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

[creak]

[gun cocking]

[creak]

[sobbing]

[theme music]

I want you to stay right here and don't come out.

[galloping]

[humming]

Oh.

Where you going?

You best be a comin' with me, ladybug.

Well, don't you think that there's a smart idea, Matthew?

Wouldn't that be just the very thing?

Use your-- you never have your [inaudible].

Festus, look, I hate to throw cold water on your idea, but--

Well, that-- Doctor?

Doc, could you come in here for a minute

and tell Matthew this here's a good idea that I got?

Just tell him it's a good idea.

What's that, Festus?

What's a good idea?

Well, I had me a chicken with the runny sauce

all over at Del Monaco's for supper last night,

and I figured that that's what brung on this here dream

and give me this here idea that I'm fixing to get one of them

things from Washington from that guarantees you

that nobody can't slip up behind your back and steal your idea.

You mean a patent?

Yeah.

You got an idea you want to get a patent on?

Wood trains.

Wooden trains?

Yeah, trains made out of wood, don't you see?

I didn't quite catch any of it either, Doctor.

Well, don't tell me you don't understand neither, Doc?

With all your book learning, why, I figured

you'd get that quicker than a pup'd get a beef steak.

And what is there to get about wooden trains?

Well, don't you see?

Wood trains could float right across the rivers.

Wooden trains could float across the river.

FESTUS: That's it.

And you could put paddles onto the drive shafts,

help drive the train across the river

in case there was a strong current.

Well, you blame sure could.

Doctor, that's a very [inaudible].

That's a good idea.

Matthew, see what I told you?

Uh, yeah, that's right, Festus.

Congratulations, Doctor, you, uh--

you catch onto things fast.

You know, it takes some people quite a while.

Festus, there is this one little change

that I'd make if I were you. -Yeah?

What's that, Doctor?

Wouldn't it be cheaper to make the rails out of wood?

Let them float on top of the water,

let the trains go across on them?

No, no, Doc.

Your idea wouldn't work.

Don't you see?

You lay them wood rails across the river,

they'd be all wobblety.

You couldn't never hold them steady.

All right, but what if you was to take these big posts,

and drive them down into the riverbed,

and then attach the rails onto the posts.

That wouldn't be wobblety then, would it?

Well, they blame sure wouldn't.

I believe that'd work.

That'd hold them steady as a rock.

I've even got a name for that kind of rail.

Yeah?

What's that?

A bridge.

[chuckle]

Marshal, there's a man out here talking about

some people being murdered.

[chattering]

Biggest man I ever seen in my life.

We fought, him and me.

Then he reached out, picked up a big tree limb,

'bout big around this arm, it was.

Why, my back was turned.

I was turned around, making sure poor little Rachel was

all right.

That's when he let me have it.

Hale, what's happened here?

Marshal, I was just coming to get you.

He killed them, Marshal.

Sit down.

Let me take a look at that.

Now, who are you talking about?

What happened?

I went out to my cousin to borrow some grain.

When I got there, there was this big man out there,

bigger than a tree, he was.

Mea-- meaner looking than old [inaudible] hisself.

Must have been that mad man that

killed that family in Hayes.

Man's a killer.

[shouting]

Man like that on the loose, we're all in danger.

All right, boys, now, hold on a minute here.

I don't follow you.

What happened exactly?

I got there in the nick of time, Marshal.

He had poor little Rachel trapped

down in the root cellar.

And he had a gun.

And he was going to kill her too, I know it.

Now, wait a minute.

Where were Rachel's parents and her brother?

Marshal, I forgot you wasn't here when

I told the rest of the folks.

They was dead.

When I got there, he'd already done killed

all the rest of the family.

Well, let's get a posse and get out there.

MAN: It can't be too soon.

MAN: Yeah, we're wasting time, Marshal.

I think we'd better go, boys.

We haven't got much time.

[chattering]

You ain't thirsty?

Your folks, was they?

Happened to me too, ladybug.

My folks got killed off when I was a young'un.

Now, you're going to be all right.

I'm fixing to help you so you don't get hurt none.

Ladybug, I never killed your folks.

And I ain't going to hurt you.

You hurt my Uncle Hale.

Just trying to save my own life, that's all in the world

I was a doing.

I meant him no harm.

He was fixing to shoot me.

Why aren't we going into Dodge City?

'Cause me and cities don't get on too good.

Fact is, me and people don't get on too good.

Back in Dodge, they'd just say I was the one

that killed your people.

