Maverick (1957) s01e23 Episode Script

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[DRUM BEATING AND MEN WHOOPING]
- You sure it was him?
- It's him all right.
- Alive?
- So far. But he won't be by morning.
They've got him tied up
in one of the tepees.
Well, then, let's get to it.
If we went down there now,
we wouldn't have a chance.
What if they kill him before morning?
Well, if you think you can make it alone,
you just go ahead.
- When do we go?
- Tonight.
[CHATTERING]
He's on his way down now.
- Bret? Bret Maverick.
- Well, Samantha Crawford.
Oh, ha, ha, how nice to see you again.
I was thinking of you the other day.
- How much did it cost me?
- Ha, ha.
That's the nicest compliment
I've ever had.
How long will you be staying
in Kansas City?
Well, I was going to stay a week,
but I think I'll take the afternoon train.
- Oh, are you afraid of me, Bret?
- No. No, not exactly.
It's just that when I'm with you
I feel like I'm living
- through the last days of Pompeii.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Oh, how is brother Bart?
I think he'll get well
if I don't mention your name.
He's sweet.
I was going to ask you
to take me to dinner. Will you?
- Why?
- Because I like you.
I feel at home with you, Bret.
If you weren't so beautiful, I'd refuse.
- Seven o'clock?
- Seven.
It's wonderful running into you again
like this. It'll be like old times.
- I'll try not to hold the thought.
- Ha, ha.
- May I?
- Oh, please do.
No, thank you.
Tell me, Bret,
what have you been doing lately?
Oh, this and that, here and there.
Oh, well that sounds interesting.
Mm-hm.
- Why are you looking at me like that?
- I'm waiting.
What for?
Sam, you didn't just run into me
this afternoon.
- Oh, I didn't?
- No.
I'm not staying at this hotel.
I came to see someone.
Oh, what does that prove?
You're not staying here either. I asked.
Well, don't you believe in coincidence?
Only for two other people.
All right, Bret.
I have been looking for you.
Look inside.
If you count it, you'll find $20,000.
Well, doesn't that surprise you?
Sam, finding the British crown jewels
in your bag wouldn't surprise me.
[CHUCKLES]
Do you recognize any names on this list?
If these men knew you were carrying
their names in a bag with only $20,000
- they'd feel hurt.
- Heh.
- Have you ever met any of them?
- No, have you?
Well, indirectly.
I've watched them play poker.
Bret, each of them thinks
he's the world's greatest poker player.
But I know who is.
We're getting to the point now,
aren't we?
The $20,000 is yours.
A stake in a poker game with these men.
- You're staking me?
- Why not?
One question:
Where did you get the $20,000?
I broke my piggy bank.
Bret, the money is mine.
I came by it honestly.
Sam, you'll go far
because you believe every word you say.
I'm offering you a chance
to make a lot of money.
These men play for high stakes.
But believe me, they don't play
like you do, they just think they do.
Are we partners?
- What's the split?
- Fifty percent of all you win, you keep.
I'm the only one that can lose.
What makes you think
you can get these men in a poker game?
Heh, vanity.
You're going to claim to be
the world's greatest poker player.
And challenge them
to prove that you're not.
Oh, they'll come running for the chance
at your scalp. They'll play.
- And you're just as sure that I will.
- Well, won't you?
- Vanity?
- Money.
All right, Sam.
I feel like I'm looking
into a bubbling volcano
but it's a deal.
As you said,
you're the only one who can lose.
Now, when do you plan
to invite these men?
Well, I already have.
I sent the telegrams right before dinner.
[HUMMING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
What's the matter with you?
You shouldn't be here.
- I came up to see how things was.
- Things is just fine, Mr. Logan.
Please go before the others get here.
- It's gonna be all right, ain't it?
- Certainly. Now go, please.
You seem anxious to get rid of me.
Well, I was never more anxious
in my life.
You're a fool. You could spoil everything.
