1 00:01:57,017 --> 00:01:58,986 There was beauty on Walton's Mountain 2 00:01:59,052 --> 00:02:00,654 at any time of the year... 3 00:02:00,721 --> 00:02:04,258 but looking back, the time I treasure most is spring. 4 00:02:04,325 --> 00:02:06,427 When the days were growing longer 5 00:02:06,494 --> 00:02:09,062 and the promise of summer was ahead. 6 00:02:09,129 --> 00:02:12,400 They were the kind of days made for dreaming. 7 00:02:12,466 --> 00:02:14,202 But being the oldest of seven children 8 00:02:14,268 --> 00:02:15,636 during the Depression... 9 00:02:15,703 --> 00:02:18,606 didn't leave much time for daydreams. 10 00:02:18,672 --> 00:02:20,774 I remember a morning in the 1930s 11 00:02:20,841 --> 00:02:22,443 when I had been sent to the store... 12 00:02:22,510 --> 00:02:24,778 to oversee the buying of a pair of shoes 13 00:02:24,845 --> 00:02:28,015 for my youngest sister, Elizabeth. 14 00:02:28,081 --> 00:02:30,017 I never get to do anything. 15 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:33,120 -How's that, Elizabeth? -You pick out the shoes... 16 00:02:33,187 --> 00:02:36,524 John-Boy gets to pay for them. I can't even wear them home. 17 00:02:36,590 --> 00:02:39,693 Because they're for Sunday school, that's why. 18 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:40,828 Look there! 19 00:02:40,894 --> 00:02:43,964 [dog barking] 20 00:02:44,031 --> 00:02:46,166 -Don't let him hurt it! -Reckless! 21 00:02:52,273 --> 00:02:55,476 -See the way that coon acted? -Ran right off into the woods. 22 00:02:55,543 --> 00:02:58,078 First one I ever saw didn't just scoot up a tree. 23 00:02:58,145 --> 00:03:00,881 Coons are night animals. What's he doing out in the daytime? 24 00:03:00,948 --> 00:03:03,116 -Think he's hurt or something? -We'll see. 25 00:03:03,183 --> 00:03:05,419 -Watch out for snakes. -Come on! 26 00:03:40,621 --> 00:03:44,425 Go ahead, you crummy farmer. You've got the knife. Use it. 27 00:03:50,564 --> 00:03:53,634 Just didn't want you to kill that coon. 28 00:03:53,701 --> 00:03:54,835 Go on, take it. 29 00:04:03,511 --> 00:04:06,280 -Take it easy, will you? -Leave me alone. 30 00:04:06,347 --> 00:04:07,748 Let me look at it. 31 00:04:19,627 --> 00:04:26,334 Not busted, anyway. 32 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,937 How come you were going to kill that raccoon? 33 00:04:30,003 --> 00:04:31,739 I was hungry. 34 00:04:39,347 --> 00:04:42,483 What are you doing? 35 00:04:42,550 --> 00:04:44,818 Fixing you something to walk on. 36 00:04:53,794 --> 00:04:56,797 Then, if you're hungry, we can go get something to eat. 37 00:04:56,864 --> 00:04:58,366 Where? 38 00:04:58,432 --> 00:05:00,167 My house. 39 00:05:00,233 --> 00:05:03,303 Name's John-Boy Walton. 40 00:05:03,371 --> 00:05:06,774 What kind of a name is that? 41 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:11,845 My father's name is John, and I'm John-Boy. 42 00:05:11,912 --> 00:05:15,082 What's yours? 43 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:17,951 Gino. 44 00:05:18,018 --> 00:05:22,055 Come on, Gino. Up. 45 00:05:22,122 --> 00:05:25,258 That alright? 46 00:05:25,325 --> 00:05:27,294 That's my sister Mary Ellen. 47 00:05:27,361 --> 00:05:29,663 Hey, Gino. 48 00:05:29,730 --> 00:05:31,699 My little sister Elizabeth is around here somewhere. 49 00:05:31,765 --> 00:05:33,000 Elizabeth! 50 00:05:33,066 --> 00:05:35,235 Don't get upset, she's over there behind the bush. 51 00:05:35,302 --> 00:05:37,671 Elizabeth! 52 00:05:37,738 --> 00:05:40,240 What're you doing with that old coon in your arms? 53 00:05:40,307 --> 00:05:43,010 I think he's sick or something. 54 00:05:43,076 --> 00:05:45,579 Can I take him home? 55 00:05:50,183 --> 00:05:53,487 I reckon it's alright. 56 00:05:53,554 --> 00:05:56,223 I can keep you. John-Boy said so. 57 00:05:56,289 --> 00:05:57,591 I'm going to name you Pete, 58 00:05:57,658 --> 00:06:01,929 because it's the nicest name I know. 59 00:06:01,995 --> 00:06:04,965 -Where are you from, Gino? -North. 60 00:06:05,032 --> 00:06:07,234 And where you heading for, young man? 61 00:06:07,300 --> 00:06:09,036 South. 62 00:06:09,102 --> 00:06:11,104 Should we get in touch with your folks 63 00:06:11,171 --> 00:06:12,573 and tell them you're hurt? 64 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,609 Nobody to get in touch with. I'm a poor orphan. 65 00:06:15,676 --> 00:06:18,045 You in the Army or something? 66 00:06:18,111 --> 00:06:19,847 Where'd you ever get that idea? 67 00:06:19,913 --> 00:06:22,215 Sort of figured from your clothes. 68 00:06:22,282 --> 00:06:24,151 These? 69 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:26,153 It's a Boy Scout uniform. 70 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:27,588 Oh, yeah? 71 00:06:31,091 --> 00:06:33,927 Old man, Zeb, don't forget you promised 72 00:06:33,994 --> 00:06:35,963 to pick some strawberries for dessert. 73 00:06:36,029 --> 00:06:39,900 So I did, I'm going to need some help. Who's going to help me? 74 00:06:39,967 --> 00:06:41,535 I will. 75 00:06:41,602 --> 00:06:45,105 I need a few more volunteers. 76 00:06:45,172 --> 00:06:46,940 You, you, you, and you. 77 00:06:47,007 --> 00:06:49,209 Can I stay and keep Gino company? 78 00:06:49,276 --> 00:06:50,811 Suit yourself. 79 00:06:50,878 --> 00:06:52,446 Come along, now. 80 00:06:56,884 --> 00:06:59,219 You know anything about raccoons? 81 00:06:59,286 --> 00:07:00,954 Never saw one until today. 82 00:07:01,021 --> 00:07:04,792 I'll let you play with Pete when he's well again. 83 00:07:04,858 --> 00:07:08,195 -Big deal. -Yeah! 84 00:07:11,699 --> 00:07:13,300 -Where you been, Jim-Bob? -Nowhere. 85 00:07:13,366 --> 00:07:14,635 Yes, you have. 86 00:07:14,702 --> 00:07:17,204 "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man? 87 00:07:17,270 --> 00:07:18,672 "The Shadow knows." 88 00:07:18,739 --> 00:07:20,407 I'll tell Mama you been listening 89 00:07:20,474 --> 00:07:22,009 to that scary program on the radio. 90 00:07:22,075 --> 00:07:24,144 I'll tell her you been going to the Baldwins'. 91 00:07:24,211 --> 00:07:25,445 You followed me! 92 00:07:25,513 --> 00:07:29,182 The Shadow knows. Want to confess? 93 00:07:29,249 --> 00:07:30,851 No, sir. 94 00:07:30,918 --> 00:07:33,153 -Give you this if you tell. -What is it? 95 00:07:33,220 --> 00:07:34,755 Genuine Indian arrowhead. 