EXT. MAIN STREET OF WINDFALL, NEVADA - DAY
PALADIN and POLLYANNA ride into Windfall, a small town with the usual assortment of businesses: a saloon, a hotel, a general store, a blacksmith shop, a sheriff's office, etc. They ride to the front of the general store and dismount. They enter the store.
INT. GENERAL STORE - DAY
The store is busy with a number of customers. There two people assisting them, a handicapped man and a woman. POLLYANNA, with PALADIN following approach the man, CHARLES, a slender, older, serious looking man.
POLLYANNA: CHARLES, I'm back. This is PALADIN. I brought him from San Francisco.
CHARLES extends his left hand. PALADIN takes it with his left.
CHARLES: PALADIN. Welcome to Windfall and welcome to our store. What can I do for you?
PALADIN: Perhaps we can speak privately.
CHARLES: Okay. My private office is this way.
While walking away with CHARLES, PALADIN notices POLLYANNA and the woman clerk eyeballing each other suspiciously.
INT. CHARLES PRIVATE OFFICE - DAY
CHARLES sits in chair by a desk. PALADIN remains standing. He hands CHARLES his business card. CHARLES reads it.
PALADIN: Your girlfriend POLLYANNA says you're in need of help from a bully because of your right hand. If you want, I can teach you to defend yourself with your left.
CHARLES: I don't understand. I'm afraid you've been misled. First, I've learned to be very proficient using a knife with my left hand. And second, the so-called bully is POLLYANNA's husband, BIG DAN. And I am certainly not her boyfriend. GRACE is my wife and partner here at the store. Perhaps you noticed her.
PALADIN is surprised and feels taken advantage of.
PALADIN: I beg your pardon. She paid me $1,000 to help protect her boyfriend...you. Why would she lie like that?
PALADIN and CHARLES hear two women shouting in the store. They both leave the office and return to store.