05x32 - The Mary Beckett Story

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And we are.

All right.

Compound $500 is a long way from 2000.

I will get the rest of it back.

I need more time.

Two weeks on this wagon train. You said.

I've given you that.

I know, I know.
But complication, complications.

You've had that poor old maid Martha Lane
eating out of your hand for over a week.

Maybe you're not a con man.

You think you are not the woman.

It is the brother that complicates
believing that you're wearing nobody.

But I could obtain one single frame
from that woman.

I listen to your sweet smelling words,

and they got you to.

Two weeks are up.

I can get the rest of it.

But you must stop helping me
like I am a criminal.

When a man loses $2,000 gambling and then
can't pay it, he's likened to a criminal.

The gamblers

can't afford to let that kind of criminal
get away.

You can see what could happen when Louis,

Missouri, plays

one week.

Frenchy.

That's the way you really look at.

And there he was,
sitting in that huge chair.

All the time.
Oh, well, you must tell that Grandmother.

I got Angele.

Your slightest wish is my come out.

From.

That.

Oh, what do you know? That

the month that I got tired of my village
cooking all of a sudden, didn't it?

Yeah. It is the third day in a row
he's been eating with the biscuits.

Well, that won't make Franklin mad.

He told me every time he smelled
that sweet smell about that fellow.

Where's he get so choked up
he can't even get his food.

And that's the truth.

Well, I don't think it affected
Frank sister that way.

I don't agree with you, Mr. Gris.

Martha Lane is too old

and smart a woman to have her head turned
by some little sweet smelling perfume.

Well, sometimes the older
it gets, the easier it is to turn

my head.

And what he.

What he.

Martha.

Martha, do.

Oh, I'm sorry, Frank.

I hear we got to get to this before
trouble out away.

Or even blown away.

Nobody's food is better than yours.

Father used to say that after Mother died.

They also used to say worry.

Not when you give your heart.

Just be careful who would take it?

I remember.

I remember.

Frank.

I'm 45 years old.

I have no time left to be careful.

No time at all, Martha.

I only meant.

Even a child
like Jennifer could smell of a woman.

Then I had.

When you sit out

all dishes up

at all.

Mother, it's not polite to keep, I guess
waiting.

I'm counting, dear.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

My sherry. That is not right.

No. Your mother has been truly continental

and beautiful woman
always keeps a man waiting.

Now must remember these little things
I teach you.

I haven't forgotten a single thing.

Alex, what about this do?

Oh, all right.

You put the women of the French to.

In a cotton dress.

You could do it wearing sackcloth,

and then to have such
a beautiful daughter.

Oh, Mother doesn't say the most wonderful
things would be more wonderful

if they were all true.

Marry you do my honor and grave injustice,
Mother.

Well, I was.

I couldn't say I disliked it on here.

No American women.

I never know what to do with you.

That's part of the fun.

Is it?

I think you people should know
all about each other.

That's because you're young
and have no secrets yet, Mother.

Really, I am.


how you could become so lovely so quickly.

Is that not right, Marie?

Sit down, please. Alex. Yes.

The guest post, dear.

Look, Alex isn't a guest anymore,

are you, Alex?

Well, if the decision is mine to make,

I prefer to be much more.

Jenny is right, Alex, go.

My show.

I know he's been bad these past few days.

I suppose.

Used to me waiting for me to

eating poorly.

Oh, I guess it's just the heat,

I suppose.

And you're going away from the camp
tonight?

No, sorry.

I wonder why
we're going to have another big dance.

That's why

I'm beginning to think
you're a dance and food.

Jolly good.

Beginning to think
I'm one of which are more.

What would you say?

Well, I don't know.

But you know what?

To get

Still.

Oh, you hit that river
about five miles ahead.

Chris,
how close to it can we camp by 50 yards?

Good.

That's the word, the folks.

And take a bath tonight.

That means you too, Charles.

Now, wait a minute, Hawkeye.

Why does he say a thing like that to me?

You don't take any more than I do,
I think.

Oh, right.

Break out your copper lame
or campfire river.

Tonight I get a chance

to spend a lot of time
in front of the mirror.

Don't you have something?

I have no reason.

Measure.

