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I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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Mr. Dillon?
What?
Mr. Dillon?
What are you so riled up about, Chester?
Clif Braden and Howard Grant.
What are those bullies up to now?
You won't never believe it, but there's a real Chinaman here in town.
A little Chinese fellow with a big tail and all.
He just come in to dodge on a freighter's wagon, and right now Braden and Rab, they got him pushed up against the wall out there.
What are they doing to him?
Well, they're deviling him and poking fun at him.
I told them to leave him alone, but Mr. Dillon, I wish you'd go tell them.
Alright, Chester, now go tell them.
If there's anything I hate, it's a bully.
Maybe they're just curious about him.
The first Chinaman I ever knew of in Dodge.
The way you hear him.
Here they are.
Look, I think you understand one word they're saying.
He just backed up there staring at him, holding tight that little old box he's got.
Maybe that's what they want.
That little box?
Probably just his medicine or something.
He's not an Indian, Chester.
No, sir, he ain't, but maybe them Chinese fellas has medicine too.
Look how he's hanging on to it.
You don't talk real good, do you, Rab?
Somebody must have spit his tongue.
I know, you know Chinese boys all sound like that.
Now look, this fella, I'm just asking you one more time.
What are you doing in Dodge?
Oh, me catching jobs, me all the time working hard.
Oh, a job, huh?
Well, I sure hope you ain't brought your family with you.
No, no family.
One man and one boy.
What do you say, me?
Oh, that's one good thing.
Why shouldn't a man have a family, Rab?
Oh, yes.
So, Marshal?
I said why shouldn't he have a family?
Oh, well, you want a lot of Chinaman running around loose here?
What's your name, fella?
Chen Lang Wong.
Me good boy.
Casual place, Dodge City.
All the time working hard.
Now, Chen, I'm a U.S. Marshal here, and you're welcome in Dodge.
You can stay here as long as you like.
What are you mixing in this bar, Mark?
You got no business protecting him, Marshal.
He's your dirty phone, ain't he?
Except for the Indians, we're all foreigners here, Britain.
Chen, I told you you're welcome in here,
and if either one of these men bother you again,
you come and tell me about it.
Now, look, Marshal, you look at that little box you've got there.
It's probably full of money that he stole somewhere.
No, no, no money.
The Chin no stealing no money.
Oh, who's going to believe you?
Get out of here, you two.
Go on, move.
Hmm.
See you about this later.
I never heard of nothing like it, law, but...
Chen no likey bling trouble, Marshal.
I'll worry about the trouble, Chen.
Tell me, what kind of work do you do?
We catch up place.
Very good cook.
A cook, huh?
Oh, yes.
Well, what kind of cooking do you do, Chen?
Oh, the kind.
Charity, cookie, malachan cookie, all kind.
You know what, Mr. Dillon,
we ought to take him over to Delmonco's.
Oh, why?
Well, sir, Mr. Green fired the cookie out there yesterday.
Might be he ain't found another yet.
All right, Chess, see you take him over.
Chen, you remember what I said about Rab and Braydon?
You come tell me if they give you any trouble.
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Mr. Green at Delmonico's took a chance and hired Chen Wong that day.
And it turned out he wasn't lying about being a good cook,
and neither was he lying about working hard.
Mr. Green let him sleep in a storeroom off the kitchen,
and there he stayed out of sight, and for a while out of trouble.
Mr. Green was a very good cook, and he was a very good cook.
And he was a very good cook, and he was a very good cook,
and for a while out of trouble.
Oh, hello Matt.
Come in, come in, come in.
Hello, Doc.
I'll be right with you as soon as I finish with Chen Wong here.
No, what's the matter with Chen?
There, lying right there, you see.
That's what was the matter with him.
You lost a tooth, huh, Chen?
There you are, Chen, I'm through.
Well, let me take a look at that in a day, do you, huh?
Thank you, Doctor.
I'll come back.
How much do I owe you?
Oh, a dollar.
May I pay you next time?
See, I won't get my salary from Mr. Green until Saturday.
I have no money except for that.
Oh, sure, sure, Chen, any time.
Chen, the first time I saw you,
you were being a very good Chinese boy,
all the time working hard, catching up on jobs,
isn't that how a Chinaman's supposed to talk, Marshal?
Well, I thought it was, too, just now.
Oh, some of my countrymen do talk like that, Marshal.
English is a very difficult language for us.
