1 00:00:00,418 --> 00:00:02,461 I intend to prove that you killed my father. 2 00:00:02,753 --> 00:00:04,380 Sheriff, I want this woman arrested. 3 00:00:04,672 --> 00:00:05,715 If you stay around here, 4 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:07,425 you’re just asking for trouble. 5 00:00:07,550 --> 00:00:09,385 [Jessica] Tonight on Murder, She Wrote. 6 00:00:09,510 --> 00:00:10,970 Let her go, Tate! 7 00:00:11,095 --> 00:00:12,430 Leave that shotgun in that truck. 8 00:00:12,555 --> 00:00:14,765 Most everybody in these parts 9 00:00:14,849 --> 00:00:17,476 can shoot the petals off a Daisy before they’re 10 years old. 10 00:00:17,601 --> 00:00:20,062 Pa’s dead, and so is the man who killed him. 11 00:00:20,521 --> 00:00:23,399 I already lost one child to Tyler Morgan, 12 00:00:24,150 --> 00:00:26,444 and I sure don’t aim to lose another. 13 00:00:26,569 --> 00:00:28,946 Hold it... right there. 14 00:01:33,761 --> 00:01:36,347 [bluegrass] [rhythmic clapping] 15 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:53,614 [ends] 16 00:01:53,697 --> 00:01:56,575 [resumes] 17 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,967 -Look at ’em. -I am. 18 00:02:13,050 --> 00:02:14,426 And they’re lookin’ at us, 19 00:02:14,510 --> 00:02:17,847 so I suggest you put a smile on your face. 20 00:02:18,222 --> 00:02:21,684 Who do you think you’re tryin’ to fool throwin’ this party? 21 00:02:21,767 --> 00:02:24,353 I’m tellin’ you, daddy, it’s a pure waste of good company money. 22 00:02:26,647 --> 00:02:27,690 Reese, why don’t you go ask 23 00:02:27,773 --> 00:02:29,275 one of them pretty little gals to dance? 24 00:02:29,650 --> 00:02:31,026 I suppose you got a better way 25 00:02:31,110 --> 00:02:32,987 of gettin’ the men to accept a work speedup, huh? 26 00:02:33,362 --> 00:02:36,240 I got a better way of runnin’ the whole mine, and you know it. 27 00:02:36,615 --> 00:02:40,119 [Reese] Computers could save us at least 20%. 28 00:02:40,202 --> 00:02:41,745 Now, son, I’ve been runnin’ this company 29 00:02:41,829 --> 00:02:43,706 at a profit for 30 years 30 00:02:43,789 --> 00:02:46,083 not by using computers, but by usin’ this. 31 00:02:46,458 --> 00:02:47,793 And believe you me, 32 00:02:47,877 --> 00:02:51,046 I’m gonna keep on runnin’ the company that way 33 00:02:51,130 --> 00:02:53,340 till they carry me out feet first. 34 00:02:58,178 --> 00:03:01,307 Can’t be soon enough for me. 35 00:03:01,390 --> 00:03:02,725 He’s still your daddy, Reese. 36 00:03:02,808 --> 00:03:04,226 He deserves respect. 37 00:03:04,310 --> 00:03:05,895 Respect. 38 00:03:06,270 --> 00:03:10,357 Well, now, that’s somethin’ comin’ from you. 39 00:03:10,441 --> 00:03:12,902 Hell, Ma, what kind of respect does he show you, 40 00:03:12,985 --> 00:03:14,361 cheatin’ on you all these years? 41 00:03:17,615 --> 00:03:20,868 Evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome. 42 00:03:20,951 --> 00:03:23,871 It does my heart good to see this turnout here tonight... 43 00:03:24,246 --> 00:03:28,709 as we celebrate another quarter of record productivity. 44 00:03:28,792 --> 00:03:31,629 Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir. 45 00:03:36,508 --> 00:03:39,511 What’s good for the mine is good for the miners. 46 00:03:39,887 --> 00:03:41,263 It’s as simple as that. 47 00:03:41,347 --> 00:03:42,681 [Woman] That’s a lie, and you know it! 48 00:03:42,765 --> 00:03:43,933 [murmuring] 49 00:03:44,058 --> 00:03:45,351 Who said that? 50 00:03:48,437 --> 00:03:50,189 I did. 51 00:04:00,908 --> 00:04:03,285 I don’t believe we’ve met, young lady. 52 00:04:03,661 --> 00:04:04,954 Actually, we have. 53 00:04:05,037 --> 00:04:07,414 Ten years ago at my father’s funeral. 54 00:04:07,498 --> 00:04:09,041 I’m Molly Connors. 55 00:04:09,416 --> 00:04:11,335 [crowd murmuring] 56 00:04:15,464 --> 00:04:18,884 Joe’s little girl? Well, well, well. 57 00:04:18,968 --> 00:04:22,262 You sure have turned into a right fine filly, young lady, 58 00:04:22,346 --> 00:04:25,432 since you’ve been away. Am I right, boys? 59 00:04:25,808 --> 00:04:29,436 [wolf whistles] 60 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,689 [scoffs] While I was away, Mr. Morgan, 61 00:04:31,772 --> 00:04:33,649 I managed to get my law degree. 62 00:04:33,732 --> 00:04:36,110 I passed the bar exam last month in Wheeling. 63 00:04:36,485 --> 00:04:40,572 The bar exam. Now, that is something. 64 00:04:40,656 --> 00:04:43,242 But if you’ve come back to Colton lookin’ for business, 65 00:04:43,325 --> 00:04:45,911 you’re apt to find the pickin’s mighty slim. 66 00:04:46,286 --> 00:04:48,872 Oh, on the contrary. I’ve already got my first case, 67 00:04:49,623 --> 00:04:51,792 one that I think that you might find very interesting. 68 00:04:52,167 --> 00:04:53,419 That so? 69 00:04:53,794 --> 00:04:57,131 I intend to prove that you killed my father. 70 00:04:57,506 --> 00:04:59,591 [crowd murmuring] 71 00:05:04,471 --> 00:05:06,807 Now, Miss Molly, you’re gonna have 72 00:05:06,890 --> 00:05:09,101 one hell of a time trying to prove what never happened, 73 00:05:09,518 --> 00:05:12,646 especially workin’ from the inside of a jail cell. 74 00:05:13,272 --> 00:05:15,441 Sheriff, I want this woman arrested. 75 00:05:15,816 --> 00:05:18,152 [scoffs] On what charge? 76 00:05:18,527 --> 00:05:19,611 Now, Miss Connors, 77 00:05:19,695 --> 00:05:22,448 a bright young lawyer like you oughta know... 78 00:05:22,531 --> 00:05:24,366 that bustin’ in on a private party 79 00:05:24,450 --> 00:05:27,202 bein’ held on private grounds 80 00:05:27,286 --> 00:05:28,912 constitutes trespass. 81 00:05:29,288 --> 00:05:31,331 Right, Sheriff? 82 00:05:32,041 --> 00:05:33,500 Afraid that’s the law, ma’am. 83 00:05:33,584 --> 00:05:35,794 Technically, yes, but... 84 00:05:35,878 --> 00:05:38,213 you’ll never be able to make this stick in front of a judge. 85 00:05:39,214 --> 00:05:41,300 Maybe so, and maybe not. 86 00:05:41,717 --> 00:05:43,594 That could take a while to find out, 87 00:05:44,053 --> 00:05:45,763 what with Judge Turner bein’ away this week 88 00:05:45,846 --> 00:05:47,139 at my fishin’ lodge. 89 00:05:47,514 --> 00:05:49,391 Oh, I’ll give him a call, 90 00:05:49,767 --> 00:05:52,269 but if the trout are bitin’, 91 00:05:52,352 --> 00:05:55,689 I expect he’ll be gone for quite some time. 92 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,987 All right, let’s get the party movin’. 93 00:06:02,071 --> 00:06:03,238 Let’s have some music. 94 00:06:03,322 --> 00:06:05,365 Let’s continue the dance, folks. 95 00:06:16,543 --> 00:06:17,669 [tires screeching] 96 00:06:23,175 --> 00:06:26,261 Granddaddy, what are you doing here? 97 00:06:26,678 --> 00:06:28,180 Bad news travels fast, doesn’t it? 98 00:06:28,597 --> 00:06:29,640 Let her go, Tate. 99 00:06:30,015 --> 00:06:31,183 Sorry, Eben. You know I can’t do that. 100 00:06:31,558 --> 00:06:32,893 We’ll just see if you can’t. 101 00:06:33,268 --> 00:06:34,770 Listen, leave that shotgun in that truck 102 00:06:34,853 --> 00:06:36,814 unless you want me to book you two adjoining cells. 103 00:06:39,066 --> 00:06:40,859 Now, you got no quarrel with me. 104 00:06:40,943 --> 00:06:42,861 It’s Tyler Morgan that’s pressin’ the charges. 105 00:06:43,237 --> 00:06:45,739 Tyler Morgan’s been pressin’ my whole family for years! 