The Rifleman S04E18
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00:00.
00:01.
00:29Good morning.
00:32Good morning to you, constable.
00:35Micah Torrance, town marshal.
00:37Jeremy Penbrook. How do you do?
00:39Been traveling far, Mr. Penbrook?
00:41Oh, indeed I have. All the way from Birmingham.
00:44England, you know.
00:46Well, that is quite a ways.
00:48I couldn't help noticing that fancy gear you have.
00:51Yes, it is rather nice, isn't it?
00:53I made it myself.
00:55And the gun inside, I made that too.
00:57Repeating rifle, hand forged.
00:58Well, now, you must be a gunsmith.
01:01Yes, I suppose one could say that.
01:04Tell me, are you acquainted with a gentleman by the name of Lucas McCain?
01:08Lucas? Oh, yes, he's a friend of mine. Do you know him?
01:11No, but I'm certainly looking forward to meeting him.
01:16I take it you have some business with him.
01:18Yes, indeed I do.
01:22I'm going to kill him.
01:29THE RIFLEMAN
01:45Starring Chuck Connors
01:52And I haven't done anything. Not a single thing.
01:55You got off the stage and said you were going to kill my best friend. That's enough.
02:01Best friend?
02:03Oh, I am sorry about that.
02:05Of course, you have every opportunity to defend himself.
02:12Upon my word, that's him, isn't it?
02:16That gun.
02:18The rifle with the firing ring.
02:20Just get inside and sit down, Mr. Penbrook.
02:22We'll settle this once and for all.
02:24Once and for all? But my gun has to be oiled and cleaned and I need rest.
02:28Just sit down.
02:30And keep that gun in its case.
02:33Oh, Lucas, can I see you a minute?
02:35Yes.
02:37What is it?
02:40I want you to meet somebody.
02:42Mr. Jeremy Penbrook.
02:44Mr. Lucas McCain.
02:46Hello, Mr. Penbrook.
02:48I say, this is indeed a great pleasure. The rifleman himself.
02:50Oh, thank you.
02:52Mr. Penbrook is from England.
02:54He just got into North Fork this morning.
02:56You want to tell him why?
02:58Well, really, Constable, there's no need to rush.
03:01He said he's going to kill you.
03:07What is this? Some kind of a joke?
03:10Oh, if only it were.
03:12Now, I realize it's in very bad taste.
03:14Yeah.
03:16But you see, Mr. McCain, I have no other choice.
03:18I'm truly sorry, but...
03:19Well, just how do you figure to do this, Mr. Penbrook?
03:21And why?
03:23Well, taking your questions one at a time,
03:27this is how.
03:30He said he made it himself.
03:32Well, I did.
03:34Actually, it's my only talent.
03:36Well, tell me, Mr. Penbrook,
03:38you came all the way from England to kill me.
03:40I don't even know you.
03:42What have you got against me?
03:44Nothing. That's the pity of it.
03:46But you see, I must. I simply must.
03:48Your death will be my salvation.
03:50My de...
03:53Actually, it's been three years or more
03:55since I left England.
03:57My family were wealthy arms manufacturers.
04:07As I was saying,
04:09then I came along and I was unable to conform.
04:12I wanted to specialize.
04:14Crackpot, they called me.
04:15I'll show them.
04:17Your reputation is formidable,
04:19but mine shall be even more so
04:21after I...
04:23After you kill him?
04:25They'd call you a murderer.
04:27I said it would be fair.
04:29Well, Mr. Penbrook, I have no intention of fighting you.
04:31But you must.
04:33It's most important that you do.
04:35I'm sorry, you'll have to settle your problems some other way.
04:37I happen to know they need
04:39their good gunsmith down in Las Cruces.
04:41Thank you, Constable. No.
04:43I...
04:45I create guns.
04:47I do not repair them.
04:49Such a menial position
04:51would not earn me the funds I require.
04:53Killing the rifleman is the only thing
04:55that will do that.
04:57My plan is simple.
04:59I shall be known as the man
05:01who dispatched Lucas McCain.
05:03I shall then have the money I need
05:05to enter business and make rifles like this.
05:07Don't you think you're overlooking something?
05:09Suppose I killed you.
05:12Hmm.
05:13There is that possibility.
05:15I hadn't thought of that.
05:18But in that event,
05:20I would hardly need this anymore, would I?
05:22And I should like to think that you would accept it.
05:24It would seem fitting.
05:26Now, that's mighty considerate of you, Mr. Penbrook,
05:28but I'm afraid my answer is still no.
05:30Oh, please.
05:33All right, on one condition.
05:35Well, anything within reason.
05:37Right, you bring him out to the ranch tomorrow morning.
05:39And, Mr. Penbrook, you bring your rifle.
05:41You and I will have a shooting match.
05:43What will that prove?
