"(GUN FIRING)" "Let's get out of here!" "Good idea." "What'II we use for a horse?" "AII right, you, get off ofthere." "It's me they want, so just do as you're told and you'll be all right." "Hey, don't I know you from someplace?" "I should hope not." "No, Mike, no, wait!" "(GUN FIRING)" "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." "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Now let's see the letter." "Colonel Harper gave you this personally?" "That's right." "Describe him." "About your height." "Gray hair, thin." "Got a mole right here." "And eyes like a couple of slugs from a .45." "Have a seat, boys." "Now, this job has changed since you fellas first took it." "Oh, how?" "It's gotten dangerous." "BOTH:" "Dangerous?" "That's right." "Well, carrying $50,000 400 miles is a little risky." "No, the word is dangerous." "People around here know that I withdrew that money out of the bankjust as it closed." "And depressions have a way ofturning people mean." "Did you see anyone across the street when you rode up?" "Yeah, a couple of fellas walking down that way." "This office has been watched night and day for the past five days." "The place was entered and searched just the other night." "Mmm-hmm." "I see what you mean by "dangerous."" "Ifthey tried to open it, they didn't get very far." "The money is still in there." "Yeah." "Maybe we ought to head out of here right now." "No, not now." "Come back at 3:00 in the morning." "Come to this door, when I answer, tap five times." "Now you boys sure that you want to go through with this?" "Yeah." "Why not?" "Why not?" "The Colonel must be paying you two a pretty sizeable fee." "No." "But the Colonel does know the Governor and we're hoping to do some important business with the Governor later this year." "I see." "I hope the job will be worth it for you." "I wouldn't take it even for the Governor." "(CRICKETS CHIRPING)" "CURRY:" "Well, good evening, sir." "(MAN GRUNTING)" "(MUFFLED SCREAMS)" "Who is it?" "Did you have any trouble?" "Yeah, there's a guy tied up outside." "I knew they'd be watching." "What're you doing?" "You boys have got some money to count, you can't count in the dark." "Then you should've had it turned up all along." "I'm sorry." "You're right." "I'm a lawyer, I'm not used to sneaking money out of town in the dead of night." "Well, it can't be helped now, let's move." "What's up?" "Something's going on over there!" "BRIGGS:" "The lamp, it was turned up, just now." "Go tell Mike." "I'II want you both to sign a receipt that I delivered $50,000 over to you." "Start counting, I don't want you to take that amount on faith." "What do you got?" "Twenty-three thousand." "It's all here, $50,000." "Okay." "Somebody's in there, huh?" "Who's watching the back door?" "Brewster." "And I sent Breen back there to make sure he's awake." "AII right." "Sign that receipt and get going." "Wait." "Good luck to both of you." "You'll need it." "(MUFFLED SCREAMS)" "(DOOR OPENING)" "BREEN:" "Those two guys just high-tailed it." "CURRY:" "Okay, Heyes!" "Good luck and give 'em a good chase!" "HEYES:" "Remember, that isn't $50,000, it's our amnesty!" "(SNAPPING)" "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "There's nothing on either one ofthese horses." "Where'd you drop off your partner?" "Partner?" "(GRUNTS)" "Where'd you drop your partner?" "I guess I'm gonna have to tell you..." "We had another horse stashed in town, tied up in an alley." "He switched over to that one." "(GRUNTING)" "MIKE:" "You're aliar." "You rode in on two horses, them two." "The stable man's a friend of mine, he'd have told me if you'd got yourself another one." "Are you gonna tell me where he is?" "I'm sure gonna give it some thought." "AII right." "He's hiding out on a farm just outside the town." "Whose farm?" "Man named Johnson." "Breen, you ever hear of a farmer named Johnson around here?" "It's a nice, common name, but it won't work." "There ain't no farmer named Johnson around here." "AII right." "I'm gonna give you one more opportunity to tell me." "Then I use this and leave you out here for the coyotes." "(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)" "(CLATTERING)" "Mike." "(WHISPERS) That whistle tell you anything?" "Yeah." "A freight's pulling out." "So what?" "Well, ifa man knewthat ahead oftime, he wouldn't need a