Speaker 1: As birds are cotton as snare, so are the sons
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starring mister John Dayner as Paladin, San Francisco, eighteen seventy five,
The Carlton Hotel headquarters of a man called Paladin.
Speaker 2: Oh, hey boy, oh.
Speaker 3: You saw mister Malone and I are going up to
my suite to finish our busines. So what do you
bring up? Some whiskey and soda? Please?
Speaker 4: You saw me, he said, Probably didn't right away?
Speaker 1: This way, mister Malone. Fifty thousand dollars. It's quite a haul.
I told you that off the.
Speaker 3: Record, Paladin.
Speaker 1: I haven't let the amount of our loss be known.
Not only close the bank, it would ruined the town.
I like to help you alone, but you don't give
me much to go on.
Speaker 3: Here. We are come right in. Thank you. Sit down. Oh.
It was a cleverly planned robbery, all right? Five men,
you say, yeah?
Speaker 1: And when the deputies caught up with him just outside
of town, there were only four, and the gunfight that followed,
two were killed and two got away. The fifth must
have been the ring leader. We figure he ran out
on his men with the money. Any idea who was
very reasonably. It was Pappy French, Happy French.
Speaker 3: You've heard him, yeah, ever since I've been in the West,
but I never believed in him. Figured he was some
sort of a legend who pathy French is very real.
You ever seen, no, ever know anyone who did? No?
And you want me to find them?
Speaker 1: I want you to find my bank's fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Come in.
Speaker 4: You whisky asda.
Speaker 3: Ah, thank you, hey boy. I'm leaving in the morning.
Speaker 4: Oh where you go this fam mister Paladin.
Speaker 3: I'm going to track dam fifty thousand dollars and a legend.
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Speaker 1: Malone filled me in on the information he hadn't but
it wasn't much. I had only a general direction and
a cold trail. I wasted the first two days in
a false lead. Shortly after dawn of the third day,
I picked up some tracks that led through timber and
arm into hill country. By noon, I began to think
I was wrong again, And then I heard a single shot.
Speaker 3: I worked my way.
Speaker 1: Forward and stopped suddenly at the edge of a clearing.
The man was sprawled awkwardly on the ground, his right
leg crumpled under him.
Speaker 2: I suppose you give me your hand.
Speaker 1: Effuse you put that gun away?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: All right, oh, come on, come on, help me.
Speaker 3: What was the shot? I heard?
Speaker 2: My horse? I couldn't stand it no longer watching the
critter suffer stumbled, he didn't come to grief. Told me
how about that hand.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid you came to grief too. Looks like you've
got a broken leg.
Speaker 2: Oh you a doctor, now you know it's broke.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on, all right, give me your hand, all right?
Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait, wait, wait, no, hold on, hell, just
let me catch my breath. We'll try again, right, no, no, no, no, no,
put me down.
Speaker 3: Oh maybe you better let me take a look at
your leg.
Speaker 2: You you know something about sitting boned?
Speaker 3: Not to get you to a doctor.
Speaker 2: I don't want a doctor, but if you know how,
go ahead, you you fix it.
Speaker 3: I'll have to find something to use for splints. It'll hurt.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody man enough to do a thing old pappy
can't take?
Speaker 3: And you're Pappy French?
Speaker 2: Maybe I am? Maybe I ain't. WA's it to you.
Speaker 3: Let's get you fixed up first. We can talk later.
Speaker 2: I guess I passed out.
Speaker 3: I guess you didn't.
Speaker 2: That's a right nice job, mister, good as any doctor
could do. I reckon, it'll get me where I want
to go.
Speaker 3: Where is that?
Speaker 2: I didn't ask you your business? Did I?
Speaker 3: I don't think you'll get very far on that leg.
Speaker 2: Oh I don't aim to be walking. I aim to
borrow your horse. Hope you got no objection, because if.
Speaker 3: You do well, this is what you're looking for.
Speaker 2: Now how'd you get my gun? How'd you get it?
Speaker 3: I only agreed to fix your leg? Nothing more?
Speaker 2: Say, mister, you're pretty slick. Yes, sir, I like you.
Hasten here. You help me to get where I'm going,
and I'll cut you in. You cut me in on
one a stature with fifty thousand dollars in it? What
would you say if I cut you in for oh
maybe ten percent.
Speaker 3: Of that depend on whose money it was.
Speaker 2: It'd be your money after I give it to you?
What do you want to ask? Many fool questions for?
Speaker 1: I'd like to know what the prospects are before I
dropped my present job?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: What job's at?
Speaker 1: To recover some money robbed from a bank in Mercede
last week?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh that so.
Speaker 1: Fifty thousand dollars to be exact? Well, now, ain't that
a remarkable coincidence?
Speaker 3: You gonna lead me to it?
Speaker 2: I reckon, I ain't got much choice, have I?
Speaker 3: Oh? Not much?
Speaker 2: Come to think on it. You ain't too good off yourself?