106 00:06:46,281 --> 00:06:47,783 This time, I’m gonna press back. 107 00:06:48,158 --> 00:06:50,577 No, granddaddy, don’t! Please. You’ll see. 108 00:06:50,661 --> 00:06:52,204 I’ll be bailed out of here in no time. 109 00:06:52,579 --> 00:06:55,499 A thousand dollars? You got that kind of money? 110 00:06:55,582 --> 00:06:56,834 I sure don’t. 111 00:06:57,209 --> 00:06:58,919 I am due one phone call. 112 00:06:59,878 --> 00:07:01,755 I think I know someone who’ll help. 113 00:07:14,518 --> 00:07:15,352 [door closes] 114 00:07:19,940 --> 00:07:21,441 You want a piece of advice? 115 00:07:21,817 --> 00:07:24,945 You mean, like, "stay out of Tyler Morgan’s way"? 116 00:07:25,028 --> 00:07:26,488 "Mind your own business"? 117 00:07:26,572 --> 00:07:28,532 "Get out of town while you still can"? 118 00:07:29,032 --> 00:07:30,534 You know, I liked your daddy, Molly, 119 00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:32,327 and you’ve got his spirit. 120 00:07:32,619 --> 00:07:33,996 I’d sure hate to see you get hurt 121 00:07:34,079 --> 00:07:35,581 fightin’ some fight you can’t win. 122 00:07:35,956 --> 00:07:39,001 Well, Sheriff, nobody’s ever gonna catch you at that. 123 00:07:39,376 --> 00:07:41,628 I do what I can to uphold the law around here. 124 00:07:42,004 --> 00:07:45,674 Oh, right. That would be the law according to Tyler Morgan. 125 00:07:46,049 --> 00:07:47,759 You know, another thing about your daddy, 126 00:07:47,843 --> 00:07:50,304 he was hard-nosed. 127 00:07:50,387 --> 00:07:51,930 That’s what got him killed. 128 00:07:52,306 --> 00:07:54,266 Come on. Let’s go. 129 00:07:54,349 --> 00:07:56,351 Go? Go where? 130 00:07:56,727 --> 00:07:57,895 Anywhere you like. You’re free. 131 00:07:58,270 --> 00:08:00,397 But my bail money hasn’t arrived yet. 132 00:08:00,772 --> 00:08:02,482 Your bail’s already been paid in person. 133 00:08:05,110 --> 00:08:06,570 Let’s go. 134 00:08:09,781 --> 00:08:10,908 [door opens] 135 00:08:10,991 --> 00:08:12,159 Molly? 136 00:08:12,534 --> 00:08:14,953 Jessica! 137 00:08:15,329 --> 00:08:17,331 Oh, are you all right? 138 00:08:17,414 --> 00:08:19,166 Yeah, I’m fine, but-- Jessica, 139 00:08:19,249 --> 00:08:21,585 it’s so good to see you, but I don’t understand what-- 140 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:23,754 Well, after your call, I was much too concerned 141 00:08:23,837 --> 00:08:26,423 to simply wire the money and leave it at that, so I brought it myself. 142 00:08:26,798 --> 00:08:27,966 Oh, gosh, I feel terrible. 143 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:29,426 I never would have asked you for the loan 144 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:31,011 if iId known you’d go to all this trouble. 145 00:08:31,094 --> 00:08:32,596 Well, it seems to me that you’re the one 146 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,389 who’s in all this trouble. 147 00:08:34,765 --> 00:08:36,099 Molly, if you’ll sign for your things, 148 00:08:36,183 --> 00:08:37,643 you two can do your catchin’ up somewhere else. 149 00:08:38,018 --> 00:08:40,562 With pleasure. I’ll explain everything 150 00:08:40,646 --> 00:08:43,148 on our way to the courthouse over in Yanceyville. 151 00:08:44,983 --> 00:08:47,277 Oh, Sheriff, you might tell Tyler 152 00:08:47,361 --> 00:08:48,612 that he’ll be getting a subpoena 153 00:08:48,695 --> 00:08:51,031 for those 1978 company records of his. 154 00:08:57,079 --> 00:09:00,832 Molly, believe me, this is no trouble. 155 00:09:00,916 --> 00:09:03,710 I was not about to let one of my best and brightest protegees 156 00:09:03,794 --> 00:09:04,836 cool her heels in a cell for the next month. 157 00:09:04,962 --> 00:09:06,296 Molly. 158 00:09:06,672 --> 00:09:08,340 Oh, hi, Carlton. 159 00:09:08,715 --> 00:09:11,093 I came here to get you out. 160 00:09:11,176 --> 00:09:14,096 Thanks, but my fairy godmother beat you to it. 161 00:09:14,179 --> 00:09:16,932 Carlton Reid, meet Jessica Fletcher, 162 00:09:17,307 --> 00:09:19,184 writer, friend, and bailsman. 163 00:09:19,268 --> 00:09:21,186 Or is that bails-person? 164 00:09:21,270 --> 00:09:23,647 Carlton’s the local Miners Union representative. 165 00:09:24,064 --> 00:09:24,940 How do you do, Mr. Reid? 166 00:09:25,315 --> 00:09:26,858 Well, I’m-I’m much better 167 00:09:26,942 --> 00:09:28,360 now that Molly’s out of jail. 168 00:09:28,443 --> 00:09:29,820 No, I was gonna pass the hat tonight 169 00:09:29,903 --> 00:09:31,363 at the county meeting over in Yanceyville. 170 00:09:31,738 --> 00:09:33,824 But now, I’ll just pass along the good news. 171 00:09:34,199 --> 00:09:36,868 [laughs] I’ll bet Tyler’s fit to be tied. 172 00:09:40,956 --> 00:09:42,874 Well, he’ll know soon enough. 173 00:09:52,342 --> 00:09:55,262 Seems I underestimated your resourcefulness, young lady. 174 00:09:55,637 --> 00:09:59,182 I’m not sure about the wisdom of bringin’ a stranger in 175 00:09:59,266 --> 00:10:01,059 on something that’s none of her affair. 176 00:10:01,435 --> 00:10:02,561 Well, I can assure you 177 00:10:02,644 --> 00:10:05,355 that Molly and I are hardly strangers. 178 00:10:05,439 --> 00:10:07,899 In fact, I’m looking forward to spending a few days with her 179 00:10:08,275 --> 00:10:09,526 hearing what she’s been up to. 180 00:10:09,609 --> 00:10:11,862 Well, now, ’m glad you two are so close, 181 00:10:12,237 --> 00:10:14,281 seeing how Eben’s place is hardly big enough 182 00:10:14,364 --> 00:10:18,243 for him and Molly, let alone company. 183 00:10:18,618 --> 00:10:20,245 [boy] She can stay with us. 184 00:10:22,372 --> 00:10:23,582 Can’t she, Ma? 185 00:10:26,710 --> 00:10:30,255 I’m Bridie Harmon, ma’am, and this is my son Travis. 186 00:10:30,630 --> 00:10:33,133 Ours is the boardin’ house up the road. 187 00:10:33,216 --> 00:10:38,180 Room’s $10 a day, meals extra, and I lock up at 11. 188 00:10:38,555 --> 00:10:40,932 [Bridie] If you’re lookin’ for a place to stay, 189 00:10:41,016 --> 00:10:42,726 you’d be welcome with us. 190 00:10:42,809 --> 00:10:44,936 I’m Jessica Fletcher. Thank you, Mrs. Harmon. 191 00:10:45,312 --> 00:10:46,646 And I’d be delighted. 192 00:10:46,730 --> 00:10:48,398 And you don’t even have to worry about meals. 193 00:10:48,774 --> 00:10:49,816 She’ll be takin’ ’em with us. 194 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:51,068 But I promise I’ll have her 195 00:10:51,151 --> 00:10:52,819 at your place tonight by 10:30. 196 00:10:53,820 --> 00:10:54,821 Fine then. 197 00:10:56,615 --> 00:10:57,657 Come along, Travis. 198 00:10:59,576 --> 00:11:01,870 [Bridie] Travis, I said, come on. 199 00:11:07,084 --> 00:11:10,837 Well, Mrs... uh, Fletcher, was it? 200 00:11:10,921 --> 00:11:12,964 Welcome to Colton. 201 00:11:17,719 --> 00:11:19,805 [Eben] You better have some more chicken, Mrs. Fletcher. 202 00:11:20,180 --> 00:11:23,225 Oh, no, Eben. Thanks anyway. 203 00:11:23,308 --> 00:11:26,937 Frankly, I ran out of room two helpings ago. 204 00:11:27,312 --> 00:11:29,940 Honestly, Molly, I haven’t tasted food as good as this 205 00:11:30,023 --> 00:11:32,692 since your Mother used to help out at the PTA picnics. 206 00:11:32,776 --> 00:11:34,486 Mama sure could cook, all right. 207 00:11:34,861 --> 00:11:37,656 It’s like I tell her. She’s from good mountain stock. 208 00:11:38,031 --> 00:11:42,285 She’s got her ma’s hands for cookin’ and her pa’s brains. 