 It's Hop along Cassidy With action and suspense out of the Old West comes the most famous hero of them all Hop along Cassidy star in William Boyd The ring of the Silver Spurs heralds the most amazing man ever to ride the prairies of the early West Hop along Cassidy This famous hero thrills his 60 million fans with action and dangerous adventure In the role of Hop along Cassidy is the popular star of the motion picture series William Boyd And now another exciting story of the early West Hoppy turns on the heat For years old John Pierce had built up his bank in Clover Springs through honest dealings and a faith in his fellow man He prospered and had two sons to take over his duties if need be While riding his favorite horse in the mountains accompanied by his younger son, Scotty an accident occurred And the father was killed while the son was brought home and invalid The doctor said his back was broken The younger son Jim then came home from the city to take over and care for the bed ridden Scotty Feel better Scotty. Good. I'll ever feel Jim Come on Doc said if you lie still and let nature take its course you'll hear back on men and they'll be as good as new Come on. Let's see that old smile Scotty. They can't lick the two of us Oh, but I've made a terrible mess of the banks and dad left. Well, nothing. We can't straighten out I've had a month on the books now going way back to where dad started. That's what I mean, Jim Me lying here unable to move and you doing all the work. Ah, forget it. You do the same for me Scotty How long has what's been handing out the bank's money to shuffle dunk it for his dance hall about four months now None of us been paid back. I know All we have is his notes what's loaned it to him against my wish. Well, all that's going to be settled today I'm going to city tomorrow and bring back the auditors go over the book. I'm afraid you're stepping into a buzzword, Jim Maybe if you gave shuffle some time, he's had all the time he's going to get I'm through coddling watts And I'm not going to lose our depositors money on account of shuffle Duncan Who's that take it easy old man? I sent for watts and shuffle Duncan for a showdown You don't know what you're doing. Don't worry your head. This is the only kind of persuasion. They know I leave the door open So you can hear what goes on Please be careful Come in gentlemen Sound solemn like what I mean it to be sit down, please. I'll stand up. What? And I guess there's no need of wasting time gentlemen it's straight business meeting now look here Jim You got my notes on that money and money you had no business getting well as manager of the bank Jim it was my duty to invest the banks funds are the best advantage of the depositors That doesn't mean to pour it down a rat hole Wait a minute you upstart the red garter dance hall is no rat hole and furthermore that's debatable However, the 14,000 you owe the bank to do right now shuffle what how do you think I can raise money like that? Oh, yes Jim isn't that rather abrupt how you get it or where you get it is no fair of mine I want that money by Saturday Saturday that's right. I'm going to the city tomorrow and bring back the auditor clean up the old desk and put the bank Where it belongs you mean they'll be here this weekend. That's right We'll see how much more shuffle dunking old besides the 14,000 You're putting the law around our necks for a few thousand. Well, I'm sure we can do the books I saw Jim it has been doing the books your way too long watch But your brother Scotty and I would just try no Scotty put friendship before business, but I don't Okay, Jim. There's no need to go in loco. I'll see what I can do for you before tomorrow Yeah, maybe we won't need the auditors after all if shuffle pays up then we can sorry gentlemen That's the way it is Note stay right here shuffle till that 14,000 is paid. I could put them in the safe. I think they're safer with me What now if you don't mind I'll bid you good day See me tonight, maybe I'll have something for you any business we have you'll find me right here Later what maybe tomorrow before I leave good day Jim and I'm worried. Well, I would be too Scotty except I'm not in this alone I've got the best back in a man ever had you mean sheriff Fletcher. Nope tomorrow morning. He'll get off the stage I don't understand the one man who can see us through this dirty mess hop along Cassidy Now back to hop along Cassidy and hoppy turns on the heat The Clover Springs Bank is in bad financial trouble and Jim Pierce knows it His bedridden brother Scotty hasn't been able to keep a very tight reign on Watts vice president of the bank So what's has been making mighty heavy loans to shuffle Duncan for his red gutter dance. Oh, well But shuffle I had no knowledge that this gym was coming here. He's upset the whole thing How'd he get the notes from the safe you got to get them once me now look here shuffle I said you get them You know someday some