gun happy.
If you're shot at you can...
you can shoot back to...
discourage 'em but not to kill 'em.
If anybody's gonna get killed in this,
it's gonna be us
and not them.
You're not repeating yourself, Doc,
because if you were, we probably wouldn't be here right now.
You don't have to worry about us, Doc.
We spend our lives avoiding and killing people.
We're not gonna start now.
I'm glad to hear that.
I think, I'll make me a visit to the Creek.
Heyes,
he knows who we are.
What?
I got a feeling.
Nah, Kid,
if he knew who we are, he wouldn't be sending us on a $600 job in Mexico,
he'd be turning us in for the real money.
I know it doesn't make any sense,
but it's his whole attitude, the way he looks at us, the way he talks to us.
Well, let's find out.
How?
I'll ask him.
What are you, crazy?
How you're gonna ask him?
Just trust me.
There're ways of asking and there're ways of asking.
Besides you can tell a lot about a man, but what he don't say.
Besides...
you're just imagining things anyway.
Yeah.
Well, maybe he's just guessing at from what he saw me doing in town.
No, not a chance.
That was the slowest draw ever saw you make.
What?
I hate to say it, Kid, but you're slowing down.
I'm as fast as I ever was!
No, you can't be you're pushing 30, aren't you?
So?
Well, you're practically over the hill.
Maybe that's good.
Another year and you won't have a thing to worry about.
Oh, why is that?
Well, by that time somebody will be sure in outdraw you
and then nobody will know who you are.
Is that so?
Well, sure it stands to reason.
Well, let me tell you something.
Any time you feel I'm getting too decrepit for you,
you just say the word now,
anytime, anyplace.
Okay.
Say, Doc,
I was just wondering.
How come you picked us for this job?
Just on the basis of that shooting in town?
I mean, after all you said, you didn't need a fast gun.
Well, that's right.
Well, no it was uh...
wasn't the speed that impressed me, it was
was how cool both of you were.
And you seemed
footloose and free, and I needed somebody in a hurry.
Why?
Do you think I could have done better?
Oh no, Doc, no.
You won't regret hiring us.
Now, I don't think I will either.
We gotta get moving.
Let's go.
Well, there are ways of asking, and there ways of asking.
The camp's dead ahead just over the hill.
All right,
we'll wait here 'till dark.
Joshua,
you and me'll find out exactly where the set-up is.
I'll take the tent area
and you take the main house.
Thaddeus,
you'll wait for us right here, all right?
Cover us.
Let's go.
Did you find 'im?
They got him in the main house, all right.
There's no other place he could be.
He's upstairs.
The downstairs is full of miners.
One good thing
there no guards outside.
Well, how do you think we got to do it?
Let's leave it up to Doc.
It's his operation.
C'mon, Heyes, he's a rancher, he needs help.
Let's look at that house like it was a bank,
and Zulick was the money in the vault.
Now, how would you handle that?
Without dynamite or nitro
and a house full of guards?
Yeah.
Kid, I just can't remember.
You can't remember!?
It's been a long time.
How can you forget how to rob a bank!
Nobody forgets something like that!
It's like swimming!
What would you do, genius?
Don't ask me, you were always a brains!
Boy oh boy, the great Hannibal Heyes!
You know what they ought to do with you, Heyes?
They ought to drop the reward on you.
What you find out?
They got him in the main house.
Top floor.
That's what I figured.
All right,
what we have to do is get in the house,
and get upstairs.
That's all we have to do?
Yeah.
All right, let's remember
no gunplay.
Try the window.
I already have.
I am tired, ok? That's enough.
Hey Lopez...
until when do we have to stand guard?
Until the money gets paid, man!
Give me two!
Hey Pablo?!
Pablo!
Where did you go? The game is getting interesting!
Leave him...
he's been awake for 24 hours. Maybe he is sleeping.
Where is the American?
Mr. Zulick?
Yes.
My name is Donoven.
I've been sent by Bill Meade.
I've come to take you back home.
I don't understand.
There's not time to explain right now.
Just get dressed. Hurry!
I don't know you.
But you know Bill Meade.
He said if you need proof,
to tell you that he hasn't forgotten the $87 he owes you.
I still don't understand. I'm not being mistreated here.
