Rawhide (1959) s01e16 Episode Script

Hyah! ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? Keep movin', movin', movin'? Though they're disapprovin'? Keep them dogies movin'? Rawhide? Don't try to understand 'em? Just rope 'em, throw, and brand 'em? Soon we'll be livin' high and wide? My heart's calculatin'? My true love will be waitin'? Be waitin' at the end of my ride? Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on? Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in, let 'em out? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in? Rawhide? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? Hyah! Hyah! Rawhide!? Hyah! Pointing 'em north, most things you can calculate.
Your men, for instance- you know what to expect.
But there's one thing you can't calculate on: the people who cross your trail, the thousand ways they can make their troubles yours.
You find that out real quick in my job.
My name's Gil Favor, trail boss.
Rock of ages, cleft for me? Let me hide myself in Thee? Let the water and the blood? From Thy side, a healing flood? Um, ma'am? Are you all right? Well, I I mean, out there Rock of ages, cleft for me? Let me hide myself in Thee? Let the water and the blood? From Thy side, a healing flood? Did did they, uh, hurt you, ma'am? Don't you even know what I'm saying? Look, uh I'm riding ahead of a herd, scouting for bed-ground.
So you see there's Well, there's no cause to fret.
Well, I'll tell you what, ma'am.
I'll I'll take you with me.
Yeah, I'll take you with me and you'll be all right.
I can't just leave you here alone.
Look, I'll tell you what.
You stay here until I get back.
Ma'am, it's it's the best thing for you.
As long as you won't come along with me.
All right, I'll stay here with you.
They'll be coming up to me soon anyway.
They're getting run-crazy, Mr.
Favor.
They smell water.
So can I; I'm no cow.
No sign of Rowdy? No, nothing.
You shouldn't have let him ride on alone like that.
I'm hired to do the scouting.
He has to learn this business.
This seemed as good a stretch as any to send him on ahead alone.
He'll be all right.
Hope you're right.
Don't think I am? It's just that I figure something bad must have happened.
Maybe not.
If he'd have found graze and bed-ground, he'd have been back here by now.
You think Comanches? No, they're hungry in these parts.
No more buffalo.
You know how they are.
Chances are they'd ride back with him and want a few beeves for letting us pass through.
Right.
Well, are you going to send me to look? Yeah, Pete.
With me.
In here, Boss.
That's the way I found them, Boss.
She all right? Well yeah.
When I came in here, she was making candy and singing to herself.
She hasn't said a word.
Not even her name- nothing.
Just what happened here, ma'am? See what I mean? Not a word.
I see why you didn't come back to the herd.
Well, yeah, I I couldn't leave her here alone the way she is.
You're married, aren't you, ma'am? There's a man's coat and boots in there.
Where is he? Are you like this because of something that happened to him? You better get on back to the herd.
We'll be making camp up near that creek.
Yeah.
Go ahead, Rowdy.
No explaining those two out there.
What do you mean? Well, they haven't been shot, nobody knifed them.
Nothing to say what killed them.
They didn't just fall down dead.
What is it? You wanted to say something? Don't be afraid.
Delawares.
Delaware? That's an Eastern Indian.
What are they doing in Texas? What was left of them wandered off out here in search of peace.
There's a few small bands of them ranging between the Rio Grande and the three forks of the Missouri.
It's a little hard to believe, but they're friendly.
The way I understand it, most of them are Christians.
If they're friendly, how'd this happen? I don't know.
Delawares never borrowed this kind of trouble.
It's not in their nature.
Not out in this country, anyway.
There were two more of them.
You sure? If I can still read sign, one of them had just enough strength to drag himself to his pony and ride away.
The other? Ma'am, I don't know if you can understand me, but but try, please.
Do you remember anything that's happened? Try to talk.
Please, try.
I don't think she even hears me.
Something killed those Delawares.
What is it? You trying to say something? If the words are too hard, just nod your head.
We can't leave you here all alone.
You can stay overnight at our camp, but we've got a herd going north.
Lot of people depending on it.
We have to keep moving.
All I can do to help you is have one of our men take you to the fort in the morning.
But you'll be in good hands there.
All right? Ma'am, you shouldn't be toting that thing.
Why don't you let me? It don't seem proper like for a fine lady to be serving a lot of trail hands.
I don't think Mr.
Favor should have What'd I tell you about thinking? My third cup, ma'am, but I'm obliged.
Never could get enough coffee in me.
