The Rebel (1959–1961): Season 1, Episode 6 - The Scavengers - full transcript

Now tell me I'm hearing things.

Put the gun away, Cabe.

Never thought to see white men in these parts,

did you, soldier boy?

No, I didn't.

It's right cold, come on over by the fire.

Thanks.

Move over, old man.

I was moving.

Come on, sit over here.

Thanks, I'm fine here.



Like to keep backed up to your horse, don't ya?

Old army habit.

So young, no trust in your fellow man.

You're safe here.

Just as safe as if you was in the bosom of your own family.

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ And Johnny Yuma the rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

This my nephew Cabe.

What's your name, boy?

Yuma.

Johnny Yuma.



My name's Suee.

My ma was a full-blood Sioux princess.

That makes me part prince.

We're gonna freeze sticking to this rock.

Cold sure does get to Cabe.

Poor boy ain't got no coat.

Say, that's a mighty fine coat you got there, Johnny.

I guess you're mighty proud of that coat, ain't ya, Johnny.

Keeps the chill out.

Don't look like much, but that's man, over there.

His hand got caught up in a wasp nest.

Looked just like a honeycomb.

I told him 'twas a wasp, but he sent him in anyways.

That's right.

But he doesn't listen good to you, does he, old man?

Just his Uncle Suee.

Uncle Suee.

My hands is swelling up.

Can you please do something?

Oh, they'll be all right in two, three days.

Naw, I heard a man dying from wasp.

They put a poison in ya.

I can feel it in me, Uncle Suee,

I got a poison inside me.

Why don't you let the, why don't you let those women

Shut up, Ezel.

What women's he talking about?

You're not hanging on to this rock

freezing to death for nothing.

What do you got staked out down in that valley?

Ain't nothing down in that valley.

He's out of his head.

He's a mighty sick boy.

Too sick to be counted as one of us,

if you're considering odds, I mean.

Odds?

You heard him, odds.

Three to one.

No matter which way you wanna cut it.

Now, uh, first, to start off with,

you're gonna give us your coat.

You're gonna give it to us nice and quiet,

ain't ya, soldier boy?

That gun says I am.

Don't get between me and my horse, Cabe.

You givin' me orders?

Suee's got you covered,

you ain't giving me no orders.

I said don't get between me and my horse.

Suee?

You're covered, Cabe.

Now, you come through the war real fine,

soldier boy, it'd be plum foolish.

How could you know?

You couldn't know.

Cabe went for my saddle gun instead of my coat.

He's awful cold.

Only one reason to go for that saddle first.

You haven't got any bullets.

I hope you didn't take us wrong, boy.

We wouldn't hurt ya.

All we wanted was your coat.

Hey, where you going?

You ain't gonna leave us.

I ain't?

You can't leave us, boy, we got no food,

no shot to hunt game with, we'll starve, boy, you know it.

Could you use these shells to hunt game with?

You know it, boy.

Hold it.

You can't hunt game til morning.

The pouch stays where it is til then, right, Suee?

Any way you want it, boy.

It's just the way I want it.

You want that coat, you better get a move on.

Suee, no!

You did a fine thing.

Well, load up, fool.

Empty shells.

That's right, Suee, empty.

You hadn't'a showed your hand,

I was coming back with some live ones.

But you showed it.

You showed it good.

I'm gonna kill you!

You hear me?

I'm gonna kill you, boy!

I'm gonna kill you Sioux-style.

Suee, we gotta try and make it outta here.

We're staying.

But, but you don't feel this cold like I do.

And more of this snow tomorrow.

Tomorrow we'll be down that valley,

with full stomachs and women to keep us warm.

There, there, Jeannie girl.

It's all right.

Not one word.

In all of these hours, not one word.

Ah, she'll be all right, Kate.

She took a bad fright, is all.

Nothing more?

I want the truth, Tom.

Kate, lassie, I told you.

I was on them directly with my rifle

as soon as she started to scream.

The two youngsters were on the ground fighting,

and her running towards me.

And we were lucky to make the house at all.

Fighting like animals.

Over her.

Kate, the girl is safe.

