"♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYING) ♪" "Mannix s8e10 Desert Sun" "(FISTS THUDDING)" "(MAN GRUNTING)" "(GRUNTING)" "Now, come on, Fred." "Where's the money?" "Where'd you hide it?" "(BLOWS LANDING)" "This is your last chance, Indian." "Where's the money?" "Or do you think it's worth dying for?" "(GROANS)" "Come on, Fred." "Where's the money?" "(SIGHS)" "Where did you hide the money, Fred?" "Where?" "!" "WOMAN:" "Fred?" "Fred?" "Let's get out of here." "Fred?" "(COUGHING)" "(GASPS)" "Oh!" "Oh, my God." "(PANTING)" "Fred?" "(FRED GROANS)" "Fred... who did this to you?" "Osterman... and Cousins." "I'll get a doctor!" "Be fine for you, Sis." "What Fred?" "Be fine for you, Sis." "Be fine for you." "(GROANS) Oh." "Fred?" "(CRYING):" "Oh, Fred!" "(CRYING)" "(PEGGY SIGHS)" "That letter is here somewhere." "Well, if you'd let me straighten up your desk..." "Yeah, then I'd never find anything." "There it is." "(PHONE RINGING)" "Mr. Mannix's office." "Just a moment, please." "Do you know a Harry White Eagle?" "He on the phone?" "Yeah." "Harry, you old teepee hustler, how are you?" "Well, that sounds serious." "What's it all about?" "Why sure, Harry." "I'll catch a plane first thing in the morning." "Who is he, Joe?" "An old Army buddy of mine from Korea." "Never heard him that uptight." "Not even when we were trapped in an ambush." "Peggy, uh, get me a plane ticket for Albuquerque." "Right." "First thing in the morning?" "MANNIX:" "No." "No, make it today." "(DOOR BELL CHIMES)" "Hi." "I'd like a room." "This is your lucky day." "Hmm?" "How come?" "Fellow from Tucson just pulled out." "First vacancy all week." "What have you got, a rodeo or a convention or something?" "No, more like a gold rush." "Guys who knocked off the bank up in San Bruno... their plane crashed south of here." "Hmm." "Whole county's out looking for them and a half-million bucks." "Hey, you know a fellow named Harry White Eagle?" "Harry White Eagle?" "Owns a garage, end of town." "Hmm." "Thought you were after the reward for the bank money." "Guess I was wrong." "Cabin five." "(DOOR BELL CHIMES)" "Be right with you." "You still lying down on the job, Sergeant?" "Hey, Joe!" "(MANNIX LAUGHS) Hey!" "Harry." "Hey, I didn't expect you till tomorrow." "Well, you said it was important." "Yeah." "Say, you look great, buddy." "Yeah, thanks." "You haven't put on an ounce since Korea." "You, either." "Okay, now that we're through conning ourselves, Harry, what do you want me for?" "Oh... it's a beauty, Joe." "My best friend," "Fred Tallchief... two weeks ago, he got killed in a fight." "Ah." "Well, uh, police have any idea who did it?" "Two men..." "Jimmy Cousins, Pat Osterman." "Said they were drinking it up with Fred, an argument started, and Fred got killed." "Well, what would you like me to do, Harry?" "I say he was murdered, Joe." "Go on." "But it only took the jury five minutes to call it accidental death." "I guess they were in a hurry to go look for the missing plane." "Yeah, I heard about that." "What was the defense?" "They called only one witness..." "Gil Yarborough." "He said Fred was a drunken Indian looking for trouble." "It happens, Harry." "Oh, yes." "They found whiskey on him, all right." "Only thing is, Fred didn't drink at all." "What gives this Gil Yarborough so much clout?" "His old man, B.J. Yarborough, owns half the county." "The two guys who beat Fred to death work for him and pal around with Gil." "Do you think Gil Yarborough is involved?" "I couldn't tell for sure." "This, uh, Cousins and Osterman... they just give themselves up?" "Nope." "Fred's sister, Elena, found him before he died, and Fred himself named them." "Well, I'm gonna want to talk to her." "Whenever you want to go, just say the word." "Okay, Harry, but, uh, first, I think I'll just kind of nose around on my own." "I'll be back." "All right." "(CAR DOOR CLOSES, ENGINE STARTS)" "Joe?" "Thanks." "(UPBEAT, INSTRUMENTAL COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS)" "Yup?" "A beer." "They, uh, tell me a man was killed in here a couple of weeks ago." "No, sir, not here." "(MANNIX CHUCKLES) 50 feet outside your back door." "He means that Indian." "No, no, I said man." "I didn't know there was a difference." "MAN:" "Oh, around here, it is." "There's a big difference." "The Indian and the two men who killed him... did they start drinking in here?" "Yeah." "We started drinking in here." "That answer enough?" "Mister, why don't you just get back in your car and head off?" "The two of you have names?" "So, you notice something about this man?" "I mean, all that black hair and them high and pretty cheekbones?" "Yeah." "He could be part Indian." "That's right." "And I don't drink with no Indians." "(GRUNTING)" "(GRUNTING)" "Jimmy!" "Put that bottle down!" "Put the bottle down." "I'd consider it a favor if you'd send them back to the ranch, Gil." "Sure." "Care to take a walk, Mister, uh...?" "Mannix." "Mr. Mannix?" "Yeah." "Why not?" "Cousins and Osterman get mean when they drink." "So I've heard." "They pal around with young Yarborough so as to get the edge." "Heard that, too." "Mind telling me what you're doing in Clayville, Mr. Mannix?" "Came to see a friend." "Ever since that plane went down with the bank money, we've sure been overrun with strangers." "Yeah, the smell of money goes a long way." "Sure you ain't sniffing it out?" "Like I said, Sheriff," "I came here to see a friend," "Harry White Eagle." "Ah, you come, or, uh, he send for you?" "Make a difference?" "No, not to me." "You know, Sheriff, that, uh, fight you just stopped... it got started because I said an Indian was killed." "Oh, he ran into the side of a building with his head." "That's what killed him." "Well, not right away." "He talked to his sister first." "She told me what he said." "Told the same thing to the jury." "Verdict... accidental death." "Well, then there's no reason I can't talk to his sister, huh?" "Talk to anyone you want." "Only you're wasting your time." "Sheriff..." "Harry White Eagle and I were in the same outfit in Korea." "He took a bullet in the gut to warn us about an ambush." "Saved half a platoon." "My half." "I guess maybe I can waste a little time." "Uh... so you owe him." "Just trying to pay a little of it back." "You picked the wrong way." "♪ ♪" "(DOG BARKING)" "Harry, I don't want to raise her hopes too much." "Oh, she quit hoping right after the trial." "(KNOCKING)" "Hello, Harry." "Elena, this is a friend of mine, Joe Mannix." "Mr. Mannix." "Miss Tallchief." "Mr. Mannix is here to help us." "Please come in." "Miss Tallchief..." "Harry tells me that you found your brother before he died." "What good will this do, Harry?" "Help him, Elena." "I've told you, it's all over." "At least give me a chance to fail." "Fred was in an alley, dying." "I asked him who did it to him." "It was hard for him to talk, but I'm sure of the names..." "Cousins and Osterman." "No mention of Gil Yarborough?" "No." "Then Fred said something I couldn't hear." "I asked him to repeat it." "He said: "For you..."" "everything would be fine."" "Any idea what he meant?" "What could be fine?" "Living on like this?" "Being treated like domesticated animals?" "You tell me, Mr. Mannix." "Well, uh... thank you for seeing me, Miss Tallchief." "He's dead, Harry." "Accept it." "I have." "HARRY:" "You've been mighty quiet all the way back." "MANNIX:" "Yeah, well, I think she's hiding something." "HARRY:" "It's possible." "You and me are friends, but to her you're just a white man." "MANNIX (CHUCKLES):" "Yeah." "I'll check with you later, Harry." "HARRY:" "Okay." "Take it easy." "(DOOR CREAKS)" "(DOG BARKING)" "Mr. Mannix." "Now, why don't you go back to your motel and pack your bags." "My boys will escort you out to the airport." "Well, now, if you'll get your two boys to move that pickup..." "I'll think about it." "Mr. Mannix, I was hoping you'd