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NARRATOR: "Gunsmoke", with Milburn Stone as Doc,

Ken Curtis as Festus, Buck Taylor as Newly, and starring

James Arness as Matt Dillon.

You always showed you had grit, Evans.

Now you got to prove how greedy you are.

Know what the others are gonna do to you?

[screaming]

Ben's been stabbed!

Somebody, help!

Mr. Coltrain, come quick!

He's dying!

Ben's dying!

Come quickly!

-Where is he? -In there.

He's dying.

What happened?

He's lying there with a knife in his back!

-Who did it? -I don't know.

I just found him.

-Who did it? -Evans.

Evans?

Find him!

He's in town right now, son, but he'll

be back in a little while. -Here.

Let me look at him.

I'm all right.

What's happening?

Get your boots on.

Get up, and get going!

Ben's been stabbed.

Evans did it.

Bring him here.

Hurry up.

Where'd they go?

Bring those torches over here.

There's nobody around.

Why didn't the guard in the tower see anything?

He must have been asleep.

Kill him.

At first light, take Hatajo, pick up his trail,

and bring him back here.

Colonel Shindrow won't be interested in hearing

you haven't found anything.

How do we even know he's still in Santa Fe?

His trail leads here.

Soon as we get rid of the horses,

we'll check the cantinas.

Hatajo, you check the stables and blacksmiths.

If you find his horse, get word to us.

Hot again.

Hot still.

Yeah.

I tell you, memories of those good times in San Francisco

are fast fading, Doc.

Don't tell me that you're getting tired of this town

already.

Honey, I mean, I am so ready to get back to Kansas City.

I just can't stand it.

I don't know why I had to go all the way to San Francisco

to shop.

Well, I'm sure glad you did.

Otherwise, that medical convention

would have been one of the dull highlights of my life.

I'll tell you that.

I'm gonna be awful glad to get back to Dodge.

What about you?

Don't you miss Dodge at all?

Never.

Oh, my saloon's finally making enough for me to live in style.

Well, that case, we don't miss you either.

Of course I miss you, and Matt and Festus, everyone

but-- well, I like Kansas City just fine.

And right about now, I'm wondering

if I'm ever gonna see it again.

Well, we know we're gonna be going tomorrow.

How about that?

Oh, Doc, you mean to tell me that you knew all the time, you

just let me ramble on?

Oh, I'm-- I'm a devil, I'll tell you that.

We're gonna have the stagecoach all to ourselves.

We are?

That's right.

Do you mean to tell me that we waited for two weeks

for a place, and then suddenly there's no other passengers?

Nobody going north.

Oh, let's celebrate.

Miss Lyla, we are going to celebrate.

Now, I'll tell you what.

I'm gonna take you out for supper and a night on the town.

Honey, I don't care if it's last week's hash.

You just give me 40 minutes, and you will not even know me.

What do you think you're doing?

Looking for a man who likes girls.

His trail led straight into Santa Fe.

Maybe some other time.

OK, come on, come on.

Beer, beer, beer.

Doc, do you think we could go now?

Well, aren't you enjoying this?

Oh yes, but I-- I'd just like to get a little fresh air.

Do you mind? -Certainly.

I'll get the check.

You know what beautiful women do to me?

Do you know what I do to beautiful women?

[whispering]

I hope you have a big brother, sonny,

because you are not man enough.

Darling, we can go now.

Why don't you come back after you put Gramps to bed.

Come on, Doc.

Not nothing or nobody's gonna spoil

our last evening here, Doc.

Come on.

No sign of him.

Badger, do you know how long it's been since I seen

a fine, good-looking woman?

I know if you don't keep your mind on why we're here,

you won't have a head to look at any kind of woman.

Now, come on.

He's not likely to steal a horse and chance

half of Santa Fe chasing him.

Well, he ain't dumb enough to leave on foot.

Must be waiting outside of town for a pack train or stage.

I'm sure we can't cover all these trails

leading out of here.

No, we can cover whatever leaves,

make it worthwhile for somebody to come back

and tell us if Evans tries to tie-in with 'em.

That ain't gonna work.

Well, I suppose you got a better idea?

Half a dozen ready to move out, and I'm

sick and tired of looking for him.

I'm gonna get me a bath.

Badger, if I was standing on the edge of hell,

I swear, waiting to be pushed in, and I had one last wish,

it'd be to snuzzle me that high-tone woman.

