Bonanza (1959–1973): Season 13, Episode 16 - Second Sight - full transcript

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Jamie!

Jamie... Jamie... Jamie...

Jamie!

Jamie... Jamie... Jamie...

Jamie!

Jamie... Jamie... Jamie...

Jamie!

Jamie... Jamie... Jamie...

It'll be dark in about an hour.
Better get some lanterns, huh?



Yeah.

Why don't we go on
back to the Ponderosa?

Maybe they've seen something
back there.

Yeah.

Oh, my goodness.
Look, Jess, the horse.

Whoa! Hey.

Whoa!

Whoa, you wayward beast.

Behave yourself.

I've told you about wandering
off on your own before.

You know, try as I may,
I can't break him of the habit.

Dear Jess.

And what does a minister do
with a back-sliding horse?

Now, Pastor Avery.



What have you done with the flowers
that you were supposed to be...

I seem to have dropped them.

Well, I'll fetch them,
and you can keep an eye on the beast.

All right.

Something's wrong.

Judith.

Hey... Pastor. Miss Judith.

Good evening, Hoss.

We're out picking flowers
for the church.

Well, we're out looking for Jamie.

Oh, my goodness, I...
I hope nothing's wrong.

Well, we have reason to believe
that he's been hurt.

He's lost. He didn't take the roads.

That's where we've been looking,

on the roads between
the school house

and the Ponderosa.

Well, we haven't been
on the Tully Road.

Little Joe's up there.

Oh, well, we'll keep our eyes open
and say a little prayer.

And if there's anything else
we can do, Hoss, let us know.

Thank you, Pastor.

And, uh, thank you, Miss Judith.

Giddyap.

You mustn't let it trouble you, dear.

- Jess?
- Hmm?

We'd better go back to town.
It's getting late.

So I'll just pick up the flowers
I dropped.

I'm sure they'll find him before dark.

Jamie.

Hop Sing?

Hop Sing?

Did he get home yet?

No.

- You not find him?
- No.

What about the other men?
Did any of them get back?

Shorty and Bates come back.

They find nothing.

I think we'd better send Pa a telegram.

- Didn't find him, huh?
- Not a thing.

Did you get a chance
to talk to the schoolmarm?

Said the same
as the young'uns said.

Jamie's been full of talk all day
about picking blueberries.

We just got back from Washoe Bluffs.

That's where
she reckons he went to.

Harve...

ride over and get that
sent off to Pa, will you?

This thing might be over

before your Pa can get back here
from San Francisco.

You sure you
want to worry him about this?

We don't have any right
to keep it from him.

Yeah, you might
drop by the bunkhouse

and tell the men to get ready
to form a search party for tonight.

Tell them to be prepared
to search all night if they have to.

Thanks, Harve.

Jamie!

Jamie... Jamie...

Jamie!

Jamie!

Jamie!

Jamie!

Hoss... Joe!

Where'd you find it?

Right here, by this rock.

It's Jamie's, isn't it?

Yeah, it's his all right.

Take a look at this.

- Blood's dry.
- Yeah.

No sign of blood on the ground.

Yeah, apparently stopped bleeding.

We'll never pick up a trail
in these rocks.

Well, we'll just have to spread out
and keep looking, that's all.

You taught him
the same way you taught me.

If he's hurt or he's lost,
he knows what to do.

Yeah.

But if he remembered and could
he'd be home by now, wouldn't he?

And he ain't.

What do you really think?

I don't know what to think, Joe.

I know we got to keep up some hope.

We got to hope he's still alive.

Of course, if that wound
got infected,

he could have
blood poisoning or fever.

He could be
holed up somewhere unconscious.

I don't know.
I don't know what to think.

I'll tell you what.

You take the other fellas
and ride on south,

make a sweep down that direction.

- I got another idea.
- Yeah, what?

I'm going to go see Judith Corman.

Look, Joseph,
she knew he was hurt

and she knew he wasn't on the road.

Well, of course she knew. She knew
you were searching for him, that's why.

No, no, no, before I got there,
she knew.

It wasn't so much what she said
as the way she said it.

You can't believe in that stuff.
It's like fortune telling.

Well, Joe, we both know that
she's been right in the past, don't we?

Or lucky.

