WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 You know what I did in the war? 00:04.000 --> 00:08.000 Well, there was a war, don't you? 00:08.000 --> 00:12.000 I sold two million dollars with a bond. 00:12.000 --> 00:16.000 Me and my horse, pistol. 00:16.000 --> 00:20.000 Horses. 00:20.000 --> 00:24.000 Oh, how I hate that animal. 00:24.000 --> 00:28.000 Tell me, what you do in a war? 00:28.000 --> 00:38.000 I'm a sock-hair, a moron on one hand and a brown dream on the other. 00:38.000 --> 00:42.000 Look at her, she's going to cry again. 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 Stop it and leave me alone. 00:44.000 --> 00:48.000 Relax, Romeo, that's about enough. 00:48.000 --> 00:50.000 Is it, boy? 00:50.000 --> 00:52.000 Is it now. 00:52.000 --> 00:54.000 Alright, Bo, come on, over here. 00:54.000 --> 00:56.000 What you doing? 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 I'm going to get you a dog. 00:58.000 --> 01:00.000 For the rest of his seeds? 01:00.000 --> 01:02.000 That's right. You see, this dog works. 01:02.000 --> 01:04.000 I don't know about that, but he's not going to eat. 01:04.000 --> 01:06.000 Why, you... 01:06.000 --> 01:10.000 Oh, you're going to have to eat your dinner up off the floor. 01:10.000 --> 01:12.000 But first, come on and take a walk with me. 01:12.000 --> 01:20.000 If I don't get outside fast, I'm going to kill a man. 01:20.000 --> 01:22.000 I apologize, Bo. 01:22.000 --> 01:38.000 I apologize for the whole human race. 01:38.000 --> 01:42.000 I stood for a moment in the middle of the swirling darkness in the storm. 01:42.000 --> 01:46.000 Only a few hours before this had been my home, mine alone. 01:46.000 --> 01:50.000 Free from the vicar and the world and the men who made it. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 Now the storm had brought me these two. 01:52.000 --> 01:56.000 And in a blind moment of hot, boiling anger, 01:56.000 --> 02:01.000 I knew that I'd almost taken a man's life. 02:01.000 --> 02:06.000 I felt the cold on my face, clearing my head and calming me. 02:06.000 --> 02:08.000 The storm would go. 02:08.000 --> 02:12.000 By morning, if I were lucky, they'd be gone too. 02:12.000 --> 02:18.000 I could be alone again, alone the way I wanted to be. 02:18.000 --> 02:21.000 Well, then I walked through the flock with Bo at my heels, 02:21.000 --> 02:25.000 shaking some strays out from the false comfort of the drifts. 02:25.000 --> 02:30.000 Then I went back into the wagon. 02:30.000 --> 02:32.000 The wagon had grown cold. 02:32.000 --> 02:36.000 The radio had been turned on and was operating faintly. 02:36.000 --> 02:39.000 An iris was still crouched behind the stove. 02:39.000 --> 02:42.000 I stooped over the lambs to settle them for the night. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 I groped around for the old quilt I'd put over them. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Hey, Ducky. 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 What? 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 The quilt. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 He took it to wrap up in. 02:50.000 --> 02:51.000 Oh, he did, didn't he? 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 Please take my coat here. 02:53.000 --> 02:54.000 Wrap him in this. 02:54.000 --> 02:55.000 He's finally gone. 02:55.000 --> 02:56.000 He's taken off. 02:56.000 --> 02:57.000 Don't start a quarrel. 02:57.000 --> 02:58.000 Now he's drunk. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 This quilt was meant for lambs. 03:00.000 --> 03:02.000 Hey, well, what you doing? 03:02.000 --> 03:05.000 Give me that quarrel. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 Hey, get that dog outside. 03:08.000 --> 03:12.000 If she sees so many snow on my guitar, I'll kill it, Minjee, huh? 03:12.000 --> 03:15.000 Joe Mouser, get away from that guitar. 03:15.000 --> 03:18.000 All right, break my guitar, will you? 03:18.000 --> 03:20.000 I'll kill that dog now. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Put down that bottle. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Get out of my way. 03:26.000 --> 03:28.000 Stupid hound. 03:28.000 --> 03:29.000 I'm gonna have his hide. 03:29.000 --> 03:30.000 Put down that bottle. 03:30.000 --> 03:31.000 Yes, sir. 03:31.000 --> 03:32.000 Let go of me. 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 Let go. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 Take it. 03:34.000 --> 03:35.000 No. 03:39.000 --> 03:40.000 What? 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 Is he dead? 03:42.000 --> 03:44.000 From what? 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 I thought we were just mauling each other. 03:46.000 --> 03:47.000 I didn't even hit him. 03:47.000 --> 03:49.000 He had his head on the stone. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 He's dead or not? 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 He's dead. 03:51.000 --> 03:52.000 Hey, wait a minute. 03:52.000 --> 03:57.000 Roger Miles, the celebrated cowboy star, insisted on driving on to fulfill a personal appearance 03:57.000 --> 04:00.000 through the most severe blizzard witnessed around these parts in many years. 04:00.000 --> 04:04.000 Spillings, Montana, has reported no word on Miles yet. 04:04.000 --> 04:08.000 For the benefit of thousands of his fans throughout the country, we can only pray that the love of his star 04:08.000 --> 04:09.000 come through the storm state. 04:09.000 --> 04:10.000 Turn off that radio. 04:10.000 --> 04:11.000 I want to listen to his heart. 04:11.000 --> 04:12.000 Yeah. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 Yeah, you're right. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 He is. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 I can't look at him. 04:17.000 --> 04:18.000 Throw something over him. 04:18.000 --> 04:19.000 All right, all right. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 Now hold on yourself. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 They'll say we killed him. 04:21.000 --> 04:22.000 They'll be looking for us. 04:22.000 --> 04:23.000 Don't you see? 04:23.000 --> 04:24.000 The whole world will be looking for us. 04:24.000 --> 04:25.000 Now listen to me. 04:25.000 --> 04:26.000 And listen carefully. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 Just keep looking at him and get used to it. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 Because he's our baby and we're gonna sit right here with him till morning. 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 Now tomorrow we'll decide what we're gonna do. 04:35.000 --> 04:36.000 What can we do? 04:36.000 --> 04:39.000 All we have to remember is to tell him we're gonna kill him. 04:39.000 --> 04:42.000 What can we do? 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 All we have to remember is to tell him just what happened. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 That's the only way we stand a chance. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 But we don't. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 We don't stand a chance at all. 04:51.000 --> 05:20.000 Music 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Are you awake? 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 Yeah. