Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of the Sitrep. And I'm proud to announce my guest for today's episode, my 20th episode, is Will from the channel Optimus Wilbur's Review. So Will, welcome to the Sitrep. Thank you Jason, thank you to the Patriot Prime's channel as well. Well, it's kind of, it was funny, I took off work early and as I'm coming home I was like, okay, I've got a message. My overseas subscribers, the ones that want to be on this channel, first wonder reply is the first one that's going to be on. And Will, and you're from Scotland, correct? Yes, Glasgow, Scotland. Excellent, excellent. I love Scotland, awesome. All right, well, how the Sitrep works is I've got 10 questions for you. 10 questions as a Transformers collector and 10 questions as a YouTuber. So if you're ready to go, let my people get to know you a little bit. That's no worries, on we go. All right, sir. Question number one is what is the appeal of Transformers for you? Easy, the 1986 movie. That was what kept it off for me. I was born in 1985, so I missed out on those golden years growing up with Generation 1, I had to wait until the 90s. But when I was about four, I seen a 1984 movie. It may sorry, a 1986 movie. And that just blew my mind. Absolutely blew my mind, that movie. And it still was probably my favorite movie still to this day with the music, the animation, the police act and the credible in that movie. And it just stuck with me throughout my entire adult life as well. And that was what made me become a collector. And that's definitely still one of the best movie soundtracks out there. I still listen to it. It's in the Jeep right now. It's one of my favorites. Same if I go to, I'm now back at the gym. So as soon as I go to the gym, a stand bush there or NRG, nothing's going to stand in my way, something like that. As soon as that's on, that is just amazing for me to work out to. All right, I got a real quick controversial question for you. The touch or dare? Dare. That's my favorite. That's my favorite too. It's because I'm a hot road fan. I'm a hot road guy. I just like the beat of that one better. Sorry to go. No, you go right ahead. It's just amazing. I'm listening to the track with the revenge, the cola and stand bush created that is just an amazing beat. And it's just one of those ones when you hear it in the movie, it's a sticks like the touch. It just sticks. And that song, the middle of it, when they're doing the synthesizer, you know how a lot of people play their air guitar, the middle section comes out, you're playing air synthesizer. Totally, totally. All right, sir. Question number two, aside from G one, which we all know is the number one answer, what is your favorite Transformers fiction? Oh, that is a good question. I know.  I'm going to say a matter. Excellent. Okay, that's many cons. Yeah, the reason I would say a matter is that was what got me into collecting because I took a period of time where I was just growing up working and still Transformers was in the back of my mind, but it wasn't like the fan arm today still is. And I remember seeing Armada on the TV on one Saturday in Scotland, watched a few episodes. And by that point, I already bought the 1986 movie for I got sorry, I got it as a birthday present of one of my oldest friends. And going back and watching it and just remembering the toys. And those were the toys that came out at the time. So I managed to grab Armada Optimus Prime and Armada Megatron. And the storyline for me, I really enjoyed because they brought some stuff into it, of course, Unicron and various other things. The story, of course, with the minicons, which was the closest we were getting to with like headmasters, target muscles, type of a scenario. And to have that, remember everything about what you loved about Transformers, just setting off my path to watching it all again, collecting it. And it just that was I know it's not the greatest storyline arc that Unicron trilogy, but it was what made the like me collect and that's how I always stand. That is second to G1 for me. Nice. And those toys were built to last. I don't have many, I don't have many Armada. I think the only arm that can talk only Armada figure I still have is my Armada Megatron. And that thing is solid. Yeah, he's going to drop off the shelf. He's going to he's going to break my floor. Yeah, totally. They're mad. They're mad at oiling. Like the big classes, the voyager figures, like a hot show and stuff like those figures were not as strong. Actually, that hot shot looked more like a play school go bot than Axel Fraser. He looks like one of the rescue bots that Tony likes a lot. It's quite funny. That's what they brought back out and it's him. But the toiling I just loved and the fact that's that's when we finally got a Unicron toy that just blew my mind. Yes, I still have him. He's the other Armada figure I have. You know, I've only transformed him once. I've got the I've got one out of the box, which was the one I bought when Armada was still out. And he's been transformed plenty of times. I just need to buy the stand where he can sit in planet mode. I don't like this sitting on the back. I'd rather have him standing and then I've got the Fertile Faniversary sealed in a box. He's not getting open when it was repainted to be the G1 colors. I've seen that when I missed out on it and unfortunately it's way too out of my league now. That is too expensive now. All right. Question number three. Do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is one toy that you have that you will not let go of. G1 Fortress Maximus. Oh, you have a G1? G1 Fortress Maximus. Nice. I got the Encore. I never thought I was going to get a Fortress Maximus until that Encore released. I managed to get it when my wife got them for my 30th birthday complete and not stickered. So the stickers are in the box. That's really staying. That is awesome. Well, congratulations. That's a great figure to have. Yeah. Yeah, I never thought I'd even hold one until that Encore line came out. I was really same. I'll go ahead. Same. No, I was just going to say same. It's one of those ones as soon as