Have Gun - Will Travel (1957–1963): Season 1, Episode 8 - High Wire - full transcript
Paladin plays the sportsman, reluctantly for once, in an effort to reunite a fallen circus performer with his dignity.
Even the Barbary
Coast crapshooters
don't operate like that.
Let's reopen that bet, mister.
I don't like to leave that
kind of a winner on the board.
Salamander City, Mr. Paladin.
Step out and stretch a mite.
Are we staying long?
Oh, just until I hitch
up some fresh horses.
What can I do for you, Dooley?
I just wondering, have you
got room for another passenger.
You got the price of a ticket?
Aw, I just want to go
as far as the next town.
I can pay you next
time around, maybe.
Sorry, Dooley. No credit.
Good afternoon, mister.
Afternoon.
Are you heading
for San Francisco?
DRIVER: Don't bother
the passengers, Dooley.
Sorry, mister.
Will you wait for me?
Maybe I can raise the money.
Fella seems pretty
anxious to get out of town.
Yeah, poor little guy.
Reckon they're
getting tired of him here.
Who is he?
Dooley Delaware.
Says he used to be
a big-time acrobat.
Now he just wanders
around, one town today,
another town tomorrow.
Doing back flips
for spending money.
Call me when you're
ready to leave, huh?
Yeah.
( laughter)
Okay, Dooley, let's see
you walk on your nose.
( laughter)
He's used to it.
Well, I'm not.
Don't start anything, please.
( laughter subsides)
$50, Dooley.
$50 says you can't walk
a rope across this saloon.
Well, that's an easy bet
for Dooley Delaware, isn't it?
Well, I don't have a rope.
Oh, Bolo, would you...?
( crowd murmuring)
Come on, Dooley.
( murmuring continues)
You can do it, Dooley. Let's go.
You think you can
make that, Mr. Delaware?
Excuse me.
I think that I can
do it, Mr. Marquette.
But I can't meet the bet.
All I've got is...
$2.12.
( laughter)
I'm always willing to
make arrangements.
I'll tell you what:
If I can't walk this rope...
I'll... curry your horse
and shine your boots
every day for a whole year.
( crowd murmuring)
You're on.
Go on, Dooley!
( crowd shouting encouragement)
( crowd cheering)
Dooley, look out!
Now, Dooley, you
all in one piece?
I reckon so.
Start shining, acrobat.
Mr. Delaware doesn't like to
leave a winner on the board.
He'll repeat the bet,
double or nothing.
You let him call
his own bets, mister.
I only got $2.12.
I'll cover for
Mr. Delaware. $100.
No shoe shines
involved, just money.
Mr. Marquette ain't interested.
Are you interested,
Mr. Delaware?
Golly... for $100?
I'd cross Salamander
Canyon on a wire.
( laughter)
You've got yourself a bet.
Anybody got a rope?
MARQUETTE: Never
mind the rope, mister.
Get a wire.
Get one long enough to stretch
clear across Salamander Canyon.
Now wait a minute!
That's not a fair...
My $100 against your $100
says that Dooley can't walk
a wire across that canyon.
Oh, I... I...
I was just, you know, making
mouth noises, Mr. Marquette.
Take it easy, Ben.
That canyon is 300 feet deep.
Why, that don't mean a
thing to a real wire walker.
Well, I...
Sorry. Sorry, Marquette.
No bet.
Come on, Dooley. You can do it.
Show him you're not yellow.
Now just a minute!
( crowd shouts encouragement)
Come on... wait a minute!
My money and his life
and we're both going
to keep what we've got.
Come on, Dooley, you've
still got time to catch that stage.
He's not an acrobat,
he's a monkey on a string.
Somebody throw him a peanut.
( laughter)
I accept the challenge.
Will you stake me, mister?
You got the terms
of the bet right?
My $100 says you
can't walk a wire
across Salamander Canyon.
And I say I can.
If this gentleman
will sponsor me.
It won't work, Marquette.
You're forcing the odds.
You're asking this man
to risk his life for $100.
You talk too much, mister.
That doesn't help
anybody's reputation.
Even the Barbary
Coast crapshooters
don't work like that.
All right, I'll boost the ante
as far as Dooley
can go... $102.12.
Can you afford
that much, mister?
Make it $1,000.