be a reasonable man." "Change his mind." "(GRUNTING)" "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "Well, how'd I come out, Doc?" "Well, you were sapped on the back of the head." "Nothing serious." "No concussion." "My professional opinion is that, uh, you ought to go to bed for about 24 hours." "(CHUCKLES LIGHTLY) Sorry, Doc." "Well, Harry White Eagle told me that you wouldn't take my advice." "Is he here?" "No, but the sheriff is." "SHERIFF:" "How is he?" "Why don't you ask him?" "Sorry I couldn't get here any sooner." "Deputy just gave me your message." "Yeah, out looking for the missing bank money, huh?" "In a way." "We got word that a prospector saw the lights of a plane about 30 miles west of here, skimming over the junipers." "A few minutes later he saw a fireball over in the Jemez Mountains." "Now you know where to look." "Mannix, that's some of the roughest country in the Southwest." "Not any rougher than it is right here." "SHERIFF:" "Yeah, Doc tells me you, uh, got hit on the head." "Yeah." "Cousins and Osterman again." "You know, they're beginning to irritate me." "Oh, and Gil Yarborough was an interested spectator, again." "Yeah, that's his style." "Yeah." "Well, I got hit from behind." "Is that also his style?" "Suppose I decide to press charges?" "Mr. Mannix, you'll appear before a judge put on the bench by B.J. Yarborough, jury owned by B.J. Yarborough." "And I wind up getting ten days for disturbing the peace, huh?" "If you're lucky." "Yeah." "Thank you, Edna." "Why would they work me over, Harry?" "I mean, they're in the clear." "Unless they have something to hide." "Probably hiding a lot of things." "Yeah." "Do you suppose..." "Osterman and Cousins... were ripping off old man Yarborough, let's say, stealing the cattle, and Fred Tallchief found out and threatened to tell?" "Cousins and Osterman don't have that much guts." "Do you think Fred could have found the missing plane with the bank money?" "No way." "He would've told me, not them." "Well, there's got to be some reason, Harry." "I mean, why would old man Yarborough protect those two punks?" "Well, they work for him." "Too obvious." "Well, this is not a very subtle town, you know?" "Yeah, I noticed." "Well... there's one sure way to check it out." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "Miss your plane, Mannix?" "Well, I just like booking my own flight." "You're trespassing on private property." "Now, get back in your car." "Go on, Mannix." "Hold it!" "The man came to see me!" "I, uh, hear you've been causing quite a ruckus over a dead Indian." "It seems to bother a lot of people." "No, no, not that way at all." "See, you are like a... a horsefly." "You're buzzing around, these people figure you're getting to me, so they're just brushing you away." "Am I getting to you, Mr. Yarborough?" "(LAUGHS)" "You know, my great-grandfather came out here when there was no law." "He kept a treaty with the Indians that the, uh, the government broke." "In four generations we've always had a peaceful way to settle things." "Some of your best friends, right?" "Wrong." "I respect the Indian ways, and they respect mine." "A man named Fred Tallchief was murdered," "Mr. Yarborough." "(SIGHS) Gil?" "Yes, sir?" "B.J.:" "You get in here, will you?" "Yes, sir." "Nobody used the word "murdered," Mr. Mannix, not even the prosecuting attorney." "(SIGHS)" "I believe you know Mr. Mannix." "Oh, yes, sir, we met." "My boy have any part of that beating they give you?" "Ask him." "Well, what have you got to say for yourself?" "W-Well, sir, he just kept falling down, and the boys kept picking him up." "Must've had too much to drink." "Who hit me from behind?" "Well, from what I saw, you just passed out in the street." "(SOFTLY):" "Mm." "You can go, Gil." "Yes, sir." "Sure nice to see you again, Mr. Mannix." "(FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING)" "Boy's lying, of course." "I'm glad we agree on that." "I