Oh come on.

"Come on" nothing.

Oh, that little lady last night, I ain't seen

one like her in a long, long time.

Just shut up about that.

I'm tired of hearing about it.

One of us should go down to the stable and relieve Hatajo.

Why?

He's been there all night.

That half-breed's right where he belongs.

Don't tread on him.

[speaking chinese]

He come for a horse. I shoot.

All right.

Hatajo, you stay here in case he comes back.

We'll find him.

Come on.

What this country needs is a 65 minute hour just for women.

I couldn't agree with you more.

The baggage is loaded.

The stage is waiting.

Oh by golly, that does have a ring to it, doesn't it?

Let's go.

Howdy.

Hey, Ivers.

Ivers.

I checked it.

He ain't aboard.

It's just your lady friend and the old man.

He's gotta be around here somewheres.

And if he ain't, I'm not gonna be the one to tell

Shindrow that we lost him.

Can you take me to Trinidad?

Uh-huh.

Well, you come near walking there, Mister.

Well, i cut my goodbyes to the lady a bit short.

It sounds like you've led a interesting lift.

I won't lie to you, ma'am.

It's been like the man said, checkered.

Mind, nothing I'd shame my dear old mother with,

but checkered all the same.

Checkered?

As you might say, I've seen the elephant.

I looked on him good, yes, ma'am, from all sides.

And now you're going home?

Yes, ma'am.

From here on out, well, for this old boy at least,

the sight of kith and kin and the quiet life.

Right.

That's what I said.

Badger, Badger!

I found him.

Where?

I just called from the stage line office.

They said that lady and the old man

were the only ones on the northbound this morning.

They were.

There were three passengers ticketed.

One of them was Evans.

Most likely, he bought it somewheres out of town.

You don't know it was Evans.

The ticket agent described him!

Ah, he could've bought a ticket,

hoping that's what we'd think.

He could be waiting for us to leave, and then just walk away.

Aw, anybody dumb enough to cross Shindrow's

too dumb to think of something like that.

Now, let's go.

What about Hatajo?

Forget him.

He'll find his own way home.

Rocky Mile relay station.

We're coming in, folks.

Afternoon, Corey.

That you?

Still thought it was morning.

Afternoon. -Nothing's changed.

See you're your old self.

Old's the word.

Too darn old for this job.

Uh-huh.

Step down and stretch your legs.

Grub's waiting inside.

I wouldn't mind washing up.

There's hot water on the stove, ma'am.

Howdy.

Howdy.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

Hold it.

Stand still, everybody.

We ain't carrying any strong box.

Shut up.

All right, drop your gun now, Evans.

You too. Come on, come on.

Drop it.

Come mighty close to killing a couple of fine horses,

trying to get here ahead of you, Evans.

What is this?

Well, now, and sometime to come, lots of things.

What did you do that for?

Shindrow ain't gonna like it if he's dead!

If you'd been paying attention, I

wouldn't have had to shoot him!

What's your interest, old man?

I'm a doctor!

A doctor, huh?

Well, maybe we got lucky.

Listen.

We don't want him to die until we get

him back where he came from.

You understand that, Gramps?

Well, it just could be that you won't get your want.

He's hit bad.

Well, he ain't gonna sit a horse.

Put him on the stage.

We'll take the doc with us to look after him.

I'll take care of everybody else.

All except her.

She's going too.

We don't wanna break up a pair, now do we?

Matthew, Murph said you wanted to see us quick.

What's came up?

Well, we just got word from Wells Fargo.

They've lost a stage between Santa Fe and Denver.

You think old Doc could've been on it?

He's been overdue for three weeks.

Newly, get over to the telegraph office,

and get a wire off to Hayes.

Tell him to get a deputy down here

just as fast as he can ride.

On the way.

Festus, get a hold of Bert.

Tell him to put on a badge until that deputy gets here,

and then get the horses saddled.

You betcha.

Matthew, you don't suppose that--

I-- I mean, it ain't likely that old

Doc could've-- I'll get Bert.

Stagecoach coming in.

Badger's driving it.

Open the gate.

We're coming in!

Evans, you are gonna curse the day you ever saw the light.

[inaudible] Now, look-- he's dead.

Yes, sir.

He's dead.

He tried to get away, sir.

I wanted him alive!

I promised Ben he'd pay.

I promised my son he'd watch him die,

that he'd hear him beg to die! -It's done, Lucius.