Yeah.

I've been noticing your play
with the buckets.

You shouldn't
be wasting your time on the doctor.

You can't have anything.

You play your game.

Let me play mine in this show wearing

that.

I've got a stake in yours, Mr.

Lamont.

And Jenny is a silly child
who thinks she's in love.

And that kind of must always talk
because they don't know what else to do.

Oh, so you know all about Nanny back and

everything.

How much money she's got?

Oh, that was the easiest.

How are you going to get

married?

Beckett is old enough
to trust me a little bit,

but young enough to be fascinated

more than a little bit.

Well, that's a good thing,

because if that doesn't work,
what I always have.

Jenny,

it's what you call a paternal

hand.

Yeah, I'm

glad to hear it, cause

I've decided
this kind of traveling is in my style.

So you've got 48 hours
to pay your dad $40.

You can't.

I refuse

when you screw Pat knuckles. No.

I like you. All.

But you're the lucky couple.

Versatile Johnny Punch.

Duke's got an answer.

There's the invite.

I knew if I held up all that,
you couldn't resist My kids.

Don't

know.

What it's like.

Charlie. Doing all right to Johnny?

What a battle

or something you're missing.

What's that rank lately?

So I think I'll go see
what's holding him up.

I noticed that he wasn't here,
but don't tell him I said

a little punch.

But I couldn't have done anything
so foolish.

Is it foolish to love someone?

But you don't have to give a man $500
to prove you love him.

I do.

I'm not a mary or a kitty. Becky.

Martha, listen to me.

I What? Me?

First to pop and then to you.

I just end up an old man.

Frank. Hap. That money is mine.

Now, if it pleases me to loan it
to someone, then I'm going to do it.

Martha, If money would buy you happiness,
I'd give you all of mine.

But it doesn't, especially
with a sweet smelling, fancy dress.

Dandy Prince.

I like that French.

He's a gentleman from Man of the World
Cousin.

Why has he been around here lately?

Is it embarrassing
knowing that you don't like him?

You believe. Him? Yes.

But he's. A blank. I want to believe him.

Yeah, I'm sure. You.

All right?

You can tell him.

He doesn't have to be embarrassed about me
not liking him anymore.

Thank you.

That'll make Alex feel better.

I know it will.

Where she can get to the dance.

Oh, you go ahead.

I want to freshen up a little bit.

Don't matter.

Looking for the reason for my beau

proceeding in a way.

Don't forget your fiddle.

Thank you very much.

Music goes some sort of empty, doesn't it?

Doesn't even sound like music.

Martha.

I know that life hasn't been easy for you,

but I'm not trying to order your life.

But I'm your brother and I love you.

I don't want you to be hurt by anybody.

I won't be long.

Oh, Alex.

Mark.

Martha.

It's very rude to steal a behind
someone like that.

I mean.

I. Well,
you sound like one of these coyotes.

What is it you want to do?

Well, I.

That is.

It's all right about us now.

What about us?

Well, Frank said

he's kind of like you now,

so you can come and have supper
with us all the time, if you like.

The idea of woman you went
I our business partners.

You loaned me $500.

I promised to repay it in California.

And that's what I promise.

Anything. I promise.

Tomorrow I will. I'm sorry.

Don't

over make much of

that.

I finished my all finished.

How do I look, Bill?

To my daughter.

Do you think I feel like it?

Jenny?

Alex.

How Alex is fine. Is

flattery in his manner good for a woman.

But in small doses.

I disagree with that.

I know.

That's why I'm asking you to be careful
to think

I don't want you to be hurt.

I'll have a choice.

That I was wise beyond my years, you know?

But there are some things that years
in wisdom don't seem to affect that.

It's one of the things

I wouldn't want in person in my dear.

I don't know if is.

Alex is what?

Measuring

Alex's life.

That's what an unforgivable sin.

But I knew that I would have to dress
especially well tonight

because I'm escorting
the two most exquisite women in the world.

What are we waiting for?

Oh, wow. That must go and devastate them.

And we had a beautiful bowl for it all.

Must win this year.

Well, Tally.

Oh, Jenny, I am desolate. I am desolate.

But the first dance of French custom
is always with Madame.

