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05x11 - The Traitor

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Wagon Train". Aired: September 18, 1957 – May 2, 1965.*
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The series chronicles the adventures of a wagon train from St. Joseph, Missouri, across the plains of the Midwestern United States and the Rocky Mountains to Sacramento, California.

05x11 - The Traitor

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Wanted

dead or alive, for wholesale robbery
and m*rder.

The outlaw.

No one has that.

No one is out on Halloween, Wednesday.

I can see that
it's Spanish means angel of death.

I can see that to reward $10,000.

I never heard of a reward that big before.

You never heard of a novel
I like, went before it.

They read the town's army post,
even a wagon train.

Did you say wagon train? Yeah.

And they always seems to know
when to strike.

Like he has spies everywhere.

Well, I don't know about you,
but I'm not going to.

Lollygag around your lips
by telling about us and these horses.

Let's get out of here.

And who you waving at?

I'm not waving, Charlie.

I'm just stretching.

Well, let's do that later. Come on.

Come on. Just waved. That's a signal.

Come on, let's go get some horses

and. Oh, wait.

Look,

they're going to wait, Charlie.

And if they do get a shot
for your horses, put.

The g*n on.

All right.

Drop your g*ns out.

Easy and drop them on the ground.

Right over here.

Got it, Charlie.

I'm just waiting for you
to tell me what just happened.

Didn't happen to.

You. Thought they got the horses.

What happens?

What? I'm talking about, what I saw.

It's all right, Charlie.
What did you. See?

I saw you wave to someone a minute later.

Four bandits ride down on it.

I saw you do something.

Act like you've never acted before
in your life.

Not putting up a fight. Not like me.

I saw four men made off with the horses
leaving yours and mine.

Quite a bit.

Is that all you've got to say?

What would you like me to say?

Well, tell me.
I'm not going ahead or something. Tell me.

I didn't see it. Tell me I dreamed it.
Just tell me it ain't so. That's all.

And I won't ask you what it was.
That bandit passed. You.

You say that to a friend.

What? Pulling my leg.

Tell me your front end or something.

Just tell me. It was a joke.

You can't.

$500 a joke, huh?

But why had. Why?

Because I'm sick and tired of this job.

I'm through scouting.

Relax and take it easy.

But it takes money to give and

to stop looking so shocked and upset.

I had a little money deal,
and you cut me out.

That's all there is to it.

You've never done it before
so that you can't start now.

You can raise the rest of the money
somewhere.

Mr. Crystal, I hope I know it well,
and we won't say a thing about it.

Not on your life, Charlie.

I've made up my mind.

I plan to go back to the wagon
train with you,

but seeing you feel the way you do,
I just say goodbye to you right now.

But I'm asking as a friend.

Don't do it. Please don't.

Go off and

when.

I got my g*n on you and don't try
to make a fight, I would have to win it.

And you know yourself. I'm not the shot.

I used to be able to blow a hole plumb
through you.

What's the matter with you?

You all got to go and clean
out of your mind.

What do you mean by.
Pulling a g*n on Flint?

Put that thing away
before you hurt somebody.

No more of an outlaw than I am.

I know he ain't,
but he's trying to be All right.

Charlie, how much time did you spend.

In the saloon at Henderson?

I wasn't in no saloon at all.

We went to Fort Henderson
to buy some horses. Major Hanson.

And that's all we done.

Flint, why don't you say something
and put this old cuteness place?

Don't pick on Charlie.

You just trying to be my friend?

Oh, he's not much of a friend
telling lies about you

to sell his lion bills and a ride around
to Fort Henderson and get Major Hanson.

Well, he his testimony
lock him in the prison. Why?

Well, what are you waiting for?

Let's go.

So, in view of Major Hanson's testimony

that the defendant fled
McCullough together with Charles Webster,

they had purchased wild horses
from the Army and bought Henderson.

And in view of Mr.

Walters testimony
concerning the subsequent theft

of those horses and the circumstances
surrounding the robbery, the defendant

has seen fit to make a full confession
of his complicity

in the crime and as*ault himself
upon the mercy of this court.