I think the boys have had enough.
Thank you, ma'am.
Thought giving you something to do would take your mind off yourself.
But it's getting kind of late now.
You better get some rest.
Then in the morning In the morning, you'll do what? I'm glad you seem to understand me now.
You haven't answered my question.
What are you going to do with me in the morning? Well, do what's best for you.
I'll see that Pete Nolan takes you safely to Fort Stiles.
No! No, don't let him do it.
Well, ma'am Maybe you'd better be the one to take her to the fort, Rowdy.
Against her will? No, Rowdy.
Because she can't quite think for herself.
I I think she can.
My name's Favor- Gil Favor.
What's yours, ma'am? Tell him.
Amelia Spaulding.
I want to be your friend, Mrs.
Spaulding.
Uh, your husband- where is he? Dead.
Sorry.
Indians? He died of a perforated stomach almost a month ago.
I see No.
I don't think you do, Mr.
Favor.
Though you may not be aware of it, there are a great many things you don't understand.
Then maybe you'll tell me.
My husband was a missionary.
He felt the call to minister to the heathen Indian.
His heart led him into the wilderness and he went.
Like Paul into Jerusalem.
He brought an overflowing love Yes, Mrs.
Spaulding? I took my place at his side, his bride sworn to share whatever might befall.
I buried him.
Then I couldn't bring myself to leave.
And today Then you were alone when the Indians came.
Do you have to keep reminding her of the Indians? I don't remember anything after the first one came in.
Now do you understand, Mr.
Favor, why I don't want to be sent to the fort? There'd be the endless questions.
All eyes would be on me.
Do you think I want all this brought out so people can whisper and and point at me behind my back? What do we do with you, ma'am? We can't just leave you here.
You're going to let me ride with the herd until you reach a stage stop.
If you deny me this, Mr.
Favor, I'll kill myself.
It's against everything I believe in, but I will.
We'll try to make you as comfortable as possible, Mrs.
Spaulding.
Anything'd be an improvement on riding that chuck wagon with Mr.
Wishbone.
But this ain't going to be no picnic either.
What do you say when you're driving a lady like that? Joking don't seem right.
You can't just talk about cows, which is about all I know.
There's just this one more valise, Mr.
Yates.
I'll get it.
Oh, will you get the trunk, Pete? Yeah.
I think it's best you leaving everything behind like this, Mrs.
Spaulding.
The boys buried the Indians up by the cotton woods, and right now the herd is trailing over them.
There won't be a sign left.
Just like nothing ever happened.
Yeah.
You've been very sweet to me.
You've made things bearable when they would have been impossible.
Mr.
Nolan, just why do you hate me? How did I ever give you that idea? Mr.
Yates wanted to help me from the moment we met.
You were just like Mr.
Favor- asking questions, thinking about everything but me and what I'd been through.
No, you got me all wrong, ma'am.
Have I? Well, I'm just a scout.
When I run across signs that puzzle me, I just naturally get curious.
Honestly, all I want for you is for you to get where you're going and be happy.
I beg your pardon, ma'am, but Yes? Well, I know you've been through a lot, but you shouldn't dream up things.
Every man in this outfit is for you- really.
Forgive me, I'm sorry.
Would you mind if if I stayed here alone for a moment? Oh, no.
It's getting warmer, don't you think? Well, thinking is one thing I fight against, ma'am.
Should I stop when we get to a shady spot? There's no need for any delay because of me.
Yes'm.
She's got you eating right out of the palm of her hand, doesn't she? Someone's got to look out for her.
Whenever a pretty woman turns up in trouble- real or made up- that someone is usually you.
Look, I'm tending to my chores, ain't I? So far.
Since you're Mrs.
Spaulding's protector, I want you to make a few things clear to her.
What's that? Tell her to get into some pants and a shirt, and wear a hat that'll protect her from the sun.
She can't ride a horse, tell her to find a place in the chuck wagon.
Don't worry, I'll take care of her.
I'll make sure she doesn't lose any of your precious time for you.
Otis! Amelia's gone.
The horse and buggy are gone, too.
She took a trunk and all of her clothes.
She may have left a note.
No.
What does it mean? Well, we've been gone three days, told her we'd only be one.
She may have become frightened being alone and headed for the fort.
She'd have left some sort of word.
Not if she had to leave in a hurry.
Even if she had to leave in a hurry.
She was always a scared girl and You're not being fair to her.