96 00:07:34,822 --> 00:07:37,558 -Where'd you get it? -Over near the barn. 97 00:07:37,625 --> 00:07:39,560 Grandpa says we had lots of Indians around here. 98 00:07:39,627 --> 00:07:42,530 -There are any around here now? -Not many. 99 00:07:42,596 --> 00:07:44,464 Want this? All you got to do is tell. 100 00:07:44,532 --> 00:07:47,100 No, thanks. 101 00:07:52,506 --> 00:07:56,343 We got company. 102 00:07:56,409 --> 00:07:59,613 -Who are you? -Al Capone. 103 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:01,782 That's not his name. His name is Gino. 104 00:08:01,849 --> 00:08:05,018 -You visiting? -No, I'm stuck here. 105 00:08:05,085 --> 00:08:08,689 He isn't very friendly. 106 00:08:08,756 --> 00:08:11,458 Do you want to see a genuine Indian arrowhead? 107 00:08:11,525 --> 00:08:13,026 What's that? 108 00:08:13,093 --> 00:08:16,429 He doesn't know anything. Never saw a coon until he saw mine. 109 00:08:16,496 --> 00:08:17,998 You got one? 110 00:08:18,065 --> 00:08:20,968 -Yep, want to see him? -Sure do. 111 00:08:27,675 --> 00:08:31,745 -He is concealing something. -I know. 112 00:08:31,812 --> 00:08:34,047 You asking him to supper? 113 00:08:34,114 --> 00:08:38,118 Can't very well turn him away with that bad ankle. 114 00:08:38,185 --> 00:08:41,088 You planning on letting him spend the night? 115 00:08:41,154 --> 00:08:43,891 Where else could he go? 116 00:08:43,957 --> 00:08:45,893 I won't get a wink of sleep. 117 00:08:45,959 --> 00:08:48,896 A shifty boy, a boy we don't know anything about... 118 00:08:48,962 --> 00:08:51,164 spending the night under our roof. 119 00:08:51,231 --> 00:08:52,700 Hey, lady. 120 00:08:52,766 --> 00:08:57,671 I wouldn't sleep in your house if you paid me. 121 00:08:57,738 --> 00:08:59,940 I'm sorry, Gino. 122 00:09:00,007 --> 00:09:03,143 We didn't mean to hurt your feelings. 123 00:09:03,210 --> 00:09:06,146 It's just that you are a stranger... 124 00:09:06,213 --> 00:09:08,949 and we haven't had a chance to get to know you. 125 00:09:09,016 --> 00:09:11,318 That's okay. I'll sleep in the barn... 126 00:09:11,384 --> 00:09:14,755 that is, if you don't think I'll stink up the joint too much. 127 00:09:36,176 --> 00:09:38,612 -Daddy! -How are you? Hello. 128 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:41,281 Hello, baby, how are you? 129 00:09:41,348 --> 00:09:43,450 -Where's your mama? -Fixing supper. 130 00:09:43,516 --> 00:09:44,752 Who's this? 131 00:09:44,818 --> 00:09:46,887 This is Gino. He got hurt in the woods. 132 00:09:46,954 --> 00:09:49,757 Hello, Gino. Where you from? 133 00:09:49,823 --> 00:09:52,793 Up around Big Meadow. 134 00:09:52,860 --> 00:09:54,762 You're a far piece from home. 135 00:09:54,828 --> 00:09:57,064 I've been moving around. 136 00:09:57,130 --> 00:09:58,732 What were you doing in the woods? 137 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:00,868 Looking for something to eat. 138 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:02,469 Time to get washed up for supper. 139 00:10:02,535 --> 00:10:04,672 Here you go. 140 00:10:04,738 --> 00:10:09,176 Come on, son, have yourself something to eat. 141 00:10:09,242 --> 00:10:11,979 -Corn looks pretty good. -Raccoons got most of it. 142 00:10:12,045 --> 00:10:16,016 -I should be a raccoon. -Okay, here. 143 00:10:16,083 --> 00:10:22,622 Elizabeth, would you say grace, please? 144 00:10:22,690 --> 00:10:25,192 Thank you for the food we eat. 145 00:10:25,258 --> 00:10:27,661 Thank you for the world so sweet. 146 00:10:27,728 --> 00:10:29,997 Thank you for the birds that sing. 147 00:10:30,063 --> 00:10:32,365 Thank you, God, for everything. 148 00:10:32,432 --> 00:10:34,001 Very nice. 149 00:10:36,737 --> 00:10:42,542 Here you go. 150 00:10:42,609 --> 00:10:45,679 You're supposed to wait for everybody to get theirs. 151 00:10:45,746 --> 00:10:47,715 It's a rule. 152 00:10:47,781 --> 00:10:50,250 I didn't know. 153 00:10:50,317 --> 00:10:52,820 Sometimes we forget the rule if a man's mighty hungry. 154 00:10:52,886 --> 00:10:54,855 Go ahead, eat up. 155 00:10:54,922 --> 00:10:56,690 -Daddy? -What, honey? 156 00:10:56,757 --> 00:10:58,826 Will you build a cage for Pete? 157 00:10:58,892 --> 00:11:00,160 Who's Pete? 158 00:11:00,227 --> 00:11:02,963 A little raccoon she found in the woods. 159 00:11:03,030 --> 00:11:04,297 Gino was about to kill it. 160 00:11:04,364 --> 00:11:06,900 What were you going to do that for? 161 00:11:06,967 --> 00:11:10,971 I was hungry. I was going to eat it. 162 00:11:11,038 --> 00:11:13,774 Being from up Big Meadow way, it looks like you'd know... 163 00:11:13,841 --> 00:11:16,676 that raccoon's about the worst eating there is. 164 00:11:16,744 --> 00:11:18,746 Nobody ever told me. 165 00:11:18,812 --> 00:11:21,715 Gino, what do you do up in Big Meadow? 166 00:11:21,782 --> 00:11:23,450 Nothing right now. 167 00:11:23,516 --> 00:11:24,885 It's awful pretty up there. 168 00:11:24,952 --> 00:11:27,254 Last fall, we got in the truck and went up 169 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:29,256 just to see the autumn leaves turning. 170 00:11:29,322 --> 00:11:30,991 Can't decide which is the prettiest, 171 00:11:31,058 --> 00:11:33,060 the maple or the oaks. 172 00:11:33,126 --> 00:11:34,594 The dogwood's the prettiest, 173 00:11:34,661 --> 00:11:36,596 and the next prettiest is the persimmons. 174 00:11:36,663 --> 00:11:38,098 Who asked you? 175 00:11:38,165 --> 00:11:41,534 Nobody did. I was just saying what I remembered. 176 00:11:41,601 --> 00:11:46,006 Somebody start those peas there. Nobody hungry in this family? 177 00:11:46,073 --> 00:11:48,408 We're kind of busy this time of year... 178 00:11:48,475 --> 00:11:50,410 but if you need a ride over to Big Meadow... 179 00:11:50,477 --> 00:11:53,180 I might be able to in a day or two. 180 00:11:53,246 --> 00:11:55,082 I wouldn't want you any trouble. 181 00:11:55,148 --> 00:11:58,285 Won't your folks be anxious about you, son? 182 00:11:58,351 --> 00:12:01,688 I guess not. 183 00:12:01,755 --> 00:12:05,893 You don't like to talk much about yourself, do you, son? 184 00:12:05,959 --> 00:12:07,961 There's nothing to tell. 185 00:12:08,028 --> 00:12:10,898 Daddy, will you please build that cage for Pete? 186 00:12:10,964 --> 00:12:15,335 -Sure, honey. -He's out in a box, outside. 