horse to get out of town." "Right?" "(WHISTLE BLOWING)" "ANNABELLE: ...he wanted so much to marry me." "He simply begged and pleaded, said we'd go to Europe on our honeymoon." "And visit all the art galleries, the Louvre, big cathedrals and all the wonderful foreign things that they have over there." "I'II admit I was tempted." "Father always promised he'd take me there." "But he's been so busy with his financial dealings that I just know it'Il never happen if I wait for him." "This fellow, what was his name?" "Reggie." "Reginald Vandemeter, to be exact." "Comes from a New England family." "One ofthe Four Hundred." "The Four Hundred what?" "It's easy to see you don't know very much about society." "I guess not." "What I was getting at, though, was why didn't you want to marry him?" "Because I didn't love him." "That's the only reason there can be for a person like me." "How old are you?" "Twenty-one." "How old are you?" "Seventeen." "What're you doing so far from Philadelphia?" "I felt stifled." "I wanted adventure and excitement." "To meet people, the common people, you know." "Riding around in freight cars, you can meet a lot ofthem all right." "Wouldn't taking a passenger train do just about as well?" "But anybody can do that." "I believe deeply that a girl should have authentic experience before she gets married and settles down." "Don't you agree?" "That's the only kind to have, authentic." "You got any special destination in mind?" "I thought I'd try San Francisco." "It has the kind of hotels that I'm accustomed to, and the gourmet restaurants." "Ijust love gourmet." "You wouldn't happen to have a gourmet sandwich or two in that bag, would you?" "Now surely you don't expect me to carry food around in my baggage." "When's the last time you ate?" "Yesterday." "When yesterday?" "Morning." "You sit there starving to death and I got to pry it out of you." "I guess I'II just never understand you society folks." "You're making fun of me." "I never make fun of people on an empty stomach." "MIKE:" "Are you telling us that's the first stop that freight makes?" "She stops all right, for coal, for water, or to pick up freight." "But them's only way stations." "They got no telegraph office." "How many stops?" "And for how long?" "Six, seven." "Now, they pick up cattle, that can be along Iayover." "How many times they do that?" "Pick up cattle?" "Twice, I think." "(METALLIC CLINKING)" "(BRAKES SQUEAKING)" "What's that?" "The shack." "The what?" "The brakeman." "Now, if you'll expect to steal rides on freight cars you're gonna have to learn the language." "What are we stopping for?" "Probably for water." "Or coal." "Coal?" "It's for the engine." "You burn coal and it heats the water." "The water turns into steam." "The steam makes the wheels go around." "When the wheels go around..." "The train moves." "My, you certainly know a Iot of interesting things." "It's the mark ofthe common man, Annabelle." "Good, we're stopping for water." "Now that'Il give me a chance to get us some food." "I saw some farm houses out there." "And when I hop off, you close the door, but watch for me." "The second I get back, open that door fast." "'Cause ifthey catch me, we both got to do a lot of walking." "AII right?" "AII right." "(WHISTLE BLOWS)" "Thirty-five, forty." "You just bought yourself a good horse, mister." "I said when I woke up this morning, this was gonna be my day." "You know, in case you're interested, I call her Princess." "(CRICKETS CHIRPING)" "CURRY:" "Annabelle?" "Am I glad to see you." "Are you talking to me, or to that?" "Oh!" "To you, Annabelle." "Are you all right?" "I am not!" "I'm tired and I'm hungry and I've walked for miles." "And I'm cold!" "What made you decide to get offthe train?" "I figured that the only way I was going to find anything to eat was to find you." "Besides, with you gone that freight car seemed awfully lonely." "So, when it slowed down Ijumped off." "Where is it?" "Where's what?" "What you went after." "Food." "Didn't you find any?" "Annabelle, I'm sorry." "I ate it." "AII of it?" "Afraid so." "Well, then just find me some more!" "After all I went through to find you..." "Part of myjob's to check out the empties." "Ijust finished going through every one of 'em no more than 10 minutes ago." "You seen anyone jump offthe train since you left North Rim?" "No." "A