If Bill Meade is concerned about me, you should know that
this situation will correct itself in time.
There is no time that's the point!
He said it's a matter of life and death
that I have you back across the border by the 12th.
The 12th?
How is that?
He didn't tell me.
He said he couldn't.
He did say I was not to take no for an answer.
His exact words were a matter of life and death.
Please, hurry, get dressed.
All right.
All right.
Where is Hernando?
They are headed this way.
Take her to the kitchen and tie her up.
Doc,
Can?t be too many of them in there why don?t we tie them up and we?ll have a good chance of getting out of here.
I don't think we should take that chance.
Now wait a minute, Doc.
There were only 9 of 'em in there to begin with and only 4 of them armed.
Now, that leaves only 5.
And we know that 2 of them playing the music, that leaves only 3.
And even if they were all armed...
Okay, maybe you're right.
Let's give it a try.
Manos arriba!
Arriba!
Arriba!
Good Day.
What's up, Gringo?
Up,
friend.
Come on, go out.
Get up.
Hurry up!
Let?s go!
We have to light the wagon.
It's not enough.
We have to leave the wagon!
How are you doing, Mr. Zulick?
Don't worry about me, I'll be all right.
How much further do you think?
Oh about another hour or two we should be at the border.
How are you doing, Doc?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Just wish I was a little younger,
about your age, maybe.
Good boy, Charlie, thank you.
Bill am I glad to see you.
Not half as glad as I am to see you.
You all right?
Well, a little the worse for wear
and more than a little curious.
I got a stage to Tombstone waiting for you. I'll...
I'll explain everything on the way.
Doc,
I can't tell you how much this is appreciated.
And not only by me.
They helped.
You made your own arrangements with 'em?
Sure.
You'll be hearing from me, Doc,
and soon.
Mr. Donovan, I have nothing to give you.
Except my thanks
for what you've done
and especially for the way in which you managed it,
without bloodshed.
I admire that.
Thank you.
Mr. Smith
Mr. Jones.
I'm very grateful for all your help.
You're welcome, sir.
Thank you both,
very much.
Thank you, sir.
Well,
boys,
here it is.
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apiece.
I'm sorry you not gonna have a chance to spend it.
Reach your hands up.
Go on.
All the way.
I'm sorry, boys.
No, I'm not just sorry, I'm ashamed.
I'm ashamed as I ever have been
or ever will be.
I know who you were before I hired you.
I should have turned you in then.
But I used you.
I needed a couple men in the hurry, so I used you.
You're not ashamed enough, Doc,
'cause if you were, you'd let us go.
I wanted to do that,
but I can't.
Now, turn around.
Sheriff's Office is right straight ahead.
What you got there, Doc?
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry.
What?
You mean the Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry? Are you sure?
Yeah, I'm sure.
You got flyers on them in your file right there.
How in the world did you catch 'em?
It don't matter.
Oh, you better check this one's boot he's got a lockpick in.
A lockpick?
Oh, boy, I reckon I won't have to go through them flyers.
All right, you two
inside.
Come on.
Move it.
You know what you've done, Doc?
You know what in all this world you've done?
You just caught the two biggest outlaws in this whole West, that's what!
Why, you're a dad-blame hero!
They'll probably be wanting to name this street out here after you,
maybe the whole town.
Hey, they put up much of a fight?
Well, now, no.
'Cause you got the drop on them, I'll bet.
Yeah, I...I got the drop on 'em.
Hey, you know how much reward there is on them to Yahoo's?
$10,000 apiece!
Hey, I think I got the forms
that you have to fill out to claim the reward right here someplace.
Oh, Sam don't bother.
I'd like you to give the reward to the sisters of charity.
You ain't put 'em in for the reward?
Do you know what you're saying, Doc?
You ain't a rich man.
You could use that money.
Yeah, I know.
I just say it's a kind of
penance I'm paying,
instead.
Is it all right if I put in for it, for myself, maybe?
Yes siree,
you boys are sure gonna help me in that election next month.
You know, I never did figure I had a prayer this year,
this feller running against me on the other ticket.
Young fella, just flat talk your head off.
Beats anything I ever seen.
You know, that's what I hate about these elections, all that speech making
and talking that you gotta do.