His life isn't worth that much.
Your reputation?
I'll see your $1,000
and make it $1,000 more.
Why stop there?
$3,000 says Dooley
can do the stunt.
You are on.
My reputation, huh?
Hold the stakes, Bolo.
Wait a minute.
$6,000. That's too big a load
for such a small character.
Mr. Marquette says
I hold the money.
Easy, Bolo.
We don't want to
offend our meal ticket.
We'll give it to
a neutral party.
I'll take care of it, Ben.
Put it in the sack, Wally.
Mr. Marquette, I'd rather
not get mixed up in this.
Wally's got a wife and two kids.
He's got to be honest.
Mr. Marquette, I'd rather not.
Put it in a sack, Wally.
You'll get all the protection
you need.
You happy now, mister?
Stage is leaving, Mr. Paladin.
Well, let it leave.
I'll stay here and look
after my investment.
Mr. Paladin, I... I
just want to tell you...
$3,000? Golly, you sure
have a lot of faith in me.
Faith?
I was boosting the
bet to get you out of it.
I was trying to make
Marquette call it off.
You must have been
crazy to let them laugh you
into a suicide stunt like that.
It's all set up.
3:00 tomorrow afternoon.
I've been told that
canyon is 100 feet across
and 300 feet straight down,
and a wind like the
breath of the devil.
Mr. Paladin,
you heard what they call me:
A monkey on a string.
That's all I've ever been
ever since the
circuses quit hiring me.
What circuses?
A monkey on a string,
doing nip-ups for
nickels and dimes.
I'm a man, not a monkey.
Well, of course you are, Dooley.
Maybe I won't make it
across that canyon tomorrow,
but they'll remember
me for trying.
They'll remember me
as Dooley Delaware,
the man who almost crossed
Salamander Canyon on a wire.
Dooley!
Come on inside now.
Everybody is hollering for you.
Mr. Delaware has
to rest for tomorrow.
Oh, but the whole
crowd's going to go down
to the canyon and set things up,
and I thought you'd
want to supervise.
Rena, whose side are you on?
Well, Dooley's. Isn't everybody?
Now, come on. Come on.
( crowd clamoring)
Come on.
( crowd yelling)
( yelling)
Hello, Rena.
I thought you were
part of that crowd.
Look, mister, you been
doing some pretty nice things.
Be smart. Stop being so nice,
and just go on
where you were going.
I can't till I win
my stage fare.
From Marquette?
He's too big.
He's bigger than you,
he's bigger than Dooley,
he's bigger than
this whole town.
And Bolo's just standing
on his shoulders.
Well, they're gonna make
quite a thump when they fall.
You're not going to topple them.
Nobody ever has.
Well, I can try.
Why?
What have you got...?
My business.
Okay, sir, here you are.
Good morning, Mr. Paladin.
I thought you took the
stage out this afternoon.
And miss a ruckus like this one?
Not a chance.
Why, look here...
The first extra ever put out
by the Salamander Gazette.
Have you seen Dooley?
"Dauntless Dooley to defy..."
How about it, partner?
How about a little
bet on the big event?
Five to one, he doesn't make it.
Best odds in town.
Five to one he doesn't
get across that canyon.
Come on, honey. ( mumbling)
Drink up.
Wally made that
drink just for you.
Good ol' Wally.
It's called the Dooley
Delaware Fizz.
One drink of that,
and you can walk that canyon
without a wire.
All right, Dooley,
that's enough.
It's after 2:00.
So what?
2:00 a.m...
You won't be able to
find that canyon tomorrow.
Oh, leave him alone.
He's having a good time,
for the first time in his life.
Yeah, let me be.
Your name is Rena, ain't it?
Sure it is, honey.
You hear that, Mr. Paladin?
"Honey," she calls me.
When did any girl
call ol' Dooley "honey"?
Huh? When?
( screaming)
Hey, take your
hands off my girl!
All right, what's
Marquette paying you?
For what?
That little job you're
doing on Dooley.
Who says he's
paying me? I say he is.
Now tell me how much it is
and I'll match the fee
if you let Dooley alone.
Maybe I don't want
to let him alone.
Maybe I don't want to see him
show up at that canyon tomorrow.
You want to scrape him off
the bottom of the
canyon, is that it?
If he don't show
up, he'll stay alive.