you've got them. It's like, I've got them. Tight deal. It's brilliant as a Transformers fan and a collector. And he really stands out in your collection. So of course some people first walk into this room. It blows their mind anyway and they turn around and I've got a whole shelf of all my Titans. And Fort Max is right there with the other ones. I've managed to keep the Titans, the new release Titans, they're separate and I've kept like Tryptocon and Metroplex are in boxes. Tryptocons are reissue. Metroplex is G1 in the box, but he has got parts missing. But those two Maximus stand on one side and then the new Titans are together with like Unicron in the middle and stuff. Just like this table of the big boats. Nice. I'll have to send you a picture of mine. Where mine's set up, I can't angle the camera to look at it. All you're going to do is see the side profiles. See the Max. And the poster. Love it. Of course. Lord Vader right there. You've got to love Lord Vader. You've got to love Lord Vader. Oh my God. Have you seen that reimagining of the Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader fight on YouTube?  I will buy another special edition Star Wars if they put that in the movie. I loved it. I did love it because Darth Vader's is one of those characters like Megatron and Galvatron. You just love. Oh yeah. You've got to listen to the villain. Yeah. I'm not. It's the same wrestling. I love the heels. I'm a heel character. So that's that. The last time I watched wrestling and was serious about it was when the four horsemen were big Lex Luger, Lex Luger, Rick Flair, Arne Anderson, you know that crew. That was my back WCW days. Yeah. Yeah. I've always been. I was WWF, WWE. It's not the same anymore, but back in those days it was good. That was awesome. Wrestling came on right after the cartoons were over. I had to wait to Friday night at 10 p.m. So I didn't post. There was no internet. So we didn't get any spoilers. So it was great. So being Scottish was Roddy Piper, one of your favourites? Yeah. Favourite heel of all time. So saddening he passed away. He's in one of my favourite movies too. They live. I love. Epic movie.  Epic movie. Absolutely. One of my favourites. I love the score from John Carpenter as well. Yeah. Just a very simple, simple, like all of them. Really simple score. All right, sir. Number four. What figure is your white whale, your most wanted toy? The one that's eluding you? Oh, that is so. That is a good question. Like I said, I don't ask dumb questions here on the set. No, that's a really. I was going to go with one just because I've got the reissued Power Master Optimus Prime. I'd love to have the G1 with a lot. Oh, you and me are in the same boat there. I was so hoping that Encore, maybe the Platinum Edition, would bring him back. You know, he's got the popularity now. So please, I don't care if he's Encore or not. I want a copy of a G1 Overlord. Yeah, it's because I'm a massive fan of the Takara series of headmasters, Super God Force, Victory and that one episode of Zone. And just overlord, I just love this character. And finally, I've now gotten coming as the head map, the, sorry, Titan's Return Toy. So he's on his way, but I'd love to have a G1 reissue just to go with that Power Master Prime. The upgrade set for Overlord, the Titan's Return Overlord was my very first video. That's right. Yeah, because it's pins right there on your channel. As soon as you click your channel, it's right there. And it's one of those figures. As soon as I've seen him on that long with six shot, I had to have one. He's awesome. I love it. Of course, he's got so much stuff on him right now.  I know the feeling. I know the feeling. All right. Last Transformers question. Question number five. What is your favorite Transformer character? Not your favorite toy, your favorite character, any fiction, any media? Hot Road. Hot Road. 1986, 1986 movie Hot Road. So the pink hot rod? Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah. The first time I saw that color corrected movie, I was like, what the hell? He's pink. I know. And then in the Blurry edition, it's like, wow, he is pink. He's really pink. I wonder you and RC are close. That's that. I just love the character. And I know a lot of people don't like season three story arc. It's I hadn't missed, very missed, but the cause he questions himself constantly, why should he be a leader? When prime was, of course, it's Optimus Prime. You never beat Optimus Prime. And I just liked that story arc completely. And because that was my first memory of Transformers was Hot Road, not Optimus Prime. It just stuck that way. But I still love Prime. Nothing can be Optimus Prime. But Hot Road's that character. It's just, he's me. Excellent. That's awesome. Were you able to snag the reissue that came out? Yes. I've managed to get one. We got one in Scotland. The bad side boys, I think you's got the G1 reissued boxes. We didn't get those types. We missed the bat where, see if it's sitting on the hooks in the store. We don't have that bat. So it's just a box we got. Oh, got you. Got you. Kind of like maybe it was the encore reissue that didn't come with the box flap. I was going to show it off, but I think my boxed reissue is at the house. I've got him open here on one shelf and then my original G1 over there back. I'll send you pictures. I'll send you pictures of them, Jason, just to make sure but when it is, but I've got the white, I don't know if you remember the white Takara boxes. I've got Hot Road in that suit as well. The book style boxes. I've got one of those left for the Insecticox. Yeah, I've got Hot Road in that and Prime in that. So they were like my first two G1 buys when I became an adult and I had to have Hot Road. I had to have a G1 Hot Road. Nice. All right. Well, that wraps up our Transformers questions. Now we're going to get into know you as a YouTuber and be warned every small YouTuber I put on the sit rep. They start getting people. You're going to get some fans. And my accent does it for me. Dude, I love it. Your accent does it for me and I like your setup. The way you have your images, you have the Optimus Prime on one side and the Megatron on the other. I think that's very unique. But you, the viewers, will have to click on his channel to find out what I'm talking about. Yeah, I might actually bring that back eventually because I tried doing the box review and try to make it more professional. And when I'd done the original way back at the start, I had no idea how hard it was going to be to review something you love with gaming. It was totally different. But when it came to reviewing a Transformers figure, that was hard. It's a lot harder than you think. That's for sure. A 10 minute video can take you all day. Yeah, I found that. My first video took me about four hours to get where I liked it. All right.  