187 00:12:15,402 --> 00:12:19,472 I never did believe in bringing wild things into the family. 188 00:12:19,539 --> 00:12:23,343 It doesn't help the wild thing, nor the one that brought it in. 189 00:12:23,410 --> 00:12:25,078 I'll never forget the first wild thing 190 00:12:25,145 --> 00:12:26,814 I ever brought into my home. 191 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:28,248 What was that? 192 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:31,284 You, sweetheart. 193 00:12:31,351 --> 00:12:33,086 Eat your supper. 194 00:12:36,156 --> 00:12:38,926 -How's it coming? -Alright, I guess. 195 00:12:38,992 --> 00:12:40,560 Will he be alright, Daddy? 196 00:12:40,627 --> 00:12:43,430 If you were going to get a coon for a pet, 197 00:12:43,496 --> 00:12:45,632 why did you have to get a sick one? 198 00:12:45,698 --> 00:12:47,200 Because he needed me. 199 00:12:47,267 --> 00:12:52,873 Alright, baby, off to bed you go. 200 00:12:52,940 --> 00:12:55,375 Just a minute, son, I want to talk to you. 201 00:12:58,245 --> 00:13:00,814 Tell me what you know about this Gino. 202 00:13:00,881 --> 00:13:03,083 All I know about him is he hurt his ankle 203 00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:04,551 and he was awful hungry. 204 00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:07,087 Looks like he's got part of a uniform on. 205 00:13:07,154 --> 00:13:08,956 Did he tell you about that? 206 00:13:09,022 --> 00:13:11,524 Said he was in the Boy Scouts. 207 00:13:11,591 --> 00:13:13,193 Yeah, well. 208 00:13:13,260 --> 00:13:17,264 Could be he's a deserter from the army. 209 00:13:17,330 --> 00:13:21,234 He's not going to run very far on that hurt foot. 210 00:13:21,301 --> 00:13:23,203 Tell you what... 211 00:13:23,270 --> 00:13:25,238 I'll let him sleep in the barn tonight... 212 00:13:25,305 --> 00:13:27,740 but I want you to keep an eye on him. 213 00:13:27,807 --> 00:13:33,380 Alright. 214 00:13:33,446 --> 00:13:35,949 You couldn't make it up here with that ankle. 215 00:13:36,016 --> 00:13:38,018 Who says I can't? 216 00:13:38,085 --> 00:13:40,220 I'll fix you a hay bed. 217 00:13:40,287 --> 00:13:43,490 Nothing better to sleep on than fresh hay. 218 00:13:54,601 --> 00:13:56,269 -Smells good. -Yeah. 219 00:13:56,336 --> 00:14:01,241 -Any bugs in this stuff? -None I know of. 220 00:14:01,308 --> 00:14:04,744 I've slept with bugs before, anyway. 221 00:14:04,811 --> 00:14:07,047 Here we go. It'll have to do. 222 00:14:07,114 --> 00:14:10,017 Your mama's some cook. 223 00:14:10,083 --> 00:14:12,852 You're some eater. 224 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:16,623 Thanks. For the bed, I mean. 225 00:14:16,689 --> 00:14:18,291 Don't mention it. 226 00:14:18,358 --> 00:14:20,793 See you in the morning, Gino. 227 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:22,896 Sleep tight. 228 00:14:33,073 --> 00:14:36,009 The darkness of night is around us now. 229 00:14:36,076 --> 00:14:37,477 Beyond the safety of the house 230 00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:39,346 the wild things with their shiny eyes... 231 00:14:39,412 --> 00:14:42,015 are moving through the shadows. 232 00:14:42,082 --> 00:14:43,616 There is something wild, too, 233 00:14:43,683 --> 00:14:46,119 about the boy sleeping in the barn. 234 00:14:46,186 --> 00:14:48,521 What he's running from we don't know... 235 00:14:48,588 --> 00:14:50,890 but I think he's beginning to trust us... 236 00:14:50,958 --> 00:14:54,094 and maybe tomorrow the mystery will be all cleared up. 237 00:15:07,674 --> 00:15:10,677 -Keep on passing the biscuits. -Here you go, Grandpa. 238 00:15:10,743 --> 00:15:12,445 Pass them on down to Grandpa. 239 00:15:12,512 --> 00:15:15,182 Jim-Bob, eat slowly. Don't gulp your food. 240 00:15:15,248 --> 00:15:17,284 -Ben gulps his. -I do not. 241 00:15:17,350 --> 00:15:18,351 Alright, boys. 242 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:20,220 I'd speak to Mary Ellen about that. 243 00:15:20,287 --> 00:15:22,255 She smacks her lips when she eats. 244 00:15:22,322 --> 00:15:23,991 Just watch your step, smarty! 245 00:15:24,057 --> 00:15:26,293 Girls. 246 00:15:26,359 --> 00:15:28,528 Where's Gino this morning? 247 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:30,597 I expect he's still at the barn, sleeping. 248 00:15:30,663 --> 00:15:32,332 Those city boys sleep late. 249 00:15:32,399 --> 00:15:33,967 Never knew one that didn't. 250 00:15:34,034 --> 00:15:35,368 I've heard of cases where city folk 251 00:15:35,435 --> 00:15:37,737 slept until 9:00 or 10:00 in the morning. 252 00:15:37,804 --> 00:15:40,607 The day's over by then. 253 00:15:40,673 --> 00:15:44,011 Day's gonna be over before I get out of here. 254 00:15:44,077 --> 00:15:46,779 -See you all later. -Bye, Daddy. 255 00:15:46,846 --> 00:15:50,850 Daddy, Gino's not in the barn. 256 00:15:50,917 --> 00:15:56,156 I guess he decided to take off. 257 00:15:56,223 --> 00:15:58,191 -Morning, everybody. -Morning, Gino. 258 00:15:58,258 --> 00:16:00,227 Those hens have sure been busy. 259 00:16:00,293 --> 00:16:03,130 -I'll take those, Gino. -I found them! 260 00:16:05,365 --> 00:16:07,534 You want to cook them? 261 00:16:18,611 --> 00:16:20,647 Thank you. 262 00:16:37,897 --> 00:16:41,468 I can't stay with you very long, or Pete will get lonesome. 263 00:16:41,534 --> 00:16:44,404 -What are you doing? -Talking to this flower. 264 00:16:46,206 --> 00:16:49,709 -Does it talk back? -Hasn't yet. 265 00:16:49,776 --> 00:16:52,312 I've got a little sister not much older than you are. 266 00:16:52,379 --> 00:16:54,581 She talk to flowers, too? 267 00:16:54,647 --> 00:16:57,184 -No. -Why not? 268 00:16:57,250 --> 00:16:59,319 There weren't any flowers where we lived. 269 00:16:59,386 --> 00:17:01,788 -Where is she? -I don't know. 270 00:17:01,854 --> 00:17:03,523 How come? 271 00:17:03,590 --> 00:17:05,725 She got adopted out of an orphans' home. 272 00:17:05,792 --> 00:17:07,994 What was she doing there? 273 00:17:08,061 --> 00:17:10,197 You ask too many questions, kid. 274 00:17:10,263 --> 00:17:12,465 I'm bothering you, huh? 275 00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:15,202 -It's your house. -I'll leave you alone, Gino. 276 00:17:15,268 --> 00:17:17,637 I have to check on Pete, anyway. 