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Duel at Florence is the fifth episode of the second season of Have Gun - Will Travel , and the forty-fourth episode overall.

Starring : Richard Boone ( Paladin )

Additional Cast : Dean Harens (Ernie Teller), Bonnie Bolding (Belle Hooper), Charles Gray (Jeff), John Alderson (Max), Kam Tong ( Hey Boy ), Hank Patterson (Plainsman)

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44-“duel at florence”.

Season 2, Episode 5 – Original Airdate: (October 11, 1958)

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, Written by Bruce Geller.

DEAN HARENS as Ernie Teller – Barber BONNIE BOLDING as Belle Hooper CHARLES H. GRAY as Jeff Sunderland ( The Pledge , 1960) as Cavalry Lieutenant JOHN ALDERSON as Max Clay ( Justice in Hell , 1962) as Rusty Doggett HANK PATTERSON as Hank – Plainsman ( Jonah and the Trout , 1962) as Mr. Barton – Insurance Agent ( The Hunt , 1962) as Jesse – Old Man ( Blind Circle , 1961) as Jess Larker ( El Paso Stage , 1961) as Judge Robbins ( The Lady on the Wall , 1960) as Rafe Adams ( Unforgiven , 1959) as Ronson ( In an Evil Time , 1958) as Pappy French ( Twenty-Four Hours at North Fork , 1958) as Stage Driver ( Gun Shy , 1958) as Pete Gilson

I assure you, Mr. Sunderland, you’ll get what you’re paying for. And you, Mr. Clay…You’ll get what you’re asking for. Whenever you’re ready.

HEY BOY Wire for you, Mr. Paladin.

PALADIN Hey boy, I didn’t know you read hotel guests’ mail.

HEY BOY Not always. Only sometime. When envelope is open. Your mail easily the best in the whole hotel.

PALADIN Thank you very much, Hey Boy. “ Your presence required in Florence, California. Enclosed, money order. $82.17.” No signature.

HEY BOY That’s not even enough money for your newspaper for one year.

PALADIN Well, it certainly is an odd amount. Hey Boy, hold my mail for the next few days, will you? After you’re finished reading it.

HEY BOY You’re going?

PALADIN I am.

HEY BOY Eighty-two Dollars and seventeen cents. Business must be very bad.

EXT. TOWN OF FLORENCE – FLORENCE HOTEL – DAY

[Paladin arrives in town only to dodge gunfire by hanging onto the eves of the Florence Hotel.  A barber comes up to him seeking a customer.]

ERNIE TELLER Shave, Mister? Want to clean up a bit? Shave’s 15 cents. Haircut’s the same. Both for two bits. Clean-up’s free.

PALADIN All right…I’ll take a shave.

ERNIE TELLER Right over here.

PALADIN Thank you.

INT. BARBER SHOP

ERNIE TELLER You uh… Come a distance?

PALADIN That’s right. People in this town like gunfighting in the street?

ERNIE TELLER Oh, no. Those two been growling at each other all week. They started shooting this morning. Fixed themselves up some cover, as you can see, Then settled down to see who’d make the first mistake.

PALADIN Why doesn’t someone try to stop it?

ERNIE TELLER That’s Jeff Sunderland and Max Clay out there, Mister. They’re ugly men and they don’t want it stopped.

PALADIN Is that so? What’s their quarrel?

ERNIE TELLER Belle Hooper. They both want to marry her.

PALADIN Well, I guess Charles Darwin would approve.

ERNIE TELLER He want to marry Belle too?

PALADIN No! He’s a scientist with a theory about survival of the fittest.

ERNIE TELLER Oh. Belle put them up to it?

ERNIE TELLER No, she don’t want to marry either one of ’em. She’s got another fella.

PALADIN Is that so? What’s your name?

ERNIE TELLER Ernie Teller.

PALADIN Ernie… Where’d you get that card?

ERNIE TELLER Oh, this woman came in awhile back. Think she must have been an actress or something. She had the nicest hair I ever did cut. Kinda red gold. Anyway, when she reached in her purse to pay me, The card slipped out. Funny, she sure was mad about something. She stamped on it when she left.

