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00:16 Hold on.
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00:51 I'll be right with you.
01:03 There's paperwork.
01:04 There's more paperwork to this job.
01:08 Good to see you, Murdock.
01:18 I did that when I picked him up.
01:20 Here's the key.
01:21 [DOOR OPENING]
01:24 [DOOR CLOSING]
01:53 What's your name?
01:54 Randall.
01:56 Randall.
01:58 Now, try him in crazy horse.
02:00 We'll leave first thing tomorrow morning.
02:02 Now, it's a 12-hour ride.
02:05 So counting meals and some rest, that
02:08 means I should be back with your money, oh,
02:12 about the same time two days from now.
02:13 Is that all right?
02:15 Excuse me.
02:21 Your receipt and don't forget these.
02:27 Very much obliged.
02:29 I'll see you now, yeah?
02:31 Randall, you wasted your time bringing me in alive.
02:35 I won't get a trial and you know it.
02:37 So when you walk out that door, mark it down.
02:41 You just killed me.
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03:21 Howdy.
03:26 Oh.
03:27 Passing through?
03:35 I'll be around for a couple of days.
03:37 You're gonna like it.
03:38 Mesa's a quiet town.
03:40 Yes, it is.
03:41 Say, where's the bank?
03:42 It's down the street, but it's closed up.
03:44 There's a death in the family.
03:47 You putting in or taking out?
03:49 Why?
03:50 The boss over there lends a man a dollar once in a while.
03:53 Mr. Warner, customer.
03:56 What can I do for you?
04:06 Oh, I got some money coming in down here in a few days,
04:08 but right now I'm kind of scratching bottom.
04:10 I'll give you $0.80 on the dollar.
04:13 Kind of steep, isn't it?
04:14 Well, the bank will be open in a few days.
04:18 All right, $0.80 on the dollar.
04:21 I'm sorry, I can't cover that much.
04:23 Oh, why not?
04:25 Look, Mr. Randall, I run a saloon, I gamble,
04:29 I lend a little money, I make a fair profit.
04:32 But I don't buy dead men.
04:36 Whether Murdoch is innocent or guilty
04:38 is none of my business.
04:39 The man had a price on his head, and I delivered him.
04:40 That's all.
04:42 Have it your way, Mr. Randall.
04:43 Some people figure a man deserves an even break
04:51 no matter what he's done.
04:53 Me, I think the worst thing that happens to Murdoch
04:56 is a little too good for him.
04:58 You know, anything can happen in a fair fight,
05:00 but smashing a man's skull from behind.
05:03 That's the way it was.
05:05 Don't you know?
05:07 Like I said, I just brought the man in.
05:09 Well, he was at the bar, Murdoch, and just Kincaid.
05:13 I don't know what the argument was about,
05:14 but it was pretty loud.
05:16 And Murdoch backed down, so I guess Kincaid figured it was
05:19 over, he started to leave.
05:21 Murdoch belted him with a bottle, smashed his skull.
05:26 Hm?
05:27 I understood that Kincaid was shot.
05:29 Oh, no, that was the deputy out of Crazy Horse
05:31 that rode after Murdoch.
05:32 They found him laying next to his dead horse.
05:35 Now, you know that being watered by the law
05:36 is no reason to kill a good horse in this country.
05:39 It could have been an accident.
05:41 Maybe, but the horse is dead, the deputy's dead,
05:43 Kincaid's dead.
05:45 Murdoch deserves just what he's going to get.
05:47 Listen, my friend, that's up to the courts in Crazy Horse.
05:50 Well, he's got to get there in one piece first.
05:52 Look, Mr. Don't-You-Know-Nothing-About-Murdoch,
05:54 except what he's worth, there's a reason folks think he ain't
05:57 going to get there alive.
06:00 That Crazy Horse deputy he bushwhacked,
06:03 name was Frank Hayes.
06:07 Sheriff Hayes is his brother.
06:09 So long.
06:13 - Office is closed. - Oh, yeah, I want to talk to Sheriff.
06:23 He's gone.
06:24 Oh, yeah? Where'd he go?
06:25 Well, he didn't say.
06:27 Oh, well, then I'll have to talk to Murdoch.
06:30 You can't.
06:33 Yeah?
06:34 Why not?
06:35 Well, you just can't, that's all.
06:37 Hmm.
06:38 Hmm.
06:39 Seen a lot of men killed trying to bust out of jail.
06:46 I've never heard tell of anyone willing to risk
06:48 their neck to break in.
06:49 Yeah, well, that makes sense.
06:51 I, uh, don't suppose this will do you any good, huh?
06:58 The reason you can't talk to Murdoch, he's with the sheriff.