277 00:17:17,704 --> 00:17:19,606 Bye, bye. 278 00:17:35,922 --> 00:17:39,492 You don't come from anywhere near Big Meadow, do you? 279 00:17:39,559 --> 00:17:42,829 -I come from a lot of places. -Yeah? 280 00:17:42,895 --> 00:17:46,166 -Where do you really come from? -Hell's Kitchen. 281 00:17:46,233 --> 00:17:49,035 -Come on! -That's what they call it. 282 00:17:49,102 --> 00:17:51,238 It's in New York City. 283 00:17:57,344 --> 00:18:01,214 Over near the river. 284 00:18:01,281 --> 00:18:03,950 What's it like in New York City? 285 00:18:04,016 --> 00:18:07,420 Crummy. 286 00:18:07,487 --> 00:18:10,089 I'd sure love to see it, though. 287 00:18:10,157 --> 00:18:14,327 Empire State Building, Great White Way. 288 00:18:14,394 --> 00:18:16,896 There's a show there right now by Mr. Eugene O'Neill... 289 00:18:16,963 --> 00:18:20,700 called Ah, Wilderness! I'd give anything to see that one. 290 00:18:22,702 --> 00:18:26,105 Did you ever see a show on the Great White Way? 291 00:18:26,173 --> 00:18:27,540 Sure. 292 00:18:27,607 --> 00:18:29,209 The chauffeur drives me up to Broadway 293 00:18:29,276 --> 00:18:31,077 once or twice a week. 294 00:18:31,144 --> 00:18:33,680 Me in my white tie and tails, 295 00:18:33,746 --> 00:18:35,715 my girlfriend in a long white mink coat. 296 00:18:35,782 --> 00:18:38,651 Mr. First Nighter, they call me. 297 00:18:38,718 --> 00:18:42,021 You can't give anybody a straight answer, can you, boy? 298 00:18:42,088 --> 00:18:44,457 What do you want to know? 299 00:18:44,524 --> 00:18:47,160 How you got so far from home. 300 00:18:47,227 --> 00:18:49,929 I was tired of being hungry. 301 00:18:49,996 --> 00:18:51,764 Jobs hard to find? 302 00:18:51,831 --> 00:18:54,367 Not if you don't mind selling apples on a street corner. 303 00:18:54,434 --> 00:18:56,102 Why did you head south? 304 00:18:56,169 --> 00:18:57,904 I joined up with the C.C.C. 305 00:18:57,970 --> 00:19:00,340 They put me in a place called Big Meadow. 306 00:19:00,407 --> 00:19:02,342 I told you I was from there. 307 00:19:02,409 --> 00:19:05,678 I know that camp. They're making a national park up there. 308 00:19:05,745 --> 00:19:07,480 President Roosevelt's supposed to come 309 00:19:07,547 --> 00:19:11,251 and dedicate it soon. Why did you leave? 310 00:19:11,318 --> 00:19:13,520 I couldn't stand it. 311 00:19:13,586 --> 00:19:15,522 It was too much like the army. 312 00:19:15,588 --> 00:19:17,824 A bugle to tell you when to get up... 313 00:19:17,890 --> 00:19:21,160 and another one to tell you when to go to bed at night. 314 00:19:21,228 --> 00:19:24,096 Having to stand in line for chow. 315 00:19:24,163 --> 00:19:26,733 At least you weren't hungry. 316 00:19:26,799 --> 00:19:30,970 Come on, Gino, why did you leave? 317 00:19:31,037 --> 00:19:35,174 Some guy took some money and they tried to pin it on me... 318 00:19:35,242 --> 00:19:38,311 so I just took off. 319 00:19:38,378 --> 00:19:40,880 Did you steal it? 320 00:19:40,947 --> 00:19:47,153 Would I be hanging around here if I had any money on me? 321 00:19:47,220 --> 00:19:49,856 I guess not. 322 00:19:55,328 --> 00:19:58,331 Where's that old marble? 323 00:19:58,398 --> 00:20:02,835 What is this? 324 00:20:02,902 --> 00:20:04,637 What are you doing? 325 00:20:04,704 --> 00:20:06,939 Found this under here. It's some kind of ad. 326 00:20:07,006 --> 00:20:09,442 -Give me that. -Wait a minute. 327 00:20:09,509 --> 00:20:14,947 "Kids, now you can be rich beyond your wildest dreams. 328 00:20:15,014 --> 00:20:17,550 "Sell Capt. Wylly's Super Fine Blueing 329 00:20:17,617 --> 00:20:19,519 to all your neighbors and clean up." 330 00:20:19,586 --> 00:20:22,255 -This is yours, Jim-Bob. -What if it is? 331 00:20:22,322 --> 00:20:23,990 You're going to get rich selling blueing 332 00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:25,325 to all your neighbors? 333 00:20:25,392 --> 00:20:27,294 I'll show you if you promise not to tell. 334 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:29,296 Okay, what is it? 335 00:20:40,307 --> 00:20:42,809 Twenty cents! 336 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:44,811 Did you get that from selling blueing? 337 00:20:44,877 --> 00:20:46,613 Yeah, and nobody's ever to know about it. 338 00:20:46,679 --> 00:20:49,081 What's so secret about it? 339 00:20:49,148 --> 00:20:50,483 I think it's sinful. 340 00:20:50,550 --> 00:20:53,252 What're you going to do about it? 341 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,322 I don't know. 342 00:20:55,388 --> 00:20:57,557 I'm still struggling with my conscience. 343 00:21:02,629 --> 00:21:05,832 -Well, I'll be off. -What's your hurry, son? 344 00:21:05,898 --> 00:21:07,734 I got to get over to Albemarle County. 345 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:09,469 I promised Mr. Dennis Marshall... 346 00:21:09,536 --> 00:21:11,904 I'd put a day training the new bird dog he bought. 347 00:21:11,971 --> 00:21:15,141 Mr. Dennis Marshall's a rich man. I hope he pays you. 348 00:21:15,207 --> 00:21:18,345 Five dollars, but he won't if I don't get there. 349 00:21:18,411 --> 00:21:20,380 Hello, honey. 350 00:21:20,447 --> 00:21:21,548 -Daddy? -What? 351 00:21:21,614 --> 00:21:23,182 Pete's sick, will you take a look? 352 00:21:23,249 --> 00:21:26,853 Tonight, baby. I'm late for work already. Goodbye, all. 353 00:21:26,919 --> 00:21:29,356 -Goodbye, Daddy. -Have a good day. 354 00:21:29,422 --> 00:21:33,426 Hurry up, all of you. Don't want you to be late for school. 355 00:21:33,493 --> 00:21:37,697 You got to get to school, and right now. 356 00:21:37,764 --> 00:21:41,768 -Mama, why wouldn't he do it? -Do what, Elizabeth? 357 00:21:41,834 --> 00:21:44,671 Something to make Pete feel better. 358 00:21:44,737 --> 00:21:47,306 He hasn't got enough time this morning. 359 00:21:47,374 --> 00:21:49,141 Daddy's got a big day ahead of him. 360 00:21:49,208 --> 00:21:52,712 It's important to us all that he bring back that $5 tonight. 361 00:21:52,779 --> 00:21:56,716 Why? I'd much rather have Pete than $5. 362 00:21:58,918 --> 00:22:01,888 Come on, sweetheart, get ready for school. 363 00:22:08,828 --> 00:22:12,098 Come on, pumpkin. Let's see if I can doctor Pete up for you. 364 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:15,034 Alright? 365 00:22:15,101 --> 00:22:16,769 Come on, Gino, you come, too. 366 00:22:34,921 --> 00:22:37,524 Let's let this little one go. I'll get you another. 