Rawhide (1959–1965): Season 3, Episode 27 - Incident Before Black Pass - full transcript

An Indian war chief who had terrorized whites in the past, is now dying and wants to leave a bequest of peace. The chief leaves the prison hospital, but instead of returning to the reservation, he heads to his old home to die there as a white man amongst his former white family. His hope is that he will be identified as white, so the settlers will hate him as a white, and not hate the Indians for his past warfare deeds. Favor and Pete help the chief by confronting a host of forces: the cavalry intent on forcing the chief back to the reservation, a rancher seeking revenge for supposed past misdeeds of the chief, and an upstart Indian intent on leading the tribe to war.

Hyah!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Keep movin', movin', movin'

Though they're disapprovin'

Keep them dogies movin'

Rawhide!

Don't try
To understand 'em

Just rope, throw
And brand 'em

Soon we'll be livin'
High and wide

My heart's calculatin'

My true love
Will be waitin'



Be waiting at the end
Of my ride

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rawhide

Let 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out

Cut 'em out
Ride 'em in

Rawhide!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Hyah!

Hyah!

Rawhide!

Hyah!

All things come
to them who waits.

Hm?

Well, look, we got
plenty of good grass,



lots of good water
around here.

Anything a man
could ask for.

You mean anything a steer
could ask for, don't you?

Yeah, that's what I said.

Yeah, I guess that's
what you did say, Pete.

You getting
hard of hearing?

No.

You know, a couple days
on grass like this

is gonna put ten pounds
on those beeves.

Yeah, I better go tell
Mr. Favor.

No, you don't.
Listen, I have told him

about flooded streams,

burned-up grass,
dried-up waterholes...

He's even getting
ready to run and hide

when he sees me coming.

Well, he's due for some
good news for a change

and I'm gonna take it to him.

Kiawah squaw.

I wonder what she's doing
out here all by herself.

She might not be all
by herself.

You! You!

Strong brave men.

You would brag
how you killed a woman?

We weren't gonna hurt her.

He knows that.

Quince.

You seen Rowdy or Pete?

Oh, not for quite
a while, boss.

Still kind of hanged-over
from that keg

you let Wishbone
open last night.

I haven't been looking
for Pete or Rowdy or nobody.

In fact, I was kind of hoping

I couldn't even see me.

Gypsy?

Think you could carry out
an order for once

if I gave it to you?

Well, what's the order,
Mr. Favor?

Ride flank for Quince,
keep it in the strays.

You think you can do it?

Sure, why not?

Let's go, Jim.

I don't see nothing no more.

Track's disappearing
all of a sudden.

Shouldn't,
this kind of ground.

They've been brushed.

No place to go.

No place to set out
to from here.

Might as well get back
to the herd.

That's where Rowdy and Pete
will show up if they're able.

Yeah, I guess so.

I guess we'll have
to get back to the herd

and wait.

That's the trail boss

coming in now,
lieutenant.

Better tell him.

Mr. Favor,
Lieutenant Meadows.

Fourth Cavalry,
Mr. Favor.

Lieutenant.

I thought
I better warn you, sir.

An Indian named White Eyes
just came off the reservation

with a Kiawah war party.

You better keep an eye out,
he's ready to go after

anybody who's got white skin.

We'll do that.

Obliged for the warning.

Can't the army
hold that half-breed?

Oh, we've had enough chains
on him to hold a buffalo.

You see, he got sick.

The Indian agency
sent him home to die.

Well, that was their mistake.

He wasn't anywhere near dying.

Matter of fact,
he's all around us right now.

He's got enough Kiawahs
to wipe us all out

if he feels like it.

Does he feel like it?

I'm afraid White Eyes
is the only man

who can answer that question.

I'll ask him
when I run into him.

Oh, lieutenant,

uh, two of my men
disappeared.

We followed their tracks
till they gave out,

but it seems they have
been brushed out.

How long has it been
since you've seen your men?

Twelve hours.