07:00 They're on their way to Crazy Horse.
07:01 [BIRDS CHIRPING]
07:05 It's a blight.
07:06 Thank you.
07:10 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
07:13 Keep moving.
07:35 Why don't you do it here?
07:37 You want it to be nice and legal?
07:38 You want me to make it easy for you?
07:40 Well, I'm not going to run, Sheriff.
07:42 I'm not going to give you the smallest excuse.
07:45 Why don't you do it now?
07:48 Just keep moving.
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08:43 I thought you were going to wait in Mesa.
08:45 Yeah, and I thought you weren't going
08:47 to leave until tomorrow morning.
08:48 Is that why you're riding that horse
08:50 like it belongs to somebody else?
08:51 Well, I suppose you want to come along.
08:56 That depends where you're going.
08:58 Crazy horse?
09:00 Yeah.
09:01 [FOOTSTEPS]
09:04 Thanks, Randall.
09:05 For what?
09:07 Just thanks.
09:08 You don't owe me anything.
09:10 OK, so your conscience doesn't bother you.
09:12 You just came along for the ride.
09:15 I'll give you a tip.
09:16 If you expect either of us to get to Crazy Horse alive,
09:19 stop letting Hayes ride behind you.
09:20 [FOOTSTEPS]
09:23 Thank you.
09:24 [FOOTSTEPS]
09:28 [FOOTSTEPS]
09:29 After you, sir.
09:30 [MUSIC PLAYING]
09:33 [CRICKETS CHIRPING]
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09:59 Look at him.
10:10 All day he's been like this.
10:13 Even when I can't see him, I know he's looking at me.
10:15 He's crazy, I tell you, Randall.
10:22 He's crazy.
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10:27 Say something, Roy, don't you?
10:28 Say something!
10:29 [GUNSHOT]
10:32 Sit down.
10:33 [CRICKETS CHIRPING]
10:36 You see the way it is?
10:37 The way it's going to end?
10:38 Randall, you've got to get me out of here.
10:40 I swear I didn't kill that deputy, but he won't listen.
10:43 It's up to you.
10:44 [CRICKETS CHIRPING]
10:47 Then I suggest you go over and sit down like the man says.
10:49 [CRICKETS CHIRPING]
10:52 [DOG WHIMPERING]
10:56 How did you do it then?
10:58 How did you manage to bushwhack a man who's been
11:00 following trail for 14 years?
11:02 It's a lie.
11:03 How did you do it, Murdoch?
11:05 Did you shoot Frank out of the saddle from behind
11:08 and then kill his horse to make it look like the animal
11:09 was caught in a crossfire?
11:11 I never even saw your brother.
11:12 I-- I don't even know what he looked like.
11:14 Or did you shoot the horse first?
11:17 You've been around.
11:18 You know in this country, a man without a horse won't live long.
11:21 A killing his animal's about the only way
11:23 you could have gotten Frank to look the other way.
11:26 That the way you did it?
11:27 First the horse, then the man?
11:32 I swear.
11:34 Look-- look, I've done a lot of things in my life,
11:36 but killing your brother wasn't one of them.
11:38 Why don't you shut up?
11:40 I admit I hit Kincaid.
11:41 I admit it.
11:42 He-- he was coming at me.
11:44 I couldn't fight him.
11:45 He outweighed me 30 pounds.
11:46 It was him or me, but I admit it.
11:48 Murdoch.
11:50 Murdoch, sit down and shut up.
11:51 Now you open your mouth again, and I'm
11:52 going to put my foot in it.
11:53 Now sit down.
11:54 Man outweighs him 30 pounds.
12:07 So Murdoch waits for him to turn his back
12:09 and then hits him over the head with a bottle.
12:11 He lasted four days.
12:13 Then my brother came to take him in.
12:15 He lasted two days.
12:17 I know.
12:18 There's no proof.
12:19 But the pattern's there, always from behind, always behind.
12:26 And you want to change the pattern,
12:28 you'd be the man behind, huh?
12:29 Oh.
12:31 He's got you believing him, huh?
12:33 No.
12:34 I'm not going to murder him.
12:36 He's going to kill himself.
12:38 He's going to bust wide open.
12:41 He's going to try to make a run for it.
12:43 Then every man for himself.
12:46 [crickets chirping]
12:49 I'm going to get some sleep.
12:50 [music playing]
12:53 What about him?
13:01 What about him?
13:02 Tie him up or something?
13:04 What do you think?
13:05 Well, good night.
13:13 [music playing]
13:16 [crickets chirping]
13:19 [whimpering]
13:33 [crickets chirping]
13:36 Don't move.