There is a, it's not a long story, so I'm going to keep it quite short. Basically, I've done YouTube as a hobby. I've done the gaming side as a hobby along with streaming. And what happened was, I fell out and was in a wheelchair for six months, three years ago. And I decided to take up YouTube more hobby like daily with the gaming. Cut to a year ago, I was feeling a lot better. The gaming side, it was hard to get into. And it was, I think my last set of videos I was going to go out with was the Transformers for a Cybertron game. But back at the start of my YouTube career, I did do reviews on Transformers trilogy games, War for Cybertron and Transformers on Madder. And I had so much fun doing it. If you go back and listen to those videos, I'm using like a Rockstar microphone, a Rockband microphone to talk. My accent is so hard. If you're listening to me now, and you go back to that, you can clearly hear I've had more time practicing with my accent and getting it easier for people to listen to, because my Scottish accent can be really hard to make out sometimes. That's like my Hick accent. But I think that's brilliant. Yeah, I personally don't have a problem with it. A accent, some of them are absolutely brilliant. And I decided, you know what, I've got all these Transformers, this is my major passion. Gaming I've been doing since I was, I could walk nearly. And you know what, let's do this. And that's when I decided I'm going to move forward and do the Transformer reviews. And I've had an absolute blast doing it. It definitely gives you a new way to appreciate your collection. And of course, I'm probably going to lead into my next question here. Well, I'll save it for this question. Question number seven, what keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera? Oh, that's a really good question. I think it's more to show what I have to thank the best subscriber. And I think my neon just fell off the back of my TV. Because YouTube is not trying to think your long term, like essentially say, but we know the stuff's going on for a long time. And sharing what we love Transformers, sharing with yourself, if you've got a massive Generation One collection, and showing like people can click these videos say 20 years time and go that is what Transformers was when it first came out. And to continue to show the toys like that, reviewing them, how to transform and why they were so popular keep going forward. I think it's just something, there's something strange that like, and more of a meaning to it going like making the videos, plus I get a kick out of it, just making the videos, but doing that and thinking, what would something in 20 years look at this video and see looking at this toy? Like we look at a toy car from say 1920s. True. Well, I love the comments and the interaction with the viewers. I mean, because the figures I really started reviewing first was the old ones from the latter years that everybody quit collecting. And so sharing these online, a lot of folks like, I didn't even know that guy existed.  And all my history is Marvel G1. I know they were popular in Japan and UK, but Marvel G1 is how I know them.  Let me tell you all about this guy. So it's fine. It's fine. All right, sir, question number eight. There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you different than the rest? Your accent? My accent? That's the easiest question because it is my accent. Without a doubt. I know there is Scottish reviews that do toy reviews, but they do a mix of masks, Thundercats and Transformers. But I've never came across anybody with a really rough Scottish accent like myself here. So it's my accent. I love it. I'm part Scotch Irish, but I can't really do the Scottish accent that well. It's a tough accent to do. I mean, my American friend, he always, he understands me, but if there's people in voice chat or anything like that, well, do a Southern accent. And it's the worst American accent I can do. But everybody else understands me when I do it. I got you good. Did you see the video I did where I was dared to do a complete video in an Australian accent? Yes. Yes. You had the hat and everything. That's right. Here we go, Roddy. We'll take a look at this phone, like it's found. It's one of the best ones I got. It's what I do YouTube videos with. My God, that was hard to just keep rolling.  Let me do my thing. This is my hobby. I don't bother you. That's that. All right. This is going to be a fun one. Question number nine is what's your thoughts on the Transformers social community, i.e. YouTube, Facebook, and do you have any special shout outs? I've got to say looking, like finding yourself, finding various other Transformers reviews, especially in the communities and the way people have been interacting. Thanks for being brilliant. I have never seen this before. I've been doing YouTube nine years, a year with the Transformers channel, and seeing how these communities work, especially in YouTube where I know is cut through a lot of the people I'm friends with, and seeing how we all come together. It's not much about, let's do this, let's do that. You have that. I've got to see that. You've got that in your collection. That is amazing. It's brilliant to see something so nice going forward. It's just incredible. I've never seen anything like it, especially in social media and YouTube. It's been a long time since I've seen it. What amazes me, I've said this before, I have never talked to you face to face, but I feel like I have known you for years. It's the same. It's scary how it's connected through Transformers. It's the same with Kato. Kato, we've been chatting back and forward back on the YouTube since you've done it. It feels like I know him, and it's all through Transformers. It's so scary, but that's what I love about the community and the YouTube side with Transformers. We can teach the world a thing or two. Let's embrace these plastic robots, and we can bring together world peace through warring robots. Exactly. You probably heard the stories with Machia.  