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

Sign back there said something about water.

Sweet and cool.

Hey, mister.

That'll be $2.

$2, or I'll blow you off that horse.

Over $2?

[gunshot]

Grandpa!

Greedy.

Grandpa!

[groaning]

Been lonely for him out here.

Where's his folks?

His pa's dead.

Sara, my daughter, left Willie with me about six years back.

Well, where is she now?

She headed out for a place called Table Rock.

Marshal, you take him there?

All right, I'll take him.

All right, brothers. Come on.

Now move.

Off the road.

Come on.

[gunshot]

Lucky for you fellas I wasn't riding shotgun for them

jackasses.

Crows would be picking at your eyeballs by now.

Well, hello, Ben.

I didn't expect you till later.

Marshal at Dodge kind of put the wind in my back.

Ladies.

Well, look it here.

Careful, darling, you're liable to get yourself arrested.

Any of you, uh, Sara Hubbard?

Willie, why don't you show 'em the picture you got.

This is my ma.

It's old.

Took a long time ago.

Girls?

Oh, I knew her.

She was in Table Rock when I first got there,

except her name wasn't Hubbard.

Well, do you where she is now?

She's dead.

All right.

Put her down.

Well-- well, how'd you end up with that little boy?

Man I'm after killed the little boy's grandfather.

Well, then Willie-- I mean, he--

He doesn't anybody to look after him.

All the water's gone.

Well, I think they were just trying to make sure that nobody

got too far. look at this.

MAGGIE: The gold.

She probably just took enough to show

a sample to her friends.

Well, we better move out.

Maggie, you better go tell the girls what's in this wagon.

I think they got a right to know.

Where'd you get this?

It's Maggie's.

There's some bags of that underneath the floorboard

of her old wagon.

You imagine that old witch packing all that gold.

We're going calling.

That fort the only shelter around here.

It's the only one I know of.

They used to have a well there.

All right, then we gotta lighten up this wagon.

Everything's gotta go.

There's five men headed this way,

and I think Ben Rodman's with 'em, too.

Evening, Maggie.

Sure am glad you're here.

Ben Rodman-- I never saw a cutthroat come

in a more charming package.

You know, there was a time that man had me dancing to any tune

he had a mind to whistle.

That so.

Then I found out about him.

Oh, I knew he was an outlaw and had a mean streak,

but then who was I to be choosy.

Maggie, if it comes down to it, you think you

could use a gun against him.

I don't know.

Marshal.

Evening, Jed.

How's it looking out there?

Still as bad water.

Saw you chewing the rag with Maggie.

You reckon they would jump us tonight, do you?

No, not in the dark.

Not Rodman.

He won't rush us.

How you figure?

Well, he wants us his way-- easy.

He'll size this place and take his time.

He'll move in when he's good and ready.

Can't take too much time to suit me.

When we get to Whisky Butte, are you gonna

keep on working for Maggie?

Well, I guess so.

Why?

No special reason.

Do you have any folks?

Now what on earth would make you ask that?

Just no good being alone.

Well, I'm not alone.

I got my friends, and I got-- I swear

you got talking talents just like your grand--

you better get some sleep, you hear?

When are you gonna tell him?

Tell him what?

About you being Sara Hubbard?

I can't tell him.

I can't defend what I've done or what I am.

-You could sure try. -No, I couldn't.

It's too tough, and I'm too tired.

I'm still not very good at looking in mirrors.

Amy, why'd you ever leave him in the first place?

See, Willie's father was, um-- he was a dreamer.

We went out to Table Rock with hundreds of others

all chasing the same rainbow.

In, um, about six months our stake ran out,

so I cooked and took in laundry.

You know, just to keep alive.

A long time when I'm digging in that ground,

he'd come home every night all covered with dirt and sweat.

He was so tired he couldn't even eat or talk.

Pretty soon it got to a place where he wasn't even

paying any attention to Willie.

I just watched the light go out of that man's eyes day

after day.

While he was digging for gold, all

he ever dug was his own grave.

So, uh, I thought I'd served my hell.

That's what I told myself.

And I said, well, it's time for me to breathe.

Willie was in the way.