Oh. Know.

But I'm afraid that Jenny, the dancer
and the family, have.

You don't believe her? And

I miss you, Eric.

And good evening, ladies.

Monsieur, I'm going to do you
a great service.

A great.

I'm going to allow you this dance
with Mademoiselle back.

Perhaps Mr. Waring wouldn't her.

But, Mr.

Waring, if you'll do me the honor

of feeling somebody
boiling a pot of trouble.

Anybody in particular?

Flower from a foreign land gets my vote.

Quite a ladies man, isn't it?

Change your opinion about the suite.

What are you wearing?

We need it.

I would a jealous type.

Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gray.

You're really a wonderful man.

I get thirsty too quickly.

Come on, I'll buy you a glass of wine.

I'm not. Going anywhere. It's free.

Never say no anything. It's free.

Oh, I have it.

Oh, nothing.

I just thought that we would sit
and talk a little while.

Well, no, Alexander. No.

I think you're a little afraid of me.

Not right.

Well, of course I'm not afraid.

Well, that

it's very important to me.

Well, all right.

If it's about Jenny.

Jenny, know about you

at me.

You supply

Jenny's sweet child.

And I think of her that way for you.

I have the love of a man for a woman.

Now that,

please, you're confusing me.

But why is it so fantastic
that you come to love?

I got him.

No, but.

Beauty,

wisdom, understanding.

You're the only kind of woman
a man would love.

How can you be in love?

And in just a few days. Because

I felt a need for you and yours.

For me.

I didn't mean to give you that impression.

How could you help it, my darling?

Now a woman facing the world alone.

You know, deep inside, I should not be.

So you know
that your $3,000 cannot last forever.

Who told you about that?

Or Sweet Jenny mentioned it.

Back,

but she mentioned that I taught school
and my husband died to earn that money.

Yes, she did.

And how you tutored other children
that night

and work Saturdays and Sundays.

My admiration for you grew even more

to think it was her beauty alone
that I saw.

I don't think about a thing anymore.

Look, why?

Because you're afraid to hear

that you're the kind of woman, a mandarins
kind of woman.

A man thinks out with pride.

A woman, a man devote his life to forever.

Forever Marry.

Hire and fire.

And Jenny, listen.

Don't you touch me.

Don't you ever touch me again.

You don't understand.

But what have you changed?

All those things you said to me tonight
were lies to hide what was going on?

You know, Jenny,
there was nothing going on out of place

that they had me making a fool of me.

All right, You know, both of you.

Listen.

You got to me or I'll k*ll you.

Jenny, when you.

Go to cry.

And we'll do how good you like.
I we can work tonight.

Let's open. I have nothing more to say.

Oh, but.

I have I.

I need 1500 dollars
and you will give it to me.

Oh, that.

What a fool.

Cares for Jenny.

She's young, but me.

Get out of my sight.

I beg you, give me the money.

I will go to Jenny.

I shall tell her.

You made it impossible for me to resist.

You never believe you.

You only forget so soon.

The time I have with the ladies.

She will believe me before she does. You

drop this contemptible man.

I will be in your wagon
and say half an hour.

I. I'm sorry, Shelly.

Such as?

Like an hour

ago, I can.

Jenny, what have I done to you?

Just got to be taught a lesson.

But I.

Have not been humiliated enough
without the whole train knowing.

About it.

I'm sorry, master,
but this time I've got to go against you,

child.

Child, don't let anything hurt so deep.

Get married, Becky. No,

I know what

I know.

You're a very dear, dear Martin.

And take it with you.

Please let me stay with you, Jenny.

I don't know.

Tonight, to me, Jenny,
your mother wouldn't like

to tell me that Alex was wrong for me
all the time.

She was in love with him,
and he's in love with her.

How do you know, Jenny?

It's all happening.

We did.

Kissing. Hugging?

Oh, well, they were good.

I think we'd better tell Mr. Hale.

No, no, Frank.

This child pride would be destroyed.

Pride's important for a woman, Frank.

Without it, she's nothing.

Go back and play at the dances, though.

Nothing happened.

All right, Mother.

What about Jenny?

She spent the night with us.

There.

There. No one will know anything about it.

