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Gunsmoke, starring James Arnett as Matt Dillon.

Sometimes, even at night, it does me good to come out here to Boot Hill and

look them over.

The gunman, the killer.

They had no friend.

They're reminded that I'm not long on friends either.

Most everybody he meets dislikes the lawman.

I can't blame him too much.

It's just that I have to remember, Matt Dillon, U .S. Marshal, few

friends.

Say something, Doug.

Shock of extracting that bullet was too much for him.

Spine, bad, bad place, the spine.

You couldn't do anything, Doc?

No, I couldn't.

What difference does it make to you, anyway?

Why did you bring me out here, 35 miles from Dodge, to try to help somebody you

shot in the back?

How is it you figured one of us shot him, Doc? I didn't exactly figure it.

He whispered it to me.

The only words he spoke.

I'm sorry about him being dead.

I'm sorry about getting you out of here too late.

If I'd have got here sooner, I couldn't have helped him much.

He wouldn't have lived more than a couple of days with that bullet where it

And whichever one of you put it there murdered him.

Doc.

Tell me something.

Do you know him?

Know him?

I know him.

Sure.

There are three of us here.

Do you know any of us?

Him.

Oh? I've seen him around somewhere.

Dodge, maybe.

That kind of settles it, don't it?

You know his name, Doc?

No, I don't.

Might come to me, though. Let me think. You don't understand, Doc.

You're trying to remember his name when you shouldn't.

I understand.

Do you, Doc?

You can't kill a doctor for following his oath.

No?

I don't think so.

He was shot when he tried to get away.

You can be shot just as easy.

Don't be a fool. I'm a doctor.

And since there's nothing more I can do here, I've got to be available to other

patients.

Don't you know there isn't another doctor within a hundred miles of Dodge

Right now, Doc, there's one too many.

We've got to go outside.

Don't you touch me again, mister.

Wait a minute.

I'm kind of thinking the doc's wrong.

There ain't another doc within 400 miles of here. I could get sick myself.

Doctor ain't like ordinary men.

He's...

Well, it's almost like he ain't quite human somehow.

He's human enough to tell what he knows to that marshal they've got in Dodge.

The way I figure, it's either us or the doc.

I'm not interested in what you figure, young mister.

Or you either.

Or you.

Right now, there may be some woman having a baby or some man with gangrene

the leg. People needing help right this minute.

He's right.

If you can't kill him, I can.

You do what I say here.

Doc, if I let you go, you promise not to tell about anybody you recognize here?

No, I won't.

Say?

How about that woman having a baby?

A man with that funny kind of leg.

I see what you mean.

Do you, Doc?

If I don't promise.

Doctor or no doctor, I'll kill you myself.

Yeah, I guess you would.

All right.

I'm here as a doctor and nothing else.

I promise.

Word of honor, Doc?

Word of honor.

All right.

Get out.

What about him?

He's my responsibility, Doc.

I gave my word of honor, I'd return him.

Well, that's all I can tell you, Matt. And don't think it isn't driving me

crazy.

I can still see him dying like that.

From the shot in the back.

You told us practically nothing about the killers, Doc.

Well, they didn't look like killers when they rode up to my office.

They said a man was hurt.

Bad. Out on a police passport dodge.

So I went with him.

You must have known it was a shooting, Doc.

All that hurry.

You could have left word for me.

Well, my job's to help everybody.

Sinner and saved alike.

A man was hurt bad and needed me.

Now that's why I went with him. Quick!

Still not gonna tell me where?

I... I promise not to.

Or who they were?

I got to say, I... I don't know, Matt. I... I gave my word.

Doc, you know their names and where they are, and you just stand there. I told

you I gave my word. Well, they're nothing but a bunch of pillows.

Leave him alone, Chester.

Matt?

Yeah, Doc?

I... hope you can... Well, I hope they hang for it.

Right now, I'm going to go get good and drunk.

Well, I'd blast it anyway.

How are we ever going to find them?

I don't know.

I don't even know who they killed.

