 horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and a hearty hi-ho silver, the Lone Ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of the planes led the fight for law and order in the early western United States. The stories of his strength and courage, his daring and resourcefulness have come down to us through the generations, and nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver, the Lone Ranger rides again. Come on, Silver! The danger of the train ahead, I will Silver! Baking bread and bonavista was a duty to Sam Crawford, a duty he never shirked no matter what the weather might be. He was a widower, and he operated the bakery with the help of Kip, his small son. Got them pans greased, Kip? Almost ready, Pa. Bring him over here. I've got to get this batch of bread into the oven before I pull the other one out. Over here. Twelve of them, all greased and wrinkled. Good. He workens its hot. Can't make bread without heat, son. I'll bet it's so hot outside you could put those pans in the middle of the street, and the bread would bake easy. Maybe so, but it wouldn't be as good as what comes out of the oven. All right, Kip, open that stove door. I'm going to push him in. Minutes before we pull out the first batch. Is it done, Pa? Well, not yet. It'll be 15, maybe 20 minutes before the first loaves are done just right. Pa, how do you tell when bread is done just right? I kept, I'm surprised at you. You've been helping me around here ever since your maw went away. You've watched me bake bread hundreds of times. Sure, but I still don't see how you know when it's done just right. Experience, son. Or maybe it's luck. Anyway, I always mix it and knead it and bake it in the same way and the same time every day. Yeah, I know. I heard Jack Riley over at the livery stable telling some men about you just this morning. Is that right? He said you were the best baker in the whole state and that you always did it the same way. He said that folks in this town set their watches by the time you bake fresh bread in the window every window. Yeah? Mm-hmm. Then he told them, whenever you see Santa Barbara putting fresh bread in his window, you can bet your bottom dollars three o'clock. He ain't missed once in 15 years. I never thought of it before. I guess it is about three o'clock every day. Then I think I'll ever be a baker like you, Pa. Sure you will, Kip. You're almost good to me right now. I've just been thinking... Mm-hmm. Oh, somebody in the front of the shop, Kip. You go see who it is. Sure. Yes, I'd better rust a little more wood to that fire. Two men want to see you, Pa. See me? Who are they? I don't know. But there's two fellows I was telling you about. I don't know. They're the place as hot as the hinges. How do you stand it, Sam? Sure is hot. Hack it. Len hack it. Surprised to see me? Hi. What do you want? Who's the kid? He's mine. My son, Kip. I heard you were married and a family. I heard all about you, Sam. That's why Jay and me dropped around. Ain't it, Jay? Yeah. What are you doing here in Buna Vista? We'll get to that. Want to pull over in front of the kid? Go outside for a few minutes, Kip. Oh, Pa, I... Go on. All right. That's better. You don't seem very glad to see us, Sam. Why should I be glad to see a couple of owl hoots like you and Jay? Kind of forget your old partners, don't you? Our partnership is over and done with. I've been going straight ever since I came out west. Sure, sure. We forgot about that little deal in Texas that was years ago. Maybe the law's got a better memory. What do you want with me? Nothing, Sam. Absolutely nothing. Jay and I've heard a lot of nice things about you since we've been in town. Well, everybody says you're the best baker west of the Mississippi. That you're so regular and dependable in your work that they set their watches by you. You didn't come here to tell me that. No, Sam. We didn't. We came to tell you about the stagecoach that hits town every day at three o'clock. Stagecoach? Look here, Hackett. I don't know what you're planning to do, but I do know I won't have any partners. Your gun doesn't scare me, Hackett. I'll... You'll do exactly what I tell you. If you want to stay alive... There's law here in the universe. You heard me, Crawford. What is it? Nothing now. But when the stage comes in here tomorrow afternoon, there will be something for you to do. Here she comes, folks. She's early. She'll do her little three o'clock. That right, Sher? It does seem a mite early. I didn't think it was that late yet. It's three o'clock, all right. Look across the street in Sam Crawford's bakery. Just putting fresh bread in the window. I guess my watch must be slow. Sam can't be wrong. Need his old baldy. He always brings his stage in on time. That ain't baldy driving, is it, Sheriff? Say, where's Baldy, the regular driver? He's sick of my cold springs. I've taken his place. How about that gold shipper for the mind company payroll? I guess it's all right. Sure, sir. That ought to right, all right. Thanks a lot, Sheriff. Baldy must have took sick, kind of sudden. That's why he asked me to drive for him. He said it was important that this payroll got down to the mind company. Yeah, it is. Well, thanks again, Sheriff. Get up, you critter. That's too bad, but baldy being sick, ain't it, Sheriff? Yeah, it