"The Trial" - Head 'Em Straight

“The Trial”

Season: 2 episode 10
Series Episode: 19
Air Date: May 10, 2000

Teaser

“The Edomites were an arrogant people. They thought they were better than everybody else.” – Josiah Sanchez

Exploit

Protect a man’s right to his day in court.

Remuneration

A dollar a day and found

Euphemisms / Quotes / Literary References

“He was deader than a hammer.” – Witness 2

“To cross a mountain you first walk up to it.” – Josiah Sanchez

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child” – Maude Standish

King Lear Act 1, Scene 4, 281-289 (pub; 1606)

by William Shakespeare

Lear:

If she must teem,

Create her child of spleen, that it may live

And be a thwart disnatur’d torment to her!

Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth,

With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,

Turn all her mother’s pains and benefits

To laughter and contempt, that she may feel

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is

To have a thankless child!

“I am cruel only that I may be kind…” – Ezra Standish

Hamlet Act 3 Scene 4 (pub. 1603)

by William Shakespeare

For use almost can change the stamp of nature,

And either rein the devil or throw him out

With wondrous potency. Once more, good night,

And when you are desirous to be blessed,

I’ll blessing beg of you. (points to POLONIUS)

For this same lord

I do repent, But heaven hath pleased it so,

To punish me with this and this with me,

That I must be their scourge and minister.

I will bestow him and will answer well

The death I gave him. So, again, good night.

I must be cruel only to be kind.

Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.

One word more, good lady-

God wanted to punish me with this murder, and this man with me,

so I’m both Heaven’s executioner and its minister of justice.

This is bad, but it’ll get worse soon. Oh, and one other thing, madam.

GERTRUDE

What shall I do?

HAMLET

Not this, by no means, that I bid you do-

Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed,

Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse,

And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses

Or paddling in your neck with his damned fingers,

Make you to ravel all this matter out:

That I essentially am not in madness

But mad in craft. ‘Twere good you let him know,

For who that’s but a queen, fair, sober, wise,

Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,

Such dear concernings hide? Who would do so?

No, in despite of sense and secrecy,

Unpeg the basket on the house’s top.

Late the birds fly, and like the famous ape,

To try conclusions, in the basket creep

And break your own neck down.

GERTRUDE

Be thou assured, if words be made of breath

And breath of life, I have no life to breathe

What thou hast said to me.

“Sleep tight, don’t let the…Well, you know the rest.” – Ezra Standish

“Good night, sleep tight. And don’t let the buggers bite.” (1881)
Bascobel” A Novel by Emma Mersereau Newton

“…may sleep tight, where the bugs don’t bite.” (1884)
Boating Trips on the New England River by Henry Parker Fellows

“Goodnight, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.”
What they Say in New England” A Book of Signs, Sayings, and Superstitions (1897) by Clifton Johnson

“Whenas in silk my Maudie goes,

Oh, then, methinks how sweetly flows

The liquefaction of her clothes.

Then when I cast my eyes and see

That brave vibration each way free,

Oh, how that glittering taketh me!” – Preston Wingo

“Upon Julia’s Clothes” (1648)

by Robert Herrick

Whenas in silks my Julia goes,

Then , then (methinks) how sweetly flows

That liquefaction of her clothes.

Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see

That brave vibration each way free,

O how that glittering taketh me!

“La belle dame sans merci.” – Preston Wingo

“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” (1819)

by John Keats

O what can ail thee,

knight-at-arms,

Alone and palely loitering?

The sedge has withered from the lake,

And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee,

knight-at-arms

So haggard and so woe-begone?

The squirrel’s granary is full,

And the harvest’s done.

I see a lily on thy brow,

With anguish moist and fever-dew,

And on thy cheeks a fading rose

Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,

Full beautiful – a faery’s child,

Her hair was long, her foot was light,

And her eyes were wild.

I made a garland for her head,

And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;

She looked at me as she did love,

And made sweet moan

I set her on my pacing steed,

And nothing else saw all day long,

For sidelong would she bend and sing

A faery’s song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,

And honey wild, and manna-dew

And sure in language strange she said –

‘I love thee true’ –

She took me to her Elfin grot,

And there she wept and sighed full sore,

And there I shut her wild wild eyes

With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep,

And there I dreamed – Ah! woe betide! –

The latest dream I ever dreamt

On the cold hill side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,

Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;

They cried – ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci

Thee hath in thrall!’

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,

With horrid warning gaped wide,

And I awake and found me here,

On the cold hill’s side.

And this is why I sojourn here,

Alone and palely loitering,

Though the sedge is withered from the lake,

And no birds sing.

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Old Time is still a-flying

And this same flower that smiles today

Will never have to set eyes on you again;

You bloated wood tick.

P.S. Thank you for the lovely carriage” – Ezra Standish reading a note from Maude Standish (with apologies to Robert Herrick)

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (pub. 1648)
by Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a flying;

And this same flower that smiles today

Tomorrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,

The higher he’s a-getting,

The sooner will his race be run,

And nearer he’s to setting.

The age is best which is the first,

When youth and blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse, and worst

Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,

And while ye may, go marry;

For having lost but once your prime,

You may forever tarry.