I came up here
to see that things ain't spoiled.
I don't trust nobody.
Do you wanna back out, Mr. Logan?
No.
No.
But you just remember, Miss Crawford,
I'm not gonna be far away.
- I'm gonna be watching you.
- Please do.
From a safe distance.
There's only one word for it, Sam.
Opulent.
Oh, well, we have to make an impression,
don't we, honey?
You will.
- You just keep all that Southern charm.
- Ha, ha.
You're sweet.
[HUMMING]
- Uh, Sam?
- Mm?
You have told me everything,
haven't you?
- Everything?
- About the game?
Well, of course.
What would I be hiding from you?
I don't know.
But there's a little voice inside me
that keeps whispering:
"This is Samantha Crawford, Bret.
Close all the doors and windows."
Oh, heh.
Here's your $20,000.
It's all the money I have in the world.
I'm trusting you with it, Bret.
This game would be a matter of luck.
I know the way these men play poker.
Oh, you can outplay them.
When you're playing with men
as good as you are
poker is no longer a game of skill.
You're gambling.
I may be broke in an hour.
Hmm. We may be broke in an hour.
You Logan?
I'm Pritchard. That's Wells.
Well?
Uh
- I'm pleased to meet you.
- Sure. Sure.
We're ready.
Well, it can't be done now.
It's got to be done a little later.
I wanna get one thing straight.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Don't try anything funny.
You do what I told you,
you'll get what I promised.
I got somebody else watching you,
you understand?
Okay, Logan. You're the boss.
It ought to be starting anytime now.
BRET:
Three hundred and fifty.
TABOR: Three hundred and fifty, huh?
LOCKRIDGE: I'm out. I'm out. Enh.
FAYETTE:
I call, Mr. Maverick.
- Kings over threes, Mr. Gilling.
- Thank you.
- May I get you something, Mr. Gilling?
- Three aces, if possible.
[ALL CHUCKLES]
- Oh, it's early yet, your luck may change.
- Maybe.
I'll have 10,000 more,
Miss Crawford, please.
All right.
You're a skillful player, Mr. Maverick.
It seems the skill is spread
pretty well here.
Heh. Coming from you,
that's quite a compliment.
FAYETTE: I haven't had such bad luck
since that Saint Louis game.
BANNING:
Hmm, you didn't do too badly back there.
Uh, you better check my count.
With the way Mr. Maverick is playing,
I don't think I'll have time.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
- Cards, Mr. Maverick?
- These are good enough, Mr. ankridge.
- Mr. Tabor?
- Twn, please.
You holding a kicker, Mr. Tabor?
I may make four of a kind.
- Keep your seats and behave.
WELLS: Put your hands on the table.
PRITCHARD:
Don't nobody move.
You just stay glued for five minutes.
First one pokes his head out the deer
are gonna get it shut off.
Friends of yours, Mr. Maverick?
Hardly, Mr. Tabor.
Bret, be careful.
I'm sure you'll know
where to look for them, Mr. Maverick.
I hope you don't mean
what I think you mean, Mr. ankridge.
It was very neat and unexpected.
- Now, wait a minute.
- No, you wait a minute.
We were the only ones who knew
where this game was being played.
- That's right. We were.
- Bret, I
Almost a hundred thousand dollars
went out that door, Mr. Maverick.
I've lost more than that overnight
in a bad business deal.
- But I've never looked so foolish.
- You're judging me pretty fast, aren't you?
- On the evidence, Mr. Maverick.
- What evidence? Now, you listen to me.
Mr. Maverick, you're a thief.
I repeat, sir, a thief.
But one with imagination.
What better way
to steal a hundred thousand dollars?
- And we can't prove a thing.
- And so much safer than holding up a bank.
All right, Maverick. It's over and done.
I'll charge it off to profit and loss.
A lesson learned.
But my fellow sufferers don't want
the kind of publicity this would make.