And Doc could lead us straight to them right now. That's not making the Doc

happy, Chester.

I don't know. I guess it ain't.

No, sir, I guess it sure ain't.

I haven't seen you around Dodge in six months, did I know of?

Well, I'm here now.

Trouble?

Marshal, I know what people think of me.

That hard -nosed, hot -tempered old goat.

Got more money than he's got brains.

I'm glad to hear you say it, Jake.

Us worths good men, Marshal.

We work hard.

Don't cause any trouble.

Only thing wrong with us is we're rich.

We mind our own business.

I haven't learned how to ask for help.

You asking for help, Jake?

But I've got to ask for it my own way.

Come on inside.

Want some cold

coffee?

No, no thank you.

If you ride south of town, maybe 15 miles, there's a big cottonwood stump

off the road.

I've seen it.

There's a hole inside that stump at the bottom.

I put a sack in that hole just before I rode into town.

The sack's got $20 ,000 in it.

That's a lot of money, even for you.

It isn't if Hank gets back, all right.

Well, Hank's your youngest son, isn't he?

He's 24, just last month.

He didn't show up the other night.

Next morning, I found a note tacked to one of the corrals.

It said, leave the 20 ,000 and he'd be returned.

It didn't say how he'd be returned.

Come on, Jake.

Maybe we can get out there before they pick up the money.

I told you I had to ask for help in my own way.

All I want from you is to watch for anybody that turns up rich around here.

Now listen to me, Jake. Now you listen to me.

I told you what I want you to do.

There's nothing else going to be done until Hank's back safe on the ranch.

Not one blessed thing.

If they killed Hank, you'd want to see him hang, wouldn't you?

I'd hang myself.

All right, then let's get out to that stump. No chance we can still beat him

there. Marshall, I already told you no.

Jake, I've got an idea that Hank's dead.

I think they might have already shot him and he's dead.

Who's they?

I don't know.

What are you talking about?

Where's Hank?

I don't know.

How come you figure he's dead?

I can't tell you, Jake.

Marshall, I've had just about enough of this. I can't tell you any more than

what I think.

Not till we get there.

We'll get there.

Now, if you don't talk any clearer than this, maybe one of us won't leave there.

You're not glad?

It's him.

Hank!

gonna be like this.

His whole life today.

Why'd they do it? They gave him the money.

Some men took your son.

They tried to break him. One of them shot him.

But I'll get him, Jake.

I'll take care of myself as soon as you tell me who they are.

I don't know.

There's a lot you're not telling.

It's Hank lying there.

He's been murdered.

Why don't you tell me?

Well, because the man who told me... I had to promise not to name anybody.

Promise not?

What man?

Who is he?

it out enough, I have to cut it out.

That's another reason I can't tell you who he is.

What kind of a lawman are you anyway?

You know, the man who could tell me you did this and won't even give me his

name.

I can't, Jake.

Marshall, I don't know much about words, but I've heard the ones about

obstructive justice.

A lawman shouldn't be guilty of that.

I've told you all I can, Jake.

Not yet.

All I know is you know the man who could tell me you did this.

I've given you 24 hours to name him, Marshal.

If you don't, me and my two living sons are coming to Dodge.

It's going to be blood spilled, Marshal, if you don't name him.

I'll help you get Hank home now.

Come on back to Dodge. I'll manage here.

Sun down tomorrow, Marshal.

I'll be there, Jake.

We'll find you, wherever you be.

It's got to be done like I say, Matt.

It's my idea, but I'm going to see it through whether you like what I'm doing

not. But it might not work. Have you thought of that, Doc? Yes, I've thought

that. I'm also thinking it's been 24 hours since you left Jake Worth.

Now, him and his sons will be coming into town any minute looking for you.

Are you going down there in the street and meet them?

Are you sure, Doc?

Well, sure I'm sure.

You've been searching this town for 24 hours for men who suddenly showed a lot

of money and you haven't found anybody yet, have you?

Not yet. No, and you won't. Not this early.

Meantime, Jake Worth and his sons are coming into town and looking for you to

find out about me and there'll be a gunfight.

