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The episode follows Ben Harvey (played by George Mathews) as he is released from prison after serving five years for crimes committed during the Civil War. Determined to restart his life, he hires Paladin to escort him to the town of Gila, where he has a family store and hopes to reunite with his brothers.
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00:00If you believe I will defend Ben Harvey for principle or for money, you better believe this.
00:10I will protect him.
00:30I'm looking for someone named Paladin.
00:56He's a very busy man.
00:57You take me to him.
00:59He does not wish to be disturbed.
01:01Take me to his room.
01:02He out of town.
01:03Come on, now.
01:20Mr. Paladin, I tell him you're out of town, but he no listen.
01:23Turn him loose.
01:24Sure, you're Paladin.
01:26Turn him loose, Mr. Harvey.
01:28All right, hey boy?
01:29Sure, fine.
01:30But I didn't know his friend or yours.
01:32I never laid eyes on him before, but I have seen his picture.
01:35I ain't got a gun, Paladin.
01:37Neither have I.
01:38Tip him.
01:39What?
01:40It's customary when a hotel porter performs a service for you to tip him.
01:44Since this one did this service under duress, I suggest a dollar would be about right.
01:48A dollar?
01:49Now look here.
01:50A dollar?
01:52Anything else, just call.
01:54Anything else, just call.
02:02What do you want?
02:04Something I picked up in prison.
02:06A fellow there gave it to me.
02:07You know, I may have to have that card changed.
02:14There seemed to be too many of them floating around.
02:17Well, like the card says, I want to hire you.
02:20I don't work for criminals.
02:22Flap seams here, I think.
02:25Before you turn a man down, you ought to listen to him.
02:28I seem to be listening to you whether I want to or not.
02:33Oh.
02:34Tailors, lawyers, and doctors learn to close their mouths or close their shops.
02:38I've done my time.
02:39Five years, and I've evened the score.
02:41I'm not wanted anywhere.
02:43And that makes the men your outfit murdered lie easier in their graves.
02:47All right, then.
02:48I can't open my mouth without making a fool of myself.
02:51I've been that way all my life.
02:53Those five years didn't pay for a thing.
02:55Just bought me a chance to spend the rest of my life trying to pay back a little of what I owe the dead.
03:00And myself.
03:02You talked very well.
03:04I made a deal with the marshals down there.
03:06To give them a Harvey in jail.
03:08That they could show the voters in newspapers.
03:10They let my kin out of Missouri to go to a town where they could farm, shoe horses.
03:16You try to live down a reputation.
03:18It sticks.
03:19Don't think it don't.
03:21Well, your family did earn a reputation.
03:23There was the Bardstown Massacre.
03:25During the war.
03:26There were a hundred civilian gangs.
03:28The only way they could make a living was to steal.
03:30Because it was neighbor against neighbor.
03:32We were northern in a southern county, mister.
03:35And your family?
03:37They got a store in a place called Healer.
03:39It's a long haul through hell to Healer.
03:41I got a wagon load of goods and rifles and whatnot.
03:44I want to take there to them.
03:46What do you want with me?
03:47You see how I am.
03:49Hot tempered.
03:50Some fellas can't take liquor.
03:52Some fellas got the gambling fever.
03:54Well, I don't dare trust myself with a gun.
03:56I'd never get my wagon to Healer without protection.
04:00And I won't wear a gun.
04:01I want you to take me to Healer.
04:06You have $1,000?
04:07That's pretty steep, $1,000.
04:09I got a wagon load of goods worth $5,000.
04:12Mr. Harvey, I don't haggle.
04:17Neither do the Harveys.
04:26Healer.
04:27Four miles more to go.
04:29If we had to fight bushwhackers all the way,
04:30it'd still be $250 a mile.
04:32Well, we're not there yet.
04:33Cheer up.
04:34Well, I got to admit,
04:35you do make a good stew for $1,000.
04:38Well, you could have been bushwhack riding by yourself.
04:41Yeah, that's something I'll never know,
04:43whether I wasted my $1,000 or not.
04:45All right, let's go.
04:46Get him.
04:47Get him.
04:48Get him.
04:49Get him.
04:50Get him.
04:51Get him.
04:52Get him.
04:54Get him.
04:55Get him.
05:04That was him.
05:05Never thought they'd let him out once they got him in.
05:08Well, what do you think he's doing back there?
05:10I'll tell you, Kurt.
05:12I don't start to think till I got all the facts to work on.
05:25I don't know where he's going.
05:27Go, I don't know where he comes from.
05:28Come, a little bit.
05:29Let's go.
05:30Come on.
05:31Come on, go, go, go.
05:32Come on.
05:33Come on.
05:34Come on.
05:35Come on.