You are young.

You're so young.

So soon you won't even care

now. Yes, I can tell

over.

Here.

A lot of.

Puppy dog on this question.

I don't looking at

the bill double the guard

noted.

Everybody keeps their g*ns handy.

I'll get back to your wagons.

We'll tell you what to do.

Jenny.

I'm sure this is back.

It up

at the midnight.

Somebody on this train

committed m*rder last night.

I'm going to find out who that someone is.

The guilty one will come to me
and admit his guilt.

I'll see that he gets a fair
and open trial.

Guaranteed in the article.

If anybody saw or heard
anything that would help me

protect the innocent,
I ask you to come and tell me about it.

That's all.

Jenny.

Jenny, please.

I think it was one of those five.

The only ones that had anything
to do with Lamont.

One thing we can't afford right now,
and that's an opinion.

We want evidence. The truth.

I had the right answers last night, Chris.

Sometimes I had to sound different
in the light of day. Bill

Let's get to it.

Charlie says no one leaves camp.

Yes, sir,

I it.

My first again, Mr.

Heil.

Well, seems like a good place
to start again since you own the knife.

And I told it with stone.

Still have no idea who might have done it.

Not my guess, is it.

More after.

A break.

Eric my husband, as a token of friendship.

He was very proud of it.

So was I.

You use it in your every day.

Were never just hanged inside the wagon.

Anybody else know about it?

Clayton

Kavanagh asked the Marines,

maybe a few others.

And Jenny, of course.

Jenny couldn't harm anyone.

You've got to believe that, Mr. Heil.

I didn't say she did, Mr. Becket.

She had no reason.

Are you sure you didn't have any reason.

I told you? No, none at all.

What did you and Jenny quarrel about, Mr.

Becket?

That's a personal affair.

It had nothing to do with Alec.

What did you really think of Mr.

Lamont?

I hated his insides,

but I didn't want him dead.

He wasn't any good to me that way.

Did you know where he was
getting it? 1500 dollars.

Whenever concerns me.

How much is what I care about.

Are you sure he didn't pay the 1500?

How could he Didn't get it.

Let's say that he did get it
and then refused to hand it over to Mr.

Fox. Alex Lamont was a white livered
coward down to his fancy fingertips.

He wouldn't have had the backbone
to refuse 1500 dollars.

I'll give a man a backbone.
I told you he didn't get it.

Why are you so sure?

Because Kitty Beckett.

Did you love him?

That I did.

Your mother know how you felt?

Yeah.

What did she think about?

We didn't agree.

Did that make any difference to you?

No. Did
Martha Lane ever talk to you about Mr.

Lamont. Martha?

No. Why should she?

Did she ever talk to your mother about it?

I don't know.

Chris.

She a minute,

big man.

Doctor, Weren't.

I didn't give him the money.

I loaned it to him. Mr. Shannon.

Did you know him
before he came on the train?

No, I didn't.

And you must have thought
quite a bit of him.

Yes, I did.

Did he return the favor?

He was always a perfect gentleman,
if that's what you mean.

I'm sure of that, man.

I mean, you wouldn't
have allowed him to be anything.

Glad I.

Did. I would not.

Whatever you've got to say, Mr.

Waring, better be the truth.

Now, look, Mr.

Hale, I joined this train because Lamont
said he could get the money he owed me.

I just wanted to get the money and go.

I've got no grudge against these people.

All right,
You've made your point. Parkes tells me I.

I've got to tell what I know.

I'm in trouble.

Is that right?

You're going to be held as an accessory,

and I could go to jail for a long time.

And he's got to take care of himself.

I can't do that jail.

Jenny

from the Cleveland.

And thank you, Mr.

Right and.

You'll get yourself sick not eating.

Jenny, I've got to talk to you.

I'll go.

No, I'll talk on Saturday.

What's there to talk about, Mother?

And you've got to understand
about last night.

I understand perfectly.

Do you, Jenny?

Can you understand?

Because your father died ten years ago.

That didn't mean I had to die to.

I'm alive.

I'm still a young woman.

I'm not perfect.

I can still be weak

and blinded by the flattery
and attention of a handsome man.