209 00:11:42,661 --> 00:11:43,787 Now, granddad. 210 00:11:43,870 --> 00:11:45,664 Well, you’re right about the cooking. 211 00:11:45,747 --> 00:11:49,960 As to the brains, I remember when we were studying Hamlet, 212 00:11:50,043 --> 00:11:52,421 you used to lug around a huge book 213 00:11:52,504 --> 00:11:56,508 of the entire works of Shakespeare to class every day. 214 00:11:56,591 --> 00:11:58,385 You mean that? 215 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,262 [Jessica] Oh, my, yes. 216 00:12:00,595 --> 00:12:01,430 [Molly] It was my daddy’s. 217 00:12:01,513 --> 00:12:03,098 He used to read to me 218 00:12:03,181 --> 00:12:04,891 out of it when I was a kid. 219 00:12:04,975 --> 00:12:08,728 You know, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth. 220 00:12:09,104 --> 00:12:12,482 That was the only thing of his that I took with me... 221 00:12:12,566 --> 00:12:14,860 when mom and I moved to Cabot Cove after he died. 222 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:17,863 It must mean a great deal to you. 223 00:12:18,238 --> 00:12:20,574 But something else would mean a whole lot more. 224 00:12:23,618 --> 00:12:26,246 Proving that Tyler Morgan killed my father. 225 00:12:28,665 --> 00:12:31,835 Everybody in town knows that explosion was no accident. 226 00:12:33,128 --> 00:12:35,797 [Eben] But you go nosin’ around askin’ questions, 227 00:12:36,548 --> 00:12:38,592 you’re gonna end up just like him... 228 00:12:38,884 --> 00:12:39,843 six feet under. 229 00:12:40,218 --> 00:12:43,013 Well, Tyler didn’t scare him, 230 00:12:43,096 --> 00:12:45,223 and he doesn’t scare me. 231 00:12:50,979 --> 00:12:53,857 Surely you’re exaggerating Molly’s danger. 232 00:12:54,232 --> 00:12:57,444 I already lost one child to Tyler Morgan, 233 00:12:57,527 --> 00:13:01,072 and I sure don’t aim to lose another. 234 00:13:04,201 --> 00:13:06,745 [phone ringing] 235 00:13:09,164 --> 00:13:10,248 Yeah? 236 00:13:11,041 --> 00:13:12,584 Well, well, well. 237 00:13:12,667 --> 00:13:14,794 I thought I’d be hearing from you. 238 00:13:17,214 --> 00:13:20,217 Tonight? 239 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:21,468 All right. 240 00:13:21,551 --> 00:13:23,720 Meet me at the cabin in a half hour. 241 00:13:23,803 --> 00:13:25,430 [line clicking] 242 00:13:25,847 --> 00:13:29,017 Nora, you listening in again? 243 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:31,436 Nora? [clicks, dial tone] 244 00:13:33,855 --> 00:13:36,942 [thunderclap] Damn storm. 245 00:13:56,086 --> 00:13:58,296 [Molly] Well, it’s not exactly the Ritz. 246 00:13:58,672 --> 00:14:02,175 Oh, don’t be silly. I think it’s just fine. 247 00:14:02,259 --> 00:14:05,053 And from the way that Tyler Morgan obviously felt, 248 00:14:05,136 --> 00:14:08,265 I’m surprised that Mrs. Harmon would even rent to me. 249 00:14:08,348 --> 00:14:10,267 Oh, Bridie’s okay. 250 00:14:10,350 --> 00:14:14,145 Her husband died in the same explosion that killed my father. 251 00:14:14,688 --> 00:14:16,565 The way I figure it, she and Travis 252 00:14:16,648 --> 00:14:19,234 probably hate Tyler almost as much as I do. 253 00:14:19,609 --> 00:14:22,904 Molly, I know how much you loved your father. 254 00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:24,864 But what you’re doing, 255 00:14:24,948 --> 00:14:27,242 it could turn out to be very dangerous. 256 00:14:27,951 --> 00:14:29,828 Don’t worry, teach. 257 00:14:29,911 --> 00:14:32,581 I can take care of myself. 258 00:14:33,164 --> 00:14:35,542 Bathroom’s right down the hall. I’ll leave these with you. 259 00:14:35,917 --> 00:14:37,127 Thank you. 260 00:14:38,211 --> 00:14:39,546 Speaking of leaving, I think I’d better get goin’ 261 00:14:39,629 --> 00:14:41,172 before that storm breaks. 262 00:14:41,756 --> 00:14:43,675 You’re sure I can’t pick you up tomorrow? 263 00:14:43,842 --> 00:14:46,344 Believe me, after the meal we had this evening, 264 00:14:46,428 --> 00:14:47,804 walking to your house in the morning 265 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,055 will be the best thing in the world for me. 266 00:14:49,431 --> 00:14:51,558 Okay. See you at breakfast. 267 00:14:51,641 --> 00:14:54,561 -Good night, Bridie. -Good night. 268 00:14:54,644 --> 00:14:56,396 If there’s nothing else, Mrs. Fletcher, 269 00:14:56,479 --> 00:14:57,981 I'd like to lock up and get to bed. 270 00:14:58,356 --> 00:14:59,858 Oh, yes, of course. I’ll be fine. 271 00:15:00,233 --> 00:15:01,651 Okay. 272 00:15:06,656 --> 00:15:10,035 [car engine starting, horn honking] 273 00:15:26,301 --> 00:15:29,179 [thunderclap] 274 00:16:43,086 --> 00:16:44,212 [cocks] 275 00:17:26,337 --> 00:17:29,132 Hold it... right there. 276 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:33,762 Awful early for a city woman 277 00:17:33,845 --> 00:17:35,680 to be prowlin’ about, ain’t it, Mrs. Fletcher? 278 00:17:35,764 --> 00:17:39,184 Well, I wouldn’t know, Sheriff, being from a small town myself. 279 00:17:39,267 --> 00:17:42,395 But I assure you, I was not prowling around. 280 00:17:42,479 --> 00:17:45,607 Said she was on the way to Connor's place and took the wrong path. 281 00:17:46,316 --> 00:17:49,819 That was when this gentleman brought me to you at gunpoint. 282 00:17:50,111 --> 00:17:52,363 This gentleman is Tyler Morgan’s son, Reese. 283 00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:54,199 I’ll take it from here. 284 00:17:54,824 --> 00:17:55,950 What do you mean? 285 00:17:56,367 --> 00:17:57,786 Hell, I’m the one that caught her. 286 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:00,497 I said I can handle it alone. 287 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,208 Now that my daddy’s dead, 288 00:18:03,833 --> 00:18:06,294 best you remember who’s fillin’ his shoes, Tate. 289 00:18:08,338 --> 00:18:11,716 Excuse me. Did he say that Tyler Morgan is dead? 290 00:18:12,133 --> 00:18:13,927 Shot last night between 11 and 11:30, 291 00:18:14,010 --> 00:18:15,720 near as I could figure, from the condition of the body. 292 00:18:15,804 --> 00:18:17,806 I’ll know more about it when the County boys 293 00:18:17,889 --> 00:18:19,098 over in Yanceyville get through with him. 294 00:18:19,599 --> 00:18:21,601 Do you have any idea who did it? 295 00:18:22,185 --> 00:18:25,688 Yes, ma’am. Lots of ideas, but no evidence to prove one. 296 00:18:26,189 --> 00:18:27,857 Well, if you’ll excuse me, 297 00:18:27,982 --> 00:18:29,359 I’ll let you get on with the investigation. 298 00:18:29,484 --> 00:18:30,985 Hold it, Mrs. Fletcher. 299 00:18:33,321 --> 00:18:35,073 You mind telling me where you were last night, 300 00:18:35,156 --> 00:18:37,242 say, between 11, 11:30? 301 00:18:37,325 --> 00:18:39,869 Not at all. No, I was in bed at 11 302 00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:42,288 and asleep soon after that. 303 00:18:42,372 --> 00:18:44,624 But I have to admit, I'd be hard-pressed to prove it. 304 00:18:44,707 --> 00:18:48,211 No need. Way I see it, a woman like you 305 00:18:48,294 --> 00:18:49,921 would have no reason to kill a man she’d hardly met. 306 00:18:50,004 --> 00:18:52,549 Besides, unless I miss my guess, 307 00:18:52,632 --> 00:18:55,343 you’re about as handy with a gun as I am with knittin’ needles. 