They wouldn't be paying me no mind, except to hang me.

You didn't hurt my folks, did you?

No.

No, God's truth.

You never saw who done it?

I couldn't see nothing.

I could only hear noises.

You could hear?

[sigh]

It'd make my life a heap easier if you could've seen though.

There's a road 10, 12 miles further on.

We'll be hitting it come sunup tomorrow.

I'll leave you there.

There's three freight wagons pass there every day.

Run you right into Dodge.

Thank you.

Lijah, that's my name.

Thank you, Mr. Lijah.

What's the matter, Tack?

You feeling all right?

Never saw a dead folk before.

Mr. Crowley, who could do something like that?

Oh, it's got to be that Hayes family killer.

And there ain't no way to tell what a man like that's

going to do.

That wild man that's been doing all those killings?

Right.

Way back to Missouri?

Hale, you should you have shot him like a rabid dog.

Oh, I didn't want to take no chances on shooting

with the child so close by, so I just jumped on him

from horseback when I come up.

I think I could've taken too, except that I

had to keep making sure--

That David and Goliath ruckus wasn't a spit

in the ocean to what he'd one.

Well, he sure has got a lump on the side of his head, Festus.

Ah, fiddle. That there ain't no lump.

He's got so bleeding much braggy inside of him,

it's starting to pooch out that swole up head of his,

is what it is.

All right, let's don't worry Hale.

Now we got to find that girl.

Did you see anything out back?

We're looking for a big man and a little girl, ain't we?

Well, I've seen their tracks heading right out that way

when we rolled in.

They're afoot.

We can catch 'em in no time at all.

I'll get the posse mounted up.

Now hold on, Newly.

Don't say anything about the tracks, Festus.

Well, why, Matthew?

They're as plain as the sun in the summer sky.

Yeah, they're there all right.

But I want you to head them in east.

East?

That's right.

I'm going to follow the tracks alone.

Scared men are liable to be trigger happy

and that could be dangerous.

We don't need that with this little girl involved.

It's very good.

Well, it's hot.

Stick to your ribs.

Aren't you hungry?

Feeling up to eat?

Yes.

Is this how you sleep?

I mean, don't you have a house, Mr. Lijah?

House?

No.

No house, ladybug.

What do you live in?

LIJAH: Up high in the mountains, where the wild things stay.

Deers?

LIJAH: Deers is most tame, ladybug.

Come down and lick salt with the cattle.

There's places where I live that the eagle ain't never seen.

Is that where you'll go?

I know them mountains.

I'll just go up high and wait until he

gets tired of looking for me.

That's God's land, ladybug.

Ain't no men up there to ruin it.

Talk too much.

I ain't used to talking.

Best you get to sleep.

We'll leave at first light.

Get you safe in Dodge before the day is out.

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.

If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.

God bless Mommy and Daddy and--

Amen.

Amen.

Said you'd best sleep.

You ain't asleep.

I'm not sleepy, that's all.

LIJAH: Might scared, are you?

No, I'm not scared.

I'm hardly a bit scared.

Now you best to get to sleep, ladybug.

Won't be so bad come sun up.

When we used to have thunder and lightening storms,

my mama would come upstairs and sing with me.

That's real nice.

RACHEL MAE: Do you like to sing?

No, I ain't much for that.

We used to sing the Jesus loves me song.

You know that song? -No.

No, I don't. -You don't?

I thought everybody knew that song.

I don't know many songs.

It-- it just ain't the kind of thing for folks like me.

Been so long, I don't think I know what singing is no more.

You want me to sing for you?

I sing in Sunday school choir.

Sure, if you want.

[SINGING] Jesus loves me, this I know,

for the Bible tells me so.

Little ones to him belong.

They are weak, but he is strong.

Yes, Jesus loves me.

Yes, Jesus loves me.

Yes, Jesus loves me.

The Bible tells me so.

Yes, Jesus loves me.

Yes, Jesus--

[gun clicking]

MATT: Hold it.

Get your hand away from the gun.

Hey, they got him.

They got the killer, the one that killed the Parkers.

They got the gun that kill all of those people.

Here comes the posse.

Don't worry, folks.

She's just fine.

She's just scared a little bit, s'all.

I'm going to be looking after her real good.

Sir, don't you worry none.

She just fine.

Ain't that right, Rachel Mae?

Morning, Ms. Kitty.

Good morning.

Do you know him?

I never seen him before in my life that I know of.

He sure acts like he knows you.

Well, come on.

We ain't got all day.

