02x17 - Shootin' Woman

[bunniefuu]

Well, I guess mrs. Mcgill's

Aiming to g*n bat masterson.

Can't be a fool. Why, she

Wouldn't have a chance

In a gunfight with a man.

I wouldn't bet

Against it.

Ms. Mcgill's a shootin' woman.

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[Announcer]

The life and legend of

Wyatt earp,

Starring hugh o'brian.

[Narrator]

Women of the frontier when

Wyatt earp was marshall

Of dodge city in

Had long been accustomed to

Scenes of violence and gunplay.

But aside from tough

Show-offs like calamity jane,

Belle star and pearl heart,

Women rarely carried

A g*n or used one,

And then only in some

Act of desperation.

The circumstances which

Turned mrs. Jane mcgill

Into a sh**ting

Woman were unusual.

And she became one of

The most serious problems

Marshall earp ever

Tried to handle.

[Men shouting]

[Dog barking and howling]

Gate's locked.

Cut the wire.

I'll get it from the bags.

[Dog continues howling,

Chickens clucking]

Get away from that fence.

Now take it easy, ma.

We've got cattle on the

Drive that need water.

You've locked the gate.

I promised feed and water

For mr. Hap dorsett.

He'll be driving

His own cattle in soon.

I gave him my word.

First come, first serve.

You ain't cutting my fence.

Now back off now.

[Fires g*n]

Why you old bat.

No, no.

sh**ting a woman?

Tobe'll have wyatt earp

Throw her in jail.

All right, let's go.

[Dog howling]

Hush up, boots.

Come here, come.

Trouble's over for right now.

Mama, you shot at them.

Over their heads.

Oh, how could you?

I promised marshall earp that

The next time we had

Any trouble,

We'd send for him.

What if they tell mr. Earp?

I could have

Driven into town.

By then they'd have

Busted down the fence.

And speaking of promises,

I gave hap dorsett my word.

Oh, him.

You like the boy, don't you?

I said it times, I'm not

Marrying to live on a ranch.

I've seen all the cows

And cowhands I can take.

You think you'd rather

Have bat masterson?

No, we're just friends.

Bat has lots of

Girls, town girls.

And a roving eye.

You seem to forget

That I'm quite grown up.

In fact tomorrow I'll be .

?

Well, that's right effie.

You'll be of legal and voting

Age if they let a woman vote.

Well, it all kind of comes

To a head, your birthday

And hap riding in.

Now, mama, I haven't

Promised hap anything.

So happens that bat's

Going to take me.

Well, I better hitch up

That rig and get into town

Before the stores

Close and the bank.

Bank? Our credit's

Run out at the stores,

And we haven't a

Dime in the bank.

Tomorrow's the day,

Honey, you'll be .

And I made a promise of it.

Mr. Masterson, come out here,

I want to talk to you.

Yeah, what's up?

Uh, mrs. Mcgill again.

Took a couple of shots at some

Of tobe larson's cowhands.

I talked him out of

Filing a complaint.

Well, thanks.

I want you to ride out there

And give her a good talking

To, though.

Part of her farm's on

The city limits now and,

She's got to quit sh**ting

At people every time

She has an argument.

Couldn't you go out

There this time, wyatt?

She doesn't think to much of--

Now look.

I didn't pick effie

Mcgill for your girl.

You just read this

To her mother.

Yes sir, but I don't--

Anyway, you got no reason to

Be wasting effie's time.

Or do you intend to marry her?

Marry her?

Well, I haven't more than

Kissed her a couple times.

Oh, well that's enough to

Give a nice country girl ideas.

Gosh.

Well, mrs. Mcgill's

Caused me a heap of trouble

But I kind of like her.

She's over

And I'm just ,

But we're both

Old timers in the west.

Huh?

Well, I guess that seems

Kind of odd to you,

But you're not an old timer

Unless you're hauled to

California by wagon train.

Didn't effie tell you

That she and her folks--

[Door opens]

Wyatt, they want you down

At the bank, right away.

Holdup?

No, something about mrs. Mcgill.

Oh, well deputy masterson can--

Well, they asked for you,

Wyatt.

The cashier said--

All right.

All right.

You know, maybe you

Should get married.

This is unusual, madam.

It's been ten years since we've

Been asked to cash gold nuggets.

You're not a depositor here.

And you don't seem willing to

Explain how you came by these.

Well, I didn't steal them.

No one's accused you

Of that, mrs. Mcgill.

It's just that banks

Have to be careful.

At $ an ounce, you have

Almost $ here, and--

[Door opens]

Oh, marshall earp.

Thank you for coming

So promptly.

We have a matter--

Howdy, mrs. Mcgill.

