 And when I died, oh, there was the sky. Oh, that was wonderful, Shorty. How about another? Now, Rusty, haven't we had about enough? Oh, just one more song, Dan. I love Western music. All right, Rusty. I guess we might as well. There isn't anything else to do anyway. Yeah. Do you mind, Shorty? Well, I don't mind. The rest of you don't. Yeah, go ahead. What's that? Come on. All right, partner. You ask for it. Oh, the saddle's getting dusty. Ain't been used since way last fall. And my bridle's broken rusty. Hangin' for the year. You know, it's a fine thing to come for a vacation. Well, Rusty, it seems to me you were the one who suggested it. Back there in New York, a dude ranch was just the place you wanted. Well, yes, I did, but I thought that Southern Arizona would be worse than the Wizard. Well, I guess it usually is. Well, all it's been doing since we got here is snow. And that's for two whole days now. I'm getting kind of tired of it. So is everybody else by the butcher thing. Now, come on, Rusty. You wanted to listen to Shorty's singing. So listen, huh? No. Oh, stop it, stop it, stop it! I'm sorry, ma'am, I... Nothing to death, death, death, that's all you cowboy sing about. This is not wanting to be buried up in the prairie, now you want to die and go to heaven. Well, I'm fed up with it. Well, snowballs and sassafras. Shut up, Christine. The rest of it's like to hear me, even if you don't. I'm afraid your wife is just a little bored by this involuntary confinement, Mr. Hanford. A bunch of people being shut up for two days are bound to get on each other's nerves. Sooner or later. All I'm saying is I don't want to hear any more songs about death. And if I do, I won't be responsible. Shut up, please. There's libel to be a real death around here. Somebody's libel to get murdered. Christine, will you shut up when a snowballs and sassafras? Dr. Danfield, student of crime psychology, has many times provided the police with a solution to a baffling crime. There's an interesting case ahead for the doctor today. We'll call it snowbound. Three whole days of this. Dan, how long can a snow snow anyway? I don't know. I'm very well acquainted with Sonny Arizona. I came down here to do some horseback riding. If I wanted to go skiing, we'd have gone to Sun Valley. Say, I think I'll go to my room for a few minutes, Rusty. I want to put on a sweater. Go ahead. I'll be in the wreck. Homer said he'd have a nice warm fire garden. Right. Say, what do you have for a minute? Hi, everybody. Howdy, Miss Rebecca. Hello, Shorty. Now that your boyfriend is around, Rusty, how'd you like to pitch a little woo? Oh, now, Shorty. I bet you say that to all the girls. You ain't a woofin'. That's what I get paid for. Yes, ma'am. My job on this ranch is to keep the ladies happy. Tell me, Shorty, do you ever get anywhere with that straightforward approach? You ain't a woofin'. Yes? Well, for instance. Well, not that Christine gal, ma'am. She'd never give me the cold shoulder. I'd stay far away from her if I were you, Shorty. From all I've been able to observe that husband of hers is what you'd call slightly jealous. Yeah, you ain't a woofin', man. You ain't a woofin'. Oh. Did you already have a run-in with her? Well, not me. I didn't, but he did have a wrangle with that Frank Parker guy. Oh. Now, don't tell me that Frank Parker's been rushing our fair Christine. Miss Fairfax, ma'am. I can see that I'd never get to go out with you. You got on to blind her. You only got eyes for one man that young Doctor Danfield. You know, Shorty, you ain't a woofin'. Well, I'm going out to Meshack. Storm or no storm, them horses gotta be fed in the morning. Time for me to bed down. See you in the morning, Shorty. Good night, ma'am. Good night, folks. Good night, Shorty. Hey, Shorty. Could I see you for a minute? Out in the hall? Why, uh, I guess so, ma'am. You stay where you are, Christine. Oh, all right. Joy killer. See you in the morning, Shorty. Good night. In a moment of return for the second act of Danger Doctor Danfield, but first, I'm now back to Michael Dunn for the second act of Danger Doctor Danfield. You and your cowboys. Can't you remember your married woman? No, please don't be such a bo- Oh, fresh as fresh and snowballs. Now, this is what I call a ride. Nice good-given. Everybody all warm and toasted. Oh, burning out. Uh, how about you, Mr. Vaparka? You seem kind of quiet this evening. Yes, sir. Kind of quiet. Well, frankly, Mr. Clayton, I'm disgusted with this whole mess. Three days of