- No, we certainly don't.
- Now, look
I have a business deal on the fire
and it won't help any if this comes out.
Exactly.
If you ever come to Colorado, Maverick,
bring a shroud.
BRET: But, Mr. Tabor, I had no"
TABOR: Good night!
I throw a lot of weight
in the Wyoming territory.
It can all come down on you
if you touch your toes there.
- Are you coming, gentlemen?
BANNING: Let me add my two cents' worth.
What Mr. Taber and Mr. Fayette said
goes double for Texas.
I hope you didn't get any enjoyment
out of poker, Maverick.
You'll have a hard time finding a game
from here on in.
Let's have a talk, Sam.
- Well, Bret, you don't think that I
- Who else?
Oh, I should've known.
I'm disappointed, Sam.
This was pretty crude.
- You're drawing conclusions too fast.
- What do you think they did?
Look, Sam, these men are powerful.
They can do exactly what they said.
If I show my face in their stamping ground,
I've lived my whole life right then and there.
You think I'd do something like this
to you?
- It just happened!
- Let me talk, Bret.
You can do what you like,
but let me talk.
Talk or lie?
Now, you listen to me a minute.
I like you very much, Sam.
It's fun trying to stay
one step ahead of you.
But this is a blue-chip deal, beautiful,
with my head for an ante.
Taber and the others weren't joking
when they told me what to expect.
Gilling was right. The story will get around.
I'll have to go to Hong Kong to find a game.
Now you talk.
All right, Bret.
The 20,000 I gave you wasn't mine.
I guessed that.
Now I'm through guessing.
Try to tell me the truth
even if it comes hard.
A man named Logan gave me the money
and asked me to set up the game.
- Why you?
- Because you wouldn't do it for him.
- You know where he is?
- He's here in the hotel.
- Which room? Do you know?
- Yes.
Even when I think I believe you,
I know I'm wrong.
It's the truth, Bret.
All right. Let's go see Mr. Logan.
You do have your thousand-dollar bill,
don't you?
You want that too?
Oh, Bret.
Come on. Logan's room
is just around the corner, 305.
He was playing it pretty close.
This is the only kind of calling card
your Mr. Logan would understand.
- All right. Where is he?
- Well, I don't know.
- You're gonna take me to him.
- How, Bret?
Oh, look, I knew nothing about the holdup.
Just about the card game.
- Where did you meet him?
- Well, he came to me with the money.
- Why did he come to you?
- I don't know.
He offered me 10 percent of the profit
if I'd set up a poker game.
That sounded all right to me.
You must have known him well.
Oh, I didn't know anything about him.
Where is he from?
What does he look like?
I don't know where he's from.
But I'll know him again when I see him.
I wanna know him when I see him.
Well, he's, um
He's short and squat, like a frog.
Bret, I swear,
I knew nothing about the holdup.
- It was Logan's idea?
- Well, it had to be.
And he's long gone.
He's not in his hotel room.
He won't stay in Kansas City.
He'll get out.
He'll probably take the train.
Oh, no. He wouldn't go by train.
That's the last way he'd go.
It's too easy to get caught on the train.
- What are you doing?
- Ask questions. Stay where I can find you.
You're not gonna lock me in this room.
- I'm not?
- Bret.
And don't jump out the window,
it's three floors down.
- Bret.
- Gnnd night, Sam.
Yes, Mr. Maverick?
- Do you have 3 ML Logan staying here?
- Uh' yes' sir.
Room 305. But he checked out.
- When?
- Oh, not more than about 20 minutes ago.
Was he alone?
I really don't know.
I didn't pay much attention.
Never mind.
Are there any trains out tonight?
Yes, sir.
In fact, there's one pulling out right now.
- But you couldn't catch that one.
- I could try.
If you miss it, there's one tomorrow.
All aboard!
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
- Well, just made it, huh?
- And the last car.
- Can I buy a ticket from you?
