"They were both in the same poker game?" "Kid, you've come up with some crazy notions, but that's the craziest." "Yeah, well, they were both in the same game and they're both dead now." "And they both lived in Hollistown." "They probably both did business at the same bank, both went to the same church." "Probably a whole lot of other things we don't even know about." "That's true." "You don't sound convinced." "I'm not." "(GUN FIRING)" "Heyes!" "Heyes!" "NARRA TOR:" "Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, the two most successful outlaws in the history of the West." "And in all the trains and banks they robbed, they never shot anyone." "This made our two Iatter-day Robin Hoods very popular with everyone but the railroads and the banks." "CURRY:" "There's one thing we gotta get, Heyes." "HEYES.' What's that?" "CURRY:" "Out of this business." "LOM:" "The governor can't come flat out and give you amnesty now." "First, you gotta prove you deserve it." "Ah, so all we have to do is just stay out of trouble till the governor figures we deserve amnesty." "But in the meantime, we'll still be wanted." "LOM:" "Well, that's true." "Till then, only you, me and the governor will know about it." "It'II be our secret." "CURRY:" "I sure wish the governor would let a few more people in on our secret." "NARRATOR:" "Alias Smith and Jones, starring Pete Duel and Ben Murphy." "Tracks are two days old." "Two hours fresh." "You just keep smiling, Heyes." "This boy is gonna be ready." "For what?" "Tracks are two days old." "Two hours fresh." "Two days old." "You may know a lot about shooting, but you don't know the first thing about tracking." "We could walk for six months and never see a sign of 'em." "You keep yelling, I suspect you're right." "You may find this hard to believe, but I was the champion tracker in all of Southern Utah." "That is hard to believe." "Now, will you stop talking and start looking?" "Nothing to look at." "Tracks are two days old." "Two hours fresh." "Two days." "Two hours." "(GROWLING)" "Heyes!" "(GUN FIRING)" "Thank you." "Are you all right?" "Smartest cat I ever saw." "Going around leaving old tracks." "Yeah, he was pretty clever." "Well, you want to keep looking or call it a day?" "Kid, $300 a cat sounded real good two days ago, but there was a moment when he was on top of me..." "Your whole life flashed right in front of you, right?" "No, as a matter of fact, it was the floor plan to the Bank of Fort Worth." "CURRY:" "We're real honored you asked us along to your poker game, Mr. Carlson." "JAKE:" "I think you'll enjoy yourselves." "We play with a real nice group of fellas." "Your kind of people." "Your bet, Judge." "I bet five." "To you, Sheriff." "I'II see you and raise you five." "Well." "Mr. Jones?" "Oh, well, I don't think I'd care to take on the Sheriff." "It sounds like he's got a fistful of trouble there." "Fold." "Mr. Smith?" "Oh, by me." "JAKE:" "Harv?" "I'm out." "That's too much for me." "How about you, Judge?" "You gonna take him on?" "I'm out." "Well, looks like you win the first big pot ofthe night, Sheriff." "Boys, I think I'm gonna like having you two around." "You seem to have brought me a little bit of luck." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Here we go, Judge." "Your deal." "Better ante up, boys." "Let's ante in turn." "Okay." "CURRY:" "Jack bets." "HEYES.' I'm in." "HARVE Y:" "All right." "(COINS CLINKING)" "HARVE Y:" "I'll raise you." "JAKE.' Call." "AII right, pot's right." "Six to your nines, Judge." "Hey, spade, possible flush, Sheriff." "Queen spoils a straight." "Deuce, no help." "No help there, Harvey." "Everybody in?" "Ace bets." "CURRY:" "Two for me." "HEYES:" "Yeah, I'll see you." "JAKE:" "I'll raise you five." "I'm out." "Yeah, these aren't worth anything." "JUDGE:" "Dame fortune dealt me my cards tonight, boys." "(CHUCKLING)" "JAKE:" "How about you there?" "HARVEY:" "I'm out." "Where's that drink?" "SHERIFF:" "I'm out, too." "JAKE:" "Well," "I guess that's gonna leave it to you." "I'm starved." "AII right, whose deal?" "JUDGE:" "I bet five and raise five more." "Well, I'm afraid I'm gonna have to let you have it, Judge." "Thank you, son." "That's another big one for you, Judge." "Appears you boys are a might Iuckier