Just as easily as you can

now. Maybe even easier.

Thank you.

You haven't known the happiness
of a husband

emptiness and losing what

you haven't felt.

The loneliness fall around you night after

night, year after year.

You know that
your whole life is ahead of you.

I know that mine is already have gone.

Those are the things

we blind you in a foolish moment.

And being a fool
is not only for the young.

Jenny can you understand that?

Can you keep being weak

and a fool?

Oh, oh.

Oh, my pain.

Right.

Oh, look at.

All right, darling.

We. We'll pretend nothing ever happened

happened.

Alison.

Death.

That's all the more reason
you should forget about a chap.

Excuse me, Mrs.

Baggot.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask
some very important questions.

But I've already told you
all I can. Mr. Harper. Jenny,

You threatened to k*ll Mr.

Lamont last night.

Is that right?

Oh, that's a lie.
Who told a lie like that?

Mr. Waring heard her say it.

Said you were there, too, Mrs. Beckett.

I tried to keep quiet about it.

I'm going to take a gamble.
His word against Jenny's.

Jenny had no cause to see a thing
like that.

Oh, I haven't heard from Jenny yet.

Did you threaten him?

Jenny?

I did

all right.

She did.

But she was angry with me.

She did it to hurt me.

Mrs. Beckett, please.

Now, after you ran from your mother, Mr.

Lamont, where did you go?

Jenny? Know where I caught up with her.

Mrs. Beckett,
I'm afraid I'll have to insist

that Jenny be allowed
to answer for herself.

Duke,
Don't let anybody else come back here.

Where did you go, Jenny?

Toward the river.

And then I.

I sat down and cried.

How long did you sit there?

Not long.

Oh, you do?

Then?

That I went to our wagon.

Any particular reason?

Well, I was looking for my mother. Why?

I was.

I was a Hank veteran.

I wanted to get back at her, I guess.

For your mother.

There.

Did you leave the wagon
once you got there?

Well,
she couldn't it because Martha and me.

You went to Mr.

Lamont's wagon, didn't you, Ginny?

Not true, Jenny.

Mr. Waring saw you go into the wagon.

But I didn't tell her I couldn't.

Of course not, darling.
Everyone knows that.

Why did you go there, Jenny?

To tell them

how horrible it was

that he loved me.

And then he tried to k*ll me.

Didn't you? Stop it. I say another word.

She didn't k*ll him. You heard it.

Mrs. Beckett.

I'm not condemning Jenny,

but you have to stand trial. Try.

But you didn't do it.

I did.

I k*ll him.

Put me on trial.

Mr. Heil.

Please, Mrs.

Beckett, you're just making it worse.

She's only a baby.

She couldn't k*ll anyone.

Well, no one saying she did was a bad.

But the strongest evidence points to her.

Biting the tail.

I swear I didn't.

That's a truth I couldn't

do. All right.

I got you into this.

I'll get you out.

They'll

take Charles

Mattress Beatrice from

Summit oh eight and get on having some go.

Okay, Mr. Hale,

I. Well, we got something to ask you.

Yes, but it's like this.

If you really take the time
to think about it,

what difference does it make
who k*lled Mr. Lamont?

I mean,
the man was nothing more than evil. Mr.

Hale, you got to admit that the Lord
giveth life.

What the Lord giveth
only He can take away.

That's the difference. My

Maybe so, Mr.

Hale.

There's no denying
the world smells a lot sweeter

without Lamont in it.

Anyway,

who'd know the difference
if you let Jenny go and forgot about it?

I know, Mr. Waring.

I don't like what has to be done,
but I believe in the law.

As cruel as it sometimes seems.

Mr. Hale, I don't have much money.

But where are you going? I thought. What

you said.

Enough, Frank.

Good night.

You think I was judge,
jury and executioner?

I don't think he meant to insult you, Mr.

Crisp.

I never thought I'd hear talk like that
coming from a man like Frank Lane.

Well, I guess everybody's alleging crisp
now, Mrs.

Beckett, That worries me.

That's why
I wanted her separated from Jenny.

The truth is going to help that girl
on some story.

A desperate mother is going to take up

when I get there.

We'll have a little coffee.

Charlie. Mr.