Lijah.

Yeah, some one on this.

What's your last name, Lijah?

Name's Lijah, that's all.

MATT: No last name?

Name's to answer to.

I answer to Lijah.

You want a cup of coffee?

Friendly type, eh?

Hi, Matt.

Hello.

Newly.

Mr. Standish.

That the man in there?

That's him.

You want to talk to him.

Yeah, if you don't mind.

Lijah, this is Will Standish.

He's the prosecuting attorney for the state of Kansas.

You know what a prosecuting attorney does?

You'll see I get hanged.

If you're guilty.

Then you'll see I'm guilty.

I come here to tell you that papers are being drawn up

and you're being charged with three

counts of premeditated murder.

I ain't surprised.

Trial will be sometime next week.

I'll be here when it comes time that you want me.

Marshal, coffee?

Will, is there a court appointed lawyer for this man

yet?

Well, we're trying, Matt, but it ain't easy.

You know, the lawyer who takes this case is going to make

himself a lot of enemies.

You can count on that.

Well, regardless of that, a man can't stand trial for murder

with a lawyer.

I know that.

I left a message with Homer Wayne.

Homer Wayne?

He's only handled land deeds and wills.

He's never been in a courtroom.

Well, Homer Wayne's available now.

The sooner we get this trial going, the better.

You know, frankly, half this town

don't give a tinker's damn whether this man

gets a fair trial or not.

Well, that doesn't matter.

He's entitled to the best defense we can get him.

I'm not disputing that.

Homer Wayne's it.

Well, Homer's a good man, but he's over 80 years old.

What are you suggesting, Matt?

Well, I think maybe we got a better choice.

Newly here's read law.

Do you think you're qualified?

No, sir, I don't.

I'm not a lawyer.

I only read law for a few months.

Well, Newly, if it's a choice between you and old Homer,

I think you're the man.

Matt, I can't do it.

Now wait a minute, Will.

If it's agreeable with Elijah and Judge Berker doesn't

object, will you clear him?

Yes or no?

Well, frankly, I don't think Homer Wayne would do it anyway.

And the longer we wait on this trial,

the harder it's going to be to keep the lid on in this town.

Well, we'll keep the lid on.

Don't worry about that.

Well, you've got yourself a client, Mr. O'Brien.

Newly, I want you to get a wire off to the state house

right away, get all the information you can

on those other killings, especially

the description of the killer.

We've got to see if any of it fits Lijah.

Yes, sir.

Good evening, Doctor.

Hello, Matt.

Any answer yet on those inquiries into the murders

or on Lijah?

Not yet, nothing on him.

He sure is a strange one.

Well, he couldn't possibly be sane

and commit all those murders.

What do you think, Marshal?

Do you think he's sane?

Well, I'm not sure.

But I'll tell you one thing, I know he

knows what he's charged with.

Will Standish was telling him and he

understood every word of it.

He's peculiar though.

What do you mean?

Well, there's just something about that man

I don't understand.

You know, I feel the same.

The day you brought him into town,

he picked me out of a crowd and stared at me like--

Well, it was just like he knew you.

It was, just like that.

Well, I'll you something, Doctor.

I'd feel a whole lot better if you'd look him over.

I want to.

I'll do that right now.

I'm going to walk over to the jail and see him.

See Lijah?

Yes, why?

Well, I'd rather you didn't.

Will you mind telling me why not?

No, not at all, Doctor.

This is a list of the men called to serve on jury duty.

That's your name right on top.

JACK: Night, Mr. Parker.

HALE: Good night, Jack.

Sweet dreams.

JACK: Yeah, sure.

HALE: Good night. MAN [OUTSIDE]: Night, Hale.

HALE: Good night.

MAN [OUTSIDE]: Thanks again.

HALE: Sure, good night.

MAN [OUTSIDE]: Night, Hale.

HALE: Good night, thanks again.

Hello there, sweetheart.

You still awake?

I wasn't sleeping, Uncle Hale.

Well, maybe we was to noise for you outside, huh?

No, it didn't bother me.

They was just some good friends of your Uncle Hale's

come by to wish me well, to wish us both well.

That was nice of them.

Oh, people is going to be awful nice to us now, sweetheart.

We're what you call people of property, like the fella says.

I ain't just some rump busted pony pusher no more, honey.

Ha-ha, no, sirree.

I've got that nice spread of your pa's to look after now

and I got fair sized amount of investing to do.

And I got you to look after too, bless your little heart.

What's the matter there?