So I just left him with his-- with his grandpa.

Yeah, and it's been eating at you ever since, hasn't it?

You know there's more family to leave him with now.

I don't want to.

It's too late.

MATT DILLON: Why, because he'd still be in the way?

Because I'm one of Maggie's girls.

You're making a mistake.

Just save your wind, marshal.

I don't want him.

Willie!

Willie!

I didn't mean it!

Willie, I didn't mean--

[crying]

[sniffling]

Willie!

Willie!

Willie!

If I was you, I'd forget everything else

and take that boy.

Oh, yeah.

I've known for a long time.

Now, we haven't been 30 feet away from each other

in the past three days.

I've been watching you and that boy.

I'm sorry, Maggie, but it's none of your business.

You're one of my girls, and Maggie looks out for her girls,

whether they like it or not.

Take him.

Take the boy, Amy.

Before you end up like me.

I don't know that that's so bad.

You're an honest woman, Maggie.

Look at me.

Is this what you want to end up like in 20 years?

Is this what you want to be?

Every year the rouge gets a little thicker.

Covers up a lot of sins.

But you wipe the stuff off, and you'll be looking in a mirror

20 minutes from now.

You ain't gonna like what you see.

Not any better than I do.

Amy, second chances very hard to come by.

God, I wish I had yours.

Take it.

Take it, because it's just likely

the last chance you're ever gonna

get to being a real woman.

Kinda cold out here, isn't it?

Why don't you come on back to the fire?

Why not?

Cause she's there.

She's your ma.

She don't want to be.

Sure she does, Willie.

You see, it's just that she's scared.

She don't talk like she's scared.

Well, you see when people grow up,

they learn no to show when they're scared,

but most of them are anyway one time or another.

Well see, that's the way your ma is now.

She's scared she's not gonna be able to do right by you.

She just don't care.

Willie, one of the hardest things a man has to learn

is not to judge people too harshly.

Now, if you want to be a man, you're

gonna have to learn to forgive.

I don't wanna go back.

I don't ever wanna see her again.

Well, guess you got a right to do what you want to.

I, uh-- I better be getting back to the fort.

Oh, Willie, do you, uh-- do you have a knife or anything?

No, sir.

Why?

Well, uh, I'm sure you'll be all right.

It's just that there's a lot of mountain lions in this country.

Mountain lions?

I'd give you a gun, but we're gonna need 'em back at the fort

in case those outlaws show up.

I sure wouldn't wanna be caught out here without a gun when

they ride along.

Well, goodnight, Willie.

Marshal?

Yeah?

I reckon you're sort of short handed back at the fort

without me being there.

I mean, I guess you could always use another hand to help

out with them outlaws and all.

I sure could use an extra man all right.

I-- I just didn't wanna mention it under the circumstances,

you know.

Well, I guess I better go with you.

Sure glad to have you.

Oh, Willie.

I only came back because the marshal needed

all the help he could get.

Sure.

Just give him a little time, Amy.

Nothing!

I done told you it ain't here.

It's out there!

Now let's go and ride!

Forgetting that good book again, preacher.

That's greed I see in your eye.

No, that ain't greed you see.

That's gold.

Well, they ain't going nowhere without water.

I'll have to fight off the buzzards to get that gold.

Soon as you fellas stop playing with them danties,

let's ride on.

Water's gone.

We're bone dry.

They gonna have to get me to get Maggie, marshal.

She's been awful good to me.

Well, Jed, just about time to open class.

Yeah.

All right, now just hold it steady.

All right, pull the trigger.

[gunshot]

Well, that, uh, was a good try.

All you do is pull the hammer back like that

and just aim it right down--

[gunshot]

Maybe they ain't coming.

No.

They'll be coming all right.

It meant a lot to him, you giving him something to do.

Well, sometimes the worst thing you can do for a boy

is to treat him like a boy.

I want him.

From the time you rode in, I just

wanted to put my arms around him and hug him to me,

but I couldn't. -Why not?

Well, if I had been strong, I wouldn't have

been with Adam these last six years, but I wasn't.

He was better off with his grandpa.

Well, that was then.

What about now?