Sure. Marquette
will collect the bet,
and Dooley will
spend the rest of his life
running away from himself.
Dead or alive, Dooley
loses and Marquette wins.
Best odds in town, folks.
Make your bets here.
Hey, you.
Come over here.
Coming right up.
Best odds in town,
folks. Five to one.
How do you figure
odds like that?
Nobody can walk a
wire in that condition.
Well, here's $50 on Dooley.
Leaves nothing for tomorrow.
Give the slip to Rena.
It's your money.
If Dooley wins,
you get 250 bucks.
$250.
Now, how does that compare
with what Marquette
was going to pay you?
Best odds in town, folks.
Take your bets right here.
More than double.
Listen, I like the little guy.
Let me fix it so he
don't show up tomorrow.
Then Marquette will be
happy and Dooley will be alive.
Dooley will be alive?
He'll die every time
he looks in the mirror
for the rest of his life.
This town will paint him
yellow and never let him forget it.
What do you want me to do?
I've been trying to
save enough money
to get out of this town.
I can't afford to turn
down Marquette's deal
and neither can anybody else.
You can.
Now.
If Dooley makes it
across that wire tomorrow.
Sure, if he does, if.
You can help.
How?
Undo what you've been doing.
See that he shows up in
decent shape tomorrow.
Take care of him the right way.
I guess I could try.
Rena, your stage fare is
walking across that wire
with Dooley tomorrow.
Now go on, take care of him.
Thanks.
What's the odds?
Five to one. The greatest odds.
All right, folks, all right.
Five to one. Five to
one. The greatest odds.
I'll take that at five to one.
All right, all right. Here
it is, folks, right this way.
Five to one. The
best odds in town.
All right, who wants...?
Five to one. Let's have it.
Five to one. The
best odds in town.
Thank you very much.
Everything all
fixed, eh, Marquette?
Sure. I even control
the wind in this town.
That daredevil of
yours is ten minutes late.
I know.
Another five minutes and
that money is mine by default.
Well, I think Dooley will
be here before the money is.
Where is it, by the way?
MARQUETTE: In good hands.
It's all there. All $6,000.
Well, Bolo is with it.
I'd better count it.
Later.
Now.
Bolo, protect me.
I want to count the stakes.
Hold on, you.
It's all right. It's
all right, Bolo.
Give it to him.
Well, listen. My
wife and kids are...
Oh, shut up.
Come on, Paladin,
hurry it up, will you?
Now, you just made
me lose my place.
I'll have to start over.
( wagon approaching)
There's Rena.
She's got Dooley with her.
That double-crossing little...
PALADIN: Bolo.
Here's your money.
Satisfied?
Yep.
I'm very satisfied.
Bolo!
Rena, how is he?
I did everything. I
did everything I could.
What's wrong? He's scared.
Just plain scared.
You just mention this canyon
and his eyes kind of
roll back in his head.
Oh?
Don't let your friend
talk you into this, Dooley.
That wire means certain death.
Be smart, Dooley. Call it off.
Paladin's only interested
in his three grand.
That's right, Dooley.
Call it off. Nobody here expected
you to walk that wire anyway.
Go ahead, call it off.
Everybody here has got you
marked yellow from the start.
I know what you're doing.
You're trying to
shame me into it.
You're trying to shame
me into committing suicide.
Don't let him make a
sap out of you, Dooley.
I'll talk to Dooley alone, Bolo.
I've had enough of you. Alone.
Wally.
Give him the money, Bolo.
Give it to him!
Now, I'll talk to Dooley alone.
All right, Dooley,
let's hear it.
What?
Why don't the circuses
hire you anymore?
Come on.
I took a bad fall
about nine years ago.
I got well, but I couldn't make
myself get on the wire anymore.
Not the high wire.
They think you've
lost your nerve
and now that big
fear is back again?
It sure is.
Dooley, do you know
what's going to happen to you
if you don't get on that wire?
You'll be a monkey
on a string again.
I know.
They won't throw coins
to you anymore. I know.
They'll throw peanuts.
I know. I know they will.
Dooley, that
wire is no different
than any wire you ever
climbed on in a circus.
Don't listen to him, Dooley.
He's only interested
in his money.
You believe that, Dooley?
I don't want to.
