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Paladin is just passing through when he walks into a blood feud that threatens to destroy a teenage girl just returning to the area.
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00:00Gentlemen, in the last few hours, I've been abused, beaten, shot at, and had my horse stolen.
00:19Now I'd like a few answers, if you don't mind.
00:30I'd like a few answers, if you don't mind.
00:46I'd like a few answers, if you don't mind.
01:16I'd like a few answers, if you don't mind.
01:23Hold it!
01:35Now let's start with your name.
01:38What's you doing?
01:40My name is Paladin.
01:42I'm from San Francisco.
01:45And I'm just passing through.
01:48Or maybe you're just calling on the girl, Juliet.
01:52Or you know where she is.
01:54We just finished burying her aunt and uncle.
01:57Now we want her.
02:00You two did that?
02:02Why, sure.
02:03They're harpers and we're pikes.
02:09The colonel's coming back.
02:11Maybe he found out something.
02:17Who is he?
02:27A stranger.
02:28Kind of ornery.
02:29Well, just leave him be.
02:32I found out where the gal went.
02:35Nelson, you go get the man's horse.
02:37On foot and without a gun.
02:39He ain't gonna be no trouble to us.
03:02Ah!
03:03Ah!
03:04Ah!
03:05Ah!
03:06Oh!
03:09Oh!
03:10Wait.
03:11Oh!
03:12Oh!
03:13Hey!
03:14Mildred?
03:15Oh!
03:16Oh!
03:17Oh!
03:19Oh!
03:20Oh, oh!
03:21Pull him up! Now!
03:23Get up!
03:41Pull him out! Now!
03:47Now gentlemen, I usually begin more politely.
03:51In the last few hours, I've been beaten, abused, shot at.
03:54I've lost my horse and my gun, and now I want some answers.
03:58Since when did Butterfield Stages run down fares?
04:01You saw my money.
04:02Well, we thought maybe you was one of Jeremiah Pike's kin.
04:06Colonel Pike? Confederate irregulars?
04:08The same. Worse than Quantrill.
04:11Did you ever hear what he did to those Maryland farm people?
04:13I heard. Both sides, the North and the South, had a price on his head.
04:17We're carrying something he wants. Bad.
04:19We figured you was one of his tricks.
04:24I've got a horse and a gun in the next town. Settle my fare there.
04:49I'm Juliette Harper.
05:03Miss Harper, I have no intention of harming you.
05:07Why don't you put the knife away?
05:08I have some water and some linen here. You look like you need it.
05:19Oh, thank you.
05:25You know, Miss Harper, there's an old rule and a very good one.
05:29Young ladies should not stare at strangers, particularly very young ladies.
05:35It causes misunderstandings.
05:38I'm old enough to take care of myself, thank you. I'm 18.
05:42Let's see. That means you are actually 17.
05:45At your age, the female of the species adds one year.
05:48I've heard your name, Miss Harper.
05:57You were living with an aunt and an uncle.
06:01And you're trying to find some way to tell me they're dead.
06:04Well, you guessed right.
06:07They're dead.
06:08Oh, I'm an expert on that subject.
06:1117.
06:12I've seen more death than most women at 70.
06:15You want to hear how my folks died?
06:20Just trying to get enough money to get us out of this place.
06:23To let me and my brother see how decent people live.
06:26And have a decent education.
06:29And a decent place to live.
06:33Because they don't even know what that word means at Tonopah County.
06:38And they won't until every last pike and harper is dead and buried.
06:42Now, does that sound like I'm 17?
06:45Do you have some place to go?
06:48My brother got away first.
06:51He's got some kind of ranch on Sandwich Islands.
06:54Hawaii, I think they call it now.
06:57And he sent for me.
06:58I spent a year in Hawaii once.
07:01I think you'll like it there.
07:03You mean if I get there?
07:05Those are beautiful islands.
07:07You know how they round up cattle there?
07:09They drive them into the surf.
07:11Seagoing cowboys.
07:12And afterwards, there's music and dancing.
07:15And they're going to go down here.
07:27Can't reach them.
07:28They're staying out of shotgun range.
07:30We'll still try to outrun them.
07:31Miss Hopper, we're going to have to jump around the next turn.
07:46I don't want you to break your ankles.
07:47Let's take these shoes off.
07:54Come on.
07:55Is it you all right?
08:09Yes.
08:09Now, when they stop that stage, they'll know we jumped.
08:29They won't kill the shotgun on the driver, but they'll certainly come back for us.
08:33We've got to move.
08:34We'll take a chance on the smoke.