PALADIN Red gold, huh?

ERNIE TELLER That’s right.

PALADIN Ernie… $82.17. That amount of money mean anything to you?

[We see Paladin’s card]

ERNIE TELLER Reckoned you might be the one when I saw you ride in. That’d be me that sent that wire. $82 is all I had. I was hoping you’d get here before it came to guns, and headed off. I, uh… Suppose you wonder why.

PALADIN I think I know why. That third man, the one Belle wants to marry. That’d be you.

PALADIN Careful near the mustache, huh? You’ve got a nice touch.

ERNIE TELLER Ain’t much I do well but barbering’s my trade. ‘course I do a little vetting and some doctoring too. Forty miles to a real doc and… I kinda like to fix folks up. Just patchwork, I don’t know much yet.

PALADIN Seems to me if this Belle is the right sort of girl, she’d marry you now and help you while you studied medicine.

ERNIE TELLER Well, she would if…I..

PALADIN She wants something you won’t give her? Like a gunfight?

ERNIE TELLER I just can’t shoot anyone, Mr. Paladin. I seen a lot of bullet holes. Little and angry going in and…Real big and ripped coming out. I hear a shot and…I see a hole through someone.

PALADIN Well Ernie, that’s very touching. ‘course you wouldn’t mind if I made those holes for you.

ERNIE TELLER I don’t really want that neither. Somebody’s gotta do something to stop those two. Belle thinks I’m just scared to get my head blown in.

PALADIN You don’t need a head if you’re not going to use it.

ERNIE TELLER Huh?

PALADIN If I gun down Jeff and max, Belle’s gonna want you to fight me for her.

ERNIE TELLER You wouldn’t do that, would you?

BELLE HOOPER Wouldn’t do what, Ernie?

ERNIE TELLER You got no business out there with that fight going on.

ERNIE TELLER Nothing.

BELLE HOOPER Nothing? Ernie, maybe next minute Jeff or Max is gonna come walking in that door saying, “Belle, I killed him for you,” And grab me. And who’s to stop him? It’ll be too late then ’cause he’ll have a right. You’ve got to stop that fight now.

PALADIN The only way to stop that fight is to start another one.

BELLE HOOPER I don’t care. Just so it’s stopped.

PALADIN You want Ernie out there fighting those two men?

BELLE HOOPER I want Ernie doing something! Where does he fit into this anyway?

PALADIN My name is Paladin. You could say I’m one of those innocent bystanders Who might get winged. So I’ll even the odds up a little bit. Ernie and I will take on Jeff and Max. All right, Ernie?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER All right. Jeff, why are you shaving in the middle of this gunfight?

JEFF SUNDERLAND I figure tonight’s gonna be my wedding night. I have been hacking myself to pieces. Would you give me a hand, Ernie?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Sure.

JEFF SUNDERLAND You best have some legitimate reason For interrupting me during a fight, sir.

PALADIN Best reason in the world. There’s no point to it. Should be stopped.

JEFF SUNDERLAND It’s not your affair. You better get out of this Before you get shot accidentally.

PALADIN You’re up against the wrong man, you know.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Your pardon?

PALADIN It’s Ernie here that Belle wants to marry.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Wrong man? You’re trifling with the wrong man, sir.

PALADIN Tell him, Ernie.

ERNIE TELLER It’s so.

JEFF SUNDERLAND That’s remarkably bad taste on Belle’s part. Still, Ernie here can wait til I’m done with Max.

PALADIN You’re wrong. Way I see it, It’s you and Max shooting it out Montana style against Ernie and me.

JEFF SUNDERLAND You’re beginning to annoy me, sir.

PALADIN Well, that helps. Before you use this gun, I’d like to remind you about that razor scraping your throat.

JEFF SUNDERLAND You are sorely tempting me to shoot you flush, and no nonsense about a duel.

PALADIN Well, I’ll try the sporting man in you. I’ll be very happy to make a $1,000 side bet with you. If it’s Montana style.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Done and done. I’d admire killing you at a profit. Just who is it I’ll be killing?

