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The episode opens with Pat "Big Mac" McCreedy driving into town in an open
carriage. He is greeted by many
people, and he greets them back. The credits appear over this scene.
Outside of the saloon, he meets Blake, and they go into the saloon together.
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry are standing at the bar. The bartender
is about to pour their drinks when McCreedy and Blake arrive at the
bar. The bartender immediately leaves Curry and Heyes and goes to
wait on McCreedy. Realizing that the bartender is not going to serve them,
Curry slides their glasses down the bar and says they'll
come down and fetch them after the bartender has filled them. Blake sends them
back. Curry gets the bottle and fills the glasses. They begin to drink, and Blake tells them to put the glasses
down. As the scene
continues, Curry and Heyes remain affable while dealing with Blake who is pushing
them. Finally, Curry and Heyes click their glasses and begin to
drink. Blake moves
for his gun. Curry draws and fires.
Blake's gun and holster fly off his gun belt.
 Curry
says to bartender: "How much we owe you?"
McCreedy says their drinks are on the house and admonishes Blake for pushing
it too far.
McCreedy asks C & H if they are
looking for work. In the discussion, he mentions the poker game at his ranch.
They play every Saturday, and there's a $10,000 buy in. He invites Heyes to join them.
Heyes thanks him for the compliment and says if they had $10,000 they wouldn't risk it on a
poker game.
Blake goes to the sheriff. He wants the sheriff to check out C & H.
The sheriff agrees.
McCreedy tells C & H about the bust and offers them $10,000 if they will
get it back from Armandariz. Leaving the saloon, C & H
discuss Mac's offer. They meet Blake and offer to have his holster
repaired. They go to the "wine store" that Blake mentions while
they are waiting for the repair to be done. Blake tells C & H that McCreedy has made the same offer to many people
and that those who have tried it have all met
with bad luck. He also tells them about the 200 men that work
for Armandariz
that are "real tough and real loyal" and the "fiestas" that
go on while the bust is on display.
Then, he mentions that when the bust isn't on display, Armandariz
keeps the bust in a safe.
 Heyes: "Safe?"
Blake: "That's right. Solid steel and weighs a ton."
Heyes: "Imagine... just like in a bank."
As C & H leave, Curry says he is sorry about the holster.
Blake: "Tell you the truth, it's a real pleasure to know a man that can shoot
that good."
Heyes: "He ain't that good. He was aiming for your
belly."
Outside, C & H discuss McCreedy's offer. Heyes
works to convince Curry that it would be legal and they wouldn't be risking their amnesty.
Curry: "You know Heyes, your silvery tongue and your quick mind have convinced
me."
They meet McCreedy who introduces them to the banker
"Pete" Peterson.
Peterson tells them that if there is ever anything he can do for
them, they should just let him know.
Heyes tells McCreedy the job is harder than he made it out to be and
asks for $20,000. McCreedy says ok ...if they'll give him a chance to
win some of it back at the poker game.
C & H step away from McCreedy. They discuss the fact that with
$10,000 as a buy in that there are not going to be any amateurs in the
game. Saturday night through Sunday morning is a long twelve hours.
 Curry: "You
figure you can kind of play it close so you don't lose too much."
Heyes: "I figure I can play it close, so I might even not win
too much."
Curry (laughing): "You know Heyes, your silvery
tongue has done it again."
C & H accept deal, but Curry adds the condition that if they get it back,
McCreedy doesn't tell anyone how he got it. McCreedy agrees.
Heyes: "Hey Kid, where do you think we ought to go on that $20,000."
The Kid replies, "Well, I figure we ought to go to Mexico and get it first."
Commercial Break
Establishing shots show the Armandariz ranch. Curry climbs over the
wall, then helps Heyes
over. There is a great deal of panning of the yard
and cross-cutting between guards, a woman, etc. and Curry & Heyes.
C & H go across the yard, go to a
protected spot against a wall and look at a map. They go up a
flight of stairs to a door. Heyes jimmies the door. Inside the
room, Curry approaches the guard: "If you don't speak English,
we're in a lot of trouble." (Everything from the commercial
to Curry's approaching the guard is omitted from the
CBN version.)
Heyes goes to the safe.
Cross-cuts show Heyes preparing to open the safe while Curry ties up the
guard. Other shots show guards and the yard.