Dooley, I made
that $3,000 last week
and I worked hard for it.
But I'd rather lose
it right here and now
then see you lose your life trying to
do something you can't possibly do.
Now, no tricks and no jokes.
I want you to turn
your back on it,
I want you to walk away.
My wagon is over there. Come on.
( crowd shouting)
( crowd chanting): We want
Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley!
We want Dooley!
We want Dooley! We want Dooley!
I want to try it, Mr. Paladin.
I'm going to try it.
MAN: Come on, Dooley!
( crowd chanting): We want
Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley!
Come on, Dooley!
We want Dooley!
( crowd cheering)
Mr. Delaware...
your walking stick.
You can do it.
( crowd cheering)
( cheering continues)
( crowd gasping)
Dooley, no!
( crowd cheering)
( wood creaking)
( screams)
Bolo! Come on.
Come on!
Come on, Marquette.
Get on that stake, Bolo.
Get on it, or I'm going
to blow a hole in you.
Help him, Marquette.
Go on.
Now, just hold it steady.
What happened?
The stake's splitting.
( both grunting)
Don't quit, Bolo. Lean on it.
I'll blow your head off.
( crowd cheers)
Where's the bartender?
Where is he?!
You find him.
Why'd you let him go?
Never mind Marquette.
Let's find Dooley.
Stage is leaving in
an hour, Mr. Paladin.
What are you talking about?
You know Marquette's
behind all this.
Double-cross is a
very ambiguous sign.
It points in eight different
directions all at once.
Come on.
Let me go.
Please.
My wife will be worried sick.
All right, get out of here.
But if you open your
mouth about this,
you won't have a wife to worry
about you, understand that?
Now get out of here!
How come you let Wally go?
He's too scared
to open his mouth.
Here, count it.
"Dauntless Dooley Delaware."
You know, I did win that $250.
You could have wound
up with a handful of air.
I think maybe
you'd better have it.
Rena, I don't really believe
Dooley ever worked for a circus.
Oh, no?
Well, here.
I can prove it.
What?
Oh!
I thought Marquette
and Bolo got it.
So did they.
How'd you pull
a stunt like that?
Dooley! You're not the
only trickster in the West.
Observe.
Now I'll say a magic word and...
Oh!
( all laughing)
Coast crapshooters
don't operate like that.
Let's reopen that bet, mister.
I don't like to leave that
kind of a winner on the board.
Salamander City, Mr. Paladin.
Step out and stretch a mite.
Are we staying long?
Oh, just until I hitch
up some fresh horses.
What can I do for you, Dooley?
I just wondering, have you
got room for another passenger.
You got the price of a ticket?
Aw, I just want to go
as far as the next town.
I can pay you next
time around, maybe.
Sorry, Dooley. No credit.
Good afternoon, mister.
Afternoon.
Are you heading
for San Francisco?
DRIVER: Don't bother
the passengers, Dooley.
Sorry, mister.
Will you wait for me?
Maybe I can raise the money.
Fella seems pretty
anxious to get out of town.
Yeah, poor little guy.
Reckon they're
getting tired of him here.
Who is he?
Dooley Delaware.
Says he used to be
a big-time acrobat.
Now he just wanders
around, one town today,
another town tomorrow.
Doing back flips
for spending money.
Call me when you're
ready to leave, huh?
Yeah.
( laughter)
Okay, Dooley, let's see
you walk on your nose.
( laughter)
He's used to it.
Well, I'm not.
Don't start anything, please.
( laughter subsides)
$50, Dooley.
$50 says you can't walk
a rope across this saloon.
Well, that's an easy bet
for Dooley Delaware, isn't it?
Well, I don't have a rope.
Oh, Bolo, would you...?
( crowd murmuring)
Come on, Dooley.
( murmuring continues)
You can do it, Dooley. Let's go.
You think you can
make that, Mr. Delaware?
Excuse me.
I think that I can
do it, Mr. Marquette.
But I can't meet the bet.
All I've got is...
$2.12.
( laughter)
I'm always willing to
make arrangements.
I'll tell you what:
If I can't walk this rope...
I'll... curry your horse
and shine your boots
every day for a whole year.
( crowd murmuring)
You're on.
Go on, Dooley!
( crowd shouting encouragement)
( crowd cheering)
Dooley, look out!
