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NARRATOR: "Gunsmoke," starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Better button down them curtains, miss.

Keep out some of the dust.

Whoa!

Whoa!

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Who's out there?

Who are you?

Please, come out and let me see you!

[thunder]

Just wasn't no sign of her.

Nothing but a bunch of dress boxes strewed around.

Got them down at the house if you want them.

Well, no thanks. Maybe later.

Where can we find the wreck?

About 18 mile that way.

There's a fallen tree across the road.

Coach is down in the gully.

You can't miss it.

Thanks for your help, ma'am.

Ma'am.

Mrs. Grayson.

Sorry about your friend.

Thank you, ma'am.

Now, look.

Now, just a minute.

I don't wanna hurt you.

But if you don't quit biting, I'm gonna have to.

Now, please, you've gotta help me.

You gotta tell me where we are and how we can get out of here.

Look, I'll-- I'll tell you what.

I'll turn you loose, and then we can talk.

All right?

Wait a minute!

Come back here!

You've gotta help me!

Please!

Ah!

All right, all right!

This is where you live, huh?

I wonder how many years you've been like this.

Hey, uh, I'm lost.

You can get me out of here.

Oh, please, help me.

Oh.

I know you can hear me.

But you won't talk.

Or you can't.

You just stay right here.

I can't do anything about that.

You just go ahead and be a dog in a manger.

Eat your-- your berries.

[thunder]

I hope you'll be very happy.

Real happy.

Marshal, there's some blood on the seat.

FESTUS: Matthew!

Matthew!

There's a whole mess of tracks back yonder heading

off into that dry branches.

Why do you reckon she'd wanna go thataway?

I don't know.

But it's a good thing she's walking, anyway.

Come on, Newly.

[grunting]

Curious about what I'm doing?

[grunting]

This is a fire.

I'm gonna try and catch some fish and get something to eat.

[grunting]

[screaming]

Smells good, doesn't it?

Come here.

Here.

You are wild.

I don't suppose I'll-- I'll ever know how you got this way.

Matthew, young'un's tracks here.

Looks like she's barefooted.

Made about the same time Miss Kitty's was,

some time yesterday.

Well, what's a little kid doing out here, anyway?

Miss Kitty was all alone before this.

Well, there may be a ranch around here.

Leastwise, Miss Kitty knows enough to follow downstream.

She's bound to come to something sometime.

We better get rolling.

I don't know how to thank you, so-- this

is about all I have to offer.

A very special person gave me that.

Well, I'm gonna have to leave you now.

I gotta get across that river before dark.

You think she was here, Marshal?

Could be her.

I sure hope so.

She's surviving, but I hate the thought of her staying

out here another night alone.

Oh, I do too, Newly.

I don't know what we're gonna do neither, Matthew.

We've just ran plum out of tracking ground.

You know, I got an idea maybe she crossed here.

Let's go over the other side and take a look.

Look, I've got an idea.

Come on over here.

I'm gonna draw you a picture.

That's a house.

A house, where people live.

All right.

These are people.

People, like you and me.

People that live in a house--

[angry grunting]

Please.

Come on.

Come on, please.

Come look at me.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to frighten you.

Come on.

You should put this back on.

Oh.

You poor baby.

Wait a minute.

Lamond!

Get out here!

Let's go on now.

Come on. It's people.

They'll help us.

Come on.

Come look at this.

Look, look, look, look.

Right there.

Ain't that it?

Ain't that the animal?

Well, you go after it.

Get going.

[whimpering]

Stop!

Stop it!

Look here, boy!

Get up in there and go catch it now, you hear?

Wait, what do you mean, "it"?

You mean, the child?

That ain't no child.

That's an animal, it.

Who are you, anyway?

Well, my name is-- is Kitty Russell.

I'm from Dodge City.

And I was in this stagecoach accident.

I got lost, and that child helped me.

Helped you?

It ain't ever helped nobody.

I don't want her hurt.

Come on, we gonna go see Mrs. Mather.

-Who's Mrs. Mather? -That's Ma.

Now, you come on.

She'll get you something to eat.

Don't worry, we're not gonna hurt it.

I wanna hear how you come friendly with the animal.

Oh, stop fighting me, mister. I gotta get your neck.

That child, uh, who is she?

How'd she get this way?

Ain't nobody around here knows for sure.

We think it was a fever sickness over Juble Creek way.

It happened years ago, and folks were struck down all over.

They just fell out, up and down, back and forth and sideways.

Bodies were laying all over the place.

We figure that, uh, the animal come from one of them

families that died.

Well, didn't anybody take her in or try to take care of her?

[mumbling]

Will you hush up?

He rambles on like that ever since he was afflicted.

Who'd wanna take in a mangy kid right out of a fever house?

We never got it though, so she ain't gotta worry none.

Well, I already told her.

She knows we ain't sick.

Will you stop butting in?