He's only a boy, and he won't talk to me.

How do I tell him?

Very simple.

Just tell him he's not alone anymore.

Marshal Dillon, they're coming!

All right, Willie, come on down.

Jed, get all the women and the rifles in the shed over there.

Maggie!

You girls grab a rifle and get in the shed.

Come on.

Hurry.

Why are we stopped?

The wagon tracks is as clear as cows in a storm.

There ain't but on man who can shot straight in there,

but he's pure bad.

Stay out of slug range and wired space.

We'll tie 'em up.

And how's that, Ben?

Stockades open at that end.

Walls ain't no good unless there's four of 'em.

Let's go.

They're coming in.

I think they'll be working their way around the back there.

Willie, I want you to stand guard in the rear.

Go ahead now.

Yes, sir.

Al right, now, girls, Jud's gonna take you over

to the other side and put you firing position,

but I don't want any shooting till I give the word.

All right.

Come on girls.

Come on.

Amy, Go back and stay with Willie.

Get behind that post, Maggie, and stay there.

Come on, round here.

Put the gun through that crack.

Right here.

Hey, those are mine!

You got yourself in a pretty touchy spot, marshal.

That little boy and all them women-- we start shooting,

someone's likely to get killed.

Just hand that gold over to us, and we'll ride off,

and you'll see summer.

You got no water.

All you got is that old man, and that little kid,

and that pretty little tramp that Maggie brought with her.

Old!

[gunshot]

-Nobody lives. -What do you mean?

Them women and that little boy.

Only the horses.

Just carry out the gold.

[gunshot]

[gunshots]

Nobody lives.

You talking about them or us?

Where'd they get all them rifles?

That Maggie's a tricky old buzzard.

If one could shoot, we'd all be dead.

They're just making noise.

Is that a fact?

They still got no water.

Them women, that kid-- John's gotta give in.

Suppose he don't.

We wait.

Two or three days no water, we won't have to pull a trigger.

I'd give anything for a drink of water right now.

I recall a parson type fella tried courting me once.

He tried brimstone and fire, and incense.

He even offered to marry me.

He came along now with a canteen of water,

I'd turned decent and respectable

in a St. Louis minute.

It's gonna take more than a canteen of water

to turn your life around, dearie.

Guess so.

I didn't mean it.

I've been nothing but--

So have I. Guess we're cut from the same leather, honey.

What ever happened to that parson fella of yours?

Oh, last I heard he married a fallen woman.

Snatched her up from the flames, he did.

They built a farm, and he had and a few kids.

Last I heard, they were very happy.

It's too bad.

I mean, too bad he got married.

Wish a fella like that had found me a few years back.

I can't talk to him.

Sure you can, Amy.

And if you do, he'll listen.

I saw the way he looked to at me.

I thought there was nothing left

in the whole world that could hurt me,

then I saw what was in his eyes.

Amy, you change all that.

All you gotta do is tell him how you feel.

[SINGING] We shall meet on that beautiful

shore in the sweet by and by.

We shall meet on that beautiful shore.

There's a land that is fairer than day.

And by faith you can see it apart.

For the father waits over the way to prepare us

a dwelling place there.

In the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore.

In the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore.

In the sweet by and by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore.

In the sweet--

What are they doing oer there?

Getting ready.

Preparing themselves to me the Lord.

[SINGING] In the sweet by and by,

we shall meet on that beautiful shore.

In the sweet by and by.

We shall meet on that beautiful shore.

You all right, Maggie.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm all right.

You know, if you knew in the beginning

what you know in the end, you'd do it all kind of different,

wouldn't you?

I guess you might do somethings different, all right.

I spent a lot of years loving all the wrong kind of things.

Wrong men.

Laughing off the things I really should've cared about.

Them girls-- that's just what they are-- is girls.

Living it just they way I did, but they're young.

They got their life ahead of them.

They're abo0ut to have another chance.

No reason to say they won't have, Maggie.

No.

No, you're right, marshal.

It ain't over yet is, is it?

Better get some sleep.

You got a long day tomorrow.

Are

Marshal, how's Maggie holding up?

Uh, she's doing fine, Jed.

