The Rebel (1959–1961): Season 2, Episode 8 - The Hunted - full transcript

Hold it!

Carl?

Are we gonna have to kill him?

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ And Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

How do you call yourself, Mister?

The name's Yuma, Johnny Yuma,

don't point a gun at a man unless you're ready to use it.



I'm considering.

There's already one dead man up on the trail

killed with a Sharps 50, who was he?

- Cousin of ours.
- Carl had to shoot him

when he tried to ambush us.

More relatives?

Yeah.

An uncle, and another cousin.

Family feud, huh?

You might put it that way.

I'm Carl Blaine, my brother, Davy.

I'm a might edgy.

So I've noticed.

What's it all about?



Personal matters, Mr. Yuma, so why don't you push on

and tend to your own trouble?

Don't you boys want any help?

We Blaines hoe our own corn.

We don't hold for any outside help.

Well, then I'd be glad to push you on

except for one thing.

What's that?

There's one waterhole within 50 miles

and if I'm not mistaken, it's right up there

in that draw with your kinfolk sitting right on top of it.

You lean on water?

Yeah, almost dry.

I might make it to the next waterhole,

but my horse wouldn't, and I don't want to lose him.

Any objections if I try to talk your uncle

into letting me water up?

Not if that's all you do.

As for me and Davy, you don't scratch us,

we don't try to bite you.

Mr. Yuma, I can't speak for Uncle Luce.

Pa?

I swear I saw three of them.

You sure, now, you ain't just seeing things again?

Well, I think I saw another head.

The sun's getting to you, boy.

Pa, how long you think they're gonna last out there?

Well, they're Blaines, Web, they're gonna die hard.

Especially that hard-nose Carl.

I don't know, another day like this, maybe two.

Well, I'd feel just a whole lot happier

if I could shoot them in the back.

We got the water, they got the sun.

I sure hope you know what we're doing, Pa.

We just sit here and wait

til they get thirsty enough to come on in.

Well, what if one of them decides to ride back for water?

That's the beauty of it, boy.

They've been out here too long without water,

they'd never make it, and they know it.

Well.

I still feel like to go for sitting in a shallow hole.

By ding, Web, your courage matches your good looks.

Well, thank you, Pa.

Hey!

Hey, there!

- I told you, Pa!
- Sh!

Can you hear me?

Who are you and what do you want?

A stranger, just passing by.

I need water bad for me and my horse.

Look, Mister, I got no stake in your family feud.

You let me water up, I'll be on my way.

Pa, you think he might be alone, then?

Nah, if he was, he'd have been spouting off

about it before now.

What do you say?

All right, Mister, we got water to spare.

You get your horse, and come on in, hands high.

If you don't mind, I'll just toss in my canteens.

You fill them up, throw them back, I'll be on my way.

Smart mustang, ain't he?

Maybe they told him about the money,

and that's why he throwed in.

We'd best forget about the horse.

Pull this gent's strings.

All right, Son, anything to oblige.

Throw them canteens.

Bullseye, Son.

I'll throw another in when I get that one back.

This water's kind of thick, Son, but it's wet.

- You all fixed?
- Just about.

Mind, don't throw it too far.

Listen, you, that's the second time I've been shot at,

and I don't like it one bit.

Now, give me the whole story, quick and true.

If this was just another family feud,

they wouldn't be shooting at me.

Well, Mr. Yuma, Davy and me figured to take them in

- and see them hang.
- What for?

Robbing a bank, killing a cashier.

You own the bank?

They talked Pa and my brother, George,

into going with them.

Posse caught them in an old ranch house.

My pa and George were shooting up the front,

Uncle Luce and his boys took all the horses

and rode out the back.

He left Pa and George to, to slow down the posse.

Both killed?

Yep.

Good or bad, Pa never did nothing halfway.

Sorry, Carl.

Took Davy and me 10 days to track them down.

So you chased and chased until they finally caught you.

They got no horses.

We got them boxed.

They got the water.

And a natural fort.

You either die of thirst or go up there and get shot.