05:45That you might want to change your mind.
05:47Very well, sir, you're on.
05:49The practice will do us both good.
05:52Until the morning, then.
05:54Right now, I think that a spot of tea in a hot bath
05:58and a short nap would be refreshing,
06:00if you'll excuse me.
06:08What next?
06:10Well, a spot of beer would be most refreshing now,
06:13don't you think, Constable?
06:33Gee, Willoughby, is that him, Pa?
06:35That's him, son.
06:36Come on.
06:43There were times where I had my doubts I'd get here.
06:46I never was one given to equestrian proficiency.
06:50Well, rest up a bit and then we'll get started.
06:52Oh, uh, this is my son, Mark, Mr. Penbrook.
06:55How do you do?
06:57Your son?
06:59Well, uh...
07:01What's the matter? I thought you knew all about me.
07:03Didn't you know I had a son?
07:04No, I didn't.
07:06As a matter of fact, I hardly pictured you as a...
07:10family man.
07:12Well, now you know.
07:14Yes.
07:16Now I know.
07:19Distressing, isn't it?
07:22Well...
07:29Well, whenever you're ready.
07:35Remarkable.
07:39Three dead center, three inside.
07:42Excellent, Mr. McCain.
07:47All right, Mr. Penbrook.
07:54All right, Mr. Penbrook.
07:56All right, Mr. Penbrook.
07:58All right, Mr. Penbrook.
08:00All right, Mr. Penbrook.
08:02All right, Mr. Penbrook.
08:04All right, Mr. Penbrook.
08:12Three center, three inside.
08:15Remarkable.
08:17I said the practice would help, both of us.
08:22McCain on the left, Penbrook on the right.
08:26Go!
08:34Six out of six, Pa.
08:44And six out of six for Mr. Penbroke.
08:51Grouse hunting.
08:52My favorite sport.
08:53Hitting the birds on the wing.
08:54Hey!
08:55Dear me, I, uh, seem to have missed.
09:16You sure did.
09:17Well, first miss in three matches.
09:29Pretty good, I'd say, but not quite good enough.
09:31It appears Mr. McCain takes it.
09:33Yeah, so it would seem.
09:35Well, Mr. Penbroke, we've both proven our point.
09:37Why don't we forget the whole matter?
09:39You can still take that gunsmith's job in Las Cruces.
09:42Oh, really, gentlemen?
09:44You think I'd change my mind just because of this?
09:46No, never.
09:47After all, didn't we agree it was just practice?
09:50You mean you still want to go through with the shootout?
09:52Well, of course.
09:53That's why I came out here.
09:55You're not going to disappoint me, are you?
09:59Look, Mr. Penbroke, I don't condone
10:01killing for the sake of killing in any form.
10:03If you do, find someone else.
10:05Come on, Mark.
10:06Mr. McCain, am I given to understand
10:10that you're backing out?
10:17Call it whatever you want.
10:20Oh, dear.
10:22Micah, Mark and I have got work to do.
10:24Will you, uh, escort Mr. Penbroke back to North Fork?
10:27Why, sure, Lucas.
10:34Well, I rather imagine this will take some thoughts.
10:38Mr. Jeremy Penbroke challenges Mr. Lucas McCain
10:44to meet him face to face with appropriate weapons
10:49at whatever time and whatever place Mr. McCain so chooses.
10:56Ha!
10:57Looks like McCain can't find the appropriate weapon.
11:01I don't care if there's a law or not.
11:03Either you take that poster down, make Penbroke do it,
11:05or I will.
11:06You do it, and it'll be the same thing
11:08as accepting his challenge.
11:09At least that's the way folks will look at it.
11:11I don't care how they look at it.
11:12Penbroke thinks he's going to needle me into a shootout.
11:14He's wrong.
11:15You, uh, tell him that.
11:17Oh, I have a dozen times.
11:18He just smiles.
11:19You know how he is.
11:21Hey, look at him.
11:22Every day, he goes to the shooting range.
11:24He goes to the shooting range.
11:25He goes to the shooting range.
11:26He goes to the shooting range.
11:27He goes to the shooting range.
11:28He goes to the shooting range.
11:29Hey, look at him.
11:30Every day, he just sits there.
11:33Far be it for me to wish anybody trouble or ill luck,
11:37but if he'd just do one wrong thing, I could lock him up.
11:40That'd be the end of it.
11:41Yeah, until he got out.
11:43Well, I have a ranch to run.
11:50Oh, Mr. McCain?
12:00Good day, Mr. McCain.
12:02Good day, Mr. Penbroke.
12:05Well, I must say, I had no idea your weather out here
12:09was so delightful.
12:10Well, I'm certainly glad that you're enjoying it.
12:13Oh, I am.
12:14Indeed, I am.
