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Ed?

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Did the chief say how long he thought he'd be with the commissioner?

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No, why?

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I thought I'd like to surprise him with this if it's possible.

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It isn't.

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What's going on here?

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We thought you might like a little something to take along on your trip.

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Eve, I'm not driving to Outer Mongolia.

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I'm only going to the High Sierras.

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I'm reading places all along the way.

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But think of the time you'll save not having to stop.

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How much longer is it going to take you to save me all this time?

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Just a few more minutes.

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Very well.

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If you can split your attention briefly.

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I've just arranged with the commissioner to keep our division operative while I'm away.

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One of you will have phone duty here around the clock.

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If anything happens, I can be back in a few hours.

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I'll call in at approximately 8 p.m. every day.

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I can't give you anything like an exact trip plan.

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But our first stop will be at Gold Strike.

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I have an old friend there. I want to look him up.

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Well, we've arrived.

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At least this place admits to being Gold Strike, California.

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What are you expecting, Mark? The garden spot of the Sierras?

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That's what it is.

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Man, are you ready for it.

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What do you think of the garden spot?

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I may retire here.

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You have to be kidding.

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Marshal Douglas.

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What can I do for you folks?

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Perhaps you can help us with some directions.

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We're just driving through.

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I thought I'd like to look up an old friend who lives somewhere around Gold Strike.

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That shouldn't be too hard to do.

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His name is Earl Franklin.

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How in creation did you ever meet an old hermit like Ory?

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A long time ago he took me out with a hunting party.

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Our guide.

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I'd forgotten about him until he received a gunshot wound similar to the one that injured me.

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In any event, he started writing to me.

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Guess you'd say we got to be pen pals.

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What I'm thinking, if you've got the time, I'll send a man up to Ory's and bring him down.

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He can be found.

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If he can be found.

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He was only released from the hospital ten days ago.

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How far could he get?

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You don't know with an old goat like Ory.

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He's all bone and rawhide.

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Even the docs never figured he'd walk out of that hospital.

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Some do, some don't.

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It's up to you.

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Want me to send a man up for Ory or don't you?

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We wouldn't want to put you into any trouble.

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It's better than losing a couple of city folks up in those mountains having to find them.

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Glad to do it.

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You can stay in town for an extra day.

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I'm sure we can find a place to stay, Marshal.

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A motel, east side of town. It's the best we've got.

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Oh, by the way, who'd we tell Ory is here to see him?

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I'm sorry.

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Ironside, Robert Ironside, San Francisco.

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If you can get that to him, I'll be in your debt, Marshal.

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No sweat.

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Mr. Ironside, as soon as I have something to report to you, I'll get in touch.

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Thank you. Thank you very much.

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George.

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We're in trouble.

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Better tell your father.

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I'll be right over.

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What'd you tell us? You handled yourself just fine with Mr. Ironside, Doc.

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Couldn't have done better myself.

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I hope so, Mr. Huff. Proof kind of fell in when he handed me his card.

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Understandable. But I don't think there's any reason for us to spin our wheels. Yet.

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Why did he have to come up here just at this time?

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Son, I'll tell you when to worry. Is that a deal?

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Now, Doug, you handle the situation like I told you, and Ironside won't be any problem at all.

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If he is, you call us up to the lodge, you hear?

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All right, George.

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Son, why borrow trouble?

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Because I don't like it being a cop.

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A man has to be something, George.

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Keep in touch, Doug.

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Told you not to complain about the steak.

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Comes the local lawman.

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Greary, is he carrying a Bowser bag?

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Hello, Mr. Ironside. See you found your way to our eating place.

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Sit down, Marshal.

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Drink?

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Thanks.

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I'm on duty.

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Afraid I got some bad news about Orry.

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Something happen to him?

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There's no reason to think so. He's just not up at his place, that's all.

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My man just got back from up there.

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That suggests something's wrong.

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Not with Orry.

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He's a strange old coot.

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Hope you don't mind telling you, but he's really some kind of a nut.

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When that hunter accidentally shot him in the back, beginning of deer season,

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brought him back down off that mountain, wore a head and a lie,

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hardly anybody in this town ever heard of Orry Franklin.

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Knew anything about him living up there.

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That's a fact.

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You mean he can pass up all the bright lights of Gold Strike, all this good food?

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Well, Orry lives off the land, mostly.

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He's kind of a loner.