308 00:18:55,426 --> 00:18:57,554 But I don’t understand. 309 00:18:57,637 --> 00:19:00,348 If I don’t need an alibi, why ask me about it? 310 00:19:00,682 --> 00:19:03,685 I was hoping maybe you could supply one for someone who does. 311 00:19:07,981 --> 00:19:09,524 Tyler’s dead? 312 00:19:10,108 --> 00:19:12,318 -Shot straight through the heart. -[Eben] Retribution. 313 00:19:12,652 --> 00:19:14,404 That’s what it is. It’s the code of the hills. 314 00:19:14,821 --> 00:19:16,656 Well, the law calls it murder. 315 00:19:17,824 --> 00:19:20,410 And seein’ as how you and Molly felt about Tyler, 316 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,538 I’m bound to ask you where you were last night, Eben. 317 00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:26,040 Anything in the law says I gotta tell ya? 318 00:19:26,124 --> 00:19:27,417 Any reason you can’t? 319 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:28,877 Of course there’s not. 320 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,211 Actually, Sheriff, 321 00:19:30,295 --> 00:19:32,088 the three of us had dinner here last night, 322 00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:34,924 until Molly drove me to Mrs. Harmon’s at 10:30. 323 00:19:35,008 --> 00:19:36,467 It’s a short way. 324 00:19:36,551 --> 00:19:39,220 I’m sure Molly was back here no later than 10:45. 325 00:19:40,096 --> 00:19:41,222 Is that right? 326 00:19:41,306 --> 00:19:44,434 I mean, no-- look, I would have been back here by then, 327 00:19:44,517 --> 00:19:46,227 but I got a flat tire and I had to stop and change it. 328 00:19:46,352 --> 00:19:48,021 What with the storm and it being dark and all, 329 00:19:48,104 --> 00:19:49,731 I didn’t get home till nearly 11:30. 330 00:19:49,814 --> 00:19:50,982 Did you go to town with ’em? 331 00:19:51,065 --> 00:19:53,192 Stayed put the whole night. 332 00:19:54,736 --> 00:19:56,321 So neither one of ya... 333 00:19:57,196 --> 00:20:00,325 from 10:30 to 11:30 has anybody who can vouch for your story. 334 00:20:00,408 --> 00:20:01,618 Is that right? 335 00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:03,745 We don’t need anyone to vouch for us. 336 00:20:03,828 --> 00:20:05,997 You know, one of Tyler’s rifles is missing. 337 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,999 You think I have it? 338 00:20:08,082 --> 00:20:09,959 Would you like to search for it? 339 00:20:10,043 --> 00:20:12,045 Fine. Go ahead and search. We’ve got nothing to hide. 340 00:20:12,128 --> 00:20:14,297 Thank you. I’ll remember that offer. 341 00:20:14,380 --> 00:20:18,676 Great. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got breakfast to make. 342 00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:22,931 She’s got a lot of her daddy in her. 343 00:20:23,014 --> 00:20:24,557 Anything wrong in that? 344 00:20:27,352 --> 00:20:29,854 Look where it got him. 345 00:20:39,197 --> 00:20:42,825 You know, if I put up a tent and charged admission, I could make a fortune. 346 00:20:42,909 --> 00:20:46,579 It’s pretty hard to stop tongues from wagging in a small town. 347 00:20:46,663 --> 00:20:49,624 Molly! Ah. Mrs. Fletcher. 348 00:20:49,707 --> 00:20:51,417 Mr. Reid. 349 00:20:51,501 --> 00:20:53,503 Well, it’s all over town about Tyler. 350 00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:56,255 Yes. So I’ve noticed. 351 00:20:56,339 --> 00:20:58,007 Look, why don’t you let me give you two 352 00:20:58,091 --> 00:20:59,676 a ride home in my pickup? 353 00:20:59,759 --> 00:21:01,386 If you stay around here, you’re just asking for trouble. 354 00:21:01,469 --> 00:21:03,137 Thanks, Carlton, 355 00:21:03,221 --> 00:21:05,598 but I’m not gonna be intimidated by a bunch of stupid rumors. 356 00:21:05,682 --> 00:21:06,849 I didn’t kill him. 357 00:21:06,933 --> 00:21:08,559 No, of course you didn’t. 358 00:21:12,939 --> 00:21:14,107 [Carlton] Try telling that to them. 359 00:21:14,524 --> 00:21:18,111 Okay. I will. 360 00:21:19,362 --> 00:21:20,238 Mrs. Morgan? 361 00:21:23,199 --> 00:21:26,285 Excuse me. I’m Molly Connors. 362 00:21:26,703 --> 00:21:28,287 I know who you are. 363 00:21:29,372 --> 00:21:30,707 Look, ma’am, 364 00:21:30,790 --> 00:21:34,419 in spite of the differences that I had with your husband, 365 00:21:34,502 --> 00:21:35,837 I just wanted to tell you that 366 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,422 I wouldn’t have wished this on anyone. 367 00:21:37,505 --> 00:21:39,799 I’m-- I’m truly sorry for your loss. 368 00:21:39,882 --> 00:21:42,468 Sorry? You’ve been tryin’ 369 00:21:42,552 --> 00:21:44,595 to bring my daddy down ever since you came back. 370 00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:47,473 [Reese] And it looks like you finally did it, 371 00:21:48,141 --> 00:21:50,893 only it sure as hell wasn’t with a law degree. 372 00:21:51,144 --> 00:21:54,397 That’s not only untrue, Reese, it’s slander. 373 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,649 [Reese] What are you gonna do about it, take me to court 374 00:21:56,733 --> 00:21:58,443 or settle it with a gun? 375 00:21:58,526 --> 00:22:00,319 Mr. Morgan, please. We know you’re upset-- 376 00:22:00,403 --> 00:22:03,281 Stay outta this, lady. It’s no concern of yours. 377 00:22:03,364 --> 00:22:04,824 [Carlton] Well, you’re wrong though, Reese. 378 00:22:04,907 --> 00:22:06,826 You start making wild accusations like that, 379 00:22:06,909 --> 00:22:08,369 and it’s everybody’s concern. 380 00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:10,038 [Carlton] And, hell, the way you and your daddy 381 00:22:10,121 --> 00:22:12,331 been goin’ at it the last couple of years, 382 00:22:12,415 --> 00:22:14,333 I wouldn’t be surprised if you killed him yourself. 383 00:22:17,128 --> 00:22:18,379 Come over here and say that. 384 00:22:18,463 --> 00:22:19,756 -Here I am. -Carlton, don’t! 385 00:22:19,839 --> 00:22:21,257 Just let it go. 386 00:22:23,134 --> 00:22:24,594 Believe me, Mr. Reid, 387 00:22:24,677 --> 00:22:26,471 it’ll take a lot more than accusations... 388 00:22:26,554 --> 00:22:28,139 to convince anyone that Molly killed anyone. 389 00:22:28,222 --> 00:22:31,809 That’s right. And more is just what I found 390 00:22:31,893 --> 00:22:34,187 when I decided to take you up on your offer of this morning. 391 00:22:34,270 --> 00:22:36,230 What? What do you mean? 392 00:22:36,481 --> 00:22:38,066 You remember I told you 393 00:22:38,149 --> 00:22:40,068 that one of Tyler’s rifles was missing from the cabin? 394 00:22:40,151 --> 00:22:41,736 Well, seein’ as how you didn’t mind, 395 00:22:41,819 --> 00:22:43,738 I went ahead and searched your car, 396 00:22:43,821 --> 00:22:46,282 and I found it jammed up underneath your front seat. 397 00:22:48,743 --> 00:22:50,578 That-- that’s impossible! 398 00:22:50,661 --> 00:22:55,291 Molly, you are under arrest for the murder of Tyler Morgan. 399 00:23:07,428 --> 00:23:09,472 [Jessica] What do you mean, no bail? 400 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:10,765 You can’t honestly believe 401 00:23:10,890 --> 00:23:11,891 that Molly’s about to leave town. 402 00:23:12,475 --> 00:23:14,852 Molly Connors? Not likely. 403 00:23:14,936 --> 00:23:16,979 She’s too much like her daddy to run from trouble. 404 00:23:17,063 --> 00:23:18,106 -Well, then I don’t understand. -Look, Mrs. Fletcher. 