PALADIN My name is Paladin. Ernie…

JEFF SUNDERLAND What do I owe you for the shave, Ernie?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER On the house, Jeff.

EXT. ON THE SIDE OF MAX

MAX CLAY You’re a mealy-mouthed liar! Any word out of you is gonna be your last.

PALADIN I repeat, Belle wants to marry Ernie. Not you or Jeff.

MAX CLAY I’m betting now. Jeff Sunderland drew the first blood, But I’m gonna drain all of his. And Belle’ll be my woman. If Ernie wants to do anything about it, He’s welcome! Now get going, the both of you!

PALADIN Doesn’t it make any difference to you that Belle wants Ernie, not you?

MAX CLAY Who cares what any woman wants? Told you to get going. I fight one fight at a time.

PALADIN No Montana duel?

MAX CLAY No.

PALADIN There’s no way I can convince you?

MAX CLAY Listen you…I’ve killed plenty of men that caused me less trouble than you. Now get going down that street, and pray you don’t get a bullet in the back of your head!

PALADIN Now Max, you were saying?

MAX CLAY We’ll finish this with guns, Mister.

PALADIN That’s very clever of you, Max. Suggest a Montana duel, of course?

MAX CLAY You talk better than I do. We’ll see how you talk with a mouthful of blood.

PALADIN Max? Jeff? Ernie and I will take your wagon.

MAX CLAY Oh no, you won’t.

JEFF SUNDERLAND I don’t believe you will.

PALADIN Very well, you gentlemen take that barricade. Now, you know Montana rules. One rifle, two bullets to each man. Everyone breaks from cover at the signal.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Who gives the signal?

PALADIN The one appropriate choice.

BELLE HOOPER No please, Mr. Paladin.

PALADIN Methinks the Lady doth protest too much. She agreeable to you?

JEFF SUNDERLAND She’s fine, Sir.

PALADIN Max?

MAX CLAY Sure.

PALADIN Ernie?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER All right.

PALADIN We’ll meet back here in ten minutes. That gives you time to plan whatever strategy you want.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Let’s go get a drink, Max.

PALADIN You should find this very amusing. I wonder who it’ll be that gets killed. It’ll probably make you feel much more like a woman, Having four men shoot it out over you in the street. Excuse me.

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Why did you let ’em have Max’s wagon? It’s the best cover.

PALADIN I want them to have it. Sun’ll be in their eyes. You have a rifle? You ever fire this?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER No. I ain’t gonna either. There’s a lot of people out there and gonna be more. I might hit one of ’em. About the only thing I’m not going to hit, is the thing I’m aiming at. That fella who thought up that survival of the fittest.

PALADIN Darwin.

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Yeah, that’s him. He wouldn’t think shucks of me, would he? I’m just not very fit. Not here. Don’t know how to kill people. Don’t want to neither. And that’s no likely way to survive. Not around here. Just don’t seem fair that surviving has to mean killing somebody else. I just ain’t gonna try it.

PALADIN Ernie, your reasoning’s fair enough. But when a man comes after you with a gun, reason becomes merely words. Survival means action.

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Somebody’s gotta start settling things without guns. Somebody just has to be the first one.

PALADIN You’re not the only one here with a survival problem. Someday this country won’t be so hard. People like you will still be here, And the killers will be dead. But for now…Put two bullets in that. I’ll be right back.

EXT. ON THE STREET

PALADIN Your horse?

HANK – PLAINSMAN And my rifle.

PALADIN Mind if I borrow it? I’ll pay for the bullets and the drinks later.

HANK – PLAINSMAN I’ve seen Jeff and max use their rifles. Could you buy me the drink before the fight?

PALADIN All right, let’s do it that way. I haven’t time to change my will to include a liquor request. What do you allow for the sights?

HANK – PLAINSMAN ’bout four inches to the right, every 100 yards. Hey Charlie! Get out of the way. You want to get shot?