- Why, yeah, where you headed for?
- How far do you go?
- Twin Rocks, Wyoming.
- That be enough?
- Well, that'll take you a mite further.
A mite further may be just the place.
I'm looking for someone, conductor,
uh, who might be on this train.
- Oh, is that 50?
- Yeah.
A very pretty girl who's traveling alone.
Blond, about 23, 24.
Blue eyes. And, well
I've been making this run for seven years,
I've never seen anything like that.
Well, I guess you haven't seen her.
You still got your watch.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
- What are we stopping for?
- Pulling in to stock up on wood.
Hi, Sam.
Oh, well, imagine meeting you
way out here.
What am I supposed to say.
"It's a small world?"
- Even tiny.
- But cozy.
I thought you'd be watching the station
back in Kansas City.
I was.
If you didn't see me get on
in Kansas City, how"?
You told me.
When we were discussing Mr. Logan,
you said:
"No one would be obvious enough
to take the train out of town."
Now, Sam, you never do the obvious.
Unless you want someone
to believe you won't.
- Is that clear?
- Much too much.
Trying to find you in Kansas City
would have been a hard job.
But I knew you wanted to find Mr. Logan
as much as I did
so I figured you'd go after him.
Bret, I don't even know where he's from,
how would I know where to look for him?
You didn't board the train
five miles out of town
so you could give me the slip
and find Mr. Logan yourself, did you?
[LAUGHS]
Sometimes I forget how clever you are.
All right, Bret, I'll tell you the truth.
Please make it sound like a lie
so I'll believe it.
Now, I told you
I knew nothing about the holdup.
Logan played me for a sucker ton.
You mean to tell me you went into this
deal without knowing anything about him?
I checked 3 little.
He's from a small town in Wyoming.
I thought that would be the best place
to start asking questions.
Last night, Logan and two men
did exactly what you said they wouldn't do.
They took a train west.
Well, how was I to know?
Sometimes I think you think I forget
how clever you are.
What does that mean?
You could be joining Logan for your cut.
- Oh, Bret, you're so suspicious.
- And without cause ton.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
- Where are you going?
- I'm going for a walk.
Oh, stay with me, Samantha,
I get lonely on trains.
Oh, Bret, I couldn't very well get off,
could I? The train's moving.
So it is, but you're Samantha Crawford
and the engineer is only a man.
[WHISTLE BLOWING]
[BELL RINGING]
I'm sorry to have to bring you
into a place like this, Sam
but as long as your supply
of hairpins holds out
- I can't trust the locks on hotel doors.
- Heh.
I hate to bring you
into a place like this, Bret.
Now, you just keep an eye
on your purse, Samantha.
I wanna talk to that bartender over there.
Excuse me.
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
- Hello.
- Hello.
Would you join us?
- Well, I
- Please.
Uh, could I buy you a drink?
Look, maybe I better go.
No, no, my sister doesn't mind,
do you, Cynthia?
Oh, no, no.
Remember what Mother told you,
brother Bret.
Somehow, I always remember
what Pappy told me.
- You two just come in town, huh?
- Twenty minutes ago.
- What will you have?
- Beer.
Make it a double whisky. I've got a cold.
- And two glasses of?
- Sherry.
- Uh, how long have you worked here?
- A year, I guess. Maybe more.
Well, then, you must have known
a man named Logan, he worked here.
- Maybe I know lots of men.
- Oh, you're pretty enough. Ha, ha.
BRET:
That's quite true, Cynthia.
We're looking for Mr. Logan.
What for?
Well, he was engaged to my sister
and he left her waiting at the church.
You was engaged to him, the frog-face?
Uh, well, I loved the inner man.
You mean Logan went and left you?
Why, that dirty crumb.
- Then you knew him?
- Knew him?
You knew, he'd done the same thing to me
he done to your sister.
So you ain't alone, honey.
You're a great comfort.
He promised to marry you too?