Howdy, marshall.

He thinks I stole them.

Gold nuggets, mr. Earp.

Well, mrs. Mcgill and

Her family were ers.

Didn't you tell

Mr. Perkins that?

I don't like to

Talk about it.

You'll be perfectly safe

In cashing them, mr. Perkins.

Well, if she only explained...

One moment and I'll have

The cash for you, mrs. Mcgill.

I'll be outside.

I'd like to talk to you.

One hundred, two hundred

And three hundred.

Thank you kindly.

All that bother over

A few piddling nuggets.

Well it's going to

Start a lot of talk.

Ain't none of these town

Folks ever seen gold before?

Well, gold coins,

But not any dust or nuggets.

Oh, and by the way,

Tobe larson said that you

Took a couple shots

At some of his boys.

One shot, I aimed high.

I told him I promised to save

Water and feed for

Hap dorsett but

They started to

Tear down my fence.

Mrs. Mcgill,

I think that if you--

Didn't you tell me you hauled

To california when you were ?

Yes, ma'am, on a wagon train.

Yeah, well us wagon trainers

Always took our own part.

Well, we had to then.

You know, I can remember when

My dad named me as the hunter

Of the whole party.

I just about wore

Myself to a frazzle,

Stalking after all those

Buffalo and antelope.

One day I put on

A big rebellion.

Yes sir, I told my old man

They'll just have to eat

Wild turkey,

Prairie chicken and quail.

[Laughs]

Most people got so

Sick of eating it,

They started calling

Me cluck cluck.

[Both laugh]

And that shamed me back

Into hunting buffalo again.

Yeah, and if you'd have found

One of those bull whackers

Trying to steal meat,

Wouldn't you have

Taken a shot at them?

Well in those times, yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, but you see

The law today says

People can't go around

sh**ting other people

Just for trespassing unless

You know for sure they

Aim to commit a felony.

You see, mrs. Mcgill,

Times just aren't

The same anymore.

And I'm sure that mr. Larson

Would have been willing to pay

For the food and the water,

And for the busted fence.

Look, if anything like

This happens again,

You just have effie

Come in to see me, huh?

All right, depending

There's time.

But there ain't always

Been time, mr. Earp.

Long before you

Came to dodge,

I had to stand off

Hoodlums with a g*n.

Yes'm, I know that.

Yeah.

Well, effie'll be hitting her

St birthday tomorrow,

And I aim to see hap dorsett

Drive in with his first herd

Of steers.

Well like I told effie,

It's all coming to a head

And my work is almost finished.

Is a mother's job

Ever finished?

Handling the gold will be.

The gold?

You got more of it?

Oh, yeah.

Well now you...

You better bring it in here

And put it in that bank.

It's safe, mr. Earp.

But I do thank you kindly.

[Men singing]

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Scandal travels

Without a wire ♪

♪ Swift and hot as

A prairie fire ♪

♪ Gossiping gossiping

Gossiping all over town ♪

♪ The busy body's tongue

Is mightier than the sword ♪

♪ Swift and eager

To spread the word ♪

♪ Gossiping gossiping

Gossiping all over town ♪

Maybe it's just

A lot of talk, cy.

Yeah, and maybe it ain't.

You better wait

For the boss.

Why cut the whole

Outfit in on it?

Just the old woman and

Her kid to handle.

Ain't we men

Enough to do that?

[Laughs]

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Oh, they're beautiful.

Just scrumptious, mama.

Did you, uh, buy

Them on credit?

Nope.

But what with then?

Never mind,

They're paid for.

Now you try your dresses on,

I got to fix that fence.

Marshall earp was here.

What'd he want?

He thinks you've got some

Gold hidden on the place.

And if that's true, he thinks

You should put it in the bank.

I'm waiting for hap dorsett.

Hap? What's he got to do

With your money?

More than wyatt earp

Or bat masterson has.

Now, mama, you wouldn't be so

Foolish to actually try to

Bribe hap into marrying me.

I told you, I'm not going

To marry a cattleman.

He's had nothing all these

Years but scraggy acres,

And his tumbled down old house.

Smelly cowhands

And balling steers.

And drunken hoodlums you

Have to threaten with a g*n.

It's been hard

For you, I know that.

And worse for you.

Why did you hide the gold?

Why didn't you sell this

Place and move us into town?

The gold has blood on it.

Oh, you mean

That papa and john--

Wasn't their fault.

I was the one who

Wanted to travel west.

And then when we made our

Pile and started back...

I got a fence

That needs mending.

Tell me the rest of it.

I want to understand.

When the posse had

Saved you and me, and

When I was well enough,

I went back

To that ambush.