The defendant writes, Please,

we are all aware of the seriousness
of horse stealing,

particularly in territory
where a horse often means

the difference between life and death
for its owner.

For that reason, such a crime is often
punishable by death

and not always with benefit of a trial.

However, I have taken into consideration

the fact that no such serious consequences
resulted from your actions.

A large part of the money
has been returned to its rightful owners.

I must also consider

the fact that you have voluntarily
made a confession of a first offense

and of course, your invaluable
past services to this wagon train.

But you have committed a crime,
and such a crime cannot go unpunished.

I therefore sentence you to receive


in the hands of one of your peers
and to be banished forever

from this community on wheels,
wherever it may go.

That sentence
to be carried out immediately.

One more thing

I must ask for a volunteer to effect
this sentence.

First man to approach to
this table will be accepted

as guards.

Sergeant,

I still need a volunteer.

I'll.

Oh, I know how you feel about Flint
McCullough,

and I appreciate your sentiment,
but a sentence must be carried out.

You suddenly realize the necessity
for discouraging such crime

through punishment.

I guess it's up to one of us.

Well,

you asking me, Chris,
or telling me I'm asking you for.

You don't have to refuse.

I don't have the stomach to live with it.

Back to a friend of mine.
No matter what he's done.

And if I order you,
I'm hoping real hard that you won't.

Jolly.

I turned him in.

What more do you want from me?

Beg your pardon?

Mr. Help.

I've got no personal feelings
for your prisoner.

You're off your back.

I'll be glad to oblige.

You heard the sentence.

Sergeant Oakes is a 29 year

look that I want you to understand.

This is nothing personal.

I understand. Sergeant.

Get it over with.

By the way.

So here we go.

Well, I hope you boys enjoyed it.

That coffee? Probably so.

It was only the fourth

and this sergeant to be court
martialed and shot the next morning.

Who made it anyway?

I don't know.

They liked him before his name.

Mr. Hildebrand, Your lady.

In Major Hansen
wrote up a little while ago.

That's out of box. Yeah.
Which way they go.

And in fact,
they might be drowned in a the color them,

they can lead them to
the barn. Is it still the horses?

Sergeant Oates, You've been in the Army
a long time.

Do you think it could have been
that bandit?

Marty

Well, that is what spies everywhere.

Everyone.

David McCullough is one of them.

That's like it.

I don't suppose you're ready

to tell me what we're doing out here Now
I want to meet somebody.

Well, whoever it is, it must be late.

I think so.

I'm over here.

Bless.

But what do you suppose.

Your questions will be answered in due
time, Mr. Hawks?

But first, let's make our friend
as comfortable as possible.

I write to plan.

I think it's going to help.

Well,
as one good thing came out of all this,

we thought about how many good friends
you have back there with nobody.

Pick up that whip.

Yeah.

Just about that time when I was wishing
I hadn't allowed you

to let yourself into this.

I hate to act nosy,
but I hear you say something about Fred

letting himself into that.

Oh, Charlie saw those bandits.

He didn't dream it up. He saw mine.

Made the bandit leader three officers
and I perpetrated that hoax.

Hoax?

That robbery was for Charlie's
benefit Bill, so that Flint

could be disgraced
and banished to the life of an outlaw.

Those welts on his back have put up John.

Now they're real.

A little courier. Like.

These.

Well, sir, Flint,
badge of dishonor is passport forward

into the world of morality,
where they where he has to be stopped.

Mr. Hawks, for three years now, he's
been making fools out of all of us.

Plundering, murdering
the only man I know who can even find him.

One man.

Are you going to send one man up

to Black Rock Mountain to try to catch
the toughest outlaw that ever lived?

You know, I sharpsh**ter

the one r*fle could hold off
that pass against 100 soldiers.

I know. We've tried it.

Well, what chance
do you think one man will have then?

A better chance than 100 soldiers
or even 200 Flint?

Why did you let him talk you into a fool's
stunt like this?

Are you tired of living now?

You know what he did to the last wagon
train that went through the territory? No.

He wept to the.

And he didn't live anywhere.

Well, that's another thing
that no one's ever seen his body.

How are you going to know him
when you run into him.

And I get into his camp out there?

Yeah.