He sure did.
Tended bar here for along time,
then he left.
Said he was coming back
with lots of money.
I could've done better than frog-face.
But he showed me $20,000 he had.
Where did he get that money?
Mister, he was
the original penny-pincher.
Do you know he lived out
in a room in the back
50 he wouldn't have to pay rent?
Ate nothing but sourdough and beans
three times a day. Ha!
You could've knocked me over
with a feather
when he showed me that money.
He saved it.
Uh
So he showed you the money and,
uh, said he's gonna come back
- with a lot more?
- That's right.
Well, did he come back?
Well, he came back all right,
a couple of days ago.
- Two days ago?
- Yeah. And you know what he said?
- What?
- That he didn't have no money.
Not even the 20,000?
He told me
he had a hundred thousand dollars.
- SO I says, "Where is it?"
- A logical question. What did he say?
Two men stole it
and he was going out after them. Huh.
He never had no hundred thousand.
If you ask me, even that 20 wasn't real.
- Did he say where he was going?
- I stopped listening.
Oh, please, did he tell you?
Honey, when he comes back,
you can have him. I can do better.
Yeah, well, I can't.
I mean, he's the only man I'll ever love.
That does beat all.
Now, now, where did he go?
Said something about Deadwood, I think.
- Ynu sure?
- Yeah.
Then he was coming back for me.
Make a queen of me, he said.
Mister, he's a liar.
- Deadwood, that's where he went?
- Yeah.
Come along, Cynthia.
The sooner we find Logan, the sooner
the kiddies will have their daddy back.
There ain't a good man
in the whole world.
- That's a fine thing to say.
- It was all in fun.
Well, have fun alone. I'm through.
I'm tired.
We've come along way, Bret.
Well, not long enough.
We're going after Logan.
Happy hunting.
Oh, no, you're forgetting one thing.
Logan, and maybe you,
cost me my livelihood.
I can't play solitaire in a bear cave
until I find him and get that money back.
- You know, I am sorry about that.
- Yeah, well, so am I.
If it makes you feel better, I don't think
you had anything to do with the holdup.
Bret, you're losing faith in me.
That girl told us that Logan had plans
to make big money before he left here.
Now, that doesn't clear you, but it helps.
Anyway, I'd feel better
if there's just a little doubt.
And trusting you all the way
would take half the fun out of life.
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, I wonder what it would be like.
- What?
- Being married to you.
- We couldn't afford it.
- Oh.
As my pappy always said
marriage is the only game of chance
that he knows of
where both people can lose.
Come on, we got to get to Deadwood.
Logan's got a big jump on us.
- Howdy.
- You got a room?
- I got a hotel full of them.
- I'm looking for two friends.
Everybody's looking for a friend,
mister, why do you want two?
Don't get smart,
I wanna know if they're staying here.
- Well, how do I know? What's their names?
- Pritchard and Wells.
Mm-mm. Not here.
They got to be here,
I trailed them this far.
Look for yourself.
Oh, maybe they used different names.
- Like what?
- I don't know.
One of them was tall, mean-looking,
had reddish hair.
The other one was short, like me.
The tall one was the one
with the reddish hair.
Yeah, I remember them two.
- Are they here?
- Room 7.
I'll take a room,
maybe the one next to it.
Number six.
I told you I'd catch up with you.
What the devil do you want?
Who are you?
Oh, excuse me.
Keep that gun pointed at me
and I'll take it away from you
and jam the bullets in your teeth.
That's better.
Now, what do you want?
I, uh, was looking for a couple of friends.
Friends?
I didn't mean to bust in on you.
Well. then, bust right out.
All right, mister,
I got some questions to ask you.
I, uh, just made a mistake, that's all.
You made a bigger mistake
than you thought.
I was told you've come here
looking for two men. Why?
They was old friends of mine.
One of them ain't gonna get any older,
mister. He's dead.
- Which one?