You saw her every day for a year- never once did you see a woman living in the middle of a prairie.
She was still a girl, dressing and acting as though she was still in New Hampshire.
If you've told me that once, you've told me a thousand times and I've always believed you.
She didn't belong out here, and now she's gone.
Where did she go? I don't know, Clarissa.
What made her go? I think it was you.
How can you say that? This is the first time you've let her out of your sight since her husband was killed.
This is the first chance she's had.
Otis, what are you saying? The only reason she never ran away before was because of you.
She was trying to stay here because she knew you wanted her to stay.
I wanted her to stay because there was no place for her to go.
She talked about going home to Concord.
There was no home in Concord.
Ever since we've been here, there's been no home in Concord.
She sold it.
I know, I know.
Are you glad she's gone? Are you glad for her sake? No.
I granted her fear of the Indians, but there's no sign of Indians having been around here.
But my sister is missing.
She loved her husband as much as I love you.
You and I believe in our calling.
We think the savages can be made to hear our voice.
We're not afraid.
She was afraid, and she had every right to be.
You remember how her husband looked- those arrows in his chest.
I remember, Clarissa.
But I also believe that those who shouldn't try the wilderness should stay at home.
I'll get your supper.
No.
No, what you want is to go to Fort Stiles.
We'll try to find out what happened to your sister.
I am minister of God, revenger to execute wrath on him who doeth evil.
Amen.
Mushy! What do you think you're going to find in them bushes? Scouring sand for the pots you're supposed to be scrubbing? I was looking for scouring sand, Mr.
Wishbone, honest, I was.
Then I got to thinking how sad Mrs.
Spaulding always look.
Makes me sad just to look at her.
Thought a little nosegay would perk her up.
Oh, you did, did you? Well, you better get your mind back to thinking about your greasy pots.
Now, we're breaking camp, and if you know what's good for you, you'll get them pots clean and sparkling before we move.
Now, what are you doing in my kitchen? Well, mighty big kitchen you got here, Wish.
I'm just brewing up a little tea for Mrs.
Spaulding.
Oh, you are? Well, what are you, a ramrod or a kitchen maid? 'Sides, that ain't tea, lover boy; that's Chinese herbs for liver bile.
That's tea.
You can't read the label, smell it.
'Sides, what's wrong with my coffee? Nothin', Wish, nothin'.
It's just that Mrs.
Spaulding was telling me about all the nice times she had over a cup of tea back in Concord.
Well, it's time she found out this ain't Concord.
You old wolfhound, you're not as wild as your bark.
You've been, uh shyin' up to her yourself anyway.
Me?! Shyin' up to her?! Well, the only ones doin' that are the two that are still green behind the ears- you and that other lover boy, Mushy.
Well if Mrs.
Spaulding's got to have her tea out in the middle of the prairie, I guess I'd better hot up the water again.
Mr.
Favor Yes'm.
I'd like to talk to you for a minute.
May I come down? Yep.
Thank you.
Just what's on your mind, Mrs.
Spaulding? I know I'm with the drive on your sufferance.
I don't want to abuse your hospitality, no matter how reluctantly it's given.
Would you just say what's on your mind, Mrs.
Spaulding? These trousers- the smallest that Rowdy could find- are twice my waistline.
The material is very coarse and rough.
I scraped both my knees from when I tried them on.
They can be taken in.
The clothes I wear are the only part of me that remain of the way of life I was born into I was meant to live.
Don't make me change them.
Oh hello, Boss.
How sweet of you.
How very thoughtful.
Well, tea reminds Mrs.
Spaulding of home.
Mr.
Favor won't you hear me out? Yes, Mrs.
Spaulding? How far is it to the next town? As the herd goes As my buggy goes.
That's less than a day.
It's almost three with the herd.
Let me ride ahead with Rowdy.
That way, you'll be rid of me at once.
Rowdy doesn't have any spare time, ma'am.
He's a working drover.
I can go alone.
What's your hurry, Mrs.
Spaulding? All right, Mr.
Favor.
Nice of you to ask me.
Looks like she's bigger than all of us, Mr.
Favor.
You know, Pete, I'm beginning to think she scared those three Delawares to death.
What is it, Pete? I don't know.
Feel kind of queasy.
Just don't let Wishbone hear you calling it a bellyache.
I wouldn't do that.
His cooking's the best.
Like I keep telling him, them sourdoughs are burnt on the outside and raw in the middle and salty as a fish, but always just the way I like 'em.