PALADIN It also drops about two inches. All right, I’ll buy you that drink now.

HANK – PLAINSMAN Well, there’s no real hurry.

PALADIN Come on.

INT. FLORENCE SALOON – DAY

PALADIN What do you drink, Mister?

HANK – PLAINSMAN Whiskey, and my name is Hank.

PALADIN Whiskey. You gentlemen planned your fight?

MAX CLAY You’ll find out soon enough.

JEFF SUNDERLAND To your discomfort, I trust.

PALADIN That’s a very apt toast. To the discomfort of our enemies. I suppose you’re determined to go through with this Montana shootout.

MAX CLAY Now listen to him, crawling around.

JEFF SUNDERLAND After all you’ve done to start this fight. Are you seriously trying to call it off?

PALADIN Not at all. I knew that in the heat of your own battle, reason could never prevail. But I thought now you’ve had a chance to cool out, You might possibly understand the reason of letting belle choose the man she wants to marry. Sorry, my mistake.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Maybe your last mistake. Yours and that barber’s.

MAX CLAY Or any with a rifle. It’s gonna be something to see.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Tell the truth, sir. You’re trying to back out ’cause you realize that once the shooting starts, You’ll be out there all by yourself.

PALADIN You choose to misunderstand me. Hank? Mr. Sunderland, I assure you You’ll get what you’re paying for. And Mr. Clay, you’ll certainly get What you’ve been asking for. Any time you’re ready. Help yourself, Hank.

BELLE HOOPER Mister…Mister, what was it again?

PALADIN I think I’d just as soon be plain mister to you, belle.

BELLE HOOPER What you said before could be true.

PALADIN A fight over a woman usually starts with a woman.

BELLE HOOPER Yes, I did encourage Max and Jeff a little, but… Some of it’s Ernie’s fault. He’s got to show some bit of spunk. A wife would be entitled to some protection, and the children. It can be hard just to grow to be old enough To protect yourself out here. Nobody thinks Ernie can do it.

PALADIN He agreed to fight.

BELLE HOOPER Because you came. You’re awfully good with a gun, I saw that. Now it’s ernie needs protecting. Maybe this is all on my head and… I ain’t asking you to like me for it. But don’t let him get hurt.

PALADIN Well, it’s late for that.

BELLE HOOPER Please, listen to me. I want you to understand this. I had a father who didn’t believe in violence. He’d never fight. He turned the other cheek. We ran from town to town. Soon as the people saw the way he was, The bullies would be on us. They roughed him and they laughed at him. And they made free with all of us. Maybe my pa was in the right. But that didn’t make it hurt less. No, mister. Not for my kids!

PALADIN Here. Use that to signal with. Belle, maybe this’ll turn out all right. Ernie!

JEFF SUNDERLAND Which one do you want?

MAX CLAY Both.

PALADIN Well, you won’t need those. Hank!

PALADIN All right, let’s see ’em. Here’s my $1,000.

JEFF SUNDERLAND And mine, sir. Let her hold the stakes. I don’t care to empty a dead man’s pockets.

BELLE HOOPER Please call it off. If I did anything or said anything to make you think that…

PALADIN Let’s go.

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER I’m not at all a drinking man but, Right now I wish I was. I uh… I didn’t load the gun. The bullets are in the sand out there.

PALADIN I know. We’ll have to break out of here at the signal. Get behind that water trough. Keep your head down and stay there.

PALADIN Drop it, Max. Drop it! Shame, Max. Shame! Can’t you count?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER You all right?

MAX CLAY No. Gunshot.

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Good.

JEFF SUNDERLAND Well, stakes are yours. I’ll ride you as far as the dock.

P Thank you.

BELLE HOOPER Oh, Ernie!

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Belle.

BELLE HOOPER You didn’t even fire that old rifle. Makes no difference if you didn’t hit anything, You could have at least fired it. Oh, Ernie! You didn’t even load it!

PALADIN You think that’s funny? How many of you would have come out from behind a barricade Without any ammunition in that rifle? If I were you, I’d concentrate On being a good enough wife for Ernie. Unless you don’t recognize quite a man when you see one.