I'm kind of the quiet type,
you know what I mean.
Just never seem to be able to think of nothing to say.
I got a feeling you'd have done just fine without our help, Sheriff.
Well, now that's right nice of you to say that young fella.
'Course, it don't matter now.
Looks like that election's in the bag.
Hey, Mitchell,
I'm gonna go on home and get some sleep, but
don't you lock up after me.
And don't you unlock that door for nobody.
That means nobody.
All right, Sheriff.
See you in the morning, boys.
You know something, Heyes?
Don't say it, Kid.
Next time, I'll listen to you.
Next time?
You sure got it right, Kid.
'Cause there ain't gonna be no next time, not for you two boys.
Man, oh man.
Lockpick and all.
Who is it?
It's me, open up.
Come on, it's me, let me in!
What's the matter, Sheriff?
I just couldn't sleep.
Won't you going home?
I'll take over.
You sure?
That's right, get going.
Okay.
All right, boys, outside.
What?
I'm letting you go.
You're letting us go?
That's right.
You're free to go.
How come?
Now, never mind.
Your horses is waiting right outside the door.
Now, git!
Now!
Oh, that's real funny, Sheriff.
Yeah, if we were the mood we'd laugh.
Now, what's the matter with you, boys?
I'm gonna try and let you go, and you're sitting around here jawing about it.
Sheriff, what do you take us for, huh?
A couple of blockheads?
Why, the history books are full of stories about outlaws
who were offered an open door and then shot trying to escape.
Now wait a minute, boys,
I'm tellin ya...
What's the matter, Sheriff?
No money in the budget to pay for our keep?
Trying to save the county a dollar or two, is that it?
Or did you think about it and suddenly decide
you wanted to be an even bigger hero?
All I can say is, it's a heck of a way to get elected.
Now, what's the matter with you, boys?
I'm gonna try and let you go!
Why, there ain't nobody out there gonna shoot you!
Don't you want to go?
No, sheriff,
not right this minute.
Maybe later, if you're not being so helpful about it.
Hey, listen, you can't stay, you gotta go!
Why?
Well, I don't have to tell you why.
Then we don't have to go!
We got our constitutional rights.
Now look fellas,
there ain't nothing out there.
There's nothing to be scared of, honest.
All right, sheriff.
Convince us!
How?
Tell us why you want to let us go.
Well,
just because
I wanna let you go, that's all.
That's not good enough.
Try it again.
Right from the beginning.
Look boys, there ain't nothing more I can tell you.
Oh, I've had a lot of trouble trying to get outlaws in this place,
but never nothing like this.
Look,
I'm a beggin you please.
Oh come on, sheriff, you can do better than that.
I can't do better than that.
Now look, your horses is waiting right outside the door.
I'm willing to give you your guns back. Here!
I even go and give you this dead-blame lockpick.
I walk out through the door with you.
Now come on, boys, please.
What more could I asked?
Arm-in-arm with you right in the middle.
What do you think, Heyes?
What can happen, Kid?
Except all three of us get shot.
Especially him.
Right, sheriff?
That's right, I absolutely, espacially me.
I mean, yeah.
Let's go.
You see.
Now get on your horses and git,
will you, please?
Sheriff, we owe you an apology.
And I hope you'll be elected.
But for the last time, why are you doing all this?
Well, I ain't gonna tell you why I'm doing it.
Now just get on them ponies and ride 'em out of town.
Sheriff, do you mind if we get on our ponies and ride them that way?
Any dead-blame way you want to ride them.
You can go straight up for all I care.
Just git outta here!
Mysteries I've seen, but nothing ever like this.
Nobody's chasing, us nothing's happening...
what's going on?
I'm not even gonna try to figure it out.
It makes me nervous.
But we can even go back to that town.
Let's not press our luck, Kid.
Anyway Tombstone's closer now.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I
I guess, I've said enough.
I know you're all waiting to hear the man you really came to see.
I give you your new territorial governor
C. Meyer Zulick.
C. Meyer Zulick, Governor of Arizona?
You know something, Kid?
I think, the governor might appreciate if we'd just
quietly got out of Arizona.
I agree.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
If I have a surprised and astonished look on my face,
it's because many of you knew before I did
that President Cleveland had appointed me
to be the 7th territorial governor of Arizona.