12:16I dare say that if I didn't have to enter manufacturing
12:20in the East, I might be inclined to stay on here for a while.
12:23Mr. McCain, why be stubborn?
12:26You simply have to say the word.
12:27What's the matter, Mr. Penbroke?
12:28The waiting, getting you down?
12:30Not at all.
12:32Not at all.
12:33I thought perchance it might be wearing on your nerves.
12:36Oh, no, no.
12:37It doesn't bother me at all.
12:38I've got all the time in the world.
12:42Well, uh, good day, Mr. Penbroke.
12:47Hey, McCain.
12:49I don't blame you.
12:50He looks pretty tough to me, too.
12:54You hear that?
12:55Yeah.
12:58Lucas, this is ridiculous.
13:00The whole thing.
13:01That poster, it's idiotic and just plain nonsense.
13:04Yeah, I agree with you, Milly.
13:05Don't you give in, Lucas McCain.
13:07I'm not giving in.
13:08I'm not giving in.
13:09I'm not giving in.
13:10I'm not giving in.
13:11I'm not giving in.
13:12I'm not giving in.
13:13I'm not giving in.
13:14Don't you give in, Lucas McCain.
13:16I'm proud of you, so don't give in.
13:18I don't care what that Al Collins or any of the others
13:20is saying.
13:21Well, just what are the others saying, Milly?
13:23Well, you know, some of my customers,
13:26they've been saying that you've lost your nerve
13:29and you're afraid of Mr. Penbroke.
13:31I am.
13:33I'm afraid I might hurt him, Milly.
13:45I'm afraid I might hurt him.
14:03What's the matter, son?
14:04Oh, nothing.
14:06Come on, out with it.
14:10Yeah.
14:13I guess it's that Mr. Penbroke.
14:16Pa, the kids at school, I don't like what they're saying.
14:21That Jimmy Daniels, I almost punched him yesterday.
14:24Said that you were chicken.
14:26Chicken scared of another chicken.
14:29They're all laughing at you, Pa.
14:32Laughter never hurt anybody, Mark.
14:34Well, this kind does.
14:36You losing face, people's respect.
14:39Yours too?
14:41Of course not.
14:44You know that had never happened.
14:47It's just that.
14:48Just what, son?
14:52I think you ought to do something.
14:56Do I have to kill a man to save face?
14:58Gain people's respect?
15:06If I do, son, I don't want it.
15:08And besides, what good would it do you or me or anybody else
15:11if Penbroke got off the first shot?
15:18I see what you mean.
15:20Of course, that wouldn't happen.
15:22No, because I'm not going to give him the chance.
15:25You mean you're just going to wait him out?
15:27I'll wait, but I'll also talk to him and see if I can get him to change his mind.
15:30Yeah, you know how far that'll get you.
15:32Well, you're not going to get to school on time unless you get started.
15:34Come on.
15:38Come on.
16:09Oh, excuse me, Mr. Penbroke.
16:11Oh, that's quite all right.
16:13Say, haven't you, uh, forgotten something?
16:18I mean, this is the first time in nearly a month
16:20I haven't seen you without that fancy gun of yours.
16:23Yes, yes, I left it out in my room.
16:25It's a little cumbersome carrying it around with one all the time.
16:28Yes, I reckon it is.
16:30But then a man with set ideas like yours,
16:32he's got to have a gun.
16:35Yes, it is.
16:36But then a man with set ideas like yours,
16:38don't you think you're kind of taking a chance?
16:41With McCain?
16:43Frankly, Marshal, I'm beginning to come to the conclusion that it's a lost cause.
16:48McCain simply won't cooperate.
16:50Well, that sounds like you're maybe getting ready to leave us.
16:53Yes, yes, I am.
16:56Confidentially, Marshal, I've just been sort of hanging on here,
17:00hoping, you know.
17:02Yes, I don't blame you.
17:04I'm getting a little tired of it myself.
17:06I've already booked passage on tomorrow's stage.
17:09Where are you headed, back east?
17:11No, not yet.
17:13Deadwood, I think, is the name of the city.
17:15I understand there's a gentleman there by the name of Hickoff.
17:26What is it, Marshal?
17:28Huh?
17:29Oh, yes, you said you were getting ready to leave us.
17:34I think that's fine.
17:36I'm glad you came to your senses.
17:38Lucas will be very happy to hear the news.
17:40I'll tell him about it tonight at dinner.
17:43I wonder if I might join you.
17:46I mean, it would seem sort of fitting.
17:48Yes, yes, like sort of burying the hatchet.
17:50Exactly.
17:51Fine, we'll be at the hotel at sundown.
17:53I'll be waiting.
17:54Okay.
17:55Fine.
18:00Car?
18:02What are you doing in North Fork?
18:05I just heard about this, and, uh, well, I had a seat for myself.
18:11Is it true?