Drag his carcass outta here.

Leave it for the coyotes.

All right, get out.

Who are they?

He's a doctor. She was with him.

Why did you bring them here?

We figured that he might be able to keep Evans alive

till we got back here. He wasn't.

Get rid of them.

Major, me and Badger figured Dr. Rhodes being the way he is,

another doctor might be useful.

Find something for them to do.

I'll think about it.

Well, this is it, your new home.

Well, from all I've heard, it sounds

like your doctor friend fits one of 'em

that was on that missing stage.

Well, what did the sheriff in Santa Fe say?

Marshal, what passes for a peace officer in these parts

ain't got the brains of a gopher, or the guts of one

to try and find out what happened.

You said there was a third person?

Yeah, that's right.

Company agent said a young fella bought a ticket,

but he wasn't on the stage when it left Santa Fe.

And then nothing was made of that?

For all the good it did, plenty was made of it.

It didn't leave nowheres.

Fact is, there was no leads.

There's nobody left alive to tell what happened.

It's bitter.

Yes, but it keeps you relaxed, and helps

those cut muscles heal.

Yeah, keeps me relaxed right enough.

Rodes, how's he doing?

Well?

He's fine, Colonel.

He's doing fine.

Well, I'll leave you two alone now.

He'll leave us alone, go blunt the edge

with a little pipe puffing.

Yeah.

He's going down hill fast.

Mhm.

He keeps giving me that laudanum,

and I just might join him.

No, you got Shindrow blood.

That gives you a strength the good Dr. Rhodes never had.

Well, now, how's it going?

Getting bored lying here.

That's a good sign.

It is, huh?

Well, anytime you want, you are welcome to take over.

Well, I wish I could, son.

Come on, Pa.

Rhodes says in a month or two, I'll be breaking in one of them

fancy stallions we borrowed.

You bet you will.

Pa, get outta here.

That laudanum's starting to work.

See you later.

If I'm not here awake, I'll be right back.

Now that there coming toward us is the hottest

pot of burgoo in this camp.

Hey, Mady, serve me up a little bit

of that there chuck, and I'll be glad to split

my blankets with you.

Now, hold on, now.

Ivers ain't gonna take kindly to you

talking to his woman like that.

Now he ain't minding since Ivers brought that fancy lady

back from Santa Fe.

Hey, Mady!

Hey, that's stew's a little bit sweet!

Don't reckon that high toed lady stuck her finger in it, do you?

Get up, or I'll knock you down again.

You knocked me down for the first and last time.

Mady, ain't you got work somewheres?

She's making a fool of me in front of everybody in camp.

That ain't such a hard thing to do.

How'd you like to lose every tooth in your head?

Let go of me!

Get outta here.

Even with mud in hair, you're a fine-looking woman.

Don't touch me!

Ain't you learned yet that you need a friend here?

I don't think you're ever gonna learn the truth of that.

You keep away from me!

One way or another.

One way or another.

Know where I can find the sheriff in here?

He's the fat man over at the bar.

You Sheriff Stoudenaire?

City Marshal DM Stoudenaire.

Well, this here's US Marshal Matthew Dillon.

We're his deputies.

We're checking up on a missing stage.

Might have two passengers on it.

You mean the US Marshal is looking into that?

You bet you we're looking into it.

Anyway, there wasn't anything of value on the stage.

Mister, there was two passengers on there

that we know of.

And the best thing you can do is cooperate with us.

Look, I'm-- I'm outta the whole thing.

The stage company says that they're

just washing their hands of it.

Now, if the Army isn't gonna send troops down there,

well, on my $28 a month, I'm not about to go

down into that kind of country.

And if you'll take my advice, the three of you'll

go back to whoever sent you down here,

and tell 'em you run up against a brick wall.

And there ain't nobody here that'll say anything different.

And that's what you'll do, ain't it,

Mr. City Marshal Stoudenaire?

I'll tell you this, you want backbone from him,

you're gonna have to bind him to a fencepost.

Now, look, you keep out of this.

Who are you?

I'm just one of them fellers that can't run a business

because of the likes of him.

Ugh.

I can't stand the smell around here.

Come on over here, and sit, and I'll

tell you a few things about our upstanding city marshal.

Bring us some glasses, will you?

What have you got to tell us, old feller?

Well, I don't know nothing about no stagecoach.

But speaking of the trail, it's got so hardly anybody

can get through safe at all. -What trail is that?