Oh, what about you?
I was more fortunate than most.
When I first came to America,
I worked for a man who was very kind.
He taught me, made me study and practice several hours every day.
Oh, I see.
Well, why were you talking the other way when I first saw you?
Experience has taught me that many men resent a Chinaman
who does not talk the way they expect him to.
I wish to avoid trouble.
Chen's on his way to San Francisco, Matt.
He's going home as soon as he can save up enough money for his passage.
Oh, well, I wish you luck, Chen.
Thank you, Marshal.
Well, I must get back to work now.
Good day, gentlemen.
So long, Chen.
Goodbye.
Yeah, he's a nice fella.
Yeah, he is.
I believe him about being broke, too.
Doc, why shouldn't you, Doc?
Haven't you heard?
Heard what?
Uh, plus Brayden and Howard Rab.
They've been saying Chen's got lots of money.
Now, they say he keeps it hidden, that little box of his.
Oh.
With that kind of talk going around, Chen's in trouble.
There are men besides Brayden and Rab who would murder him for his money
and not even think it was a crime.
I suppose you're right, Ned.
I'll go catch up with him and have a talk, Doc.
I'll see you later.
I had that talk with Chen and I tried to get him to put his box in the bank
and then let everybody know that he'd done so,
but he said that he wanted the box near him and that he'd keep it hidden in his room.
I couldn't argue him out of it, so I knew there'd be trouble.
Sure enough, a couple of days later it happened, though not the way I'd expected.
It was noon, and Chester and I went into Delmonico's for dinner.
Say, this place is a ton of deserted, Mr. Dillon.
Yeah, maybe it's closed.
There's Mr. Green.
Ah, Green, are you closed today?
Hello, Marshall. Chester?
Hello.
Yeah, I'm closed, Marshall. I got no cook.
What?
Chen, he won't cook today.
I don't know what's the matter with him. He won't even talk.
Oh, where is he?
Sitting in his room back there on the floor, just sitting there, staring at his hand.
Well, maybe he's sick.
No, he ain't sick. There's something wrong with him.
Maybe you can find out what it is, Marshall. He might talk to you.
Yeah, sure, I'll try.
It's the store room right off the kitchen, Marshall. Doors open.
Yeah, I'll find it.
Ah, hello, Chen.
Hello, Marshall.
Um, okay, can I come in? I'd like to talk to you.
Come in.
How's your tooth? Give me any trouble?
No.
Um, tell me something, Chen.
What, Marshall?
Do you consider me a friend?
I believe you are.
Ah, good. Then maybe you'll let me help you.
In what way?
Well, I don't know. You'll have to tell me what's wrong first.
It would be difficult for you to understand, Marshall.
Well, maybe, but tell me anyway.
I am Chinese, Marshall. I have lived many years in America, but I am still Chinese.
Yeah, go on.
Years ago, my country was overrun by a tribe of Tartars called the Manchus.
As they took each city, they required the inhabitants to shave around their heads,
leaving only a long strand of hair to be braided into a cube.
It was a sign of subjugation.
But that has been forgotten, and now the q or pigtail, as you call it, is of great importance to us.
Wait a minute, Chen. I just noticed. Where's yours?
To lose the q is a great disgrace to us, Marshall.
Who did it, Chen?
Two men. The same two.
You mean Brayton and Rab?
They came here last night. They wanted my treasure box.
Then you wouldn't tell them where it was, so they cut off your pigtails, would it?
They took it away with them, Marshall. That makes my disgrace even worse.
Chen, will it help any if I get it back for you?
If I don't get it back, I must kill those two, Marshall.
No, no. Don't you go killing anybody. You let me handle this.
I'm very sorry, Marshall, for all the trouble.
You just wait here, Chen. I'll see what I can do.
Well, it ain't Marshall Dillon.
You going to buy us a drink, Mark?
I thought I told you you meant to stay away from Chen Wong.
Chen Wong? Now what's he hollering about?
His pigtail. He wants it back.
I don't know what you're talking about, Marshall.
Yes, you do.
Chen's lying to you, Marshall. All them heathen foreigners is lying.
Rab. I want that pigtail now. Where is it?
I don't know nothing about it, I tell you.
It was not us, honest. Now, Marshall, we did not do it.
Maybe I ought to beat the truth out of you.
Oh, we're telling you the truth now, Marshall.
I don't believe you. You get that pigtail back to Chen or you're in trouble.