18:13McCain won't take it up?
18:15There's nothing to take up.
18:16It's all off, so why don't you just get out of town?
18:20This is a free country, Marshal.
18:22There ain't no law against my being here, is there?
18:30Ha, ha, ha, ha.
18:38Car's been in the saloon all afternoon, having a good laugh at your expense.
18:42Well, it doesn't matter.
18:44Henbrook's leaving.
18:45He'll be all over tomorrow.
18:46I hope so.
18:48Mr. McCain!
18:50The constable!
18:52There he is.
19:00Uh, Mr. McCain, I've been waiting.
19:02McCain!
19:06Mark, wait in the dining room, sir.
19:12Hello, Julie.
19:13Marshal told me you weren't, huh?
19:15I had a seat for myself.
19:17This, uh, Pennybrook must be quite a man to make you back down.
19:21Uh, thank you, but it's Penbrook.
19:24Jeremy Penbrook.
19:26Penbrook.
19:27Yes.
19:28Ha, ha, ha, ha.
19:29Come on now, McCain, you gotta be kidding.
19:31This!
19:32Ha, ha, ha, ha.
19:33I don't think I understand.
19:35Oh, you don't understand.
19:36Well, mister, don't you know what you've done?
19:39Listen, McCain, he sets you up for anybody else that comes along.
19:42You won't be able to face anybody after this.
19:44That's enough, Car.
19:45Wait a minute, Marshal.
19:48What's the matter, McCain?
19:50Are you afraid of him?
19:52Come on, let's eat.
19:54McCain!
19:56Are you?
19:58I mean, if you are, then you must be afraid of me, too.
20:01You're wasting your time, Julie.
20:03You're a coward, McCain.
20:06Don't you understand?
20:08I'm calling you out.
20:11Don't you understand?
20:13I'm not fighting you or anybody else, Julie.
20:17Well, I'm afraid of you.
20:20Well, well, what do you know?
20:23I made Luke McCain back down.
20:26Penbroke, you hear that?
20:28That makes two of us.
20:29We made the rifleman back down.
20:32Yes.
20:33Though I never really quite looked at it that way.
20:36You are refusing to fight this man, aren't you?
20:39I'm sorry if it disappoints you, Penbroke.
20:41Oh, on the contrary.
20:43I never really relished the idea of killing you.
20:45It was just something that had to be done.
20:47But now, two of us can't share this reputation, can they?
20:51I mean, the credit should belong to just one man.
20:54Don't you agree, Mr. Truly?
20:57I don't know what you're talking about.
20:59Well, it's very simple. I challenge you.
21:01This matter of reputation must be settled forthwith.
21:03You want to fight me?
21:05Precisely.
21:07No, I can't be bothered.
21:10Then obviously, sir, you are the coward.
21:13What did you say?
21:15You are a coward, a sniveling coward.
21:24A fisticuffs? Ridiculous.
21:28Mister, you better get a gun.
21:32Any gun you want, and you better get it fast.
21:35There'll be no gunplay on this street or anyplace else in this town. I mean it.
21:38Constable, your jurisdiction does not extend outside this town, does it?
21:43I can see that it doesn't.
21:45Choose your weapon.
21:47What I'm wearing is fine. Agreed?
21:49Agreed.
21:50Are you out of your mind?
21:51That's a sidearm he's wearing, and he's good with it.
21:53Don't be alarmed. I'm proficient in the use of all guns.
21:56I have to be. It's my business.
21:58Of course, I don't have one with me.
22:00Well, I got an extra gun in my saddlebag, Pennybroke. I'd be glad to loan it to you.
22:04I say, that's awfully decent.
22:06Shall we proceed?
22:08If you're hungry, please go ahead. I shan't be a moment.
22:12Julie Kahn never fought a fair fight in his life.
22:16Well, he's gonna fight this one fair. Come on.
22:34This looks all right here.
22:36I agree.
22:37Any time, sir.
22:40I agree. Any time, sir.
22:49Nice feel.
22:51Fifteen paces?
22:53Sure. Anything you say.
23:10Far enough?
23:12Yes, Mr. Kahn.
23:14Shall we have a go at it?
23:26Micah, he fainted.
23:40And he wanted to be a gunfighter.
23:53Well, I hope you have a safe and pleasant journey back to England, Mr. Penbroke.
23:57Nice having you visit us in North Fork.
23:59I had a wonderful visit, and the most instructive one.
24:02How's that?
24:04Well, I'll never forget that shooting a tin can is quite different from shooting a living target.
24:09Quite.
24:11Goodbye, Jeremy.
24:13Lucas.
24:14Bye.
24:15Micah.
24:17Mark.
24:19Well, toodle-oo.
24:21Hip-hip, I'm off.
24:23Well, we jolly well get them in North Fork, don't we?
24:53THE END
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