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 I've been awake all night. 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 Were you able to sleep? 05:31.000 --> 05:32.000 No. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 They'll never stop till they find him. 05:34.000 --> 05:36.000 It'll get bigger all the time. 05:36.000 --> 05:37.000 They'll be covering the countryside. 05:37.000 --> 05:40.000 Now it's gonna be all right, Iris. 05:40.000 --> 05:41.000 Is it? 05:41.000 --> 05:42.000 Now look. 05:42.000 --> 05:45.000 We're going into the sheriff at Sheridan together. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 We'll tell him the same story. 05:47.000 --> 05:49.000 The flock won't drift too far. 05:49.000 --> 05:50.000 I can get back by tonight. 05:50.000 --> 05:51.000 Oh, it's no good. 05:51.000 --> 05:54.000 They'll pick us up long before we get there. 05:54.000 --> 05:56.000 Don't you see we're as good as caught? 05:56.000 --> 05:57.000 We can't be, that's all. 05:57.000 --> 05:58.000 We can't let them find us. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 Once they do, we lost the advantage. 06:00.000 --> 06:01.000 What are we gonna do? 06:01.000 --> 06:04.000 I got the car clear and put on chains. 06:04.000 --> 06:06.000 Now I can't locate the drift toward Pierre, 06:06.000 --> 06:08.000 but I think I can figure out where the crests are 06:08.000 --> 06:11.000 and ride between them going west. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 Don't matter where we give ourselves up, 06:13.000 --> 06:14.000 as long as we do it first. 06:14.000 --> 06:15.000 The agent. 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 Isn't he still talking about us? 06:16.000 --> 06:19.000 The cowboy may have been the victim of foul play. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 He is known to have carried large sums of money 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 on his person for his own spontaneous charity. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 Local authorities everywhere are requested to watch out 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 for a blue convertible car with a California license plate. 06:29.000 --> 06:32.000 Turn it off. 06:32.000 --> 06:34.000 I went through his pockets. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 He wasn't carrying any money. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.000 I know. 06:37.000 --> 06:40.000 You should have seen how he spent it when he was drunk. 06:40.000 --> 06:41.000 Time we were going. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 All right. 06:43.000 --> 06:46.000 You better take that fur robe off him. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 You'll need it. 06:47.000 --> 06:48.000 No, I can't. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 He's dead, Iris. 06:50.000 --> 06:54.000 Dead is a doornail, and I personally don't care. 06:54.000 --> 06:57.000 I didn't expect to see you get sentimental about it. 06:57.000 --> 06:58.000 I can't touch it. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 All right, all right, I'll get it. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 I better take my roll, too. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 Is that where you keep your money? 07:04.000 --> 07:06.000 I'd keep mine in the bank if I had that much. 07:06.000 --> 07:08.000 Closest bank is 20 miles. 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 This old sock does this as well. 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 Come on, Bo. 07:12.000 --> 07:14.000 Oh, are we taking the dog, too? 07:14.000 --> 07:16.000 I always take the dog. 07:19.000 --> 07:20.000 Oh, but there's no road. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 It's all covered in the snow. 07:22.000 --> 07:23.000 I'll find it. 07:23.000 --> 07:24.000 I know this neighborhood. 07:24.000 --> 07:26.000 Wait, wait, I just remembered. 07:26.000 --> 07:28.000 The description of the car, they'll recognize us. 07:28.000 --> 07:29.000 Oh, no, they won't. 07:29.000 --> 07:32.000 I've covered the license plate with axle grease, 07:32.000 --> 07:34.000 and the car is covered with ice. 07:37.000 --> 07:39.000 Now, you better cover up with this. 07:39.000 --> 07:40.000 Why? 07:40.000 --> 07:41.000 Here, Bo, get in there. 07:41.000 --> 07:43.000 In the back with you. 07:50.000 --> 07:52.000 Come on, come on. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 Come on. 07:58.000 --> 08:00.000 Ah, here we go. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 It'll all be over in a few hours. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 By tonight, we'll both be able to forget 08:04.000 --> 08:06.000 we ever saw Mr. Roger Miles. 08:06.000 --> 08:11.000 By tonight, Iris, we'll be safe. 08:22.000 --> 08:23.000 You tired? 08:23.000 --> 08:25.000 No. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 I'm just afraid. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 You don't have to be. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 We'll be in Sheridan in a few minutes, 08:30.000 --> 08:31.000 and then it'll be all right. 08:31.000 --> 08:34.000 After all, it was self-defense, wasn't it? 08:34.000 --> 08:35.000 What else could they prove against us? 08:35.000 --> 08:36.000 That's right. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 That's exactly what it was. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 So you can relax. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Oh, yes. 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 I can. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 We both can. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 You know something funny? 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 Right now, I don't know anything close to funny. 08:51.000 --> 08:53.000 Us two together like this, 08:53.000 --> 08:55.000 and the night we spent back there, 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 what I mean is, I've only known you a day, 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 and still I feel so easy with you 09:00.000 --> 09:02.000 that we might have known each other all our lives. 09:02.000 --> 09:06.000 Yeah, we had quite a night together. 09:06.000 --> 09:08.000 I never want to see another one like it. 09:08.000 --> 09:10.000 And you know something else? 09:10.000 --> 09:12.000 I don't even know your name. 09:12.000 --> 09:14.000 It's an easy one to remember. 09:14.000 --> 09:16.000 Sid Latch. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 Sid Latch. 09:18.000 --> 09:20.000 Yeah. 09:20.000 --> 09:22.000 I remember it. 09:22.000 --> 09:26.000 How'd you happen to get tied in with a man like that? 09:26.000 --> 09:28.000 I've been asking myself the same question. 09:28.000 --> 09:30.000 You're not the type, Iris. 09:30.000 --> 09:32.000 It doesn't make sense. 09:32.000 --> 09:34.000 He promised to marry me. 09:34.000 --> 09:36.000 And you went for it, knowing he had a wife already? 09:36.000 --> 09:38.000 I went for it. 09:38.000 --> 09:40.000 He had money, and he was famous, 09:40.000 --> 09:42.000 and he could take me away from Wallace. 09:42.000 --> 09:46.000 I felt as though I were being rescued from a grave. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 So I was willing to take the chance. 09:48.000 --> 09:52.000 It doesn't make me sound like a very nice person. 09:52.000 --> 09:54.000 I suppose I'm not. 09:54.000 --> 09:56.000 Well, you're just a young kid. 09:56.000 --> 09:59.000 I guess you're allowed a mistake or two when you're young. 09:59.000 --> 10:01.000 You're young too, Sid. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 Yeah? 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 My mistake was taking him in. 10:05.000 --> 10:10.000 But, and if I hadn't, I wouldn't have met you. 10:10.000 --> 10:14.000 So you see, it all has a way of sort of working out. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 Thanks, Sid. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 We're coming into a town. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 Oh, would this be Sheridan? 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 Yeah, this is it. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 I'll park the car a minute and go to that dive and get us something to eat. 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 Since the sheriff won't be serving us tea. 10:26.000 --> 10:28.000 I want to come too, Sid. Don't leave me alone. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 All right, all right. Come along. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 No, no, Bo, you stay here. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 We'll be right back, Bo. 10:40.000 --> 10:42.000 You got all your men together, Al? 10:42.000 --> 10:44.000 About 30 of them. That should be enough. 10:44.000 --> 10:46.000 30, huh? That's a good search party. 10:46.000 --> 10:48.000 I expect we'll find them before nightfall. 10:48.000 --> 10:50.000 If you can't, Al, he's not going to be found, that's all. 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Hey, how about some service, mister? 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 A couple of hamburgers to start with. 10:54.000 --> 10:57.000 Hold on, young fella. I got a rush order here for 30 hot chocolates and 60 ham sandwiches. 10:57.000 --> 10:59.000 These men hunting for Roger Miles are going to be fed. 10:59.000 --> 11:02.000 Hey, um, hey, tell me, Al, where you going to search? 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 Well, I've been thinking of heading out toward Buffalo. 11:04.000 --> 11:07.000 I got a hunch he might have got stuck on that road coming up from Clear Creek. 11:07.000 --> 11:09.000 That's an idea. Hey, hey, mister. 11:09.000 --> 11:10.000 Yeah? 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 You're just driving from the south? 11:12.000 --> 11:13.000 That's right. 11:13.000 --> 11:16.000 See anything of a blue convertible, California license? 11:16.000 --> 11:18.000 I wasn't looking. 11:18.000 --> 11:19.000 You wasn't looking? 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 You got an echo in here, friend. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 What kind of a guy are you, anyway? 11:23.000 --> 11:25.000 Guy who minds his own business. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 This happens to be everybody's business. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 You know what's been going on around here? 11:29.000 --> 11:31.000 No, but I got an idea you're about to tell me. 11:31.000 --> 11:32.000 Now look, pal, I'm... 11:32.000 --> 11:34.000 Well, here comes the anewn bus for Billings, Nick. 11:34.000 --> 11:35.000 Yeah, I see that. 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 He'll really be busy when they come piling in here. 11:37.000 --> 11:39.000 Nah, that bus only stops to pick up passengers. 11:39.000 --> 11:41.000 Hey, there's your bulletin on the radio. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 Turn it up, turn up that radio. 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 And we'll repeat that bulletin from the state police. 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 At 10 a.m. today, a county plow from Gillette came across the body of Roger Miles 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 in an abandoned sheep wagon on a branch of the Powder River. 11:52.000 --> 11:56.000 Police say there are indications Miles fought desperately for his life 11:56.000 --> 11:59.000 and revealed his assailants escaped west in Miles' car. 11:59.000 --> 12:03.000 Carlton Sturgis, a local rancher, says that a young veteran by the name of Sid Latch 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 has been running sheep in that vicinity. 12:05.000 --> 12:08.000 Latch, Sturgis said, has a Montana sheepdog called Bo. 12:08.000 --> 12:09.000 There are also indications... 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 Hey, how about some service here? 12:11.000 --> 12:14.000 Do I have to wait all day for a couple of your lousy sandwiches? 12:14.000 --> 12:15.000 Quiet down there. 12:15.000 --> 12:17.000 My eye. I want to eat and I want to eat now. 12:17.000 --> 12:18.000 Be quiet. 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 One more peep out of you and I'll wrap your skull with this bottle. 12:20.000 --> 12:22.000 And so the manhunt begins. 12:22.000 --> 12:23.000 The dragnet is out. 12:23.000 --> 12:28.000 A dog called Bo, a girl named Iris, and a man known as Sid Latch. 12:28.000 --> 12:33.000 The only thing the police can be sure of is a dog called Bo who will respond quickly to his name. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 Remember that, ladies and gentlemen. 12:35.000 --> 12:38.000 A blue convertible and a black and white dog called Bo. 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 The whole nation awaits the apprehension of these criminals. 12:41.000 --> 12:43.000 We now return you to Joe... 12:43.000 --> 12:44.000 Al! Al! What's up? 12:44.000 --> 12:46.000 Bob just pushed the mice off that car outside. 12:46.000 --> 12:48.000 And it's blue. Blue! 12:48.000 --> 12:50.000 And I wiped the license clean and it's California. 12:50.000 --> 12:53.000 There's nobody inside. Only a black and white dog. 12:53.000 --> 12:54.000 Well, that's it. That's what we're looking for. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 Come on, Nick. You want to be in on the kill? 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 Yeah, I want to be in on that reward, too. 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 Oh, we're finished, Sid. They've got us. 13:01.000 --> 13:05.000 Listen to me. Whatever happens, stick at my side. 13:05.000 --> 13:07.000 And don't run. Don't give it away by running. 13:07.000 --> 13:08.000 What are you planning? 13:08.000 --> 13:12.000 That bus outside is about to go. We're going to try to make it. 13:12.000 --> 13:14.000 Oh, Sid. Sid, I'm too scared to move. 13:14.000 --> 13:18.000 Move, baby. Now. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Sure is named Bo. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 Can you give me our pay when I call this? 13:21.000 --> 13:22.000 Okay, we'll wait for him here. 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 Well, they're not going to skip town on a guy. 13:27.000 --> 13:28.000 You just made it, folks. 13:28.000 --> 13:29.000 Yeah. 13:29.000 --> 13:31.000 Why do people always wait till the last minute? 