Because not too many hours ago I was being held against my will
in the state of Sonora in Mexico.
Until Bill Meade,
your new federal marshal met me at the border...
Heyes,
you really think it's so smart to get out of Arizona?
I mean, we got a friend here now.
Yeah, but he will be a better friend if we get out and stay out.
Yeah, but that way not only can't we go back to Wyoming,
now we can't go back to Arizona either.
Now we gonna feel like an outcast.
Yeah, I know what you mean, Kid.
Can I give you a squeezed into feeling.
All we got left is Oklahoma, Texas,
New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Montana, Utah, Colorado,
Nevada, Idaho, California, Washington, Oregon...
Pennsylvania,
New York,
Alabama,
Georgia,
West Virginia,
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
You've already said North Dakota and South Dakota, now you've made your point.
And after we run out of states and territories there's always
Canada
or Alaska
or Cuba
not to mention Mexico,
Costa Rica,
Brazil,
Argentina,
Peru,
Tierra del Fuego,
Heyes...
China.
Japan,
Siberia,
Heyes!
Lower Mongolia,
Upper Mongolia,
Elder Mongolia,
I know where we should go, Heyes.
Mh, where?
In two different directions.
you boys are sure gonna help me in that election next month.
You know, I never did figure I had a prayer this year,
this feller running against me on the other ticket.
Young fella, just flat talk your head off.
Beats anything I ever seen.
You know, that's what I hate about these elections, all that speech making
and talking that you gotta do.
I'm kind of the quiet,
you know what I mean.
Just never seem to be able to think of nothing to say.
I got a feeling you'd have done just fine without our help, Sheriff.
Well, now that's right nice of you to say that young fella.
Of course, it don't matter now.
Looks like that elections in the bag.
Hey, Mitchell,
I'm gonna go on home and get some sleep, but
don't you lock up after me.
And don't you unlock that door for nobody.
That means nobody.
All right, Sheriff.
See you in the morning, boys.
You know something, Heyes?
Don't say it, Kid.
Next time, I'll listen to you.
Next time?
You sure got it right, Kid.
'Cause there ain't gonna be no next time, not for you two boys.
Man, oh man.
Lockpick and all.
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.
All right, everybody ante up.
God bless you, gentlemen
I'll open with 5.
Call.
Call.
Three.
Three.
Two.
Doc, I see here on the 12th right here.
I want to apologize again, for not telling you why it's so vital.
Believe me if I could tell you what it's about, I would.
I think I can wait four more days for an answer.
I will tell you this much:
it's the most important job you've ever done or ever will do.
Opener makes it 10.
Fold.
Call.
I bet 20.
Call.
Aces and tens.
Three kings.
You know mister, your luck is just a little bit too good to be true.
Well, poker's not a matter of luck, friend.
Maybe that's your problem, you think it is.
It's not my problem.
It's yours.
'Cause your luck just ran out.
Anybody got any idea what he meant by that?
Yeah, I'm afraid I do.
Phil's a bad loser and I think he went to get his gun.
He's a lot better with that, than he is with a deck of cards.
Good luck.
Hey, you!
Yeah you,
with the fancy fingers.
You talking to me?
That's right, gamblin man.
You just hand over what you took me for,
and I'll try forgetting how you got it.
Well, now nobody took you for anything.
You lost because you're a bad poker player.
You're also a bad loser.
Now we're gonna find out who the loser is here.
Now you pay up
or so help me, I'll cut you to pieces here and now.
I know there's none of my business but you gotta know
this man's next deputy sheriff and he's awful good with that gun.
Stay out of this, Doc.
And he don't mind using it either.
I figured that out already, but thanks anyway.
Now, you're gonna hand over my money
or am I gonna have to take it?
Hey, friend in case you haven't noticed,
there's two of us standing out here now.
You have got just exactly 5 seconds
and then this conversation is gonna come to an end.
As far as I'm concerned, the conversation ended 30 seconds ago.
What you're looking for, Doc?
Nothin Sam,
just passing time.
You know something, Heyes, we gotta give up poker.
The guy back there could have killed me.
I could have killed him, one of the two.
That's a fifth time that's happened over cards.
Why, I look crooked or something?