367 00:22:37,590 --> 00:22:40,527 I don't want another one. I want Pete. 368 00:22:45,131 --> 00:22:48,635 -He's awful sick, honey. -Daddy could've doctored him. 369 00:22:50,803 --> 00:22:52,639 I'm afraid he needs an animal doctor. 370 00:22:52,705 --> 00:22:54,707 Daddy once doctored Chance 371 00:22:54,774 --> 00:22:56,909 the time she ate too many green apples. 372 00:22:56,976 --> 00:22:58,411 I know. 373 00:22:58,478 --> 00:22:59,779 I'm think this little coon's trouble 374 00:22:59,846 --> 00:23:01,748 is a lot worse than that, though. 375 00:23:01,814 --> 00:23:04,751 -Let's let him go. -No. 376 00:23:13,493 --> 00:23:15,294 You two better get to school. 377 00:23:15,361 --> 00:23:18,164 Gino and I will take care of the raccoon. 378 00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:19,899 Come on, honey. 379 00:23:19,966 --> 00:23:23,436 -Bye, sweetie. -Bye, Mama, bye, Pete. 380 00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:37,617 That little animal would be better off dead. 381 00:23:37,684 --> 00:23:40,119 I don't think we could convince Elizabeth of that. 382 00:23:46,559 --> 00:23:52,732 Hi, Daddy! 383 00:23:52,799 --> 00:23:55,434 -What have you got? -Ain't this a pretty sight? 384 00:23:55,502 --> 00:23:57,604 What is it? 385 00:23:57,670 --> 00:23:59,806 That is a $5 bill. 386 00:23:59,872 --> 00:24:01,440 Wow! We could get enough licorice 387 00:24:01,508 --> 00:24:02,942 for a whole year with that. 388 00:24:03,009 --> 00:24:07,013 Daddy, can we afford to get Dr. Holloway for Pete? 389 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:08,681 I'll just take that. 390 00:24:08,748 --> 00:24:10,583 It's going into the shoe fund so you won't 391 00:24:10,650 --> 00:24:12,519 run barefooted this winter. 392 00:24:12,585 --> 00:24:14,353 Shoot! 393 00:24:14,420 --> 00:24:15,922 It gets mighty cold. 394 00:24:15,988 --> 00:24:18,858 You should have seen that dog.... 395 00:24:18,925 --> 00:24:20,793 [thunder] 396 00:24:29,602 --> 00:24:31,604 Too much static. 397 00:24:31,671 --> 00:24:33,573 It's time to go to bed, anyway. 398 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,075 I'll go to bed, but I won't close my eyes 399 00:24:36,142 --> 00:24:37,710 with this storm brewing. 400 00:24:37,777 --> 00:24:42,181 Only woman I ever knew that could snore with her eyes open. 401 00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:44,250 Goodnight. 402 00:24:48,287 --> 00:24:50,156 Tomorrow's another day. 403 00:24:50,222 --> 00:24:52,992 You go on up, John. I'll get the kitchen. 404 00:24:53,059 --> 00:24:55,461 Tell John-Boy to turn off his light and go to sleep. 405 00:24:55,528 --> 00:25:00,867 Alright, honey. 406 00:25:00,933 --> 00:25:03,703 -Goodnight, Gino. -Goodnight, Mrs. Walton. 407 00:25:30,329 --> 00:25:31,964 [thunder] 408 00:27:41,027 --> 00:27:43,062 Hold it. 409 00:28:03,382 --> 00:28:06,385 It beats me how you can treat this family 410 00:28:06,452 --> 00:28:07,987 that way after we took you in. 411 00:28:08,054 --> 00:28:10,056 I didn't ask you to take me in. 412 00:28:10,122 --> 00:28:12,792 No, we could've left you in the woods, hungry, lame. 413 00:28:12,859 --> 00:28:15,194 That's not our way. 414 00:28:15,261 --> 00:28:17,696 What are you going to do with me, mister? 415 00:28:17,764 --> 00:28:21,300 I've sent for the Sheriff. It's up to him. 416 00:28:21,367 --> 00:28:23,369 What were you going to do with that money 417 00:28:23,435 --> 00:28:24,703 if I hadn't caught you? 418 00:28:24,771 --> 00:28:29,308 There wasn't much. It was hardly $20. 419 00:28:29,375 --> 00:28:32,244 I'll tell you, son, it's a lot to us. 420 00:28:32,311 --> 00:28:35,748 My old man used to pay that much a week in protection money. 421 00:28:35,815 --> 00:28:37,750 What's protection money? 422 00:28:37,817 --> 00:28:39,385 Money that you have to pay to hoods... 423 00:28:39,451 --> 00:28:43,355 else they'll bust up your store, and your head even. 424 00:28:43,422 --> 00:28:45,892 You come from a pretty tough neighborhood. 425 00:28:45,958 --> 00:28:47,894 Place called Hell's Kitchen in New York City. 426 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,830 Told me all about it. 427 00:28:50,897 --> 00:28:52,865 Is that where you learned to steal? 428 00:28:52,932 --> 00:28:57,003 That's where I had to steal to keep alive. 429 00:28:57,069 --> 00:29:00,239 You people don't know what it's like to be poor. 430 00:29:00,306 --> 00:29:02,641 You get hungry, you can go out and grow something... 431 00:29:02,708 --> 00:29:05,644 in the garden or you can shoot it in the forest. 432 00:29:05,711 --> 00:29:08,948 It's not like that in the city. 433 00:29:09,015 --> 00:29:10,416 He's got a point there. 434 00:29:10,482 --> 00:29:13,285 I had it tough all my life, so give me a break. 435 00:29:13,352 --> 00:29:15,521 Want to make it any tougher on me? 436 00:29:15,587 --> 00:29:17,056 No, I don't. 437 00:29:17,123 --> 00:29:19,892 But I don't want to make it any easier, either. 438 00:29:19,959 --> 00:29:22,428 The way I figure it, you're at a crossroads. 439 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:25,764 You can still make of your life what you want it to be. 440 00:29:25,832 --> 00:29:29,435 You sound just like my old man used to. 441 00:29:29,501 --> 00:29:33,139 I guess all fathers sound the same to their sons. 442 00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:38,044 We want so much for them, we get kind of preachy sometimes. 443 00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:39,311 Do you know your father? 444 00:29:39,378 --> 00:29:42,014 You close to him? Can you talk to him? 445 00:29:42,081 --> 00:29:45,117 No, I can't talk to him. 446 00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:47,519 Maybe you should let him know what's happening to you. 447 00:29:47,586 --> 00:29:50,957 Listen, stop telling me how to run my life, will you? 448 00:29:54,093 --> 00:29:57,796 Alright, Gino. It's up to you. 449 00:30:16,548 --> 00:30:19,518 -Morning, Mr. Godsey. -Jason. What can I do for you? 450 00:30:19,585 --> 00:30:22,354 My daddy sent me to see if I could find Sheriff Bridges. 451 00:30:22,421 --> 00:30:23,222 He's not here yet. 452 00:30:23,289 --> 00:30:24,957 He usually drops by every morning 453 00:30:25,024 --> 00:30:26,492 for a bottle of pop, but.... 454 00:30:26,558 --> 00:30:29,561 -Something wrong at your place? -Daddy wants to talk to him. 455 00:30:29,628 --> 00:30:32,564 -Was that all? -Yes, sir. That's the message. 