405 00:23:18,189 --> 00:23:21,901 Mountain folks have long memories and short fuses, 406 00:23:22,193 --> 00:23:24,695 not to mention some funny ideas about the law. 407 00:23:25,113 --> 00:23:26,280 If I let Molly out on bail, 408 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:28,741 I might as well be hangin’ out a sign that says 409 00:23:28,825 --> 00:23:29,951 "hunting season is open." 410 00:23:30,076 --> 00:23:31,577 But, Sheriff-- 411 00:23:31,661 --> 00:23:33,538 No buts. You got a problem, ma’am, 412 00:23:33,663 --> 00:23:35,164 take it up with the County court. 413 00:23:35,248 --> 00:23:36,916 Look, Sheriff... 414 00:23:36,999 --> 00:23:38,960 anyone could have planted that rifle in Molly’s car. 415 00:23:39,043 --> 00:23:41,087 You said yourself that the car was unlocked 416 00:23:41,170 --> 00:23:43,089 when you searched it. Now, why would a lawyer 417 00:23:43,172 --> 00:23:45,466 like Molly hide incriminating evidence 418 00:23:45,550 --> 00:23:47,718 in her own car, when there were acres of woods 419 00:23:47,802 --> 00:23:49,762 all around where she could have disposed of it? 420 00:23:49,846 --> 00:23:51,889 Even lawyers make mistakes. 421 00:23:51,973 --> 00:23:53,975 And lawmen. 422 00:23:57,311 --> 00:23:58,729 I’ve come for Molly. 423 00:23:58,813 --> 00:24:00,398 Now, she’s here, Eben, 424 00:24:00,481 --> 00:24:03,151 and you can see her, but I’m not lettin’ her go. 425 00:24:03,234 --> 00:24:05,945 -The hell you’re not. -Wait, Eben. 426 00:24:06,028 --> 00:24:07,905 Try not to make things worse than they are. 427 00:24:08,322 --> 00:24:10,449 We can take Molly’s case to higher authorities. 428 00:24:10,533 --> 00:24:12,243 Higher authorities? Since when have they 429 00:24:12,326 --> 00:24:14,203 done anything for the miners of this town? 430 00:24:14,287 --> 00:24:15,538 Hell, they’ve been in the pockets 431 00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:17,498 of the bosses ever since we fought for 432 00:24:17,582 --> 00:24:19,876 and got a union back in the ’20s. 433 00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:22,253 And from the looks of things, nothing has changed. 434 00:24:24,714 --> 00:24:28,134 Perhaps. But we won’t know until we try. 435 00:24:30,428 --> 00:24:33,264 You wanna try, you go ahead and try. 436 00:24:33,347 --> 00:24:34,765 Me, I’ll be back. 437 00:24:34,849 --> 00:24:37,560 And the next time, I won’t be alone. 438 00:24:39,270 --> 00:24:41,647 [door opens] 439 00:24:41,731 --> 00:24:44,108 [door closes] 440 00:24:45,193 --> 00:24:47,570 Well, one call to the miners’ legal aid, 441 00:24:47,653 --> 00:24:49,822 and they’ll be on this quicker than ducks on a june bug. 442 00:24:49,906 --> 00:24:52,909 Well, from the look on Eben’s face, I hope you’re right. 443 00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:55,244 [Bridie] Don’t you walk away when I’m talkin’ to you! 444 00:24:55,328 --> 00:24:57,997 Travis Harmon, stop right there! 445 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,416 Now I want an answer. 446 00:25:00,541 --> 00:25:01,959 I told you, I was out huntin’. 447 00:25:02,084 --> 00:25:03,586 Till 3 in the mornin’? 448 00:25:03,669 --> 00:25:04,670 I’m not a baby anymore! 449 00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:06,172 If I wanna go out nights, I will! 450 00:25:06,297 --> 00:25:07,840 [Travis] You do. 451 00:25:11,385 --> 00:25:13,930 [door opens] 452 00:25:14,347 --> 00:25:15,348 [door closes] 453 00:25:25,066 --> 00:25:28,152 Hey, Travis! Wait up! 454 00:25:30,154 --> 00:25:32,198 Pretty rough on your ma just now, weren’t you, son? 455 00:25:32,698 --> 00:25:34,659 What were you doin’, spyin’ on me or something? 456 00:25:35,117 --> 00:25:36,744 Look, I know it’s gotta be tough sometimes 457 00:25:36,869 --> 00:25:38,371 growin’ up with just your ma, but-- 458 00:25:38,454 --> 00:25:40,206 She treats me like I was five years old! 459 00:25:40,289 --> 00:25:41,916 Heck, if Pa was alive, he’d show her I wasn’t a kid. 460 00:25:42,041 --> 00:25:43,542 I know he would. 461 00:25:43,626 --> 00:25:44,919 I reckon you’re right. 462 00:25:46,504 --> 00:25:48,005 But that’s not the way it is. 463 00:25:48,089 --> 00:25:51,133 No, it ain’t. Pa’s dead, 464 00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:53,636 and so is the man who killed him. 465 00:26:18,953 --> 00:26:21,080 [Bridie] You wanted to see me? 466 00:26:21,205 --> 00:26:22,707 I’m sorry to bother you, Mrs. Harmon. 467 00:26:22,790 --> 00:26:24,834 I can’t seem to get this window open. 468 00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:28,462 No bother at all. [grunts] 469 00:26:28,546 --> 00:26:29,964 -Great. -There. 470 00:26:30,047 --> 00:26:32,675 Fool thing always sticks after a rain. 471 00:26:32,758 --> 00:26:35,386 My goodness, the storm last night was more like a deluge. 472 00:26:35,469 --> 00:26:36,762 It’s a wonder you didn’t catch your death, 473 00:26:36,846 --> 00:26:40,016 I mean, going out the way you did. 474 00:26:40,349 --> 00:26:42,476 Oh, you must be mistaken. 475 00:26:42,977 --> 00:26:44,603 After I saw to you, 476 00:26:44,687 --> 00:26:47,023 I locked up and went straight to bed. 477 00:26:47,273 --> 00:26:49,400 I don’t think I was mistaken, Bridie. 478 00:26:49,483 --> 00:26:51,902 I was right here closing the window. 479 00:26:51,986 --> 00:26:53,404 I saw you leave. 480 00:26:56,824 --> 00:26:59,160 You know, an innocent woman 481 00:26:59,243 --> 00:27:01,329 is being charged with murder, Bridie. 482 00:27:01,412 --> 00:27:03,664 That’s not my concern. 483 00:27:03,748 --> 00:27:06,751 Even if it means that she’d be imprisoned for life? 484 00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:10,171 You don’t understand. I can’t get involved. 485 00:27:11,464 --> 00:27:12,798 [Jessica] I don’t mean to frighten you, 486 00:27:12,882 --> 00:27:15,634 but please, you must talk to me. 487 00:27:15,718 --> 00:27:18,888 What is it you’re hiding? What happened? 488 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,142 It’s funny. 489 00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:27,396 I used to ask myself the same thing. 490 00:27:28,064 --> 00:27:29,732 What happened? 491 00:27:30,524 --> 00:27:33,611 How could I stay with a man like that for 10 years? 492 00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:35,863 I see. 493 00:27:35,946 --> 00:27:38,491 It’s nothin’ I’m proud of. 494 00:27:39,033 --> 00:27:42,328 But a widow at 19 with a four-year-old son 495 00:27:42,411 --> 00:27:44,705 doesn’t have a lot of choice in these things. 496 00:27:45,414 --> 00:27:47,249 And Tyler offered to help. 497 00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:50,628 More like helped himself. 498 00:27:50,711 --> 00:27:54,215 Tyler-- he was used to gettin’ what he wanted. 499 00:27:54,298 --> 00:27:56,300 But surely there must have been others 500 00:27:56,425 --> 00:27:57,927 that you could have turned to. 501 00:27:58,010 --> 00:28:01,055 Oh, there were always others, 502 00:28:01,138 --> 00:28:03,933 just none of 'em willing 503 00:28:04,016 --> 00:28:06,602 to get hitched to a package deal. 504 00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:09,522 At least Tyler was willing to pay for what he wanted. 