smart ombre is gonna ask how old man pierces horse slipped down that ravine You know that was an accident or it could have been bumped over That's the way you're gonna. I'm not taking anyway. We're both in this and there ain't no turning back What are you aiming to do me? I'm asking you the same thing with some bank auditors breathing down my neck I'd be doing some fast thinking if it was me. Well, they're not here yet. You know any way to stop them Yeah, yes, I do If Jim don't go to the city after them Think of the same thing I got a little article here once No, no put that knife back in the drawer I gotta think this out shuffle. What about me? Why do you think? Oh, I'll do something Margot, what do you want? Close that door Pretty nice. How many times have I told you to knock before you come into my office? Hey, you are jumping. I Just don't like snoopers. That's all I got out of here. We got a lot to straighten out before tomorrow Oh, yeah, that's the day Jim Pierce goes to the city. Huh? How did you know me? Shouldn't I know Jim and me are making some big plans together. Oh, it's Jim now First it's one and then the other I wouldn't be counting on any plans Margot Did you ever stop to think maybe when Jim leaves town he leaves you too? Yeah, well, a little Margot wasn't born yesterday Well, nobody cares now get out of here and rehearse your dancing. You may have to fall back on it You mean the gym would get out Jim she saw that nice Don't matter the only thing that's important to see in the gym pierce never leaves town Over spring sure looks different. It did ten years ago. Hoppy progress, California Hey, I bet Jim Pierce will be surprised when we don't get off from that stage. Well, Jim didn't go in the detail Just said to go to the sheriff's office Well, here we are. Yeah, I better tie it back to the office Yeah, now let's find out what we rode a hundred miles for Glad to see you sure and you to your walrus. How are you, California? Can still lick my weight and jelly beans. Well, now come on. Just sit down and make yourself right at home Hey, you come just in time when the town's busted wide open busted open. Yep last night, then we're a little late Well according to what you're expecting. I'm expecting to see Jim Pierce Well, then you're like I said too late too late. Yep, Jim Pierce was killed last night Nice in the back night. Sorry. I was late Scotty It was my brother. I'll be And I laid here 20 feet away when he was killed Never able to help. Well now better take it easy fella. I heard him come in and that hurt who? If I knew sir helped me, I'd invite him here and got him down You'll follow with my friend Scotty and I understand till we get whoever did this when they come in There was some whispered. I couldn't hear what was said All of a sudden I heard Jim gasp and somebody fell. I yelled And just silence I kept yelling till George Watts heard me come in George watch. Well, you know him hoppy Yeah, he's been with the bank for years kind of took over after dad left us who'd want to kill Jim plenty of folks I guess Jim walked into a tough situation here. Jim had some trouble. Well, I don't know if you'd call it trouble. What happened? Yesterday Jim told George Watts and Shuffle Duncan. He was bringing in the auditors We're supposed to go to the city after him today Shuffle Duncan. Yeah, the Red Guard a dance hall Watts let him borrow heavily from the bank to finance it. Well, we have to start somewhere in California Shuffle Duncan's dance hall is the best place. I know But look out. They don't get you should you've got some pretty clever girls working for him girls. Yeah to help him fleece the minus That's one of the girls that picture there Tutor and pretty to be in a dance hall happy birthday to the only man. I love Margot She writes a good hand Jim was very fond of her Met her a month ago when he first got home. It was love at first sight. Well, we won't keep you talking Scotty You lie back down relax. I feel like a rattler Lying here not able to move a leg. We're doggone at Scotty You just forget it me and hoppy you'll do your leg work for you and we have some to do right now Scotty, we'll be back in an hour After we take a look in Shuffle Duncan's place. It might be pretty interesting Hoppy I don't see no reason why we got to be sneaking around dark alleys Thought you was going to the Red God or dance hall. That's right where we're going, California We're a dance hall in a saloon or two places you can learn more out back to the count front This walks fellow who heard Scotty yelling. How come he was the one who heard him a good question, California And one he might have trouble answering. He had a good reason as anybody to do the killing funny a man would use a knife Dough gone it. I've been thinking the same thing hoppy Ain't hardly dark and business is booming That must be the back door. Yep. The lights are shining through quick California behind this wagon. Someone's coming out a