If he doesn't find out
this is a put up job, he will.

That's why we went to so much trouble
to prove Flint had turned outlaw.

We're counting on his spies
to get the word to morality.

How does that
feel now at any here? Is that

guarantee one of the good?

It's taken for a few days
when I've got to.

I've got a lead for you.

There's a small ranch
at the foot of Black Rock Mountain

that's about a two day ride from here.

And it's run by a man named Sam Upton
and his sister Madge,

and show you how to get it wrong time.

Now, we've suspected
that Sam Upton worked with Murphy,

shuttled supplies
up to his mountain stronghold,

and even the hammer from the stolen
livestock and goods.

Now, we have been able to prove this,
but at least it's a starting point for you

up front.

And I might as well get all right.

With your horse, with

keep the train camp
right where it is for a week when

we haven't heard from anybody, then

and you'll know that I've felt

good luck

getting ready in Flint Will have
a little trouble with the rest of his men.

His whole outfit will fall apart
without his leadership and cunning.

I do my best,

Frank. Oh.

Tell Charlie I'm sorry
I had to keep him in the dark about this,

but don't tell him for a week.
I think it'll be.

Safer for me if he goes around with us.

Have faith.
Should be going with you, Flint.

I think by the time I'm finished.

With this, I wish it had.

You have a chance.

A chance, Bill.

A chance with 50 to 100 men
more his heart out to protect him.

If it does get to another,
we're going to get him out, dead or alive.

Then you won't need your g*n.

There's nobody here but me.

My name's Madge.

And what should

Look, you came to see me.

I didn't come to see you.

Well, whoever you are,

you must have been a pretty bad boy
to get a spanking like you just had

to pull it.

Luckily, I took your shirt off.

I'm saying, when I didn't.

Do you always have to come bursting
in like that, Sam?

One of these days
you're going to knock at door

right off a tangent,
and then you just have to fix it.

Send a signal.

How do I know you weren't in trouble?

Oh, they didn't say.

Still probably mad because somebody
worked him over where the world was.

Looks fresh to.

I'd say a couple of days.

Huh? Well, that didn't make him a

flint. McCullough.

McCullough.

The Indians got to know.

Got caught
stealing horses from his own wagon track.

Turned in by one of his best friends.

They say. Exactly who are they?

What the difference
is. As long as I'm right, Huh?

Now, what are you doing?
All right, Well, I ask.

You, the bright boy with all the answers.

Never talk to me like that family.

Garvin is not too sick
to get hitched. But.

But you want to do that to me again?

I've told you.

Told your brothers
to treat me like a little boy and.

Under control that temporary.
Because one day you might forget it.

You turn it loose on me
and that's the day I leave.

You try to live once.

Remember what?
The one who stopped me. Sam.

Sam. Next time you go up Black Rock
Mountain, tell them what

I want to see him.

Tell him I want to join up. That's
what I'm here for.

Fix it so I can get up there.

Aren't you a big enough man to fix it?

I can fix it.

But you worry.

I'll be able to ride tomorrow, Sam.

Tomorrow.

Come next time.

I got his number pretty quick, didn't you?

And yours.

Don't turn up.

You know that
brother of yours level to k*ll you.

And they think you have
a lot more to worry about.

And what Sam might do to me,

where he could decide

to send you back here to k*ll you,
you know?

Yeah, I guess he could have that.

Yeah, well,

then.

Well, that's not the best job
that's ever been done.

But at least it's clean.

Yeah, we go.

On a.

Little bit further down

high,

You know, you better lie down.

You've been up and around most of the day.

Only yesterday you could hardly move.

Got a good night's.

You know, you looked very much at home
standing here.

There's an ambulance.

And a practice.

My mother died when I was six.

Haven't you ever wanted
to have a family of your own?

I have a family. His name's Sam.

You know what I mean?

I mean a husband.

Kids look as though at that picture.

Whether I would or not.

Isn't any of your business.

That's right.

I was just trying to be friendly.

But don't try.

You're

not to burst out live in this back
to help in this house.

Sooner or later,
they all want to get friendly.

Oh, don't get the idea.

You're
any different than the rest of them.