Your uncle doesn't want to watch his back trail

the rest of his life, he'll settle with you right here.

Judging from that

canteen trick, he intends to see all three of us dead.

Well, at least you got another gun on your side,

that helps a little.

Mr. Yuma.

We Blaines ain't never been rich in much except pride.

Now, you go ahead with whatsoever you're inclined,

but me and Davy fight our own fights.

I was just looking at it, Pa.

You want to look, you ask me can you do it.

Man your age should show some respect for his daddy.

Hey, now.

Carl!

- Easy.
- I almost had a bead on Web.

Hardly more than a chigger bite, Davy, come on.

You didn't stay down the way I showed you.

A man keeps down the way he should,

there ain't no place he could get hit except in the head.

Well, the next time, he'll know better.

That's right.

Keep that pebble in your mouth, Davy.

You'll draw saliva.

You mean you boys don't have any water at all?

Told you to stay down, boy.

Go ahead, Davy.

No, you'll be needing that for yourself.

How long you lived this side of the Missouri?

Four years.

Well, you don't learn very fast, do you?

This country, a man shares his water.

That is, all except those like your uncle Luce.

We hold our own habits.

I got some salve in my saddlebag.

Go ahead, Davy, your brother'll never know.

Thanks, Mr. Yuma.

It's good.

Here, let some of it soak in your mouth a minute.

You leave Davy out there alone?

Not for long.

I got a burst cartridge.

You expect too much from that boy.

Maybe.

Where you from originally?

You know, some people claim answering a question

kills quicker than a rattlesnake bite.

But I've never seen it hurt a healthy man.

Well, we used to live in upcountry Tennessee.

Long ridge country?

Yeah.

I've been to that section twice, during the war.

That's hard, rocky land up there.

Yeah, my pa used to tell me, he'd say,

these pine hills got one bumper crop, that's misery.

Yeah, I recall how hard it was to get provisions.

A man couldn't give us a loaf of bread

without depriving his whole family.

That's long ridge country for you.

Pa, they gonna ricochet a piece of lead

into one of us yet.

That was Davy's Winchester again.

How long since we heard that Sharps?

Why, what're you thinking?

Well, I'm thinking Davy may be out here

temporary by his self.

Out here, it's a little different from Tennessee.

Better land, a man can grow more than he needs,

take pleasure in giving some away.

Yeah, I notice people act different out here.

These people have another kind of fight.

One year, a man gets burned out by Indians,

next year, another neighbor loses his stock in a blizzard,

and another neighbor gets wiped out by grass fire.

That's what happened to us, grass fire.

That thing came along, wiped our place out.

We was lucky to get out.

Neighbors offer to help you rebuild?

No, Pa wouldn't let them.

That wasn't charity, they wanted you back on your feet,

in case they needed your help the next year.

Pa never did hold with exchanging favors like that.

Tell you the truth, Mr. Yuma,

I don't know if we Blaines know how.

Pa, you ought not to go out there.

You're gonna get yourself killed.

I don't intend to get scalped by no shirttail kid.

If I figured to get killed, I'd send you instead of me.

Send you instead of me?

Send you instead of me.

Carl!

Davy.

They've got Davy.

Now take him back here and tie him up.

If they start shooting, why, you kill him

and then come out here and help your poor old daddy.

- Well, Cousin Davy.
- Carl's gonna kill you

for this.

Don't you shoot your cousin til I tell you.

Go on, Davy, get.

Go on, get, go on, Davy, get, get.

Nephew!

You awake down there?

Let's see what he has to say.

I shouldn't have left him alone.

Easy, Carl, that's what they want.

Let's wait, see what they offer.

All right, go on, speak your peace.

You got a good hold on that shirttail, Apache?

For the time being.

Now, what's your offer?

I'm gonna let Davy here make up a short prayer.

If you two don't come up here clutching clouds,

he ain't gonna get to say amen.

I didn't expect it to be like this.

Well, you got him into this, now what do you intend to do?

I don't know.

Well, I intend to do something.