Uh, we'll do our best to see
if we can get 'em back for you.

If they can be got back.

Anything me and my men
can do to help?

No, that's what the army's for,
Mr. Favor.

Look, I've gotta keep
this herd moving,

but the men that are missing,
well, uh...

they're good men.

Well, we'll do our best,
Mr. Favor.

Why, that lice-bitten
lieutenant.

If he knew half
as much as White Eyes

he'd be a general.

What do you know
about this White Eyes?

Well, he's part white.

At least,
white as he ain't all Indian.

He used to tear up the country,
raiding, murder,

killing anybody he can.

And things.

Well, bed the herd down.

You, Scarlet and Bailey
get working at it.

Well, Mr, Favor, you, uh,

fixing to let the army
locate Pete and Rowdy?

We'll move the herd out
in the morning.

I figured you'd say that.

You figured it right, Jim.

So let's get working at it.

The horse soldiers have gone
to the great herd that moves.

Now the horse soldiers
chase rainbows.

It is a pursuit
they will tire of.

We must act quickly.

We must not act quickly.

Oh?

You have a reason
why we must not?

You are the reason.

The white skins in the prison

made it difficult for me
to go on living.

That is for all to see.

Whether you understand
it or not, Anko,

I must leave.

You will crawl
back to your own?

Would you have it otherwise?

I would not give in.

I would fight.

Until none of us
was left to fight.

These are your people.

Would you have them killed?

I would do more for them
than you are doing.

I would stay with them.

I would not leave them.

Even though the white man
had made me sick.

I would not leave
as you are leaving.

I understand you.

Because I understand,

I will not name you

chief to follow me.

You live out of your heart.

Your heart is not
guided by wisdom.

What I do will bring peace.

You do not want that.

My people will do
what is planned.

I have heard you,

and I will obey you,

but let it be known that
I believe you are wrong.

I think that death
will come to our people

because of you.

Is there one here who doesn't
understand what I mean?

We have very little time.

As long as you are alive
they will do as you say.

Will that make you happy?

I have outlived my happiness.

All that remains
is to do what must be done.

Help me to my feet.

You cannot stay
on your feet.

Strength is a thing

one must rise up and meet.

It will not come to you
when you are lying down.

Let me take care of you.

Let me put you down gently
on a bed of reeds.

Let me run
and fetch for you.

Let me be near you.

My people do not believe it,

but unless something is done,

the whites will swallow us.

You do not trust us?

We are Kiawahs and you
still do not trust us.

It has not made any difference
all these years.

You are not as you say.

You are not Kiawah.
You are white.

You will help me
to my horse.

And you will see
a Kiawah ride away.

All right, break it up.
Double guard tonight

in case the Kiawah
try for the herd.

I want the search party
out before daylight.

The rest of you turn in.

Won't do no good.

They're dead.

Death card.

Injins killed 'em.

Don't let him spook you.

He don't know
nothing from cards.

How do we know the cards
are wrong?

They're cards, ain't they?

I know Rowdy and Pete
are no longer alive.

Oh, you do, do you?

Well, tell them how you
got your name, Gypsy.

He's a fortune teller.

At least that's what he said
when he signed on.

The cards know.

The cards know how to scare
some of the jaspers around here.

All the card says
was that two men

you didn't know
before you signed on

was gonna be killed
by Indians, right?

It said I'd be killed too.

Because of the two men.

The card say how?

Somebody would fire a gun
and I would die,

but not because of the gun.

It's got him so spooked

he's trying to spook the rest
of you for company.

Boo!

See what I mean?

You sure showed that Gypsy,
Mr. Wishbone.

Sure did.

Didn't I?

Did you?

Gypsies.
Who believes in them?

I do.

Are you gonna get that...?

I know.

Quince.

I hear 'em.
Dowse the fire.

Wishbone.
I heard it.

Break out the rifles.

What is it, Indians?

Let go.

If you're too scared to fight,

then find a hole and crawl under
them fool cards of yours.