456 00:30:45,677 --> 00:30:49,115 You wanted to talk to me, Jim-Bob? 457 00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:55,421 I have something to confess. 458 00:30:55,487 --> 00:30:56,788 Alright. 459 00:30:56,855 --> 00:31:01,493 I have 20 cents that doesn't belong to me. 460 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,596 Want to tell me how you got the money? 461 00:31:04,663 --> 00:31:06,498 -Blueing. -What? 462 00:31:11,737 --> 00:31:13,272 This ad said you could make money 463 00:31:13,339 --> 00:31:17,944 beyond your wildest dreams. 464 00:31:18,010 --> 00:31:20,812 -And then? -I went to the Baldwin sisters. 465 00:31:20,879 --> 00:31:23,115 You know I don't like you going over there. 466 00:31:23,182 --> 00:31:26,518 I asked them if they wanted to buy some, and they did. 467 00:31:26,585 --> 00:31:29,321 -Where'd you get the blueing? -I didn't. 468 00:31:29,388 --> 00:31:32,624 They just gave me the money, and that's how I got 20 cents. 469 00:31:32,691 --> 00:31:35,394 Are you going to send the money to the company? 470 00:31:35,461 --> 00:31:39,465 I don't know how. 471 00:31:39,531 --> 00:31:42,868 That doesn't seem like such a problem to me. 472 00:31:42,935 --> 00:31:47,539 I don't even know what blueing is, anyway. 473 00:31:47,606 --> 00:31:50,342 If you can sell something without even knowing what it is 474 00:31:50,409 --> 00:31:53,679 you won't have to worry about money for the rest of your life. 475 00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:55,948 I'll tell you what we'll do. 476 00:31:56,015 --> 00:31:58,517 I'll take the money and go over to Mr. Godsey's... 477 00:31:58,584 --> 00:32:00,886 and buy the blueing to give to the Baldwins. 478 00:32:00,953 --> 00:32:03,122 Is 20 cents enough? 479 00:32:03,189 --> 00:32:05,024 Ought to be plenty. 480 00:32:05,091 --> 00:32:08,260 I figure there ought to be at least 5 cents left over. 481 00:32:08,327 --> 00:32:11,497 -That can be your commission. -To keep? 482 00:32:11,563 --> 00:32:13,065 To keep. 483 00:32:26,245 --> 00:32:28,314 I saw Mr. Godsey, Daddy. 484 00:32:28,380 --> 00:32:29,915 -Did you see the Sheriff? -No, sir. 485 00:32:29,982 --> 00:32:33,452 But I left word for him. Should be here pretty soon. 486 00:32:33,519 --> 00:32:36,022 Thank you, son. Now go get yourself ready for school. 487 00:32:36,088 --> 00:32:42,961 Yes, sir. 488 00:32:43,029 --> 00:32:46,932 Not that I enjoy getting anyone arrested. 489 00:32:46,999 --> 00:32:50,936 Sometimes I think there might be a better way to settle problems. 490 00:32:51,003 --> 00:32:55,441 Daddy! 491 00:32:55,507 --> 00:32:59,578 -What is it, little one? -It's Pete. He's awful bad. 492 00:32:59,645 --> 00:33:05,017 Let's go take a look. Maybe he's not as bad as you think. 493 00:33:05,084 --> 00:33:08,554 Gino, you might just be right. 494 00:33:08,620 --> 00:33:11,423 I can't tell you how to live your life. 495 00:33:18,564 --> 00:33:21,700 What did your old man mean by that? 496 00:33:21,767 --> 00:33:24,270 I think he's giving you a chance to run away... 497 00:33:24,336 --> 00:33:26,672 if that's what you want to do. 498 00:33:31,710 --> 00:33:37,749 -Gino. -What? 499 00:33:37,816 --> 00:33:38,984 Remember what he just said about 500 00:33:39,051 --> 00:33:41,120 your being at a crossroads? 501 00:33:41,187 --> 00:33:44,223 What about it? 502 00:33:44,290 --> 00:33:47,626 I reckon I'll be at mine pretty soon. 503 00:33:47,693 --> 00:33:50,529 I just hope everything works out for you. 504 00:33:50,596 --> 00:33:55,834 What do you care? I really don't get this family. 505 00:33:55,901 --> 00:34:01,840 All of this worry over some poor little crummy animal. 506 00:34:01,907 --> 00:34:03,875 And you and your father and everybody trying to... 507 00:34:03,942 --> 00:34:06,512 turn me into some kind of an angel. 508 00:34:06,578 --> 00:34:08,880 That's not so. 509 00:34:08,947 --> 00:34:11,950 I just hate to see you have to throw your life away. 510 00:34:12,017 --> 00:34:14,086 What do you care? 511 00:34:14,153 --> 00:34:17,189 Why should my life matter one way or another... 512 00:34:17,256 --> 00:34:20,659 to a bunch of dirt-poor hicks? 513 00:34:25,497 --> 00:34:27,399 We may be a bunch of dirt-poor hicks... 514 00:34:27,466 --> 00:34:29,935 but we've got something a lot of other people miss. 515 00:34:30,001 --> 00:34:32,037 My mother and father happen to love each other 516 00:34:32,104 --> 00:34:34,606 and they love their children. 517 00:34:34,673 --> 00:34:36,108 I've done a lot of thinking about 518 00:34:36,175 --> 00:34:37,776 what makes this family work. 519 00:34:37,843 --> 00:34:40,846 It's because there's love enough to go around and some to spare! 520 00:34:45,217 --> 00:34:46,718 When my daddy looks at you, he sees me 521 00:34:46,785 --> 00:34:48,754 if I'd been born in Hell's Kitchen. 522 00:34:52,758 --> 00:34:54,360 Guess, maybe we just care about life... 523 00:34:54,426 --> 00:34:57,529 whether it's a wounded raccoon or a runaway boy. 524 00:35:08,140 --> 00:35:10,108 Honey, don't touch. 525 00:35:14,813 --> 00:35:17,683 Will he be alright? 526 00:35:17,749 --> 00:35:20,051 Why don't you go get your books ready for school. 527 00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:21,920 I'll keep an eye on Pete. 528 00:35:21,987 --> 00:35:24,856 They're already together. 529 00:35:24,923 --> 00:35:28,026 How about helping your sisters make the bed, okay? 530 00:35:28,093 --> 00:35:32,030 I did. I want to stay here with Pete. 531 00:35:32,097 --> 00:35:36,468 Sure, baby. 532 00:35:36,535 --> 00:35:39,571 You know what might just work? 533 00:35:39,638 --> 00:35:40,906 What? 534 00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:43,342 Sassafras tea and honey. 535 00:35:43,409 --> 00:35:45,277 How could we get him to drink it? 536 00:35:45,344 --> 00:35:47,346 We could spoon-feed it to him. 537 00:35:47,413 --> 00:35:49,114 Go ask your mama to brew some up. 538 00:35:49,181 --> 00:35:52,518 Put lots of honey in, okay? 539 00:35:52,584 --> 00:35:56,121 Are you sure it will be good for him? 540 00:35:56,188 --> 00:35:59,625 It's worth a try. 541 00:35:59,691 --> 00:36:01,427 I'll be back. 542 00:36:17,809 --> 00:36:19,945 Is there anything I can do, Mr. Walton? 