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Speaker 3: Way Pappy pointed out led into rough mountain country. The
going was slow and difficult.
Speaker 1: I walked leading a horse, while the old man hung
in the saddle, gritting his teeth against the pain powerd Yeah.
Speaker 2: It might be a notion to stop mesh, bitch.
Speaker 1: Not much cover here in case anyone's looking for him. Oh,
who'd be looking for me?
Speaker 2: Shitting you?
Speaker 3: You ran out on your partners on that bank job,
and you took the money, left them to find it
with the deputies.
Speaker 2: All right, what if I did? I figured they was
young enough to make themselves another steak for me. It
was my one last chance.
Speaker 3: That's one way to look at him.
Speaker 1: Oh, they probably all got killed anyway, two of them
got away.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's so two of them. Huh.
Speaker 1: They're probably mighty anxious to find out what their leader
did with all that money.
Speaker 2: Well, it was one of them, a kid named Morley,
a young punk with a two hair mustache.
Speaker 3: Morley. Yeah. The other one they called bull.
Speaker 2: Oh, oh, he don't count. But that Morley you always
did want to carve hisself a reputation out of my hide.
Speaker 4: Oh come on, let's move, all right.
Speaker 1: It's no telling how close your friends might be friends, mister.
Speaker 2: Forty years, I've been at odds with the law. I
rode with many a man in that time. But you
can't show me when I ever called friend.
Speaker 3: Quite a record, I suppose you're proud of it.
Speaker 2: Oh, lead the horse and quit preaching over me. I
ain't dead yet, cold grub m.
Speaker 1: We can't take a chance in a fire unless you'd
like to have Morley and dine with us.
Speaker 2: Paladin, what if I offer you half the money?
Speaker 3: That money is going back to the bank.
Speaker 2: I suppose I changed my mind about showing you where
the money's head.
Speaker 3: You could do that?
Speaker 2: Well, all right, that's just what.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: Take me in, have him walked me off if I
don't care. Yes, sir, the man who hired you are
never going to see his money again.
Speaker 3: He finished with that plate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, here here.
Speaker 3: What you doing getting my geared again?
Speaker 2: Where are you going?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Making any money sitting here looking at you. Might as
well go back to town, get a good night sleep
in a hotel. Ben, What about me, I'll send some
people for you in the morning.
Speaker 3: Would you tell them to.
Speaker 1: Bring both the stretcher and a shovel depending on who
finds you first day or Morley? Paladin? You like me
to make a fire before I go? Oh, I think
it's pretty cold up here at night. I don't want
no fire suit.
Speaker 6: You know, good night, Pappy, Paladin. Paladin, Yeah, all right,
you win.
Speaker 3: How's that you win?
Speaker 2: I'll take you there in the morning.
Speaker 3: Just make up your mind, Poppy, one way or another.
I like to get some sleep.
Speaker 2: I still think you want it off yourself the whole
fifty thousand, and that's always a possibility. I've seen watchermen
talk big before they had temptation lying right in front
of them. They say a different tune.
Speaker 3: And you may have a point there. Pay good night, Hey, ain't.
Speaker 2: We're going to share stand and watch an expecting company.
That morty kid contract like an Indian.
Speaker 3: Oh, wake me when he get tired. I don't think
he'll bother us until we got the money. You expect me.
Speaker 2: To stand watch without a gun?
Speaker 3: Oh, I've been here your gun. Don't go shooting in
shadows now, that's the quickest way to attract.
Speaker 2: Visitors in sunny. I've camped out once or twice before
in my life.
Speaker 3: Good night, Pappy.
Speaker 2: I think I need you, don't you, Papy French don't
need no man's charity, Paladin. Hey Paladin, Mmm, can you
figure one good reason why I don't shoot you in
the back?
Speaker 3: Five good reasons, Pappy? The bullets they're here in my
saddle bag.
Speaker 2: Why that's how rotten way to treat a man.
Speaker 1: Just before I fell asleep, I took a long look
at Pappy French, sitting alone, swinging an empty gun on
the ghosts and torments of forty years. I couldn't help him.
I wish I could. Then I was awakened by a
sound from out of the documents, and I knew we
have more than ghosts.
Speaker 3: To think about.
Speaker 2: Oh, reckon, much goes off?
Speaker 1: Fine, God, you are listen, Palader, give me my work.
I take it easy, nothing for it.
Speaker 2: Hey, they've rode off. No more do you make of that?
Speaker 1: They have us staked out now. Probably figure we won't
start till sun.
Speaker 2: Up and then named the trailers to the money and
then move in on us. Why let them do the choosing.
Let's go after.
Speaker 1: Him until we get the money. I'm not taking any
chances on you getting shot. You know, mallady, you're a
man of sound reasoning. I figure maybe you listen to
a deal yet to be able to travel up Pappy.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course I do. I'll bring a horsey Paladin. Paladin,
would you let me keep ten thousand of it? That
and a day's head start to the border.
Speaker 3: You don't give up easy, do you know?