with a rifle than you are with a poker deck." "Sir?" "Well, I hear you bagged two cats in one week." "Around here we consider that pretty fair shooting." "Well, man hires us to rid his place of mountain lions, that's what we do." "What else do you gentlemen do?" "Sir?" "When you're not tracking cats, I mean." "Oh, well..." "A little ofthis..." "And a little ofthat." "Anything wholesome and honest, Judge." "Gentlemen, did we come here to talk or to play poker?" "I believe it's your deal, Mr. Smith." "I believe you're right, Mr. Carlson." "How about a little five..." "Something wrong, son?" "What is it?" "Well, I don't know." "The deck seems a little short, that's all." "If you gentlemen don't mind." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5... (CONTINUES COUNTING)" "...5o, 51." "SAM:" "Could this be what we're missing, gentlemen?" "I found it under the table." "Under any particular chair?" "Well, it was sort of..." "Sort of in the middle." "Card could've been there for some time." "No, no, no." "I remember that card being played about 10 minutes ago." "Might have fallen on the floor in the shuffle." "Or else someone dumped it there when the deck turned up light." "Come on now, boys, this has always been a real friendly game." "At least we thought it was." "(GUN FIRING)" "HEYES:" "If somebody was cheating, I sure didn't spot it." "CURRY:" "Neither did I." "Judge was the only one who won enough to make cheating worthwhile." "I know some people who have to cheat just to stay even." "Jake, Iet me go with you." "Maybe I can give Emma Peters a hand." "I'm sure Emma's got all the help she can use." "I'm just gonna pay the family our respects." "I'II try and get back before dark." "HARVEY:" "You boys are back early." "Yeah, we figure we got the last of 'em." "We figured we'd settle up and maybe move on after lunch." "So soon?" "We werejust beginning to think of you boys as part of the family." "I think you ought to wait for Mr. Carlson." "He may want you to stick around a while." "When will he be back, ma'am?" "I don't know." "He's gone over to see Judge Peters's widow." "Widow?" "The Judge was killed last night." "Shot in the back." "PRIEST:" "Forasmuch as it hath pleased almighty God, in his wise providence, to take out of the world the soul of our deceased brother, we hereby commit his body to the ground." "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." "This town sure gives a fella a real nice sendoff." "Kind of gives you something to look forward to." "Sheriff." "Mrs. Carlson, Jake." "Senseless killing." "No rhyme or reason." "Everybody loved the Judge." "Well, somebody didn't." "It's nice to see you again, Mrs. Carlson." "We don't see enough of you, Sheriff." "Let's get together real soon." "Yes, ma'am, let's do that." "(GUN FIRING)" "PRIEST:" "Forasmuch as it hath pleased almighty God, in his wise providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased brother, we hereby commit his body to the ground." "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." "You know, Heyes, I've been thinking." "Kid, that's got us into trouble more than once." "Now, hear me out." "Now, there must be a couple hundred people in this town, and we've only met maybe 10." "And?" "Doesn't it seem kind of odd?" "Two people are killed and we know both of 'em." "That does seem kind of odd, all right." "Don't you want to find out what the Sheriff knows about this?" "I want to, but I don't believe I'm going to." "You mean you're just gonna take off without finding out what's going on?" "Nope." "First I wanna go get a drink." "Then I'm gonna take off without finding out what's going on." "AII right, Sam, what is it?" "We're next." "Oh!" "You're starting to talk like a hysterical old woman." "I heard you say Judge Peters had $100 in his pocket when they found him." "Yeah." "And Augie Helms, was he robbed and killed, orjust killed?" "Sam, you're taking a long time to build up to something." "Judge Peters and Augie Helms lived on opposite sides ofthe valley." "They had only one thing in common." "They were both in the same poker game?" "Kid, you've come up with some crazy notions, but that's the craziest." "Yeah, well, they were both in the same game and they're both dead now." "And they