13:31.000 --> 13:32.000 Got your tickets? 13:32.000 --> 13:35.000 We didn't have time. Two of the billings. 13:35.000 --> 13:37.000 Take it out of this tent. 13:37.000 --> 13:40.000 The company doesn't put up ticket offices just for scenery. 13:40.000 --> 13:44.000 All right, there's a chance. 13:48.000 --> 13:52.000 Why is the crowd around that car back there? I wonder what it was. 13:52.000 --> 13:56.000 Oh, just a dog. Probably threw a fit. Dogs do anything for attention. 13:59.000 --> 14:00.000 Sid. 14:00.000 --> 14:01.000 Yeah? 14:01.000 --> 14:03.000 Will we go to the sheriff in Billings? 14:03.000 --> 14:05.000 That's right. 14:05.000 --> 14:11.000 I saw a mob after a man once. They seemed crazy. Wild crazy. 14:11.000 --> 14:14.000 They didn't give him a chance to talk to anyone. 14:14.000 --> 14:16.000 They killed him the minute they caught him. 14:16.000 --> 14:19.000 They took a rope and threw it over a tree and then... 14:19.000 --> 14:21.000 Stop it. Stop it. 14:21.000 --> 14:23.000 What are you talking like that for? 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 Knowledge Bo is with us, Sid. 14:25.000 --> 14:27.000 We won't be so easy to catch. 14:27.000 --> 14:29.000 Maybe we shouldn't give ourselves up. 14:29.000 --> 14:31.000 Maybe they won't give us a chance. 14:31.000 --> 14:34.000 Maybe we just should run away, Sid, together. 14:34.000 --> 14:36.000 No. 14:36.000 --> 14:40.000 Is it because you don't want to be with me? 14:40.000 --> 14:43.000 You see, I've been hoping that maybe you and I... 14:43.000 --> 14:45.000 Well, it's not that, Iris. 14:45.000 --> 14:48.000 It's just that we're not going to run away. 14:48.000 --> 14:50.000 That'd be wrong. 14:55.000 --> 15:00.000 Now, we'll wait in Billings till the police snap out of this stampede. 15:00.000 --> 15:05.000 Then when they catch their breath, they'll know we didn't kill that prize bull... 15:05.000 --> 15:07.000 because we didn't have a motive. 15:07.000 --> 15:09.000 All right. 15:09.000 --> 15:11.000 I'm sorry about Bo, Sid. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 Yeah. 15:13.000 --> 15:15.000 I wouldn't worry, though. 15:15.000 --> 15:17.000 You'll be able to go back and find him when this is over. 15:17.000 --> 15:19.000 Well, I won't have to do that. 15:19.000 --> 15:22.000 You'll find me. He's done it before. 15:22.000 --> 15:23.000 Sid. 15:23.000 --> 15:25.000 What? 15:25.000 --> 15:28.000 I've decided I won't be afraid anymore. 15:28.000 --> 15:30.000 Not as long as I'm with you. 15:41.000 --> 15:45.000 The Billings special stopped at the bus station north of the tracks. 15:45.000 --> 15:48.000 We got off and stretched our legs. 15:48.000 --> 15:53.000 It was already dusk and a cold wind was beginning to blow again. 15:53.000 --> 15:58.000 Iris was pale and drawn, and I was pretty tired myself. 15:58.000 --> 16:02.000 It was high time we had a full night's sleep. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 Tomorrow morning would be soon enough for me to nose around... 16:04.000 --> 16:10.000 and find out the temper of the town and, if all was well, hunt down the sheriff. 16:10.000 --> 16:15.000 But tonight, what each of us wanted most was sleep. 16:15.000 --> 16:22.000 So I picked a small motel at the edge of town off the heavy traffic of the main streets. 16:22.000 --> 16:27.000 A great big fat man got out of his chair in the office and pushed the register toward me. 16:27.000 --> 16:32.000 While I began to sign it, he began to ask questions. 16:32.000 --> 16:35.000 Been on the road long? 16:35.000 --> 16:36.000 Maybe we have. 16:36.000 --> 16:39.000 Think you might stay a few days? 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 I think we might. 16:41.000 --> 16:44.000 Come from Sheridan Way? 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 What if we have? 16:46.000 --> 16:49.000 You don't talk a lot, do you? 16:49.000 --> 16:53.000 Well, people seem to do my talking for me. 16:53.000 --> 16:55.000 So the woman is your wife, eh? 16:55.000 --> 16:56.000 You ought to know quite a lot. 16:56.000 --> 16:59.000 Nothing personal, I just got a habit on the register. 16:59.000 --> 17:01.000 Oh, yeah, I forgot. 17:01.000 --> 17:04.000 That's all right. I'll fix it. 17:04.000 --> 17:06.000 Phil Wolf, eh? 17:06.000 --> 17:09.000 That's what it says. Phil Wolf. 17:09.000 --> 17:14.000 Okay, I'll just add, uh, and wife. 17:14.000 --> 17:15.000 Thanks. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 First one over here. Just a few steps. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 All right. Come on, honey. 17:20.000 --> 17:23.000 Nice room. Sure you'll find it, homie. 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 Got two hot plates in it so you can do all the cooking you like. 17:26.000 --> 17:28.000 Oh, that'll be fine. 17:28.000 --> 17:34.000 Here we are. 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 Uh-oh. Wait a minute. 17:37.000 --> 17:40.000 This one won't do. 17:40.000 --> 17:42.000 You don't want twin beds, do you? 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Oh, twin beds is just fine. Yeah, yeah, we'll take it. 17:44.000 --> 17:48.000 Or whatever you say. You notice you got a radio, too. 17:48.000 --> 17:50.000 There's one in every room. 17:50.000 --> 17:52.000 We like our guests to be at home. 17:52.000 --> 17:54.000 You just turn it on whenever you like. 17:54.000 --> 17:56.000 No extra charge. Here. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 Well, we're a little tired, so if you don't mind... 17:58.000 --> 18:00.000 Just a minute. 18:00.000 --> 18:02.000 There ought to be time for that news broadcast. 18:02.000 --> 18:03.000 ...different phases. 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 And Dr. Frederick Chess warned that this is merely the beginning of such lawless terrorism 18:07.000 --> 18:09.000 on the part of young, maladjusted criminals. 18:09.000 --> 18:11.000 Iris Johnson, Dr. Chess says, 18:11.000 --> 18:16.000 was assigned the role of luring Miles to latch his lonely wagon on the pretext of guiding him to Billings. 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 And there, for some nebulous motive, possibly back blackmail, 18:19.000 --> 18:24.000 but more likely for the mere thrill of the deed, the two participated in his murder. 18:24.000 --> 18:27.000 Police state that the pair abandoned Miles' car and shared it in this afternoon. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 The dog called Bo alluded the police there, 18:30.000 --> 18:33.000 and the assumption is that he has a favorite rendezvous with his master and will head for it. 18:33.000 --> 18:35.000 We now return you. 18:35.000 --> 18:41.000 Er, yes, Iris Johnson. She's a hard, cool character. 18:41.000 --> 18:43.000 Regular tigers. 18:43.000 --> 18:46.000 Why do you say that? Do you know her? 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 No, ma'am, that's just the way I got it figured. 18:48.000 --> 18:51.000 This Miles fella probably played her for a sucker. 18:51.000 --> 18:55.000 When she found it out, she hated him enough to want to see him dead. 18:55.000 --> 19:00.000 So first she latched on to this fella, this Sid Latch. 19:00.000 --> 19:04.000 Heh heh heh. Yeah, she latched on to Latch. 