Speaker 2: I don't? Might be something for you to keep in mind.
Speaker 8: Be sociable, Look smart day with testy, drink my chi
friendsday your tener, and.
Speaker 4: Be sociable.
Speaker 3: When friends drop in.
Speaker 1: Let your hospitality show you a sociable in the modern manner.
Speaker 3: Epsi you know is the favorite of this mine and
young in min.
Speaker 2: Be sociable.
Speaker 6: With drink, light, refreshing, stay longer and delver.
Speaker 4: There the sociable.
Speaker 3: Have you tried to pepsy lately?
Speaker 4: Halliday?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Look behind that dust just over the farg off
gaining on us? Why put off the job we got to.
Speaker 3: Do with m publish. My job is to get that money.
Speaker 2: But this here's a good place for an ambush. Call
give me my cartridges. We'll wait for him.
Speaker 3: Pappy. We aren't shooting anyone in cold blood.
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you?
Speaker 4: Boy?
Speaker 3: You've lived by your rose, Papy, I'll live my mine.
Speaker 2: A man does what he's grieving to do. You can't
escape your fate no more. You can pick your father.
Speaker 3: You really believe that, huh?
Speaker 2: I believe in making the best of a bad job.
Forty years of it not a scar on my body,
not a slash, not a bullet hole. And during a
few days were spent behind bars, No, sir, happy French
lived high on the hog.
Speaker 3: That's an impressive statement. Happened? What have you got your
shelf for it? Eh?
Speaker 1: Forty two dollars and a handful of jingling silver comes
to just a little better than.
Speaker 3: A dollar a year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's out, figures doing it all? Right? Hold up
a minute. Now you see the boulder on that ledge
up yonder? Yeah, when there's fifty thousand dollars, chance to
live out my years in comfort and respect, that's it.
That's it. We'll go on, go dig it up, Paladin.
And if you won't risten to reason, would I get
a chance. I'm gonna fight you for it.
Speaker 1: That boulder was heavy, and I was working against time.
The men on our trail were closing the distance between
us fast.
Speaker 3: Happy you ever.
Speaker 2: Moved this boulder? The deputies were close on me. Oh,
there's lots of strength in a desperate man. Now it's
buried shallow now once more, Paladin, Will you make a deal? Oh,
you're gonna take me in.
Speaker 1: That's all I can do for your sake. Pappy, I'll
never make it alone. Ah here it is a satchel
right opening.
Speaker 2: Ah, pretty amy, Okay, I'll take it now, Happy, I
told you, bullet changing your saddle bag. No more, Paladin,
they're in this gun. Don't make a mistake, puppy. You
believe me now, pretty stupid. We'll have morally on us
in a minute. That's what I'm aiming for.
Speaker 1: If I can't do business with you, I'll join up
with them the menu double cross. Sure, we'll just let
bygones be bygone and get back where we're starting. You
think you can do and why not? Well you'll have
a chance to find out. They'll be here any minute,
Yes they will. In the meantime, I might as leaf
have your gun. After he took my gun, Pappy dragged
himself to the rim of the ledge, slowly, painfully, leaning
against a rock, pulled himself erect. For a moment, I
had a glimpse of the man he once must have
been as he faced Morley in bull They circled to
a stop below him.
Speaker 2: Hody, boys, come on up and take a sharon share alike?
Why you man?
Speaker 1: Double Pappy Happy, I'm here, come out behind this rock.
Give me back my gun. Oh h how you hurt
back here?
Speaker 2: What he called me? Old fool? We don't have much
cover here. Don't you know when it's time to cut
your losses, get out, save yourself.
Speaker 1: We'll get out of this together, Poppy, Well, we won't get.
Speaker 3: Out at all.
Speaker 2: What's the matter with you? Paladein? And can you handle
that gun at you?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: I can. I got a few rounds left, and I'm
gonna crawl out there to the edge and make them count.
Speaker 3: Huh hoby, Oh, must they believe me?
Speaker 2: Be Valadin? I got something to do. Don smart like? Hey, borry.
Speaker 3: Happy? I made him happy?
Speaker 2: Count, didn't I?
Speaker 3: Yes? You did? Here?
Speaker 2: Let me no no use, Palette, believe me? Be that
dirty nosed kidding made his count too. Oh, don't matter,
I reckon, I'm getting old for this game. It's time
to rest. Man not to know when it's time from
the quick? Ain't that right? Friend?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess that's right. Friend.
Speaker 4: Oh, missa Pardy, it looks like you have the most
exhausting trip. I carry saddle back for you.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Hey boy, you'll find a fifty thousand.
Speaker 3: Dollars, yes, oh you bring back? Yes, they fifty thousand
dollars in the bank where it belongs.
Speaker 4: Do you find a legend?
Speaker 3: No, no legend. I found a lonely tired old man.
Speaker 1: Lonely tired old man, answer right, waity you bring me back? No,
there was a spot on the hillside for the old
man is buried and dreams.
Speaker 3: I left him there.
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