Well, there is that possibility.
That's why we got to give up poker.
What do you mean 'we'?
I don't look crooked?
If I look crooked, you look crooked!
You get into more scrapes than I ever doing.
If it wasn't for me getting you out of them again you'd have been dead
ten times already.
Is that so?
Yeah!
You don't think I can handle myself, huh?
With women and children, yes.
Whenever it gets too much for you and you want a part company
just say the word.
You really mean that?
I sure do.
You mean you'd go off on your own,
Like that!
With no regrets?
Anytime, anyplace.
All righty.
Hey, where you going?
Well you just said...
Not yet.
I'll tell you when.
Like I said before, Heyes, we gotta give up poker,
find something a little more respectable.
Yeah. First it was banks,
then it's railroads.
Now poker.
What's left?
Farming?
Howdy.
Howdy.
I got quite a scare when I heard you boys left town.
Why is that?
I want to talk to you.
I like the way you handle yourselves in the situation back there.
I could use a couple of men like you for a job.
Doing what?
Going down to Mexico and escorting somebody back home.
Who?
By name Zulick,
a lawyer.
Was sent down there to straighten out the affairs
of an American mining company that went broke.
Being held under house arrest by the miners until they get paid.
And you want us to get him out?
No, I want you to help me to get him out.
Well now, we were just saying we ought to find ourselves a job,
but that didn't sound like what we had mind.
Why?
Because it sounds dangerous?
That did occur to me, yes.
Not to mention, it also sounds a bit illegal.
Oh yes, the miners are within their rights in New Mexican law.
but the man I'm talking about, had nothing to do with the company.
He was hired to find out what was wrong.
It's a
ticklish situation but the
job doesn't call for gunplay.
Just a lot of nerve.
Like you're both showed back there.
Well, I'll tell you Mister, uh...
M. T. Donovan.
My friends call me Doc.
We were really thinking of some other kind of work like...
farming - for instance.
And you make $500 a week?
Farming?
Apiece?
Well, how about 300
apiece?
The mining camp's in Nacozari.
It's about 100 miles south of here.
Zulick is being held at the managers house in the camp.
It seems the manager and the other bosses disappeared with the payroll,
or just
disappeared.
Nobody knows.
The Mexican police involved?
No, not at the camp, just the miners.
How many miners are there?
I don't know.
But I think if we took a wagon full of farm equipment for sale,
we wouldn't draw too much attention to ourselves getting down there.
This Zulick sure must be a good friend of yours.
I don't even know him.
I've had a bad winter at my ranch
And I need the money,
just like you.
Incidentally we don't get paid if we don't have Zulick back here in 4 days.
4 days?
Heyes, I got an idea...
let's not give up poker.
I know I'm repeating myself,
but so did the man that hired me
for good reason.
The Mexicans are holding Zulick unjustly,
but we're in their country now,
and under their laws they got a right to do what they're doing.
So,
I don't want anybody getting gun happy.
If you're shot at you can...
you can shoot back to...
discourage 'em but not to kill 'em.
If anybody's gonna get killed in this,
it's gonna be us
and not them.
You're not repeating yourself, Doc,
because if you were, we probably wouldn't be here right now.
You don't have to worry about us, Doc.
We spend our lives avoiding and killing people.
We're not gonna start now.
I'm glad to hear that.
I think, I'll make me a visit to the Creek.
Heyes,
he knows who we are.
What?
I got a feeling.
Nah, Kid,
if he knew who we are, he wouldn't be sending us on a $600 job in Mexico,
he'd be turning us in for the real money.
I know it doesn't make any sense,
but it's his whole attitude, the way he looks at us, the way he talks to us.
Well, let's find out.
How?
I'll ask him.
What are you, crazy?
How you're gonna ask him?
Just trust me.
There're ways of asking and there're ways of asking.
Besides you can tell a lot about a man, but what he don't say.
Besides...
you're just imagining things anyway.
Yeah.
Well, maybe he's just guessing at from what he saw me doing in town.
No, not a chance.
That was the slowest draw ever saw you make.
What?
I hate to say it, Kid, but you're slowing down.
I'm as fast as I ever was!
No, you can't be you're pushing 30, aren't you?
So?
Well, you're practically over the hill.