Cast & Crew Lists

Cast

Character	Role	Actor	Actor Age	Status
Chris Larabee	Gunfighter	Michael Biehn	43	Credited
Vin Tanner	Gunfighter	Eric Close	32	Credited
John “J.D." Dunne	Gunfighter	Andrew Kavovit	28	Credited
Bucklin "Buck" Wilmington	Gunfighter	Dale Midkiff	40	Credited
Josiah Sanchez	Gunfighter/ Theologian	Ron Perlman	50	Credited
Ezra Standish	Gambler/ Conman/ Gunfighter	Anthony Starke	36	Credited
Nathan Jackson	Gunfighter / Healer	Rick Worthy	33	Credited
Mary Travis	Owner and editor of The Clarion News	Laurie Holden	30	Credited
Judge Oren Travis	United States Territorial Circuit Court Judge/Mary's father-in-law	Robert Vaughn	67	Credited
Obediah Jackson	Nathan Jackson's father / Freeman	Carl Lumbly	48	Credited
James Litefoot (Lightfoot)	Prosecutor from Eagle Bend	Brad Greenquist	40	Credited
Maude Standish	Ezra's mother / Con Artist / Gambler	Michelle Phillips	55	Credited
Stanes (Stains)	Eagle Bend Sheriff	Rick Dean	47-48	Credited
Preston Wingo	Owner of the Cattle Baron Hotel in Snellville	Patrick Cronin	58-59	Credited
	Witness 1	Gary Gingold		Credited
	Witness 2	Sonny King		Credited
	Witness 3	David Stifel		Credited
Mr. Brown	Buyer of The Standish Tavern			Uncredited
	Mr. Brown's partner in the purchase of the Standish Tavern			Uncredited
	Townsman	Johnny Luckett	50	Uncredited
		David S. Winn III		Uncredited
Jonah Catchings	Former overseer			Mentioned

Crew

Director	William Wages
First Assistant Director	Bruce Carter
Second Assistant Director	Susan Price
Developed by	John Watson / Pen Desham
Original Screenplay	William Roberts / Walter Bernstein (uncredited) / Walter Newman (uncredited)
Written by	Michael Norell
Script Supervisor	Kathy (Kathleen) Mulligan
Script Coordinator	Christina Weir
Executive Producers	Pen Densham / Richard Barton Lewis / Walter Mirisch / Mark Stern / John Watson
Producers	Steve Beers / Lynne Symons
Associate Producer	Dennis C. Duckwall
Supervising Producer	Melissa Rosenberg
Consulting Producer	Richard Kletter / Mark Haskell Smith
Composer: Original Theme	Elmer Bernstein
Music	Don Harper
Composer: Additional music	Crain Marks (uncredited) / Dave Metzger (uncredited)
Director of Photography	Gordon C. Lonsdale
Camera Operator(s)	Gregory Paul Collier / Brian Sullivan (uncredited)
Key Grip	Jason (D.) Hodges
Best Boy Grip	Bob Snowdon (uncredited)
Chief Lighting Technician	Jack Todd
Best Boy Electric	J. B. Richner (uncredited)
Film Editor	David Post
Assistant Editor	Gregory D. Gontz
Supervising Sound Editor(s)	Victor Iorillo, M.P.S.E. /Doug Kent
Sound Editor(s)	Miles O'Fun
Production Sound Mixer	Richard Schexnayder
Re-recording Mixer(s)	Pete Elia / Larry Stensvold
ADR Mixer	Mark DeSimone (uncredited)
Art Director	John Bucklin
Set Decorator	John (F.) Brown
Construction Coordinator	Dean (R.) Brown
Property Master	Curtis Akin
Assistant Property Master	James L. Eddy (uncredited)
Propmaker Foreman	Steven Fidler (uncredited)
Location Manager	Patrick Mignano
Location Liaison	Daniel Veluzatd (uncredited)
Transportation Coordinator	Rockey (Rocky) Reed
Production Designer	Jerry Wanek
Unit Production Manager	Bob (Robert M.) Rolsky
Production Coordinator	Bill (William) Sell
Post-Production Executive	Hudson Hickman (uncredited)
Post-Production Supervisor	Shana Fischer Huber
Post-Production Assistant	Michelle Sabrina Wong (uncredited)
Production Accountant	Jeff Gafin
Original casting	Janet Hirshenson, C.S.A. / Jane Jenkins, C.S.A.
Casting	Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
Casting Associate	Tim (Timothy) Michals
Costume Design	Dan Moore
Costumer	Susan Saldutti (uncredited)
Makeup Artist/ Makeup Department Head	Phyllis Temple
Makeup Artist	David Abbott (uncredited)
Hair Stylist(s)	Gary Walker
Special Effect Coordinator	Dan (Danny) Lester
Stunt Coordinator	Walter Scott
Assistant Stunt Coordinator	Tony Lee Boggs (uncredited)
Stunt Double	Bret Kiene (for Eric Close) / Todd Bryant (for Ron Perlman)
Stuntmen	John Casino (uncredited)
Boss Wrangler	Clay M. Lilley (uncredited)
Main Title	Frankfurt Balkind
Film Laboratory Services	FotoKem (Film lab)
Audio Post Production	Westwind Media
Post Production Services	The Post Group (Production Suites)
Production Companies	Trilogy Entertainment Group / The Mirisch Corporation / Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) (Television)
Distribution Company	Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

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Sources

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