As has been related previously, I watch MeTV habitually, on Saturday nights when I do my writing. Dennis Hopper was on former Cub Chuck Connors’ show The Rifleman just now, playing a young man who was beaten every day by his only-slightly-psycho father until he got drunk one day and shot up the saloon. He dragged Mark McCain into the scene and asked him how often Lucas ‘whupped him’.
The negative answer enraged him into trying to force Lucas at gunpoint to whup the boy.
Naturally Lucas undid his belt, ostensibly to whup the child with, and used it to gain possession of the weapon and subdue the inebriated Hopper (playing artist Johnny Clover, in his second appearance on the show), because Lucas McCain is always the adult in the room.