Never heard of Kiawah
fighting at night before.

First time for everything.

We talk.

They'll kill us.

We talk.

Anko.

The one who shot.

We want him.

It was a mistake.

We will talk.

"Tatain."

Kiawah war chief.

Satanga.

My men?

They are alive.

What do you want for them?

Beef?

No, 30-40 miles.

Soldiers search for Tatain.

The army know me
as an enemy of the white man.

One place they will not look
for me is among white men.

You mean, you and your men
wanna go along with us?

If the army
comes to you again,

they will have no reason
to inspect your men.

Unless you give them a reason.

How far do you want to go?

The Black Pass.

That's Cheyenne Pawnee country.

You won't find
any friends there.

I do not search
for Indian friends.

You are not Indian, are you?

I am a dying man.

If I die among those
with whom I was born,

the soldiers
will be satisfied

that the Kiawah they search for
is only a white man.

My people will
no longer be hunted down.

What about my men?

Satanga will go with us.

The others will return
to our hostages.

When I have
reached Black Pass,

Satanga will return

and release your men.

If I say no?

Many of our people are hidden.

You are alone.

So you cannot say no.

Through the patrols
to Black Pass...

That's all?

You have my word...

if you keep yours.

I have not decided
who will wear it.

If I wasn't here,
and they aren't who they are,

I'd swear
it was an Irish wake.

Same thing.

Death chant
for a chief.

Well, the army's wasting
money chasing him.

He's gonna die anyway.

Well, you'd better
all make sure he doesn't.

He's gotta reach Black Pass

as far as Rowdy and Pete
are concerned.

Put him in the squire wagon.

Mushy, fix a bed.

Go.

Satanga.

Where you go, I go.

It has always been so.

It is best this way.

All right,
let's flip those saddles,

I wanna be in Black Pass
in three days.

Come on,
let's get moving.

Mr. Favor!

I don't wanna be part of this,
Mr. Favor.

I know you don't want
your two men killed,

but I don't wanna be killed
because of them.

I want my pay.

You got any other reason
but the cards, Gypsy?

I got a right to it.

All right, you'll get it.

After White Eyes leaves.

I can't take a chance on you
spoiling things, can I?

And after all your hoodoo talk,

you'd just have to tell
somebody, wouldn't you?

All right,
you can keep my pay.

I don't want it.

Gypsy. Gypsy!

Bailey, hold up!

Whoa, boy.

Look, uh, one of my men
took off because of you.

He's kind of superstitious
and he might talk.

Talk might get back
to the army.

You sent him.

You should have stopped him.

Shot him if you had to.

We're doing everything we can
to protect you,

but we're not gonna
kill to do it.

Now, he was that scared,

he might get clean
out of the country

without the cavalry
finding out.

Two of your men will die
if the troops come.

Look, you're part white.

Can't you understand
part of our side?

I am all white.

And there are two more

with the same blood
in their veins,

a brother, a sister.

It is those two
who must bury me

and proclaim me white.

Well, we both hope you make it.

We'll do everything we can,

but we can't figure on
the cavalry not coming back.

I'll send Wishbone over
to cut your hair.

Bring you some
drover's clothes.

Tikana will not see
another sunrise.

He will not see
another sunset.

Who's Tikana?

My brother.

Well, all things considered,

I'm sorry about your brother.

A white man is sorry
that an Indian is dead?

I admit it.

The spirit of my dead brother
thanks you.

Anko.

Why are you here?

It is time for them to die.

They must be left alive

so that Tatain
may travel safely north.

Tatain himself is about to die.

He is still your chief.

He was my chief
when he rode before us.

When he led us in battle.

You speak like this
to a woman?

I would speak this way
to Tatain himself.

Then you will wait for him
to come back.

We both know
he will not come back.

He will come back.

Then you will speak to him
the way you spoke to me.

You will eat.

No.

Thanks, though.

Do not thank me.

