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Judd.

Sorry I bothered you.

There was a prowler

messing around my property.

Figured he might've been headed here.

Well, there was a robber

here tonight, Judd.

- Is that right?

- He took stuff out of the shed...

...and ran off down the hill.

I heard him back in my place.

I yelled at him to scare him off.

He had a knife in his hand.

I figured I didn't want to go out

and tangle with that.

I like your vest, Judd.

Is it new?

Yeah. Miss Wallace give it to me.

It's Doc's.

Well, whoever did this

is probably long gone by now.

I figure you're right.

Well, y'all have a good evening.

- Good night, Judd.

- Good night.

Dad, did you notice

that he had a new vest...

...and a lantern just like the one stolen?

Yeah, I did notice that.

But that is the only lantern

that the Wallaces sell at their store.

I'd have been surprised

if he had any other.

You think we could've

been wrong about Judd?

That maybe he has changed

for the worse?

I don't know.

What I do know is it is still a mystery

to me what's going on around here.

- Have fun. Bye, sweetheart.

- Love you.

- Bye.

- Love you too.

Bye-bye, Laura.

Okay. We gotta find out where the guy

with that light went and if it's Judd.

- Let's work. Let's solve this.

- He was headed down by the creek.

- I wanna go with you.

- No way.

- Why not?

- Because we're doing our stuff.

- Go do yours.

- I'll just watch.

- Will not.

- You're so mean.

- Mom.

- Dara Lynn...

...how about I get some

magazines, you cut pictures...

...make a scrapbook?

- Let's go.

I don't wanna make no scrapbook.

I can play in my own yard if I want.

All right, now, come on.

- I think we gave her the slip.

- That's good.

She is such a pain.

Hey, let's see if we can find

something else in the water down here.

You know, I bet if we dig here

we'll find another body.

I doubt it. We don't even know

what we're looking for really.

Here you go.

Did you hear that?

Yeah, let's go check it out.

Come on, Shiloh.

Whoa, Marty. It's like the

whole place has just fallen apart.

This is too weird.

This is our lantern.

Did you hear that?

It sounded like footsteps.

It's just Shiloh.

Go back over there. Go. Go. Go.

It's okay, Shiloh. It's only us.

What's that?

- Is that a dead body?

- Let's get out of here.

Look.

Hey, you kids. Come back here.

- Shiloh, come on, boy.

- Shiloh, come on. Come on.

Come on, we gotta get out of here.

Mom, down at the old shack.

There's a dead body.

Two guys chased us.

One was wearing Mr. Niles' shirt.

- Oh, are you sure about this, honey?

- Sure as can be.

Not sure if it was a body,

but it looked like it. Definitely.

Well, I've got to call the sheriff.

I'll have them right back, Mrs. Preston.

Whoever it was is long gone now.

It's right over there.

There's the old farmhouse.

If Shiloh hadn't attacked them,

we probably wouldn't be here now.

There's no one down here.

There's the boot.

There's a glove here too.

- What about the body, though?

- That's not a body.

Just a pile of clothes.

Shiloh.

These are part of a county-jail uniform.

This must be where those escapees

from Tyler have been hiding.

- That jail is over 100 miles from here.

- Exactly. What better place to hide...

...than far away from where

the cops are gonna be searching?

That's pretty good. You ever thought

of being a detective or policeman someday?

As a matter of fact, yes.

Hey, my dog brought

this home last week.

They must've dropped their clothes as soon

as they could steal something to put on.

Where are they now, you think?

We're gonna bring the canine unit in

to smell these clothes...

...see if they can pick up a scent.

- Any way my dog can help?

I'd say he's been a lot of help already.

Good boy, Shiloh.

Good. Thank you, thank you.

I can't tell you how much I appreciate

you all helping me out tonight like this.

It's our pleasure.

Marty, everybody in town

is talking about how you and David...

...are heroes for finding those convicts.

To be honest, Mrs. Wallace,

we were just kind of lucky.

- We probably shouldn't have been snooping.

- That's right.

Well, I'm gonna call you a hero anyway.

What is it, Shiloh?

He hears something.

- I think there's someone out there.

- Well, can you see anyone?

- Let me open the door.

- No, they're trying to break in.

Let's go out the back.

Come on.

Come on.

Get him!

I've got you now.

Sheriff's here.

The bad guys are in here,

so let's join him.

All right. Good work, Shiloh.

Then they pulled a gun. I jumped up and

I kicked it all karate-like out of their hands.

And then Shiloh jumped up

and bit him and he wouldn't let go.

Well, that's not how Marty

told the story.

Well, the truth is my Dad and Shiloh

tricked them into going into the stockroom.

Then we locked them up

till the sheriff got there.

But I think David's version is better

for when they make a movie of it.

Okay, then.

This is how gossip gets around.

No matter how it happened, David

and Marty helped solve some crimes.

For that we are all thankful.

It's just how we figured it

from the very beginning.

Turns out, the next day...

... them two convicts were charged

with murdering Nate Fowler.

Seems that when they were arrested,

one of them was wearing Nate's old boots.

But little did I realize

that our problems weren't over.

You know, I'm right glad

you boys found those escapees.

Yeah, it proved you didn't

do those robberies.

Well, we didn't need no proof,

now, did we?

I think your dogs are happier.

Yeah.

They don't bark as much.

Fence holding up okay?

It's holding up fine.

Wish I had a gate on it now, though.

Getting tired of hitching it

and unhitching it all the time.

We got your gate behind the shed.

- I can help put it on, if you want.

- You got time to do it now?

- Sure.

- You sure?

- Yeah.

- All right.

All right.

Get back.

Go on, get back.

See if that thing will fit in there.

Well, let's see what we got here.

- Come on! Come on!

- Judd!

- Just bite me again. Come on, do it!

- Judd!

- Judd, don't!

- Get away. Get out of here!

- Judd, don't do it!

- Come on! Why don't you get out of here!

- But, Judd..!

- Get out!

This is all your fault!

- But, Judd..!

- Get out.

Go on!

This never would've happened

if it hadn't been for you.

He was just so scary

when he threw the dog.

I just keep thinking about him

hitting Shiloh.

You did say the dog bit him.

But he reacted so strong.

I wasn't there, honey.

I can't be the judge.

I would never hurt a dog

no matter what.

Judd isn't you, darling.

Hi. What's new?

Now, I don't want you telling nobody

about Judd and his dogs.

You can't make me not tell.

If you tell one person...

...I'll tell the whole bus how you

threw up on your shoes.

- Okay, I won't say he threw his dog.

- All right.

Marty saw Judd hurt

one of his dogs yesterday.

- Hey!

- I didn't say how.

Well, what happened?

He threw him across the yard

just because it bit him.

- Dara Lynn, what did I just say?

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