19:04.000 --> 19:08.000 And, uh, what do you figure he's like, this, uh, this Sid Latch? 19:08.000 --> 19:12.000 Him? Well, they say he's an orphan. 19:12.000 --> 19:15.000 Kind of a discontented war veteran. 19:15.000 --> 19:17.000 He hates people naturally, see? 19:17.000 --> 19:20.000 Yeah, I see. I'm not sure I blame him. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 Anyway, that's how it begins. 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 She makes a bargain with the boy. 19:24.000 --> 19:28.000 If he helps her kill Miles, he'll be her lover. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 I think you're wrong, mister. 19:30.000 --> 19:33.000 Ordinary people don't act that way. 19:33.000 --> 19:35.000 I've lived a long time, mister Wolf. 19:35.000 --> 19:39.000 I've seen a lot of ordinary people. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.000 They can sure hate hard when they want to. 19:42.000 --> 19:45.000 And what do you suppose happened next? 19:45.000 --> 19:49.000 Well, we know that Miles died from a blow in the back of the head. 19:49.000 --> 19:53.000 The girl probably crept up on him with this broken end of a bottle they found. 19:53.000 --> 19:58.000 But before she could use it, Latch gets a stangle-hole on Miles 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 and pounds him to death in this iron stove in the wagon. 20:01.000 --> 20:04.000 Now, uh, don't that make sense? 20:04.000 --> 20:06.000 I see you're following the case pretty close. 20:06.000 --> 20:10.000 Heh heh heh. I'm getting to be an old man. 20:10.000 --> 20:12.000 Not much to do around here. 20:12.000 --> 20:14.000 Yeah, I follow him. 20:14.000 --> 20:18.000 This one's got a big reward that goes with it. 20:18.000 --> 20:20.000 Who knows? 20:20.000 --> 20:23.000 Maybe Ed Jacobs will collect. 20:23.000 --> 20:25.000 Who's Ed Jacobs? 20:25.000 --> 20:28.000 Why, that's me, son. 20:28.000 --> 20:31.000 Guess I should have introduced myself. 20:31.000 --> 20:34.000 Oh, well, I wish you luck, Mr. Jacobs. 20:34.000 --> 20:36.000 Thanks. 20:36.000 --> 20:41.000 All I got to do is keep a sharp watch for a little dog named Bo. 20:41.000 --> 20:45.000 I suppose it's lucky for us that we don't own a dog. 20:45.000 --> 20:46.000 That's right. 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 The only thing that got to go on is that dog. 20:48.000 --> 20:51.000 Another two or a dime a dozen. 20:51.000 --> 20:59.000 A man could look at you two kids and say you were just what they wanted. 20:59.000 --> 21:02.000 But he'd be wrong, Mr. Jacobs. 21:02.000 --> 21:06.000 Sure. Sure, I know that, son. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Now, we're just a little tired, Mr. Jacobs. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 I'll leave you be, Mr. Wolf. 21:11.000 --> 21:13.000 Go yourselves while you stay. 21:13.000 --> 21:17.000 If you meet anybody on the street, just break right out and say howdy. 21:17.000 --> 21:21.000 That's the kind of folks we are around here. 21:21.000 --> 21:25.000 Except when we run up against murderers. 21:25.000 --> 21:30.000 We're not quite so friendly then. 21:30.000 --> 21:34.000 Not quite. 21:34.000 --> 21:36.000 Do you think he suspects anything? 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 I don't know. 21:37.000 --> 21:39.000 You can't tell with a windbag. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 They go round and round. 21:41.000 --> 21:52.000 I don't know. 21:52.000 --> 22:00.000 In tonight's full hour of suspense, Howard Culver stars as Sid in The Search by Grace Arminson. 22:00.000 --> 22:08.000 Tonight's study in suspense. 22:08.000 --> 22:12.000 In just a moment, we will return with Act Two of Suspense. 22:12.000 --> 22:22.000 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 What's over here, Mac? 22:23.000 --> 22:25.000 You won't find anything in that alley except your messy cat. 22:25.000 --> 22:28.000 Oh, just run my bug light through for the heck of it. 22:28.000 --> 22:30.000 Meet you at the other end. 22:30.000 --> 22:32.000 I reached around blindly for the first doorknob. 22:32.000 --> 22:34.000 It turned under my hand. 22:34.000 --> 22:51.000 I pushed inside and I shut the door quickly, listening in the darkness to Mac's feet come and slowly toward us. 22:51.000 --> 22:55.000 He was nearing us, trying all the doorknobs as he came. 22:55.000 --> 23:05.000 I put my feet on the floor, put my back against the door, and threw my hands out against the narrow walls for support. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 And then the knob turned. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 Mac rammed his weight against the door to test it. 23:08.000 --> 23:12.000 I bunched up every muscle in the body and pressed back. 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 No luck on this one. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 It's been nailed up. 23:16.000 --> 23:18.000 Hey, buddy. 23:18.000 --> 23:26.000 I'd have sworn this was a cup of tea. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 He's gone. 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Oh, babe. 23:30.000 --> 23:31.000 Babe, where are you? 23:31.000 --> 23:33.000 Babe from what? 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 Hello. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Who are you? 23:37.000 --> 23:39.000 Who are you is more than a point. 23:39.000 --> 23:40.000 Wait a minute now. 23:40.000 --> 23:41.000 Get some light in here. 23:41.000 --> 23:44.000 See who I'm talking to. 23:44.000 --> 23:48.000 Yeah, spread it. 23:48.000 --> 23:52.000 Boy, a girl and a dog. 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 We thought this was a restaurant. 23:54.000 --> 23:55.000 Yeah. 23:55.000 --> 23:58.000 You in the habit of coming into restaurants by the back door? 23:58.000 --> 24:00.000 Yeah. 24:00.000 --> 24:01.000 That's the way we do it. 24:01.000 --> 24:02.000 Let's see. 24:02.000 --> 24:06.000 Well, this is Copper Pete's Bar and I'm Copper Pete. 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 Now, who are you? 24:08.000 --> 24:09.000 Mr. and Mrs. Phil Wolf. 24:09.000 --> 24:10.000 Howdy. 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 Hello. 24:12.000 --> 24:15.000 Your dog looks hungry. 24:15.000 --> 24:16.000 He could be. 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 I think I got a box of phased cereal here someplace. 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 Let's see. 24:21.000 --> 24:23.000 There, here it is. 24:23.000 --> 24:26.000 Radio says it's only cereal with double flavor. 24:26.000 --> 24:29.000 I'll fix it up for you, dog. 24:29.000 --> 24:32.000 Here. 24:32.000 --> 24:33.000 Thanks. 24:33.000 --> 24:34.000 Oh, not at all. 24:34.000 --> 24:38.000 Not at all. 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 You two listen to the radio very much? 24:41.000 --> 24:43.000 No, we don't. 24:43.000 --> 24:44.000 Too bad. 24:44.000 --> 24:47.000 Lots of interesting things come over there. 24:47.000 --> 24:49.000 Such as what? 24:49.000 --> 24:54.000 Music, commercials, news items. 24:54.000 --> 24:56.000 You can keep right up with the times. 24:56.000 --> 24:57.000 We don't like the times. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 Don't blame you. