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Gun Smoke, starring William Conrad, the transcribed 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 chancey job, and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
Well, the train's already in, Mr. Dillon.
Ah, good.
But I thought we was early.
Well, now we won't have to wait so long for the mail to be sorted, Chester.
Hey, ain't that Miss Kitty?
Oh, where?
Over yonder, talking to that big fella.
That looks like Hank Groat.
Oh, now what would she be doing with a man like him? He ain't fit for a hog pen.
You go get the mail, Chester.
Well, I'll walk down here to get a little fresh air if you have some on you.
I'll walk back with you.
You will not.
Why not?
You'll kill the air around you, Bill. That suffocates me.
Well, now, here now, you can't talk to me that way.
Take your hand off her.
What? Oh. What are you nosing in for, Marshal?
You're lucky he is. I was about to jab this parasol in your eye.
Yeah, it'd be just like one of your kind.
Get out of here, Groot. Go on before I kill you.
You mean it, don't you? You would kill me. It's a good thing you're wearing a gun, Marshal.
And you'd better go on wearing it, too.
I'm sorry I got you into this, Mac.
No, you didn't get me into it, Kitty. Besides, I don't think there's a man in Dodge that
wouldn't appreciate a chance to put a hole in Hank Groot.
The sooner the better. Hey, who's the girl with Chester?
Huh? Well, I don't know. I never saw her before.
Pretty little thing, isn't she?
Yeah, she sure is.
Well, hello, Miss Kitty.
Hello, Chester.
This here is Ann Cabot.
How do you do, Ann? How do you do, Kitty?
And this is the man you're looking for. This is Marshal Dillon.
Hello, Marshal.
Ah, it's a pleasure, Miss Cabot.
Man, please.
All right. Chester says you're looking for me.
I think so. As the U.S. Marshal in Dodge, you seem the logical person to help me.
Well, I'll be glad to help you if I can.
I've come from Connecticut, Marshal.
Oh?
I'm looking for Jack Schomer.
Jack Schomer?
You know him?
Well, I...
Wait a minute, Chester. Yeah, yeah, we know him.
He's here.
Well, no, not at the moment. He had to ride up north somewhere.
Oh. But he'll be back.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I think so.
Look, I'll tell you what, Ann, I'll try to get word to him that you're here.
I think I can do that.
Oh, thank you, Marshal, but...
Well, he's not expecting me. Maybe I'd just better wait. It might upset him otherwise.
Well, sure. Why don't you do that? You got a place to stay?
No, I haven't.
Well, there's an extra room over where I live.
Is there?
Well, I work at the Long Branch, Ann. It's a saloon on Front Street.
Oh, but the rooms aren't too close. Quiet there. Nobody'll bother you.
Thank you, Kitty.
Well, come on, then. We'll find somebody to carry your things over. I think Matt and Chester
are gonna be busy.
Uh, yeah. Yeah, we are.
Goodbye, Miss Cabot.
Goodbye, Ann.
Goodbye. I'll talk to you later, Matt.
Okay.
It's not very far. We walked from one end of the town to the other in about five minutes.
Oh, my goodness, Mr. Dylan. Jack Schomer.
Yeah, let's go find him, Chester.
That poor girl.
Well, take Doc with us. Maybe he can do something.
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That is the meanest looking shack I ever saw in there. I don't know how even a man like
Jack Schomer can live in there.
Well, he doesn't care much how he lives, Doc.
Well, at least he's got water handy.
What with the whole Arkansas River running right past his door.
What would Schomer use water for, Chester?
Oh, to wash, maybe.
Wash him?
Yeah, the door's open.
Schomer! Hey, Schomer! It's Marshall Dillon.
What are you doing here, Marshall?
Yeah. All right, let's go inside.
Doc, Chester, I better get up.
Now, you don't have to get up. Just sit back on the bed.
Maybe.
How are you feeling, Schomer?
I got the shakes, Doc. Bad.
Oh, well, we'll fix that.
Well, what are you doing here? I don't understand.
Don't worry about it, Schomer. We'll explain it to you when your head's clear.
Well, what do we do first, Doc?
Eat this jug of corn outside and smash it.
No.
Here you are, Chester.
No, no. What are you doing?
No, no, no. Never mind. It ain't very cold, Schomer.
You can't do that. That's my liquor.
I'm going to get a pot of coffee going, Matt, while I'm doing that.
You and Chester take him down to the river.
Down to the river?
They're going to throw you in and let you soak a while, Schomer.
No, I'll drown.
Don't worry, Schomer. We'll put a rope on you.
All right, come on. Let's get it done.
Have some more coffee, Schomer.
I've been drinking coffee all day long, Doc. I must have had a barrel of it.
It's whiskey that comes in barrels, Schomer. Drink your coffee.
I'm floating.
Now, Schomer, you're pretty sober now. So what are you going to do?
I can't face her, Marshall. I'd give anything to see her, but I can't do it.