Now, Dooley, you
all in one piece?
I reckon so.
Start shining, acrobat.
Mr. Delaware doesn't like to
leave a winner on the board.
He'll repeat the bet,
double or nothing.
You let him call
his own bets, mister.
I only got $2.12.
I'll cover for
Mr. Delaware. $100.
No shoe shines
involved, just money.
Mr. Marquette ain't interested.
Are you interested,
Mr. Delaware?
Golly... for $100?
I'd cross Salamander
Canyon on a wire.
( laughter)
You've got yourself a bet.
Anybody got a rope?
MARQUETTE: Never
mind the rope, mister.
Get a wire.
Get one long enough to stretch
clear across Salamander Canyon.
Now wait a minute!
That's not a fair...
My $100 against your $100
says that Dooley can't walk
a wire across that canyon.
Oh, I... I...
I was just, you know, making
mouth noises, Mr. Marquette.
Take it easy, Ben.
That canyon is 300 feet deep.
Why, that don't mean a
thing to a real wire walker.
Well, I...
Sorry. Sorry, Marquette.
No bet.
Come on, Dooley. You can do it.
Show him you're not yellow.
Now just a minute!
( crowd shouts encouragement)
Come on... wait a minute!
My money and his life
and we're both going
to keep what we've got.
Come on, Dooley, you've
still got time to catch that stage.
He's not an acrobat,
he's a monkey on a string.
Somebody throw him a peanut.
( laughter)
I accept the challenge.
Will you stake me, mister?
You got the terms
of the bet right?
My $100 says you
can't walk a wire
across Salamander Canyon.
And I say I can.
If this gentleman
will sponsor me.
It won't work, Marquette.
You're forcing the odds.
You're asking this man
to risk his life for $100.
You talk too much, mister.
That doesn't help
anybody's reputation.
Even the Barbary
Coast crapshooters
don't work like that.
All right, I'll boost the ante
as far as Dooley
can go... $102.12.
Can you afford
that much, mister?
Make it $1,000.
His life isn't worth that much.
Your reputation?
I'll see your $1,000
and make it $1,000 more.
Why stop there?
$3,000 says Dooley
can do the stunt.
You are on.
My reputation, huh?
Hold the stakes, Bolo.
Wait a minute.
$6,000. That's too big a load
for such a small character.
Mr. Marquette says
I hold the money.
Easy, Bolo.
We don't want to
offend our meal ticket.
We'll give it to
a neutral party.
I'll take care of it, Ben.
Put it in the sack, Wally.
Mr. Marquette, I'd rather
not get mixed up in this.
Wally's got a wife and two kids.
He's got to be honest.
Mr. Marquette, I'd rather not.
Put it in a sack, Wally.
You'll get all the protection
you need.
You happy now, mister?
Stage is leaving, Mr. Paladin.
Well, let it leave.
I'll stay here and look
after my investment.
Mr. Paladin, I... I
just want to tell you...
$3,000? Golly, you sure
have a lot of faith in me.
Faith?
I was boosting the
bet to get you out of it.
I was trying to make
Marquette call it off.
You must have been
crazy to let them laugh you
into a suicide stunt like that.
It's all set up.
3:00 tomorrow afternoon.
I've been told that
canyon is 100 feet across
and 300 feet straight down,
and a wind like the
breath of the devil.
Mr. Paladin,
you heard what they call me:
A monkey on a string.
That's all I've ever been
ever since the
circuses quit hiring me.
What circuses?
A monkey on a string,
doing nip-ups for
nickels and dimes.
I'm a man, not a monkey.
Well, of course you are, Dooley.
Maybe I won't make it
across that canyon tomorrow,
but they'll remember
me for trying.
They'll remember me
as Dooley Delaware,
the man who almost crossed
Salamander Canyon on a wire.
Dooley!
Come on inside now.
Everybody is hollering for you.
Mr. Delaware has
to rest for tomorrow.
Oh, but the whole
crowd's going to go down
to the canyon and set things up,
and I thought you'd
want to supervise.
Rena, whose side are you on?
Well, Dooley's. Isn't everybody?
Now, come on. Come on.
( crowd clamoring)
Come on.
( crowd yelling)
( yelling)
Hello, Rena.
I thought you were
part of that crowd.
