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Tonight, Gunsmoke.
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Gunsmoke, starring Wyndham Conrad.
The trans-crod story of the violence that moved West with young America.
And the story of a man who moved with it.
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
The first man they look for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
I swear, Mr. Dillon, it seems like we've been riding with that cottonwood grove
the last two hours.
Well, that's because you started thinking about it before you even saw it, Chester.
It's water I've been thinking about.
I won't never make it to Dodge without water.
You'll make it.
Not saying I won't.
Wait a minute, Chester.
Look over there.
Who are they?
What are they doing in there?
The man on the paint horse is Bill Pence.
Emmett Bauer's foreman.
The other two must be riders.
Yeah, but that kid they've got.
Look, his hand is tied behind his back.
They haven't seen it yet.
Chester, let's ride closer.
What's Pence taking down his rope for?
Well, Mr. Dillon, you know what they're doing?
Yeah, only they're not going to do it.
They've seen it now.
Hello, Pence.
What are you doing out here, Marshal?
I'm on my way into Dodge.
Does Bauer know what's going on out here?
Marshal, I'm foreman of this outfit.
Emmett Bauer don't question how I handle things.
Whose horse is that kid sitting on?
What?
The boy there.
Is that his horse?
Well, yeah, it's his horse.
Why?
Chester.
Yes, sir.
Go untie his hand.
Wait a minute.
Go on, Chester.
And if anybody interferes with you, I'll shoot him.
OK, Mr. Dillon.
You're making trouble, Marshal.
Pence, you know me.
You know I want to stand for lynching.
And you know I'll kill you if I have to.
Yeah, I think you would.
But this still ain't none of your business, Marshal.
I caught that boy.
I don't care what you caught him trying to do.
I'm taking him into Dodge.
If you want to ride in and make your charges against him,
legally, you'll be there.
You can thank him.
Look, I came by here before you got your own neck of a noose.
Because I had a culture for this, Pence,
and I'm going to follow you to California for it.
Now, you get out of here.
All three of you.
Now, morning, Chester.
Morning, Mr. Dillon.
How's the boy this morning?
Fine.
Except he's wondering when you're going to turn him loose.
I saw him at Bowers and Bill Pence riding up the street
when I came in.
Maybe we'll learn the truth about all this now.
The boy swears he ain't lying.
Yeah, maybe he isn't.
Now, here they come.
Marshal Dillon.
Chester.
Morning, Mr. Bowers.
Hello, Bowers.
Pence.
I told Mr. Bowers the whole story, Marshal.
Did you?
He did, Marshal.
What you call a lynching wasn't going to be no lynching at all.
No.
Just a hanging.
Pence and them two riders of mine caught that fella trying
to run off a bunch of my cattle.
That's cattle thieving, Marshal, and where I come from,
that's a hanging of a...
The law, Bowers, the law decides who hangs and who doesn't.
The law is too slow.
Now, cow thieves have got to be hung when you get...
I told you yesterday, Pence, you're a lynch anybody out there.
And I'll come after you, I don't care what you call it.
I'm not going to argue about this, gentlemen.
We'll worry about that later.
Right now, I want to know what you're going to do with a thief.
I haven't decided yet, Bowers.
But I'll tell you what he told me.
I ain't interested in what he told you.
Lesson anyway.
He said he didn't steal any cows, and what's more, he wasn't going to.
Well, that's a lie, Marshal.
Me and the men watched him cut 15 head out.
And then did he leave them and start to ride away, or didn't he?
Oh, sure, he started to ride away.
He either seen this or he was coming back and driving off at night, one time.
He said he changed his mind.
He realized he couldn't do it even though he started to.
You believe a thieving kid rather than a man like Bill Pence, Marshal?
I don't know who I believe yet, Bowers.
Let's get out of here, Pence.
Yes, sir.
Marshal Billings.
I know you might be interested in what you decide to do about this.
So will every other cattleman I know of.
I want to talk to that boy, Chester.
He's right back there waiting.
Hello, Marshal.
Unlock the cell, Chester.
Yes, sir.
You said your name's Steve Elser.
Is that true?
I got no reason to lie about my name, Marshal.
Where are you from?
San Juan Mountain, Marshal.
Over in Colorado.
What are you doing in Kansas?
I'm 18.
I figured it was time to leave home.
Why?
Now, to kill my poor or he to kill me if I'd stayed.