Frank.

And I'm

lunch about it for tonight.

Mr. Help, please come quickly.

You know I do.

I think so.

Jenny.

Jenny, I do. All right.

That wonderful.

You didn't see who hit you, Duke?

Sorry, Jenny.

No, sir, I didn't.

I didn't. You run away.

Somebody gave you the chance.

Because she's done nothing. Mr. Hale.

I thought Mr.

Shannon and I just couldn't
leave him there.

Thank you, Judy.

You can go back to your wagon, folks.

I'm as wearing.

I'd like to see you.

The lane's in the back.

It's back of my wagon,

if you don't mind, Mr..

But I do mind, Mr.

Waring,

looking ahead to leaving Charlie.

I'm all right. Got

one of you here Wanted Jenny to escape.

Now, to begin with, you broke the law.

But I'll pass over that for a minute.

You could also put this girl behind bars
for a long time.

Frank and me wouldn't
do anything to hurt Jenny.

Mr. Ham.

What you mean about tomorrow?


Jenny's guilt or innocence.

Now, what do you think their feelings
would be if she had run away?

We almost like admitting she was guilty.

Do you think we know that?

What I think doesn't matter.

Mrs. Packard, might.



But she didn't run.

Doesn't that prove she didn't k*ll anyone?

Speaking for

myself,
that's not the mark of a guilty person.

Oh, accurate.

Dale,

thank you for saving Jenny
from that awful trial.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Baggett.

The fact remains that a man was k*lled.

But you said. Speaking for myself.

Now, the jury strongest evidence
still points to her.

But you can't do that.

I have no choice.

But what you did tonight
will help her a great deal.

I promise. You promise?

We'll get a promise.

Is it that jury said she's guilty?

The law says she must be punished.

I don't care about the law, Jenny.

Then don't.

You'll have to pay for someone else's
cowardice.

A young, beautiful girl

will have to go to prison
so that the guilty one may go free.

And the law would have
committed a grave injustice.

Don't let them do that, Mr.

Hale, I. I couldn't do it.

I didn't go. It

put me on trial.

Mr. Hale at Jenny. Go to prison.

She'll die. And vomit. Please.

Please, Mr.. Make it stop.

Jenny didn't do it.

I k*lled him.

Frank.

Hank, I think

I did.

He was an evil man, Mr.

Hale.

You know,
a woman is nothing without pride.

Martha says that Mr.

Lemon took Martha's pride.

Mr. Hale.

He's a good woman,

a lovely woman.

All she wanted was love.

But he took all this pride,

left her with nothing.

And I saw his evil spreading to Jenny and.

And Mrs. Becket.

And I got all sick inside

when I went back to the package wagon
to see if Jenny and Martin All right.

Comforting each
other. Honey, they were gone.

That's when my eyes caught the knife.

I didn't mean to take it, Mrs.

Becket.

It's just that

when I saw it, everything
welled up inside me.

I felt myself taking it.

And going to the max wagon.

I never would have let you go to
jail, Mrs.

Becket. Believe that? Please.

I do.

Mr. Lane.

Glad you didn't run away

when I tried to set you free, Jenny.

A real plan.

May we go to our wagon now, mister?

Surely.

What's going to happen to him, Mr.

Hale?

I'm going to have to turn him
over to the authorities

when we get to Mason City in a few days.

I'm sorry I had to sound so unfeeling,
so unjust to you.

Oh, that's all right.

Everything's all right now.

You know, it was Frank.

I suspected it

when I found this near
the back of the wagon tonight.

Don't look like an animal
or piece of wax to me.

Alice Rosin cannot use it on the boat.

Keep it in condition.

Franklin kept it measured by.

Seems to me like you took a long catch.

A little bit longer.

That when I recall,

I was banking on Franklin's heart.

Charlie.

Not on this.

Whatever it was.

You sure know how to play a hand,
Mr. Hale.

Oh, I don't live with cards.
Just worrying.

I live with people.

When a god fearing, law abiding man

like Franklin wants to pay you
to break the law,

that be good reason, poor

man. No matter how you said
this gambler, the gambler

remind me never to play a game with you.

It can last for ages with a pair deuces.

And when that.