BELLE HOOPER Oh, Ernie. You’re a blind fool.

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Sorry, Belle. It’s just the way I am. I guess you’ll just have to take it or leave it.

BELLE HOOPER Oh, Ernie. I love you.

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Oh, Belle.

PALADIN May I offer my best wishes, And trouble you for my $2,000, please?

BELLE HOOPER Oh, yes. How’d you ever come to know a man like him?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER Uh, well…Ours was a financial relationship.

BELLE HOOPER How much did you pay him to come here?

ERNIE TELLER – BARBER $82.17.

BELLE HOOPER Oh, that’s just about all you ever saved up. And it’s much too much. Besides, you won $1,000.

PALADIN I had the size of my fee in mind, when I made the bet. See I’ll call the $82…$83, a wedding gift. Except I’ll just take out $10 for my expenses.

BELLE HOOPER Thanks. It’s just a matter of standing up to someone. A doctor’s the last man folks pay, And you’re gonna have to learn how to collect on your bills. So you see, the next…

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• Have Gun, Will Travel

Duel at Florence

Have gun, will travel  - s2  - e5.

Paladin receives a letter with a bank draft for .17 from Ernie Teller asking for help with a matrimonial problem.

Have Gun, Will Travel: Season 2 - 39 Episode s

2x1 - The Manhunter

September 13, 1958

Paladin is forced to kill Jimmy Dawes, wanted for murder. When he takes him back to his home town, the townspeople, the sheriff and the boy's brothers give him a hostile welcome.

2x2 - In an Evil Time

September 20, 1958

Pappy French and his gang have robbed the bank in Mercede of ,000. Pappy ran off with the cash and left his gang to shoot it out with the law. Paladin is hired to bring Pappy and the money back.

2x3 - The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

September 27, 1958

Chris Sorenson is shy around women and he asks Paladin to help him with his new neighbor, Senorita Maria de Castro, a lady rancher. Complicating the matter is cattle missing from the de Castro ranch.

2x4 - The Hanging of Roy Carter

October 4, 1958

Roy Carter is scheduled to be hanged. Another man confesses to the murder just before the execution is to take place. Paladin is hired to try to convince the warden to delay the hanging until the Governor can be reached.

2x5 - Duel at Florence

October 11, 1958

2x6 - The Protege

October 18, 1958

Paladin answers an ad in the paper by Kurt Sprague: ""Teach me to quick draw and shoot. Instruction desperately needed. Will pay one thousand dollars. Only experts need apply."" Kurt needs to learn in order to go back home. Paladin does a very good job. Only one problem: Kurt enjoys showing off his new found skill a little too much.

2x7 - The Road to Wickenburg

October 25, 1958

Paladin wakes up after being drugged, beaten and robbed in the town of Blue Bell by five men, one of whom is the town's sheriff. They took his money, gun, bullets, horse and saddle. All he has left is his two-shot derringer.

2x8 - A Sense of Justice

November 1, 1958

The sheriff of a small town needs help to prevent the lynching of simple-minded Andy Dawes. The townspeople are sure he is a murderer. Paladin offers to help

2x9 - Young Gun

November 8, 1958

An ex-gunfighter, Roy Calvert, blames the people of Benedict for his wife's death. The town is in the middle of a bad drought and Calvert and his son are blocking the only access to water in the area. Calvert has trained his son to be a gunfighter and Paladin has to face them both.

2x10 - The Lady

November 15, 1958

A British woman, Diana Coulter, hires Paladin to guide her to her brother's ranch in Shiprock, Arizona, where the Comanches are on the warpath.

2x11 - A Snare for Murder

November 22, 1958

Two ornery old gold miners, who hate each other, have struck it rich. Problem is they talk too much, and now it appears someone is trying to kill them.

2x12 - The Ballad of Oscar Wilde

December 6, 1958

Paladin is hired to protect Oscar Wilde. Another 3 men apply for the job, but after Paladin upstages them they kidnap Wilde for ransom. Paladin takes care of them, his way.

