Wagon Train (TV Series)

Path of the Serpent (1961)

Robert Horton: Flint McCullough

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• Flint McCullough : We're now travelling as high as the Rockies as our route will take us. I never pass through here without thinking of Jim Bridger and all the stories he used to tell about the mountain men. This is a strange, remote part of the world. Only a certain breed of men live here, be they Indian or White.

• Penelope Huntington : I've been hungering for someting all my life not knowing what it was. Now I see it all before me. The wonderful smell of pine trees, and cedar and firs, giant mountains holding up the sky, it's all familiar to me. I've such a sense of well-being. I'm home at last.

  Flint McCullough : Well, I hope you find what you're hungering for. Most people seldom do.

  Penelope Huntington : Haven't you?

  Flint McCullough : No. No. I keep riding up the mountains hoping I'll find a home. But I always have an urgency to keep riding towards the horizon.

• Flint McCullough : There's only one route for wagons through this part of the Rockies and we'll follow it closely. Check all the landmarks every mile of the way. It's the most dangerous stretch of wilderness between St Joe and San Fransisco. It's Shoshone country but, this time of year, other tribes prowl the forest. Utes ride up from the South, sometimes find trading posts willing to give them guns and whiskey in exchange for Government goods. and then a reign of terror sweeps the countryside until the firewater runs out.

• Flint McCullough : I'm glad I met you, Ruddy.

  Ruddy Blaine : You see old Bridger, you tell him we met up. And tell him he did a fine job on you.

• Flint McCullough : Jeff Bridger says Ruddy Blaine is the greatest mountain man alive.

  Penelope Huntington : What's the matter?

  Flint McCullough : Oh, it's just the sound.

  Penelope Huntington : What sound?

  Flint McCullough : The sound of the forest.

  Penelope Huntington : But there isn't any sounds at all.

  Flint McCullough : There's a pattern to the sound of the forest and, if anything breaks it, it's a warning.

  Penelope Huntington : What kind of warning?

  Flint McCullough : To keep your eyes open. I'm going to ride up front and have a look around.

• Flint McCullough : Ruddy Blaine? The Devil you are.

  Ruddy Blaine : No, the Devil I ain't. Ruddy Blaine's who I am and no kin to the Devil. This here's Corporal Clay Taylor.

  Flint McCullough : Taylor. I'm glad to meet you. I'm Flint McCullough.

  Ruddy Blaine : McCullough? Bridger raised a cub named McCullough.

  Flint McCullough : That'd be me.

  Ruddy Blaine : Now I'm glad to meet you.

• Ruddy Blaine : I figure I can make it in two. Over the Path of the Serpent.

  Flint McCullough : Do you think that's going to be safe for the girl?

  Ruddy Blaine : I ain't one to deny she'd be better off with you. But if she wants to see her Pa alive, she's gotta chance it.

  Flint McCullough : What about the Utes?

  Ruddy Blaine : We scouted both sides of the river. There ain't no sign of them now.