girl The girl in the picture For that dark place by the wagon shed keep your ears open. She's in the dark Must be digging something up or burying something She's coming back She's going back in. Okay. Let's see. Come on easy now. Let's see. She's stuck right around here Fresh dirt hoppy. I can feel it good. Now. Let's see what's so important that it has to be buried by dark I got it Knife a knife great won't hold but that must be the nice sheriff Fletcher's looking for Well during this sure settles the whole thing quick. I wish you were right California We found the knife, but we still have to find a killer Now back to hop along Cassidy and our story hoppy turns on the heat Jim Pierce telegraphed hop along Cassidy to come to Clover Springs to help him clear the bank's name When hoppy arrived he found Jim had been knifed and killed in his home George Watts vice president of the bank and shuffle Duncan owner of the Red Goddard along with Margo temple a dancer and girlfriend of the Dead man are all suspects Well hoppy now I got Margo and custody too, but we ain't doing a bit better off who was before Shuffle back there in the sales where it up and down watch done it can't budge him and what does what say ain't saying nothing Can't find him. Well now that right there looks mighty darn bad for what? Well, then you see this gal bearing a knife and if she didn't do it where'd she get the knife and why was she burying it? Well, I may get an answer for you sheriff if the young lady's in the talking mood Shall we discuss a few things little lady? I don't see no star on you. I'm a friend of Jim Pierce's Didn't know he had one outside of me when they found Jimmy had this go watch Bob Gripping his hand with your picture anything wrong with my giving it to him nothing. What did you get it? Oh, I'm a thief now Look, bub. I paid $75 for that and here's the receipt. I got it right here in my pocket. I believe I know you don't here Go on read that. It's my receipt. I bought it four months ago right in town at Libby's. That's a good thing I kept the bill mighty interesting and I didn't kill Jim I love but not as much as you love shuffle Duncan. What are you driving at? Nothing important? Well, you'll get nothing out of me, bub. I wouldn't be too sure Thanks for the little talk. Sorry the accommodations aren't what you're used to California you sit out in the other room where you can watch the door when I talk to Scotty We don't want to be surprised sure sure hoppy if anyone tries coming in this back door I'm ready for I can still shoot. Well, I guarantee there ain't nobody coming in the front door Not while I'm out here You know what's happened up to now Scotty And you know we're doing everything we can to run down the killer is what's still loose. He won't be for long Let me ask you Scotty. How old was Jim? Jim had lived he'd been 33 in four more months a year and eight months younger than I Scotty we're gonna have to do something daring to get a confession of my killer I want to warn you it'll be mighty dangerous for you Don't give me a thought hop along. I'll do anything What time does Mrs. Curtis come to your dinner six o'clock stays until eight and when she brings your breakfast Tell her not to come in the evening till I call for well sure do it I don't want to soul near this house. I want this curtain down so no one can peek in you got a plan Yeah, I got a plan. I only hope it works And Dobbs trailed him to send her pass and that's where what's hold up I shouldn't be hard to smoke him out your like is not he'll wait till dark to break out of them rocks Yes, sir, just like I thought it was what's all the time well ago. You thought it was shovel Well, yeah, but the shovel didn't make no break for it. All right, there's a guilty man's move Looky on a head there. Dobbs kerchief on a stick. Yeah, but that's where what's turned off with Dobbs market Well, now we better fan out at me a Good suggestion sheriff. Yeah, you can see what's doing what no company. Well, we got it going after him poor dog That's a job for a posse. Well, you got a better idea if you have trot down Okay What? What come out of that cave? What's we mean business Dobbs planted a charge of dynamite and this fuse is just waiting for a match. Are you coming out? I'll give you 10 seconds to make up your mind what one two three four five six seven Okay, keep them hands up high what I'd rather talk him out than shoot him out Well, I watch him cruise now another killing ain't gonna worry him learn get his guns, California stand right there Let's ride what It was shuffle Duncan more of his dirty work Shuffle Duncan said same thing about you. I'll come you're the one who heard Scott Yellen. You don't live near there I don't know that looks bad, but I had a reason to see Jim that night. You saw Jim. Yeah, I Went in to see him, but he was already dead already did that's right Messed the bank had tormented me for weeks. I just couldn't stand it any longer