having to associate with this bunch of morons is too much. In fact, I've just about made up my mind to get out of here. I don't appreciate being called a moron. Oh, you don't. Well, let me tell you, Cliff Hanford, as a moron, you had the li- Why, you rotten- Hey, hey, hey. None of that. None of that. Fresh as fresh and snowballs. I'm sorry. Lost my head, I guess. Well, good evening, folks. You all set to weather the storm? Oh, brother, my glad you're back. This place is just about ready to blow its top. Well, there's nothing wrong here. That a good sunny day, you wouldn't think. Oh, exactly what you think. Well, maybe I ought to suggest that we play games or something. That'll ease your attention. Any suggestions? As long as we have such an eminent criminologist as Dr. Danfield in our midst, why don't we play murder? Murder? Murder? Yes. Fresh as fresh and snowballs. Surely. We send somebody out of the room, and while he's gone, we all decide on who's going to be the victim. And when this person comes back, we give him clues, and he has to guess who it is. He goes out alone? Yes, dear. All right, I'm game. How about you, Frank? Might as well, I guess. Good. You go out first, Frank. We'll let you be the detective. All right, but don't keep me out in the hall too long. We won't. Now, who's going to be the victim? Why don't you be it, Danfield? Who, me? Well, sure, Dan. Go on. Well, it's okay with me. Anything to get the game started. Fine. You can come in now, Frank. Well, let's see. Is the victim somebody in this room? Yes, he is. Is it a man or a woman? Oh, no. We're not supposed to tell that. Well, let's see. I'll give you a clue, Frank. The victim is dangerous and naughty. Oh, I know. Danfield. All right. You're very good, Frank. Now, how did he get? Child's play, Rusty. Child's play. I bet Christine pointed at you, Danfield. Frank isn't smart enough to figure it out any other way. Oh, no, no, no. Not quite as obvious as that. Well, you can count me out. I'm sick and tired of being accused of everything from cheating at parlor games to making love with everybody else's wife. I'm getting out of here. And don't be surprised if you find me missing in the morning. I'm leaving this ranch storm and no storm. Well, snowballs and suchifress. Uh, I think I'll go to bed, too. No sense just sitting around and fighting. Coming, sir? I'll be along in a few minutes. Oh, good night. I wonder how that guy did figure it out. Just a simple code, Mr. Henford. A code, then? Sure. You heard what Christine said, didn't you, Rusty? Yes. She said the victim was dangerous and naughty. Well, I don't know. What are the first letters in those three words? Dangerous and naughty? Oh, am I dumb? Well, suchifress and snowballs. Oh, they had a code, did they? Well, I think I'll just go and talk to Christine about that. Oh, now, now, don't worry about it. Cliff, it was just an innocent little trick. I'm sorry I even mentioned... Well, I don't like it. And I hope that guy does pull out in the morning and on the way to where every's going, I hope he freezes to death. And I don't like that dame say you're dead. And I don't like that dame saying you're dangerous and naughty either. How does she know you're naughty? Rusty this situation getting on your nerves, too Well, I can't say I like it if I don't oh by the way homer you've got a bit of explaining to do You know none of your folders mentioned anything about this ranch being snowed in for the winter He ain't he ain't this is just a flurry a flurry. What is it though when it's snowed? Well, uh, this year answers is in the middle of the Wachuka Mountains He takes a time to hide here and that's he watching the fire we have a little snow. Yes, yes, naturally You won't last long old son will be out tomorrow. Maybe then the floor met will never bother me. What's it, buddy? I hope you're right Homer Well snowballs and such as what they'll not clear. It's Christine. Christine. Well, what's the matter with Christine come to my room All of you Christine has been murdered Opposite Rusty quick the snow's blowing in like all get out sure Blowing this room is like an iceberg now. It's like thirsty. I'm done. Oh there. Oh, yes, I see Stand back please. We don't have to take a look. I'd like to get the guy who did this Yeah, I'm sorry Cliff. She's dead. All right starting to cool already. No bones One shot right between her eyes a shot Then why didn't we hear it storm I guess rusty winds blowing so hard it cover up the sound of the time like to