- Which one would you like to be dead?
Well, I ain't killed nobody, I just
came looking for Pritchard and Wells.
- You still ain't told me why.
- I don't guess I have to.
Like I said, I haven't killed anybody.
Ain't no law
against somebody looking for a man.
I guess not.
Only I wanna know
why one of them killed the other.
Was Pritchard the big man?
Yeah.
Why did he kill Wells?
I don't know. Maybe they had a fight.
Maybe.
- You planning on staying in town?
- No, I'm just passing through.
That's fine. Take your time.
Take an hour.
Sheriff?
- Did you catch up with Pritchard?
- Nope.
- Then he's still loose?
- That depends.
Depends on what?
Me and my posse chased him
as far as we wanted.
Maybe he didn't know it,
but he headed right into Sioux country.
And the Sioux are in a bad humor.
Looks like they're gonna save the territory
the price of a hanging.
You wanna catch him pretty bad,
don't you?
But I ain't gonna.
I ain't ever gonna.
Why? Pritchard know the country?
Do.
What do you mean?
I'm for hire, mister, for a price.
- How much?
- Five hundred dollars.
Two-fifty.
Don't wanna catch up to him too bad,
do you?
All right, 500.
You'd have been better off
if you'd said yes the first time.
I don't like to dicker.
The price has gone up.
It'll cost you a thousand now.
All right, all right.
When can we get started?
I'm packed.
And Sloan told me they was going up
the Kennon Trail into Sioux country.
You might be able to find them
but I wouldn't advise it.
Well, that's probably the best advice
we've had today. Thanks.
Couldn't you have waited dinner?
Leave it alone.
You can put them down now.
Now, what we've got to do,
we're gonna have to trust each other.
At least for a while.
[DRUMS BEATING]
BRET:
They've got him.
- You sure it was him?
- It's him all right.
- Alive?
- So far. But he won't be by morning.
They've got him tied up
in one of the tepees.
Well, then, let's get to it.
If we went down there now,
we wouldn't have a chance.
What if they kill him before morning?
Well, if you think you can make it alone,
you just go ahead.
- When do we go?
- Tonight.
We'll try to get some rest,
sleep if we can.
Once we get him out, you're not gonna
have time to take a deep breath.
You did see him, didn't you, Bret?
Now, Sam, you don't think I'd try
to outsmart you, do you?
You're sweet, heh.
[DRUMS BEATING AND MEN WHOOPING]
All right, Logan, you go first. Sloan.
Bret, it's still not too late to forget it.
You're scared?
Sam, I don't believe
you're afraid of anything.
LOGAN:
Maverick.
He's alone. Sloan, you stay here.
Logan, come with me.
- You dirty, slimy double-crosser.
- Logan.
- Where's the money, Pritchard?
- For the love of
- Get me out of here.
- Have you got the money with you?
They're gonna kill me.
We're gonna let them
unless you tell us where the money is.
I lost it. I lost it coming here,
and then those devils got ahnld of me.
You're a liar. You've got that money.
Keep your eyes out there, Logan.
It's gonna be dawn in three hours. They're
whipping themselves into a lather
and they're gonna whip you
into something else.
Maverick.
There'll be another one along
to see what happened to him.
Now, you got about five seconds left
to talk, or be left here.
Now, you make up your mind.
I buried the money. I'll take you to it.
You think of everything,
don't you, Logan?
Now, we don't want any shunting, do we?
It might disturb our friends.
Now, come on, gentlemen.
I believe it was your deal, Mr. ankridge.
I trust you'll accept our apologies,
Mr. Maverick, and congratulations.
Well, thank you, Mr. Gilling.
I hope there'll be
no interruptions this time.
I don't think there will be,
what with Mr. Pritchard in jail
and Mr. Logan very, very safe.
[CHUCKLES]
GILLING:
Well, looks like I can open this pot.
Fifty dollars, gentlemen.
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