I'm no good for her the way I am now.
What happened to you, Schomer? What went wrong?
The land. The land went wrong. I went wrong on it. I don't know.
Anyway, it beat me, Doc. I was going to start a homestead in St. Frans, but I couldn't make
it. I had to give up. I even quit writing to her about a year ago.
You're not the first man this country broke.
It's more than that, Marshall. Most men who quit find something else to do, but with me,
it's like I lost everything. I couldn't face people anymore.
Then that night I got into a fight at the Long Branch. You heard about that?
Yeah, I heard.
I ran away. I couldn't stand up to it. I guess I'm a coward. Everybody says I am.
Every man's been a coward at one time or another, Schomer, but it doesn't have to last.
It's lasted with me. How could I face Ann knowing I'm a failure and a coward to bully?
Well, you can prove you're not a coward just by going to see her. Try it. Women have a
way of understanding these things.
Well, I don't know, Doc.
All right, Schomer. We'll tell her you're in the horse-trading business. That's why you're
out of town. But you'll have to tell her the truth if you see her.
I'm only half a man.
Now, it's up to you. You think on it. But don't take too long.
Hey, Kitty. Hey, Kitty.
Hello, Matt. Ann and I have been looking the town over, such as it is.
Oh, well, what do you think of Dodge, Ann?
Well, at least it's not as wild as I expected. I keep telling her the real troublemakers
don't even get up till sundown.
Don't let her scare you.
Don't worry about Ann. She doesn't scare easy.
Marshall, you haven't heard anything about Jack when he'll be back?
Well, Jack Schomer's a busy man, Ann. He's up north somewhere, like I said. He trades
horses, you know.
No, I didn't.
He'll probably be back in a day or so.
I can wait. I'm used to waiting.
It won't be long, Ann.
No.
Oh, Kitty, look. Are those the kind of bonnets you were telling me about in the window over
there?
Those are the ones. If Mr. Jonas doesn't have them marked up too high.
Well, there's some price tags on them.
Excuse me.
Where is Schomer, Matt?
We sobered him up. He's doing some thinking now.
Sitting in that shack of his?
Yeah.
Kitty, they're all a dollar and a half. Is that too high?
No, that's fair. We'll go in and try one on you in a minute.
Oh, good.
I wish Schomer would hurry up, Matt. I hate playing this kind of game with a girl like
that.
Yeah, I know.
Hey, I ain't seen you and Dodd before.
No, you haven't.
Matt.
My name is Hank Groot, miss. What's yours?
Stay here, Kitty.
Uh-huh.
I'm not accustomed to meeting men this way, sir.
Oh, now don't get like that.
Groot.
I ain't doing nothing, Marshal. I'm only talking to ladies.
You leave the ladies alone, Groot. All of them. And if I have any more trouble with you, I'm
going to run you out of Dodge for good. Now get moving.
You want them all for yourself, huh? Well, it ain't going to be that way. You'll see.
Thank you, Marshal.
I'm afraid they're not all gentlemen out here, Ann.
When are you going to get around to shooting him, Matt?
If I'm going to stay out here, I guess I'll have to learn to handle men like that.
You won't run into anybody worse than Hank Groot, Ann.
No, and if he bothers you again, Ann, you let me know right away, huh?
I certainly will, Marshal.
Okay. Now you two go buy your bonnets, huh?
Goodbye, Marshal.
Goodbye, Matt.
Goodbye.
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You know something, Mr. Dillon?
Oh, what, Chester?
Next year we're just going to have to find another stove. This is about war out.
We can't afford a new one, Chester.
Well, what about one of them hay burners? They're cheap.
It takes two men and a boy to keep a hay burning stove going, you know.
Well, I know, but it... Well, Miss Kitty.
Hello, Chester. Matt.
What's the matter, Kitty?
I can't find Ann.
Why?
We had dinner at Delmonico's tonight and then I had to go to work.
Ann was going back to her room to do some sewing and things, but she isn't there.
I don't know where she is.
Well, how do you know? Have you been there?
I broke a heel off my shoe when I went over to get a different pair.
I stopped by her room and she's not there. That isn't like her, Matt.
Well, you go back to work, Kitty. We'll look for her. Come on, Chester.
You better find her.
Yeah, I will find her.
Let me know, Matt. Will you?
Sure, of course I will, Kitty.
Where are we going to look, Mr. Dillon?
We'll go to the house first, Chester. That's where she was headed.
Kitty's awful upset, ain't she?
Yeah. Kitty takes a liking to somebody. She's kind of a tiger about them.
Yes, sir, that sure is true. I hope nothing's happened to Ann.
Maybe she went for a walk or something.
Yeah, maybe.
But a woman shouldn't go for a walk at night. A lone woman should she.
No.
She might get lost or something.
Yeah.
She ought to stay indoors at night unless she's with somebody.
That's right, Chester.
It's too dangerous in a place like Doug's. You don't never know what might happen, do you?