08:59And I'd better have blocked the light out of these windows.
09:07Let's see.
09:08We're about 14 miles north of the stage line now.
09:16Do you have any idea whose place this might be?
09:18Do you have any idea?
10:08Good morning.
10:17Good morning.
10:19There's some food on the table. It's cold. I couldn't risk a fire.
10:22Oh, that looks good.
10:24Aren't you hungry?
10:25I've already eaten.
10:27How long are we going to stay here?
10:29Well, we can't risk traveling during the day. We'll stay here today, at least.
10:33Oh, you sound cross.
10:34Didn't you sleep well?
10:36No. The fact that there are men out there hunting us may have had something to do with that.
10:41You want to clean up, there's a bucket of water outside.
10:43Well, I'm pleased that you've noticed that I'm old enough to carry a bucket.
10:47That's Harper.
10:52Let's try and agree on one thing.
10:54The fact that you and I are here alone together does not make this a romantic interlude.
10:59My primary interest is in staying alive.
11:02You think you are so smart.
11:04Just a minute.
11:07What do you know about this place?
11:09Maybe if you start treating me like a woman, then I would...
11:12I have tried to make that point with you. You aren't a woman.
11:15I don't know about this place.
11:18It's the Johnson Ranch.
11:21My aunt knew and she used to bring me up here.
11:23Was Mr. Johnson in the cavalry?
11:26I think my uncle said he was with cannon or something.
11:30Confederate artillery?
11:32No, Union.
11:33How long has it been since anyone saw the Johnsons?
11:42I guess at least a month.
11:45Somebody in town the other day was just that.
11:52Now, Miss Harper, we've got to put this room back in exactly the same order that we found it.
11:57Now.
11:58Well, what happened to the Johnsons?
12:00We're very lucky they were pushed over the county line at gunpoint.
12:03Those sabers up there in that fireplace are Confederate cavalry pieces.
12:06Jeremiah Pike?
12:07That's right. Jeremiah Pike.
12:09We picked a tiger's den to hide it.
12:11The jacket. I forgot the jacket.
12:30You got the bacon out of the saddlebag?
12:39You got two hands, ain't you?
12:42Why, I'll let...
12:42Go on now. I'll fetch some water.
12:44Don't the colonel ever get tired of sniffing for trail?
13:05Acts like a blamed hunting dog.
13:08Better get some food on.
13:09He'll be mighty mean if you don't find that prince.
13:11He's coming in the house.
13:13I know you're talking to a woman.
13:15Ex
13:30the counterfeit
13:33which alone
14:06Look, the Johnson kid must have played up here.
14:11I used to make straw-filled dolls, too.
14:15That was years ago, of course.
14:17Of course.
14:20Has Jeremiah shown up yet?
14:22The other two are still in the house. They've got a fire going.
14:26I hope he doesn't. I'm more afraid of him than anything.
14:30There's one thing about being in the tiger's den.
14:33It's the last place he'd expect to find his prey.
14:36Maybe we'll talk about something else.
14:39I don't even know your name.
14:43It's Paladin.
14:45Paladin?
14:47Shall I tell you something?
14:50I'm not afraid.
14:51Not with you here.
14:53Does that sound real dumb?
14:54Yes.
14:58You always have to make good sense, don't you?
15:01As Ben Johnson said, good judgment is forced upon us by age and experience.
15:08You keep trying to sound so blamed old.
15:11Are you trying to impress me or to convince yourself?
15:17What do you do for a living?
15:22Are you trying to think of some lie, Mr. Paladin?
15:25Something to scare me with?
15:27Well, let's see.
15:30You're used to running people.
15:33If I'm such a child like you say, how come you can't run me?
15:39You make a lot of money.
15:42And you've lived with danger.
15:43And you're very experienced in a lot of things, I guess.
15:50And you're a gentleman.
15:52And you travel a lot.
15:54I travel.
15:55Yes, yes, I do travel.
15:56Just say I hire out my gun.
16:09I think you're lying.
16:12But even if you aren't, maybe I don't care what you are.
16:15Miss Harper, let me try and make a point that you should consider in your future dealings with people.
16:27Now, the gun that I ordinarily carry in this holster has a two-ounce trigger pull.
16:33Do you know what that means?
16:35Touch it, breathe on it, and it fires.
16:39There are certain things in life that are just as dangerous and just as easily triggered by careless, thoughtless people.
16:49You mean emotions?
16:50Are they something I'm supposed to be afraid of?
16:53At 17, yes.
16:55You said you left Tonopah to find decency.