Look, mister, you been
doing some pretty nice things.
Be smart. Stop being so nice,
and just go on
where you were going.
I can't till I win
my stage fare.
From Marquette?
He's too big.
He's bigger than you,
he's bigger than Dooley,
he's bigger than
this whole town.
And Bolo's just standing
on his shoulders.
Well, they're gonna make
quite a thump when they fall.
You're not going to topple them.
Nobody ever has.
Well, I can try.
Why?
What have you got...?
My business.
Okay, sir, here you are.
Good morning, Mr. Paladin.
I thought you took the
stage out this afternoon.
And miss a ruckus like this one?
Not a chance.
Why, look here...
The first extra ever put out
by the Salamander Gazette.
Have you seen Dooley?
"Dauntless Dooley to defy..."
How about it, partner?
How about a little
bet on the big event?
Five to one, he doesn't make it.
Best odds in town.
Five to one he doesn't
get across that canyon.
Come on, honey. ( mumbling)
Drink up.
Wally made that
drink just for you.
Good ol' Wally.
It's called the Dooley
Delaware Fizz.
One drink of that,
and you can walk that canyon
without a wire.
All right, Dooley,
that's enough.
It's after 2:00.
So what?
2:00 a.m...
You won't be able to
find that canyon tomorrow.
Oh, leave him alone.
He's having a good time,
for the first time in his life.
Yeah, let me be.
Your name is Rena, ain't it?
Sure it is, honey.
You hear that, Mr. Paladin?
"Honey," she calls me.
When did any girl
call ol' Dooley "honey"?
Huh? When?
( screaming)
Hey, take your
hands off my girl!
All right, what's
Marquette paying you?
For what?
That little job you're
doing on Dooley.
Who says he's
paying me? I say he is.
Now tell me how much it is
and I'll match the fee
if you let Dooley alone.
Maybe I don't want
to let him alone.
Maybe I don't want to see him
show up at that canyon tomorrow.
You want to scrape him off
the bottom of the
canyon, is that it?
If he don't show
up, he'll stay alive.
Sure. Marquette
will collect the bet,
and Dooley will
spend the rest of his life
running away from himself.
Dead or alive, Dooley
loses and Marquette wins.
Best odds in town, folks.
Make your bets here.
Hey, you.
Come over here.
Coming right up.
Best odds in town,
folks. Five to one.
How do you figure
odds like that?
Nobody can walk a
wire in that condition.
Well, here's $50 on Dooley.
Leaves nothing for tomorrow.
Give the slip to Rena.
It's your money.
If Dooley wins,
you get 250 bucks.
$250.
Now, how does that compare
with what Marquette
was going to pay you?
Best odds in town, folks.
Take your bets right here.
More than double.
Listen, I like the little guy.
Let me fix it so he
don't show up tomorrow.
Then Marquette will be
happy and Dooley will be alive.
Dooley will be alive?
He'll die every time
he looks in the mirror
for the rest of his life.
This town will paint him
yellow and never let him forget it.
What do you want me to do?
I've been trying to
save enough money
to get out of this town.
I can't afford to turn
down Marquette's deal
and neither can anybody else.
You can.
Now.
If Dooley makes it
across that wire tomorrow.
Sure, if he does, if.
You can help.
How?
Undo what you've been doing.
See that he shows up in
decent shape tomorrow.
Take care of him the right way.
I guess I could try.
Rena, your stage fare is
walking across that wire
with Dooley tomorrow.
Now go on, take care of him.
Thanks.
What's the odds?
Five to one. The greatest odds.
All right, folks, all right.
Five to one. Five to
one. The greatest odds.
I'll take that at five to one.
All right, all right. Here
it is, folks, right this way.
Five to one. The
best odds in town.
All right, who wants...?
Five to one. Let's have it.
Five to one. The
best odds in town.
Thank you very much.
Everything all
fixed, eh, Marquette?
Sure. I even control
the wind in this town.
That daredevil of
yours is ten minutes late.
I know.
Another five minutes and
that money is mine by default.
Well, I think Dooley will
be here before the money is.
Where is it, by the way?
MARQUETTE: In good hands.
It's all there. All $6,000.
Well, Bolo is with it.
I'd better count it.
Later.
Now.
Bolo, protect me.
I want to count the stakes.
Hold on, you.