Yeah.
He ain't let me sleep in the house since I was 10, Marshal.
Sometimes he don't even let my ma sleep in the house.
Why not?
Oh, nothing my pa does makes much sense.
I think he got his brains knocked loose about 10 years back.
Time of grizzly bear slapped him in the head.
He'd most like to kill him.
And I wished it had.
I see.
Tell me about those cattle of Emmett Bowers, Elser.
You admit you started to steal them.
Oh, shucks, I'd have never done it, Marshal, not really.
I was just kind of seeing how easy it'd be.
I've found out that some of those writers were watching you the whole time.
I know, they told me.
Now, there's one thing about you, at least you don't carry a gun.
Maybe I'd better.
No.
Look, Elser, I believe you.
I'm going to turn you loose.
But on one condition.
What's that?
A job.
Work at it.
Prove you're honest.
I'm going to give you a week to find one.
Oh, Marshal, I've been working all my life.
I'm tired.
I'll give you a week, Elser.
And if you don't have a job by then, you're going to have to leave the country.
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Evening, Matt.
Oh, sit on, Doc.
Oh, thank you, thank you, Matt.
The street looks pretty quiet tonight.
Oh, certainly, yes, Doc.
Oh, see, Chester was telling me about that boy, Elson.
Yeah, I hope I was right turning him loose this morning.
Well, Matt, it sounds to me like he's one of those fellows that's just about to go bad.
A push one way or the other can make the whole difference.
Well, I guess it's worth a chance, Doc.
Most all of us have had a little help somewheres along the way.
Otherwise, it'd be nothing but thieves and crooks walking around.
I'll bet you didn't, Matt.
Or you wouldn't be trying to help this boy.
Well, anyway, he didn't steal those cows.
No, but he came a lot closer to it than a man should, Doc.
Mr. Dillon?
Oh, hello, Doc.
Good evening, Chester.
You'd better step in at the Alpha Ganda, Mr. Dillon.
Pence is in there about to have a fight with young Elser.
What?
Not a gunfight.
Elser ain't armed.
But he's making Pence awful, Matt.
I will see you later, Doc.
So long, Matt.
What's Elser up to, Chester?
Well, sir, he's been bragging to Pence about his not getting to hang him, about not being
in jail and all, and any improvement in Pence's temperament.
Oh, hello, Marshall.
Hello, John.
Is Elser drunk?
He's been drinking, but he ain't drunk.
Well, he won't find a job hanging around saloons.
No, sir.
Where's all the jeep talking?
Over there at the bar, Mr. Dillon.
Now, you just shut up and get yourself out of here.
I'm not going to let you get away with this.
You shut up and get yourself out of here.
You little thief.
I ain't a thief.
I ain't a murderer, either, Pence.
Oh, I told you for the last time, Elser.
All right, that's enough, man.
Don't picket.
Throw him in jail where it belongs, Marshall.
But you're just going to listen to his talk.
You don't have to.
I'll handle it.
You'll handle it?
You sure done fine so far.
Hit me.
Now, I'll kill you for that, Pence.
left hand dot about that
i got up on your feet
i didn't hurt you
but i sure will next time
and there will be no market around the nurse you
come dot get kicked around
not no more not never going to go up at what's coming to you play the ball on
you know sir i told you to go find a job you remember
job
it's a problem or find me
he wouldn't hit me about it and i got a new start when i got a mouthful of me
october's new one after it
come over here
i'm giving you a chance to make good officer
but it's not gonna last forever
you get out of here and start doing something about it
the next day i had to go up to four to one of them
but before i left i talked to a couple of ranchers who were in town about
higher amounts of
however they'd heard about him and said i was making a big mistake trying to help
a boy that was headed for the end of the world
why are you with them
but it was no use
and i decided to try to find a job in town to start with
i was gone today is the night i got back i want to
texas trail looking for just
he wasn't there
today one
i thought that
margaret
he didn't expect to back to the mark i didn't take as much time as i thought
getting
uh... tell me about things here
nobody's been shot at home and all
there's one thing i don't like them
i was at
you know ben henderson
for one reason or another i've thrown them and are in jail at least ten times
well he and steve elford and i'm going to get a glass cup
smarty poor company for us
i think you're wasting your time trying to help that kid math
much as i admire your reason he isn't wearing a gun missing
not so far
and i don't like this kiddy
could be that all ben henderson needs to get into real troubles a partner
somebody just like elsa
i don't look up to him
a game on
and i was hoping the board done some about part of the job
maybe you've been to easy on him
have done what i thought was right
has uh...