Well,

this time, let's hope
it ain't all luck.

Jamie!

Hoss, Hoss, Hoss...

Hoss...

Hoss...

Jamie!

Jamie... Jamie... Jamie...

Hello, Hoss.

Any news yet?

Not yet, Pastor.

Looks like
we've sort of come to a dead-end.

Oh, I'm sorry.

What are you doing in town?

Well, I hoped I could
round up some more men.

We've still got
a lot of ground to cover.

If... if you need an extra man,
let me know.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jess.

Good luck.

Judith, may I come in, please?

Judith, I have something
I want to show you.

Please, Hoss, don't do that.

It's Jamie's kerchief.

We found it out on the trail.

Judith, when we met out
on the road...

before I even mentioned it,

you knew that Jamie was lost.

Just a guess, Hoss.

Well, whatever, you did know, though.

It's just a feeling.

Fine, a feeling,
a power, what have you.

Don't call it power.

Well, whatever.

Judith, I need your help.

You were right, Jamie was lost
and he still is.

I was right about that stagecoach
in Montana, too, wasn't I?

You saw them run me out of there.
They'll run me out of here...

if I even try to do what
you're asking me to do.

Judith...

this is just between the two of us.

I've never mentioned that incident
in Montana, and I never will.

I can't.

Judith...

I want you to help me
save Jamie's life.

If those people in Montana
had listened to you,

they could have saved their lives.

Well, I didn't want to know.

I don't want to know things

that make people
frightened around me,

and I don't want people
coming around

and asking me for help.

Besides, sometimes
when I know things,

I don't always know
what they mean.

Well, let me decide what they mean.

Sometimes I know things,
and now I don't know anything.

Judith...

please, try.

Look, Hoss...

I have, for the first time
since I was nine years old,

the first chance for real happiness.

Jess Avery is going to
go to London in three months.

He offers me his love...

and a share in his peaceful world.

Do you want to deny me that?

I owe the Cartwrights a great deal.

But I really do think
that it's very unfair of you to ask.

Yeah.

I'm sorry. Good day, Judith.

Caught you.

See how your little secrets come out?

At last I find out that sometimes,
Judith Corman does sit still.

My mind was active, does that count?

You know...

I found no such flower in England.

How do you keep them so fresh?

That's one of my secrets.

Is it?

I know another one
of your little secrets.

You've actually managed to get in
to see old Mrs. Abernathy.

Oh, yes. She is a dear, isn't she?

Mmm. An impossible old dear.

You know,
that's what she says about you.

Me? What impossible?

Yes, she thinks you're a bit...

I know. She thinks
I'm putting on airs and graces.

She thinks
I'm a visiting British intellectual.

She obviously doesn't know me.

And when she gets to know me,
it'll be time for me to leave.

Well, you needn't worry,
they'll all come around.

No.

I'm the one who has to come around,

and I will, with your help.

"Neither is the man
without the woman,

nor the woman
without the man, in the Lord."

You're quoting again.

Yes, that's
St Paul's first epistle to the...

to the Romans, I think.

I find it much easier
to quote his words than use my own,

especially when I'm writing a sermon.

Words are so meaningless...

aren't they?

I'm sorry, Jess, I didn't mean
what you just said.

I just mean that...

Well, I guess I mean that
there's another sense...

where words are just...

well, they're not good enough,
are they?

What's troubling you, Judith?

Won't you tell me?

I mean, this isn't like you.

I'm sorry, Jess.
It's just one of my moods.

I have them occasionally.
I hope they'll only be occasionally.

Well, I...

I expect you to be human...

as I hope sometimes
you will forget that I'm a minister.

Can you forget that you are?

Well, I'll try.

Please, as your future husband,

won't you tell me what's wrong?

The boy, Jamie Cartwright, that's...

what...

that's really all that it is,
Jess, that's all.

Don't worry about him.
I mean, they'll find him.

Yes, but suppose they don't.

Then we'll pray.
We'll have a prayer meeting.

We must have faith, Judith.
You know faith can move mountains.

Suppose there were another way.

But there couldn't be
another way, could there?

There isn't another way,
of course not.

- All set.
- Right.

All out, folks, she's ready to roll.

I sure hope you get there in time.