When I remember what your
people did to Tatain,

how they hung chains on him,

made him sick
and old before his time.

I could kill you myself.

It wasn't us that
did that to him.

One rattlesnake is not like
another rattlesnake

yet both carry death
in their fangs.

You have a god.

Then pray to him.

Pray to him that Tatain
reaches his destination.

Alive.

No, thanks.
Don't want any.

First sign of life
we've seen in days.

Yeah, he's riding up
from the south.

Yeah, that's kind of funny.

I want him.

The rider on flats,

Cal Stone wants him.

Split up here.

Stay where you are.

I ain't done nothing.

Ain't nobody
said you did.

Then why are you
shooting at me?

Cal Stone
wants to see you.

Who's he?
You ask him.

I ain't got no time,
I'm headin' for town.

Mister, you got
plenty of time.

You was riding all alone
in an Indian territory.

What makes you so brave?

I ain't brave.

I was just heading
for the nearest town.

I ain't interested
in where you're heading for.

Where you heading from?

I told you.
I left a trail drive.

You up and quit a trail drive

in the middle
of Kiawah country?

Yeah.

Why?

Me and the trail boss,
we didn't get along.

You and me
ain't getting along either.

Look, what do you
want from me?

Try the truth.

I'm looking for a Kiawah.

A Kiawah chief.

Look, all right,
all right.

There's two Kiawahs
riding with the herd.

Hear any names?

Only one of 'em.

White Eyes.

Why would White Eyes
be riding with a herd?

He's trying to avoid
the cavalry patrol.

And you left the drive
to find the cavalry?

I was afraid.

It's in the fortune
telling cards.

What's in what
fortune telling cards?

Death.

Murph, get back to the ranch,
bring Jenny.

Bring her where?

Where's the herd now?

About two hours
ride from here.

Which way are they headed?

Due north.

Herd can't travel
more than eight miles a day.

You won't have
any trouble to find us.

Well, where will you be?

Close to the herd
as we can get.

We'll be watching for you.

Cal, you sure you want
your wife around?

She's got a right to see
what happens to White Eyes.

More than anybody else
in the world,

she's got a right.

Give him his gun.

Jenny, we don't have
to wait no longer.

Why did you send for me?

White Eyes ain't more
than a stone's throw from here.

White Eyes?

He's with that trail drive.

Couldn't get to him
in that prison,

couldn't get to him
on that reservation,

but I can get to him now.

But I don't want
to see him at all.

l-I don't want to be there.

I want him to see you.

What good will his seein' me do?

It'll remind him of what
he done to your pa.

He'll remember you.

Especially I want him
to remember you.

I never asked you to find him.

You're acting like
you're sorry I done it.

I am.

But Jenny,
I done it 'cause I love you.

You're doing it because
you're filled with hate.

You've always
been filled with hate.

White Eyes is just an excuse.

It wasn't hate
made me marry you

when no other man would.

Did you want a reward
for marrying me?

I love you, Jenny,

and I shouldn't have said
what I did,

but that don't make no
difference with White Eyes.

He's gonna die,
and you're gonna be there.

They're making camp.
Good. Let's go.

Mr. Stone,
I don't want to go back.

You're goin'.

I told you about White Eyes.
I even brought you to the herd.

That's right, and now
you're going back with us.

No.

Suit yourself.

But if he tries to stay behind,

blow him right out
of that saddle.

Mr. Favor.

Yeah.

You'd better bring
in some of the boys.

Yes, sir.

Keep your heads down.

My name's Stone.
You the trail boss?

Name's Favor.

I understand you got a couple
of Kiowas riding with you.

Do you see any,
Mr. Stone?

You. Come here.

You know this man?

I know him.

Says you're hiding
a couple of Kiowahs.

I didn't want to tell him,
Mr. Favor.

Tell him what?

Well, you got no right
hiding White Eyes anyway.

If I was hiding White Eyes,
I'd be the judge

of whether it was right
or wrong, wouldn't I?