I'm telling it.

VALJEAN: Yes, Rubilee.

Um, how long you folks lived here?

Oh, we don't live here.

In this burnt-out old shack?

No, we're just stopping off here.

We're on our way into town for the big doings.

It's 4th of July, and we just stopped here last night

to get in out of the rain.

I just told her that!

Well, that explains it.

Explains what?

Well, the-- the child.

She's-- she's deathly afraid of people.

And, well, she led me here thinking it was abandoned,

and when she saw you, she ran away.

Faster than a jackrabbit she did.

Well, I don't understand how she's survived.

She survived by stealing, that's how.

Folks around here been going crazy with her

getting into chicken coops.

Bad enough she steals the chickens and the eggs.

Then she leaves the coops open, and old Mr. Fox

comes in and steals what she didn't take.

Even known to steal a pig now and then.

Eats it raw and then leaves what she can't tote off.

Even the seed grain ain't safe.

All right, mister.

You're through.

Hasn't anybody tried to catch her?

To feed her, to teach her, or something like that?

Folks around here have tried everything they knew.

They've tried dogs.

They've tried traps.

They've even tried poison.

Poison?

On a child? -Ain't no child.

It's an animal.

Worse than any wolf or coyote you

ever saw, because it is smart.

LAMOND: Ain't smarter than us, Ma.

You sure look wore out, Miss Kitty.

But I can make a pallet for you in the shack on the floor.

I sure could use some rest.

RUBILEE: Come along with me.

Like I said, we ain't got much here.

We're just stopping off.

But I can fix you some kind of a thing on the floor.

KITTY: Well, I sure appreciate that.

RUBILEE: The night winds are awful around here.

What's in here?

Well, such as it is, this is it.

Oh, look.

How much you got there?

$38.

$38 spending?

It ain't Confederate.

You give me that.

I said, give me that!

You give me that.

Rubilee!

And we're gonna have us a hundred more to match this.

You mean, that bounty on the animal?

How we gonna get it, Ma?

If the animal helped that woman,

that means she's friendly with her.

Now, we got the woman.

She gonna sleep in there.

And if they be friendly as I figure

they be, then sometime tonight, the animal

gonna come skulking around here looking for her friend.

Come on! Come on!

I got her!

I got her!

[screaming]

Come on, Valjean!

Keep a hold of her feet!

Come on, Valjean!

Help me now.

RUBILEE: Get her, Valjean!

You hold on to her.

Rubilee, we got it!

Rubilee!

KITTY: What's going on here?

Get off of her!

Let go of her!

What are you doing to her?

Valjean!

KITTY: Leave her alone!

There's a bounty on her.

That child saved my life, and I'll be damned to see her hurt.

RUBILEE: Boys, don't let her get away!

Hurry, Valjean!

RUBILEE: She's worth $100.

[whimpering]

Valjean, get her tied up! Get in there!

Come on!

Come and get her.

Valjean, will you come here?

Get her.

Get her up.

Take her over into the shed.

We'll tie her up until we're safe.

Just throw her right in.

[whimpering]

Mama, what are we gonna do with all that money, huh?

We're gonna have us what we always wanted and never

did get-- a real house in town.

You just tie her up tight there.

Keep an eye or her.

All night?

Valjean will spare you later.

[whimpering]

I ain't closing my eyes, if that's what you're thinking.

No, sir.

Not with you worth $100 in gold I ain't.

You're about the ugliest thing I ever did see.

And not only are you ugly, you're probably loony to boot.

You know what they're gonna do with you, huh?

They're gonna take you and lock you up in a big stone building

with chains on the wall.

They're gonna lock you in those chains.

And you gonna scream, and you gonna holler,

and there ain't nobody gonna hear you, much less care.

And that's gonna teach you for stealing other folks' stock.

[WHISPERS] Valjean.

Shh.

Shh.

I'm gonna get you out of here.

Now, hold still.

All right.

There we go.

OK, OK.

Underneath.

Go on.

Go on underneath.

Hurry up.

Run!

Go on and run!

No.

No, I'm just gonna hold you back.

Go on.

[gun clicks]

Lamond!

If you twitch a leg, I'll blow you both clean apart.

No.

Mrs. Mather, you can't do this.

You shut you mouth, or I'll kick it shut!

[whimpering]

Ma!

Come on!

We're all ready!

[MUFFLED] You can't leave me here like this!

-Oh, can't I? -Come on, woman.

Let's go.

I can do anything I want to now, it looks like to me.

Come, come.

RUBILEE: Just get that wagon going.

[whimpering]

Put your dumb hand in there.

You get it in there.

[whimpering]

She-wolf.

$100 ain't gonna go far.

Oh, hush up.

$100 is the least part of it.

I got me a plan.

Oh, really?

Now, what we're gonna do is we're gonna go into town,

and we're gonna charge everybody we see $0.50 a head

to take a look at the animal.