- I mean, that they find him.
- Yeah, thank you.

I sure appreciate
you speeding up the relay.

No, you worked as hard as anyone
hooking them horses up.

Maybe you could
slip a little to the driver.

- He's got the hard chore ahead.
- I'll do that.

And I'll spell him a bit,
if he needs it.

Don't forget to telegraph Virginia City.

Give them your best estimate
as to when we'll be getting in.

All right.

Ha, ha.

Ha.

Ha.

"When you're lost...

follow the stream."

Yes, Hoss... follow the stream.

Follow the stream.

Whoa!

You heard anything from Pa?

No word from anybody.

But you have young lady wait for you.

Oh.

Miss Judith.

Oh, hello, Hoss.

I guess I've only been
thinking of myself, haven't I?

Well, you're here.
That's all that counts.

- Sit down, please.
- Thank you.

He must be cold.

Something's come to you.

His shoulder's hurt.

He... he maybe fell?

No, I'm sorry, Hoss.

Something's hurt him.

Something big.

Like a bear?

There's bear up in those woods
when the blueberries are ripe.

They don't normally attack,
but they will. They can be awful mean.

Could that be it?

I knew that you were going to
come back to me if you didn't find him.

Hoss, it is so easy for me
to misinterpret what I see,

or... or for people to
misinterpret what I say I see.

They make it into whatever
they want it to be, you see,

and that's why they think
it's something ugly in me.

Oh, but you've always used it right.

I mean, you help people with it.

You're helping us now.

Well, at least I know now
that I can't stop it.

I can't run away to England.

That was just a foolish dream.

You haven't told Jess about this?

You know what he'll say
the minute he finds out.

You've told him nothing about it?

Do you know who lead that mob
that drove me out of Montana?

A minister, Hoss.

A righteous man of the cloth.

Yeah, but he was no...
no Jess Avery.

Hot coffee.

Ah. Here.

Why don't you take
your wrap off and sit down?

Thank you.

- And a little food.
- Good.

- Thank you, Hop Sing.
- Thank you.

You know, Hoss,

I've never understood
why this thing happens to me

or how it happens to me,

but it uses me. I don't use it.

Well, I hope that...

that you decide
that you can help us,

and if you do, I promise you

that it'll be between
just the two of us.

It must be, Hoss.

It's not just
a matter of my losing Jess.

That's just... a dream.

But if this town finds out,
then I have to leave,

and it means running again,

and maybe not finding friends
like the Cartwrights.

You want a better promise?

Well, I suppose I do.

Well, I'd like to promise you
the world, Judith,

but I can't do that, obviously.

But I want Jamie back
and I want him back bad.

I promise you that if anybody
finds out about it,

you won't have to run.

All right, Hoss.

This afternoon I was out riding

and I saw a little redheaded boy
fall to the ground.

I was thinking of Jamie,

and I got an impression...

of bubbling water.

Bubbling water like a creek or a spring.

Yeah. There's three creeks
out at Washoe Bluffs.

Well, uh...

is anyone of them
in particular a favorite of his?

No, not that I know of.

Is there something that stands...

slender... something...

I think he's very fond of?

Like a tree?

Um...

Yes, but it's smaller and it sways,
and I...

you know, I feel that it
belongs to him.

A feather?

A feather, that's it, it's a feather.

He's got a feather in his hat.

Uh...

And he... he bends and he drinks...

and he drinks water.

Yeah. Then what?

Oh, I'm sorry, Hoss. I can't tell you
anything more than I know.

I know it's so little to go on.

No, no. No, it's quite a bit.

It's plenty to start on.

Hoss, nothing has meant more
to me than the friendship

and the kindness
of the Cartwrights.

Judith, I think you should consider
telling Jess about this.

I... I know him and I think
he'll understand.

No, Hoss, no, he won't.

- Anything?
- No.

Where's Hoss?

He's up ahead somewhere.

I don't know why
we're looking here anyway.

Hoss has his reasons
or we wouldn't be here.

It seems to me
we've already lost half a day.

Hoss must have found something.
Come on.

Joe, Joe!
This way!

What is it?

Where do you think he'd head,
the lake?

Must have.

It's wide open out there.
He'll have to leave a trail.

Nothing down here
but me and a played-out horse.