get the guy Who did this? Yes? Yes, you said that before Cliff Hey, wait a minute. She's got something in her hand in her hand. I Didn't say it's a letter. Let me see now. I'll try to get it loose. I'd be careful might be fingerprints Yeah, I got it. Maybe it's a suicide note. Yeah, it's just a minute. We'll see And their Christine going to get out of here can't stand to stick around any longer Should wait and leave tomorrow, but your husband got wise tonight. So it's best for me to go Hope I'll be able to meet the early train in the morning It will take me to Tucson and from there. I'll go back home. Sunita is only 10 miles I think I can make it. Sorry won't see you tomorrow. Love and goodbye. Why is that dirty rat? I ought to knock his block off Could I have that letter Danfield? I'm sorry Cliff. I'll have to turn it over to the sheriff as evidence Homer would you run to Frank Parker's room and see if he really did leave? Sure. Sure I Wonder what happened to the gun You didn't touch anything did you Cliff? I should say not I no better than that You came right to your room. Your wife was dead when you got there. Yes. Yes to both questions You can see for yourself. You said yourself that the body already started cool. Yes Entirely too cold to submit Well, no sign of a gun That rules out any possibility of suicide. Maybe the gun was thrown out the window. It was open, you know Yes, it was rusty. Let's take a look It's just blowing now nothing out here. It's clean and pure as the ribbon snow. No mark anywhere Yeah, probably took the gun with him They were Frank Parker's go and he meant what he said in his note. Yeah, he even took his suitcase. Hey, what's going on anything matter Somebody's killed your girlfriend shorty What? Not Christine ma'am. You ain't a woman. What are you doing up shorty? I thought you went to bed an hour ago I did that is I went to my cabin. I wasn't sleepy enough to go to bed. I was sitting up reading Oh, oh into that Frank Parker guy He'd come over to ask me just how to get the Sunita. Oh, he did. Yeah I told him he better not try it but the snow would stop and he calculated he'd go anyway Then you saw him leave just about 20 minutes ago Well, I hate to ask you to do this shorty But you'd better ride into Sunita and pick up the sheriff And if you could run into Frank Parker on the way bring him back with you, huh? What if you don't want to come back? Well now shorty I imagine you could rope and hard time now couldn't you mr. You ain't a wolf and Where folks Slow stop and sun to shine it look like a wonderful day. Yes. Yes, doesn't it tell me a shorty got back from town with The sheriff yet nothing ought to be here to me though I took a look around outside this morning home or I could hardly believe that shorty ever went to town There wasn't a mark or a footprint anywhere. There's those different affairs covered up tracks soon as you make them Listen sounds like shorty's back Well, what a trip had to fight dress all the way Oh, where's the sheriff you what didn't you bring the sheriff snowed in I talked the phone though Said he'd be out this evening. How about our friend Frank Parker? See anything of him? No, that's a funny thing, mr I looked for him all the way in and there wasn't a sign Well, did you inquire at the station whether or not he caught the early train? Yeah, but sure did didn't catch the train either Nope, nobody's seen how to hear them. Well, it begins to look pretty bad for mr. Parker You ain't a wolf and mr. Looks to me like he shot Christine and made his getaway Yeah, sure looks bad when I say it looks bad for mr. Parker shorty. I don't mean it the way you mean You're insane going horseback riding in this kind of weather I don't care then I came to a dude ranch because I wanted a ride and I'm not gonna let a little snow stop Oh, well, I know better than argue with you. That's a good boy Danny. Anyhow shorty's already saddening me a horse. Oh You know Dan, I'm like shorty. I think Frank Parker shut Christine Well, there's something wrong somewhere rusty. I'd agree fully except for two things. Yes, what? Christine's buddy you remember our mark on how cold it was. Yeah, and that letter there's something definitely wrong about that letter I didn't see anything wrong with it. Well, it just doesn't ring true. It's still didn't further. Why have you figured out? It comes shorty with my heart. Oh, yeah Rusty ma'am good gentle old man. Thanks shorty. You're sure he won't buck. No, ma'am. She won't Yeah, here. Give me