bill pence but around there
powers
but i had borrowed
spread all over the country of the law turned out how to lose
uh... sure expected
you can't blame people for wondering about now but i can't blame ours for
backing up and some alleged
he's going to talk about the law what does this start with that
look around
headed for the bar
yeah
i'm gonna have a talk with him
i'll see you later
hello elsa
on market
heard you that can't get back to my
and by the brain
market
not likely
bearing very friendly
you found a job at all sir
and you've been looking
long
some
here and there
all it's no use martial first man i have said nobody at harming
and it was no longer has got to have a job you've got to have one
uh... layoff in my show you don't know course any
why everybody always kicking me around
uh... you think that's what i'm doing everybody is
makes me shane nobody trust me
also i'll help you find a job tomorrow
around dot somewhere but i told you no i don't trust you as soon as you prove to
him that they can no i won't
besides i don't want no job it is still one one there's no other way out sir
find a job but i'm on i don't get out
all you can't do that
you give them a week
i changed my mind and i said they've met you
which i've got to do with it
you know good
sooner or later will be in trouble
we've got a little faster now
you've got no right to talk that way about me
why not
all leading the market
we need to be to make out all right always do you know you may not find a
net cottonwood grovels are
so far you're not doing much better here
you come see me tomorrow night and you have a job
and if you think i don't mean what i say
u.s. canter here
he knows me
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maybe kidding was right about my
we see on your own
but as i found out next day being hard on him to work any better
i just had breakfast a little mexican place at the edge of town
i was walking back over the plaza when i noticed a small crowd in front of the
overland express company
i started across find out what was going on when chester spotted me
came running over
you try to miss delhi chopper clark in their push up
then handed to try to hold place about ten minutes ago where is it to get away
well it's a cemented down boat case they will make that in fact and i come up
i talked to the clerk doctors and now
who had been handled
don't tell her what
he got any money
some entered shooting come run across the plaza right away and had a gosh
dead left
i wonder what the boy is nobody in cd my top two
about the court just
well we took one bullet shoulder it's going to hurt somebody won't kill him
area mcdonnell
or father looks like that
i guess i must wait for you
i would like to hear a that bill pampers
no offense
dot
that's a little
away from the
out of the shot okay
i want you and the other members they were your
out going after
or he's armed
mark sure
we could set fire to the place
but with the horses and then
forgot about them just a
wait here till i yell for you
miss you know
so can
welcome to go away
if they get past us fence
we sure will work
that door swings out just now that you're here you can pull it open but stay
behind it
i'll go on alone
and uh...
martial arts
they were you are more you can't get away and other five men wait not
therefore you know i don't be a fool
at court yes i doesn't hurt bad
but you try to run my old guy for it
i didn't kill
i'm coming out of it
it won't do any good to shoot my head
so you might as well give up
i get take your choice
you go to prison for a few years or die this morning
don't shoot
on quick all right then walk up there with your hands in the air
i've come in
are you talking to
me more
well then you'll come out with your hands up to a lot of
work on it
come on in here
all right that's far enough you took
stand right there
so you want to know me
all you would
you wasn't anywhere near that
is one of them
i got a right work on just like any other man yet nothing to do with that
robbery martial
work and those men that followed me here can tell you that
it was waiting here with your horses
you can't
that more why you're standing up for it
good boy
people let alone
i don't think that's it
that kind of stuff
i've got it
about it now let them alone
that over here under
i still think you were waiting here to get away with that
but he's right about it being hard to prove
i don't think mark now but you would have
anyway i'm going to give you one more chance
i'm taking a head of the jail now and while i'm doing it i want you to get out
of dodge
but good
don't come back
kick me around again
i've done all i can for you know so there's nothing more i can do
they're on your own now
and you know where the jail is start walking
room where she'll
along let's go on
uh...
he was going on miss billy
he was going to shoot you in the back
he died for it
it
thanks for one of the chest
i was just starting to fall you know
senior move out of the car my
i had a feeling i might try it
so i was half ready for it
anyway it's the first time i've ever write about it
i sure guessed wrong up to a long
but it was worth it
trying to help him i mean now i'm not interested
was already too late to help him
i should have known that
and now our star
william conrad
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