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He just doesn't take to folks and bright lights.

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Guess that's why he lives way up where he does.

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Takes a prospect between a mountain goat and a jackass to get up there.

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And you don't recommend that we try it?

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Oh, no, sir. I sure don't.

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Well, thank you for your advice and your help.

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Well, it's my pleasure. Sorry it didn't work out better.

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Oh, I'll keep your card. Next time I see Orry, I'll give it to him for you.

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I know he is saying it.

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Saying what?

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So with a heavy heart, we say farewell to Gold Strike, California,

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garden spot of the Sierras.

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I'm not ready to say farewell.

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I was afraid of that.

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Tell the chief it's very quiet here, Mark.

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I just talked to Ed on the phone and he suggested we mix up a small crime wave

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so the commissioner will miss the chief.

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I'll pass it along, Eve.

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We'll check in about 8 tomorrow.

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Nothing's real.

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Well, I still don't hear you saying it.

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It's because I'm still not ready.

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Hello. Yeah, Doug, go ahead.

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What's he up to?

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All right, Doug, you've done what you can and I thank you.

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It's up to George and me now. You're not involved.

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I'll talk to you later.

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George.

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George, come in here.

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Who was that on the phone?

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Doug.

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That detective from the city.

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He's on his way up to Orrys.

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I told you that guy was trouble.

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Son, I know you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth.

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I put it there.

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But this is the first I've heard about your crystal ball.

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Well, do we stand here wringing our hands or do we get moving?

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How are we doing, Mark?

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If you're looking for an easy buck, bet on this road to wipe us out.

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Forest Ranger said it was no freeway.

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I call that honesty in government.

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Franklin must be busy baking us a cake.

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Franklin, you in there?

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You don't want to go in there, do you?

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I can't make that decision sitting out here, Mark.

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I was afraid that's the way it would be.

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Mr. Orrill, Franklin, wherever you are.

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We're taking away your good housekeeping seal of approval.

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This isn't funny, Mark.

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Franklin got out of the hospital ten days ago.

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He wrote me that he was coming directly here.

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Obviously he didn't make it.

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Maybe that soft life in the hospital got to him.

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The last letter he wrote saying he'd meet me here, he hated the hospital.

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Every man has his own hangup.

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That's Singer's law.

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Which brings me to a question.

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What's ours?

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An old mountain man who took your honey once goes AWL.

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How does that get to be our thing?

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That old mountain man remembered me for ten years, Mark.

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It's a little hard to believe he'd forget I was coming up here.

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That's my hangup.

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I also want an answer as to why there's no sign of the marshal's man being here yesterday, as we were told.

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I saw no fresh tire marks outside in the dirt, did you?

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Some put on.

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Yeah?

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All right.

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Suppose we look around.

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Over there, Mark.

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Chief, I've got a sensational idea.

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Yeah?

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When he left San Francisco, he was supposed to be going on a vacation, breaking the old routine.

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Look, why don't we try that?

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See something?

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That stack of firewood.

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Does anything look strange about it?

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I'm a city boy, chief.

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Everything looks strange to me out here.

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Okay.

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You do see this area here, don't you?

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It's roughly the size of the woodpile in which nothing has grown.

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There are weeds all around the bottom of that stack of wood.

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There's something else.

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Notice the top score of wood.

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It's full of rot and termite activity, as though it had been recently exposed to the ground.

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I'm lost.

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What about the termites?

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The cycle requires them to return to earth every 24 hours.

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Now notice the bottom tier of logs.

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They're all very sound, right?

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Right.

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Now, what does that all suggest?

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That somebody turned the pile over, moving it from there to here.

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Anything else?

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Yeah.

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But you're going to want me to move it back where it was so you can see what's under it.

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You'll never get me out of the city again.

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That's a promise.

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You got something?

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Yeah, what do you see right there?

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The ground looks a little loose.

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Sunken.

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You think he's buried there?

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Somebody is.

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You'd better drive back to Goldstrike.

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Tell that marshal I found something I think he should see.

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Bring him back.

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But I want the grave to come as a surprise, understand?

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Right.

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But aren't you coming?

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No.

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I'm sure I can employ my time more profitably searching the cabin than I could bouncing around in the back of that paddy wagon for over an hour.

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Let's go.

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Hello.

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Is Oral inside?

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No, he's not.

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Hasn't been here for some time from appearances.