I couldn't even

Find the graves.

The buffalo had stomped

The earth flat,

k*lled the grass and

The prairie flowers.

What do you buy with blood?

Pretties like them things?

A house in dodge city

On a two-by-four lot?

Your papa and john, they

Didn't like the mines.

They wanted to homestead

Land in california.

Gold, that was my doing.

[Dog barks]

What have you been

Guarding all these years?

The dirt, the water

In the well,

The pond, the trees,

The sky?

I'm a fool of an old woman.

And a girl who won't learn

From her mama's foolishness.

Howdy, mrs. Mcgill.

Hap dorsett.

I'm a little late getting here.

Well it's about time.

Where're your cattle?

Oh, down the trail apiece.

And how's it been going, ma?

And how's effie?

We're all right, but the,

The drought got you, didn't it?

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

I'm only bringing

In about head.

Oh, well, that's

Better than I expected.

Now ma.

Oh, some small outfits ain't

Driving at all this season.

You can rest them here

And put some weight

Back on them.

I've been holding

It for you, hap.

Well I knew you'd keep

Your part of the bargain.

But me, I can't even pay

Until I sell the steers.

Hap, don't worry

About the pay, but

Try to keep the bad

News from effie, huh?

No use, ma.

She can count cattle.

Oh you can brag you shipped from

Wichita, or that you sold most

Of them to a--

A trail buyer in arcatcha.

No, ma'am.

I never did have any

Luck lying to women.

She'd find me out

As quick as you did.

Take a look yonder.

Your mother's got wyatt

Awful worried this time.

He didn't order me

To come out here,

He asked me as a

Personal favor.

Wyatt doesn't ask personal

Favors just for nothing, effie.

You tell mr. Earp that it is

True what we were talking about.

But I can't do a

Thing with mama.

You ain't going to get anyplace

With effie eating humble pie.

I tried that.

Failures, young girls

Nowadays don't tolerate them.

Well, I'm all kinds

Of a fool and

That drought starved

Me out so...

What chance would have

Asking her to marry me?

Think that horse of

Yours wants some water?

He sure does.

Water, patches, water.

Sure is thirsty.

[Laughs]

[Sighs]

I better do a patch

Up job for you there.

Nope, haul me up

That milk can.

We're going to

Change my bank.

That ain't real gold?

Yes, sir.

Well thunderation, ma,

You shouldn't keep it there.

Is that all that

Interests you?

You should put it in a wells

Fargo bank or some place.

Hap, I want to lend you

Some of that right now.

Oh, no.

Now look, you can buy

Some more cattle,

Build a ranch house.

It would all belong

To you and effie.

I don't want none of it.

Thanks, ma. Thanks

Just the same.

Hap, I know it looks like

I'm trying to buy you for effie,

But that ain't the main point.

Well it sure must be

Another point.

You know I'd marry effie

Tomorrow, and I wouldn't

Charge you a nickel.

Look it, hap, listen...

Wait a minute.

[Shouting]

Well, ain't you gonna say

Howdy to an old friend?

My goodness it is

You, hap dorsett.

Yes'm.

The sun was in my eyes

And I couldn't make you out.

Why you look plum

Tuckered, hap.

Aren't we going to

Invite him to supper, ma?

He's invited.

Well, thanks, but I

Can't stay.

Why not?

Well my cattle, I left

Them resting up the trail.

But you have cowhands

To look after them.

One cowhand.

We'll be driving

In about midnight

If you'll just give me

A key to the gate, ma.

I've got an

Extra one here.

Thanks.

Maybe you'll invite

Me to breakfast.

Why of course.

You sure get prettier

Every time I see you.

And ma you change

Banks again.

Well, bye.

One cowhand.

Must have made

A big success.

He tried.

Poor hap.

Don't say that about him,

He's been fighting the

Drought and his range dried up

And there was nothing

He could do about it

Except keep his courage.

All right, mother, all right.

I promised bat I'd

Meet him in town.

Can I use the rig?

No.

Very well, I can walk.

Oh, forget what I said.

You can use the rig.

It's already hitched up.

Thanks, ma.

Well the girl's

Out of the way.

What are we going to

Do about the old lady?

We'll scare her

Into talking.

And that dog, he

Might raise a rumpus.

Nah, no he won't. Come

On, let's get at it.

[Dog yelps]

[Horse hooves clomping]

[Dog howls]

Hey, come here.

[Dog continues to howl]

Boots.

[Dog barks]

[g*n fires]

[Dog yelps]

You reckon she's

Still in the house?

I don't know.

Seems kind of strange.

Woman sees her own dog shot.

Don't come running

Out or nothing.

Probably scared to death.