Ain't you got a kiss for your poor old Uncle Hale?

You smell like whiskey.

Yeah.

Your pa never did hold to that too much, did he?

Well, you'll get used to it.

It ain't all that bad.

RACHEL MAE: Uncle Hale?

Yes, sweetheart?

Why did you lie to Marshal Dillon?

What are you talking about, Rachel Mae?

Well, you told everybody how you and Mr. Lijah

fought and fought, and you didn't fight hardly at all.

You walked around the barn and he hit you with a shovel.

And that was all there was to it.

Now you was all excited.

Rachel Mae, you don't know what you've seen.

Yes, I do so.

You both ran for the gun.

Rachel.

Now Rachel Mae Parker, you just listen to me now.

I'm the last kin you've got in the whole world.

Your ma and your pa wouldn't like

if you went around making people laugh at me, now would they?

Besides, don't you want your ma and your pa

and your big brother to get into heaven?

Yes.

HALE: Well, you sure ain't acting like you do.

Now you listen to me.

You was all excited, Rachel Mae, and you don't know what you've

seen about him and me fighting.

But that man kills your ma, and your pa, and your big brother.

And he was going to kill you too, until I

come along and stopped him.

He was going to skin you alive and feed you to his dogs,

is what he was going to do.

And folks around here wants to see him dead,

it's our duty to see that they gets their wish.

We owe that to your ma and your pa.

Did you know your ma and pa is looking down on you right now?

They are?

Yes, they are.

But they ain't in heaven.

Oh, no, Rachel.

They's waiting outside the gates and they

ain't going to get in until vengeance is done on that man.

They're gonna wait outside of there forever

till that man hangs.

You just think about that for awhile.

See if you don't remember something more, hm?

Don't you forget what I told you.

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing

but the truth, so help you God?

I do.

Be seated.

State your name and place of residence.

Hale Parker, living on Oak Ford Road,

out near Sprang's Crossing.

Mhm.

Now, Mr. Parker.

Yes, sir.

I want you to tell the gentlemen of this jury what you

first saw when you arrived at the Ezra Parker home

on the morning of the 13th.

Yes, I'd be pleased to.

Well, I tied up out in the corral

and I started toward the house.

Hadn't gone more than two steps when seen

pour Ezra and his boy.

Were they did?

HALE: Yes, sir, dead.

Stone dead.

Mr. Parker, I want you to tell this court what happened next.

Well, I looked up then.

I seen that men there.

The accused?

HALE: Yes, sir.

And he had a gun.

Did you say, Mr. Parker, that that gun was loaded?

HALE: It sure was.

MR. STANDISH: Now, Mr. Parker, you say

Lijah threatened your niece.

HALE: Yes, sir.

Was she harmed in any way?

Well, no.

But he chased her, and she'd have been dead

if I hadn't of stopped him.

Lie, he lies.

[pounding]

Look, Lijah, you gotta trust me to handle this thing.

We'll get to the truth in due time, I promise you that.

But you can't go calling a man on the witness stand a liar.

I can't call him liar?

How come he can call me murderer?

Your witness, Mr. O'Brien.

NEWLY: Mr. Parker.

HALE: Yes.

NEWLY: Why were you at the ranch that day in the first place?

HALE: Well, I needed me some seed grain

and some sourdough starter.

Cousin Ezra was doing good enough to let me have some,

so I just figured I'd go out and ask him for some is all.

Now, Rachel, I want you to relax.

Take your time.

Think back.

And tell the jury what happened that morning.

Well, Mama and I were in the cellar putting away jelly.

And there was some shooting.

Mama told me stay where I was and not make a sound.

She went out.

Then there was more shooting, then

it got quiet for a long time.

I must have made a noise and he heard me and found

me in the root cellar there.

Who heard you, Rachel?

Who found you?

That man Lijah.

He said he'd kill Mama and Papa.

And he said he'd kill me and feed me to his dogs.

[crowd murmuring]

Lie.

There's a lie.

It's ain't true.

I ain't kill nobody. I ain't.

We can't turn this into a circus.

[screaming]

Order.

Get the cuffs on him, Festus.

Sure.

You all right, Newly?

Doctor.

Good evening, Marshal.

Get locked out of your office?

No, I just came out to try to cool off a little.

Well, it's a warm night all right.

Thinking about going down to the Long Branch and having a beer.

You want to join me?

I'd like to, yes, but I'd better not.

Everybody and his brother be over there

wanting to talk about the trial and I'm

not allowed to discuss it.