lost my oldest son in Vietnam." "And Gil is all I've got." "Right or wrong... he's all I've got." "Mm." "At least you let a man know where he stands." "♪ ♪" "Did you get to see the old man?" "Yeah, and I don't know any more than I did before." "What's your next move?" "If you think it's all right," "I'd like to talk to Elena again, alone." "Don't be rough on her, will you?" "I'll be lucky if I can hold my own." "HARRY (CHUCKLES):" "See you later." "(STARTS ENGINE)" "(DOOR CREAKS OPEN AND SHUT)" "Don't move." "Or you're dead." "Gil?" "Over here." "Hello, Yarborough." "What are you doing here?" "Just waiting my turn to talk to the girl." "Well, I'd rather you didn't talk to her, Mr. Mannix." "Jimmy?" "(CLEARS THROAT)" "COUSINS:" "Move over, Mannix." "A lot of people are going to start asking questions when I show up dead." "Well, you went out to the desert looking for that missing plane." "You got lost." "Car ran out of gas, uh, tried to walk out." "There was no water." "Sun got to you." "Blew your brains out." "Gil gave you every chance." "And I never even thanked him." "Can't this crate go any faster?" "Let me know when." "Just don't get too loose." "(ENGINE REVVING)" "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "Stay with the car." "(BIRD SQUAWKING)" "(TIRES SCREECHING)" "(GUNSHOTS)" "ELENA:" "Ask me the questions, Mr. Mannix, and if I can, I'll answer them." "Well, let's start with an easy one." "What was Gil Yarborough doing here in your house?" "Well?" "I'd rather not answer that." "(LAUGHS) We're off to a great start." "That particular question is none of your business." "It became my business when young Yarborough ordered his two playmates to kill me." "I'm sorry, Mr. Mannix, but that doesn't change matters." "Anything between Gil Yarborough and me doesn't concern you." "You know, sometimes my judgment of people is a little off center." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You could be 100% right." "It is none of my business... if you're having an affair with young Yarborough." "That's a terrible thing to say." "But it is the truth, isn't it?" "No, it isn't!" "The virtuous Indian maiden and the son of the Great White Chief." "I tell you, it's not true!" "Then what is the truth, Elena?" "Now, look, whatever it is, it cost your brother his life, and almost cost me mine." "Now what are you hiding?" "A very personal thing, Mr. Mannix." "(DOG BARKING)" "(DOG BARKING)" "That's the nature of rape." "It's usually very... personal." "I suppose if you're lucky, you can learn to forget it." "But if you're pregnant there's no forgetting." "It's with you every moment." "Elena I'm sorry." "(DISTANT CHATTER, DOG BARKING)" "My father was a chief." "I'm the last of my line." "Look around, Mr. Mannix." "All I have is my heritage, but I wouldn't expect you to understand what that means." "Hmm." "(DOG BARKS)" "Now, unless you have any more questions, Mr. Mannix..." "Did your brother know about... what happened?" "Yes." "Elena, did you give any more thought to what he said just before he died..." ""Everything will be fine?"" "I still don't know what he meant." "Any more questions, Mr. Mannix?" "No." "(DOOR OPENS)" "HARRY:" "Hi, Joe." "Harry." "Harry, there's something I've got to tell you, and I'm afraid you're not going to like it." "Try me." "Well, it's about Elena." "She's going to have Gil Yarborough's baby." "And Harry, there's, uh..." "there's more." "He raped her." "Hey, Harry, you want to wind up like Fred?" "Let go, Joe!" "I have business with Yarborough." "That's not gonna help you or Elena." "Now cool it!" "(DOOR CREAKS OPEN, DISTANT CROWD CHATTER)" "(DOG BARKING)" "(ENGINE STARTING)" "(DOG BARKING)" "Where is she?" "MANNIX:" "She's at home." "What did she tell you?" "Not much." "Uh, something about a white man not understanding, a heritage of chiefs, last of her line." "And you just left?" "She wasn't exactly in the mood for company, Harry." "Joe... she's going to