You mean, like we're going into business, Ma?

And then when all the folks have paid $0.50 to peek

at the freak, we're gonna tell them we want $200 more

or we'll turn her loose again.

You hear that, Lamond?

We're going into business.

We're gonna be rich!

Hold up there.

Good morning.

Anything we can do for you?

Well, we're tracking a woman and a child.

Thought maybe you might have seen them.

No, we ain't seen nobody.

Not a soul.

Ma'am, where does this road lead to?

Back thataway, it leads to old Juble Creek.

But the way we're going, it heads into town.

MATT: Well, thank you, ma'am.

If you see anything of them, I--

RUBILEE: Oh, we'll help them out, Marshal.

We certainly will.

[whimpering]

Hold up just a minute here.

What have you got in there?

Why, that's just an old animal we caught.

It's none of your affair.

FESTUS: Matthew, there's a little girl in this here cage!

You leave her alone!

She's ours.

There's a bounty on her, and we got a right to it.

Let her out of there, Festus.

RUBILEE: You let her out, you turn her loose,

you'll never catch her again.

Where's she running off to?

Likely as much, she's g-- gone to the woman.

Festus, you and Newly keep an eye on them.

[whimpering]

It's all right, it's all right.

He's a friend.

He's a friend.

It's gonna be all right.

Oh, Matt.

It's all right, Kitty.

Oh.

I'll have you loose in a minute here.

Ow.

Matt, this girl is scared to death of people.

She's been alone out in this world her whole life.

It's all right, it's all right.

He's a good friend.

He's a good friend.

Oh, Matt.

Oh, thank God.

Thank God.

Kitty, it's all right.

It's all right.

Thank you.

She sleeping?

She's out, finally.

Figure she'll ever let you clean her up?

Oh, I think so.

We might've managed it by now, but too many men around.

Well, maybe when we get back to Dodge, it'll be easier.

I'm not gonna take her to Dodge.

You're not?

Newly, she knows that you and Matt and Festus are my friends,

but she's still terrified of you.

Now, how do you think she'd feel in a completely

strange town with a lot of strange people gawking at her?

Well, I see what you mean, Miss Kitty.

But if you're not gonna take her to Dodge,

what are you gonna do with her?

Well, I've got an idea.

When we get to Silver Creek crossroads, I want you to stop.

Silver Creek?

But that's the road to--

What do you think?

I think that's the best darned idea I ever heard of.

Whoa.

Marshal, we're stopping at Silver Creek.

Stopping?

What for?

Matt, I want you and Newly and Festus to go on to Dodge,

and I'll meet you there later.

Well, what are you gonna do?

Do you have to know everything?

Let's go, Newly.

Yes, ma'am.

Giddyup.

Faster!

Go on, you can do better than that!

Faster!

Mama, somebody's coming!

Come on, I think it's Miss Kitty!

It's Miss Kitty!

Hi, Miss Kitty.

Hi, kids.

Wait!

Who's that?

Land sakes, that's a child!

Good gracious, Miss Kitty, what has happened to you?

It's a long story, Bess.

I'm gonna need your help.

Yes, yes, of course.

Well now, where did you find her?

Out in the badlands.

She's lived like an animal, and she's

absolutely terrified of people.

She doesn't talk.

She doesn't understand.

And I thought, well, if-- if anybody'd know what to do,

you would.

Oh my goodness gracious.

Well, the first thing to do is get

her back down here, if we can.

And we can't do that all standing

around here gawking at her.

Now, get back on the porch, every one of you.

Hurry up now. Git.

And don't gawk!

Miss Kitty, I've had 17 children,

and wasn't a one of them didn't have a little jealousy in them.

Now, what do you think?

Oh.

I think it's worth a try.

Hi, Elsie.

[smooch] How are you?

ELSIE: Fine.

KITTY: It's so good to see you again.

I hardly recognize you.

You're getting to be such a [smooch] big girl.

How old are you now?

4.

4 years old.

Is it working?

I think so.

She's coming down a little.

KITTY: Say, I know what let's do.

You wanna have some fun?

Yes.

Would you like to go for a ride on the carousel?

-Yes. -All righty.

Sit down there.

[grunting]

You better stop it, Bess.

Wait.

[whimpering]

No, no.

Come on, come on.

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

Bess.

You wanna go with Mommy for a minute, huh?

Come on.

Come on.

Please.

Get on up here with me.

Come on.

Please.

Put your feet up.

That's right. All right, Bess.

It's all right.

BESS: Robin.

Mary.

It's all right, it's all right.

Maria.

All right, children.

It's all right.

[laughter]

It's all right.

Stop.

It's all right, believe me.

Please. It's fine.

OK.

All right, boys.

It's all right.

[laughter]

Children ain't no problem, Miss Kitty.

They just need to be loved.

NARRATOR: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from our next "Gunsmoke."

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