"That is chateau la tour '68." "This wine comes from the half acre on the steepest slope" "Just north of the chateau water tower." "And the perfume comes from someplace I remember." "Oh, well." "Hey boy." "Hey boy, what do you think now?" "I think what for all those years I drink water." "Well..." "Oh." "Terribly sorry." "Will you wait?" "I do not think you would like to hear yes or no." "So we shall see." "Well..." ""$500.00 reward will be paid by santa ynez county" "For the capture, dead or alive, of david gibbs."" ""I will pay you $5,000" ""if you guarantee to bring my son in alive." "Morgan gibbs." "Santa ynez."" "You take the right fork out of town through yellow creek pass." "It's an indian hut." "You'll be able to see it from there." "Mr. Gibbs, you're sure your son's up there?" "He's there." "Why don't you get him yourself?" "If I did, I'd kill him." "Or him me." "I bring him back here," "It'll be to the law." "Don't trouble none about the law." "The boy killed a woman." "The woman I was set to marry." "And he'll hang for it." "But no gibbs is gonna be drug through the rocks like a savage." "Not even him." "You make sure that you ain't followed." "Nobody in this town's got the nerve to buck me," "But there's liable to be bounty hunters in from out of state." "whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa!" "Whoa, easy." "You wouldn't shoot a defenseless old man, would you, mister?" "I might, you make one more move for that blunderbuss." "just habit." "Man livin' to hisself." "But that ain't no blunderbuss." "That's a cap-and-ball sharpie." "It's a what?" "That's a cap-and-ball sharpie." "Best killing' piece ever made." "I couldn't get paper cartridges up there at santa ynez," "So I had to take "tobacky" paper and stick-'em gum" "From the general store." "Oh." "Would you have a little bit of salt beef?" "It's all I got." "Well, I guess you figured out by now that I'm a bounty hunter." "You believe me?" "Well, I..." "Well, I've done other things, too." "The deaf welshman's strike." "Well, I found it again." "And I woulda had enough gold" "To have bought out that whole town of chicago." "You see that?" "Darn near got myself scalped." "Leading trail for fremont." "And went right on my head just like that." "You lookin' for the gibbs boy, too?" "That's right." "Well, I got him staked." "I've done most of the flushing'." "You got to admit that, ain't you?" "Mm-hmm." "Well, now, tell you what." "I ain't one to be a hog," "And if you'll spell me, well, then we'll split the shares." "500." "Half of 500." "Now, that'd be..." "It'd be $250." "there a back door to that shack down there?" "Nothin' but the front." "And I figured that he's got some food in there," "But no water." "Oh, it might last, say two, maybe three days." "Then when he comes out, we get him..." "And he's ours." "Well, I was figurin' on bringin' him in alive." "Alive?" "You ain't figuring' on goin' in there after him, are you?" "Why, his ma was a full-blooded pima." "He ain't civilized like us." "Oh." "Well, you take this..." "And start firing." "At what?" "Fire at the front of the shack." "he's bird." "Just plain bird." "You hold your fire, old man!" "My father sent you." "To bring you in alive." "He couldn't even let me die decently." "At least my mother wrestled that much from him." "That's the pima death rite." "Why are you doing that to yourself?" "Ask my father that." "I will." "Knife." "Bone knife." "I can't." "I can't even do that." "Fifteen two, fifteen four." "Did you bring him in?" "George will give you your check." "It's in the safe." "Not necessary." "Where is he?" "You planning on dinner, mr." "Paladin?" "paladin!" "Mr. Gibbs." "You've got $500 coming for that dead body you brought in." "Wasn't figuring' on leavin' without collecting', was you?" "I'll be here until morning." "Good." "Good morning." "You're still serving breakfast?" "Breakfast?" "Yes." "You do eat a morning meal in this part of the country?" "Oh, y-yeah." "Breakfast." "There's two more out back." "Take his gun belts, george." "But, mr..." "Go ahead." "He's covered." "All right, gibbs." "Now, what are you tryin' to prove?" "You think I was gonna let you pick up your blood money" "And just ride off?" "You murdered my son and you're gonna stand trial for it." "Right here." ""lynch"?" "That the word you were looking for?" "I said a trial." "Just as fair