The one we used to use to haul cargo

between Santa Fe and Juarez.

Oh, there's a few still try it now and then, but most of his

quit hauling.

Apaches?

Comancheros.

Got any idea of where they hold up?

Nah, nobody knows.

There's hundreds of miles out there, rock and grit, ghost

towns, mineshafts, and canyons.

Could be anywhere.

Is there any one particular kind of shipment

they might try to hit for sure?

The only thing I know of that they'd risk almost anything for

is guns and ammunitions.

But nobody with any sense would try

to run guns across that trial.

You'd not only be inviting comancheros,

but you'd be begging for Apaches too.

I'm just trying to tell you, Marshal, I can't do that, sir.

I don't care what you can't do, Mister.

I have to have these rifles.

These are consigned to the Army out of the fort.

I'll lose my job.

You're not gonna lose your job.

I'm commandeering these rifles.

This is my signed receipt for 'em.

Now, the Army'll be reimbursed by the government.

Now, where can we get an army wagon?

More.

I can't.

Why?

I just can't.

That's all.

Open the gate.

Major Coltrain's coming!

Colonel.

Well, what are you bringing in?

Freight shipment from Juarez disguised as a wagon train.

Taxco silver, and some silk.

I'll count it all later.

How's the boy doing?

About the same.

Rhodes said it'd take time.

I know.

Ben is gonna be all right.

I'm sure he will.

I was just thinking, perhaps you might take

him-- take him to St. Louis.

Travel'd be too much for him.

Anyway, we'd both certainly be recognized.

We haven't exactly been saints since the end of the war.

The Yankees have a long memory.

Ben and I talked about going back to face the consequences

before all this.

It was too late for all of us to go

back a long time ago, Colonel

Well well, we haven't got it all that bad.

Once Ben gets on his feet again, everything's

gonna be back to normal.

You let me know what all was on that pack train, you hear?

Yeah.

Hardly the kind of work for you.

Meaning what?

How good a doctor are you, doctor?

How good an officer were you, Major?

You heard about me.

If you're Major Aaron Coltrain, yes, I've heard of you,

"the butcher of Bartonsville" is the last thing

I heard you called.

Bartonsville was a Yankee arsenal manned

by 123 professional soldiers.

I had 24 rebel regulars.

We killed 88 Yankees that day, with a loss of nine men.

And we came away from there with a year's

supply of ammunition and arms.

Now, you might call that a massacre, Doctor,

but around here, we call that a victory.

I call it madness.

The war had been over five months!

A lot of us weren't consulted about surrender.

But I'm not gonna stand here and debate philosophies with you.

I want you to come with me, and talk to Shindrow's son,

see him.

Why should I?

You've heard about what happened to him?

Oh yes.

Yes, I heard about it.

Well, maybe I can appeal to your sense of medical ethics.

Ethics?

Kind of a strange word, coming from you.

Well, if I can't appeal to your ethics,

maybe I can appeal to your sense of survival.

No, threats don't bother me a bit, not a bit.

But there is something I want.

Now, if I can get it, I'll look at the boy.

What do you want?

I want the lady's safety.

I don't want that lady hurt.

That's easy to promise.

You have my word.

Well?

Well, Doctor?

This Dr. Rhodes said it'd be a matter of two

or three months of rest, huh?

That's what he said.

I'd like talk to him.

It's more than that, is it?

Where is he?

Across the hall.

[knocking on door]

Dr. Rhodes.

Since first I heard of you, I felt

sure it was only a matter of time

until you were called in for consultation.

Would you care to discuss your prognosis?

No, sir, I would not.

I, sir, am a coward.

How much laudanum are you giving that boy?

What do you think?

DOC: I asked you.

Enough to meet the increasing deterioration of his condition.

Now, you know as well as I do that boy'll never walk again.

Knowing Colonel Shindrow as I do,

that, Doctor, is an opinion best kept to yourself.

Well, then, Doctor, I'm just chock

full of opinions at this point.

Oh?

Concerning my warm escape, for instance?

Exactly.

Each of us has his own way of dealing with his failure.

The brave one puts a pistol to his head.

As I say, I am a coward.

This makes failure totally unimportant.

Any failure is unimportant if you don't surrender to it.

And opium is most certainly not the answer.

My dear man, I did not surrender.

It was General Lee who surrendered.

And then it was the brave Colonel Shindrow

who surrendered our dream of final and lasting peace,

and gave us this nightmare to take its place.