At least as safe as any of us,

with their voices still on the night

and the smell of their fire.

Hello?

Down, Kate!

Hello in there!

Look full before you shoot.

I want you to let me in.

I'll hand my guns in to you, stock first.

All right, stock first.

Move around to the door.

Cover me and the window.

See that he brings no one with him.

All right, let me hear both palms

slap up against that front door.

Keep your hands above your head, and keep walking.

You one of them?

From up there?

I came on them by chance.

They tried to jump me.

One to four?

They've no bullets.

Oh?

Well, this arm says that you're lying.

Their last bullet.

I'm grateful to ya.

If not there, it'd be through my coat.

And she can't take another hole, even a small one.

Well, I hope the girl can travel.

I don't want to alarm your women, Tom, but

But you said those men were unarmed.

Which gives you a chance.

A prayer, maybe, of leaving here alive.

I know their kind from the war.

Scavengers, we call them.

Wolves.

Feeding off other men.

Live men, dead men, it makes no difference to them.

Ho in there!

Don't shoot!

Just wanna have a talk!

You hear me in there?

Just wanna have a little talk.

We hear ya, Suee.

Talk.

Oh, that's you, Johnny?

It's me.

These folks know you're unarmed, so don't try anything.

We're trying to make our way back where we come from,

trying to head back west.

Just one thing, Johnny.

Yeah?

You know the boy.

You know how sick he is.

I'm not asking for anything for myself,

but, well, would you ask those good Christian folks

if they'd take him in, would you do that, Johnny?

I'm asking them nothing, Suee.

Now wait, Johnny.

The boy is sick?

Wasps.

His hands are pretty bad.

Well, it's not much they're asking.

You never heard a word I said, did you?

I heard you, Johnny.

All right, Suee.

Leave the boy in the yard.

When you're far enough away, we'll come out and get him.

Much obliged to ya.

Real kind of ya.

Easy.

He's in bad pain, Ma'am.

I won't so much as touch him.

Kate, be reasonable.

You've got to listen to me.

Bringing him out in the front room,

after you know what he tried to do to Jeannie!

Let's not get panicky now.

Since he's here already, let's fix him up

and take our chances.

I tell you, I won't touch him.

Now, Kate, you know we couldn't

leave him there to die.

He tried, he would've killed her if he had the chance.

Did you ever think what might happen

if she sees them two boys again?

My child!

My child!

His hands are swollen,

I've got to cut away these bindings.

She's lost her mind, I told you, her mind!

No, Mama, he's my friend.

He stopped the other one.

And now he needs help just like I did.

She's all right, Kate, lass.

We'll do the best we can, Jeannie.

Johnny, cut the bindings on his hands,

and Jeannie and I will make a poultice

to take down the swelling for you.

Suee's had time to get back off that ridge.

You better keep watch.

You do believe her, don't you?

It was Cabe.

I never would've done that.

We believe her.

I, I heard her in there,

she said she wouldn't even touch me.

But I think she'd've helped me no matter what I'd done.

She's just like my ma was.

Sir, you know, you know I wouldn't have

hurt your girl, don't you?

Aye, laddie, I know.

Your ma dead, Ezel?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Third winter we was homesteadin',

she got the flu and she died.

That old man out there just seemed to die with her.

Never no good after.

That old man out there's your pa?

I don't claim him no more.

You sure don't.

He was no good after she died.

He wouldn't do nothing, he just let the farm rot.

If it hadn't been for Suee coming along we'd all be dead.

He showed us how you gotta be to live.

And you're aiming to be just like him.

I am like him.

Not yet.

You still couldn't hurt that girl.

You two look worse than he does.

Now go on in the kitchen and sleep a bit.

One of us should stay and watch.

We gotta be up with the boy anyway.

Jeannie, go take the rifle from Johnny.

Aye, she'll make a better lookout than either of us,

the way we are right now.

I'll wake you when I'm done.

Jeannie, hand me that pouch of bullets.

Now, this is gonna hurt a bit,

but you put this between your teeth.

Hold tight.

He near bit clean through.

Now, the swelling's gonna go down,

and you're gonna feel fine.