2x13 - The Solid Gold Patrol

December 13, 1958

Paladin goes to inform a calvary corporal that he has won ,000 in a lottery. But they may not live to cash in the ticket, they are trapped by several dozen hostile Indians.

2x14 - Something to Live For

December 20, 1958

On his way to help a man and his daughter over a land dispute, Paladin encounters a wealthy, drunk and helpless man whose guide left him behind to die.

2x15 - The Moor's Revenge

December 27, 1958

Shakespearean actors are going to perform in San Diego during their roundup. They are in for a rough reception. A lovesick gunfighter is among the audience. The show's promoter hires Paladin to keep the peace.

2x16 - The Wager

January 3, 1959

Sid Morgan hires Paladin to protect him from someone who is trying to kill him. After killing the gunfighter who was following them, Paladin finds out the real reason Morgan hired him. He then hands out his own brand of justice.

2x17 - The Taffeta Mayor

January 10, 1959

John Kellaway, who is running for mayor of Colton, Wyoming, hires Paladin to protect him from his opposition. When he is killed before Paladin can get there, Paladin persuades John's widow to run for mayor.

2x18 - Lady on the Stagecoach

January 17, 1959

Paladin is traveling on a stagecoach with four others, one of whom is Della White Cloud, the educated daughter of an Apache chief. The stage is also carrying a strongbox full of gold, which Ed Rance wants.

2x19 - Treasure Trail

January 24, 1959

Paladin wins part of a treasure map in a poker game and goes in search of the treasure with three other men.

2x20 - Juliet

January 31, 1959

Juliet Harper is being hunted by the grandsons of Colonel Jeremiah Pike. Paladin meets her on the stage and now the Colonel is after both of them, and Paladin is without a gun.

2x21 - Hunt the Man Down

February 7, 1959

Paladin finds himself reluctantly drawn into a deadly dispute between two brothers who are also old aquaintances.

2x22 - The Scorched Feather

February 14, 1959

Robert Ceilbleu hires Paladin to protect his father from a Comanche war chief who has sworn to kill him. After arriving at the remote cabin of William Ceilbleu, he learns the reason for the Indian's hatred.

2x23 - The Return of the Lady

February 21, 1959

Diana Coulter (The Lady, Episode 49) wires Paladin and asks him to come to her wedding to ""give the bride away"".

2x24 - The Monster of Moon Ridge

February 28, 1959

The townspeople of Moon Ridge, Colorado believe there are monsters in the mountains. Dan Bella's daughter is taken by something and he finds strange footprints outside his daughter's window. Paladin is hired to find out what is up on the ridge.

2x25 - The Long Hunt

March 7, 1959

Thomas Orday, half Comanche, has killed two men and wounded Dundee, a former Indian fighter. He is now hiding in the mountains of New Mexico. Paladin is hired to help track him down.

2x26 - Death of a Gunfighter

March 14, 1959

A ruthless gunfighter who has killed 9 men is wanted by the townspeople, who hire Paladin. The gunfighter's brother has been hanged and left out in the sreet to trap the gunfighter. On seeing this, Paladin quits the job. The gunfighter shows up and kills all the townspeople who were gunning for him. Then he and Paladin come to an agreement that if he hangs up his guns he can go back to his hometown to marry his sweetheart. But it turns out that she has fallen in love with someone else, and more trouble ensues.

2x27 - Incident at Borrasca Bend

March 21, 1959

Arriving in a weird tent town to return money to a prospector, Paladin finds himself charged with the man's murder and tried by a kangaroo court.

2x28 - Maggie O'Bannion

April 4, 1959

After being bushwhacked and having 'everything' taken, Paladin walks to the nearest ranch and manages to get hired on as a handyman.

2x29 - The Chase

April 11, 1959

Paul Martin is a bank clerk accused of robbing the bank and killing a deputy. His wife hires Paladin to find her husband before the posse does.

2x30 - Alaska

April 18, 1959

Paladin play chess by mail with Boris, who is living in Alaska. Paladin receives what he assumes is Boris' next move but instead is a request for help. Boris is being forced out of territory he has hunted and trapped on for years. Paladin heads for Alaska to help.