And so help me, if you say we Blaines take care of ourself,

you'll be spitting parts of that sentence out for a week.

Mr. Yuma, if you get Davy out,

as God sees what I'm saying, I'll be eternal grateful.

We'll see what we can do.

Time's half up!

If you do like he said, he'll kill you.

Yeah, don't remind me.

Mr. Yuma, I don't mean this like I said it before,

but this really ain't your fight.

Well, we'll talk about that later.

Now, listen, while they're watching me,

you get as close as you can.

Your uncle will be covered, but you can hear his voice.

When you get him spotted, try to get a shot

as close as you can to him.

What are you gonna do?

You just remember, you stay here until I call you.

All right, don't shoot, I'm coming up!

Well, if it ain't the thirsty and strategizing stranger.

Where's my affectionate nephew?

I don't know, I tried to persuade him to come up here.

He said he'd think about it.

He seemed to think that you'd kill all three of us.

What do you think I'm gonna do?

Well, just take our horses and leave us out here on foot.

I'll be hanged you ain't as smart

as I thought you was.

That Carl's a bloodthirsty devil for a kid.

Hey, though, trying to kill his own godfather,

I don't know about these young'uns nowadays.

You're his godfather?

Yeah, folks always said he took after me

more than he did his own pa.

He's a mean one all right.

Wished I'd had one like him instead of what I got.

That's a lot of gun the boy carries.

Yeah, that Sharps will take a 12-pound steak

out a buffalo at 500 yards.

Don't look like he's coming up, does it?

Blow quite a hole in a man, that Sharps.

Don't I know it.

I give it to him when my wrist give out.

Two things I done, I regret.

One of them is giving Carl that old Sharps,

and t'other one is teaching him how to shoot it.

Ah.

There's no point in waiting.

Don't try it, don't even think it!

Pa, what do you want me to do?

You just keep that gun on Davy

til I see what this man has to offer.

One offer, your hide for Davy's

and two canteens of water.

Water, too, huh?

Ah, you ain't gonna let us kill this kid.

Davy, water, and the bank money.

Mister, there's two things makes me brave,

whisky and money.

You gonna have to cut me down with that thing

to get them greenbacks.

Ha, tell you what I'll do.

I'll make a deal with you, I'll split it down the middle.

Davy, water, and half the money.

It's a deal.

You heard what he said, get moving.

Mr. Yuma!

- What's going on up there?
- Stay there, Carl!

Davy and me are coming down.

If you see a gun flash, fire at it.

You know, boy, I ain't violent by nature,

but that's one man I'm gonna enjoy killing.

Here they come.

Hold it!

Pa!

No, Carl.

Not in cold blood, let the law do it.

I'm grateful to you, boy.

Thank you!

Mr. Yuma?

We figured after the three of us took back that money,

you might like to drop by our place,

meet our older sister, Vera.

Yeah, she ain't married, you know,

and by gosh, a man would have to ride an awful piece

before he found a girl who could ride

and shoot like Vera does, she's almost a man.

Well, first we'll get the money back

and then we'll see about meeting your family.

Now, that's a smart decision, Mr. Yuma.

We don't think Vera'll last long

once we open up friendly-like to the neighbors.

Well, you're not thinking to start another family feud?

Oh, no, Mr. Yuma, we're the most hospitable family.

No, we're gonna be one of the friendliest families.

It was only Uncle Luce, you know.

We'd never turn anyone away, no need to know you,

we're gonna give, just give you anything

in the world.

♪ Johnny Yuma was a rebel ♪

♪ He roamed through the West ♪

♪ And Johnny Yuma, the Rebel ♪

♪ He wandered alone ♪

♪ He got fighting mad ♪

♪ This rebel lad ♪

♪ He packed no star as he wandered far ♪

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

♪ The Rebel, Johnny Yuma ♪

♪ He searched the land this restless lad ♪

♪ He was panther quick and leather tough ♪

♪ Cause he figured that he had been pushed enough ♪

♪ The Rebel ♪

♪ Johnny Yuma ♪

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Bill Todman production.