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When a rancher's wife claims she is a widow searching for a husband, the rancher hires Paladin to investigate.
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00:00.
00:30I've got you now, Paladin.
00:45It's checkmate in two moves.
00:49Two moves for you.
00:51One move for me.
00:55Mate.
00:56Those complicated defenses do have their pitfalls, don't they, Professor?
01:04Excuse me.
01:12Mr. Paladin.
01:26You wish to see me?
01:33Paladin?
01:34That's correct.
01:35Sit down.
01:38What do you want?
01:43I want you to read that.
01:45I've already read the paper, Mr.
01:48Summers.
01:49Haskell Summers.
01:50Mr. Summers, did you want to discuss current events?
01:52Oh, just read this advertisement in the personals, Colin.
01:57Young, attractive widow of means, lonely, desires company of young, attractive gentlemen, object, matrimony.
02:04Please apply in person, Diamond S. Ranch, Yervo Verde, California.
02:09Well, I'd say that that young lady could have been a little more selective.
02:12She's liable to have a stampede out there.
02:14You answer that ad, Paladin.
02:18No, my object is not matrimony.
02:21I don't want you to marry her.
02:22Just answer the ad.
02:24The young lady says she's looking for a husband.
02:26She's already got a husband.
02:28She says she's a widow.
02:32Paladin, the Diamond S. is my ranch.
02:38Young lady's my wife.
02:40Young lady's my wife.
03:10What might be your business, sir?
03:30Well, my business might be answering an ad.
03:33Well, join the club.
03:53All of you?
03:55Well, don't worry.
03:57We'll narrow down the field before long.
04:00Well, wouldn't that be the lady's prerogative?
04:04It might be.
04:06Well, then on the other hand, she might need some help.
04:09Where do you think you're going?
04:11Well, I think I ought to get my name on the list.
04:13You take your place in line like everyone else.
04:16Well, you're not leaving, are you?
04:21Just as fast as I can.
04:23Ah!
04:26Senor, por favor.
04:28Well, man, there goes another boy.
04:29Oh, man, there goes another boy.
04:43Looks like it's just going to be the five of us.
05:00Senor, por favor.
05:12Espera aquÃ.
05:13Mucho gusto.
05:14Mucho gusto.
05:33Do you like her?
05:40Very much.
05:41The Venus.
05:45Oh, yes.
05:46The Venus.
05:48Venus de Milo.
05:50Third or fourth century BC.
05:52Golden age of Greece.
05:54It's a very decent copy.
05:56I've seen the original in the Louvre.
05:59Present from Louis the 18th to the people.
06:02You don't look like the sort of man who'd be interested in art.
06:06And you don't look like the kind of a woman who would be advertising for a husband.
06:09Well, that gives us a great deal in common, doesn't it?
06:13Neither of us is what the other expected.
06:16Mister?
06:18Paladin.
06:25Your husband is quite a collector.
06:28He was.
06:29He collected money, land, cattle, art, and people.
06:36He collected people?
06:38Hmm.
06:40I was one of the prize objects of his collection.
06:42Well, you would be a prize object in any collection.
06:48Very nicely turned, Mister Paladin.
06:53Only I don't want to be an object in anyone's collection.
06:56I'm more attractive than money.
06:59And warmer than art.
07:01And a collector like your husband.
07:07Hmm? What do you mean?
07:09Well, you're collecting husbands.
07:11I've been kept here, like a statue.
07:15For a long time, Mister Paladin.
07:17I've never known any other men.
07:25My husband's never allowed me to.
07:28And I'm afraid of him.
07:30But I need to be wanted, Paladin.
07:33I am not a statue.
07:35And I've learned one thing from my husband.
07:37What I want, I can buy.
07:40How will you make your selection?
07:43Hmm.
07:45Let's just say a process of elimination.
07:47Well, that's not very flattering to a man
07:49to be involved in a contest like that.
07:52Even if the prize is worth it.
07:55When did your husband die?
07:58Oh, he didn't.
07:59Not yet.