a trial as you got any right to." ""I am the law," said louis." "Good morning." "Good morning." "Them high-topped boots come in that you ordered." "I'll come by for 'em little after noontime." "It'll be all right, mr." "Gibbs?" "Sure." "Take him in there, frank." "Frank, I don't think you better fire that." "Might spoil mr." "Gibbs's little farce." "Hello, doc." "I'm gonna need you." "Charlie, you be the judge." "Oh, not me." "You're always braggin' about how you read the law." "That was 30 years ago." "Just do like I tell you." "Give him another bottle." "Put it on my bill." "Joe and you two and you." "You be the jury." "You." "You're on the jury." "Look here, I'm not from this town." "I'm a drummer." "G.L. Stevens." "Ladies wear and cloth and..." "And lotions." "Get in there." "Charlie, call the court to order." "All right, right down this way." "Court's gonna go in session." "Gonna start the..." "Excuse me, frank." "Nice morning, ain't it?" "It's the kind of day makes a fella wish" "He was lazing' on a bank cat fishing'." "Uh, you the fella that mr." "Gibbs is gonna hang?" "They don't give you time to do a job right." "Rush." "Always rush." "Work before pleasure." "you're all sworn in and ready." "Pay attention to me 'cause this is a very important piece of evidence." "This piece of paper here is a bank draft." "This bank draft is made out to..." "What is it you call paladin legal?" "Defendant." "Yeah." "It's made out to the defendant for $5,000." "Did you ever see it before?" "Yes, sir." "You gave it to me to put in the hotel safe." "And what did I tell you about it?" "It was to give to paladin when he brought your son in alive." "Any questions?" "That's all." "Doc richardson." "Wait a minute." "Swear him in." "I want this done legal." "You swear to tell the truth, the whole truth," "And nothing but the truth?" "I do." "All right." "You're a regular doctor, ain't you?" "I mean, you've got a license to practice." "You know that." "But you're supposed to tell the jury." "I've been working under a license for 22 years." "You got a good look at my boy's body" "After paladin murdered him and brought him in?" "Yes, I did." "Where was he shot?" "In the upper lumbar region..." "Oh, say it out plain, doc." "In the back." "Yeah." "I guess that settles it pretty clear, don't it?" "It sure does." "Wait a minute!" "Out of order!" "The defendant's out of order." "That law you read 30 years ago," "Defendant has no right to cross-examine a witness?" "Well, let him ask anything he wants, charlie." "I've got no objections." "Sure, mr." "Gibbs." "Thank you, your honor." "You take the bullet out of david gibbs's body?" "No." "Mr. Gibbs didn't ask me to." "If you had, you'd have found that the bullet" "That killed david gibbs did not come from my gun." "What'd he do, shoot himself in the back?" "He was killed by a bounty hunter." "What bounty hunter?" "Man come into your store asking for paper cartridges" "For a breech-loading sharpe's gun?" "Well, uh..." "I'm asking the questions, not mr." "Gibbs." "What sort of a looking fellow?" "How many men clutter up your store each day" "Asking for paper cartridges" "For a gun that hasn't been in use for 30 years?" "Old fella?" "Wears a dirty old buffalo jacket?" "Is that the man you say is the bounty hunter?" "Why, that's old perce webber." "He's been out of his mind for 20 years." "Bounty hunter?" "Why, he couldn't hit a cow from the inside shooting' out." "Where'd you say old perce was?" "You'll find his body at the bottom of yellow creek gorge." "Did you kill old perce, too?" "Old perce." "Sweet, lovable, old perce." "He put a mini-ball right into david gibbs's back." "And you can prove that, too, if you're interested." "But you're not interested in the truth, are you?" "What are you frightened of?" "You just want a scapegoat" "To pay for your driving your son to his death?" "That's the raw nerve, isn't it?" "Your honor, I call morgan gibbs to the stand." "Motion denied." "That's all right, charlie." "Have yourself another drink." "Excuse me, mr." "Gibbs." "Yeah?" "What is it?" "Mr. Antrim give me these little, bitty old nails" "And I ask him for spikes." "Try to make 'em do and we'll see how it works out." "Yes, sir." "It might take another ten minutes." "All right, charlie." "Swear me in." "You swear to tell the truth..." "Yes, I do." "Sure." "Now, mr." "Gibbs, you own the