And they're innocent men.

And besides, there'll be three against you.

I'm not going to let that happen.

You do just exactly as I say and forget about me, you hear?

Mr. Dillon?

The Worths are coming in.

All right, Doc.

And thanks.

You remember, I'm thinking about the men who killed Hank Worth.

Yeah.

You have the time, Marshal. You gonna name him?

No, Jake, I'm not.

I warned you, Marshal.

Yes, you did.

And here I am.

Go ahead, cut me down.

What's the matter with you?

I'm waiting.

Marshal, I just kept you alive for another minute.

I won't do it again.

Are you going to name him?

Hank's dead, Jake.

I can't bring him back.

Shot in the back.

And those who did it running freely because of the coward you're covering

I can get him, Jake.

Will you help me?

Don't ask fool questions, Marshal.

Will you give me your word of honor that you'll help me?

You got it.

Word of honor?

You heard me, get it?

Speak for my sons, too.

Chester, take him over to the cell and lock him up.

What?

What's he trying to do?

Don't listen to him, Pop.

You heard Mr.

Dillon?

Marshall, this is the wrong time for a joke.

We can still shoot you down. You men are out for blood, all three of you.

But you're not going to spill yours or anybody else's in jail.

And that's why you're not going to interfere with my getting the man who

Hank.

Now, you gave me your word of honor, Jake.

You want to go back on it?

I won't go back on my word.

All right, let's have your shotguns.

All right, let's get going up to the office.

What did you do down there with the words?

Locked them up.

Now that I think of it, I never expected you to be that smart.

Well, let's go through with it, Doc.

I'm... Well, all I can think of is that you're going to get killed. Oh, I know

better than I insist we go through with it. I know you insist.

Well, then your job is to spread it around that I've broken my word and

identified the killers.

Now, the news will reach those people soon enough. They'll come in. They'll

in to thank me for breaking my word.

Rest's up to you.

It's just one thing.

What?

Rather than break your word and let me go out after him... Yeah?

You'll make yourself a target for the killers.

Do you want to get started spreading the word? That's all you have to do, Mr.

Marshall.

Yeah, Doc.

I can't wait to spread it around that you're a liar.

Which makes you a sitting duck right here in your own office.

Oh, get out of here.

Hey, did you hear me?

Tomorrow's the sixth day and the sixth night.

You and I sit here and glare at each other's mongoloidian features.

I wish I'd never had this idea.

Wish I'd been out making my calls. I wish I didn't know you.

Once more, I tell you, I was wrong.

The people you want would have been here two nights after you spread the word if

they were coming in to get me.

Duck.

Easy, I mean it.

Don't you be calm with me.

Take a chair and sit down over there. I'll hear your complaint in a minute.

You sure will.

Because you ain't going to get a chance to fix it.

My complaint says you're a dirty liar, Doc.

Put that shotgun down and tell me where your two anthropoid friends are.

You'll never know, you liar.

Stay there.

This man's been wounded and I had to help him whether I like it or not.

There's more in this one, isn't there? There's two more.

They've been smart, Doc.

I knew it.

I sent him up here for a... A decoy, Marshal? A target, same as me?

They're out front waiting for me to come down.

Stay here.

I am not going anyplace. Why don't you try being careful, Matt?

He's seen us, and just about now he's climbing down the back to come around at

us.

But I had to take things into my own hands, Mr. Dillon.

When I saw him ride up and stop in front of Doc's office, well, it was three to

one against you. I had to even things up.

You know what, Chester?

You're forgiven.

Marshall, me and the boys are getting back to the ranch now.

All right, Jake.

I'd like to buy you a drink before we leave.

I'd like that.

You want to buy one for the coward I was covering up for?

I take it you're all right, Matt.

Yeah, Doc.

You're invited for a drink.

Doc.

Doc Adams.

I've got to do something about those two dead beauties down there. I've got to

make about 30 -11 calls on patients tomorrow.

Drink? This is no time for drinking.

Time to sleep.

You know what?

He's right.