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 You've been on the move, huh? 25:01.000 --> 25:02.000 Yeah. 25:02.000 --> 25:05.000 That ain't what it used to be. 25:05.000 --> 25:09.000 Time was in this country when a man could get out of the way. 25:09.000 --> 25:11.000 Ain't no frontiers anymore. 25:11.000 --> 25:16.000 All a man can do now is sit in one spot and listen to the radio. 25:16.000 --> 25:19.000 But you don't care for that, do you? 25:19.000 --> 25:21.000 No, like I told you. 25:21.000 --> 25:24.000 Radio's all over these days, just like the law. 25:24.000 --> 25:25.000 Me? 25:25.000 --> 25:26.000 I'm for the Wildcat. 25:26.000 --> 25:28.000 There used to be a Wildcat of myself. 25:28.000 --> 25:30.000 Company beat me out. 25:30.000 --> 25:33.000 Ain't no day for Wildcatters anymore. 25:33.000 --> 25:36.000 Radio beats them out. 25:36.000 --> 25:38.000 You two hunting in the space for the night? 25:38.000 --> 25:40.000 Yeah. 25:40.000 --> 25:41.000 We are. 25:41.000 --> 25:42.000 Yeah. 25:42.000 --> 25:43.000 Tell you what. 25:43.000 --> 25:46.000 Take the same door out, you come in. 25:46.000 --> 25:48.000 Down to the end of the alley, there's a flight of back steps. 25:48.000 --> 25:49.000 Try them. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 Ask for Edie. 25:51.000 --> 25:53.000 Edie's a Wildcatter from way back. 25:53.000 --> 25:55.000 You'll get a room there. 25:55.000 --> 25:59.000 You see, the town's full up on account of this guy what got erased. 25:59.000 --> 26:00.000 Milesome. 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Never heard of him. 26:02.000 --> 26:04.000 No, of course you ain't. 26:04.000 --> 26:07.000 That's because you don't listen to the radio. 26:07.000 --> 26:08.000 Why don't we try? 26:08.000 --> 26:10.000 Might be some more news about that fella. 26:10.000 --> 26:12.000 Mrs. Miles issued a shocking statement. 26:12.000 --> 26:18.000 Dora Miles told newspaper men that she had been living and praying for years that something like this might happen to her husband. 26:18.000 --> 26:22.000 It was only a miracle Mrs. Miles screamed that she hadn't murdered him herself. 26:22.000 --> 26:26.000 The physician attending Mrs. Miles stressed the fact that she is suffering from hysteria, 26:26.000 --> 26:32.000 and that no importance can be attached to her statement at this time. 26:32.000 --> 26:33.000 Radio. 26:33.000 --> 26:36.000 Quite an institution. 26:36.000 --> 26:39.000 Hey, I thought you two were gone already. 26:39.000 --> 26:41.000 What are you waiting for? 26:41.000 --> 26:43.000 I can't make up my mind. 26:43.000 --> 26:45.000 About what? 26:45.000 --> 26:46.000 I... 26:46.000 --> 26:50.000 I wish I knew if I could trust you. 26:50.000 --> 26:52.000 No way of knowing something. 26:52.000 --> 26:56.000 You just have to take a chance. 26:56.000 --> 26:58.000 All right, Pete. 26:58.000 --> 27:10.000 I think I will. 27:10.000 --> 27:16.000 Yeah? 27:16.000 --> 27:18.000 Evening. 27:18.000 --> 27:21.000 Copper Pete told us to come up here. 27:21.000 --> 27:25.000 Come on in. 27:25.000 --> 27:26.000 Just the two of you? 27:26.000 --> 27:29.000 That's right, and the dog's with us. 27:29.000 --> 27:30.000 That's some dog. 27:30.000 --> 27:33.000 We'll keep him out of the way. He's a quiet dog. 27:33.000 --> 27:36.000 That's a quiet girl too. 27:36.000 --> 27:37.000 My wife. 27:37.000 --> 27:38.000 How do you do? 27:38.000 --> 27:41.000 How do you do? 27:41.000 --> 27:43.000 So you two are on the lam, huh? 27:43.000 --> 27:45.000 We're just like a room if you're not filled up. 27:45.000 --> 27:49.000 You must have been having a rough time, son, snapping at people that way. 27:49.000 --> 27:51.000 We're just like a room, nothing else. 27:51.000 --> 27:52.000 I see. 27:52.000 --> 27:56.000 Please forgive us, Mrs... Mrs... 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 The name's Edie. 27:58.000 --> 28:00.000 We've been traveling all day and we're terribly tired. 28:00.000 --> 28:05.000 Yeah, I see that too. 28:05.000 --> 28:07.000 That's some dog. 28:07.000 --> 28:10.000 We always take Jack with us when we travel. 28:10.000 --> 28:12.000 You know what? 28:12.000 --> 28:16.000 Black and white dogs get to looking like old dust mops. 28:16.000 --> 28:21.000 That's what. 28:21.000 --> 28:24.000 So, uh, Copper Pete sent you. 28:24.000 --> 28:28.000 He said you'd have a room. 28:28.000 --> 28:32.000 Take the one at the top of the stairs, the bath to your left. 28:32.000 --> 28:34.000 Thank you. 28:34.000 --> 28:35.000 Thank you, Miss Edie. 28:35.000 --> 28:36.000 Wait a minute, sir. 28:36.000 --> 28:37.000 Yeah? 28:37.000 --> 28:41.000 You'll find a box of henna in the medicine chest. 28:41.000 --> 28:44.000 Do something about that dog. 28:44.000 --> 28:48.000 Yeah, I will. 28:48.000 --> 29:00.000 Thanks again. 29:00.000 --> 29:03.000 I locked the door behind us and threw Bo into the bathtub. 29:03.000 --> 29:08.000 And when I pulled him out again, he was dyed a dull mahogany red. 29:08.000 --> 29:12.000 We'd never be recognized by having a black and white dog with us anymore. 29:12.000 --> 29:16.000 But there was one more thing to be done before we were safe. 29:16.000 --> 29:19.000 One last thing. 29:19.000 --> 29:22.000 I put Bo in a corner and went to the opposite side of the room. 29:22.000 --> 29:25.000 Then I began calling him to me. 29:25.000 --> 29:29.000 Come here, Bo. 29:29.000 --> 29:30.000 What are you doing? 29:30.000 --> 29:32.000 Giving Bo a lesson. 29:32.000 --> 29:34.000 Taking his name away from him. 29:34.000 --> 29:37.000 Come on, Bo. 29:37.000 --> 29:39.000 Oh, do you have to? 29:39.000 --> 29:41.000 Yes, I have to. 29:41.000 --> 29:45.000 Come here, Bo. 29:45.000 --> 29:49.000 Bo, you've got to learn this if it's the last thing we both do. 29:49.000 --> 30:08.000 Come here, Bo. 30:08.000 --> 30:10.000 It went on for half an hour. 30:10.000 --> 30:14.000 Me calling his name and Bo coming over to be cuffed. 30:14.000 --> 30:17.000 At last the lesson dawned on him. 30:17.000 --> 30:22.000 When I called him after that, he just sat there looking at me and not moving. 30:22.000 --> 30:27.000 So Bo had lost his color and his name. 30:27.000 --> 30:31.000 It looked as though he might make out all right. 30:31.000 --> 30:33.000 Open the window, Sid. 30:33.000 --> 30:34.000 It's awful close in here. 30:34.000 --> 30:44.000 Oh, sure. 30:44.000 --> 30:46.000 Hear that, Iris? 30:46.000 --> 30:47.000 Freight train. 30:47.000 --> 30:50.000 Yeah, I hear it. 30:50.000 --> 30:52.000 We'll be on one tomorrow. 30:52.000 --> 30:54.000 We'll be away from here. 30:54.000 --> 30:55.000 Away from the manhunt. 30:55.000 --> 30:57.000 Oh, Sid, what good is it? 30:57.000 --> 31:00.000 What good is it when you have to keep running? 31:00.000 --> 31:05.000 When you're afraid of every man you pass in the street and of every hotel you have to stop in at night? 31:05.000 --> 31:07.000 We're not going to run forever. 31:07.000 --> 31:08.000 I told you what we're going to do. 31:08.000 --> 31:10.000 Oh, it gets so lonely, Sid. 31:10.000 --> 31:13.000 Lonely? 31:13.000 --> 31:16.000 I've been lonely all my life. 31:16.000 --> 31:18.000 You get used to it after a while. 31:18.000 --> 31:20.000 Do you? 31:20.000 --> 31:23.000 No, that was a lie. 31:23.000 --> 31:26.000 You never get used to it, Iris. 31:26.000 --> 31:28.000 Never. 