is too bad. Here she comes, folks. Another stagecoach. Another coach? It can't be. Hey, look. It's Baldy. Baldy, what does this mean? Come on. You think I was passing out three stokies the way you folks are clouding around? Well, Baldy, they told us you were sick. There was a stage here a few minutes ago at three o'clock. Stage here? What are you talking about? It's just three o'clock now, straight up. Hey, Sheriff, what time you got? Say, my watch wasn't slow after all. It says three right now. Well, the other stage comes just as Sam Crawford was putting his bread in the window. We always tell time by Sam. And he was a hand of time today. Who drove the other stage? We don't know. Stranger. But he was on time and he said he was laid up sick. Great day in the morning. You didn't give him that cash to carry. Say, Sheriff, did that other stage get the cash? Yes. It was a trick. Hey, maybe Sam Crawford was ahead of time on purpose. That meant for him maybe we'd have noted the other stage was early and then suspicious. Well, get after it. That's right. We'll get after it. Then by Juniper I'll have a talk with Sam Crawford. About an hour later, two men were riding north toward Univista. One of them was masked and astride a powerful white stallion. His companion was an Indian. It was the lone ranger in Tonto. Look at this Tonto. An empty stagecoach pulled up to the side of the road. Team cut loose. No one around. That's strange. Maybe wheel brake. No, everything's in good shape. I can't understand why this... Look, come down the road. Those men are riding hard, Tonto. We take back trail? No, we'll see who they are. Get your hands under cover. Don't touch leather. He's masked. Sheriff, we got our men. With the stage, too. Take a look and see if the gold is still on board. That mask ombre ain't the one that was driving. You strangers, you hear me? Get your hands up. Why? Because you're under arrest. For what? I'm going to do what I say. Get them hands up. You won't shoot me if I don't go for a gun. I have a right to know the reason for my arrest. All right. It came through town in that stage. Or at least your partners did. I thought about the regular stage driver and picked up a load of gold. Gold ain't here now, Sheriff. So you got partners. They went ahead with the gold. I don't know anything about this, Robby, Sheriff. But I'm going to... Take his hardware. You hadn't better try it. By thunderation. I never saw a man as cold as you. Don't you know this is a gun in my hand? Don't you know I can drill you if you're refusing to surrender? You won't. I'll go quietly wherever you want me to go. And Tonto will go with me. Are you going to keep these guns in this mask? Now, where do you want me to go? I never see the equal of them. Me neither. Read it all. I want to talk to Sam. If I take this ombre into town like that, and Sam isn't cooed with the gang like I suspect, Sam will see his commonance cadet. It's possible that he's as innocent as I am. Huh. Now, look here, you two. You stay right here with the masked man, the red skin. Keep your guns handy and keep close watch. Yeah, we should take a shooting iron, Sheriff. And when you move close, you grab it. Use yours as a shield and start gunplay. Nope, I know a fast gunslinger when I see one. Just keep watch and wait here till I get back. I'll be back as soon as I talk to Sam Crawford. Where's your pa? He's not here. I was afraid of that. That's why I'm mixing this bread dough. So when pa comes back... Where'd he go? I don't know. Said he'd be back after a while. Why? Keep Crawford your lion to me. Lion? Why, no, Sheriff. I'll bet he hightailed it out of here about three o'clock, didn't he? Sure, but... I thought so. Your pa's a crook. He's in cahoots with the outlaws. I stole $25,000. He is not? Shut up. I'll find him. I'll have a posse fan this whole state till we run him down. You can't say things like that about pa. I'm saying him. It's just your hard luck here that you've picked a crook for pa. That's a lie. You'll see. I've already got two that were on the job. Likely they're the ones that barred a stage from somewhere's. I found him with the abandoned stage. Now that I know Sam is guilty, I'll make those two tell where he is. Dad rather than answer me. Now where's that no count deputy? Great scot. Paul tied him gagged back at the stage. Laced up like a couple of new boots. Why, you dog-gone bunglin' poos? Shut up till I cut the gag. There. Now it's grat your worth as hide. What happened? He jumped us, Sheriff. Jumped us, gagged and roped us and got cleaned away. Now you can talk, too. They move like grease lightens, Sheriff. But it proves they're guilty. What about Crawford? They got away from town before I got there. Those two sure got away fast. I never see the like of it. Well, I'll get them. Get them and Crawford, too, if it takes me, it'll kingdom come. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. After the Lone Ranger and Tonto made their successful escape, the masked man and his Indian friends knew that a posse would soon be on their trail. They rode south for several miles then doubled back. It was after dark when they rained up beside the deserted stagecoach that had been figured in their arrest. Sheriff and his deputies will spend their time searching for us. Meanwhile, the reeled crooks will have more time to get away. That trail starts right here, Tonto. Not right. We'll have to be sure not to confuse their trail with the footprints of Lohmann made. And me follow trail. Yes. I'm going back to town. I want to learn more about Sam Crawford and his partners' thing. Maybe next time. Deputy did not give you a chance to escape. I'll be ready the next time. I'll have a disguise beneath my mask. Where town to meet you? In town, Kimosabi. I'll leave a sign if I'm not there. I'll see you later. Come on. While the Lone Ranger headed for town with a brief pause to dawn a disguise beneath the mask, the outlaws crouched by their campfire in a mountain hideout. On the ground near the fire, a man lay tied both hand and foot. Hey, Len, you sure nobody got wise to you when you were in town? Oh, good they get wise. I was inside the coach. You were the only one they saw. Is the town pretty rod-lipped? And they're going crazy. The sheriff is running around like a chicken with its head over. He said he captured a couple of bomb-brains where we left the stage. He did. Tall man wearing a mask and an engine. And he blames Sam, right? Sure. Lucky as well this Jay. We couldn't have framed any better ourselves. Yeah. Well, except Sam over there. We didn't figure on him turning us up here. No worry. We'll take care of Sam. That right, Crawford? Sure. It's easy enough for you buzzers to kill me, but the law will get you. Sometimes. Sam, you sure scare me with threats like that. You know, you used to be a pretty smart ombre in the old days. You should have been so smart, Sam. The trail we left was pretty well-hidden. I didn't think anyone could follow it. You forgot that I used to be one of the best at reading trails. Yep, like I said, you used to be a pretty smart ombre. You should have been smarter today. I'll live to see you two hang. Yeah. Laying there hog-tie with your face and the dirt proves it. Trouble with you, Sam, is it you caught that honesty disease? That's bad. You dirty little dog! And the worst part about it is a disease like that is liable to prove fatal. Hey, do the people in town think he had anything to do with it left? Sure. The sheriff figured there must be some reason for Crawford putting his bread in the window a few minutes early. Hey, then they think he's with us, eh? I guess they do. That's a shame, too. Because I've got to hunch Mr. Crawford won't be with us very long. Go on, shoot me. What are you waiting for? I know, hurry. Jay and I have got to take that gold out of the box and pack it in saddlebags. Well, if you've got plenty of time, you mind giving me a drink of water? I'm thirsty. How about a little amish? Oh, give him a drink. I'm going to take my water jug. Yeah, yeah. I'm not going to pour it for you. And loosen these ropes on my hands and feet so I can sit up. I don't know about that. All right, Jay. Just keep him covered while he's drinking. Yeah, I don't know why letting me bother with you. Old time sick, I guess. It's better. Yeah, take your jug. And don't try any funny business. Len, Len! What the? He's getting away, heading for the horses. Oh, Len! Get him, Len. I think our winged him. Well, that's not your fault. You're a mule. I couldn't help it. Len honest, I couldn't. He moves so fast. Now shut up. Now we got to tail him. Len, listen. Look, is that Sam? No, it's an engine. Do you think he... The main thing we got to worry about is now is Sam Crawford. You'll head for Buna Vista and get the sheriff. You'll be with him. No, I'll go alone. You stay here and keep your eye on the gold. But Len... My horse will outrun that bronch he got away with. I'll hit him all. In the little kitchen of Sam Crawford's bakery, Kip was busy needing the bread dough for the evening's baking. Bet Paul be surprised when he comes back and finds I've got it already. Kip! Where have you been? Everybody's been looking for you. Yes. What's wrong? Nothing. I just got to sit down. You're hurt. I can see by the way your shirt... Paul! You've been shot! Not bad, Kip. At least... I don't think it is. I hope not. I'll run and get Doc Sawyer. He'll be able to... No, Kip. Wait. Something I've got to tell you first. What, Paul? A long time ago, before your ma and me were married, I guess I was kind of a wild one. I hired out a chuck wagon of a big cattle spread down south. I'd better get the doctor. No, wait. While I was working there, some of the cowpokes pulled a little rustling job. I was in on it. Things got hot, so we hightailed it. I came up here, got married, started this bakery. Paul, you better let me... Those men that were here yesterday, Kip, I worked with them down south. They were the ones who pulled that robbery with a fake stagecoach. And the reason they got away with was because I... I mean, they made me... I know, Paul. You know. Instead of going outside when you told me, I stayed behind the door and listened. Then you know why I had to put the bread out early. So everybody... Sure, I know. And so does the sheriff. He was here hunting for you, but I didn't tell him a thing. You're a good boy, Kip. Stay that way always, will you? Well, sure, Paul, but... I'm not looking, sir. What about you? I didn't think that Kip Crawford was a boy who cried very much. You'd cry too if your pa just died. Excuse me, Kip, I didn't see. I