505 00:28:10,064 --> 00:28:12,483 And that hostility between the two of you, 506 00:28:12,733 --> 00:28:14,235 that was all an act? 507 00:28:14,318 --> 00:28:16,195 Yes. 508 00:28:19,073 --> 00:28:20,408 You know... 509 00:28:22,701 --> 00:28:25,913 at first, I couldn’t stand his hands on me. 510 00:28:27,206 --> 00:28:31,460 And then after a while, things got better between us. 511 00:28:32,253 --> 00:28:35,297 With me, Tyler could be himself. 512 00:28:35,756 --> 00:28:38,008 He wasn’t a bad man. 513 00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:42,388 Just scared and actin’ tough to try and make up for it. 514 00:28:46,684 --> 00:28:49,270 Lately though, I’d been worried... 515 00:28:50,104 --> 00:28:52,565 about how Travis might find out and all, 516 00:28:53,190 --> 00:28:55,067 him bein’ nearly grown. 517 00:28:55,860 --> 00:28:57,945 So I’ve been tryin’ to break it off. 518 00:28:58,028 --> 00:29:00,614 That’s why I went up to the cabin last night, 519 00:29:00,698 --> 00:29:02,950 to end it once and for all. 520 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:07,163 Only when I got there, Tyler was dead. 521 00:29:07,621 --> 00:29:09,582 Yes, but why didn’t you phone the Sheriff? 522 00:29:09,999 --> 00:29:12,960 And let the whole town know about me and Tyler? 523 00:29:13,043 --> 00:29:15,754 Oh, and they’d know, ’cause believe me, Mrs. Fletcher, 524 00:29:15,838 --> 00:29:17,923 nobody ever went up to that cabin 525 00:29:18,007 --> 00:29:20,259 unless they were specially invited. Nobody. 526 00:29:20,342 --> 00:29:22,219 All these years, 527 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,098 and no one knew about your relationship? 528 00:29:27,975 --> 00:29:30,019 Well, Nora’d had her suspicions once. 529 00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:31,270 Nora? 530 00:29:31,896 --> 00:29:32,897 [Bridie] His wife. 531 00:29:35,274 --> 00:29:38,777 Tyler said she threw such a fit a couple of years back, 532 00:29:38,861 --> 00:29:41,405 it scared him off seeing me for a while. 533 00:29:41,947 --> 00:29:44,533 But I’d lay odds she never knew he started up again. 534 00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:47,453 Heck, if she had, she probably would’ve killed him. 535 00:29:52,249 --> 00:29:53,709 [Jessica] It was so kind of you to see me, Mrs. Morgan. 536 00:29:53,834 --> 00:29:55,336 I hope I’m not imposing on you. 537 00:29:55,836 --> 00:29:57,296 [Nora] You said on the phone 538 00:29:57,379 --> 00:30:01,217 that the matter was urgent and that it concerns my son? 539 00:30:01,509 --> 00:30:03,969 Well, I’m afraid it may not only concern your son, 540 00:30:04,053 --> 00:30:07,848 but everyone in this town if tensions get any worse. 541 00:30:08,182 --> 00:30:10,643 Oh, there is blood in the air, all right. 542 00:30:10,726 --> 00:30:14,563 I don’t rightly know what you expect me to do about it. 543 00:30:14,688 --> 00:30:17,733 Perhaps if you spoke to him, helped him to realize 544 00:30:17,816 --> 00:30:20,986 that he’s only fueling a very dangerous situation. 545 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:22,780 It wouldn’t do no good. 546 00:30:23,864 --> 00:30:27,368 Truth is, I lost hold of that boy years ago. 547 00:30:28,494 --> 00:30:30,579 That temper of his, well, it’s led to nothin’ 548 00:30:30,788 --> 00:30:32,164 but trouble since the day he was born. 549 00:30:35,793 --> 00:30:38,337 He’s certainly no stranger to guns. 550 00:30:38,420 --> 00:30:40,798 Oh, that’s a fact. 551 00:30:41,882 --> 00:30:43,592 Oh, those shootin’ ribbons you’re lookin’ at, 552 00:30:44,260 --> 00:30:45,970 -well, they’re mine. -Yours? 553 00:30:46,053 --> 00:30:48,597 I won ’em as a kid at a County fair. 554 00:30:49,390 --> 00:30:50,933 Well, I am impressed. 555 00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:54,061 Oh, heck. Most everybody in these parts 556 00:30:54,144 --> 00:30:56,981 can shoot the petals off a daisy before they’re 10 years old. 557 00:30:57,398 --> 00:30:58,941 [phone rings] 558 00:31:01,443 --> 00:31:04,280 Yes? Oh, oh, yes, yes. All right. 559 00:31:04,363 --> 00:31:05,948 Uh, just hang on. 560 00:31:06,907 --> 00:31:08,367 I’m afraid you’re gonna have to excuse me. 561 00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:11,870 -It’s the funeral parlor. -Oh, yes, of course. 562 00:31:13,455 --> 00:31:14,748 Mrs. Fletcher? 563 00:31:15,499 --> 00:31:17,626 I’m sorry I couldn’t be more help. 564 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:21,463 Truth is, Reese is a lot like his daddy. 565 00:31:21,839 --> 00:31:24,717 It takes a loaded gun to get his attention. 566 00:31:33,726 --> 00:31:36,604 [vehicle approaching] 567 00:31:41,609 --> 00:31:42,985 [horn honking] 568 00:31:45,571 --> 00:31:48,657 Mrs. Fletcher, you better hop in quick. There’s trouble. 569 00:31:48,741 --> 00:31:51,160 Yeah, I’ve just-- I’ve just come from Sheriff Tate’s. 570 00:31:51,243 --> 00:31:53,746 He says he’s got Molly nailed cold. 571 00:31:56,498 --> 00:32:00,919 That’s ridiculous. That rifle was planted in Molly’s car to frame her. 572 00:32:01,003 --> 00:32:03,547 Hell, yes. I mean, anybody could’ve grabbed that gun 573 00:32:03,631 --> 00:32:06,383 out of that unlocked rack by the door and shot Tyler. 574 00:32:06,717 --> 00:32:07,926 But that’s not all Tate says he’s got. 575 00:32:08,010 --> 00:32:09,762 What do you mean? 576 00:32:09,845 --> 00:32:11,555 Well, it seems Reese went through his daddy’s cabin... 577 00:32:11,639 --> 00:32:13,432 and found a ledger sheet had been stolen 578 00:32:13,515 --> 00:32:15,851 out of the company’s 1978 payroll. 579 00:32:15,934 --> 00:32:19,730 78? Isn’t that the year that Molly’s father was killed? 580 00:32:19,813 --> 00:32:22,983 Yep. Tate seems to think that cinches his case. 581 00:32:23,067 --> 00:32:25,569 The trouble is, Eben doesn’t quite see it that way. 582 00:32:25,653 --> 00:32:28,113 So he got some of his friends together. 583 00:32:28,197 --> 00:32:30,824 They’re gonna storm the jail and free Molly by force. 584 00:32:30,908 --> 00:32:33,327 Oh, Lord. And if Reese finds out... 585 00:32:33,702 --> 00:32:37,748 Yes, ma’am. Could be we got ourselves an all-out war. 586 00:32:57,643 --> 00:32:59,436 -Get the Sheriff. -What about you? 587 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,730 Now, Carlton! Hurry! 588 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,901 [rifle cocking] 589 00:33:29,425 --> 00:33:30,467 Stand aside, Mrs. Fletcher. 590 00:33:30,968 --> 00:33:32,344 Eben, don’t do this. 591 00:33:32,428 --> 00:33:33,595 I know you only want to help Molly, 592 00:33:33,679 --> 00:33:34,930 but this is wrong. 593 00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:37,558 Better listen to her, old-timer. 594 00:33:38,058 --> 00:33:40,185 And so should you, Mr. Morgan. 595 00:33:41,395 --> 00:33:44,273 Me and the boys here are just a group of concerned citizens 596 00:33:44,982 --> 00:33:46,900 trying to uphold the law. 597 00:33:46,984 --> 00:33:49,862 [Jessica] Upholding the law is a job for the sheriff, 598 00:33:49,945 --> 00:33:52,030 not for hired vigilantes. 599 00:33:52,114 --> 00:33:53,532 [Tate] She’s right. 600 00:33:56,535 --> 00:33:58,954 Now, I got a duty to keep Molly in jail, Eben, 601 00:33:59,037 --> 00:34:00,164 and that’s what I’m gonna do... 602 00:34:00,831 --> 00:34:03,167 without any uninvited help from you, Reese. 