Maybe that's good.
Another year and you won't have a thing to worry about.
Oh, why is that?
Well, by that time somebody will be sure in outdraw you
and then nobody will know who you are.
Is that so?
Well, sure it stands to reason.
Well, let me tell you something.
Any time you feel I'm getting too decrepit for you,
you just say the word now,
anytime, anyplace.
Okay.
Say, Doc,
I was just wondering.
How come you picked us for this job?
Just on the basis of that shooting in town?
I mean, after all you said, you didn't need a fast gun.
Well, that's right.
Well, no it was uh...
wasn't the speed that impressed me, it was
was how cool both of you were.
And you seemed
footloose and free, and I needed somebody in a hurry.
Why?
Do you think I could have done better?
Oh no, Doc, no.
You won't regret hiring us.
Now, I don't think I will either.
We gotta get moving.
Let's go.
Well, there are ways of asking, and there ways of asking.
The camp's dead ahead just over the hill.
All right,
we'll wait here 'till dark.
Joshua,
you and me'll find out exactly where the set-up is.
I'll take the tent area
and you take the main house.
Thaddeus,
you'll wait for us right here, all right?
Cover us.
Let's go.
Did you find 'im?
They got him in the main house, all right.
There's no other place he could be.
He's upstairs.
The downstairs is full of miners.
One good thing
there no guards outside.
Well, how do you think we got to do it?
Let's leave it up to Doc.
It's his operation.
C'mon, Heyes, he's a rancher, he needs help.
Let's look at that house like it was a bank,
and Zulick was the money in the vault.
Now, how would you handle that?
Without dynamite or nitro
and a house full of guards?
Yeah.
Kid, I just can't remember.
You can't remember!?
It's been a long time.
How can you forget how to rob a bank!
Nobody forgets something like that!
It's like swimming!
What would you do, genius?
Don't ask me, you were always a brains!
Boy oh boy, the great Hannibal Heyes!
You know what they ought to do with you, Heyes?
They ought to drop the reward on you.
What you find out?
They got him in the main house.
Top floor.
That's what I figured.
All right,
what we have to do is get in the house,
and get upstairs.
That's all we have to do?
Yeah.
All right, let's remember
no gunplay.
Try the window.
I already have.
I am tired, ok? That's enough.
Hey Lopez...
until when do we have to stand guard?
Until the money gets paid, man!
Give me two!
Hey Pablo?!
Pablo!
Where did you go? The game is getting interesting!
Leave him...
he's been awake for 24 hours. Maybe he is sleeping.
Where is the American?
Mr. Zulick?
Yes.
My name is Donoven.
I've been sent by Bill Meade.
I've come to take you back home.
I don't understand.
There's not time to explain right now.
Just get dressed. Hurry!
I don't know you.
But you know Bill Meade.
He said if you need proof,
to tell you that he hasn't forgotten the $87 he owes you.
I still don't understand. I'm not being mistreated here.
If Bill Meade is concerned about me, you should know that
this situation will correct itself in time.
There is no time that's the point!
He said it's a matter of life and death
that I have you back across the border by the 12th.
The 12th?
How is that?
He didn't tell me.
He said he couldn't.
He did say I was not to take no for an answer.
His exact words were a matter of life and death.
Please, hurry, get dressed.
All right.
All right.
Where is Hernando?
They are headed this way.
Take her to the kitchen and tie her up.
Doc,
Can?t be too many of them in there why don?t we tie them up and we?ll have a good chance of getting out of here.
I don't think we should take that chance.
Now wait a minute, Doc.
There were only 9 of 'em in there to begin with and only 4 of them armed.
Now, that leaves only 5.
And we know that 2 of them playing the music, that leaves only 3.
And even if they were all armed...
Okay, maybe you're right.
Let's give it a try.
Manos arriba!
Arriba!
Arriba!
Good Day.
What's up, Gringo?
Up,
friend.
Come on, go out.
Get up.
Hurry up!
Let?s go!
We have to light the wagon.
It's not enough.
We have to leave the wagon!
How are you doing, Mr. Zulick?
Don't worry about me, I'll be all right.
How much further do you think?
Oh about another hour or two we should be at the border.
How are you doing, Doc?
Yeah, I'm fine.