It is established that Heyes is having trouble opening the safe.
Curry mentions that the sun will be up soon. Heyes gets
the safe open. They/we see the bust. Heyes removes money and
gemstones from the safe. Heyes and Curry look at the riches in the
safe. They look sick.
Heyes: "It ain't easy, Kid, is it?"
Curry: "It's down right heartbreaking, Heyes."
They put the "loot" back in the safe.
They put the bust in a sack. Heyes closes the safe.
Very slowly and carefully, they leave with the
bust. Then, Heyes bumps into a flower pot. They try to
keep it from falling, but it crashes to the ground,
alerting the guards. C & H run. Heyes, carrying the bust,
falls, gets up, and sprints. The guards are out. They begin the
chase. Mount up and ride. C & H are hiding in the back
of a wagon that is leaving the ranch.
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The scene opens on the poker game.
Heyes is playing. Curry is sitting to the side reading, but paying close
attention to the game, especially when he realizes the size of the
pot and the size of the bets Heyes is making.
The betting is between Heyes and McCreedy. Heyes raises the bet.
McCreedy calls. Heyes is confident. He has an ace high straight.
McCreedy has only two jacks. He informs Heyes that his two jacks are
just enough to win.
Heyes is angry. "Just a minute. Hold on."
They explain--and read from Hoyle--the rule about straights and flushes not being
used in stud poker unless announced at the beginning of the game.
McCreedy: "Did anyone hear it announced?"
Heyes must admit defeat. McCreedy tells them they can get on their way out of
town and hands Heyes a small pile of bills.
Heyes (sarcastically): "Thank you. We can use this."
C & H walk out the door as the poker players laugh at the great joke.
The sheriff looks at wanted posters.
C & H, dressed in their business suits, approach Peterson at the bank.
Peterson: "Well, well, I thought you boys would be long gone by now."
Heyes: "We don't have enough money to leave town yet, Mr.
Peterson."
Curry reminds him that he said if he could ever do anything for them,
they should come to him.
Curry: "Well, here we are."
C & H tell Peterson they want to borrow some money.
He offers them a grubstake. Curry says they want to borrow some *money*--from the bank.
$20,000. Peterson asks if they have collateral. They say they don't. Peterson
laughs at the joke. "You want to borrow $20,000, but you don't have collateral?"
The poker game is going on again.
C & H enter. McCreedy says the game is full.
Heyes: "I hate to leave town without getting another shot at
you."
Heyes suggests betting $20,000 on a single hand of showdown. McCreedy refuses.
He then asks McCreedy what he thinks the
odds are of making five pat poker hands from 25 cards
dealt from the top of a deck. He bets McCreedy $20,000
that he can do it. McCreedy takes the bet.
He counts 25 cards from the top of the deck. Heyes arranges them
and makes the five pat hands. McCreedy is angry, but Peterson laughs.
Peterson tells Mac that it works 9 times out of 10. He laughs
more. The others laugh.
Finally, McCreedy laughs. "You boys are all right.
If I didn't hate your guts so much, I'd have
you stay around and work for me."
McCreedy wants another shot at Heyes.
Commercial
C & H are carousing in the saloon. They are obviously drunk.
They walk unsteadily outside. (This scene is omitted from the TVLand
version.) The are jumped by several men.
Curry: "Hold on, you guys got the wrong guy."
They struggle and do manage to do some damage to one of the men, but they are
quickly overpowered.
C & H are tied up at the ranch of Armandariz. Armandariz wants to
know what they did with the statue. They deny taking it.
Both of them get slapped. Heyes says finally in order to avoid getting
slapped again that he heard about that bust; he heard it didn't belong
to Armendariz. Armendariz explains that the bust does indeed belong to
him. Curry suggests they might be able to help him if they could believe
that. Armandariz tells them about the
problem with the river and why he took the bust. The last time the
river changed course--seven years ago--McCreedy had legally claimed
property of Armandariz
that had ended up on the American side. That was to be expected.
Armandariz would get his land back
the next time the river changed course. But, McCreedy sold the
land to another Mexican. Armandariz had to pay $50,000 to gain
possession of his land again.
He explains that he took the bust to balance the scales a little and it has
become one of his most valued possessions.
He demands to know what C & H did with the sculpture.
They ask to talk privately.