Well, Hoss is
working his way upstream.

Why don't you
work your way through the woods

and meet back
where Hoss found the hat?

Well, he did everything right
so far, anyway.

Yeah. And then he went
straight into the woods.

I've told him a thousand times

when he's lost
to stay out of the woods.

Well, we lost his trail once,
we'll find it again.

Yeah, the same way,
I'm going to go get Judith.

Come on, Hoss, we'd have
followed the stream anyway.

We'd have found the hat
without her.

I don't think so, Joseph.

She said a stream or a spring.

I don't think I'd ever come
this far from Washoe Bluffs.

- Take the men, send them on in.
- What do you mean, send them in?

I've got to protect her secret, Joe,

and I don't think
she'd ever come down here

if she thought
those men were here.

All right, I'll send them back
for fresh horses,

but I'm not going to keep them
from coming back out here.

An hour's all we need.

Head back to the ranch.
Get fresh mounts.

Got a message from Mr. Cartwright.
He'll be in on the stage at 7:00.

He wants his horse left here.

Joe says for him to come
straight to Matsaka Lake.

- Ain't found the boy yet, huh?
- Nope.

But if we do in the meantime,
we'll let you know.

Hey, Harve.

Pastor Avery.

Have you had any success yet?

Some, but not enough.

Poor boy.

You must all be exhausted.

We are, sir.
But we got to keep trying.

Hey, Harve...

Hoss...

I'm sorry, Hoss.

I didn't stay out of the woods.
I'm sorry.

Ah!

Climbing... he's climbing.
Could he be climbing?

Well, where would he climb?

Just up, Joe.
A wounded animal always climbs.

I can't believe he'd climb,
not in the shape he's in.

That's probably
just the reason he's doing it.

If the boy's hurt bad,
he'd head for the high country.

All right, we'll start
at the top and work down.

Hoss!

Hoss!

You know when I said
could he be climbing,

I saw him in a dark place.

You mean like... like a cave?

No.

Hoss, it...
well, it could be something worse.

Now you're doing
what you told me not to do.

Trying to make something
out of nothing, maybe.

Well...

Isn't that Miss Corman down there?

Yes. I wonder what she's doing here.

Joe's found something.

Sounds like someone
found something.

- Hoss!
- Judith.

Ha, what are you doing here?

I'm just trying to help.

How?

Well, hasn't someone told you?
Why else would you know to come?

These people are my parishioners.
It's my duty to be here.

Oh, yes, it's your duty
to warn the wicked away

from her way before
she dies of her iniquities.

It's usually shouted at me.

I'm sorry I don't quote it
quite correctly.

It's from Leviticus, isn't it?
Or is it Deuteronomy?

I don't understand you, Judith.

I... I've never
shouted the scriptures at you.

I thought you had a faith
that was fine and strong.

Why do you mock it now?

I don't mock it,
but things that happen to me

make my faith only stronger.

Don't talk riddles.

Just give me a simple explanation.

Very well. Simply, I see things.

I see things and I know things
other people don't see and don't know.

How?

I don't know how! I don't know.

My mother called it second sight,
but whatever it is, I'm not pretending.

I don't pretend,
especially with a child's life.

Judith...

do you really believe that
you have this boy's life in your hands?

Jess, I'm not asking for it.
People come... oh, no, Jess, no.

No, no, not in my hands.
God's hands.

Oh, Judith, do you really believe
that you have special powers?

Not power just... don't say power.
I don't want power.

How can I make you understand
that what I see I know?

I know it as surely as I know
that I am or that God is.

And when you
were talking to Hoss just now,

were you telling him something
you think you've seen?

Yes, that I think I've seen.

And I'm going to find him
and tell him.

Judith... Judith!

Judith.

Judith!

- Judith, look, we have to talk.
- Well, not now.

Please, the Cartwrights
are in desperate need.

Look, the Cartwrights
are expert trackers.

They're woodsmen, they're plainsmen.

They don't know where to look.

- And you do?
- Yes.

I have seen.

Then we'll try and find that
place together.

You and I.

But don't lead the Cartwrights
off on a wild goose chase.

Jess, you don't believe me.

Now you have a chance
to prove yourself.

Jamie?

Jamie?

Hoss, over here!