31:28.000 --> 31:31.000 I want to tell you something, Sid. 31:31.000 --> 31:34.000 If you don't believe me, I won't blame you. 31:34.000 --> 31:36.000 I can't expect you to. 31:36.000 --> 31:38.000 Not a girl like me. 31:38.000 --> 31:40.000 All right. 31:40.000 --> 31:42.000 Tell me. 31:42.000 --> 31:48.000 I want to tell you, Sid, that I love you. 31:48.000 --> 31:57.000 Iris, when this is all over and we're both free again, will you marry me? 31:57.000 --> 31:59.000 Oh, Sid. 31:59.000 --> 32:01.000 Oh, don't cry, Iris. 32:01.000 --> 32:04.000 Oh, Sid. 32:04.000 --> 32:07.000 It's not because I'm unhappy. 32:07.000 --> 32:08.000 Oh, Sid, darling. 32:08.000 --> 32:12.000 Now, look, I got $5,000 in my old sock here. 32:12.000 --> 32:14.000 Ever since I've ever saved. 32:14.000 --> 32:16.000 That's going to be our start. 32:16.000 --> 32:17.000 Maybe we could go south. 32:17.000 --> 32:19.000 We can have our own home and our own land. 32:19.000 --> 32:22.000 How can you be sure? 32:22.000 --> 32:24.000 Be sure that you want me. 32:24.000 --> 32:26.000 How can you be sure? 32:26.000 --> 32:29.000 I started hating Miles when I first saw you. 32:29.000 --> 32:32.000 When I thought you were his girl. 32:32.000 --> 32:36.000 Because I was glad when he died in the wagon. 32:36.000 --> 32:39.000 Even though it meant we were under suspicion and had to run for it. 32:39.000 --> 32:43.000 I was glad because we'd be running together. 32:43.000 --> 32:46.000 Don't worry about it, Iris. 32:46.000 --> 32:59.000 I am sure. 32:59.000 --> 33:01.000 We were awake at dawn. 33:01.000 --> 33:06.000 We scribbled a note of thanks to that great lady, Edie. 33:06.000 --> 33:08.000 I pinned a $5 bill to it. 33:08.000 --> 33:12.000 Then we slipped quietly downstairs and stood a minute in the hallway. 33:12.000 --> 33:15.000 Looking out at the gray, angry sky. 33:15.000 --> 33:17.000 It's beginning to rain, Sid. 33:17.000 --> 33:18.000 It's all the better. 33:18.000 --> 33:20.000 There'll be less people around. 33:20.000 --> 33:21.000 Do you want me to walk with you? 33:21.000 --> 33:22.000 No, no. 33:22.000 --> 33:26.000 Now look, I'll go ahead with Bo. 33:26.000 --> 33:28.000 You follow a few blocks behind. 33:28.000 --> 33:33.000 I'll toss Bo into a southbound freight at the yards and give you the high sign to come ahead when it looks like she's ready to roll. 33:33.000 --> 33:36.000 Oh, I wish we could have seen Edie in person to thank her. 33:36.000 --> 33:38.000 Well, maybe we will, Iris. 33:38.000 --> 33:39.000 Someday. 33:39.000 --> 33:41.000 All right, then. 33:41.000 --> 33:42.000 You go first. 33:42.000 --> 33:43.000 Right. 33:43.000 --> 33:47.000 I'll see you in a few minutes. 33:47.000 --> 33:50.000 Bo and I tramp toward the freight guards. 33:50.000 --> 33:56.000 Every once in a while, I look back over my shoulder to see Iris coming slowly far behind us. 33:56.000 --> 33:59.000 Produce truck rumbled down the alley ahead of us. 33:59.000 --> 34:04.000 Then a paperboy with a few wet sheets under his poncho fell in step beside me. 34:04.000 --> 34:08.000 The truck stopped up ahead and the driver got out to unload. 34:08.000 --> 34:11.000 I just happened to glance at Bo. 34:11.000 --> 34:14.000 Then my heart jumped up into my mouth at what I saw. 34:14.000 --> 34:16.000 The paperboy had seen any mist. 34:16.000 --> 34:17.000 Paper, mister? 34:17.000 --> 34:18.000 Not today. 34:18.000 --> 34:20.000 Come on, be a big shot. 34:20.000 --> 34:21.000 All right, here. 34:21.000 --> 34:22.000 A whole quarter. 34:22.000 --> 34:23.000 Gee, thanks. 34:23.000 --> 34:24.000 That's a bribe. 34:24.000 --> 34:25.000 Now, disappear. 34:25.000 --> 34:27.000 Oh, it's a pleasure. 34:27.000 --> 34:28.000 Hey, wait a minute. 34:28.000 --> 34:29.000 Your dog's bleeding. 34:29.000 --> 34:31.000 He always does that and I'll scram. 34:31.000 --> 34:33.000 No, he ain't bleeding. 34:33.000 --> 34:36.000 What's that stuff running off of him? 34:36.000 --> 34:39.000 Funny thing, I ain't never seen that dog around here before. 34:39.000 --> 34:40.000 Hey, mister. 34:40.000 --> 34:41.000 Can't you? 34:41.000 --> 34:43.000 But that ain't no red dog. 34:43.000 --> 34:46.000 That's a black and white dog. 34:46.000 --> 34:50.000 The truck driver was staring and now he began moving toward us. 34:50.000 --> 34:53.000 I turned in sudden panic and began to run. 34:53.000 --> 34:55.000 Bo's streaking along at my side. 34:55.000 --> 34:58.000 As I got near Iris, her white face staring at us in bewilderment, 34:58.000 --> 35:01.000 I motioned for her to turn and run too. 35:01.000 --> 35:04.000 We clattered down the alley, doubled around the block to copper beats, 35:04.000 --> 35:08.000 burst through his back door, stood inside breathing hard, 35:08.000 --> 35:13.000 listening to the sound of men's racing feet go by the door and fade in the distance. 35:13.000 --> 35:16.000 So now we were back where we started from 35:16.000 --> 35:19.000 and freedom was as far away from us as ever. 35:19.000 --> 35:23.000 Well, again you free. 35:23.000 --> 35:24.000 See, you didn't make it. 35:24.000 --> 35:26.000 Some kid recognized Bo. 35:26.000 --> 35:28.000 Yeah, that's the way it is with kids. 35:28.000 --> 35:31.000 Nothing gets by them. 35:31.000 --> 35:35.000 Well, I guess there's nothing else to do. 35:35.000 --> 35:36.000 Iris. 35:36.000 --> 35:38.000 What's it? 35:38.000 --> 35:41.000 We'll have to take our chances with the mob. 35:41.000 --> 35:43.000 We'll give ourselves up. 35:43.000 --> 35:45.000 Oh, no, Sid, no. 35:45.000 --> 35:48.000 They'll kill us. 35:48.000 --> 35:52.000 You still got a chance. 35:52.000 --> 35:53.000 It's your last one. 35:53.000 --> 35:55.000 What's that? 35:55.000 --> 35:57.000 Well, there's a drug store around the corner. 35:57.000 --> 35:59.000 It'll open up in about an hour. 35:59.000 --> 36:01.000 And? 36:01.000 --> 36:04.000 Just walk in and buy some chloroform. 36:04.000 --> 36:06.000 What for? 36:06.000 --> 36:08.000 I know how it is, son. 36:08.000 --> 36:11.000 You promised him a life for Riley. 36:11.000 --> 36:13.000 But you do like I say. 36:13.000 --> 36:15.000 You kill that dog and kill him quick. 36:15.000 --> 36:18.000 With him around your neck, you got a one-way ticket to the grave. 36:18.000 --> 36:19.000 Not a chance. 36:19.000 --> 36:23.000 I'm just telling you the one way of keeping alive, son. 36:23.000 --> 36:27.000 We could be on our way south, Sid, by nightfall. 36:27.000 --> 36:29.000 No. 36:29.000 --> 36:36.000 Not a chance. 36:36.000 --> 36:40.000 An hour later to the second, the door to the drug store opened, 36:40.000 --> 36:42.000 and I moved in out of the rain. 36:42.000 --> 36:45.000 First customer of the day. 36:45.000 --> 36:47.000 The drugist looked at me sharp like. 36:47.000 --> 36:51.000 Guess he didn't often have business that early in the morning. 36:51.000 --> 36:53.000 I just stood there looking at him. 36:53.000 --> 36:58.000 Seemed like minutes, and then I finally got my mouth open. 36:58.000 --> 37:01.000 I want some chloroform. 37:01.000 --> 37:03.000 Chloroform? What for? 37:03.000 --> 37:05.000 Well, I... 37:05.000 --> 37:07.000 You have to know why? 37:07.000 --> 37:09.000 I'm afraid so. It's the law. 37:09.000 --> 37:10.000 The law. 37:10.000 --> 37:11.000 That's right. 