What do you mean trouble?
You'll find out when it's too late. And there's nothing I can do to stop it.
I went back to Chen and I tried to explain things to him.
I told him what would happen if he killed anybody, but that didn't bother him.
And then I got mad at him for being so stubborn and I guess he figured I didn't understand it all.
So I left him feeling pretty helpless.
The next day he made his first move. I found out about it at the long branch.
Oh, it sure has been a long day now. I'm worn out and I got the whole night ahead of me yet.
Well, what happened today, Kitty?
I got the right idea of offering every other drink on the house to any soldier that walked in here.
That's one way of keeping your soul full.
Oh, yeah, it sure is. And if this goes on, I might as well move out to Fort Dodge and join the Army.
I think it'll be easier.
I'm sure they'll be glad to have you, Kitty.
Marshall Dillon.
Yeah, what's on your mind, Reb?
That chairman, that's what. He's haunting us, me and Braden. And if he don't stop it, I'm going to put a bullet in him.
What do you mean he's haunting you?
Well, he's been following us all afternoon. Wherever we go, he just stands around staring at us.
It drives me crazy after a while.
Now, I'm warning you, Marshall, I'm going to shoot him.
Good, then I can come to your hangin'.
Reb told you before to give Chen back his pigtail. He won't bother you if you do.
You still believe him, don't you, Marshall?
I believe him.
Well, it's a fine thing when a U.S. Marshal takes a word of his stinking dirty little...
Shut up!
Now, you get out of here, Reb. Go on.
All right, I'm going.
Matt, you better do something about that. They'll kill Chen for sure.
Unless he kills them first, Kitty. But I'll tell Chester to keep an eye on him. I'll see you later.
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Alright, let Mr. Dillon through here. Stand back everybody.
What?
What's he doing? He needs to change him.
Yeah.
He's been strangled, Chester.
Strangled?
Yeah, with his pigtail.
I gave it back to him, alright.
Hey, look there.
A knife. It's got blood all over it too.
That's a butcher knife.
Jen must have cut one of them. Maybe both.
That'll make it easier to track them.
Yeah.
Now listen, all you men, I want you to stay here. I don't want anybody following us, you understand?
Alright, come on Chester.
Just take it easy. They may be waiting for us.
Look, there's something laying over there by that rain barrel.
It's a man.
Yeah, it's Howard Rab, Chester. Looks like Jen cut him up pretty bad.
He's dead?
Yeah, he's dead.
Now let's find Braden.
Get out.
Pull him back, Marshal. You ain't gonna take me.
He's out by that shed there, Mr. Jones.
Yeah. You stay here, Chester, and keep down. I'm gonna crawl up there to where I can see him.
Alright. I'll haul him out a little bit to keep his tension.
Alright, good.
You ain't got no chance, Braden.
Get on back, I tell you.
I'm trying to pull a shoot, Braden. You might be awful scared. Tim, that is nice of you, too.
You just ran up one time, Chester. I'll be happy to kill you.
You drop your gun, Braden.
No!
Okay, Chester.
Did you kill him?
Yeah, I killed him.
Well, I guess you had to.
There's Jen's treasure box, Chester. Check it out with you.
Here it is.
I guess that's what they killed him for. Must be full of money after all.
Now let's take a look.
By golly, it is money.
Yeah, this much is money. Four dollars.
Four dollars? Is that all?
That's all.
What's that other paper?
I don't know. It's a strike of match, Chester. Hold it over here.
It looks like some kind of a document, don't it? What's it say?
I can't see it very well. Hold it closer.
Jen Lan Wong was of invaluable service and intelligence.
General McClellan's Army of the Potomac.
The mensual campaign, March 1862.
Wait a minute. I can have the light.
March 1862 in recognition of something, something, something.
Jen Lan Wong is hereby granted full citizenship of the United States.
Signed Ulysses as Grant President.
Oh, me doggone.
It looks like Jen wasn't exactly a foreigner after all, isn't it?
Poor old fellow.
Chester.
Yes, sir.
I'm going to take this letter out to Major Honeyman at Fort Dodge.
I got an idea. He might want to give Jen Wong a military burial.
That'd be fine, Mr. Jones. That'd be just fine.
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Gunsmoke.
Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Beston.
Featured in the cast were Ben Reich, Lawrence Dobkin, Barney Phillips, and John Dana.
Marley Bair as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Giddens.