both lived in Hollistown." "They probably both did business at the same bank, both went to the same church." "Probably a whole lot of other things we don't even know about." "That's true." "You don't sound convinced." "I'm not." "(GUN FIRING)" "Heyes!" "Heyes!" "Came as close to killing him as anything I'd ever care to see." "There are no fractures, so he should regain consciousness within the next 24 hours." "On the other hand, it could take longer." "We'll just have to wait and see." "In the meantime, he mustn't be moved." "He should be watched." "I'II be here." "Anything you can do to fix him up, I'II pay for it, Doc." "Well, I've done everything I can, Jake." "I appreciate what you said in there, Mr. Carlson." "About what?" "Getting the boy fixed up?" "Don't be silly." "Mr. Carlson." "One thing's becoming pretty obvious." "Everybody who was in that poker game is in a lot oftrouble." "Question is why." "I've known everybody in it for years." "This game was different." "You mean the missing card?" "Ah, don't put any stock in that." "Could be you've had a cardsharp in your game all this time." "No." "No, there's not been anybody that won consistently enough for that to make sense." "AII right, there was one other difference in your game this week." "Mr. Smith and..." "Mr. Jones, please don't go." "Look, I appreciate what you're trying to do." "It's just that I'm not very good at waiting around." "So I figured I'd head back out to where he was shot." "Look around, see what I could find." "Well, can't talk you out of going." "At least I suggest you be careful." "Whatever the game is, we're down to five players." "Thanks." "Sam, you're making a big mistake." "Running away won't solve anything." "And you've got a responsibility to your family." "I'm no good to 'em dead." "Well, where do you figure on going?" "I'm not telling anybody." "I'm just letting you know I'm leaving because I don't want you to think anything happened when I disappear." "Sam, let's talk about this." "I'm going." "That's all there is to it." "If you clear this thing up," "I'II read about it in the papers, I'II come back." "Sam!" "(GUN FIRING)" "We hereby commit his body to the ground." "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." "But, Sheriff, you must have some idea." "I mean, this just can't go on." "There's only Harvey, Jake and Mr. Jones left." "And me." "Ifthe killer was someone who was in the game..." "As of now, I'm assuming that the killer is one of us gathered together right here." "Rachel." "You frightened me." "I'm sorry." "I had to see you tonight." "VVhy?" "Try and talk things out." "We don't have anything to talk out." "I thought I made that clear long ago." "Things have changed." "I could be dead tomorrow." "Then why don't you just ride out of here?" "I don't run from things." "That's why we have to talk, get things straightened out between us." "Harvey, it is straightened out." "We don't have anything else to say to one another." "And I say there is." "I don't believe you're going out there to look for cats." "No?" "No." "I think you're hoping to set yourself up to get shot at." "Well, now, a man would have to be pretty stupid to ride out hoping to meet up with an insane killer, wouldn't he?" "That's right, he would." "So if you're really going out there to look for mountain lions, let me send Harvey along, or at least a couple ofthe boys." "Well, that's just more men and horses to scare 'em off." "The killer?" "No, the mountain lions." "Your friend is breathing easier this morning." "That's real good news, ma'am." "Be seeing you folks." "Something the matter?" "I think his mind is on something else." "Like maybe getting himself killed." "(GUN FIRING)" "Good evening." "Evening." "Sheriff in?" "Nope." "Called out of town." "When do you expect him back?" "Depends on how much trouble there was." "Maybe I can help you out." "No, thank you, I'II wait till the sheriff gets back." "Suit yourself." "Be at least a couple hours." "(MUSIC PLAYING)" "I'm Helen." "I'm Jones." "Hello, Jones." "I understand I might have something you want." "Could be." "You still Harvey Bishop's girlfriend?" "Harvey Bishop." "Goodbye, Jones." "Oh, no." "Wait a minute." "Come back here, Helen." "That's what I was hoping