She is quite of woman.

The singing kind of good [inaudible]?

A little, I think.

Well, she can be hard as a mother-in-law's heart, marshal,

but she feels things, that old girl.

She always has.

She just loves them girls.

How soon do you think they'll come?

I don't know. It's hard to say.

It could be any time.

Maggie.

Maggie,

Ma'am?

He won't shoot me, marshal.

Where you been?

Well, that depends on what you're after, Maggie.

What can we do, marshal?

Nothing.

One move, and he'll kill her.

She's carrying the gold.

Keep your guns on Dillon.

It's been a while, Maggie.

You're like a bad penny, Ben.

I thought I'd seen the last of you

when they sent you to prison.

Oh, I didn't like it there, Maggie.

Food was terrible.

Last time I saw you, you ran off with every dollar

I had in the world.

Always have felt bad about that, Maggie, but I was in a.

Hurry

You coulda asked for the money, Ben.

I'd have given it to

Well, that thought did enter my mind,

but I figured you might say no, and we'd have a scene,

and you know hot I hate scenes, Maggie.

So I just took the money and went.

You could've at least left me a silver dollar for luck.

You're an enterprising woman, Maggie.

I never worry about you.

Here we are, again.

I suppose you want it all this time, too.

Yeah.

Here it is.

Almost the $6000.

Almost everything I've saved since I last saw you.

You do want something in return?

There's a kid over there.

A kid.

Nice old man, and three women who never did you no harm.

So, uh, I let them go free, and you give me the gold.

That's a deal?

That's the deal.

Well, there's more gold over there, Maggie.

That girl, Lisa, told me about it.

It isn't mine; this is mine.

The rest belongs to some friends trusting me

to take it into Whisky Butte.

Well, I'd like to oblige you, Maggie,

but three years in prison is a long time,

and I got friends here who are down on their luck,

just like I am.

Guess I shoulda known better, but I

thought it was worth a try.

All right, Ben.

I'm gonna go back, and I'm gonna bank on the fact

that for old time's sake you won't shoot me in the back.

Bye, Ben.

Maggie.

Maggie.

I might not shoot you for old time's sake, Maggie,

but I'd sure as hell shoot you for that gold.

I always told myself there was one spark of decency there.

I'm sorry.

Is that a dog?

That's real good.

Guess out with your grandpa there wasn't much else to do,

huh?

Willie, I've spent most of the night

and half of the day trying to scrape up

enough courage to talk to ya.

Could you Look, at me?

Oh, I don't blame ya.

I can't look at myself too good.

I'm looking.

Oh!

We're gonna stay together.

Like you said, it's no good being alone.

The girls haven't had a drink in two days, marshal.

I don't figure they can last much longer.

I bet they just perched out there like a bunch of buzzards

just waiting for us to turn to bones.

Jed, give me some bags of gold.

Girls, get over in the firing position there.

You hide out, right here.

Stay right there, you hear?

Yes, ma.

Rodman!

Yeah!

I'm throwing out the gold.

There's the gold, Rodman.

Five bags, 8 or 10 pounds each.

Well, calculate that's-- that's nearly $20,000.

Ha!

The Lord giveth!

OK, Dillon.

We take the gold and you live.

It's a deal.

No deal.

What do you mean no deal.

What did you throw it out for?

All right, we'll sit here gargling water and waiting.

You can't last another day.

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

The wind is blowing that gold away.

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

Jed, if they go after it, keep 'em busy.

Lucas, Speer, Oakley1 Get out there and get them bags.

That's open ground!

Get out there and then the preacher will cover you.

Use that wagon. Go on.

Get ready, girls.

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

[gunshots]

Rodman!

[gunshot]

[gunshots]

[gunshot]

[gunshot]

Drop it!

Outside!

[gunshots]

Hold it!

Drop the guns!

I get the guns down there.

Now get over there.

Good shooting, marshal.

About $10,000 worth of good shooting, I'd say.

At least the wind is taking it back where it come from.

The Lord giveth.

The Lord taketh away.

Not always, preacher.

Not always.

ANNOUNCER: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from our next "Gunsmoke."

[theme music]