2x31 - The Man Who Lost

April 25, 1959

Paladin goes after a man who murdered a man and attacked the man's wife. The victim's two brothers are also after him and don't intend to allow him to live long enough to stand trial.

2x32 - The Return of Roy Carter

May 2, 1959

Roy Carter returns to help Paladin search the snow-covered mountains for a missing chaplain and an escaped convict.

2x33 - The Sons of Aaron Murdock

May 9, 1959

Paladin becomes a bounty hunter when a rancher hires him to bring in his son, who's become a sadistic, vicious killer.

2x34 - Comanche

May 16, 1959

Corporal Henry Carver deserted from the Cavalry. Carver's mother hires Paladin to find him and get him to either return voluntarily or bring him back by force.

2x35 - Homecoming

May 23, 1959

Wrongly convicted Ed Stacy, whom Paladin helped to put in prison, is being released after being pardoned. Will Stanhope, who runs the local freight office, hires Paladin to protect him from Stacy. Paladin soon wonders who is really in danger.

2x36 - The Fifth Man

May 30, 1959

Ben Talman, who has murdered 12 men, escaped from jail. He kills four men in Yucca Bend within one week. Paladin is hired to bring him in.

2x37 - Heritage of Anger

June 6, 1959

Paladin is hired to protect the Avery family from Manuel Garcia. Garicia is a Mexican bandit who seems to have taken a special interest in their son.

2x38 - The Haunted Trees

June 13, 1959

Ben Howard is disinherited in his father's will. When his father dies, Mrs. Sarah Howard takes over running the family's lumber company. She claims that Ben is sabotaging the work and scaring off the workers. Mrs. Howard hires Paladin to stop the problems and get rid of Ben.

2x39 - Gold and Brimstone

June 20, 1959

Paladin finds a sick old man and his son trying to protect their mine from claim jumpers. The old man is delirious and thinks that Paladin is the devil and has only offered to help in exchange for their souls.

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Why some travelers are skipping the US: 'You guys are not afraid of this?'

What Uneaka Daniels experienced the last couple of times she was in the United States was enough to keep her away for a long time.

Bermuda-born and raised Daniels was in Atlanta in 2019 and decided to get her hair done. On her way to the salon, she stopped a man to ask for directions. Suddenly, everyone ducked. It was a drive-by shooting.

“I could actually see the gun and see it being fired,” she told USA TODAY. “The people on the street acted … as if it didn’t happen, and I’m here trying to crouch behind a tree. I said, ‘You guys are not afraid of this,’ and he said, ‘It happens so often.’” 

Her last visit to the U.S. was in 2023 for a medical procedure. While recuperating, Daniels went to the park across the street from her hotel “to get some sun” but felt uncomfortable by others, who she deemed sketchy or solicited her for money. “It was too much,” she said.

Not everyone wants to come to the US. Gun violence, safety concerns are keeping travelers away.

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For the past four years, she’s avoided travel to the U.S. “I love the United States, I love going there. I love the people, I loved everything about it, but I’m veering away now,” she said. “Not saying I won’t come back.”

Besides her experiences, Daniels has been turned off by the U.S. because of the rise of mass shootings – especially as a schoolteacher herself – and rates of homelessness. “Seeing the things on the United States news was scary,” she said. “My friends were telling me things have changed.”

Daniels is not alone in her hesitation. 

A growing number of international travelers are opting out of trips to the U.S. The nation’s travel sector continues to struggle to rebound from the pandemic, with 12 million fewer visitors in 2023 than in 2019, according to a recent study by the U.S. Travel Association and EuroMonitor International. The U.S. ranked 17th out of the top 18 travel markets, slotting in just above China, with one major factor being safety following visa time barriers and the strength of the U.S. dollar.

Between 2019 and 2021, the U.S. fell four places on the World Economic Forum (WEF) Safety and Security Index because of the lack of reliability of police services and fear of gun violence.