08:01Well, don't you think all this is just a little bit premature?
08:05Oh, I believe in being prepared.
08:08For your husband's death.
08:10Let's say for my new life.
08:13Well, what if your husband doesn't comply with your wishes?
08:19Oh, he's an old man, Mister Paladin.
08:21Look, there's his picture.
08:24He's in San Francisco now.
08:26But he'll be back next week.
08:29It's a long, hard road back from San Francisco.
08:33Younger men than my husband have died on that trail.
08:37Well, if you want your husband killed,
08:39why don't you just kill him?
08:43I'm afraid of him.
08:45He's tough.
08:47He's tough and cunning.
08:49And very dangerous.
08:51Well, you've picked five men.
08:53Six.
08:54I'm afraid of him.
08:59When your husband is dead,
09:01what are you going to do when all six of us show up back here?
09:04Oh, I don't expect all of you to show up.
09:08Well, do you have a preference?
09:10Not my lunch.
09:11Now, what would make you think that I'd have any preference?
09:13Now, what would make you think that I'd have any preference?
09:14Well, I'd have to go back.
09:16Well, I'll go back to the house.
09:18It's okay.
09:20It's okay.
09:22I'm tired.
09:24I don't know.
09:26I'm tired.
09:28I'm tired.
09:30I'm tired.
09:32I'm tired.
09:34I'm tired.
09:36I'm tired.
09:38I'm tired.
09:40I'm tired.
09:42I'm tired.
09:44my wife wants me dead
09:58doesn't count for much does it affection position
10:14I've been something of a disappointment to my wife I'm afraid I'm going to have to
10:23disappoint her again what do you plan to do I'm going back to Yerba Verde and I'm
10:35going to teach that young lady a lesson that she won't forget just how do you
10:41plan on getting back to Yerba Verde alive ride back by what route same run I always
10:47take the shortest straightest fastest way to get there unfortunately in this case
10:52that is not true there'll be five men waiting along that trail just waiting to
10:58shoot you down the first sight they catch on you I'll have protection now those
11:06odds are five to one I hope you're not overestimating yourself I won't be alone
11:10oh who's going with you you are mr. Pellett well you are very sure of
11:18yourself aren't you it's an acquired habit not too many people have given me a
11:26reason not to be there is a first time
11:30I suppose there's a thousand dollars there you want to take that that's yours
11:41there'll be another thousand dollars when you deliver me back to my ranch
11:45and acquired habit possibly at any rate I don't like the five to one odds well you're the great
12:00equalizer well there's one thing mr. Summers if I ride with you we'll go by the route I choose you
12:07may not be concerned about my collecting that other thousand but I am well go by the route I choose
12:13you want to die that badly I'm not going to be safe paladin until those five men my wife's
12:21hired assassins are out of the way for good we're not the hunted paladin we're the hunters
12:30one more thing another reason I want you along with me you've seen my ranch you've seen my wife
12:41she made what I gather is a fairly attractive offer in that advertisement
12:47I want you where I can keep an eye on you
12:52your health
12:55your health
13:06your health
13:12your health
13:15your health
13:18What is it?
13:48There's two of them. Where are they? They're up there someplace. Watch it.
14:18Hold it right there, Paladin.
14:41That Summers?
14:43Well, it seems to me that question was in order a little bit earlier.
14:46Are you working for him?
14:48I was. I don't think his widow's gonna like that.
15:16Well, what's the matter with you?
15:18I was just wondering.
15:20About what?
15:21Well, what do you need with me?
15:24Still got three more to get.
15:28You took a terrible chance pulling a stun like that.
15:33When you're a young man, you can afford to take chances.
15:37If you get to be my age, you gotta take them.
15:40Well, they could have shot you a couple more times just to make sure.
15:43They didn't. Even that you pretty well fooled, didn't I?
15:47You did.
15:48And you almost spoiled everything trying to drag me up behind that rock.
15:51I beg your pardon, I was trying to save your life.
15:55Well, maybe. Maybe you did it that.
16:02You're welcome, Mr. Summers.