Another stain here, Hoss.

Oh, yeah?

Hey.

He's still bleeding
but it's let up some.

He's been gone here about an hour.

Harve, you go on up where Joe is
and see if he's found anything.

I want to look around here for a while.

Jamie!

Jamie!

Hoss, where are you?

Over here, Pastor.

We heard a shot. Any news yet?

Well, we... we found a trail.

I don't know how long
it's going to last.

Harve told me you were
going to come out and help us.

Yeah.

Pastor, this is my doings.

I put her
under a great deal of obligation.

I understand.

Look, Hoss, if you found a trail,

I'm sure you'd like to follow it.

- We'll stay here and rest a while.
- Thank you.

Hoss, I'd like to tell you something.

Judith.

There's something I've seen.

Possibly you will have
recognized it.

It's... it's shaped like the hat.

There's a... a tree
that stands against the sky.

It's like the feather.

Like a lone tree?

Yes, only it's growing out of...
out of boulders.

Well, I... I ain't seen
nothing like that so far, Judith,

but if I do, I'll recognize it.
Thank you.

Is that where he is?

Thank you.

Judith, I thought we agreed
not to involve the Cartwrights.

I don't think that we agree
about hardly anything at this point.

Well, let's try.

Do you agree that perhaps
you should have told me

about this... this second sight?

Perhaps.

Then why didn't you?

Because...

I was afraid of losing you.

And I didn't want to take the chance.

I mean, how could you know?

I mean, I... I trusted you.

That's why I asked you to marry me.

I think perhaps you owed me
a little trust in return.

All right. All right, suppose that I had
told you what I told you today.

Would you have reacted any differently
than you did just right now?

No. No, I would have said...

I would have said believe
what you want to believe,

- but don't involve others.
- Well, they involve me.

Yes, I know, but supposing
the boy is found dead

five miles away from the place
you told them to look.

Could you live with that?

Could I live with not telling them

what I think I see
and then he would be found alive?

Look, don't play God.

Apparently you don't
believe in what I'm doing.

No, no, I don't, no.

You are not the first minister
to call me witch,

or accursed and to cast me out.

But don't you worry, Jess.

A witch would never consider
marrying a man of the cloth.

Hey, wait, Harve.

This way.

- That way?
- Yeah.

What would you do
if you was lost, Harve?

Just what I told Jamie, I imagine.

Take an objective.

A goal you can keep your eyes on.

You get to it, pick another goal.

There you go.

Just like that big knob rock up there

with that lone pine out of it.
Come on.

Jamie!

Jamie!

Hoss!

Hoss... Hoss!

Hoss!

Jamie!

Jamie.

Oh, Hoss.

Yeah.

Hoss.

How is he?

Hoss, I'm so cold.

It's all right.
It's all right, little buddy.

I imagine you're a mite hungry, too,
aren't you?

Joe... Joe...

You're going to be all right.

Ma'am, I... I got to thank you
for helping look for me.

Oh, don't thank me,
thank your brothers.

Why, they never
gave up searching for you.

Not for a second.

And everybody
searched day and night.

Yes, ma'am, I know.

Why don't you get some sleep, huh?

Yeah.

Oh, wait a minute, not yet.

Doctor said you had to
take some of this, little brother.

All right.

There you go, drink him right down.

Very good.

Thank you, Hoss.

- Good night, pal.
- Good night.

Thank you.

Well, I just didn't know
there was so much prejudice

in this part of the country.

Well, you have it in your small
English villages, don't you?

Yes, but we gave up
burning witches years ago.

Well, so did we.

Oh, I don't know.

I don't suppose the time
will ever come when...

people won't fear
the strange and mysterious.

Well, I pray for that day.

And work for it, too, Pastor.

I agree.

Tell me...

do you honestly, seriously believe
that Judith found your son?

Well...

I guess that's not as important
as the fact that she believes it...

and Hoss believes it.

That Jamie is here now.

Tell me...

what do you believe?

I'm not sure.

I do know, though,

that in every other way,

Judith is a very extraordinary woman.

Yes, she is.

Well, I think I'll look in on Jamie.

He's finally fallen off to sleep.

Joe and Hoss just won't leave him.

I think you and Jess
have a great deal to talk about.