That's all.
This is a telegraph from Cooperville.
No one who answers Mrs.
Spaulding's description took the stage today or was seen in town.
I told you, she had no funds for the fare.
No cause for alarm, Mrs.
Gray.
After all, there are no unfriendly Indians in the vicinity.
The district's quite peaceful.
We're sorry to trouble you with our problem.
Well, that's what we're here for, Doctor.
If I was only sure she went of her own accord wherever she is.
I'll send out a detail in the morning.
We'll find your sister, Mrs.
Gray.
In the meantime, why don't you make yourselves comfortable and try to do what we do- forget where you are.
What kind of things are they saying about me? Who, ma'am? Oh, do stop calling me "ma'am.
" I'm Amelia Amelia.
You didn't answer my question.
What are Mr.
Favor and the other men saying about me, trying to make you believe? Well they only know that you had a lot of trouble, and they're sorry.
You're lying, of course.
Now, why would I lie? Never mind.
It doesn't matter.
Anything that bothers you matters to all of us, ma' um Amelia.
It matters to you more than any of the others, doesn't it? Well, maybe.
I'd hoped it was that way, but I wouldn't let myself think so.
You're the only one who understands that I'm not really strong just because I can stand up to your Mr.
Favor.
I'm not strong at all.
I'm afraid.
You are? I need someone like you, Rowdy.
I need you.
But you don't need me, do you? No, don't answer me.
It's just that you're different.
It's all there in your eyes.
You make a woman feel protected.
That feeling's very important to me right now.
I've never known anyone like you.
I wish you'd kiss me, Rowdy.
Wishbone, get over here! Something's happened to Pete.
Wait here.
I just started to walk away from the chuck wagon, and it hit me.
He must be full to the gills with the stuff.
What stuff? Arsenic.
Mushy, go get me a sack of mustard and plenty of water.
Now move! Arsenic- are you sure? I seen it before.
Settlers keep it around for wolves and coyotes.
Sometimes humans get it by mistake.
Wh where'd I get any arsenic? Yes'm.
What happened? Well, Pete Nolan, he swallowed some arsenic somewhere.
Let's hurry with that stuff.
Come on, drink it down, Pete.
Chocolate candy? Now, where did he get chocolate candy way out here in the middle of the prairie? Mrs.
Spaulding was making candy.
I took a few of them.
Those Delawares- their eyes were all red and swollen, too just like Pete's.
Meaning what? Meaning they were poisoned.
And I murdered them, Mr.
Favor? I didn't go that far, Mrs.
Spaulding.
That's what you implied.
Those Indians were poisoned.
There was arsenic in the candy you were making.
You've hated me right from the start, haven't you, Mr.
Favor? I'd like to know what you have against me.
Doesn't my word stand for anything? I don't know anything about arsenic.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
Why are you after me? Those were peaceful Indians.
When I was at your cabin, there wasn't a single sign of violence.
You think more of those dirty savages than you do of a white woman? You don't sound very much like the widow of a missionary man.
Rowdy, help me.
Jeffers ride back to the fort, tell them to come and get Mrs.
Spaulding.
Sure, Mr.
Favor.
I don't think she'll be here.
Won't she? No, she's going back to her folks in New England and I'm taking her.
I don't think anyone here will try and stop me.
Mr.
Favor needs every man here- you more than any of us.
You let go of me, Scarlet.
Are you crazy? You seen what happened to Pete! Get going.
Nobody's going to stop you.
You won't get far.
You won't be able to fool yourself for too long.
You tell anyone that comes after her, they're going to have to get by me.
Pete dies, we just might have to do that.
You get your things together and get them in the buggy.
I'll go get the horse.
You won't leave me? Promise.
You heard what I said back there.
Are you from Fort Stiles? That's right.
I'm with the cattle drive trailing directly north of here.
We got a lady with us.
Picked her up some miles back.
What's her name? Mrs.
Spaulding, ma'am.
Oh, thank heavens, it's Amelia.
Uh, is she all right? Is anything the matter with her? She's all right, ma'am, just fine.
We'll follow.
Last time I say take your potion, lie down and keep warm.
I've had all your poison I can stand.
You give me my pants and boots, Wishbone.
If you don't, I'm going to use this on you.
You don't scare me, Pete Nolan.
Can't scare me at all because I took all your bullets out.
Can't trust a man in a high fever.
I can get some more.
Oh, now, you be careful.