you'd say." "Have a chair and adrink." "CURRY:" "I heard you and Harvey Bishop were once pretty close." "What is it with you?" "I keep getting offthe subject of Harvey Bishop, and you keep bringing it right back." "Well, now, Helen, I gotta be honest with you." "I liked you right from the beginning, but that's not the only reason I bought you all those drinks." "I knew there was a second reason." "There's a third reason." "Mrs. Carlson." "Mrs. Carlson?" "Mmm-hmm." "I'd Iike to know if she and Harvey Bishop ever had anything to do with each other." "No more than any two people having a love affair." "Are you sure of that?" "If you don't believe me, why did you ask me?" "Why don't you ask anybody else in town?" "Everybody knows about it." "I believe you, Helen." "I guess I was just hoping you'd say something different." "Meaning you and Mrs. Carlson?" "Now, Helen." "That's the way rumors get started." "There's only one girl in my life, and that's you." "Well, you sure go to an awful lot oftrouble to get a few questions answered." "It's no trouble at all." "Heard you been looking for me." "What's on your mind?" "Murders." "I know who's been doing 'em." "Meaning you got a hunch?" "No." "No, meaning I know for a fact." "He tried to kill me." "Well, don't keep me in suspense." "Who is it?" "Harvey Bishop." "Harvey Bishop is the killer?" "That's right." "He tried to shoot me." "(SIGHING) Well." "You sure that's the story you want to stick to?" "Well, now, I got a real good close look at him." "It couldn't have been anybody else." "Hmm." "Well, I might believe you except for one thing." "I've been out looking into the killing of one more ofthe poker players." "Harvey Bishop is dead." "Now, you still want to stick to that story?" "It's the truth." "Well, now, what are you trying to tell me?" "That there are two people shooting people up from that poker game when it's insane enough that one is?" "Yeah, it is, isn't it?" "Up till now you haven't been too high on my list of suspects, but I'm beginning to think I gotta start checking into you a Iittle more thoroughly." "Sheriff, would I come in here with a story about Harvey trying to kill me if I'd just killed Harvey?" "Might be pretty clever at that." "Evening, Sheriff." "Thaddeus." "Evening." "Evening, Jake." "Is his friend conscious, yet?" "I don't believe so, why?" "Ihave to talkto him." "I don't much like to have to come out here twice, especially when it's dark." "I don't blame you for that." "Mind telling me what's on your mind, Sheriff?" "You don't think he had anything to do with it, do you?" "Jake, if you'll look around, you can see we're quick running out of possibilities." "Now, if Mr. Jones's friend can't clear him," "I'm gonna have to lock him up." "Come on in, fellas." "How do you feel?" "Terrible." "What happened?" "Where am I?" "Where's the Kid?" "Who?" "My friend." "Oh, you mean Mr. Jones?" "Yeah, I mean Mr. Jones." "Here we go, it's plenty hot now." "Thank you, Jake." "How about you, Thaddeus?" "No, thanks." "He can see you now, Sheriff." "My friend and I were riding along." "Next thing, I remember feeling like" "I had just been kicked in the head by a mule." "And then?" "Then" "I remember..." "Yes?" "Mrs. Carlson sitting across the room." "Where was your friend?" "I mean when you got shot." "Was he behind you, beside you, or in front of you?" "Well, he was right..." "In front of me." "About two, maybe three, four yards." "You sure had to think about that for a while." "Yeah." "Yeah." "You ought to try taking a chunk of lead in the head sometime, Sheriff." "I didn't even remember my name was Smith till Mrs. Carlson reminded me." "AII right, I guess that's all." "Unless it were you or me, Jake, it's beginning to look like that the killer had to be somebody outside our poker game." "So we're right back where we started." "Except now four men are dead." "Who are the other two?" "Harvey Bishop, Sam Winters." "How soon you gonna be able to travel?" "If you have this thing figured, I'd Iike to rest a day or two." "If you haven't, I'm ready to go anytime." "Heyes, the closer I get to this, the more insane it becomes." "We'll talk about you traveling tomorrow, soon as the doc gets a look at you." "Kid." "Where were you when I got shot?" "Behind