603 00:34:03,500 --> 00:34:05,794 Hell, you think you can take ’em by yourself? 604 00:34:05,878 --> 00:34:08,839 What I do and how I do it is no concern of yours. 605 00:34:09,339 --> 00:34:10,549 Look, I told you-- 606 00:34:10,632 --> 00:34:11,800 No, I told you! 607 00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:13,177 But maybe you didn’t hear me, 608 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:14,845 so let me run it by you again. 609 00:34:15,262 --> 00:34:17,014 You and your boys clear out. 610 00:34:17,598 --> 00:34:20,225 Us? What about them? 611 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,314 My granddaughter’s no killer. 612 00:34:25,397 --> 00:34:27,024 That’s for a court to say, not us. 613 00:34:27,524 --> 00:34:29,359 And Molly’d be the first to agree. 614 00:34:35,908 --> 00:34:37,326 Well, all right. 615 00:34:38,577 --> 00:34:40,621 But any harm comes to Molly, 616 00:34:40,704 --> 00:34:43,624 it won’t take no court to settle the score, 617 00:34:43,707 --> 00:34:44,666 and that’s a promise. 618 00:35:05,479 --> 00:35:07,773 Look, Mrs. Fletcher, I appreciate your help out there, 619 00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:09,399 but I got no time for you right now. 620 00:35:09,483 --> 00:35:12,444 Just because a page is missing from a 10-year-old payroll 621 00:35:12,528 --> 00:35:14,530 doesn’t mean that Molly took it. 622 00:35:14,613 --> 00:35:16,740 Ma’am, you and I were both standing right here 623 00:35:16,824 --> 00:35:19,451 when she swore she was gonna subpoena those very records. 624 00:35:19,535 --> 00:35:21,036 But that’s my point. 625 00:35:21,411 --> 00:35:23,831 Excuse me. Martha? Sheriff Tate. 626 00:35:23,914 --> 00:35:27,167 Let me speak to Ned. All right, but hurry. 627 00:35:27,376 --> 00:35:30,879 Look, the point is, why would Molly want to steal a page from that payroll... 628 00:35:30,963 --> 00:35:33,549 when a subpoena would force the company to surrender it anyway? 629 00:35:34,049 --> 00:35:35,968 Wait a minute. Let me get this straight. 630 00:35:36,051 --> 00:35:39,346 You’re sayin’ that someone else stole that page in order to frame Molly? 631 00:35:39,429 --> 00:35:42,850 How? Nobody even knew she wanted those records but us. 632 00:35:42,933 --> 00:35:46,019 Exactly, which is why I can’t help thinking 633 00:35:46,103 --> 00:35:48,230 that the killer’s motive for the theft... 634 00:35:48,313 --> 00:35:51,900 wasn’t just to implicate Molly, but rather to stop something 635 00:35:51,984 --> 00:35:55,362 on that page from being discovered ever. 636 00:35:55,445 --> 00:35:59,241 Ned? Yeah, it’s Dawson Tate. I got an emergency. 637 00:35:59,324 --> 00:36:03,537 Lost the key to my rifle rack. Now, come on. 638 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:06,540 It’s not the first time anybody ever asked you to pick a lock. 639 00:36:07,666 --> 00:36:09,585 Hell, everybody around here keeps their rifles locked up. 640 00:36:09,668 --> 00:36:11,211 I just lost my key, that’s all. 641 00:36:12,212 --> 00:36:14,464 I don’t care if your cow’s havin’ triplets! 642 00:36:14,548 --> 00:36:16,425 I need it unlocked, and I need it done now! 643 00:36:19,052 --> 00:36:20,512 Ma’am, you’re gonna have to... 644 00:36:23,015 --> 00:36:24,057 leave. 645 00:36:25,434 --> 00:36:26,685 [Jessica] Yes, I’m still here. 646 00:36:27,936 --> 00:36:29,104 Oh, are you sure? 647 00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:34,484 I see. Well, thank you very much. 648 00:36:34,568 --> 00:36:37,362 You’ve been very helpful. Thanks. 649 00:36:37,446 --> 00:36:40,407 -Make your call? -Yes. 650 00:36:40,657 --> 00:36:42,910 I billed it to my charge card. 651 00:36:42,993 --> 00:36:44,286 Oh, no need. 652 00:36:44,369 --> 00:36:46,455 Yanceyville’s only 50 miles away. 653 00:36:46,538 --> 00:36:48,540 -Here you go. -Thank you. 654 00:36:48,624 --> 00:36:50,334 Black, just like you said. 655 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:52,002 Though I swear, 656 00:36:52,085 --> 00:36:55,005 if it was me who’d faced those men at the jail, 657 00:36:55,088 --> 00:36:57,716 I’d be drinkin’ something a whole lot stronger. 658 00:36:58,884 --> 00:37:01,720 You know, Bridie, Molly doesn’t believe... 659 00:37:01,803 --> 00:37:04,056 that the explosion that killed her father 660 00:37:04,139 --> 00:37:06,016 and your husband was an accident. 661 00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:08,435 Tyler and me, we talked about that. 662 00:37:09,019 --> 00:37:11,104 He always swore he wasn’t involved. 663 00:37:12,189 --> 00:37:14,358 You say "involved" as if you didn’t believe 664 00:37:14,441 --> 00:37:15,859 it was an accident either. 665 00:37:17,069 --> 00:37:19,905 It don’t make much difference what I think. 666 00:37:20,822 --> 00:37:23,492 It was a long time ago. Best forgot. 667 00:37:24,117 --> 00:37:25,869 I’m sorry, but I don’t agree. 668 00:37:25,953 --> 00:37:29,331 I feel very strongly that what happened 10 years ago 669 00:37:29,665 --> 00:37:33,293 is tied in very closely with Tyler Morgan’s murder. 670 00:37:34,294 --> 00:37:36,380 Bridie, what happened back then? 671 00:37:39,007 --> 00:37:41,677 The night before my Danny got killed, 672 00:37:42,678 --> 00:37:46,348 he told me Joe Connors had gotten ahold 673 00:37:46,431 --> 00:37:49,893 of some company record that was gonna prove 674 00:37:49,977 --> 00:37:52,020 there were fishy doin’s at the mine. 675 00:37:52,521 --> 00:37:55,023 Fact is, he was gonna explain it all 676 00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:56,817 at a union meetin’ the next night. 677 00:37:57,359 --> 00:38:00,737 Only the next day when he went into the mine, 678 00:38:01,238 --> 00:38:02,864 he never came out. 679 00:38:02,948 --> 00:38:05,492 This proof, this company record. 680 00:38:05,575 --> 00:38:07,911 Didn’t he tell you what it was? 681 00:38:07,995 --> 00:38:11,206 Or anyone else either near as I can tell. 682 00:38:11,915 --> 00:38:16,169 Once they got Danny and Joe and the others buried, 683 00:38:16,253 --> 00:38:19,131 that was the end of it. Molly and her Ma, 684 00:38:19,214 --> 00:38:22,134 they headed up North to live with kin in Maine. 685 00:38:22,217 --> 00:38:24,428 And, oh, Eben and some of the boys, 686 00:38:24,511 --> 00:38:26,138 they went to Joe’s place 687 00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:28,015 and pretty near tore it apart, 688 00:38:28,098 --> 00:38:30,267 but they never found nothin’. 689 00:38:30,684 --> 00:38:32,519 Maybe there was nothin’ to find. 690 00:38:32,602 --> 00:38:37,983 Maybe all that talk about proof was just Joe talkin’, 691 00:38:38,442 --> 00:38:40,193 puffin’ himself up. 692 00:38:41,737 --> 00:38:43,238 And maybe not. 693 00:38:44,614 --> 00:38:47,159 I can’t be sure until I check it, 694 00:38:47,242 --> 00:38:49,661 but it’s just possible 695 00:38:49,745 --> 00:38:53,957 that I may not only know who killed Tyler Morgan, 696 00:38:54,791 --> 00:38:56,251 but if I’m lucky, 697 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,503 I may be able to find the evidence 698 00:38:58,587 --> 00:39:00,380 at Eben’s place to prove it. 699 00:39:00,464 --> 00:39:04,009 Hadn’t you oughta tell the Sheriff your suspicions? 700 00:39:04,426 --> 00:39:07,304 The moment that I have proof. 