kill herself." "Let's go." "(ENGINE STARTING)" "(TIRES SQUEALING)" "(BIRDS SINGING)" "MANNIX:" "Harry, when people are going to kill themselves, they jump off a bridge, or they do it quietly in a kitchen or a garage." "HARRY:" "Your people, Joe." "MANNIX:" "Are you telling me she's going to walk out into the desert until she drops dead?" "HARRY:" "No." "It's a burial ground just for chiefs and their sons and daughters." "That's where you think she's at?" "And how far is it?" "About 20 miles." "And we get off the road and keep going." "(BIRDS SINGING)" "(TIRES SQUEALING)" "There's her pickup." "There she is!" "She is praying." "When she finishes, she jumps." "All right, I'll flank her to the right." "You keep her attention." "(ECHOING):" "Elena!" "Elena!" "Elena!" "I know you can hear me." "(ECHOING):" "I know you can hear me!" "I want you to think!" "(ECHOING):" "I want you to think!" "(ECHOING):" "You're carrying a child!" "(ECHOING):" "An Indian child!" "No matter who the father is." "(ECHOING):" "...Who the father is." "Is that what Fred died for?" "(ECHOING):" "...Died for?" "Is it?" "!" "(ECHOING):" "Is it?" "!" "Is it?" "!" "Follow the old laws!" "(ECHOING):" "...The old laws!" "Elena!" "(ECHOING):" "Elena!" "Elena!" "(ECHOING):" "Elena!" "(ECHOING):" "Listen to me!" "♪ ♪" "MANNIX:" "Harry, is there an Indian phrase for "stubborn as a mule"?" "HARRY:" "Yes." "Elena, you're being stubborn as a mule." "MANNIX:" "Well, thanks, pal." "What do you think you're gonna prove by killing yourself?" "ELENA:" "I'm not trying to prove anything." "I was just doing what had to be done." "HARRY:" "Elena... a decision of that kind affects the whole tribe." "You don't make it." "I told you." "The tribal council does." "Harry, I trust you." "As my brother's good friend and as mine, what is the right thing to do?" "Keep on living." "I'll try." "Harry, there's nothing nicer than a reasonable woman." "Ain't it the truth." "Well, it's a lie!" "It's a lousy damned lie!" "MANNIX:" "Like it or not, you're gonna have a grandchild and it's gonna be half Indian, so you'd better get used to the idea." "Mannix, if you're pulling a swindle on me, I swear..." "Son, have you been fooling around with some Indian girl?" "You taught me better than that, sir." "You answer me, yes or no!" "Anybody that'd say I'd father a half-breed is a liar!" "Is that clear enough, Mannix?" "!" "You go on, son." "Go on, go on." "Mannix, you do me a favor before you leave town." "That's ten... thousand dollars." "And if that's not enough... there's more." "But... on one condition." "What's the condition?" "That she doesn't call it Yarborough." "I don't know whether she'll accept this or not, but there's one thing I'm pretty damn sure of... she won't call the child Yarborough." "Hey, what's going on?" "Everybody's headed home." "Well, what happened?" "They found the plane, or what's left of it." "Found the pilot, too... dead." "What about the money?" "Not a dollar." "Must've got burned up in the fire." "What is it, Joe?" "I've seen that look before in combat." "Three guys rob a bank in San Bruno and transfer the money to a plane." "Which heads for Mexico." "Now, that pilot should have been heading due south." "What was he doing 30 miles from Clayville, hedgehopping the junipers?" "Okay, Captain, what's the answer?" "I think he was looking for something or someone to drop the money to." "In the middle of the night?" "In the middle of the desert?" "That someone would still be out there." "Could you find your way out?" "I could, yes." "Could Fred Tallchief?" "Any Indian traditionally trained could." "Joe... you're saying my best friend was a crook." "(SWITCHBOARD BUZZES)" "Can I help you?" "Yes, I'd like to make a long distance call." "Area code 213-555-6644." "I'll call you as soon as I reach your party." "Right." "Now, the way I've got it figured, Harry," "Osterman, Cousins and the Yarborough kid robbed the bank and had the money transferred