fella tried to get on." "Back where we made a water stop." "Only he didn't make it." "You might say I kind of changed his mind." "Come to think of it now, he did look something like the man you're talking about." "(WIND HOWLING)" "(KNOCKING ON DOOR)" "Who's out there?" "CURRY:" "Would like to talk to you, mister." "What about?" "And who are you?" "ANNABELLE:" "Let us in, please." "I hate disturbing you folks, but we hoped that maybe you might have some food you could sell us." "What're you doing way out here this time of night?" "Well, we..." "We were on our..." "We're on our honeymoon." "(STUTTERING) And the buggy broke down and the wheel broke and we just had the one horse." "(CRIES)" "You poor dear!" "And on your honeymoon, too!" "You come right in to the fire and get warmed up while I make you some hot soup." "Well, just don't stand there, young feller." "Come on in." "We reckon we can get some grub for you and your wife." "Thank you." "ANNABELLE:" "I simply can't get over how gracious you and your husband have been to us." "So American, you know." "It'Il make such a fascinating story to tell our children, won't it, dear?" "We expect to have three." "At least." "I suppose your children are all grown and married now, huh?" "Minerva and me never had any children." "It might be..." "We've been spared a lot of heartache." "Well, excuse me." "Well, I'd guess we ought to be getting on." "You'll do no such thing." "John, this young man's talking about leaving!" "The very idea!" "Wanting to take your poor wife traveling in the middle of a freezing night." "We won't hear of it, will we?" "JOHN:" "They're spending the night right here." "It's not that we're ungrateful, Mrs. Lambert, you see, but..." "No, dear." "If you think that I'm going to get back on that horse on a night like this, you just don't know me, dear." "JOHN:" "Well, that's settled." "We don't have a room for you here in the house, let me fix up a nice snug place for you in the barn, with a couple of blankets and a lot of hay for a mattress." "Just come along with me." "Where is it?" "What?" "Saddlebags." "I left them by the door." "Oh, I put 'em away." "In the hall closet, with your wife's things." "I'm sorry, Mr. Lambert." "Honeymoon's do have a way of making people a little nervous." "And I guess as long as we're gonna stay here" "I might as well go get our things." "(DOGS BARKING)" "(WIND HOWLING)" "It's better than riding in the cold and the dark on that bony old horse of yours." "Well, you don't hear me complaining about it, do you?" "Well, I wouldn't have insisted we stay if I wasn't sure I could trust you." "Good for you." "Well, not up to what you'll get in San Francisco, I guess, but the price is right." "Thank you." "Come on, crawl in before I turn out the lantern." "You society folks always sleep with your shoes on?" "I'm afraid I don't have your knowledge of living like a hobo." "You wanted authentic experience." "Well, you're getting it." "(GRUNTING)" "(SHIVERING)" "(COYOTES HOWLING)" "Try and relax, Annabelle." "It takes a little getting used to." "I am relaxed!" "(COYOTES HOWLING)" "I'm freezing." "Okay, get your blanket and crawl in." "I don't want you to think for one minute..." "I'm not thinking anything." "Get in." "It's just that I'm cold." "So was I." "Glad you and your blanket decided to join me." "I wouldn't dream of doing anything like this if I wasn't." "Cold, I mean." "Of course you wouldn't." "I just wanted you to know." "I know!" "You all right now?" "Yes." "Annabelle?" "What?" "You're quite aliar, you know that?" "Well, you saw how they looked at us when they opened the door." "If I hadn't said that we were married they wouldn't even have let us in the house." "I know that." "I'm talking about everything else you've said." "It takes a first rate memory to be a really good liar, Annabelle." "You aren't equipped for it." "Well, it wasn't all lies." "Ijust like to exaggerate a little, for the sake of interesting conversation." "You know what really would interest me?" "What?" "Knowing what you're really running away from." "Oh." "And where you're really going." "Why, I told you the honest truth." "I'm running away from getting married." "To Reginald Vandemeter, ofthe Four Hundred." "Well." "Not exactly." "And where are you really going?" "To my father." "The financier." "Well, not