So after dinner, I decided to go to gym and take my medicine when I got to his house I didn't have the nerve to go in so well I sat across the street trying to get up courage. How long did you sit there till it got dark Don't kind of give me courage. So I went over. I didn't want to wake Scotty knocking. So I opened the door and There he was. How'd you know he was dead? Well, he didn't move none So well, I walked around a bit and then I heard Scotty yelling I knew the poor kid was scared stiff and I couldn't do that to him. Well You got it down patting she wants. Well while you're thinking up some more you can rest easy in a good strong sale Come on boys. You got a trap this killer sheriff, and you know you got the right one Oh, don't make no sense to me. There's no sense in the way things are now. How about trying my plans here? Can you to work think I know it will but you've got to do it my way. Well, what's your way? You let Margot shuffling what's out on the street turn them loose after all trouble. I had getting them in here Oh, there ain't no place they can go when they're loose We set the trap the killer walks into it and there's your man share Yeah, all woman sounds local to me, but I'm only doing it cause you're responsible hoppy I'm leaving now share as soon as it gets dark turn them out But one important thing What's that before you release them tell him a Scotty can identify the voice he heard that night talking to his brother before he was nice Well, that means another killing Scotty wouldn't see daylight. No, I see what you're aiming at hoppy Got to be covered sheriff. Don't worry about that. I'll be there to greet the killer. That's good Sheriff right here California night going in you stay by the front door You're gonna scare Scotty out of his skin. I'll tell him who it is. I'll stay right here. Come on, California Let's go in it's hoppy be quiet. I'll stay here in the parlor and watch the front door while you're talking right California Anyone been around yet? Scotty not a soul, but I'm ready for them. They're all out of jail. We're going back to meet the sheriff I'll do my part. All right. Good luck Scotty need anything. No, guess not see you in the morning Scotty You bet hop along. I'll close your door. Thanks. Good night Scotty Well, you've told him good night and shut his door. What do we stand in here for? Let me have a match for sure here What are you doing lighting up gluten a tin waste bag? Can I catch it on fire? I know just let it burn please be quiet. The room's filling with smoke. Yeah, that's right All them papers is burners. They hope a dog gone I just can't stand here and let you burn the house down. I won't really burn the house down Listen all right California go get the sheriff tell him that we have the killer Now back to hop along Cassidy well hoppy who would ever think Scotty kill his own brother Jealousy sheriff jealousy. You see Margot tipped it off when she was here in jail. Yeah What you say isn't what she said It's what she did when she showed me the receipt for that gold watch fob She gave Jim four months old That didn't tell us anything. Of course it did he did she hadn't even met Jim four months ago So it set us to thinking she must have bought that fob for somebody else. Oh That's what we were thinking sure Then Scotty said Jim's birthday was three months away and still there's a picture Margot and Pierce's bedroom Which says happy birthday to the one only man. I love that man only one thing What it meant Margot gave her picture to Scotty before Jim came to town Yeah, but what about Margot bearing the knife? Oh, she thought Shuffle Duncan was the killer and appears she loved him a little bit, too Scotty thought it was Jim she loved and what a loving gal. I still ain't too clear Is anything else we deduced just what what stole is. Oh, you mean he told us something, too He said he stood in front of the house for hour trying to get up courage to go in during that time No one entered and yet Jim was murdered so that means it was done inside the house, doesn't it? Well, of course it does any fool can see that not any for California Well, the thing I couldn't figure was why you started that fire with a cripple in the house because that's one thing It'll move a man if he can move fire Yeah, but suppose he couldn't have moved then I had to put the fire out That was mighty day blasted clever of you happy you just turned on the heat and caught the killer me white California the sheriff here is the one who solved the whole thing. I've got the hand up to you sheriff Oh, sure. She just weren't nothing at all. No everything was just as plain as day. We just did it Turned on the heat Good bye from hoppy in California Up along Cassidy star and William Boyd is transcribed and produced in the West by Walter white jr Hoppy turns on the heat was written by Howard Swart all stories are based upon the characters created by Clarence E. Mulfrey This is a Commodore production