“There’s no doubt that for all travelers, safety is a concern,” Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, told USA TODAY. 

Growing gun violence

Croatian Ivan Kralj loves to travel – he’s been around Southeast Asia and Ethiopia – but has yet to visit the U.S. for a few reasons, one being lax gun laws in certain parts of the country. 

According to Euronews , gun ownership per capita in the U.S. exceeds that of Europe's highest country, Montenegro, by more than three times. 

Kralj said he hears about how often firearms are caught at TSA security checkpoints, an issue that’s become more prevalent in American airports. In 2023, TSA intercepted a record-breaking number of firearms , at 6,737 – and 93% of them were loaded. 

Gun violence is a pressing issue in the U.S. The country ranks first for firearm homicides among high-income countries with populations over 10 million, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation . The rates for age-adjusted firearm homicide in the U.S. are 19 times more than in France, and 77 times more than in Germany.

“The open politics toward gun possession, this is the weird part of America for me,” he told USA TODAY. “It shows lack of trust of Americans in America. … We’re not used to going around with arms or meeting someone and seeing that they have guns.” 

Less than two months into 2024, there have been 55 mass shootings, which are defined as four or more people shot or killed, excluding the shooter, according to the Gun Violence Archive on Wednesday. 

In the U.S., last year marked the second-highest number of mass shootings since 2014, totaling 656 incidents. The highest count of mass shootings occurred in 2021, with 689 recorded incidents.

As stories of gun violence dominate the news, travelers like Kralj and Daniels take notice. 

“America is very televised as a society,” said Kralj. “You see all this, like when police stop someone or shoots them thinking they wanted to shoot them. These kinds of things are staying in your mind more. It’s very visible, very in your face.”

Putting safety first

The sentiment of safety in the U.S. can be hard to shake for many international travelers, who are especially “very much more influenced by” what they see on the news or social media, said Christopher Ankersen, a clinical professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. 

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“If you were to fly to the United States, a family of four in New York City, it’s very unlikely you’re going to find yourself on the receiving end of that kind of violence, but how does it feel, what kind of vibe is there than the actual risk-based probability?” he said. “People are not doing that calculation.”

Spain-born but Grenada-living Patricia Palacios has been all over the U.S. but won’t return unless she’s visiting her in-laws in Ohio, required by her job, or during a layover. She visited Times Square in New York in 2021 and felt “more uneasy than Buenos Aires at night or Mexico City,” citing “sketchy” surroundings.

Her reservations about the U.S. began in 2018 during a visit to San Francisco.

“You cannot be careful by not going out at night; you can walk in the street in the middle of the day and things can happen,” she said. San Francisco is notorious for car break-ins, although city efforts halved that number in 2023 . Robberies also went up by 14.5% in 2023 compared with 2022. 

Palacios, who runs a Spain travel guide called España Guide , acknowledges that travelers to cities like Buenos Aires, Barcelona and Paris also have to be cautious of petty theft or scams.

Palacios said she was almost robbed on her first afternoon visiting St. Lucia after her vacation rental host warned her and her husband to be aware of their surroundings. The couple was walking back from the beach to their accommodations along a road with few pedestrians when a man approached them and threatened that "something bad would happen to us" if they didn't give him what they had.

The couple said they didn't bring anything valuable to the beach, and in a moment of quick thinking, "dashed into the busy road so cars had to stop and started honking." She thinks the attention from the drivers deterred the robber from continuing, and he ran off.

“Stay smart,” Palacios said, adding that she always asks locals or her Airbnb host about places to avoid. “Get a feeling for the place by asking around.” 

The last time Daniels traveled abroad was in 2020 – a trip to England and Paris with her partner – and said she felt safe walking in the streets alone during the day and at night with her partner. “It was a completely different feeling than being in the U.S. I didn’t fear guns or see anybody begging for money as I have in the U.S.”

“I do want to come back to America,” Daniels said. “I’ll just be more cautious now.”

Kathleen Wong is a travel reporter for USA TODAY based in Hawaii. You can reach her at [email protected] .