543 00:36:22,848 --> 00:36:28,053 No, Gino, afraid not. 544 00:36:28,119 --> 00:36:29,588 Sassafras tea and honey? 545 00:36:29,655 --> 00:36:31,623 Are you sure that's what he said? 546 00:36:31,690 --> 00:36:35,060 Honest, Mama. Hurry, I don't think there's much time. 547 00:36:35,126 --> 00:36:38,264 I've heard of sassafras tea and honey for a lot of things... 548 00:36:38,330 --> 00:36:40,299 but never for a sick raccoon. 549 00:36:40,366 --> 00:36:42,000 We're going to spoon-feed it to him. 550 00:36:42,067 --> 00:36:44,503 I guess it won't hurt the poor little thing. 551 00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:46,672 It just might do the trick, at that. 552 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:50,842 Will it take long? 553 00:36:50,909 --> 00:36:53,845 Just as long as it takes a kettle to boil. 554 00:37:15,301 --> 00:37:20,306 Daddy. Is Pete alright? 555 00:37:20,372 --> 00:37:22,408 I'm afraid he's dead, baby. 556 00:37:27,613 --> 00:37:29,448 [crying] 557 00:37:49,301 --> 00:37:51,770 [mouth organ music] 558 00:38:32,744 --> 00:38:36,314 Lord God, we are gathered here to bury this little creature. 559 00:38:37,783 --> 00:38:41,720 If your eye is on the sparrow, then I guess it's on Pete, too. 560 00:38:43,422 --> 00:38:45,357 We ask your blessing on this family... 561 00:38:45,424 --> 00:38:49,361 and keep us safe in your name. Amen. 562 00:38:55,266 --> 00:38:57,703 I've baked a nice chocolate cake. 563 00:38:57,769 --> 00:39:02,307 You can have the first piece. 564 00:39:02,374 --> 00:39:07,112 Why'd he have to die, anyway? 565 00:39:07,178 --> 00:39:09,247 It were his time to go, child. 566 00:39:09,314 --> 00:39:12,050 It isn't fair. 567 00:39:12,117 --> 00:39:16,588 I'm sorry that it had to come to you so early in life... 568 00:39:16,655 --> 00:39:19,057 but a part of living is dying. 569 00:39:19,124 --> 00:39:22,027 When a body is wore out, whether it's a creature or... 570 00:39:22,093 --> 00:39:26,231 a human to let go of life can be a blessing. 571 00:39:26,297 --> 00:39:28,667 I want you to understand that. 572 00:39:28,734 --> 00:39:31,336 Will that bring him back? 573 00:39:31,403 --> 00:39:33,405 Well, no. 574 00:39:33,472 --> 00:39:35,306 You could've saved him if you wanted to. 575 00:39:35,373 --> 00:39:37,843 But you were too busy and didn't care! 576 00:39:48,153 --> 00:39:50,522 My God, Liv, did I do that? 577 00:39:50,589 --> 00:39:54,560 You were busy, John. You tried to explain it to her. 578 00:39:54,626 --> 00:39:56,995 Just don't know what to say to her. 579 00:39:58,964 --> 00:40:00,732 [thunder] 580 00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:24,389 Listen, kid. 581 00:40:24,456 --> 00:40:29,160 Little girl. 582 00:40:29,227 --> 00:40:33,965 Elizabeth? 583 00:40:34,032 --> 00:40:38,970 That kind of stuff never did anybody any good. 584 00:40:39,037 --> 00:40:41,006 Only sissies cry. 585 00:40:46,077 --> 00:40:48,246 I'm no sissy. 586 00:40:48,313 --> 00:40:50,516 I know it. 587 00:40:50,582 --> 00:40:57,355 You're a tough guy, aren't you? 588 00:40:57,422 --> 00:41:00,225 Right now you're feeling cheated. 589 00:41:00,291 --> 00:41:02,027 You know, like it's not fair. 590 00:41:02,093 --> 00:41:04,395 I'm never going to speak to Daddy again. 591 00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:06,097 He could've stopped it. 592 00:41:06,164 --> 00:41:10,969 Sometimes when death comes, it's welcome. 593 00:41:12,904 --> 00:41:16,041 Sometimes it's the right thing to happen. 594 00:41:16,107 --> 00:41:19,277 What do you know about it, anyway? 595 00:41:19,344 --> 00:41:21,346 Plenty. 596 00:41:21,412 --> 00:41:26,217 I saw my old man, my daddy, die. 597 00:41:29,220 --> 00:41:31,557 I had a pretty good family one time. 598 00:41:31,623 --> 00:41:35,126 You know, Mom, the old man, a little sister. 599 00:41:35,193 --> 00:41:37,863 We didn't live grand, the way you do here... 600 00:41:37,929 --> 00:41:41,032 with fresh air and good stuff to eat and everything. 601 00:41:41,099 --> 00:41:43,602 We lived in what they call a tenement. 602 00:41:43,669 --> 00:41:46,905 It's a dark old building with rats 603 00:41:46,972 --> 00:41:48,439 running up and down the halls... 604 00:41:48,506 --> 00:41:51,209 and garbage all over the place. 605 00:41:51,276 --> 00:41:56,715 It's kind of hard for you to picture, huh? 606 00:41:56,782 --> 00:41:58,817 First we lost my mom. 607 00:41:58,884 --> 00:42:01,452 And for a while we got by... 608 00:42:01,519 --> 00:42:04,623 my old man and me taking turns cooking and all that stuff. 609 00:42:04,690 --> 00:42:06,324 Did your sister help? 610 00:42:06,391 --> 00:42:10,261 She wasn't but five, but she did what she could. 611 00:42:10,328 --> 00:42:14,232 Then one day my old man, he was working in his store... 612 00:42:14,299 --> 00:42:16,868 and these hoods came in. 613 00:42:16,935 --> 00:42:18,436 Hoods? 614 00:42:18,503 --> 00:42:21,807 You'd call them bad guys, I guess. 615 00:42:21,873 --> 00:42:25,577 Anyway, they came into the store and they told my old man... 616 00:42:25,644 --> 00:42:28,647 they had to have this protection money. 617 00:42:28,714 --> 00:42:31,650 He told them to get lost. 618 00:42:31,717 --> 00:42:34,786 And there was a fight... 619 00:42:34,853 --> 00:42:37,956 and they shot him. 620 00:42:38,023 --> 00:42:42,227 Your father? 621 00:42:42,293 --> 00:42:45,196 My sister and I, we heard the shots... 622 00:42:45,263 --> 00:42:51,202 and we ran down there and we found him. 623 00:42:51,269 --> 00:42:53,672 He was really hurt bad... 624 00:42:53,739 --> 00:42:58,476 but he was still thinking of us, as bad off as he was. 625 00:42:58,543 --> 00:43:01,312 I called for some help... 626 00:43:01,379 --> 00:43:05,216 and my sister and I, we sat down beside him... 627 00:43:05,283 --> 00:43:08,787 and we prayed to God to let him live. 628 00:43:10,889 --> 00:43:14,993 After a while I couldn't stand him being in such pain. 629 00:43:17,028 --> 00:43:20,666 I just stopped praying... 630 00:43:20,732 --> 00:43:23,735 and he died. 631 00:43:23,802 --> 00:43:27,205 I'm sorry, Gino. 632 00:43:27,272 --> 00:43:31,142 You see, it was right for him to let go of life... 633 00:43:31,209 --> 00:43:34,646 and it was right for us to let go of him. 634 00:43:34,713 --> 00:43:38,049 What is death? 