Doctor, for both our sakes, please

be judicious in your remarks to the Colonel.

What's this?

What's he doing here?

I asked him to take a look at Ben.

Oh you did?

Why?

Well, sir.

I only have an opinion.

And what is that, Doctor?

The odds against your son ever getting any better

are not very good.

And the odds against him getting out of bed are even worse.

If you ever say that to me again--

Colonel, you asked my opinion.

For your opinion, I'll give you a fact, sir.

Your existence here, and that of your woman friend,

is at best tenuous.

You will never speak those words to me again.

I'm really surprised, Doctor, a man

of your obvious intelligence could act so stupidly.

Never ask a man to give up hope.

If your do, all he's got left is despair and bitterness.

Major, tell me.

What took your hope from you?

Let them finish with that.

Get Rose and one of the others.

Get the table set for supper.

When you've gutted those, wash 'em, and clean

'em, and get 'em on the fire.

And you, go slop up the night pots in the main house.

Go to the devil.

I call the numbers here, Missy.

You answer them.

You got my answer.

On your feet.

Now, go do like I said.

I am through taking orders from you, lady.

For a minute there, you had me worried.

I thought you might change your mind, you fancy-headed bim!

[laughter]

I hope that witch-- I hope she tears your eyes out!

MAN: Like she did you!

Ah, he's so dumb.

He can't tell a real woman when he's had one.

I'm slamming the door!

Mady, he may not, but I know a real woman when I grab one!

Enough! Get outta here.

Ben is laying up there like a side of butchered meat,

and you all act as if nothing happened.

Get outta here!

Get out, you slobbering swine!

So pretty.

You're not gonna enjoy this!

You're so wrong, lady.

You're so wrong.

Dr. Adams.

Hm?

Will you come with me, please?

What is it?

Dr. Rhodes is in no condition to help.

Does Shindrow know you sent for me?

I'm truly sorry, Doctor, but it's your lady friend.

What's happened to her?

What's happened to her?

The son of a-- I'm going to kill him.

I give you my word, I'll kill him.

What are we gonna do if this don't work, Marshal?

Don't say that, Newly.

Of course it's gonna work.

Ain't it, Matthew?

It already has, Festus.

Look.

Something we can do for you?

We was just wondering where you come by this army wagon.

We found it.

Up north a ways.

Oh, you don't say?

Now, if your curiosity bone's done itching,

you all can clear out anytime.

That's mighty fancy finding.

Yeah, it was, wasn't it?

We heard the Apaches pay a lot of money

for what's in those crates.

Mhm.

And the three of you just found it?

There were some more of us when we started.

And now there's just three.

Tell me something.

Whereabouts up north you say you found it?

We didn't say.

Mhm.

You touch that hat, you're dead.

They ain't nothing but a bunch of mangy bushwhackers.

Let's just go ahead and polish 'em off.

I'm with you.

I dunno.

I'm not much for shooting fish in a barrel.

What are we gonna do?

Just let 'em go and ride on off so they

can gun down some other honest trade folks like us?

He's got a point.

I guess you're right.

Wait a minute.

Hold it.

Let's talk about it.

There's nothing to talk about, Mister.

You were gonna kill us, and now we're gonna kill you.

You don't understand.

You said you were gonna sell them rifles to the Apaches.

What about it?

You go into Apache territory alone,

you'll sell your rifles, all right.

Only thing you're gonna get is a gut full of arrows.

We'll take our chances on that.

Why take chances if it ain't necessary?

Spell it out.

Look, Mister, we're in the same business as you,

'cepting there's three of you, and there's a lot more of us.

Not anymore there ain't!

Back where I come from, there's a lot more.

Now, listen, we need those guns.

You come back with me, I'll see that you

get top dollar for 'em.

And you'll save your scalps too.

What makes you think we oughta trust you?

You ever hear tell of Colonel Shindrow and major Coltrain?

Coltrain?

You mean Johnny Reb?

The one that gave those Yanks what for?

The same.

Him and Colonel Shindrow are running the outfit.

What do you say?

To tell you the truth, my old scalp's

been itching ever since we been in Apache country.

Kid?

It's up to you.

All right.

We'll join up with you.

I'm gonna tell you something.

You try leading us into a trap, I don't care what else happens.

You're gonna get the first bullet.

NARRATOR: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from our next "Gunsmoke."