37:11.000 --> 37:12.000 Right. 37:12.000 --> 37:14.000 I want to get rid of... 37:14.000 --> 37:16.000 rid of an animal. 37:16.000 --> 37:18.000 What kind of an animal? 37:18.000 --> 37:20.000 A rat. A big rat. 37:20.000 --> 37:24.000 Well, you don't bait rats with chloroform. 37:24.000 --> 37:26.000 I thought there was something funny. 37:26.000 --> 37:27.000 What do you use? 37:27.000 --> 37:31.000 Simple. What you're after is rat poison. 37:31.000 --> 37:33.000 Yeah. 37:33.000 --> 37:35.000 I guess that'll do it. 37:35.000 --> 37:38.000 Believe me, son. It'll do it all right. 37:47.000 --> 37:49.000 Did you get it, son? 37:49.000 --> 37:50.000 Yeah. 37:50.000 --> 37:53.000 Well, sooner the better. 37:53.000 --> 37:55.000 Maybe you want me to do it for you, huh? 37:55.000 --> 37:58.000 No, no. No, I'll do it. 37:58.000 --> 38:00.000 Rat poison, huh? 38:00.000 --> 38:02.000 Well, that's good and strong. 38:02.000 --> 38:04.000 Want some ground meat to mix it with? 38:04.000 --> 38:05.000 No. 38:05.000 --> 38:09.000 Okay. You'll give it to him straight, huh? 38:09.000 --> 38:10.000 I don't know. 38:10.000 --> 38:12.000 Oh, let him do it, Sid. Please. 38:12.000 --> 38:17.000 No, no. If I've got to, I'll do it. 38:17.000 --> 38:21.000 And you, Iris, you gonna let him kill that dog? 38:21.000 --> 38:24.000 What can I do? We've got our own lives to think of. 38:24.000 --> 38:28.000 I was just asking. I was just wondering. 38:28.000 --> 38:30.000 While you figure this out, son, 38:30.000 --> 38:33.000 we might as well see what's going on in the world. 38:33.000 --> 38:36.000 Great little invention here. Radio. 38:36.000 --> 38:38.000 And now an item of national interest. 38:38.000 --> 38:41.000 Stephen Wall, personal physician to the late Roger Miles, 38:41.000 --> 38:43.000 flew to Pierre from Hollywood late last night 38:43.000 --> 38:45.000 to be present this morning at the autopsy. 38:45.000 --> 38:49.000 The autopsy revealed that Miles was not killed from a blow on the head 38:49.000 --> 38:51.000 as had been previously believed. 38:51.000 --> 38:54.000 That wound on his head was caused when Miles fell to the floor 38:54.000 --> 38:57.000 and in falling struck his head against an iron stove. 38:57.000 --> 39:00.000 The actual cause of death was discovered in Miles' bloodstream 39:00.000 --> 39:04.000 where, together with high alcohol content, traces of arsenic were found. 39:04.000 --> 39:08.000 The police, checking on all drugstores in the 100-mile area, 39:08.000 --> 39:11.000 found that poison had been sold on the morning of the murder to... 39:11.000 --> 39:13.000 Why'd you turn it off? They were about to kill us. 39:13.000 --> 39:16.000 How much point in hearing it? The police will be here any minute. 39:16.000 --> 39:17.000 The police? 39:17.000 --> 39:22.000 Yeah. When you went over to the drugstore, I excused myself from his iris, 39:22.000 --> 39:24.000 went upstairs and called them. 39:24.000 --> 39:27.000 And I took my chance on trusting you. 39:27.000 --> 39:29.000 You can't trust anybody in this world. 39:29.000 --> 39:31.000 You found that out yet? 39:31.000 --> 39:33.000 We're both much beholden to you for the lesson. 39:33.000 --> 39:37.000 Well, you see, early this morning while you two were fast asleep, 39:37.000 --> 39:40.000 Edie and I paid a visit to your room. 39:40.000 --> 39:42.000 But we can't just stand here. Why don't we run for it? 39:42.000 --> 39:45.000 Wait a minute. I want to hear him talk. 39:45.000 --> 39:47.000 I'll take care of him when he's finished. 39:47.000 --> 39:51.000 And in the course of our visit, we looked through your things. 39:51.000 --> 39:57.000 Now, you, son, you're carrying a ward of five grand wrapped in an old sock, ain't you? 39:57.000 --> 40:01.000 Keep talking, Pete. It's gonna be your last speech. 40:01.000 --> 40:06.000 And you, sis, you're carrying a ward of seven grand 40:06.000 --> 40:11.000 and a little bottle that's marked danger, poison. 40:11.000 --> 40:13.000 Ain't you? 40:13.000 --> 40:15.000 Iris. 40:15.000 --> 40:17.000 Said the man's raving. He's afraid of you. 40:17.000 --> 40:21.000 They claim Miles had a roll on him, maybe several thousand dollars, 40:21.000 --> 40:23.000 but they couldn't find him. 40:23.000 --> 40:25.000 I tell you, this man is insane. They're dying. 40:25.000 --> 40:28.000 I went out of the wagon for about an hour that night. 40:28.000 --> 40:31.000 He was drinking hard. He was drunk. 40:31.000 --> 40:33.000 You could have put poison into his bottle. 40:33.000 --> 40:35.000 But I love you. You know I do. 40:35.000 --> 40:37.000 Stop it. Stop it. 40:37.000 --> 40:39.000 Did you kill him? Did you? 40:39.000 --> 40:41.000 How can you ask me that? How could I kill him? 40:41.000 --> 40:44.000 He was taking me away, away from that horrible town he said he married. 40:44.000 --> 40:46.000 You already knew he was married. 40:46.000 --> 40:48.000 He loved me. He said he did. Why should I kill him? 40:48.000 --> 40:50.000 You're lying, lying. 40:50.000 --> 40:54.000 He picked you up that morning. He hardly knew you, and you hated him. I saw that. 40:54.000 --> 40:56.000 It was the money, wasn't it? 40:56.000 --> 40:59.000 You found out about the money. That's what you wanted, wasn't it? 40:59.000 --> 41:01.000 Sis, you've got to listen to me. 41:01.000 --> 41:03.000 It was the money. 41:03.000 --> 41:06.000 And when were you planning to kill me for mine? 41:06.000 --> 41:09.000 Not until I'd gotten you away from here, gotten you out of danger, huh? 41:09.000 --> 41:11.000 Then you'd have done it to me the same way. 41:11.000 --> 41:13.000 Ain't that right? 41:15.000 --> 41:17.000 Well, why don't you say something, Iris? 41:17.000 --> 41:19.000 Well, that'd be the constable. 41:19.000 --> 41:21.000 Well, Iris... 41:22.000 --> 41:24.000 Okay. 41:25.000 --> 41:27.000 So now you know. 41:27.000 --> 41:29.000 Just a minute. I'm coming. 41:29.000 --> 41:31.000 Pete. Yeah? 41:31.000 --> 41:33.000 Pete, if you don't mind... 41:33.000 --> 41:35.000 What is it, sis? 41:35.000 --> 41:37.000 I'd rather go out to them. 41:37.000 --> 41:40.000 All right, sis. Whatever you like. 41:40.000 --> 41:42.000 Goodbye, Sid. 41:42.000 --> 41:44.000 Thanks for the buggy ride. 41:45.000 --> 41:47.000 It was nice... 41:47.000 --> 41:49.000 being married to you... 41:49.000 --> 41:51.000 for a while. 41:56.000 --> 41:58.000 Like a drink, son? 41:59.000 --> 42:01.000 No. 42:01.000 --> 42:03.000 What are you going to do now? 42:03.000 --> 42:06.000 Take my dog and go home... 42:07.000 --> 42:09.000 round up my flock... 42:10.000 --> 42:12.000 and go back to work. 42:12.000 --> 42:14.000 Yeah. 42:14.000 --> 42:16.000 You got to forget her, boy. 42:16.000 --> 42:18.000 You know that, don't you? 42:18.000 --> 42:20.000 Yeah. 42:21.000 --> 42:23.000 I know. 42:23.000 --> 42:25.000 Oh, women. 42:25.000 --> 42:27.000 I tell you, son... 42:27.000 --> 42:33.000 women make the best dark-gone wildcatters of us all. 42:33.000 --> 42:37.000 The Search by Grace Amundsen 42:53.000 --> 42:56.000 Our thanks to Howard Culver, who played Sid, 42:56.000 --> 43:00.000 and to Sandra Gere as Iris for their excellent performances. 43:00.000 --> 43:05.000 The Search by Grace Amundsen was produced and directed by Anton M. 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