05:37Go, to Miss Nellie for 25 cents.
05:39Come on, go, go.
05:40And there's another one free for her mother.
05:43Come on!
05:44Go!
05:45Now, they're going to do with the happiest women in town.
05:49Business is booming.
05:54I thought that looks more like cheesecloth.
05:57Calico bolts, 54 inches wide.
06:01What am I bid?
06:02Ten cents the yard.
06:03Ten cents?
06:04You can have the whole bolt for ten cents.
06:08Here now, ladies.
06:11This is what they're shaped like in St. Louis.
06:14Hey, what is this?
06:16This gentleman has come a long way to find the Harveys.
06:20Well, then he can go join the posse.
06:22A posse?
06:23Every able-bodied man is out looking for him.
06:26What for? What'd they do?
06:28You name it, they did it.
06:30There are two dead men laying out there waiting till we get the Harveys to bury with them.
06:33They had a trial, I presume.
06:35Yes, we had a fine trial.
06:37We had five years of agony and grief and trouble out of the Harveys.
06:40And we finally got a jury to pass a just sentence.
06:43It was the whole town, mister.
06:45And the sentence was unanimous.
06:47The Harveys family, root and branch, guilty of sin.
06:50To be shot on sight.
06:52Ma'am.
06:55Now, what am I bid for this shape?
06:59Two dollars.
07:00It costs 15.
07:03Now, I must ask you to take this sale seriously.
07:06If this article is not worth 15, it's worth nothing.
07:09Three dollars.
07:10Three dollars, three dollars, it's yours.
07:13Get out of here, all of you!
07:15What'd you say?
07:17Mr. Harvey said to leave his store.
07:22Ben Harvey?
07:23Ben Harvey.
07:24Murderer.
07:25Highwayman.
07:25Robber.
07:26Now, get out of here, all of you!
07:31If you're anything like your brother...
07:33I'll murder you!
07:34Ted, give me that!
07:36Ben, Ben.
07:41You better get out, Harvey.
07:43You and your gunman with you.
07:45The posse will be back.
07:46Get out!
07:49There you go.
07:51Jumping in headfirst, scaring the devil out of him.
07:53Ah, what difference?
07:55Try to kill the past, but...
07:57Memory's an unkillable thing.
07:59Every shot in the dark,
08:00every look in the wrong direction,
08:02why, it's the Harvey boys.
08:03Just like Bardstown, Missouri, all over again.
08:09I knew there was something up when I heard the rumors
08:11about the Harvey boys and Healer.
08:13You knew there was trouble here when you hired me?
08:16Oh, have a drink.
08:18Stop yapping at me.
08:19You'd never come if you'd have known.
08:23Mr. Harvey,
08:25you still owe me $1,000.
08:29Well, then take the wagon.
08:30It's worth a lot more than that.
08:32You can't stay here?
08:35They're my only kin, Paladin.
08:37This is it.
08:38Sink or swim.
08:39You gotta stop running or killing somewhere,
08:42and this is where it might as well be.
08:44You'll have to wear a gun.
08:46Those people just shoot you down.
08:49Look,
08:50you had an easy trip up for the thousand.
08:53Can you throw in a day and
08:54wear my gun for me
08:56until I find out what this is all about?
08:59Gunfighter!
09:08Harvey's a dead man.
09:10You get out now before the posse gets back.
09:12We'll give you half an hour.
09:15After that, you step out.
09:16We'll kill you and him both.
09:19You go if you want.
09:21I stay.
09:24Carew!
09:25Get those women and old men off the street.
09:28They're just gonna get hurt.
09:29There's a mess of us and only two of you.
09:31And a half.
09:32Get those even clinically.
09:33You live in a living room more much.
09:34You have to impress them.
09:35Take a movie and follow your spiritual worth of Grandpa.
09:36But you will have to cross him.
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09:53Here he comes.
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09:57There's a good fight.
09:57That's going to close him.
09:58You're the one who's working that way.
09:58I want to give up a lullaby.
09:59Go on. Save yourself.
10:06You stay here. I'll try and get you a fair chance.
10:09Sure.
10:11Hold your fire, Karoon. I'm coming out.
10:15Good sense.
10:26Well, keep your eye on the store.
10:29Come on, gunfighter. I want to show you something.
10:50There. Look.
10:53They were partners of mine.
10:56Men I've known all my life.
10:59Jack and Kurt Harvey shot them down like dogs.
11:01Why?
11:02We've already had the trial.
11:04Now, wait a minute. You had a trial and the Harveys weren't here to defend themselves?
11:07Defend what? I saw them shoot.
11:11Now, if the sheriff was out on the posse, who held the trial?
11:14I did. Right here.