a hook. I'll help you up. Oh Hi, isn't it rusty? I don't think you've got the sense you were born with oh, she'll be all right, mister Just cut across by the corner of my shack there a man and get out to the road. Most of the snow is blown off the road You don't do so bad for a city gal no no no rusty can do almost everything Hey, hey, what's the matter with that horse? He's gone low-coach That old man threw in that snowbag I can't understand it man. Why that old mags one we used to teach babies how to ride on Why is he ever shyed it? Unless unless what shorty? You know something, mister I think that old bag of bones smell the ghost In a moment we'll return for the third act of danger dr. Danfield But first and now back to michael dunn for the third act of danger dr. Danfield Now right about here shorty the pile is a little higher here under your window There's enough draft here between these buildings Always piles of snow up against the buildings Can't understand that horse shine Must have seen a ghost no no not a ghost shorty That is unless a ghost has legs and wears pants look Such a fasten snowballs Hey, it's a pair of legs. Yes, let's dig faster shorty I think we'll find there are tips to something There You've gotten about uncovered now by Dan It's playing parker sister. You ain't a wolf in yep Sure like your froze stiff as a old me's neck not only that homer Here's a bullet hole straight between his shoulder blades Are we all here homer? Yeah Everybody but shorty and he's out in the shack like you asked him the sheriff hasn't arrived yet No, all to be the old almost dark already Well, this is the way I figure this situation frank parker was shot from the window in this room But then how can you don't be silly? This is my room and how could christine truth frank when she was already dead? I didn't say it was christine who shot frank. Mr. Henford Well, I still can't figure out why you think mr. Parker was shot from this window Well, can't you Let's open the window again rusty What's out here between these buildings? Of course it is How could anybody see to shoot anybody at night out there? I'll show you homer Yeah, yeah, sure. Dr. Dan, dear. They're all right shorty. He likes to laugh You're on ladies There And I'll end If you'll all observe that shaft of light coming from shorty's window why then It shines right on the spot where we found frank parker's body. Yes, doesn't it? Well, slow down What does that prove not very much? I'm afraid until we look a little further Look out this window if You notice that this is the only window facing shorty's check There isn't even a door on this side of the house. Well, whatever Everybody's whereabouts last night has been accounted for frank parker was the only one beside shorty who was outside the house He having decided to leave for finita Where are you cliff? Oh, I've already told you I came straight from you folks to my room this room Discovered my wife's body and came right back to the front room and you'll swear that you never left the house didn't go outside Of course I'll swear to it now cliff you made a statement that it couldn't have been your wife who shot mr. Parker well Maybe she could have been that no no no I'm rather inclined to agree with you that christine was already dead when frank parker was killed And if that theory is correct, just who would you say shot your wife? Oh I get it parker killed christine just before he left Stopped in to see shorty danced the way to finita and then just as he was leaving He decided he couldn't get away with this so he shot himself committed suicide That's pretty good thinking dr. Danfield. Yes. Yes, but uh, I didn't think it So you believe frank shot himself. Well, of course, that's the only way it could happen in the back, huh? Was he a contortionist mr. Handford? Well, I I don't know but the gun well Well, if it wasn't parker it was shorty. Uh, yeah, that's it I've considered that possibility cliff, but it's no go shorty wouldn't have a strong enough motive Oh, no, I caught him making love to my wife. Oh, that's nothing. He said he liked me too shorty's a lady killer All right, that's what homer pays him for to kill the ladies with attention, right homer Sure No, the girl wouldn't come up here if I didn't have a few handsome cowboys around That's a fascinating snowball. Well, he may as well get this over with Cliff, I'm accusing you of the murder of your wife christine You did killer, didn't you? Don't be silly. You couldn't prove that in a million