to a plane." "They arranged to have the money dropped in a remote area of the desert, and, uh... hired Fred to pick up the money and bring it out." "No." "Fred wouldn't do a thing like this." "Ordinarily he wouldn't, but because of Elena, he did make the pickup." "Instead of delivering the money to Yarborough, he hid it." "He felt that young Yarborough owed Elena the money because of what he had done to her." "And I'm sure that's what Fred meant when he told Elena everything was gonna be just fine." "Yes." "Fred would do a thing like this for his sister." "And then Osterman and Cousins tried to beat the truth out of him and went too far." "(PHONE RINGS)" "Hello." "Mr. Mannix, your party's on the line." "Yeah, Peggy, Joe." "Hi, Joe." "What's going on?" "Listen, cancel everything on my books until you hear from me." "Why?" "Uh, I mean, can you give me an explanation?" "MANNIX:" "Let's just say we're going on a treasure hunt." "A treasure hunt?" "Yeah, I'll talk to you later." "(CLICK)" "Harry, we're gonna need some supplies." "Right." "Now, if you were Fred, where would you hide the money?" "MANNIX:" "Harry, those burial grounds cover a big area." "We'll find it, Joe." "Yeah?" "How?" "HARRY:" "When we were in Korea, did you ask me how?" "Turned earth, it has its own life." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪ (CRICKETS CHIRPING)" "♪ ♪ (DIGGING CONTINUES)" "Joe!" "(GUNSHOT)" "(GUNSHOTS)" "How about Dog Charlie Five?" "Not bad, Captain." "Not original, but not bad." "(GUNSHOT)" "(GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)" "(GUNFIRE STOPS)" "GIL:" "Mannix!" "We know you found the money from the bank!" "I'll tell you what, Mannix, I'll make a deal with you!" "We'll split, half and half!" "$250,000 apiece!" "Now, you just put one of those bags you're carrying out to where I could see it!" "You and Harry can keep the rest!" "Kind of makes us all one big happy family, Mannix!" "All right, Gil, we'll go along." "I'll put out your half now!" "(TWO GUNSHOTS)" "(GUNFIRE CONTINUES)" "Hold your fire!" "Aw, come on, Mannix, I thought you were gonna help." "I only said I'd referee." "Well, there's no talking to this woman!" "You don't talk, Mr. Yarborough, you shout." "Have I shouted?" "!" "Have I lost my temper once?" "!" "At least." "Well, if I have, it's her fault." "Miss..." "I have lost my son." "I've lost my brother." "Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Yarborough, for both of us." "Well, will you think of the child?" "I can give him everything, every advantage." "He'll own this whole spread." "He could be a girl;" "you know that." "Well, then-then the place'll belong to her." "On the condition that she is brought up in this house by you?" "That's right." "She'll be brought up in the pueblo by me." "Now, look, miss, I am an old man..." "Oh, what's the use, you'll never change!" "I don't see you bending over backwards to make any changes." "I happen to like what I am." "B.J.:" "You take a good close look at me, you'll find out I'm not so bad, either!" "ELENA:" "I'm not so sure about that." "And I ain't too thrilled with you." "And you are absolutely no help at all!" "That's exactly what I was thinking." "Mr. Yarborough..." "I'm sorry about your son." "I really am." "Well, I..." "I don't know where to put the blame." "Well, the fault wasn't yours." "If I'm ever back in town, I'll stop in and see you." "B.J.:" "Yeah." "Good-bye, Elena." "Joe, you can't go now." "Yeah, I think she's right..." "nothing's been settled!" "It will be." "Well, Joe, how did it go?" "MANNIX:" "They're still at it." "HARRY:" "Aw, they're stubborn, Joe." "Both of them." "Oh, I think they'll change." "They'll have to." "Everybody's gonna have to change." "What makes you say so?" "Well, when that kid grows up, the owner of this town is gonna be half white and half Indian." "(LAUGHS)" "That'll be the day!" "(LAUGHING)" "(LAUGHING):" "That will really be the day!" "(LAUGHING)"