16:59Juliet, that's what decency is.
17:03It's holding on to the beliefs that keep us in check.
17:05But sometimes those beliefs can be stretched terribly thin, so that a careless act or even a careless word can break through them.
17:20The two loveliest things I know.
17:29A lovely girl and a lovely woman.
17:32One has a fresh innocence and the other a kind of ripened perfection.
17:42And there's a time in every woman's life when she's both changing back and forth like Quicksilver.
17:51The rarest and loveliest thing in all creation.
17:57If what you say is true, then the time comes in her life when she changes, and she becomes all woman, and then our rules change, don't they?
18:10And now that we've gotten your mind off those men down there, do you feel better?
18:27If we're going to travel tonight, maybe we'd better get some rest.
18:35Yeah, that's a good idea.
18:41Hey, Pat!
19:03Nelton!
19:05Come on out of here!
19:07Well, I don't make no mistakes about tracking.
19:11Stranger, he covered his track pretty good.
19:13But the girl, she left enough to make it easy.
19:15Well, they sure ain't in the house.
19:17Well, I wonder where they could be.
19:21They found us.
19:23I wonder where they could be.
19:27They found us.
19:29I wonder where they could be.
19:31I wonder where they could be.
19:35They found us.
19:37Now, just don't move and don't make it sound.
19:41Hey, stranger!
19:43We know you're in there.
19:45We know that you ain't got a gun.
19:47You'd have shot back when my nephew chased that stage if you'd had another gun.
19:53Now, if you come out now, I promise that no harm will come to you.
20:09Why, you don't want to get killed just because of that gal.
20:13Well, Dad, they're back.
20:14I'll stay here in case they make a rush for it.
20:16And when you find them, kill them.
20:20You can also go away.
20:22You can, never mind.
20:23I'll be lying.
20:24Well, Dad, I promise that you may be.
20:25You'll be lying.
20:26But there will never be.
20:27But, eh, what's with you.
20:28You won't be lying.
20:29I'll watch a break.
20:30But.
20:31I'll go home.
20:32Yeah.
20:33Yeah.
20:34I'll go home.
20:35I'll go home.
20:36It's going home.
20:38I'll go home.
20:39Yeah.
20:40Yeah.
20:40Let's go.
21:00Carter! Carter!
21:07Go in the house and get some kerosene.
21:09All you can find will burn them up.
21:25Stop it!
21:39Forget it!
21:44Murder the queen.
21:46Arrest him.
21:57Come on now, it's all right.
22:27Well, aren't you lovely?
22:39Now, here is your ticket.
22:45I have sent your luggage to the ship and arranged with the captain for you to take your meals at his table.
22:49I think you'll find it a very pleasant trip.
22:51I saw the way those ladies looked at you this afternoon.
22:54You knew them, didn't you?
22:55That one with the red hair.
22:58She couldn't be more than a year older than I am.
23:00And you're treating me like a daughter or something.
23:03I know they were laughing at me.
23:06The one with the red hair, that is Eileen Rolfe, and she's practically ancient.
23:11She's 24.
23:12Well, I'll be 18 in July.
23:15Well, Julian.
23:17Happy birthday.
23:27Will you come to Hawaii someday, please?
23:31As a matter of fact, I promised myself that trip.
23:33I won't look at another man, not even speak to him.
23:38No. Miss Harper?
23:43I'm third officer Jenkins.
23:45Since you'll be the only woman on board,
23:47the purser's asked me to escort you to the ship.
23:52Mr. Jenkins, I trust you'll see that Miss Harper has a pleasant voyage.
23:56What? Oh, yes, sir.
23:59I'll see to that, sir.
24:01I mean, yes, sir.
24:04Oh, goodbye, Capaldon.
24:06Goodbye.
24:18The lady with red hair, she's waiting in dining room.
24:22Oh, yes, the lady with red hair.
24:25Well, hey, boy, supper for two.
24:28Champagne Loire and Napoleon Brandy.
24:32You all right, Mr. Paladin?
24:35Well, Mr. Paladin will be better before this evening is over.
24:40He'll feel less noble, but...
24:44much better.
24:46Oh, yes, I got it.
24:47Yes, I got it.
24:48Yes, I got it.
24:49I got it.
24:50I got it.
24:54A gun will travel
24:59Reads the card of a man
25:03A knight without armor
25:06In a savage land
25:09His vast gun for hire
25:13Heads the calling wind
25:15A soldier of fortune
25:19Is the man called
25:22Paladin
25:24Paladin, paladin
25:29Where do you roam?
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