I don't care why
you're doing it,

all I want is White Eyes.

Well, you're a long time
answering.

What makes you think
I'm gonna answer at all?

Where are they hiding?

Supply wagon.

All right. Drag 'em out.

We keep supplies
in the supply wagon.

Got any objection
to my finding out

if that's all you keep
in the supply wagon?

Plenty of objection.

You'd put up a fight
to save an animal

that swears he'd kill
every white he sees?

I'll put up a fight
to stay boss of this outfit.

Jenny.

Yes.

Come here.

Jenny's my wife,
Mr. Favor.

Ma'am.

You're not gonna shame me
before strangers, are you?

I've got to show them what kind
of a man they're hiding.

You promised that nobody
would ever look at me.

Turn your face, Jenny.

Look.

Go on. Take a good look.

Well?

Ma'am.

Did White Eyes do that?

Tell him.

He was one of them.

Now, where is he?

I'm sorry for you wife,
Mr. Stone.

Is that all you've got to say
after what you've just seen?

You'd better leave now,
Mr. Stone, you and your men.

Good thing about a man
driving a herd:

you can't hide 3,000 steers.

I'll be back.

She could have been
a real pretty woman.

You know who
that woman is?

I saw her face.

It'd be a hard face
to forget.

Yes.

Is that all you've
got to say about her?

Yes.

You're gonna send your man here
back to your war party,

with orders to return
with Rowdy and Pete to the herd.

So that you can turn me over
to the Cavalry

without fear of what will happen
to your men.

If I didn't turn
you over to them,

you don't have to worry about
being turned over to anyone

until you get to Black Pass.

Satanga.

Can we trust him, Tatain?

Do as he says.

If you betray my chief...

It's gonna take Stone and his
men a day's hard riding

to get to Fort Scott.
Figure another day to get back.

That's the time you got.
You'd better use it well.

Now, get a horse
from the remuda.

He is my blood brother.

A good man.

Yeah.

But at what?

Free the white men.

The great herd could not have
reached the Black Pass so soon.

It has not.

The why do we free
the white men?

Tatain has ordered it.

Why does he order us
to free the hostages?

The chief of the great herd
gave his word.

Do we hold
the white man's word sacred?

Your orders come from Tatain,
not the white man.

If Tatain had ordered us
to fight,

I would fight.

If he sent orders
to burn the white men,

I would burn them.

Those are a chief's orders.

The orders he was bringing
were not a chief's orders.

From this day,

I am chief.

From this day,
we are men,

not frightened dogs.

I hope you're right,
Mr. Stone.

You know, you're making
a very serious accusation

against the trail boss
and his men.

I know I'm right.
This drover saw White Eyes

join up with the herd.
My wife can identify him.

Lieutenant,

if you capture White Eyes,

two men, two white men,
they'll die.

I have no choice, ma'am.

Well, I've got one,
and I ain't going back.

There's death in the cards,
and it ain't gonna be me.

Don't be a fool.

Look,
I've faced them once,

but I ain't gonna
face it again.

Stop that man!

Fire over his head.

The fall broke his neck.

It's taking too long.

Satanga is dead.

He was killed by Anko.

What about my men?

The were alive
when I left the camp.

He has made himself
the new chief.

He is going to lead them
against the whites.

He plans to get all
the other tribes together.

I'm taking you
back to Fort Scott.

You will accomplish nothing

by giving a dying man
to the Cavalry.

They cannot save your men.

Then who can?

Mr. Favor.

Paibada, go.

I'm not gonna have
to take you to Fort Scott.

You asked who could
save your men.

I can.

I took your word once.

You couldn't
help yourself then.

Can you help
yourself now?

What about your heading north?

Not any longer.

There are more important things.

I must go back to my people.

Just to save my men?

To save mine.

All right.
I'll go along with you.

I'm sticking with the stories
that White Eyes isn't with us.

You men will have to decide what
you want to do for yourselves.