Well, if he has a little regard for men
in my profession,

why do you stay?

Are you really that concerned about me?

Yes, I am.

I can't figure you out.

You might get burned trying.

I don't think so.

I can practically guarantee.

Oh, all right.

Have it your own way.

Maybe this is where you belong.

Those men in that sick brother of yours.

Have you just look like a woman?

Come here.

Let me put some butter on that.

Oh, Sam wasn't always like this.

Used to be a good boy. Hot tempered,

but a good brother.

Then he was with Dad when they k*lled him.

However,

a whole bunch of men,

soldiers, Rowdy Callahan,

thinking this one in Fort Henderson,

they were having some fun with
the bartender by making him dance for him

and kept him moving
by sh**ting at his feet.

You know, several of them.

We'd gone to the fort for supplies,

that one to stop by
and have just one drink.

I was waiting alone.

Wagons and fun loving soldiers decided
I should join them.

So they picked me up
and took me in the saloon.

Dad tried to stop them.

Somebody.

Somebody shoved him
into the middle of the floor and he

fell.

Stumble back in seat.

Nobody knew whose b*llet
it was that hit him.

But Sam was there.

He's only 14. We saw it all

our such a

useless, senseless, unnecessary
way to die.

Sam kept saying it over and over again.

Couldn't forgive them for being so stupid.

Was closer to his father than a boy
usually is.

I guess

since there was no one person to blame,
he blamed everybody.

He declared w*r on the whole human race,

and he's been striking back ever since

he started running with those bandits
three years ago.

But as manual in your life.

I know too many things about murders.

Crimes they'd never let me leave.

Even if Sam would.

But I am a woman.

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

My morning.

Oh, thank you.

Do you want to go up this land?

Oh, it's safer than working alone.

That's my money. And I. It promises.

You know, you can't ever leave, don't you?

Once you've seen what.

I've been told.

Flint,

please.

Don't come.

Right out of here
now, before it's too late to turn back.

Please.

It's already too late for me.

I'm afraid to. If

Sam's coming.

I saw him when I was outside.

Maybe coming back
with an order to k*ll me.

That's not going to make any difference.

It won't give you a chance anyway.

McCullough.

You better give me a g*n before we start.

Boy, he doesn't like newcomers
when I've had a chance to look them over,

I imagine. Thanks.

Thanks for Thanksgiving.

Batman.

Did you hear what I said? Give me a g*n.

I never give my g*n to anyone.

Even I've tried to take it from me.

Do you like to be next.

In the world?

Yeah, Maybe I'll.

When I feel like
it. Now, let's go. I feel.

I'm. I'm. I'm.

If they get a g*n now, you might have got.

Yourself a fair amount of help.

You want to try

one? I'm ready.

Get up and wait it.

McCullough.

McCullough

and l demo.

They want to see you.

Well,

since they.

Have to, you,

Flynn McCullough, the one.

I told you about.

I'll leave you two alone.

Be back in 15 minutes.

Sam tells me you don't like him very much.

Does anybody?

It's not important.

It is whether I like you.

That is important.

Thing is,

I have heard a lot about you.

McCullough. A good Indian.

This can't get stirred up quite a bit.

You must use your head to stay alive.

I need a man who
can use his head and his g*n.

What do you think of working with them?

Whatever for him is up to you.

But you care what. Happens to him.

I do not like him much.

He's getting too big for his pants.

It says to me, Marty,
you must learn to trust me.

I must learn to trust you.

I cannot afford to have a man around.

I cannot trust on his first assignment.

Yeah, but it could be a trap.

That is where you must trust me
as a big reward.

Well, maybe I.

I'm after.

Then that is where I must trust you.

I have my more touches outside.

It would not like to lose me.

You never have so much gold
as they have now.

Do you mind if I have an apple?

They are out of season.

Hard to get.

I can not afford to waste them on
outsiders.

Good.

I will call Sam.

Do I want?

I said they were hard to get.

Do not waste them, Sam.

I think we can use McCullough.

That you've got a man
on how things work around here.

Sure.

I'll be glad to be glad
to help out the newcomer.

Who knows?

We might even wind up being friends.

You think they could happen?

Friends.