13:45 You want to live, my friend, don't move.
13:46 He's out there about seven yards,
13:56 and he can put one right between your eyes.
13:57 How are the horses?
14:08 They're a little spooky.
14:14 Have you ever get any sleep last night?
14:17 I'm going to kill him.
14:18 I don't know how or where, but I'm going to kill him.
14:20 [gunshot]
14:20 [tires screeching]
14:22 [music playing]
14:25 Friends of yours, Murdoch?
14:33 He doesn't have any friends.
14:35 Indians in this country?
14:38 They cover themselves as well as any Indians.
14:40 [speaking spanish]
14:44 They're bandits.
14:46 Mexican.
14:47 What do they want?
14:49 Money, horses, guns, gold in your teeth if you have any.
14:55 If you're unlucky enough to die with your mouth open.
14:58 I don't think I will be.
15:01 All right, don't move, either of you.
15:03 Just stay where you are.
15:06 Hey, Murdoch!
15:12 [gunshots]
15:15 Let him go.
15:17 He won't get far.
15:18 Maybe you don't understand Spanish.
15:21 I said throw your guns out, or you will die.
15:26 Listen, amigos, we don't want to hurt you.
15:30 We just want your ammunition.
15:33 Throw your guns out, or we will let you stay alive.
15:37 I wonder how many times that story has worked.
15:40 Yeah.
15:42 [gunshots]
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16:16 [gunshots]
16:19 I warned you, amigos.
16:39 You should have thrown your guns out.
16:41 [music playing]
16:44 You're on your own, pal.
16:55 Just remember, I promised a man a fair trial.
17:03 That's your worry.
17:04 It's your worry, too, friend.
17:07 Look, Randall, who appointed you my conscience, hmm?
17:11 Prisoner escaped, took my gun.
17:15 Now I'm going to bring him in.
17:16 With a hole in his back.
17:18 He made his choice.
17:20 Look, you let the man go.
17:22 You let him escape.
17:24 What are you so hot about?
17:25 Because you let him go, and now you're
17:26 going to go out and kill him.
17:27 That's what I'm so hot about.
17:29 But like you said, I'm not your conscience.
17:31 But when you line up on Murdoch's back
17:33 and start to squeeze the trigger,
17:34 you get that little lump in your throat.
17:36 Don't worry about it.
17:37 Because the next time we kill a man that way,
17:39 it'll be just a little bit easier.
17:41 We'll split up.
17:43 It'll be better that way.
17:44 You're playing a little hard to kill a man
17:45 when I'm watching, huh?
17:47 We'll split up.
17:49 Well, it's not often you see a sheriff
17:50 just go out and murder a man.
17:51 Take care of this for me.
18:00 Mm-hmm.
18:02 All right.
18:03 Just like that, you're not a sheriff anymore.
18:06 Just like that.
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18:11 [HORSE GALLOPING]
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20:07 Murdock!
20:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]
20:34 Get rid of that gun, then turn around.
20:36 [GUNSHOTS]
20:42 [GUNSHOT]
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20:46 [GUNSHOT]
20:57 Murdock!
21:00 Throw your gun away.
21:03 You want to come out of this thing alive,
21:04 you only got one chance.
21:06 Come on out.
21:07 [GUNSHOTS]
21:10 [GUNSHOT]
21:16 Hot ammunition, you don't stand a chance.
21:19 Come on.
21:24 Be smart.
21:25 I'm not going to ask you again.
21:29 Hey, hey, listen.
21:31 Can't we make some kind of a deal?
21:34 Sure.
21:35 Same deal Randall made you.
21:38 A jury, a fair trial.
21:40 Look, if you want to live, come on out.
21:48 No tricks.
21:49 You just come on out here, out in the open.
21:53 I can't.
21:54 I'm hurt.
21:57 I'm hurt bad.
22:01 Then throw your gun out.
22:04 It's on the ground.
22:05 I can't reach it.
22:06 [GUNSHOT]
22:26 [GUNSHOT]
22:29 [GUNSHOT]
22:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
22:49 [MUSIC PLAYING]
22:52 After all that talk, I had to shoot him in the back.
23:03 Well, now you know what happened to your brother's horse
23:04 for sure.
23:05 And how he let a man like Murdock get behind him.
23:09 I owe you a lot, Randall.
23:10 Not just my life, but I could have made a bad mistake.
23:16 That's about all the thanks you're going to get.
23:19 Yeah, well, that'll have to do.
23:20 Oh, I forgot something here.
23:24 Keep it as a souvenir.
23:28 I'll get another.
23:31 I am sorry about one thing, though.
23:34 He had a trial coming.
23:36 He just had it.
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