701 00:39:54,601 --> 00:39:56,978 [groans] 702 00:40:17,541 --> 00:40:18,500 Eben? 703 00:40:31,263 --> 00:40:32,472 Anybody home? 704 00:41:30,655 --> 00:41:32,741 Yes, Operator. Could you connect me, please, 705 00:41:32,824 --> 00:41:33,950 with the Sheriff’s office? 706 00:42:08,818 --> 00:42:09,945 [Carlton] Mrs. Fletcher. 707 00:42:12,030 --> 00:42:13,573 You’re not leavin’ on my account, are ya? 708 00:42:14,157 --> 00:42:15,575 Carl. What are you doing here? 709 00:42:15,784 --> 00:42:17,202 Well, I’ve been givin’ Eben a hand, 710 00:42:17,285 --> 00:42:19,329 -what with Molly in jail. -Oh, yes. 711 00:42:19,412 --> 00:42:21,790 Well, did you see him? 712 00:42:21,873 --> 00:42:23,541 I checked the house, but I can’t find him. 713 00:42:23,959 --> 00:42:25,543 Found somethin’ else though, didn’t ya? 714 00:42:27,712 --> 00:42:28,964 Did I? No. 715 00:42:29,047 --> 00:42:31,132 No, come on. Come on, Mrs. Fletcher. 716 00:42:31,216 --> 00:42:32,842 I was watching you through the window. 717 00:42:34,094 --> 00:42:35,428 How long have you been onto me? 718 00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:37,347 Onto you? 719 00:42:37,430 --> 00:42:39,516 The fact that I killed Tyler Morgan, 720 00:42:39,599 --> 00:42:42,310 a crime that I freely confess to. 721 00:42:42,852 --> 00:42:44,854 My only regret is that I didn’t get to it years ago. 722 00:42:45,230 --> 00:42:47,774 -But how did you know? -I didn’t. 723 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:50,986 Well, I did suspect. 724 00:42:51,486 --> 00:42:52,737 It was something that you said 725 00:42:52,821 --> 00:42:54,781 when we were driving back to town in the pickup. 726 00:42:54,864 --> 00:42:57,409 Hell, yes. I mean, anybody could’ve grabbed that gun 727 00:42:57,492 --> 00:42:59,703 out of that unlocked rack by the door and shot Tyler. 728 00:43:00,495 --> 00:43:01,579 I don’t get it. 729 00:43:01,663 --> 00:43:03,123 Only someone who had been 730 00:43:03,206 --> 00:43:04,916 to the cabin would have known... 731 00:43:05,542 --> 00:43:09,504 that the gun rack was unlocked and also right by the door. 732 00:43:09,587 --> 00:43:10,755 Please. 733 00:43:10,839 --> 00:43:12,090 And then when I remembered 734 00:43:12,173 --> 00:43:13,383 what Bridie Harmon told me, 735 00:43:13,466 --> 00:43:14,718 that no one went to the cabin 736 00:43:14,801 --> 00:43:16,803 unless they were specifically invited. 737 00:43:17,429 --> 00:43:20,056 That’s when alarm bells started to go off in my brain. 738 00:43:20,140 --> 00:43:21,683 You call that proof? 739 00:43:22,809 --> 00:43:25,979 Lady, I wouldn’t try to sell that batch of brownies to the County Attorney. 740 00:43:26,062 --> 00:43:28,815 And besides, when Tyler was gettin’ himself killed, 741 00:43:28,898 --> 00:43:30,734 I was at a union meeting in Yanceyville, remember? 742 00:43:30,817 --> 00:43:32,861 I’m afraid that’s not true. 743 00:43:33,361 --> 00:43:35,030 I made a phone call a little while ago. 744 00:43:35,113 --> 00:43:37,490 Oh, you were there, all right, earlier in the evening. 745 00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:41,453 But no one remembered seeing you once the meeting started. 746 00:43:42,704 --> 00:43:44,080 You think you’re pretty smart, don’t you? 747 00:43:44,873 --> 00:43:46,708 Tyler thought he was pretty smart, too, 748 00:43:47,292 --> 00:43:49,711 threatening to expose our financial arrangements 749 00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:50,962 if I didn’t get Molly off his back. 750 00:43:51,338 --> 00:43:54,507 Those financial arrangements, 751 00:43:54,591 --> 00:43:57,427 I suppose they go back a long time. 752 00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:01,014 I never meant to kill Joe. 753 00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:03,516 Hell, I offered to cut him in on the take. 754 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,268 But he wouldn’t play ball. 755 00:44:07,645 --> 00:44:11,900 And as for Danny Harmon... well, it was just his bad luck 756 00:44:11,983 --> 00:44:13,443 that he was workin’ with Joe when it happened. 757 00:44:18,573 --> 00:44:21,576 Just like it’s your bad luck to have discovered the truth. 758 00:44:21,659 --> 00:44:23,578 The ledger sheet, let’s have it. 759 00:44:31,211 --> 00:44:35,548 Mrs. Fletcher, me and you are gonna take a little ride. 760 00:44:36,341 --> 00:44:38,343 Look, people know that I came out here. 761 00:44:38,426 --> 00:44:40,720 -They’ll come looking for me. -They won’t find you. 762 00:44:40,804 --> 00:44:42,680 You won’t get away with this. 763 00:44:42,764 --> 00:44:44,557 I told my suspicions to the Sheriff. 764 00:44:44,641 --> 00:44:46,851 -I don’t believe you. -Look, Carl-- 765 00:44:46,935 --> 00:44:48,561 Just save your breath, Mrs. Fletcher, and get in there. 766 00:44:51,272 --> 00:44:53,983 We got places in these hills only the wolves know about. 767 00:44:54,067 --> 00:44:56,903 And if they do find you, so what? 768 00:44:56,986 --> 00:44:58,780 They’ll never tie it to me. 769 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:12,419 [Carlton] Hey! Hey! 770 00:45:16,005 --> 00:45:17,507 Hey! 771 00:45:19,843 --> 00:45:21,678 All right. All right, all right. 772 00:45:46,244 --> 00:45:49,247 What I still can’t figure, Mrs. Fletcher, 773 00:45:49,330 --> 00:45:51,916 is how did you know the proof was in the book? 774 00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:55,587 Well, to be perfectly honest, I wasn’t absolutely sure. 775 00:45:55,670 --> 00:45:57,922 But when Bridie told me that you’d searched for it 776 00:45:58,006 --> 00:46:00,258 after Molly left for Cabot Cove, 777 00:46:00,341 --> 00:46:02,677 I remembered that the only thing of her father’s 778 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,013 that she’d taken with her was the book of Shakespeare. 779 00:46:05,388 --> 00:46:07,807 And assuming that your son was too smart to carry 780 00:46:07,891 --> 00:46:11,853 the evidence on him, I realized that the book was the one place 781 00:46:11,936 --> 00:46:14,147 you hadn’t searched, because it hadn’t been here. 782 00:46:14,230 --> 00:46:17,734 That’s smart. Now-now, that’s real smart. 783 00:46:17,817 --> 00:46:21,321 Oh. I guess you know I’ll never be able to thank you enough. 784 00:46:21,696 --> 00:46:25,116 Oh, nonsense. I just wanted to be able to help. 785 00:46:25,783 --> 00:46:29,037 And I’m sure the law will see that Carlton gets his due. 786 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:32,665 I expect they will, seein’ as how Molly’s gonna be there. 787 00:46:35,460 --> 00:46:37,337 The Miners Union has asked me 788 00:46:37,420 --> 00:46:39,506 to handle their part in the prosecution. 789 00:46:39,589 --> 00:46:41,925 And if things work out, there’s talk about 790 00:46:42,008 --> 00:46:44,177 putting me on retainer to handle all their litigation. 791 00:46:44,761 --> 00:46:47,430 Well, you know, I’m sure that your father 792 00:46:47,514 --> 00:46:49,307 would have been very proud. 793 00:46:49,682 --> 00:46:52,560 [engine starting] 794 00:46:52,644 --> 00:46:53,811 Good-bye. 795 00:46:56,147 --> 00:46:57,357 Good-bye, Eben. 796 00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,442 Good-bye, Mrs. Fletcher. 797 00:47:04,030 --> 00:47:05,365 Bye-bye.