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Ah, too bad.

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Wanted to talk to him.

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I'm Oral's neighbor up the mountain, Giles Huff.

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My son George.

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Robert Ironside.

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Maybe if we looked around inside?

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No, not at all.

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What a mess.

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How can a man live like this?

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Hey, his hand rifle's gone.

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Now, I might have known that's the first thing Oral did when he got out of the hospital.

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What's that?

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Right now he's tailed out and shooting himself some deer meat.

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He left the hospital ten days ago.

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Ten days is no time at all for Oral to be gone, Huff.

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That's a fact.

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Well, I'm sure sorry to miss him.

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It's kind of inconvenient.

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Inconvenient?

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Yeah, you see, we're buying Oral out.

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All we need to wrap it up is his signature.

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Thought I might get it today.

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You may have a little trouble doing that.

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What do you mean?

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Nothing special.

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Well, then I guess there's nothing to do but wait for Oral.

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Yeah.

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I guess you're right.

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Don't fight so hard, Mr. Ironside.

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You're not going to be hurt.

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Unless you hurt yourself.

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Chief?

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Chief?

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I left him here, right here, just like I told you.

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Yeah.

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I did.

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Now he's got to be here.

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Chief!

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Chief!

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It's Mark, I'm back.

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Chief!

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That firewood.

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It's been moved back over the grave Chief Ironside wanted you to see.

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I hope you don't have a strange sense of humor.

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The grave's there.

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Move the wood and you'll find it.

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Sure, but first I want to get back to this missing boss of yours.

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It's mighty rough country for a man in a wheelchair to get very far on his own, wouldn't you say?

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Somebody could have taken him.

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Yeah, maybe they weren't here at all.

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You can see the marks from his wheelchair on the ground out here.

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Back in the house.

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In the dust on the floor.

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Well, I guess a wheelchair could be pushed around just about any place a person wanted to push it.

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What's that for?

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Precaution, so you won't try anything.

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Now turn around, Sanger, and put your hands behind you.

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You arresting me because Chief Ironside is missing?

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That'll do for a reason. Now turn around, Sanger.

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Like I told you.

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Something's happened to Chief Ironside.

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And all you can think to do about it is to arrest me.

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That's right.

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Now let's get going back to town. It's going to be dark before long.

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Aren't you even going to try to find him?

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Tomorrow morning I'll get a search party out, unless you...

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Unless what?

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Well, unless you want to tell me now what you did with him.

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Marshal, you're supposed to let me make at least one phone call.

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Get me a lawyer. I know my rights.

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In my jail, I'll decide what rights you got.

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Look, it's your jail. It's not your country. The law says.

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The law isn't talking to you, Sanger. I am.

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And I say cool it.

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When I think it's time for you to talk to a lawyer or anybody, I'll let you know.

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Now look.

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Next time I'll break it for you.

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You hear what I say?

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What's the charge against this prisoner, Marshal?

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I'm not so sure yet.

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We'll have to wait till tomorrow and see what develops.

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Marshal Douglas.

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Doug?

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George.

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Doug, I have a man here who wants to talk to you.

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His name's Ironside.

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You mean he's up at your place?

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That's right. I'll put him on.

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He wants a couple of guys arrested.

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Since they're kidnappers.

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Well, that's of course.

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I see.

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Well, that's a mighty serious charge.

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You tell him I'll be right up there.

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What he has to say he'll keep.

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Leaving right now.

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Collins, you man the store. I've got to go up.

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Any special orders?

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No, just one.

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Make sure nobody gets near that prisoner.

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Have you heard anything?

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Nothing.

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Mark told you they'd check in by 8?

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I don't know, Eve.

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It's hard for me to go for the idea they'd forget to call in.

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Not the chief.

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I could understand an hour or two if their paddy wagon broke down or had a flat tire.

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I'll tell you what, let's give it another hour.

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Let's go, Doug.

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What's happening in there?

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Well, the snow's 10 feet deep for one thing.

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You heard the old man tell about the great Huff family.

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Now his grandfather came out here after the gold rush fall to put the country back on its feet with his lumber operation.

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But he's in there giving it the iron side both barrels.

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Why?

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He wants him to like us.

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Wants him to forget that we brought him here against his will.

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Think it'll work?

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Not a chance.

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Hello, Doug.

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You know our guest?

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I was just showing him our new toy.