635 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:42,854 I think it's just closing your eyes... 636 00:43:42,921 --> 00:43:46,692 and instead of the darkness, you see the light. 637 00:43:54,432 --> 00:43:57,936 Never gonna be able to see him again, are you? 638 00:44:00,505 --> 00:44:01,840 No. 639 00:44:07,746 --> 00:44:10,081 I think I'd like to find my daddy. 640 00:44:18,356 --> 00:44:20,692 I'm right here, baby. 641 00:44:29,300 --> 00:44:35,540 Daddy, Sheriff Bridges just drove up. He wants to see you. 642 00:44:35,606 --> 00:44:37,542 How good are you at hiding, son? 643 00:44:37,608 --> 00:44:38,910 Pretty good. 644 00:44:38,977 --> 00:44:41,479 What are you standing there for? Go on back up. 645 00:44:41,546 --> 00:44:43,481 You're not going to turn me in? 646 00:44:43,548 --> 00:44:48,286 Go on back up. 647 00:44:48,353 --> 00:44:52,457 He's talking to Erin. She going to blab everything she knows. 648 00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:56,094 You two hold him off while we stay here. 649 00:45:04,770 --> 00:45:06,838 Just jawing with your daughter here. 650 00:45:06,905 --> 00:45:08,239 What about? 651 00:45:08,306 --> 00:45:12,277 I was just explaining about the C.C.C. camps. 652 00:45:12,343 --> 00:45:14,379 How come? 653 00:45:14,445 --> 00:45:15,480 Erin here wanted to know. 654 00:45:15,546 --> 00:45:16,882 He was telling me about some boy 655 00:45:16,948 --> 00:45:18,750 that ran away from the C.C.C. camp. 656 00:45:18,817 --> 00:45:22,553 I was asking him what a C.C.C. camp was. 657 00:45:22,620 --> 00:45:23,822 What was he telling you? 658 00:45:23,889 --> 00:45:25,857 About how some kids grow up in the city... 659 00:45:25,924 --> 00:45:27,258 and never get to climb trees 660 00:45:27,325 --> 00:45:30,028 or go fishing or even play on real grass. 661 00:45:30,095 --> 00:45:32,764 And sometimes when they grow up they get to be.... 662 00:45:32,831 --> 00:45:36,701 Delinquent. Run astray of the law. 663 00:45:36,768 --> 00:45:40,772 Of course, the C.C.C.s like to get hold of them before then. 664 00:45:40,839 --> 00:45:44,675 That's all we said, Daddy. 665 00:45:44,742 --> 00:45:48,213 Into the house, now. 666 00:45:48,279 --> 00:45:51,149 One of your boys left word with Ike that you wanted to see me. 667 00:45:51,216 --> 00:45:52,984 Sorry I couldn't come before now. 668 00:45:53,051 --> 00:45:55,220 That's alright, Ep. No hurry. 669 00:45:55,286 --> 00:45:58,456 What did you want to see me about? 670 00:45:58,523 --> 00:46:00,758 Quail season opens Saturday. 671 00:46:00,826 --> 00:46:02,093 Thought maybe you'd want to get 672 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,594 your boys to go up and try your luck. 673 00:46:03,661 --> 00:46:07,098 I'd like that fine. Where do you want to try them? 674 00:46:07,165 --> 00:46:08,967 Up in the mountain, John-Boy's Meadow. 675 00:46:09,034 --> 00:46:11,102 Nice covey of quail up there. 676 00:46:11,169 --> 00:46:13,204 John, I'm going to see you Saturday. 677 00:46:13,271 --> 00:46:15,440 -Bright and early. -Bye, Sheriff. 678 00:46:15,506 --> 00:46:17,909 Goodbye, I'll be there. 679 00:46:29,988 --> 00:46:32,357 Grandpa, come on in, it's alright. 680 00:46:32,423 --> 00:46:35,293 Alright, Gino, we're safe. Come along. 681 00:46:43,835 --> 00:46:45,937 -You got rid of him easy. -Sure did. 682 00:46:46,004 --> 00:46:49,240 Told him we were going quail hunting. 683 00:46:49,307 --> 00:46:52,343 Mr. Walton, Mrs. Walton, I want to thank you... 684 00:46:52,410 --> 00:46:55,280 -for all you did for me. -No need for that, Gino. 685 00:46:55,346 --> 00:46:58,783 I mean the way you fixed my leg and fed me... 686 00:46:58,850 --> 00:47:00,886 and after what I tried to do. 687 00:47:00,952 --> 00:47:03,054 I want you to know I appreciate it. 688 00:47:05,723 --> 00:47:09,961 -I'll be thinking about you. -Going somewhere, Gino? 689 00:47:10,028 --> 00:47:12,430 -Yeah. -Back to the city? 690 00:47:12,497 --> 00:47:16,201 I thought I'd give the C.C.C. another try. 691 00:47:16,267 --> 00:47:19,804 There maybe something in this nature junk after all. 692 00:47:19,871 --> 00:47:22,941 Wait for this rain to stop, and I'll run you over there. 693 00:47:23,008 --> 00:47:24,809 Come on in the house, Gino, and get yourself 694 00:47:24,876 --> 00:47:27,845 a big piece of chocolate cake. 695 00:47:40,491 --> 00:47:42,193 What're you doing, baby? 696 00:47:42,260 --> 00:47:46,297 I've been fixing up Pete. See? 697 00:47:46,364 --> 00:47:48,866 I tell you what. 698 00:47:48,934 --> 00:47:53,138 Why don't I catch you another raccoon, a healthy one? 699 00:47:53,204 --> 00:47:55,941 No, a healthy one wouldn't need me the way Pete did. 700 00:47:56,007 --> 00:47:58,076 Besides, Grandma said wild things 701 00:47:58,143 --> 00:48:00,711 are better off with their own kind. 702 00:48:00,778 --> 00:48:02,880 Baby, I reckon they are. 703 00:48:06,017 --> 00:48:09,254 For a while after he left, Gino used to write to us. 704 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,890 At first from the C.C.C. camp and later from New York City... 705 00:48:12,958 --> 00:48:16,094 where he returned when the Depression was over. 706 00:48:16,161 --> 00:48:18,896 Today where the C.C.C. camp once stood 707 00:48:18,964 --> 00:48:20,665 is a national park. 708 00:48:20,731 --> 00:48:22,733 In autumn, when the leaves are gold 709 00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,736 and russet and lemon yellow and apple red... 710 00:48:25,803 --> 00:48:27,838 people drive for hundreds of miles... 711 00:48:27,905 --> 00:48:32,978 to refresh their souls and their spirit with beauty. 712 00:48:33,044 --> 00:48:34,412 John-Boy? 713 00:48:34,479 --> 00:48:38,149 -Yes, honey? -Can flowers talk? 714 00:48:38,216 --> 00:48:39,850 I don't know, Elizabeth. Why? 715 00:48:39,917 --> 00:48:43,021 I passed a hollyhock today and heard something whisper. 716 00:48:43,088 --> 00:48:45,590 What do you think? 717 00:48:45,656 --> 00:48:47,192 I think if we learned to listen 718 00:48:47,258 --> 00:48:49,094 we could hear all kinds of miracles. 719 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,429 -Goodnight, John-Boy. -Goodnight. 720 00:48:52,897 --> 00:48:55,033 [music] 721 00:48:59,137 --> 00:49:02,640 In a moment, some scenes from the next episode of The Waltons