years What I think happened cliff when you came straight to your room after leaving the rest of us in the parlor You found your wife reading a note the note we found in her hand from frank parker Bidding her a fond and final ado. I didn't come in to see that. No, didn't you cliff? Didn't you even know she had that note and flew into a raid grabbed the pistol and shot christine right between the eyes How am I doing? You're completely am I Not knowing too much about the science of thermo chemistry You figured that by opening the window and letting the blizzard in your wife's body would cool rapidly enough to give you an alibi Oh, just a few minutes perhaps, but that was all you I didn't open the window It's also open the window you saw frank parker passing through the beam of light from shorty's window Shorty was sitting up reading you know remember frank's back made a perfect silhouette and bang You've got two birds with one gun, right? That's the way it happened cliff, wasn't it? Wasn't it? I didn't do it. I tell you I didn't do it. No, I didn't do it. I didn't do it. I didn't do it You can't prove it. You haven't got the gun. Oh, but I have cliff. I found it this afternoon. You couldn't have the Yes, yes, the snow You counted on the snow, didn't you cliff? I found the gun right under this window where you'd thrown it knowing you as you did that the snow was drifting so fast It would be covered up in a matter of second. I couldn't Oh, what's the use? Here's the sheriff folks the sheriff nobody's gonna get me That's your man sheriff stop him don't let him get away. Hey you stop in the name of the law Drop him to kill him No, I just shot his leg out from under him Didn't want him to get lost in the snowdrift. Well, that's mighty good shooting sheriff mister. You ain't a woman In a moment to return for the conclusion of danger dr. Danfield at first Now back to michael dunn for the conclusion of danger dr. Danfield Oh, that's strawberry wrong Oh, that's strawberry wrong He says he's oh Dan. I love western music hip real american folk stuff, you know, that's short. He's kind of cute Yeah, yeah, how about that seems like he was uh trying to pitch a little Yeah, but I pitched him right out of my beer Oh, this is wonderful storms over no more murders. I hope Then yet you're going horseback riding with me tomorrow. No, maybe I will at that It's a shame all this other stuff had to happen. Yes, it's a shame rusty, but not unexpected You see when a bunch of people get shut up together for days on end the motions usually get pretty close to the surface Oh Have my feelings for you been showing people are after all animals and you can't cage them up not without disastrous results Anyway, such as murder such as murder Well, I'll have to admit you solved this case in your own inimitable style Even if you were shooting in the dark you were shooting in the dark, weren't you dan? You didn't have any real evidence I uh well The letter. Oh, yes I didn't see anything in it that would make a man commit murder. You didn't you know, I almost forgot about that letter Take a look at resting Dear christine going to get out of here can't stand a stick around any longer Should wait me tomorrow, but your husband got wise tonight. What's best for me to go? Hope I'll be able to meet the early train in the morning. It'll take me to Tucson and from there. I'll go back home The need is only 10 miles I think I can make it. Sorry. We'll see you tomorrow. Love and goodbye. Thanks I still don't see Rusty remember that little game of murder we played last night? Yes And the little code that was used by frank and christine to enable frank to figure out the answer so easily Well, it was the first letter of every word. I remember Now, uh, take a look at the letter again Going to get out of here g t g o o h. Well, that doesn't spell anything No, no, it doesn't but take a look at the first word in every sentence Going to leave tonight dan Go on meet me senita tomorrow going to leave tonight meet me senita tomorrow Why then when you read it that way it means something entirely different. Yes. Yes, doesn't it? And there rusty is clips motive for murder jealousy and the breakup of this home That's where all frank parker was trying to steal his wife, you know But how did this know? Well, he heard me expose that silly little code. He didn't have to be very smart to figure out this one Dan, do you know something? What rusty? You are awfully smart Come here rusty. You are a woman That's a present snowball