You want to talk Transformers, you want to talk to me like a person, boom, and it works. Our community is fantastic. There's very, very few bad apples in our produce department, if that makes any sense. Oh, totally. It's very, very few and far between. Very few and far between. If I was going to say one person to check out would actually be a group, and that is on Facebook.  I know you're going to become a member probably after this is Autobots Family, and that group run by a girl called Angie. I can't remember where she's from in America, but she's done such amazing things with this group of people. Just letting everybody share everything, and you're going to see people's collections coming in, and everybody just commenting, like, how do you do that? And people's doing like videos like ours, except doing it on Facebook, showing you how to transform with you and a girl. And it's been great. It's been really entertaining, and the community's been fantastic. And you're a member of Transformers and such too, right? Yes. Big shout out to them. And I'm going to apologize right now to Natalie and Chris, and also Dennis Moulton, because I messaged you guys and along with Will here, I needed somebody on here real fast. Why at the time, Will's the only one that answered. That's why he's on the set rep right now. But I am going to get you guys, I promise. I can't wait to see those episodes. The Transformers and such group, I love that group. That's where I've met most of my peoples through that one. I consider that one my main Transformer group. So good bunch of people, and it's moderated so well. I mean, they keep out the scumbags. That's the thing. I mean, like I said, there's very few Facebook communities I found that have been bad with Transformers. Of course, you always get, this is not a selling page. That's okay. Very rare. Have I seen anybody being kicked out? Very real. That's good for our community.  I've still not seen it. I'm trying my best.  It's just been one of those ones. It's like, I'll go and see it. I'll wait. I'll go and actually had to wait to Blurry to see Infinity Wars. I mean, anybody can speak about it. I don't tell me about it. I don't want to know.  I'm going to tell you that right now. I've been told that is very emotional. It's an emotional rollercoaster. At the end of that movie, tears are just streaming down my face. Now, I'm not sitting there going like this or anything, but behind me, all I'm hearing is It was bad. I couldn't take my wife then. She would do that. All right. Well, we are getting ready to wrap this up with question number 10. This is all about you. Do you have any channel goals for yourself? And where can our viewers find you plug yourself away? Thank you, Jason. You can find me on YouTube at Oughton's Wellbore Reviews and Channel Goals. It's just, apart from obviously meeting great people across, like, in this Transformers community, it's just bringing the best what I can do for you. That is basically it. I've never really looked at Goals. I think I've never looked at that way. And it's always just whatever I can do in a kind of an entertaining way. If somebody gets a laugh out of it, or a kick out of it, enjoy seeing this, this Transformer not seeing some sort of kid, I've done my job. That's your hand. That's what got me. That's what attracted me to your channel. I forget which one it was, but something you did, I was laughing so hard. I was like, yeah, I'm subscribing to this guy. Well, that is it. Once again, I really thank you for hopping on the show with me. I know it was very last minute. I interrupted your dinner, so thank you so much for being on.  Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. I know we've talked about this for a while. And for everyone watching, I will put Will's channel links in the description of this video. And at the very end where you see Optimus Prime waving that American flag, I'll have a link to one of his latest videos and a link to his channel as well. Once again, I want to thank Will for being on the show, and I want to thank you guys for stopping by and checking me out. This is Patriot Pride, signing out. Ho-wah!


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Broadcasting Company presents Joel McCrae in Tales of the Texas Rangers. Tonight transcribed from Hollywood another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers. Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCrae as Ranger Jase Pearson. Texas more than 260,000 square miles. And 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement body in North America. From the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on fact. Only names, dates, and places are fictitious for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of record. Case for tonight, sweet revenge. It is 6.30 p.m. March 13, 1944 at the ranch house of Judd Wilkins. It is raining heavily as Judd and Alva Briggs from a neighboring ranch finish their dinner. Yeah, the rain's sure coming down, Judd. Yeah. And welcome to say the night here if you want to, Alva. No, no, no, thanks. I gotta get back to my own place tonight. Told the kid who's been doing my chores over there for the last three days I'd meet him in the morning to pay him. I sure appreciate you helping me and Billins vaccinate the cattle. I'm planning on doing the same for you at your place when you're ready. Well, be ready in a couple of days, I reckon. Hey, when must the blown open the... Hello, Judd. Blake. Hello, Alva. Yeah. Well, you don't seem none too happy to see me either, Judd. Well, no, it's just... It's a big surprise you're popping up this way after two years, boy. Of course I'm glad to see you. You're my brother, ain't you? Oh, yeah, Alva. Where's Callie? What? You heard me, Blake. Where's my daughter? Well, didn't you hear? Yeah, what? Callie and me. We split up, Alva. Split up? Yeah, and Dallas, I thought you knew.  