Just wish I was a little younger,
about your age, maybe.
Good boy, Charlie, thank you.
Bill am I glad to see you.
Not half as glad as I am to see you.
You all right?
Well, a little the worse for wear
and more than a little curious.
I got a stage to Tombstone waiting for you. I'll...
I'll explain everything on the way.
Doc,
I can't tell you how much this is appreciated.
And not only by me.
They helped.
You made your own arrangements with 'em?
Sure.
You'll be hearing from me, Doc,
and soon.
Mr. Donovan, I have nothing to give you.
Except my thanks
for what you've done
and especially for the way in which you managed it,
without bloodshed.
I admire that.
Thank you.
Mr. Smith
Mr. Jones.
I'm very grateful for all your help.
You're welcome, sir.
Thank you both,
very much.
Thank you, sir.
Well,
boys,
here it is.
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apiece.
I'm sorry you not gonna have a chance to spend it.
Reach your hands up.
Go on.
All the way.
I'm sorry, boys.
No, I'm not just sorry, I'm ashamed.
I'm ashamed as I ever have been
or ever will be.
I know who you were before I hired you.
I should have turned you in then.
But I used you.
I needed a couple men in the hurry, so I used you.
You're not ashamed enough, Doc,
'cause if you were, you'd let us go.
I wanted to do that,
but I can't.
Now, turn around.
Sheriff's Office is right straight ahead.
What you got there, Doc?
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry.
What?
You mean the Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry? Are you sure?
Yeah, I'm sure.
You got flyers on them in your file right there.
How in the world did you catch 'em?
It don't matter.
Oh, you better check this one's boot he's got a lockpick in.
A lockpick?
Oh, boy, I reckon I won't have to go through them flyers.
All right, you two
inside.
Come on.
Move it.
You know what you've done, Doc?
You know what in all this world you've done?
You just caught the two biggest outlaws in this whole West, that's what!
Why, you're a dad-blame hero!
They'll probably be wanting to name this street out here after you,
maybe the whole town.
Hey, they put up much of a fight?
Well, now, no.
'Cause you got the drop on them, I'll bet.
Yeah, I...I got the drop on 'em.
Hey, you know how much reward there is on them to Yahoo's?
$10,000 apiece!
Hey, I think I got the forms
that you have to fill out to claim the reward right here someplace.
Oh, Sam don't bother.
I'd like you to give the reward to the sisters of charity.
You ain't put 'em in for the reward?
Do you know what you're saying, Doc?
You ain't a rich man.
You could use that money.
Yeah, I know.
I just say it's a kind of
penance I'm paying,
instead.
Is it all right if I put in for it, for myself, maybe?
Yes siree,
you boys are sure gonna help me in that election next month.
You know, I never did figure I had a prayer this year,
this feller running against me on the other ticket.
Young fella, just flat talk your head off.
Beats anything I ever seen.
You know, that's what I hate about these elections, all that speech making
and talking that you gotta do.
I'm kind of the quiet type,
you know what I mean.
Just never seem to be able to think of nothing to say.
I got a feeling you'd have done just fine without our help, Sheriff.
Well, now that's right nice of you to say that young fella.
'Course, it don't matter now.
Looks like that election's in the bag.
Hey, Mitchell,
I'm gonna go on home and get some sleep, but
don't you lock up after me.
And don't you unlock that door for nobody.
That means nobody.
All right, Sheriff.
See you in the morning, boys.
You know something, Heyes?
Don't say it, Kid.
Next time, I'll listen to you.
Next time?
You sure got it right, Kid.
'Cause there ain't gonna be no next time, not for you two boys.
Man, oh man.
Lockpick and all.
Who is it?
It's me, open up.
Come on, it's me, let me in!
What's the matter, Sheriff?
I just couldn't sleep.
Won't you going home?
I'll take over.
You sure?
That's right, get going.
Okay.
All right, boys, outside.
What?
I'm letting you go.
You're letting us go?
That's right.
You're free to go.
How come?
Now, never mind.
Your horses is waiting right outside the door.
Now, git!
Now!
Oh, that's real funny, Sheriff.
Yeah, if we were the mood we'd laugh.
Now, what's the matter with you, boys?
I'm gonna try and let you go, and you're sitting around here jawing about it.