exactly." "But he is a gentleman, and an authentic aristocrat." "A man of leisure and good manners and style." "Like letting you ride around on freight trains." "Style all right." "But he doesn't know that I'm coming to see him, to live with him." "Are you sure you can find him?" "Oh, sure." "He lives in Kingsburg." "Kingsburg?" "Well, what's so surprising about living in Kingsburg?" "Oh, nothing, except that's where I'm headed." "Really?" "Maybe you know my father." "His name is DeCourcey Considine." "No, I'm afraid not, Annabelle." "I'm only going to Kingsburg on business." "We'll be together all the way then, won't we?" "I won't let you out of my sight." "Suddenly I feel very warm and happy, and sleepy." "Good." "I was a little afraid you might talk all night." "Good night, Annabelle." "Here we are, Iike this, and I don't even know your name." "It's Jones." "And you called me aliar." "The world is full of people named Jones." "Yeah, I guess it is." "And I'm glad I met one ofthem." "Good night, Mr. Jones." "Good night, Annabelle." "(ROOSTER CROWING)" "I was beginning to think you'd sleep forever." "HEYES:" "Yeah, I'm looking for a friend of mine, I wondered if you can help me?" "Maybe." "Well, he bought an old sorrel horse without a saddle a few miles back." "Ijust want to know if he rode this way." "Sorrel horse, no saddle." "Nope." "Can't help you." "Thanks anyway." "Come on." "(GUN FIRING)" "Let's get out of here!" "Good idea." "What'II we use for a horse?" "I'm sorry, Princess." "AII right, you, get off ofthere." "It's me they want, so just do as you're told and you'll be all right." "Hey, don't I know you from some place?" "I should hope not." "No, Mike, no, wait!" "(GUN FIRING)" "MIKE:" "Let go!" "I'll kill him." "Settle down now." "Mike!" "AII right." "There's a few hundred there." "You might as well get it." "Okay." "You figured we'd catch up with you." "Grab the saddlebags and ride off after a quick look, right?" "Well, it didn't work." "Now, where is it?" "Mr. Greer showed us those packages and we believed him." "So Mr. Greer's gonna have to tell you where the money is, 'cause I sure can't." "Greer's a lawyer, he don't have to steal." "Well, he did." "He had us sign a receipt for $50,000." "Which puts him in the clear, and me in a lot oftrouble." "You expect me to believe that you signed for all that money without even counting it?" "Well, Iike you said, he's a lawyer, he don't have to steal." "I trusted him." "You're aliar." "Nobody's going to save your skin this time except you, by telling me where it is." "Hold it, Mike." "I wanna talk to you." "MIKE:" "You keep an eye on them." "(EXCLAIMS) I got it now!" "You're old man Pringle's granddaughter, Annie." "Annie Considine!" "You remember me." "I was at one of 'em barn dances over at your place a couple months ago." "Hey, you was supposed to be getting married about now to one ofthem wheat farmers." "AII right, you and the girl can go." "You gonna let him get away with that yarn?" "When that first bundle was cut open, I saw the look on his face." "Can't nobody look that surprised on purpose." "Then where is it?" "That blackleg lawyer's got it." "Just like he said." "Bythe way, if you're thinking we're a bunch ofthieves, forget it." "Every man here lost money when that bank in North Rim closed." "AII we're after is what belongs to us." "AII right, where'd you put it?" "You cleaned out that saddlebag." "Last night, when I was asleep." "I'd Iike to know where you hid it, and I'd Iike to know now." "You're horrible." "How would I know you had money in that thing?" "Now, you listen to me." "There was $50,000 in this saddlebag the night I left North Rim." "Now, if you didn't take it, I'd Iike to know who did." "The lawyer." "You said yourselfthat he..." "That was a lie, for them." "I helped count every pack ofthat money and put it in the bags myself." "And it hasn't been out of my sight since." "Except when they were in that freight car with you, and later on when I was asleep." "(CRYING)" "AII right." "AII right, all right, Annabelle." "There is one other answer." "If you didn't take it then our friends back there, Mr. and Mrs. Lambert, did." "That nice old couple?" "That's even worse than accusing me." "Well, it's either you or them." "There's no other possibility." "I'm going to take you back there with me." "And I'm