11:16There is Exhibit A and B.
11:19Mr. Carew, you're the only witness, the prosecutor, the judge, and, as far as I can determine, the sole beneficiary of this murder.
11:28And when we drove in, you were already selling off the Harveys' merchandise.
11:32Tell them, aren't they murderers or ain't they?
11:36These wasn't the fuss, mister.
11:38Well, at least the Harveys aren't vultures feeding on the prey somebody else killed.
11:42Now, listen, you.
11:43Ben Harvey was in prison the last five years.
11:45A Harveys is a Harveys.
11:48I see.
11:54Now, I have no wish to gun any of you.
11:56But you have no right to murder a man you've never seen before.
12:00A man who's totally innocent of anything his family may have done.
12:05In addition, Ben Harvey owes me a thousand dollars, and that makes it necessary for me to keep him alive until he can pay me.
12:11Now, whether you believe I'll defend Ben Harvey for principle or for money, you had better believe I will defend him.
12:29The sheriff will be back.
12:31We'll deal with him when he gets here.
12:34In the meantime, Carew, will you get these women off the street?
12:37Making them accessories to your stealing the Harveys' store is inexcusable.
12:41Maybe you'd have trouble shooting a woman.
12:43By all means rely on my chivalry, Mr. Carew, but I assure you all, I will shoot anyone who tries to kill me.
12:51And the husbands will hardly thank the man who organized women and a few old men into a posse against a professional fighter.
12:58Now, now, now, wait a minute!
13:02When the posse gets here, I guess there'll be a lot of gunplay.
13:09Jack Harvey is the killer.
13:11He swore that he's going to kill me on sight.
13:17All right, gunfighter.
13:19The posse will get them.
13:21The posse will get all of them.
13:23What's happening?
13:24Your family seems to have made enemies whatever they actually did.
13:27There's a posse coming back, and from the looks of things, you aren't going to have any chance to explain.
13:31Come on.
13:33Come on.
13:34What's the use?
13:45You better get out while you're still got a chance.
13:47Harvey, you're forgetting my thousand dollars.
13:49If I use it, I'll be right back where I started.
14:02I'll stand by her, Dale.
14:03You did hire me to be your gun.
14:06Thanks.
14:07The thousand will never pay for that.
14:08Haru!
14:12Get out of here!
14:16That's not the posse.
14:17Those are my brothers.
14:20Ben!
14:22Ben!
14:22Let's just see what this is all about.
14:28Haru, I'm waiting for you.
14:32Old man, you give us five years of misery.
14:35And we're in the trial to get us hanged.
14:37You come out, I'll get what's coming.
14:45In the street, inside, it's all the same to me.
14:47Now, Jack, this won't solve a thing.
14:57It certainly will.
14:59It'll make me feel a whole lot better.
15:02The thing I'll never understand is you're no better than a highwayman.
15:05Only you use your loans and legal papers and the trust that people have in you to steal what they got.
15:12We Harveys always fight out in the open.
15:16Jack, you're in the office.
15:17Your brother's here.
15:19He's right behind you.
15:21I saw him come in.
15:23Jack, listen.
15:25Your brother's got no gun.
15:27I think that he's trying to reform.
15:30Now, you look out for the gunman that he's got with him.
15:33That's a friendly warning.
15:34That's from me to you, Jack.
15:37Well, thank you.
15:40He's going to kill that man, Ben.
15:41I'll...
15:41He's going to kill that man.
15:42I'll pull that man.
15:43I'll...
16:04I needs to go.
16:05He was unarmed.
16:16Well, he never did fight with guns.
16:19But I thought about it, I'd brought a loaded morgue and shot him with that.
16:23Now, who are you?
16:24Your brother hired me to defend him while he tried to prove your innocence.
16:28His arm's busted.
16:32Jack, we can't shoot our way out of trouble anymore.
16:34Oh, no.
16:36Well, I don't see any other way.
16:37Apparently, you never did.
16:39Carew sold us out, Ben. He tried to hang a...
16:42Shut up, Kurt.
16:44I don't know what Ben and his gunfighter friend here want yet.
16:48You did kill those two men in the wagon.
16:51Kurt, Clay.
16:53Now, you watch old Ben's friend here.
16:58Carew was supposed to pay us for killing him.
17:01But when we come to collect, he had a posse up and running for it.
17:04Oh, Ben, you would have been proud of us.
17:06I gave five years of my life to give you a chance to do something right.
17:10You cheated me.
17:10Get off that horse.
17:12Come on.
17:13No.
17:15Too bad, gunfighter.
17:17Ben, I'm running the Harveys now.
17:20We ain't a bunch of storekeepers.
17:22Maybe you are.
17:24Kurt?