No, Alva, no, that ain't true. That ain't the way of it all. Why are you... Alva, let go of me! Stop me now! Blake Wilkins, if you wasn't your part, boy... Alva, you got to listen to me. Just stay away from me from now on, Blake. Stay away from... Judd. Yeah? How come Alva didn't know about Callie and me? Well, you see, Blake... I can understand Callie not wanting to write Alva about it, but I wrote here to Paul right after we split up. I told him the whole story in that letter. Callie was just using me to get away from home. She left me soon. She found somebody else who could do her more good. I told all that in my letter to Paul. He and Alva were friends and neighbors. Now, how come Alva didn't know? Paul died last month, Blake. Yeah, I know. That's why I come home, Judd. I ran into a fellow in Lubbock the other day who told me. But Paul wasn't dead when I wrote that letter. I told him I was sorry about everything that I wanted to come back home if he wanted me to. But I never heard from him, Judd. Why not? Blake, you're making me say something I don't want to say. Even though you and I are only half brothers, I've always felt toward you like a... What are you getting at, Judd? Well, hearing about you and Callie splitting up just now makes me feel pretty bad. I guess it was part of my fault. You encouraged me to run away with her? Yeah. You came to me asking advice. I told you on the QT I figured you had a right to your own life, but I sure didn't know it was going to turn Paul against you like it did. Turn him against me? Judd, I want to know what happened to that letter that I wrote Paul. All right, Blake. Paul wouldn't even open your letter. Just threw it away. He what? Said he never wanted to see you or hear from you again. Well, Judd, that just doesn't sound like Paul. He just wouldn't say a thing like that about me. I know, boy. It's hard to believe. You and he always used to be so close. Of course, he was his own son. I wasn't. So it was natural for things to do that way. Judd, are you sure that Paul got my letter? Of course. I just told you, Blake. All right. All right. What Paul's saying is will. Well, now, everything's taken care of, Blake. I want to know how it's taken care of, Judd. Well, it's in town, and go in as soon as we can. I'll show it to you. You got a pleasant surprise coming, kid. You know, it's going to be good having you home. You come at a good time, too. We need another hand here, and I'm not sure Al will ever be back to help after tonight. But having you back again, everything's going to be fine. No. I'm not so sure. What do you mean? Al, for the way it feels about me. I don't like things like that. Oh. Well, don't you worry about Alvin on, Blake. He'll get over it. You know, I think I'll take a horse and ride across to Alvin's place. Tonight? Yeah. See if I can get things straightened out with him. Afterwards, I could stay on the shack the rest of the night. It's about halfway. That way, I'd be out there to lend you a hand in the morning. Is there bedding and food out the shack? Yeah. Yeah. Plenty of it. Okay, Blake, if you want to go. But if Alvin don't listen to reason, don't you argue with him. And don't be afraid of him. He won't harm you as long as I'm alive and kicking. Yes, sir, Blake, I'll take care of you from now on. The next morning, Tom Billings, a ranch hand, rode out to the isolated shack on the Wilkins Ranch. He discovered the dead body of Blake Wilkins lying in front of the open doorway. Sheriff Hedges was immediately notified and requested help from the Texas Rangers. Ranger Jase Pearson was assigned to the case. Morning, Jase. Howdy, sir. Whoa, whoa, charcoal. Any trouble getting out here? No. Pretty heavy going, though. Must have been some rain last night. Good thing you didn't try to come out in your car. You'd have been huffed deep in mud halfway. Yeah, that's what I figured. I've already talked to the half-brother at the ranch house. He's pretty broken up. But I figured you'd want to look at the scene of the shooting before you did any questioning. Yeah. You find anything, Sheriff? Yeah, a couple of things. Left the body right where it was, though, and examined it on his way out. Whose horse is that in the crowd? I figured it's the one Blake Wilkins rode out here last night. Followed the tracks out here, just one set of them. Any footprints around? Couldn't see any. A lot of gravel rocks around. Yeah. Okay. Let's take a look at the body. Hmm. Lying in front of the open door. Bullet ended over the right eye. Rain must have washed some of the blood away.  That means it was traveling in an upward angle. Yes, right, Jase. Went clear through them and then carried through the shack. Come on inside. I'll show you. You got the bullet here in my pocket. We found it out back. Here it is. What's left of it? Smashed up. I'm afraid it won't help us any. You take a look at the roof, Jase. Back wall over the shelf of provisions. Yeah. That's a bullet hole, all right. Let's go back outside. I'd say Blake was just about your height, Sheriff. Looks like. I want you to stand here beside the body and hold your hand out of the level of your forehead. My forehead? Yeah. That'll represent the approximate height of the bullet when it hit Blake. There, that's it. What are you backing up for, Jase? I'm side-long your hand and the bullet hole in the roof. I get it. You're trying to figure out where that shot was fired from. Yeah. And it's leading me straight to this old watering trough. Okay, Sheriff. You can take your hand down. You figure it out? You can take your hand down. You figure the killer was hiding behind the watering trough when he shot Blake? Behind it or in it, the bottom of the trough split. It doesn't hold any water. Don't see any footprints around. Whoever it was could have walked on this gravel and rocks over to that gully there. And there's water in the bottom of the gully. Well, however he did it, he sure covered his tracks. I guess Blake must have heard a noise outside the shack. Come outside and get shot. Yeah. But I'm wondering what Blake was doing out here at this shack in the first place. I mean, didn't even know Blake had come home without the report of the shooting this morning. About two years ago, he and Callie Briggs from the next ranch over ran off to get married. According to Judd, Blake returned home just last night. And made a beeline out to this shack in the rain? It does seem a little peculiar. Come on, let's ride back to the ranch house and see if Blake's half-brother can throw any light on the matter. No doubt about it, Jase.  