I think I'll stay where I am.

Something bothering you, Doctor?

I tell you, Marshal, one of the things

a man learns after a lifetime of tending to people

is how to read their eyes.

Sometimes a patient is too young, too old, too sick

to tell you where it hurts, how bad it hurts,

and you learn to read it in his eyes.

It's a sense that you develop, pretty good one, too.

And that Lijah, I have caught him staring

at me a couple of times.

I can't figure out why.

It's like he wants me to read something in his eyes.

But, for the life of me, I can't.

The only thing I can figure is that I look

like somebody he knows or knew.

Well, too bad you can't go over and have a talk with him.

And I'm afraid if you did that, Judge

Berker's declare a mistrial.

Well, I don't know what to do.

Well, about you all can do is listen to the evidence

and try not to let anything else influence your vote.

Well.

I'm tired, Marshal.

I think I'm going to go on up to bed.

Excuse me.

Good night.

Good night, Doctor.

NEWLY: If he did kill those people,

why didn't he kill the little girl?

Instead, he was taking care of her when the Marshal found him.

I don't know who did this thing, but I

do know they haven't proved it was Lijah that did it.

He's a man that come to the wrong place at the wrong time.

And because he's different, because he wants

to live apart from everybody else by himself,

people are saying he did it.

But nobody saw him do it.

He didn't have no reason to do it.

That's why we don't have a real reason to hang him.

God help us all if being different's a hanging offense.

Gentlemen of the jury, you've heard the testimony.

You've heard the summation.

If you have any questions as to the technicalities of law,

let's hear them now.

It is not your place here to decide on sentence.

That is the function of the court,

it is not your responsibility.

It is your solemn obligation, however,

to pass judgment on that man Lijah, guilty or innocent

on the basis of the testimony as you've heard and understood it.

You may retire now, gentlemen, to do your duty.

We await your verdict.

Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.

Guilty, guilty, not guilty.

[gasp]

Now what jackass thinks that yahoo is innocent?

Well, that man gunned down three people.

And he'd have killed that little girl too.

Yeah.

Gentlemen, I'm the one that voted not guilty.

Doc, you?

You mean you think he's innocent.

No, I don't think he's innocent,

but I'm not convinced he's guilty either.

I'm willing to listen to you, gentlemen.

I'm willing to be convinced.

But until I have, my vote remains the same, not guilty.

Well, Doc, you heard the testimony.

[men arguing]

Defending a wild man, a man who lives

in the hills, who has no family and no work,

and what lives like a wild animal.

I'm not defending him.

I'm just not willing to hang a man when

I'm not convinced he's guilty.

And how a man lives doesn't have one thing to do with this.

As Newly O'Brien said, God help us all--

And another thing, that Newly O'Brien is no more qualified

to act as an attorney--

Oh, Howie-- Howie, Howie, what's that got to do with it?

Just the same, a man never seemed more guilty.

Why, Hale saw him there, with the Parkers laying dead.

But Hale didn't see him kill anyone.

Well, if he was innocent, Newly should have proved it.

Yeah.

And besides, if a man is innocent,

he don't need a lawyer.

Gentlemen, I'm going to imaging that someone

said the same thing to Pontius Pilate a few centuries back.

I just don't happen to agree, that's all.

Doc, hey, I don't think know how we do things here in Dodge.

Ain't much like New Orleans, I reckon.

[laughter]

This has nothing to do with New Orleans,

Dodge City, or any place else.

This has to do with me.

Well, now, I'll tell you what I think.

DOCTOR: All right, you tell me.

I think Lijah's put the evil eye on you or something.

Oh, Dump, even you can't believe that.

Well, he was always looking at him, and staring at you.

You got any explanation for that?

No, I haven't.

What's he trying to do, Doc?

Try to scare you?

Trying to get you to vote his way?

Yeah, that's maybe just what he's done, huh?

Well, Doc, what do you say?

Don't you think we ought to take another vote?

Not much point, Mr. O'Connor, unless you've

changed your mind.

Oh, come on.

Well, we'll be here another day.

What's it going to take?

You're busy here today.

Well, it's usual for a trial, especially when

there's a hanging coming up.

Are you that sure they'll find him guilty?

Aren't you?

Well, they've been locked up in there all day.

Somebody's not going along.

I think I got a pretty idea who it it, too.

The last man that called me a liar was my father

and he was right.

And I still took a swing at him. -All right, Doc--

I did not call you a liar.

Halligan--

But ever since this thing started,

I've been trying to avoid calling a liar.