understand. Here, let me see. They shot him. The men who drove a fake stagecoach this afternoon, they fooled the sheriff and got away with a lot of money. How did your father get into it? He made him do it. They knew Paul was put the fresh bread in the window every afternoon at three o'clock. But they made him put it in early so everybody think it was time for the regular stage. I see. But how did your father get into it? He went after him because he was the first one to realize what had happened. They caught him. He must have got shot getting away. That's right. The first one of you to get the lead in this back, reach. What the... Stay behind us, Kip. You're dull going right now. You take a chance. You... Shut up or I'll knock you down, too. What are you doing? Can he get you? No, you don't. Take it in there. Come on, step along the fence. Hey, where'd you find the red skin? They're starting to come after you. He's the one we've seen before. I thought he was harmless. Must be this mass-cut his friend. Well, it looks like we got plenty to do. What about Sam? Well, he's done. But the kid here knows all about us. That's too bad for him. Hold on, you gun crazy fool. You want the whole town to hear? What do we got to do? Move them. Take them to our camp. You won't take me with us. What the red skin? I'll get the kid. Now, he's a fighting kid. You ain't so strong. I can't handle you. Don't you make a move red skin? Oh, we'll see. They got the jump of the mass. Put them outside and put them on his horse. You got the kid all gag-tagged. Sure. Let's get out of here now. With these two going, the sheriff will figure they're the thieves, and they got Sam, so they wouldn't have to split. Here, where we taking them? Our camp's as good as anywhere. Put that out and bring this horse, red skin. Jay, you see these hog-tied? Why don't you rather take his guns? Ride this horse. That white one's yours? No. White horse, not mine. Where is yours? This is Sam's. Me ride horse down yonder. You see it? Well, get it. No waste, no time. I suppose you left it over there so we wouldn't hear you, hey? I'll go with you, just to make sure you don't sound or lie. The lone ranger recovered consciousness to find himself tied in riding the paint horse that belonged to Tonto. Tonto rode beside him with Kip on the other side. Hard voices came from the darkness and back. Let's keep going straight ahead. I'll tell you where to make a change of direction. Here with a mask. Are you conscious yet? Yes. That's too bad. You've got that much more time to worry about what we aim to do with you. I won't worry about that. Oh, you won't, eh? Worry won't help. I don't. What about Silver? Me leaving behind. You know what horse you'll ride? Of course. This is Calvin. Ah. You know what horse Tonto ride? What are you talking about? It's a secret. Secrets? I know the horse Tonto, but I don't understand it. Maybe a rich help. Oh, I see. Good for you, Tonto. Now which of those men has my guns? Teller named Jay. Jay? What do you want? How much farther? You'll be told when we arrive. Now turn around and keep your face in the front. And make sure I follow our trail. Me can't bit the paper all the long way. Haven't those two noticed you? No. Me plenty careful. Then not notice. Out of it. Did you hear something? Ah, horse come this way. Me hear it. That's what I thought. Be ready. Are your hands tied too? No. Get them loose. Listen, shove over into the trees and rain up. Someone's coming. We'll let them pass. Oh, there. There he is. Listen, if you make a move, we'll let you have it. Who's coming? I don't know, but keep still, sir. Don't you suppose it might be the sheriff and his men? If it is, we... He'll come right to you. Hey, Jay, look over here under. You can see in the moonlight. It is the sheriff. Tonto! Tell him! Tell him from the sandals! This isn't for you! Hey, Ar, come on, boy! Shoot him! I can't drop my gun. Oh, that's fine. This is us! Drop that! Oh, my arm! Take those two. I got you all covered. Take the gag from that boy. His father was murdered by those two. The masked man, the red skin. Got your last, huh? Those are the ones you want. Skip Crawford will tell you the truth. Ah, Skip. Ah, you can talk. Can't get him, Jay. Rob the stage. They killed my dad. Stole my horse, huh? You've got plenty to account for. Tonto remembered something you said, Sheriff. You proved that you considered a horse thief, the worst of crooks. Ah. We know you follow horse. That's why we take your horse, Sheriff. He left a trail of torn paper for you. You did that. Hey, let's get you for that. Hey. Not for blow, you give blown ranger. The lone ranger? Great day, Jay. Have you heard that? Well, that's it, Sheriff. That accounts for the white horse that's been following us. Yes, it'll be. Here, boy. Cut that, Rob. Loose his hands. Jay, be hear me. Happy and cut. You must be named Tonto. Me, Tonto. Well, why am I talking? Didn't you say who you are? Great Scott. No wonder you got away from us. The lone ranger. The thing I figured on God and you. Hey there, Silver. It's good to be riding you again. Easy. Sheriff, you take care of Kip. Kip? Glad I clean forgot you. Dog garnet, you've got a big job now. Yeah, I know. I've got to take my pop's place. Loose his hands. The copyrighted feature of the lone ranger incorporated.