not gonna let you out of my sight until I get that money back." "Did you marry him, Annabelle?" "The wheat farmer?" "No." "I wanted to live, to see things." "To talk to people about anything except the weather and cows and pigs and the prices of grain." "Ijust wasn't meant to be a farmer's wife." "I was meant to live differently, Iike my father." "How does he live?" "Like a gentleman." "CURRY:" "I know how it sounds, Mr. Lambert." "But somewhere between North Rim and your place, somebody took that money out of my saddlebags." "And whoever it was put back bundles made out of cut-up newspapers." "Like you've got right here." "You come into my home and accuse me of stealing from you?" "If I was a younger man I'd throw you out of here." "I don't like it any better than you do, Mr. Lambert." "But somebody took that money." "Now, she took it, or you took it." "Your own wife?" "Either way, I aim to get it back." "Now." "Well, I never." "Let's not get into that, Mrs. Lambert." "Things are mixed up enough already." "I'd Iike your permission to search your place, house, barn, everything." "The only way you'll search my place is with a sheriff." "(PANTING)" "AII right, Mr. Lambert." "Let's start looking." "Where's the key?" "You aren't going to open that door." "Where's the key?" "There isn't any key to that room." "It's God's truth." "There is no key." "Either you give me the key or I shoot the door open." "You aren't going into that room!" "I'm sorry." "Before I leave, I'II fix the lock and it'Il be just the way it was before." "We figured you'd come back for it." "(ANNABELLE GASPING)" "AII right, I did." "I'm checking out the only other possibility, but I still figure Greer has it." "Maybe." "Breen is heading back there now." "Nothing here belongs to any of you." "MIKE:" "Shut up." "This is my home!" "HEYES:" "Why don't we all talk this over?" "(PISTOL COCKING)" "Hi." "(TRAIN BELL RINGING)" "GREER:" "Hello there, boys." "Am I glad to see you two." "I thought you'd never get here." "We don't have the money." "I guess it doesn't come as a big surprise to you, does it?" "Well, no." "I gather you ran into a little trouble." "Where's the money, Mr. Greer?" "I had a choice." "Risk the money with you fellows or use you as decoys and bring the money here myself." "I decided to bring it here myself." "And how did you get the stacks of newsprint in the saddle bags?" "Ijust switched saddle bags, while you boys were signing the receipt." "Cool down." "Cool down." "You can't blame him for being upset, Mr. Greer." "If we'd lost that money, we'd have been in big, big trouble." "And you thought you'd lost it?" "Mmm-hmm." "But you didn't." "All's well that ends well." "(LAUGHS)" "You know, that's my philosophy, too." "What was that for?" "Because you called me a thief." "And I'm about to do it again unless I hear an apology." "I apologize, Annabelle, I apologize." "(WHISTLE BLOWS)" "Howdy." "We'd Iike two rooms, please." "One with bath for the young lady." "Yes, sir." "Could you tell me where I might find Mr. DeCourcey Considine?" "Who?" "Mr. DeCourcey Considine." "LN \ x  ¡ I" "Oh." "Oh, Deke." "Deke Considine." "Sure." "Where?" "In the saloon, Miss." "The saloon?" "Yes, Miss." "You'll find Deke there most any time, day or night." "Why do you say that?" "'Cause that's where he is." "When Deke's got money he plays poker for himself." "When he's broke he deals stud or blackjack for the house." "He's there right now, seen him half an hour ago." "Dealing blackjack for the house." "Thank you." "You didn't sign the register, miss." "Why don't you take yourself a room." "Get a bath and a rest and you'll be all right." "I am all right." "Good." "Sign the register." "No." "There's a train east in two hours." "I'II be taking it." "To where?" "Home." "I'm going home." "To get married?" "Yes." "Probably, one day." "What about all that authentic experience you were looking for?" "I..." "I think I found it." "AII right." "The train it is, but first you're going to get a bath and a chance to change your clothes." "(TRAIN HONKING)" "Tell my father you met me, and that I'm all grown up, and very happy." "Sure you don't want to tell him yourself?" "There's another train tomorrow." "No." "I'm not that grown up." "(WHISTLE BLOWING)" "His name is DeCourcey Considine, and he lives here in Kingsburg." "(WHEELS CHUGGING)"