Listen to me, kid, And listen good.

You and

I haven't exactly hit it off up to now,
but that's all changed to the right.

You're in a lot of trouble around here.

But if you listen. To me,
I think I can help you get out of it.

You're going to help me where they want
you dead.

He thinks I'm doing it right now. Well,
then I wouldn't be telling me.

I don't want to argue with your kid.

Don't call me kid. Sam.

I promise. Your sister, I look after you.

She worries about your boy.
I am not a boy.

Of course you're not.

Does that mean you can't lean on
somebody else when you're in trouble?

That's all I'm saying.

Trust me. I've had experience.
I can get you out of this.

You need more help than I do.

Listen,
if you want to get out of this alive,

kid, you're going to take orders from me.
I don't take orders.

I give not from where I am. Right?

They may seem up to my man Out the boy.

That's what I figured.

I just had to be sure. Look.

You put me to a test and I passed it.

Now nothing has changed.

I came up here to join up
with how they met.

And I'm ready

to you.

She didn't notice.

Who was it? You.

You tipped me that.

So many words.

Of course.

So I.

Anybody that runs an organization as big.

As this runs it all the.

Time, he's the boss.

But the real

and what had been sitting here
when I walked in here

to tell you when to come back
and when to leave.

But you told him,

he said, I'll be back in 15 minutes.

And it was an order
that wasn't much to go on.

This is to tell me
you work from for day for three years.

You said at Sam you wouldn't take orders
for 3 minutes, let alone three years.

Is it kind of gives. That is right.

That's right.

You are a smart one with cards.

And I got to admit, you are a smart one.

Become

smart enough to know that you weren't
worried about me being able

to carry out the assignment.

You figured I said plenty fast.

Anybody runs an organization
that's big, it's got to be fast.

You wouldn't have no respect.

You are so right.

But your friend.

Joe. Yeah.

He's not. Fast.

You tried

with an apple.

I tossed that
apple, turned to check his reflexes,

and I went right past

on your feet

when shot in this place of this one.

And you are dead.

So on your feet is your food.

Yeah.

That's a pretty good trick.

You and me, McCullough were going to make
a great team on the table, face down

on the table, face down,

spreading of.

I don't get it. You.

What kind of a stunt is this?

McCullough
You're going to end your career.

I was that kid at Fort Henderson.

Do you think you can get the idea?

I'm going to try.

I got a dozen sharpshooters out there
that could pick you up at a thousand yards

and never scratch you know
what would happen if they did that?

They'd sh**t me and I'd fall in.

The weight of my body,
put pressure on this rope and

would make

some more noise.

When I was loaded.

I think you better call your friends.

Go in here and explain this right to him.
And you better hope.

You've got a friend out there
in case somebody tried to take a.

Shot at me.

Go. Come.

Come here.

And do not use your g*ns.

You hear me?

When they come out,

do not make any moves
that might scare the horses.

He got the rope tied around his waist.

You will think what to do on this later.

Right now we do it like this, Sam said.

So I stand back.

Make way.

For the now.

I'll be.

I've been to enemies out here,
but we're going to find out.

And get on the horse and move.

Joe, let's make such a mountain.

You're not going to pull that cord
unless you've had it yourself.

You're only saved as long as I'm alive.

Joe, listen to me.

I knife McCullough.

He can't make it to the fort.

Pick a half a dozen men.

Follow us. Don't sh**t. Just follow us.

Wait for your chance.

He can make it to the fort.

The understand, Joe.

Hey, amigo.

We keep you in sight all the way.

When I went out,

I was to guide you better.

And I'm not.

You can make it get.

I don't imagine you're going to make it
without some help.

I It's too bad.

Yeah, because I. Don't imagine.

You have many friends in this thing,

but I might have a.

Friend that.

I should match that sh**t.

That rope is already tied to the shotgun.

Get down, Sam Plant.

I don't understand.

We're coming in a match.

But you heard.

How quick that I'm.

Gather up.

Be careful.

Once in the shack
and I'll take my hat off.

Come on.

That's him.

Sam is

his. What?

Help me to take him into New York.

So you what?

All right, so I am.

And I got a a dozen.