Off to bed with you, Jeannie girl.

Yes, ma'am.

Goodnight, Ezel.

Goodnight.

Well, it's going away.

What, boy?

The pain, it's almost gone now.

That's good.

Now, you go to sleep now.

Yes, ma'am.

Goodnight.

Ezel threw us all off.

The wolf cub was just biding his time.

We'll burn the cabin first.

Your cloth will nae warm them.

Burn everything?

Aye, we'll divert their attention.

We'll make out, won't we, Johnny?

I'm not much good at bonfires, Tom.

I'm gonna do it my way.

But Johnny, they'll kill you.

You said so yourself.

I know what I said.

There's just one thing.

Aye.

There's shooting directly I get up there,

you folks clear outta here, fast.

And once you're safe, I'd like to ask you a favor.

I'm leaving something in my saddle bag here

to be mailed to Mr. Elmer Dodson in Mason City.

Something dear to you, Johnny?

A promise to an old friend, ma'am.

A sort of journal.

A lot of questions about things in life

that don't make sense.

A lot of questions and hardly any answers.

Looks like Ezel didn't want us back.

Like he didn't want to share that little gal.

He never was too much of a brother.

We ain't got no cause against those people.

Do we, Pa?

No, son, we ain't.

You've got no say in this, old man.

Maybe I do, Suee.

If my son thinks I do, maybe I do.

Now just a minute, you listen to me.

We got one cause.

Us.

Forget that once, and you're dirt again,

like you was before.

Suee.

Suee, I've come to kill ya.

You?

All by yourself?

Yep.

Having trouble, aren't ya?

Mm-mm, not a bit of it.

When you gotta convince them you're a big man,

I call that trouble.

They know I'm a big man.

Because you say so.

Because I am.

That's what I aim to find out.

With a draw.

I'm a top gun.

You can't outdraw me.

That's what you say, Suee.

But you don't know how fast I am until I draw.

Then it's too late.

For one of us.

You set?

Johnny, this ain't no fight of yours.

It's them folks down there.

Your kind made it mind.

You wanna know what?

You're out of your head.

I can't kill no man what's out of his head.

Now you better get on down that hill

before I have to kill you.

You're scared, Suee.

You're a liar.

Then stop talking and draw.

You hear him, Cabe?

He's out of his head.

Yeah, yeah, I hear him, Suee.

Well go on, shoot him, Cabe, shoot him!

Shoot him down now, now!

But you're a top gun, Suee.

Naw, you don't need nobody.

You're yellow.

All of ya.

You're yellow.

And I'm gonna show you that I ain't no coward.

I'm gonna kill you, boy.

Make your move.

I killed me lots of men just like this,

face to face, and I'm gonna

No.

No, no, please.

Don't, please, please, boy.

I'm on my knees to ya, don't kill me, please.

I ain't a young man no more, now please!

Please don't kill me.

Get your things, Cabe.

You're moving on now.

I'm still cold, Suee.

I'll have that coat now.

Sure, sure, Cabe.

Take me along, will ya?

You can come along.

You can come along with me.

I won't be no trouble to ya.

You and me'll get along just fine.

I can be lots of help to ya.

You talk too much.

So now why don't you just shut up, old man?

Goodbye, son.

You aim to go with 'em, Ezel?

Well, I dunno.

After what I done, I don't reckon

I think they'll take you in.

My pa knows a lot about farming.

Him too.

You two go tell those folks it's all over.

I'll watch that they keep going.

Are you coming down soon?

In a while.

Just to get my gear and some hot breakfast.

And tell those women I'm hungry.

Sure thing, Johnny.

Hungry as a wolf.

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ And Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ He got fightin' mad, this rebel lad ♪

♪ He packed no star as he wandered far ♪

♪ Where the only law was a hook and a draw ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪
♪ Away ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪
♪ Away rode the Rebel ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ And Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ He searched the land, this restless lad ♪

♪ He was panther quick and leather tough ♪

♪ 'Cause he figured that he'd been pushed enough ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪
♪ Away ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪
♪ Away rode the Rebel ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

♪ John Yuma ♪