He'd backtracked the hoof marks all the way here to the ranch house. Yeah. Just one set of prints, all right. Well, he thought it was heavy going for our horses this morning. Must have been a lot worse last night from the way those hoof marks of Blake sank down in the mud. Yeah, I noticed that. Is that the half-brother on the back porch? Yeah, that's Judd Wilkins. All right, Sheriff. Oh, boy. Oh, Judd. Here's his Ranger Pearson, Judd. He's in charge of the investigation of your brother's murder. Uh-huh. Well, you got any line on the killer so far, Ranger? Not much yet. As I understand it, Judd, your brother had been away from home about two years. That's right. When did he get back? Walked in last night at supper time, about 6.30, I guess. Albert Briggs can verify the time for you. He's having supper with me. Any reason the time of Blake's return home should need verifying, Judd? No, no, I just, I just figure you want all the facts straight, Ranger. What happened when Blake walked in? Well, right after Blake walked in, Albert walked out. Oh, why? When Blake told us he and Callie had split up. Seems Albert didn't know anything about it. Neither did I, as a matter of fact, but Albert, being Callie's pa, took it pretty hard. Seemed to hold it against Blake. I guess he thought it was all Blake's fault. Matter of fact, I had to pull him away from Blake's throat. I see. Of course, the way Blake explained it to me later wasn't his fault at all. But Albert didn't wait for any explanation. What do you feel about Blake coming home, Judd? Well, I reckon we're any brother to feel. I told him I was glad he's back. It'd be good to have him help me with the ranch. Judd, there's one thing that's bothering me. Maybe you can throw a little light on it. Yeah, what is it, Ranger? How come your brother went out to that lion shack the first night he got home? All right, he decided to ride over to Alva's and try to straighten things out with him. He said he'd stay at the shack the rest of the night so that he could give us a hand of the rest of the vaccinations first thing in the morning, and that's what he said. What did you do after that? Me? Yeah. I see now. Around nine, I sent for my ranch hand, Tom Billings. I told him about Blake being back and also had him help me check some tally sheets. I'd say that was about 10.30 when we got through. Tom went on back to the bunkhouse? That's right, sure. And you? I turned in. You didn't leave the ranch house? Me? No. Of course I'm sure. What are you getting at, Ranger? I'm just trying to get at the truth, Wilkins. Now, wait a minute. You think that maybe I killed Blake? I'm not thinking anything right now. I'm just asking questions. I don't like the kind of questions you're asking. They got killed by my own brother in cold blood. Take it easy, Judd. Look, Ranger, you know who discovered Blake's body? Tom Billings, my own ranch handy. You know how he happened to ride out there this morning? Because I told him to. I wanted to meet Blake and start to work. Now, would I kill Blake and then go out of my way to make sure his body would be discovered?   Then you got nothing to worry about. Yeah, I know. Sorry, I lost my temper, Ranger. It's just a thing like this hits you pretty hard. Yeah, sure. Where can I find this ranch handy, yours, Tom Billings? He's waiting for you down at the bunkhouse. I told him to stick around in case you wanted to question him, Jus. Good. Let's have a talk with him, Sheriff. Whoever that skunk is, Ranger, I sure hope you get it. Thanks. What do you think, Jus? About Judd Wilkins? I don't know, Sheriff. Tells a pretty straightforward story, but listening to it, I somehow got the idea it was a little too straightforward. Almost like he might have been rehearsing it. Yeah, sounded like that to me, too. Well, we'll check up on as much of his story as we can from Tom Billings. Here's the bunkhouse. Come on in. Howdy. Tom Billings? That's right, Ranger. I've been waiting for you. And Pat's an old pair of jeans. I'm jarring to find much of a seamstress, Tom. Oh, I don't know. Seems to me I've seen worse-looking patches than that. Billings, you're the one who discovered Blake Wilkins' body this morning, aren't you? Yeah. I almost lost my breakfast. Pretty bad sight. Who told you to ride out that way? Judd. He wanted me to meet Blake and get started with the vaccinations again. Check so far, Jase. How about last night, Billings? Judd says he called you up to the ranch house. Yeah, he did. Wanted to tell me about Blake being back and have me help him check some tally sheets. What time did you go up? Right around nine o'clock. And what time did you come back here? Well, about a quarter to eleven. The rain had just stopped. I come back here to the bunkhouse and turned in. And then this morning you rode out to the line shack? I tried, Ranger. Okay. I guess that'll be all, Billings. Come on, Sheriff. Well, one thing's sure, Jase. Judd's time last night is accounted for from nine to about quarter to eleven. Yeah. Of course, we don't know how much that means until they've completed the autopsy and can tell us the time of death. You know, there's another angle to this case he could probably stay and look it into. What you're gonna say, Sheriff? Yeah. According to Judd, Alva was pretty mad at Blake last night when he found out Blake and Kelly had split up. We're gonna look into that angle right now, Sheriff. Let's take a run over to the Briggs Ranch and have a talk with Alva. See if we can find out just how mad he was at Blake Wilkins. You are listening to Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jase Pearson. We continue now with tonight's case, Sweep Revenge, an authentic story from the files of the Texas Rangers. We drove over to Alva Briggs Ranch. We could see from a distance that his car wasn't in the shed. Then as we got closer, we noticed a kid sitting on the front porch. Hmm. Who's that kid over there? Don't know, Jase. Morning. Looking for Alva Briggs. Oh, I thought I'm looking for Senior Briggs, Sheriff. What do you mean? Well, he's nowhere around.  