My men outside have been followed
just waiting for him to pass out.

How you call to him
and tell him everything's all right.

But untie that rope first.

I'm getting tired of this thing
point knocking me.

All right.

But I'm tied to rope first.

I'm getting tired,
I think pointing up at me.

Hurry up.

Will you
be careful when you inside a tree?

It's time to slip it out nice and easy.

What are you waiting for

with maybe.

Maybe a bit of cut this thing loose.

Fit in the chair, Sam.

I mean,

what are you doing back there.

To move suddenly?

Sam, I try to get up in the chair
because you're tied to it.

But what are you trying to do?

Get me k*lled that turn me loose?

Oh, I want it

to be turned loose for a long time. Sam.

I even tried to run away once,

but 6 minutes came up
and then cut me before

I got in the fort
and brought me back here.

I know that you've already told me.

But I didn't tell you all of this that

those men didn't leave right away.

They said their boss told them
they could collect their own reward

if they caught me.

I didn't want to tell you
because I was afraid

you might get k*lled
trying to make them pay for what they did.

This mistake that's kind of funny is
said said I wanted to protect you

from your own men who were acting
under your orders at the time.

Oh, I didn't know you hated me

that much. Mad.

I'm your brother. You going to help me?

I don't have a brother

who was k*lled.

It put him with this father? Yes.

Because you

passed.

Because I.
You wouldn't know how to put it off.

Soldiers come to the floor with them. Yes,

but I.
Because he got in the way. You fight.

Them.

You really believe that?

Don't

match

that. You're going to help me.

My. You always help me
make you promise me a promise.

PA, you always look out for me, Matt.

Thanks, man.

My only chance.

I had to trust somebody.

But you're going to have to pay for it

now. You're not to arrange passage for me
and your wagon train.

Clint, I'm free.

For the first time in my life. I'm
not afraid.

We're not out of the question.

I know.

I saw the light from the camp
last night to the window.

The closer we get to the fort,
the more dangerous they're going to be.

Clint, let me go to the fort.

I can ride faster than you can.

You never get around and never get around.

But if you went in a different direction,

as soon as we get out of here, I want you
to ride south by the River Road.

You pick up the wagon
train, get a pencil on the paper.

I'll give you an up to the wagon
that time.

When you go to.

Someone, do their part.

Having played Amanda,
tell them what has happened.

Perhaps a soldier can get close enough
to grab the line that is tied to the g*n.

They except for one thing.

And this man who spies for us in the army,
We do not know his name.

Oh, Sergeant Old Oakes.

We didn't go to w*r.

You wanted to do it.

I left the union.

Now you have a card?

Yeah. What's left of them.

Glad to see a sergeant.

And without that report.

And I got those rather personal letters,

it's like you've been hurt again.

Know I got nice. A little bit.
Careful of that rope.

If you see what it's tied
to, it's pretty fancy rate haystack.

In fact, it's off your hands.

Oh, is it

because that went on held
them, went to that that feller.

You must be judging.

He looks too young. Hey,

Hey, hey.

We were all at once.

We're on the other side of the rock.

I do not think that is such a good idea.

He has only fired one shot
and reduced our number by one.

It's a very good shot.
It will do as I say.

Come on.

Oh, him.

It was not a good idea.
Now we have no leader at all.

Maybe we'll find another one in Mexico.

I got to.

There's nothing to run away from now.

Besides, this has always been my home.

I've got a good ranch.

I'll go to Fort and stay there.

And then

I'll go back there.

Maybe someday you riding this way.

When they're a bit surprised.

Stay with me all the time. Then.

They're my best friend.

I imagine.

What's the matter with him?

He's got a sore head
because we wouldn't let him in on things.

Well,
I found out who my friend was anyway.

Well, Charlie, how you helped
convince people I was an outlaw.

I don't have got to them.
What is count without you?

You mean I helped
you get that bandit, Moretti?

You sure did, friends.

Well,
how about half the reward money, friend?

Oh, you're too. Late, Charlie. I'm sorry.

I told the manager
to give half of it to Madge Upton.

Well, how about half of your half rand?

I'm not greedy,
you know, I'll wait a minute.

I'll set up left

and right.