you." "(CHUCKLING)" "The way things are in this town, your friend is looking Iuckier to be alive every day." "Can he travel, Doctor." "Wouldn't recommend anything on horseback, but I think he's fit to ride a stage." "There's a stage going west around 3:00." "The sooner you two are away from here and away from this killing, better I'II feel." "I hate to think we're running out on you, Jake, leaving you and your wife without some protection." "You don't have to worry about Jake." "He's as good a man with a rifle as any I ever come across." "Gentlemen, I'II be going." "I'II see you out, Doc." "Excuse me, Thaddeus." "Sure, Jake." "Sure." "Jake..." "I'm sorry, I thought Jake was with you." "He'Il be right back, ma'am." "Mrs. Carlson, there's something I'd Iike to talk to you about." "Yes?" "It's kind of important." "Is there any place I can meet you?" "What's it about?" "Can't we talk here?" "I don't think you're gonna wanna take a chance on anyone else hearing what I have to say." "(HORSE SNORTING)" "Pretty out here, isn't it?" "You didn't bring me out here to tell me how pretty it is." "No, ma'am, I didn't." "I brought you out here to discuss a theory of mine." "What kind oftheory?" "It has to do with murder." "I think we were right all along." "Those murders were connected to that poker game." "And you've found the connection." "Maybe." "At least it's the only thing that makes any sense." "Go on." "Well, it looks to me like all those other murders were committed just to cover up one," "your husband's." "But my husband isn't dead." "No, but he was supposed to be." "Only he heard the same rumors I heard, and he figured out what was happening, just like I figured out." "Figured out what?" "I don't know what rumors you're talking about." "That you and Harvey Bishop were lovers." "Rumors that made him think that maybe you and Harvey might be wanting to get rid of a husband." "Goodbye, Mr. Jones." "I'm not gonna try and stop you." "There was a reason I wanted to have this little talk out here rather than in the Sheriff's office." "I'm sure there was, Mr. Jones." "But it doesn't matter to me, because all those rumors are lies." "It mattered to your husband, enough to kill Harvey Bishop." "Go on, Mr. Jones." "What's the rest of your theory?" "Well, I think Bishop wanted your husband dead, but he knew he'd never get away with it." "But there was the poker game every week." "So he figured if he could do something in the game," "like maybe slip an ace out ofthe deck, and then kill a couple ofthe other players, including your husband, then nobody would suspect that the killing had anything to do with anything but the poker game." "That's insane." "Yes, ma'am." "I know it is." "But if you think about it, it does make a lot of sense." "And it answers a lot of questions." "AII except one." "Whether you knew what Harvey was doing." "You believe that I knew his plans and didn't try to stop him?" "Mrs. Carlson, I'm gonna be leaving in the morning." "So I'm gonna assume I was wrong about you, 'cause the man who killed three people is dead now." "And that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned." "And if I ever hear of anything happening to your husband, then I'm gonnathink I was right and I'm gonna have to come back." "Rachel!" "Rachel!" "What is it?" "What is it, Rachel?" "No!" "What's happened to you?" "There's a rumor that Harvey Bishop and I were having a love affair." "Did you ever hear that rumor, Jake?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Everything we've ever had together depends on what you tell me here and now." "If you lie to me, I'II know it." "Yeah, I was aware ofthat rumor." "Why didn't you tell me?" "VVhy?" "I thought about it." "I thought about it a lot." "I decided not to." "I knew it couldn't be true." "I have one more question." "And you better be more truthful about this than the last." "Did you kill Harvey Bishop?" "I see." "What Mr. Jones said was true." "You actually believe that I was involved with another man." "I can't stay with you, Jake." "You've got to let me talk to you." "It's too late!" "It's not too late!" "AII right, Rachel," "I knew about those rumors, but I didn't believe them." "At least not until the killings began." "And then, God