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Had a tailor made for me by a gunsmith in London.

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Beautiful feeling gun to the hand, isn't it, Mr. Ironside?

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It would have felt even more beautiful had it been loaded.

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You'd have split your head with a stock.

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Not our guest, Mr. Ironside.

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That's right, I'm not your guest.

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Let's keep that straight.

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We don't want to mislead the marshal.

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I generally take Mr. Huff's word on things.

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You wouldn't believe me if I told you the Huffs forcibly kidnapped me, is that what you're saying?

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Nobody in this county would believe that.

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Then it's safe to assume that you won't buy them as killers either.

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You'd never believe they killed Oral Franklin.

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No, I wouldn't.

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Because I happen to know something about that.

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I found Orie.

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Eight days ago.

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He was lying out by his well.

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Stone cold dead.

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Foolish question, but you did determine that he died of natural causes.

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As far as I could tell.

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And you buried him up there behind his shack and said nothing.

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I suppose that saved the taxpayers the cost of a funeral.

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No.

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Doug did that for us.

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Why?

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Because we asked him, that's why.

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Orie was an old man, he had to die sometime.

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It just happened too soon.

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If he'd lived another two weeks, we'd have bought his land.

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Either from him or the state of California for taxes.

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Unless some friend of his put up the tax money.

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Orie didn't have any friends.

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He had one.

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All right.

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You're Orie's friend.

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Does that mean you're going to make a federal case out of something that couldn't have made any difference to Orie?

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No.

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The state judiciary is set up to handle felonies like assault, kidnapping and murder.

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We didn't murder Orie.

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You'd be saving us a lot of trouble if you just kept breathing a few more weeks.

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You say, I want proof.

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How can we prove anything now?

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A pathologist could still determine cause of death.

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If it's certified as natural, Mr. Huff, you have no problem with me, I won't press charges.

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Is there any reason why we can't wait for that until after next Tuesday?

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After the tax auction?

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You're asking me to be a party to a conspiracy?

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No thank you.

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Well, I've heard enough.

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If you have.

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We sure don't seem to be getting anyplace.

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That's a fact.

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Yeah.

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For you, Collins.

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Yeah, what is it?

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I see.

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Okay.

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If I'm not back by the time they get there, keep them away from the prisoner.

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These people are coming up from San Francisco.

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They hadn't heard from him, so he checked with Collins and the fool said he was missing.

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What's it mean?

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We're in a box.

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You got someplace to put him?

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George, your father tells me the Huffs own most of the timber land in this and a couple of adjacent counties.

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That's right.

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Why do you need this grubby little homestead of Franklin's?

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What can make it worth this much to you?

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A new interstate highway cuts one of our best stands of timber off from the mill.

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The only practical way of getting it out is across Orry's land.

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Very nice.

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For a prison?

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Guest room.

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For how long?

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How long can I remain a guest, George?

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I haven't given it much thought.

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Then you'd better think about it.

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All of you.

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What are you going to do with me?

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Even after the Huffs have acquired title to Franklin's land next Tuesday?

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I've done my thinking.

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You're not about to spend the rest of your life behind bars.

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Is that a fairly accurate statement of your position, Marshal?

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We'll work something out.

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If you mean a deal with me, forget it.

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You have my one, only, and final offer.

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Prove that Orry wasn't murdered and you're home free.

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I see.

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That's your hang-up.

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You did kill him.

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I didn't murder Orry!

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I said kill.

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That includes any kind of an accident that caused his death.

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Now come on, George. Level with me.

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I can't do you any harm.

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But it's still possible I can help.

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He fell.

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Fell and hit his head on the well curb.

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Fell or was pushed?

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I...

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I guess I pushed him some.

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But he was acting crazy.

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I went to talk to him about the deal.

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The minute I showed up, he started yelling at me to get off his property.

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Something about the Huffs stealing his land.

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Tried to make him listen.

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He picked up this old axe handle and he came at me with it.

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I wrestled him for it and that's when it happened.

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I'm sorry for you, George, because I believe you.

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You've painted yourself and the rest of us into a very tight corner.

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I don't know how you get out.

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I do.

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I was certain you would.

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He means you're going to have to kill again, George.

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This time it won't be an accident.

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Now, it's not in my best interest to admit this,

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but I'm afraid he's right.

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Unless you're willing to take your losses and get out of the game right now.

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I don't know.