So I come this morning like he told me. I wait, but he don't come. Jase, yeah. Looks like Alva Briggs got called away all of a sudden. I'm going to put out an all points wanted bulletin on him right now. Checking in town, I learned that Alva Briggs had caught the Dallas bus that morning. I notified Company B. Four hours later, Briggs was picked up at the Continental Trailways Depot in Dallas by Ranger CB Wade, who brought him back to Sheriff Hedge's office. After a brief talk with Ranger Wade out in the hall, I came back into the room. I'd like to know the meaning of this, Ranger. We'd like to know why you suddenly decided to take a trip, Mr. Briggs. I don't recognize my business. You're wrong about that. It's our business, too. When it looks right now, you get mad at Blake Wilkins.  But I didn't even know about Blake being killed to that other Ranger pick me up getting off the bus in Dallas. I still want to know why you took off from your ranch this morning. All right. Last night, Blake told me he and my daughter, Kelly, had split up in Dallas. They come as a bad shock. So this morning, I decided to head for Dallas, see if I could locate Kelly and find out what happened. Get her to come back home with me, if she would. I see. You left the Wilkins ranch about 6.30 last night. That's right. Where'd you go? Home. You stay home the rest of the night? Yeah. Any way of proving that, Alva? Well, I guess not. I live alone.  Sure, I felt like it were a second or two when he told me about him and Kelly, but thinking about it later, I got over it. I guess when a couple splits up, it ain't ever completely one person's fault. I didn't kill him. If you didn't, you'll want to cooperate, then. Cooperate? I'm asking you to postpone your trip to Dallas. I want you to keep yourself real handy until this investigation's wound up. All right, Ranger. You'll find me at the ranch. He's got no alibi for any part of last night, Jayce. No, he hasn't.  What are they?  Well... Another thing. Alva walked out of the Wilkins ranch house right after Blake arrived. How'd he know Blake was going to be out at the shag? Well, Blake told Jerdy was going to ride over and talk to Alva. Maybe that's how Alva found out. But we know Blake never got as far as Alva's place. Those horse tracks led right to the shack and stopped there. See, that's right. You think Judd was lying to us trying to make it look bad for Alva? I don't know. Then there's the matter of motive. You find out, like Alva did, that your daughter split up with a guy and you think it's his fault. You might knock a few teeth loose over it, but as for killing him on account of it, I don't know. Well, speaking of motive, how about Judd? That's just what I'm going to follow up next, Sheriff. See if I can find a motive for Judd Wilkins to kill his half-brother. I checked into the background of the Wilkins family and found out about several instances of friction between the brothers. The Judd had always been envious of Blake. That started me thinking about the father's death and his will. The executor of the estate was a lawyer named Sam Farris. Sheriff and I dropped in to see him in his office. Yes, Ranger. The will's in probate, but I'm very familiar with the terms and provisions of it. What are they? It's a sort of a peculiar will. I told old man Wilkins at the time he made it that it might not stand up in court. I had him change it a little, but I'm still not sure it's valid. Of course, it doesn't matter much now, Blake being dead. Incidentally, I suppose you question Judd about shooting. Yeah, I have, Mr. Farris. Why do you ask? Because of the way the will read. Well, just how does it read? If Blake returned home of his own accord any time during the probate period, the land, the buildings and the stock were his. That's very interesting, Mr. Farris. What provision was made for Judd? He was to get 25% of the profits from the ranch, and if Blake didn't show up before the probate period was up, Judd would get the whole thing. I tried to talk old man Wilkins in to set it up as a trust fund. Boiling it down then, Mr. Farris, when he came back of his own accord, the place was his, and Judd in effect would be working for him. Well, that's about the size of it. Well, Jay said you'd do it all right. We know Judd was always envious of Blake, so now up pops Blake to take the ranch away from him. Yeah, there's our motive, all right. Mr. Farris, you got a copy of that will? Yes, but I'm afraid I couldn't turn over my copy to your ranger. Okay, we'll look over the original at the courthouse, Sheriff. I want to study that will. We went through the will with a fine tooth comb. When we returned to the Sheriff's office, the autopsy report was lying on his desk. What's it say, Jayce? We were all set to arrest Judd Wilkins, weren't we? Still are all set, Farris. I'm concerned, why? Looks like there's not going to be an arrest. What are you talking about? We just found out Judd Wilkins had plenty of motive for killing Blake. Sheriff, all the motive in the world doesn't do us any good when the facts are against us. You still can't be in two places at once. I don't follow you, Jayce. If Tom Billings told us he was with Judd at the ranch house the night of the shooting, from about nine until quarter of eleven. That's right. Wait a minute. You mean that autopsy report says... Blake Wilkins was killed at a shack six miles from the ranch house. And according to this report, the time of death was