16:21Well, what do you think you're doing?
16:36Lighting a fire.
16:37Well, you might as well put up a big sign while you're about it.
16:39I intend to.
16:40Well, I don't.
16:43Give me your gun, pal.
16:44Now, what is this?
16:45Give it to me.
16:49Now, go sit on that log over there.
16:51Come on.
16:52Mr. Summers.
16:54You're gonna be my sign.
16:57Well, I'm also gonna be a very good target.
17:02Oh, they ain't gonna kill you.
17:06Not till after I'm dead, anyways.
17:09They think you're one of them.
17:11They're gonna see this fire, come in to investigate it.
17:16Find out it's only just you and set down and talk a spell.
17:20Me, I'm gonna be out there in the dark.
17:41You're gonna be out there in the dark place.
17:43Newyang has already run through this fire, the other stuff I know should leave in the dark with his government as well.
17:47If that's what they see, don't break the door.
17:51Father Mark and I am
18:08is out there someplace.
18:38I reckon that'd be just about enough for tonight.
18:47Well, you certainly don't believe in giving a man much of a chance, do you?
18:52About the same chance they'd have given me.
18:55Now, Paladin, your day's work's not quite ended.
18:58As soon as you dispose of these gentlemen,
19:01since you were hired to protect me,
19:03you can give me some protection whilst I sleep.
19:05You know, I'm beginning to see what your wife meant about you.
19:11Forget about my wife.
19:14Mr. Summers, your wife is not a very easy woman to forget.
19:18I worked hard all my life to surround myself with beauty.
19:22You being an attractive man, Paladin,
19:25I don't expect you to appreciate that.
19:27With me, it's a different case.
19:29I can appreciate beauty.
19:32I got a wealth of beauty in my home.
19:34You know, furniture, paintings, statues.
19:39And your wife.
19:43And my wife.
19:46I don't look to part with any of it.
19:49I don't know.
19:51I don't know.
19:52I know.
19:53I know.
20:02I don't know.
20:02Far as I go.
20:21There's four down, one to go.
20:23I want that fifth man dead, paladin.
20:26All right, hold it. Right there.
20:28And I've got business with you, too.
20:34Get out.
20:58All right, Summers. You can get up now.
21:00I can guarantee you that wouldn't have worked this time.
21:06Put the gun away, Summers. They're all dead.
21:08All but one, paladin. Give me a gun.
21:12I'll pull it.
21:14You're gonna kill me with my own gun.
21:16No. I'm gonna kill you where my wife can watch it happen.
21:20That's part of the little lesson I will teach you.
21:22Come on, give it here.
21:24Oh, come on.
21:25Here's the gun.
21:26I'll take it.
21:27Get the gun away, Summers. They're all dead.
21:29All but one, paladin. Give me a gun.
21:34How poetic.
21:36You're gonna kill me with my own gun.
21:37No.
21:38I'm gonna kill you where my wife can watch it happen.
21:41I was right about you, Validen.
21:43I was right about you all along, huh?
22:04I was right about you all along, huh?
22:07Validen, I was right about you all along, wasn't I?
22:37I was right about you all along, huh?
22:48Validen?
22:50I want $1,000.
23:03I've come for my fee.
23:06I don't understand.
23:08Your husband hired me to bring him back here to this ranch.
23:12He's outside and I expect his estate to make good on his debts.
23:18Don't you expect me to make good on mine?
23:21You don't owe me anything.
23:25You killed him, didn't you?
23:26Hmm.
23:29There's a lot more to his estate than $1,000.
23:33Aside from my fee,
23:37I don't want anything that belongs to Haskell Summers.
23:41I'll get you the money.
23:50I'll get you the money.
24:18You're a fool, Validen.
24:20Probably.
24:23At any rate, that will give me something to think about
24:25on my way back to San Francisco.
24:41I've gone, will travel, reads the card of a man.
24:55A knight without armor in a savage land.
25:01His vast gun for hire heats the calling wind.
25:06A soldier of fortune is the man called Paladin.
25:17Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?
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