No.
Hold up a minute, Chester.
I don't see nothing.
On the ground over there, just out of that patch of moonlight.
Oh, my... Oh, my goodness.
It's Ann Cabot. She's been hurt or something.
Yeah.
Ann. Hey, Ann.
Yeah, she's unconscious, Chester.
What happened to her?
I don't know. I'm going to carry her up to Doc's.
You go tell Kitty, huh?
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Ann was still unconscious when I got her up to Doc's. And she stayed that way.
He examined her, but he couldn't find anything wrong. There wasn't a scratch on her.
Her hair was must up some, but we figured that happened when she fell.
Kitty and Doc spent the night watching her and waiting.
We had known the next day, Ann was still unconscious. And there didn't seem to be a thing anybody could do about it.
Chester and I stayed out of the way and did our waiting downstairs in the office.
I've heard tell of people going to sleep and staying that way practically forever, Mr. Dillon. You think that's what she's got?
Whoever heard of sleeping sickness around here, Chester?
Well, maybe she caught it back east and brought it with her.
Well, I don't know about back east.
Marshall.
Well, what do you know?
Well, come on in.
It's no use, Marshall.
What?
I came to tell you I can't do it.
Oh.
I'm going to go away.
Maybe you can tell her I got killed or something.
No, I haven't been drinking.
Not a drop since you and Doc and Chester came down there.
Schumer, there's something.
Pat, I wanted to tell you that...
Hey, how? What is it, Doc?
Well, Jack Schumer.
Hello, Doc.
It's a good thing you're here, Schumer.
Why?
He doesn't know about her yet, Doc.
Know what?
We found Anne lying unconscious on the street last night.
And she's been that way ever since.
She came to a few minutes ago, man.
Oh, did she say anything?
Yes.
It seems Hank Groats stopped her and tried to talk to her.
She slapped him, made him so mad he hit her.
Why?
He must have done it with the flat of his hand.
But it gave her a concussion.
He's a mighty powerful man.
Hank Groats hit Anne?
I'll go get him, Doc.
Wait a minute, and I'll go with you, Mr. Dillon.
I just want to lock the door out back here.
All right.
I saw Groats going into the Texas Trail next door.
Oh, good.
I'm going back to Anne. It's just some bad shit.
Yeah, Doc.
Mr. Dillon, can you give me a hand out here?
Yeah, I'm coming, Justin.
Because the door is warped, Mr. Dillon,
you'll have to shove onto it so that I can get it locked.
Okay.
There it is.
You know, we're going to have to build a new door one of these days.
That one sure ain't much.
Hey, where'd Schumer go?
I don't know.
Mr. Dillon, my gun's gone.
What?
My sixth gun that was on the cot here just a minute ago.
Are you sure?
Of course I'm sure.
Schumer must have taken it.
Him? What for?
To go after Hank Groats with. Come on.
Are you serious, Mr. Dillon?
Well, it's a cinch Doc doesn't take your gun.
Oh, no, of course not.
But the idea of Schumer going after Hank Groats...
He saw him going to the Texas Trail here.
Then this is the last place I'd look for Schumer.
I don't know.
Maybe.
There he is.
Talking to Groats over there at the bar.
That gun in your belt don't scare me, Schumer.
You're a coward.
Everybody knows it.
Maybe I've been a coward long enough.
Wait a minute, Chester.
I'm not carrying a gun.
That proves you're a coward, Schumer.
I'll get rid of the gun.
How long are you going to keep it?
I'm going to keep it.
You're a coward, Schumer. I'll get rid of the gun.
I'll slide it down the bar.
Now will you fight?
You're a fool to do that.
I'll kill you now.
I'll kill you with my bare hands.
Come on, I'm not afraid.
All right, hold it.
Now, you stay out of this, Marshal. It's my fight.
Not anymore, Schumer. Groats under arrest.
He's my prisoner.
What are you talking about?
Are you coming, Groats?
Yeah.
I'm coming.
My goodness, Mr. Dillon.
You ruined your six-gun using it that way.
Here, take it, Chester.
When Groats comes to bring him to jail, huh?
We'll be up to docks.
I think Schumer's ready to talk to Anne now.
You wait here, Schumer.
Uh, hello, Matt.
Schumer?
Where's Anne, Doc?
She's in the back room there.
I've got to see her.
Wait a minute.
What?
You're too late.
Too late?
Anne died a couple of minutes ago.
No.
She asked about you. She wanted to see you.
I told her I'd be here.
I don't understand.
I think she knew something was wrong.
We didn't fool her.
They should have come here first.
They'd have gone after Groats.
Maybe.
Might have helped.
They didn't prove anything, did they?
What do you mean?
I wanted Groats to kill me, Marshall.
Don't you understand?
That way I'd never have to tell Anne the truth about me.
It was her I couldn't face.
Where you going, Schumer?
Where do you think, Doc?
I'm going to get a drink.
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We tried, Doc.
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