[c*ck r*fle]

Maybe she ain't here.

[c*ck g*n]

Let's look around.

[g*nf*re]

[c*ck g*n]

[Fires]

The other one's in

The parlor, dead.

They k*lled my dog.

[Sighs]

Here, let me do that.

[Sighs]

You gonna arrest me?

Yep.

Those men were

Hogan and lacey.

They run with the

Billings g*ng.

I've got to keep you

In protective custody.

For how long?

Hap will be driving his

Cattle in at midnight.

Well, billings and his crowd

Will be here before that, maybe.

They're bound to have

Heard what happened.

I've caused you

Enough trouble.

You sure have.

Well why worry with

Protecting me?

If the rest of the outlaws come,

Let them ransack the place

And take what they

Can find.

That isn't the

Law, mrs. Mcgill.

You've been wrong, but the law

Still has to protect you.

It's in the milk

Can in the well.

That's your mama's

Business, not mine.

What?

I'm not thinking about

Here and her money.

Or me either.

She wouldn't turned in

That gold when wyatt

Told her to,

Then she up and shoots two

Of bud billings' hoodlums.

When the rest of them come,

We may have a big gunfight

On our hands.

And all because your dear mama

Never heard of banks to keep

Money in.

Well, I thought you'd be

Willing to make allowances.

Not when folks get wyatt into

A lot of needless trouble.

Wyatt, always wyatt.

So he comes first?

Well that's my job.

[Sighs]

Well the important thing is

That,

Well even though you

Started for the gold first,

You always had the

Land in your head.

Yep.

You know I guess us

Wagon trainers are all alike.

I've always wanted to have

A cattle spread of my own.

Wyatt.

Big cloud of dust on

The road out of town.

Looks like billings

Is on his way.

All right.

Mrs. Mcgill, you and

Effie go in the house.

Stay strictly out of this.

Get those horses

In the corral.

There they are.

Those are my men,

Hogan and lacey.

That's right.

Tell me back in town

Some crazy woman

Bushwhacked them.

You heard wrong, mr. Billings.

They shot her dog

And then broke into her house.

That don't sound likely, earp.

Well that's what happened.

You climb down

Off that horse,

And I'll show you where

Lacey died in the parlor.

I'll show you where the dog's

Buried too if you like.

Why would they do it?

Broken down old place like this.

Well, mr. Billings, they thought

There was a lot of gold

Buried here.

Didn't they send you word?

No.

Well I guess they decided

To take it on their own.

Well I told you the truth.

And I've said all

I'm going to say.

I've heard you called

A lot of names, earp.

Liar ain't one of them.

Thinking hogan and lacey

Got what they deserved.

We'll let the court

Decide that later.

[Billings]

See ya.

Yeah.

I see now.

That's the way the

New law works.

At least when

Mr. Earp's around.

Wyatt?

Yeah?

Effie says that gold

Is in a milk can down

The well.

You haul all that stuff up.

I'll go ask mrs. Mcgill if I

Can't take it on over

To the bank.

Yes, sir.

Here.

Mrs. Mcgill?

I'd like your permission to

Put that gold in the bank.

Mr. Masterson says

He knows where it is.

All right.

Might as well take

These along.

Yeah, that's a

Good idea too.

Excuse me for a minute.

Miss effie, mr. Masterson

Is one of my best friends,

But I can't, I can't say that

He's good material for

A husband yet.

No, he isn't.

I talked kind of

Mean to your mother.

Asking you not to

Add anything to it.

It's a tough job

Getting blood off gold,

And what she did all these

Years, she did for you.

I know that now.

You know as an old

Wagon trainer myself,

I'd just like to say

That mrs. Mcgill could

Captain a wagon train for

Me any time, any place.

Well, I guess it's

North texas, mr. Earp.

Saddle up, take

Those with you.

You know effie and hap

Are going to need you.

Effie, did she say?

You sure?

North texas,

That's what she said.

But they're never going

To make it without you.

Oh, go on now.

No, I mean it.

North texas is big country.

A lot more your size

Than this little farm.

When the northern wind

Starts screaming and

Your grandchildren come

Down with the croup,

You be there, mrs. Mcgill.

I thank you.

I thank you kindly.

Old timer.

[Cries]

♪ The old west country ♪

♪ He made law and order

Prevail ♪

♪ And none can deny it ♪

♪ The legend of wyatt ♪

♪ Forever will live

On the trail ♪

♪ Oh, wyatt earp ♪

♪ Wyatt earp ♪

♪ Brave, courageous,

And bold ♪

♪ Long live his fame ♪

♪ And long live his glory ♪

♪ And long may

His story be told ♪

♪ Long may his story

Be told ♪