Get rid of that Indian rig
on that pony.

Get back here.

Hold it.

Mr. Favor, according
to information received,

I have reason to believe
you are harboring a fugitive.

The penalty is five years
for every man involved.

I'd be the only one responsible
if there was a fugitive here.

You turn him over to me
and I won't press charges.

I said if there was a fugitive.

Any objection to our
searching your outfit?

You ought to start
with the supply wagon.

Dismount!

You two search
the supply wagon.

He was there. They must have
hid him somewhere else.

We're going through
your entire outfit.

We're breaking noon camp
in half an hour.

You've got half an hour.

Are these all the men
you've got?

Rest are riding the herd.

We'll start with these.
Have your men line up.

You heard what
the lieutenant said.

I want Mrs. Stone with me.

Come on.

Are you sure you could
recognize White Eyes

if you saw him again, ma'am?

Will you look over
these men, please?

Cal?

Lieutenant, I saw all the men.

None of them is White Eyes.

Are you sure?

I'm sure.

Well, it looks like there's
no Indians here, Mr. Stone.

Then maybe I was wrong.

All right if we go back to work?

I'm not apologizing
for wasting any of your time.

I didn't expect any, lieutenant.

Goodbye, Mr. Favor.
Lieutenant.

Now we'll ride out
and check the other drovers.

Prepare to mount.

Mount!

Murphy, take my horse.
I'm riding the buggy.

How come she didn't
point you out?

Perhaps she didn't remember.

Yeah.

Let's get going.

I seen you knew him.

I've known you a long while,
Jenny, you can't fool me.

Then why didn't you
tell the lieutenant?

When you didn't identify him,
I knew there had to be a reason.

A good reason.

Cal.

You don't never have
to tell me about White Eyes

if you don't want to.

Oh... Oh, now I want to.

I was too ashamed before.

Pa and some other men got drunk.

Pa had to show
the big man he was.

They raided White Eyes' village
without any reason at all.

The braves were away,

so they killed women
and children.

Jenny, don't...

No, l...
I have to finish, Cal.

White Eyes returned
and there was a fight.

The house we were
in caught on fire.

It was White Eyes who pulled me
out of that burning house.

Paibada.

You be needing some rest.

He has been sick
a long time.

Take this.

It will help you
speak to my people.

Wear it.

They will listen.

They must not travel
the path to war.

That path for them
is coming to an end,

just as my path
is coming to an end.

It has been good.

All good.

Take me back to my people.

Up north?

The Kiowahs.

Tatain.

You killed Tatain.

You were a fool
to bring him here.

I did not kill him.

Tatain gave me this
before he died.

He wanted me
to speak to you.

The Kiowahs listen
only to their chief.

I am speaking for him.

Because you wear the medallion
around your neck?

If a woman wore the medallion
around her neck,

would she then
be a Kiowah chief?

Is it that you are afraid
of his words?

Among the Kiowahs,

a man must win
the right to speak.

Tatain said to free my men.

Cut them loose.

Tatain said the old days
are over.

He wanted you to return
to the reservation,

to live in peace.

He died trying to bring you
these words.

They're good words.

Hold this until your people
select a new chief.

How do you feel?

Well, a lot better than I did,
I'll tell you.

Yeah.

So do I.

They're going back,
looks like.

Head 'em up!

Move 'em out!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Rollin', rolli"
Rollin'

Keep rollin', rollin'
Rollin'

Though the streams
Are swollen

Keep them dogies rollin'

Rawhide

Through rain and wind
And weather

Hell-bent for leather

Wishin' my gal
Was by my side

All the things I'm missin'

Good vittles
Love and kissin'

Are waiting at the end
Of my ride

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Head 'em up, move 'em on

Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rawhide

Let 'em out, ride 'em in
Ride 'em in, let 'em out

Cut 'em out
Ride 'em in

Rawhide!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Hyah!

Hyah!

Rawhide!

Hyah!

Hyah!

Rollin', rollin', rollin'