somewhere between nine and nine thirty. Well, Jayce, there goes our case against Judd then, right up in smoke. Sure looks that way. If Tom Billings is with him from about nine to quarter to eleven, it's a cinch Judd couldn't have killed Blake at the shack. So where does that leave us? Right in the middle of nowhere. What are you going to do? Only one thing to do, Sheriff. Go right back to the beginning and start all over again. And the beginning in this case is that shack where Blake was murdered. Jayce, hang if I see what good this is doing us. We've gone over this shack just like we did before. You had me hold my hand up again. You sided along it to the bullet hole on the wall and we're still no further along than we were. I know it, Sheriff. The only thing I can figure is that we don't have all the facts in the case yet. Maybe somebody else we don't know about shot Blake. I think we've already got all the important facts, Sheriff. But facts are funny things. You've got to put them together in the right combination to get the right answer. And I think that's where we've gone wrong. But Jayce, I don't see what other combination there is. You've reconstructed this the only logical way it could be.  We know it's lying a flight after that because of the bullet hole and the roof by this back wall. Yeah, right over this shelf of provisions. So where's the mistake in there? I don't know except there must be something wrong about... Hey, hey, wait a minute. What is it? Take a look at this sugar bowl, Sheriff. It was right under the bullet hole. I don't see anything to matter with it. Look at the sugar inside it. Nothing to matter with that either. Yeah, well that's the point, Sheriff. You ever see sugar that's had a little water dropped on it? Wife sure gets sort of crusty. And stays that way. Yeah, but I... Remember what Tom Billings told us? That the rain stopped about quarter to eleven? Blake was shot between nine and nine thirty. That's right, over an hour before it stopped rain. Jayce! Yeah, a bullet hole over the sugar bowl would have let a few drops of rain on the sugar. But the sugar's dry. And there aren't any water stains on the shelf either. That means that bullet hole in the roof wasn't made until after it stopped raining. It also means we better get back to the Wilkins ranch house on the double. We headed for the ranch house. Judd was nowhere in sight which suited me fine at the moment. We eased inside the house. I didn't find what I was looking for in the front room so we went up into the bedroom. What do you figure I'm finding up here, Jayce? I think I've already found it, Sheriff. That calendar on the wall. Looks like it's hanging mighty high. Yeah. Let's take a look behind it. A bullet hole in the wall, Jayce? Yeah. I got my knife here. I'll dig around it. It's in here, all right. Here you are, Sheriff. A slug. Well, I'll be. You see, that's where Judd got the idea. He was probably standing on the stairs and shot and killed Blake right here in this room. Then he noticed that the bullet went clear through into this wall. That's why he fired a bullet through the rear of the shack to make it look like Blake had been killed out there. You mean all the time Tom Billings was downstairs with Judd that night? Blake's body was lying right up here in the bedroom? That's just what I mean. Judd must have shot Blake around nine o'clock, then called Billings over to the house right after it as a cover. Then after Billings left at a quarter to eleven, Judd cleaned up the room and took the body out to the shack on horseback. Yeah. I thought those hoof marks were cut down awful deep even for wet ground. That horse was carrying double, Judd and Blake's body. After he placed the body, he probably walked along that gravel to the gully and doubled back to the ranch on foot. He was sure trying to pull a fast one on us. He almost got away with it too. Yeah, I reckon we got a case. Hold it. I heard a door close. Nobody down there in the living room. Come on, Sheriff. I reckon Judd could have come in without us hearing him. Maybe. Take a look in the kitchen. The kitchen's empty too. Let's look out the back door. There he is, Jase. Running for the car shed. Come on. Judd, hold it. Stop where you are. Hey, he ducked around the corner of the car shed. Corral's back there. He might be trying for a horse. We'll see as soon as we get around this corner. Take cover, Sheriff. Shot came from the bunkhouse. Probably ducked in there to get a gun. Judd, this won't do you any good. Come on out of there.  Judd! I'll give you just one minute to come out of that bunkhouse with your hands in the air.  I don't have to, Judd. I'm gonna send for you. I circled around the ranch house to my car in front. Got something out of it and crawled back to the sheriff. A tear gas ball. Yeah. This is your last chance, Judd. Hey, my angel, Ranger. Okay. Here's mine. Hey! Come on, Sheriff. Let's ease up closer. You'll be coming out of that door any minute now. Dear guest, my angel, you... I'll take this side of this door, Sheriff. You take the other. I can't see. I can't see. I'll take that gun. My angel, Judd. My eyes. Yeah, they'll clear up. You're under arrest, Judd. You had a pretty neat scheme figured out, Judd. But you got tripped up by a little bowl of sugar. Sugar? Yeah.  You know, Sheriff, I got a strong hunch that isn't gonna be very long. Judd Wilkins was tried and convicted of the murder of his brother, Blake. On the morning of June 16, 1945, in the state penitentiary at Huntsville, he was executed in the electric chair. Next week, Joel McCrae and another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of... The Texas Rangers. Joel McCrae is currently seen starring in the Universal International Technicolor production, Frenchie. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Lamont Johnson, Bill Johnstone, Stacey Harris, Rye Billsbury, and Wilms Herbert. This story was transcribed and adapted by Bob Reif, and the program was produced and directed by Stacey Keach. Hell, give me speaking. Three times mean good times on NBC. Here is a special announcement. 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