Heyes says Armandariz knows what they did with the bust. He can't
understand why Armandariz is asking them.
After some discussion....
Heyes: "I vote we tell him."
Curry: "I vote we tell him if he lets us go."
Heyes: "...if he lets us go immediately."
The guard C & H had knocked out arrives and identifies them--in Spanish.
Armandariz asks C & H if they understand Spanish.
Heyes: "No, but I understand that."
Heyes admits to taking the bust and says they gave it to McCreedy.
Armandariz tells
them he is going to lend them two horses and
let them go free--not because they told the truth, but because they
opened his safe and took nothing but the object that they thought
belonged to the man that hired them.
Armandariz: "If it were not for that, you would both be spending the rest of your
lives in a Mexican prison."
The sheriff continues to go through wanted posters.
C & H approach the stagecoach. They are stopped by McCreedy who insists
on another chance at Heyes.
Heyes: "We thought it over. I like poker. I'm even good at it. But, well,
sitting down and playin' poker with you and your friends, that's just plain gambling."
McCreedy insists that they owe him another shot. "Who ever heard of a poker
game that ended in a tie?"
Curry: "You just played one that did."
McCreedy: "Hey! You boys ain't leaving today."
He threatens to go to the sheriff. He says he has a notion that the sheriff might have
their descriptions on file.
Heyes: "Big Mac. You wouldn't do a thing like that...."
The driver asks if they are coming aboard.
Curry: "No, I don't guess so."
The stage leaves without them.
The sheriff continues to look through wanted posters.
McCreedy puts packs of cards on the
poker table and he opens his cabinet to remove the bust. He places
it on a pedestal to prominently display it.
C & H enter. McCreedy is a bit flustered as he realizes that he
broke his word to Curry that he would not let
anyone know he had the bust until they had gone. He says that he
couldn't wait and there is no difference since they will leave on the
stage the next day. Curry tells him there is no stage.
McCreedy brushes it off.
Mr. Peterson remarks that there are
nine players and wonders who will sit out. Heyes says that's ok,
they don't really want to play poker anyway.
One of the players offers to sit out, but McCreedy suggests that since
Heyes seems to like to make large, quick bets, how would he like to bet
that McCreedy can't cut the ace of spades on the first try.
Heyes takes the bet. He sits down and shuffles the cards.
Heyes: "Once more." He shuffles again.
McCreedy pulls out a knife and rams it through the deck into the table.
Mr. Peterson is delirious with laughter.
 McCreedy: "There
you are Mr. Smith. I cut the ace of spades on the first try."
Heyes (shows the ace of spades he palmed): "No, you didn't, Mr. McCreedy."
Mr. Peterson erupts into laughter again.
Before McCreedy can comment, armed men of Armandariz bust into the room and tie
everyone up.
Armandariz enters the room. McCreedy puffs his cigar and never
looks at Armendariz. Armandariz and Heyes acknowledge
each other with a look. Armandariz takes the money from the table. He counts it.
Armandariz: "I am a believer in omens, Seņor McCreedy. There is
precisely $40,000 here and
the bust is worth $10,000. (He indicates to his man to collect the
bust.) We are now truly even for the first time. Un milagro.
A miracle."
Armandariz warns him not to send any more men to his ranch as they leave.
Commercial
Tag: The stage is being
loaded. C & H are on it. McCreedy tries to talk them into staying and
going after the bust for him again.
The sheriff finds the wanted posters for Kid Curry and Hannibal Heyes.
McCreedy threatens to go to the sheriff.
Heyes says they'd just take the job and once they crossed the river, they
would vanish. He signals the
driver to take off. The stage leaves as McCreedy offers $50,000.
Heyes: "Did I hear him say 50,000?"
Curry: "Yep. You heard him say 50,000."
Heyes: "That's what I thought I heard him say."
They simultaneously cross their arms across their chests and look thoughtful.
The sheriff comes running out and asks McCreedy if the two men he was dealing
are on that coach. McCreedy says yes. The sheriff says that
he has to stop the coach because they are
Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry. McCreedy asks if the sheriff has any
pictures. The sheriff doesn't. McCreedy says they aren't
Curry and Heyes.
McCreedy: "That one with the curly hair, you know, Thaddeus
Jones, he's my nephew."
The sheriff and McCreedy walk off with McCreedy proposing the five pat hands bet to the
sheriff.
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