17:27No.
17:30Clay, don't be a fool.
17:32You're sitting on the ground with a headache, not me.
17:39Don't think that posse's gonna catch us.
17:41What's left of that posse ain't gonna catch anybody.
17:43You, uh, want to draw your gun there, mister?
17:50No.
18:04I'm sorry.
18:06They're murderers, aren't they?
18:07You know them better than I do.
18:09Ben, I'm not a fool.
18:10I won't try and take them alone.
18:13I'm gonna get me a gun.
18:14No.
18:34Ah!
18:34Ah!
18:36Ah!
18:37Ah!
18:43Ah!
18:44Hey! Clay, you stay out of this! It's Jack I want!
18:53Little Clay. Little Clay.
19:04That outfit operates like a well-drilled army squad.
19:07Yeah.
19:14Hey, Ben! Ain't this like old times?
19:19Well, Ben, you're in a lot of practice, ain't you?
19:24Well, that's a little closer, Ben!
19:27Where's Kurt?
19:44My life!
19:46Listen to me!
19:48Come on!
19:50I'll take it all right.
19:52What did you want?
19:54Come on!
19:56Come on!
19:59Come on!
20:02Come on!
20:03Come on!
20:05Come on!
20:06Come on!
20:07Come on!
20:09Come on!
20:10Come on!
20:11You want to talk, Ben?
20:37You want to talk, Ben?
20:41You talk for a jury, kid.
20:43That ain't fair.
20:45This wasn't my idea.
20:47Maybe a jury will believe that.
20:49Get up, son.
20:53Our deal is over, Paladin.
20:55This is between me...
20:57and my brother.
21:01I ain't giving you no choice, Clay.
21:03You give yourself up.
21:05I don't want to shoot, Ben.
21:07One way or the other.
21:09You're gonna get it.
21:11You shoot me?
21:13Yes.
21:14Now drop that gun.
21:15All right.
21:17Drop it, you fool, kid.
21:19If I ever happen, drop it.
21:21Please drop it.
21:23I ain't sure I'm not changing my mind.
21:25Don't, kid.
21:27Please.
21:29I ain't sure I'm not changing my mind.
21:31Don't, kid.
21:33Please.
21:35Please.
21:55Not your fault.
21:56No.
21:57I trained them up that way.
21:59You didn't train them to like killing.
22:00That was all their own.
22:04The Harvey's are dead.
22:16That's no use.
22:17I got nothing to pay you with.
22:20They won't buy this stuff.
22:22I still gotta run from the Harvey name.
22:24Run where?
22:25I don't know.
22:26But I'll get you a thousand dollars.
22:28That stuff in the wagon's worth a lot more than a thousand.
22:30Then take it.
22:31I'll give you the whole works.
22:47Wakey, wakey.
22:48Step right up, ladies and gentlemen.
22:50Come one, come all.
22:51I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
22:53Walk in closer, ladies and gentlemen.
22:55You can't see the merchandise from back there.
22:56Come on, come one, come all.
22:59Now, this wagon contains six cases of these rifles,
23:02twenty rifles to the case, and ammunition.
23:05A shot fired from a rifle like this was started on its way by gunsmiths,
23:10whose skill in carving steel was like a lover's caress.
23:14These rifles represent the triumph of American industry.
23:19As dependable as honest labor can make them,
23:23as inexpensive as efficient management dares sell them for.
23:27For a rifle embodying, as this one does,
23:30the accumulated skills and sciences of mankind's 3,000 years of civilization,
23:35I am asking you the enormous price of $40.
23:40Is that a fine rifle, sir?
23:42Look at that.
23:44Smooth as silk.
23:46Silk, silk, silk, the man says.
23:50And silk we say.
23:52Ladies.
23:53That fine imported French silk, $1.98 a yard.
24:02Paladin.
24:03Paladin.
24:04Just a minute, ladies and gentlemen.
24:06The owner wants to say something.
24:07$1.98 a yard?
24:09I only paid 50 cents for it.
24:11Give it to him for a dollar even.
24:13Well, if Mr. Harvey wishes to give his merchandise away,
24:16$1 even.
24:18$35 for the rifle.
24:21Very sorry, sir.
24:22You have to talk to the children.
24:24$35 for you.
24:25Just a minute, ladies and gentlemen.
24:27Just a minute.
24:28Now, why don't you make it idle the Esquire?
24:31Tomorrow we'll have the grand opening.
24:34Hey, Bill?
24:35$35.
24:36Yeah, man.
24:37How about that?
24:38$35, I'll take one.
24:43A gun will travel reads the card of a man, a knight without armor in a savage land.
25:04His fast gun for hire heats the calling wind.
25:12A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.
25:22Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
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