largest trading station" "In this part of the country." "Plenty of land." "Lot of cattle." "You're a wealthy man." "I guess." "How'd you get it all?" "I built it." "That's not true, mr." "Gibbs." "You were a hide scrounger." "You were saved from an apache scalping by the pima indians." "And you'd still be a hide scrounger," "But you married the daughter of a pima chief" "And you had all their trade thrown your way." "That's a lie." "Mr. Gibbs, the jury knows it's true." "Look at 'em." "And your son knew it." "That why you hated him?" "Hated him?" "I sent him to the best schools back east." "Did you know that?" "I gave him the best of everything." "He turned against me anyway." "Why?" "Why, mr." "Gibbs?" "Because I couldn't breed the savage out of him, that's why." "Because I couldn't school it out and I couldn't beat it out." "No." "No, sir, mr." "Gibbs, that is not why." "Your son came home from school" "To find his mother gone" "And you all dressed up to marry another woman." "He came home to find you repaid his mother" "For everything you owed her by killing her." "I never killed her." "You drove her out." "No." "I told her straight out that another woman was coming." "She just stared at me like a totem." "How was I to know that she'd run off and cut herself to death" "In some savage indian rite?" "What'd she wanna do that for?" "Shame." "Or is that too civilized for you to understand?" "All right." "So she run off and killed herself." "That don't bring back my boy or the woman I was set to marry." "David killed her." "Did he?" "Did david kill her?" "Sure he did." "Right here." "He busted into this room I fixed up like a bridal suite" "And started shootin'." "Did david kill her?" "You're on your own stand." "You can't hide here." "Did he kill her?" "Everybody here knows that he did." "I don't know it." "You were here." "You see david kill that woman?" "Well, uh..." "You're still under oath." "I didn't see it exactly, but I heard the shots." "Shots?" "More than one shot." "That's right." "Like they were firing back and forth." "The newspaper account says the woman was felled by one shot." "One." "There was more shots." "See, mr." "Gibbs was nicked in the arm." "I guess david was hit, too," "Because there was blood on the window where he went out." "That boy came back into the room to kill you, not the woman." "That's the truth, isn't it?" "He come in that room like he's crazy." "Marrying her didn't mean I was cuttin' him out," "But he wouldn't listen." "He started shootin' and..." "And you shot back and the woman was killed." "Well, it really doesn't matter." "Doesn't matter whether the bullet that killed the woman" "Was fired by you or by david" "Any more than it matters whether the mini-ball" "That landed in david's back" "Came from my gun or from perce webber's," "Because you really pulled both those triggers." "What you've bred into your son, you've bred into this town." "Fear and hate." "And sooner or later," "They'll have enough of you." "Sooner or later." "You figure so?" "Charlie, tell them to give the verdict." "One of you's got to say off the verdict." "We find the defendant..." "Just a minute." "The defendant will please rise and face the jury." "Now?" "We find the defendant guilty." "Guilty?" "It is the sentence of this court" "That the defendant be hung by the neck..." "Before or after lunch, mr." "Gibbs?" "Now." "Court's adjourned." "March him out, frank." "Well, he won't be needing these anymore." "It's a good thing, too." "Paladin," "It was david's shot killed her, not mine." "It wasn't..." "I didn't..." "If it was david, why try to hang me?" "My son is dead." "Someone's got to die for it." "The guilty must die." "That's right, mr." "Gibbs." "You can't just walk away." "You already been sentenced to hang." "That presents something of a problem, doesn't it?" "Perhaps out of all your years of selfless devotion to the law," "You'll be able to think of some technicality that covers it." "I remember something about a dying declaration" "That takes precedent over something." "That'll do nicely." "The only thing is, I can't remember exactly what." "¶ "have gun, will travel" reads the card of a man ¶" "¶ a knight without armor in a savage land ¶" "¶ his fast gun-for-hire heeds the calling wind ¶" "¶ a soldier of fortune is the man called ¶" "¶ paladin ¶" "¶ paladin, paladin where do you roam ¶"