It's all right. It's
all right, Bolo.
Give it to him.
Well, listen. My
wife and kids are...
Oh, shut up.
Come on, Paladin,
hurry it up, will you?
Now, you just made
me lose my place.
I'll have to start over.
( wagon approaching)
There's Rena.
She's got Dooley with her.
That double-crossing little...
PALADIN: Bolo.
Here's your money.
Satisfied?
Yep.
I'm very satisfied.
Bolo!
Rena, how is he?
I did everything. I
did everything I could.
What's wrong? He's scared.
Just plain scared.
You just mention this canyon
and his eyes kind of
roll back in his head.
Oh?
Don't let your friend
talk you into this, Dooley.
That wire means certain death.
Be smart, Dooley. Call it off.
Paladin's only interested
in his three grand.
That's right, Dooley.
Call it off. Nobody here expected
you to walk that wire anyway.
Go ahead, call it off.
Everybody here has got you
marked yellow from the start.
I know what you're doing.
You're trying to
shame me into it.
You're trying to shame
me into committing suicide.
Don't let him make a
sap out of you, Dooley.
I'll talk to Dooley alone, Bolo.
I've had enough of you. Alone.
Wally.
Give him the money, Bolo.
Give it to him!
Now, I'll talk to Dooley alone.
All right, Dooley,
let's hear it.
What?
Why don't the circuses
hire you anymore?
Come on.
I took a bad fall
about nine years ago.
I got well, but I couldn't make
myself get on the wire anymore.
Not the high wire.
They think you've
lost your nerve
and now that big
fear is back again?
It sure is.
Dooley, do you know
what's going to happen to you
if you don't get on that wire?
You'll be a monkey
on a string again.
I know.
They won't throw coins
to you anymore. I know.
They'll throw peanuts.
I know. I know they will.
Dooley, that
wire is no different
than any wire you ever
climbed on in a circus.
Don't listen to him, Dooley.
He's only interested
in his money.
You believe that, Dooley?
I don't want to.
Dooley, I made
that $3,000 last week
and I worked hard for it.
But I'd rather lose
it right here and now
then see you lose your life trying to
do something you can't possibly do.
Now, no tricks and no jokes.
I want you to turn
your back on it,
I want you to walk away.
My wagon is over there. Come on.
( crowd shouting)
( crowd chanting): We want
Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley!
We want Dooley!
We want Dooley! We want Dooley!
I want to try it, Mr. Paladin.
I'm going to try it.
MAN: Come on, Dooley!
( crowd chanting): We want
Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley! We want Dooley!
We want Dooley!
Come on, Dooley!
We want Dooley!
( crowd cheering)
Mr. Delaware...
your walking stick.
You can do it.
( crowd cheering)
( cheering continues)
( crowd gasping)
Dooley, no!
( crowd cheering)
( wood creaking)
( screams)
Bolo! Come on.
Come on!
Come on, Marquette.
Get on that stake, Bolo.
Get on it, or I'm going
to blow a hole in you.
Help him, Marquette.
Go on.
Now, just hold it steady.
What happened?
The stake's splitting.
( both grunting)
Don't quit, Bolo. Lean on it.
I'll blow your head off.
( crowd cheers)
Where's the bartender?
Where is he?!
You find him.
Why'd you let him go?
Never mind Marquette.
Let's find Dooley.
Stage is leaving in
an hour, Mr. Paladin.
What are you talking about?
You know Marquette's
behind all this.
Double-cross is a
very ambiguous sign.
It points in eight different
directions all at once.
Come on.
Let me go.
Please.
My wife will be worried sick.
All right, get out of here.
But if you open your
mouth about this,
you won't have a wife to worry
about you, understand that?
Now get out of here!
How come you let Wally go?
He's too scared
to open his mouth.
Here, count it.
"Dauntless Dooley Delaware."
You know, I did win that $250.
You could have wound
up with a handful of air.
I think maybe
you'd better have it.
Rena, I don't really believe
Dooley ever worked for a circus.
Oh, no?
Well, here.
I can prove it.
What?
Oh!
I thought Marquette
and Bolo got it.
So did they.
How'd you pull
a stunt like that?
Dooley! You're not the
only trickster in the West.
Observe.
Now I'll say a magic word and...
Oh!
( all laughing)