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George, you can't cop out.

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I'm in this too. So is your father.

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The Huffs go down the drain, so does the whole county.

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Orry wasn't worth that.

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And neither is he.

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There's a difference in degree, George.

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More than a difference.

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Now, you probably can make a hometown jury who knew Orry Franklin

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as an eccentric by your story of how he died.

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Even understand what you did to cover up was partially motivated by a community interest.

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But if you kill me, you haven't got a prayer.

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We've got more than a prayer.

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I've got Mark Sanger locked up in my jail.

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On what charge?

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Open tomorrow.

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After your body's been found.

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I can change that to murder one.

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George and I have a little unfinished business with Ori Franklin's remains.

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This time we'll make sure you behave yourself while we're gone.

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So Mr. Huff will be keeping you company.

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All right, George?

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Sorry about this, Mr. Ironside.

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I want you to know that.

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What are they doing with Franklin's body?

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There's a quicksand pit over at Lake Mirage.

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No bottom to it.

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At last you'll have something in common with Franklin.

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The only notable difference is that you and George dug your own pit.

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We didn't go looking for this.

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It happened to anyone.

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Like running a traffic signal.

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Nobody's hurt unless you're caught with somebody's car broadside to your front bumper.

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Then it's too late, then too bad.

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Yeah, I know.

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Don't think it is annoying at my insides, too.

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Why let it?

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There's still time for you to blow the whistle.

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You'll never get out clean, but you will be out someday.

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Ah, it's too late for that now.

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Well, as long as we're both alive, it isn't too late.

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I gave Doug my word.

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Your word's worth the gas chamber?

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It's worth taking that chance.

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There's nothing more for us to talk about, is there?

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What's your attitude toward coddling that condemned Mr. Huff?

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Is it customary to grant some special consideration during the last hours?

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What can I get you?

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Bourbon?

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Neat.

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What's the matter?

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I don't like the idea of leaving you alone in this room.

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Yeah, you're going along with a lot of ideas you don't like.

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But happily, this is one dilemma I can solve for you.

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My wheelchair's just outside the door in the hallway.

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Bring it in and I'll go with you.

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I shouldn't let you out of this room.

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You didn't give your word on that, did you?

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I'll be back here before George and the marshal return and you have my word on that.

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If you try anything, I'm not going to be easy on you.

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Fair enough.

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Stay right there.

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Dividend?

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Any number.

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I hated to do that to you, Mr. Huff, but I'm trying to save your life.

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You won't get anything on that phone.

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It was working earlier.

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There's a disconnect switch on the outside so we can turn it off when we're gone.

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Where is that switch?

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You're looking for me to help you?

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Yes, I am.

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How about the key to that gun cabinet?

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It's on my key ring in the car.

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I'm telling you the truth.

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George has all my keys with him.

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I believe you.

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I believe you, Mr. Huff.

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Nearly no rubber on his vehicle.

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Tires leave a fine impression where we're gonna dump him over.

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I don't care who Sanger's attorney is.

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Those tire marks will send him up.

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Paul, what happened?

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Where is he?

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He's in his room down the hall.

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I think.

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I'll take care of him.

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Ironside, I...

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You killed him.

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No, Mr. Huff.

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But he's taken a jolt of electrical current.

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You and George can help him.

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All right, Mr. Ironside.

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You win.

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What's it going to cost us?

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I can't answer that.

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I won't even bargain with you. All I want's a deal.

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No deal.

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The man's been killed.

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R.E. Franklin wasn't killed.

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You'd better talk to George, Mr. Huff.

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I'm glad we got up here in time to share this stirrup cup with you, at least.

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Yes, where do you plan to go from here?

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The city.

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The city? You mean like the city?

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You read me.

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And I'm about to drive past the city limits of Gold Strike, California,

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fun city of the Sierra, for the very last time.

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You're a little premature, Mark.

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We have to come back here.

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Oh, no.

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You're forgetting the trial we have to testify.

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Wouldn't it be all right if I phoned myself in?

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I wouldn't count on it.

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Chief, whatever happened to that dream vacation you were talking about for weeks?

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Yeah, that's right, Chief.

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You were going to break with the old routine,

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escape from the Hall of Justice rat race,

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breathe clean country air,

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talk to some uncomplicated nice people for a change.

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What happened?

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Good question.

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When I think of an answer worthy of it, you'll be the first to know.

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