Sheriff, what do you take us for, huh?
A couple of blockheads?
Why, the history books are full of stories about outlaws
who were offered an open door and then shot trying to escape.
Now wait a minute, boys,
I'm tellin ya...
What's the matter, Sheriff?
No money in the budget to pay for our keep?
Trying to save the county a dollar or two, is that it?
Or did you think about it and suddenly decide
you wanted to be an even bigger hero?
All I can say is, it's a heck of a way to get elected.
Now, what's the matter with you, boys?
I'm gonna try and let you go!
Why, there ain't nobody out there gonna shoot you!
Don't you want to go?
No, sheriff,
not right this minute.
Maybe later, if you're not being so helpful about it.
Hey, listen, you can't stay, you gotta go!
Why?
Well, I don't have to tell you why.
Then we don't have to go!
We got our constitutional rights.
Now look fellas,
there ain't nothing out there.
There's nothing to be scared of, honest.
All right, sheriff.
Convince us!
How?
Tell us why you want to let us go.
Well,
just because
I wanna let you go, that's all.
That's not good enough.
Try it again.
Right from the beginning.
Look boys, there ain't nothing more I can tell you.
Oh, I've had a lot of trouble trying to get outlaws in this place,
but never nothing like this.
Look,
I'm a beggin you please.
Oh come on, sheriff, you can do better than that.
I can't do better than that.
Now look, your horses is waiting right outside the door.
I'm willing to give you your guns back. Here!
I even go and give you this dead-blame lockpick.
I walk out through the door with you.
Now come on, boys, please.
What more could I asked?
Arm-in-arm with you right in the middle.
What do you think, Heyes?
What can happen, Kid?
Except all three of us get shot.
Especially him.
Right, sheriff?
That's right, I absolutely, espacially me.
I mean, yeah.
Let's go.
You see.
Now get on your horses and git,
will you, please?
Sheriff, we owe you an apology.
And I hope you'll be elected.
But for the last time, why are you doing all this?
Well, I ain't gonna tell you why I'm doing it.
Now just get on them ponies and ride 'em out of town.
Sheriff, do you mind if we get on our ponies and ride them that way?
Any dead-blame way you want to ride them.
You can go straight up for all I care.
Just git outta here!
Mysteries I've seen, but nothing ever like this.
Nobody's chasing, us nothing's happening...
what's going on?
I'm not even gonna try to figure it out.
It makes me nervous.
But we can even go back to that town.
Let's not press our luck, Kid.
Anyway Tombstone's closer now.
So, ladies and gentlemen, I
I guess, I've said enough.
I know you're all waiting to hear the man you really came to see.
I give you your new territorial governor
C. Meyer Zulick.
C. Meyer Zulick, Governor of Arizona?
You know something, Kid?
I think, the governor might appreciate if we'd just
quietly got out of Arizona.
I agree.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
If I have a surprised and astonished look on my face,
it's because many of you knew before I did
that President Cleveland had appointed me
to be the 7th territorial governor of Arizona.
Because not too many hours ago I was being held against my will
in the state of Sonora in Mexico.
Until Bill Meade,
your new federal marshal met me at the border...
Heyes,
you really think it's so smart to get out of Arizona?
I mean, we got a friend here now.
Yeah, but he will be a better friend if we get out and stay out.
Yeah, but that way not only can't we go back to Wyoming,
now we can't go back to Arizona either.
Now we gonna feel like an outcast.
Yeah, I know what you mean, Kid.
Can I give you a squeezed into feeling.
All we got left is Oklahoma, Texas,
New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Montana, Utah, Colorado,
Nevada, Idaho, California, Washington, Oregon...
Pennsylvania,
New York,
Alabama,
Georgia,
West Virginia,
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
North Dakota,
South Dakota,
You've already said North Dakota and South Dakota, now you've made your point.
And after we run out of states and territories there's always
Canada
or Alaska
or Cuba
not to mention Mexico,
Costa Rica,
Brazil,
Argentina,
Peru,
Tierra del Fuego,
Heyes...
China.
Japan,
Siberia,
Heyes!
Lower Mongolia,
Upper Mongolia,
Elder Mongolia,
I know where we should go, Heyes.
Mh, where?
In two different directions.