Wishbone, give me my pants! If you don't, I'm going to blow the seat out of 'em.
Now, you be careful.
Because you know you're going to be sorry.
Give me my pants.
Pete! Looks like I'm not going to be shy a scout after all.
Nice to have you back with us, Pete.
Well, we ain't going to have him with us long unless he does what I tell him.
I've been doing nothing but sleeping or being out of my mind for days.
You know what that old goat wants me to do? He wants me to take a sleeping potion.
More sleeping and less talking is what you need.
Now, a good long nap will make you feel better.
Then you can wake up and be just as ornery as ever.
Why don't you do like the man says, Pete.
What's your hurry? Because I want to catch up to Rowdy before he goes so far he can't come back.
Rowdy's on his own.
That woman is flat poison, Mr.
Favor, and I feel responsible.
After all, he was doing some scouting for me when he found those Indians in front of that cabin.
My ramrod's gone.
I won't take a chance on losing my scout, too.
Now, you take what Wishbone's got for you.
That's an order.
Yes.
It ain't an order, it's a conspiracy.
I'm not so much older than you.
It's just the long drive today- the heat and wind.
Why do you say that? Just being feminine.
You seem so distant as though you were counting your regrets.
I'm sorry.
After the way you faced up to Mr.
Favor, I supposed you might be thinking of us.
Well, I I was thinking of Pete Nolan, who I left not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
You're blaming me for that? No, I I'm all mixed up.
You'll see things in a different light later.
You're the only one who listens to me and believes what I've been through.
I just promise not to leave me.
Just don't leave me.
I'm not going to leave you.
I need you so much.
I need someone to protect me.
I said I won't leave you.
It isn't what I want to hear.
I, uh you better get some rest.
We'll be moving out as soon as the sun gets up.
Do you think they'll follow us? I think so.
Won't do them any good, though.
I figure we'll put in to Dobe Crossing around noon.
We'll get some supplies then.
You'd better hold it.
Don't move, Rowdy.
Just make sure you don't move.
Look, we said all we had to say.
I'm going to move.
I'm not alone.
Look, get back, all of you.
You got no right to hound her.
You'd better listen, Rowdy.
I know what I'm going to hear- about how bad she is.
can she be that bad? Why couldn't you stay away from me, Clarissa! You never wanted me- never! You can ruin your own life, Amelia, but you have no right to ruin anybody else's.
You were always the noble one- so strong.
And I wanted to be like you, but not anymore.
Please listen to me, Amelia.
Whatever happened couldn't be helped.
Nobody will blame you.
Blame? Once you're back home in Concord, you'll find peace.
You'll forgive yourself.
Forgive myself? Will God forgive me? I came out here in His name as a missionary's wife, and I I killed without reason.
Those savages meant me no harm.
They I was in the cabin making candy.
They were standing around like children just waiting until I was finished.
They were laughing, just like children.
And I I poisoned them.
I couldn't help myself.
I couldn't forget that night in the South Pass when those other Indians were screaming and killing us.
Their faces- streaks of paint- yellow, black, green.
They've been in my nightmares ever since.
I was afraid.
I couldn't help myself.
I've never felt the same since.
I never even wanted to learn one Indian from another.
I tried to forget they were different.
They were savages, heathens.
I thought I could hide- find time enough to pray for forgiveness.
I thought maybe I could be close to you.
I Amelia.
Amelia! Amelia.
Forgive me.
I just wanted to go home.
You're so you're so strong and I My name Moon, captain- Mr.
Moon- your prisoner.
Chief of the Delawares? Too few of us left to have chief.
Why, Mr.
Moon? That woman poisoned four of my brothers.
One live long enough to tell.
Missionaries in Kansas teach me be good Christian, live by Bible.
Does Bible not say "eye for eye, tooth for tooth"? May the Lord have mercy on her soul and on mine.
I don't know the answer, Rowdy.
Head 'em up! Move 'em out.
?Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'? Keep rollin', rollin', rollin'? Though the streams are swollen? Keep them dogies rollin'? Rawhide? Through rain and wind and weather? Hell-bent for leather? Wishin' my gal was by my side? All the things I'm missin'? Good vittles, love and kissin'? Are waiting at the end of my ride? Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on? Move 'em on, head 'em up, rawhide? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in, let 'em out? Cut 'em out, ride 'em in? Rawhide? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'? Hyah! Hyah! ?Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'? Hyah! ?Rollin', rollin', rollin'?