Cool down, Halligan.

You can't tell us you truly believe

that Lijah ain't battier than Lollie Binder's silo.

I can tell you that and I am telling you that.

I think we're all getting a little tired.

Yeah, well, it seems to me, men,

what we all saw in that courtroom ought

to prove one thing to the Doc.

That man is dangerous.

Doc, he's got a temper like a rattler at shedding time.

Dr. Chapman, didn't you see how he went after Newly?

Almost choked to death right there in the courtroom.

Yeah, and all Newly done was say

don't turn this trial into a circus.

MAN: Well, the whole trial's been nothing

but a side show anyway.

Mr. O'Connor?

MR. O'CONNOR: Huh?

Go get the bailiff.

Tell him I want to talk to Matt Dillon right now.

What for?

Because I know who Lijah is, and it might just

have a bearing on this case.

[crowd murmuring]

Here it is, by golly, here it is.

His name's not Lijah, he's Elijah.

I treated him over 20 years ago.

He was just a little boy then.

That's why he recognized me and I didn't remember him.

Doctor, what'd you treat him for?

His father worked at one of the sulfur mines outside of town.

And one day, Elijah and his mother,

they had taken his daddy's lunch out to him

when a donkey boiler blew up.

Both parents were killed.

Well, that's probably where he got the scare then.

That's where he got the scar.

And that's how he lost his hearing.

The man is stone deaf, Matt.

Deaf?

Are you sure?

I couldn't be more sure.

I spent the better part of a year

teaching him how to read lips.

And his aunt, she was taking care of him,

she figured there wasn't any sense wasting anymore time on,

so she sold him to the circus.

Sold him to the circus?

As what?

They used him as a wild boy from Borneo.

Glued hair all over his body and locked him up in a cage,

made him the head off of chickens.

Maybe that's why he remembered me.

Maybe I was the last person in his world

that ever showed any concern for him.

I can understand why he'd prefer living in those God forsaken

hills to being around people.

[knocking]

Matt, wire just came in from Salt Springs.

They're holding a man that confessed to the murders.

Also, said he did the killings of Joplin and Hayes.

Uncle Hale?

Yes, sweetheart?

Uncle Hale, are mama and papa in heaven

now, now that we took the vengeance?

Yes, they sure are, honey.

They's just as happy as can be.

They know I'm looking after their precious lamb.

And I'm gonna take real good care of everything.

Lie.

I never killed your people, child.

How come you lied?

Because Uncle Hale said you did it.

Mama and papa wouldn't get into heaven if I didn't say it.

There'll be folks out to kill me on account

of what you made this child do.

You best go in now, ladybug.

Oh.

No, don't hurt him.

I'll tell you the truth.

I'm sorry.

Don't hurt him.

I'll tell them the truth.

[scream]

No, she's fallen in the well.

Rachel-- no, don't, we got to help her.

No, no, Rachel has gone and fell in the well.

She's hurt herself bad.

Rachel, in the well.

I'll get a rope.

That thing's full of rattlers.

I'm coming, ladybug.

Don't you worry now.

HALE: Didn't you hear me?

There's rattlers down there.

Don't you worry now, ladybug.

Marshal-- Marshal, little Rachel's done

fell in that well there.

That mountain man's gone after her.

That place is full of rattlesnakes.

I told him that, Marshal.

He wouldn't pay me no mind.

He can't hear you, Hale.

He can't those rattlers either.

Festus, get a rope.

Be there in no time at all.

Gonna be over in just a bit, ladybug.

Is you all right?

Yes.

You all right?

Rachel's all right, Marshal.

I got snake bit.

Marshal, I'm deaf.

I can't hear 'em.

The place is crawling with rattlers.

Grab a hold of the rope.

We'll pull you out of there.

Get under here.

It's hide.

You're gonna be all right.

All right, ladybug, here we go.

Heave away, Marshal.

Back, go back.

[groan]

Hold on, Festus, harder.

Back.

Back, back.

Back up.

Back, back.

Back.

Back.

Hey.

You all right, Rachel Mae?

-Go get Doc. -Yeah.

Come on, Rufus.

He didn't kill my folks, Marshal.

Uncle Hale made me say it.

We know that, Rachel.

And he's going to have to answer for it, too.

I'm sorry for what I said, Mr. Lijah.

Please don't die.

I've been bit before, ladybug.

I ain't gonna die.

I ain't gonna die.

NARRATOR: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from our next Gunsmoke.

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