help me, I did." "Now, you gotta forgive me for that." "But under the pressure ofthose killings," "I began to believe them because it was an explanation of something that just seemed to make no sense." "How can I forgive you" "for actually thinking that I would have something to do with an insane man who was killing people?" "JAKE:" "You won't have to leave." "I'II go." "Looks like Mr. Jones isn't the only one who figured out what happened." "Rachel," "I could use a few hours head start on 'em." "(KNOCKING AT DOOR)" "Sheriff, won't you come in?" "We've come to see Jake." "You just missed him." "He's gone for supplies." "Funny, we didn't pass him on the trail, ma'am." "We just came from town." "Oh, he went over to the Palmer Ranch." "Homer was kind enough to pick up some supplies for us when he was in town this morning." "Well, we'll just ride on over there." "If we should miss him, we'll be back." "You make it sound serious." "It is, ma'am." "I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but I'm gonna have to arrest Jake for murder." "Dug it out of a tree this morning near where Harvey's body was found." "There's no question, it was fired from Jake's gun." "Only one like it in the county." "If he should come back before we do, ma'am," "I'd encourage him to turn himself in." "If he forces us to track him down, we may not be able to take him alive." "Jake's just too darn good with a rifle." "Jake." "You've got to help me." "Why?" "What is it?" "The Sheriff came to arrest Jake." "I lied and sent them off." "AII right, where's Jake now?" "He's gone." "He's running." "Running?" "Why?" "Nothing can happen to him." "Harvey tried to kill him." "I don't think he's running because ofthe Sheriff." "Itold him I was leaving him." "Find him, please." "Tell him I'II stand by him." "Sorry, ma'am, I can't." "Please, you've got to help me!" "Ma'am, your husband's a crack shot." "He isn't even going to let me get close enough to see him, let alone talk to him." "You can at least try." "No, ma'am, I can't come between your husband and the Iaw." "I got my own reasons." "I know your reasons." "Ma'am?" "During those long nights while your friend regained his senses, he did a lot of talking, Mr. Curry." "Oh." "Now, do you want to help me or do I tell the Sheriff who you and your partner really are?" "I want to help you, ma'am." "You know, you're putting an awful lot of faith in the fact that your husband isn't gonna try to just kill me." "He's not a killer." "No, ma'am, but he is desperate." "That's a chance we'll have to take." "We'll have to take?" "Yes, ma'am." "Jones." "Why are you following me?" "Your wife sent me." "That won't work." "Now, go on back." "I don't want to have to kill you, but I will if you don't turn around and go back." "Jake..." "AII right, Jake, hold it right there." "This time I'II do the talking." "Running isn't the answer, Jake." "Believe me, I know." "I want you to dismount nice and easy." "Jake!" "Jake?" "We may as well talk." "Rachel wants me to bring you back with me." "She's changed her mind." "She wants to stand by you." "You listening?" "I'II be willing to come back and testify that Harvey tried to kill me." "You just killed a man who tried to kill you." "No jury will convict you for that." "There's a big difference in defending yourself..." "Don't turn around." "She really said she'd stick by me?" "Yep, that's what she said." "Let's go back." "You sure you're up to riding into the stage depot?" "You worry about staying on your horse, and I'II worry about staying on mine." "Uh-huh." "I want to say goodbye and thank you from Jake and me for all you've done." "Oh, ma'am, it was..." "Don't give it a second thought, ma'am." "I suppose you've both been wondering how long it'Il be before I tell someone else that you're Kid Curry and you're Hannibal Heyes." "What?" "You haven't told your friend?" "No, ma'am, Ithought I'd tell him later when he was feeling a little better." "AII right." "How did she know?" "Well, it's along story, Heyes, but you got a big mouth when you got a bullet in your head." "Oh." "Uh-huh." "I want you both to rest easy." "No one will ever hear it from me." "Goodbye, Mr. Curry." "Goodbye." "Goodbye, Mr. Heyes." "Goodbye." "You'll always be welcome here."