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

Amanda Blake as Kitty, Ken Curtis as Festus,

Buck Taylor as Newly, and staring

James Arness as Matt Dillon.

[laughing]

Drink it all, honey.

Look at him.

He's going along.

He's doing the whole thing.

Come on, baby.

Come on, look, aw give it a try, honey.

Let's go.

Look at him go. [laughing]

--[grunting] [screaming] Hey, Lafitte.

Hey, Lafitte, did you see that?

Did you see that?

I just drunk that entire thing.

You just sit there funning.

You don't give me no help.

Listen, that ain't funning, Virgil Bonner.

It ain't funning, no.

[laughing]

Hey, come on, boy.

You drunker than a [inaudible].

It's past time we's due for getting.

Come on.

That don't mean nothing.

That don't mean we got to go.

Tomorrow's coming on, boy.

And your brother is waiting for you.

Do you hear me?

Jude is waiting for you.

Remember we told him you's going to be there, now come on.

Well Jude ain't got the say on everything.

He don't, huh?

Well, he runs the Dog Soldiers, and he runs you,

and he runs me.

And you ain't drunk enough you can forget that.

Now let's get going.

Toke, get them horses set.

Well, if it's every time we got us a good party going,

you got to go and ruin it.

Shut up, woman.

I ain't talking to you.

Oh come on, Lafitte, just a couple

more hours would be good.

We can still make it.

We ain't got the time the way it is, much less if we

stay around here till sun up.

And Jude don't want us here no how.

But he'll find out if you mess with him.

TOKE: Lafitte, all set.

Virge, don't go, please.

They can't make you, you know?

They can't.

Stay with me.

[moaning]

[screaming] Oh!

Lafitte.

We's going or not?

You hang around here long enough playing cutesy face,

some law man is going to walk in there and hand you your head.

We'll see you in Kansas if you get there.

Lafitte.

Lafitte!

Tell Jude I'll be coming in at 4:00 tomorrow night.

Virge, come on in, you knot head.

Don't you know enough to come in out of the rain?

--[laughing] I sure hope you're worth it.

Woo!

[thunder]

Woo!

Watch yourself.

Virgil!

Hey.

Hold it right there.

You got something you want from me?

Hey, you got no right barging in here like that.

He's my husband.

I'm sorry to hear that, lady.

He's wanted for murder.

Oh, you taking me in and turning me over, badge?

That's right.

You might could get me in all right.

You might even get me as far as the lockup.

But Jude'll burn Kansas down to red hot cinders

before a Bonner hangs.

Get out.

Sam, beer.

Sure, Doc.

Sit down, Doc, I'll be right with you.

Thank you.

Well?

Guilty.

They're going to hang him.

Jury wasn't out 10 minutes.

Oh, can't say that I blame them.

If ever the death penalty was justified,

the Bonner brothers have sure earned it.

Yeah, but it's only the youngest one.

Jude's the oldest, the leader of the Dog Soldiers.

Till they get him, I'll tell you.

Ms. Kitty, Doc.

Hello, Festus.

Hot enough for you?

Yeah.

I reckon you heard about that Bonner yayhoo.

Doc was just telling me about it.

Matthew is fixing to trundle him up to Hays today.

Festus, what do you think the Dog Soldiers

are going to do about this?

Ms. Kitty, it's hard to tell what them killing side washers

will do.

I'll kill him.

I'll rip his town to pieces, burn it to the ground

till there ain't nothing left but hot dirt and smoking nails.

Well, that ain't going to get him out, Jude.

If we don't get Virgil out, they're going to hang him.

Well, he got himself in there right enough.

I'll let him die there.

That punk ain't been no good to me since he growed up.

He's yourn, Jude.

He's your blood.

And he's just a kid.

And he don't mean no harm.

I don't mind what he means.

I mind what he done.

He got himself caught.

Now I got to help him out.

There ain't but two ways to do that.

One's to bust in there and get him out proper.

That ain't likely.

Because they'll be looking for it.

They'll have an army.

The other way is more likely.

The other way just might do it.

How's that?

Trade for him.

That Dodge marshal has got to be bone

and blood like any other man.

He's got a whole town tied to him.

And it might be a family.

We ain't got but three days.

Then they're going to hang him up to cure.

Right there's a fare shake, Lafitte.

If I can't catch myself someone worth trading for in that time,

well, I ain't a trapping man.

Well, shall we call it a night, Ms. Kitty?

Oh, you bet.

It's been a long day.

Evening, Ms. Kitty.

Festus, what in the world are you doing riding

around at this time of night?

Well, nary a thing the way it turned out.

Me and old Ruth here have been having

ourselves a little look-see out east of town.

Find anything?

Quieter than a gagged gopher all night long.

--[chuckles] Well, it can't get too quiet for me.

Good night, Festus.

Good night, Ms. Kitty.

[coyotes howling]

Newly, have you saw or heard anything?

I heard an old coyote, maybe a couple of them.

Hot as it is, you'd think they'd be still, wouldn't you?

You go on back down to jail, and I'll

go down yonder to the depot and take a quick look.

All right, Festus.

LAFITTE: Don't even think.

Get moving-- not a word.

Who are you?

What are you doing here anyhow?

The name's Bonner, Jude Bonner.

Do you know that name?

FESTUS: Yeah, I know that name.

You're looking for that brother of yours,

and you came to a goat house for wool.

He's up in Hays fixing to get hisself hung.

That ain't no news to me.

I want to talk to you about your friend the marshal.

There's one or two things I got to know.

You know what I mean, "got to"?

You're liable to find out a whole heap more about him

than you want to know before you get done.

Where's his family?

He ain't got no family.

If he was to have, I wouldn't tell you no how.

Where's his wife?

What's her name?

He ain't got no wife.

Well, where's his woman?

You going to tell me he got no woman?

I ain't fixing to tell you a blessed thing.

You're not going to help me at all, are you?

Lafitte, I gotta get me some answers.

I'm going to gather up some of them good telling folks.

They can't all be as willing to die as he is.

You put him away.

[shouting]

All right, let's get them inside.

Over here.

Let him go.

Will you get your--

All right, what is it?

What do you want in here?

Sam, be careful.

This here is a town meeting.

Now you put that piece down.

I'll have Kalinga here slit this old boy's throat

like he'd have a [inaudible].

You sit tight.

I'll be talking to you.

I've got three of you boys, and I want you to know why.

My name is Jude Bonner, and I kill folks for a living.

But I don't aim to kill no one I don't have to.

I want the marshal's woman.

I want her now.

And if I don't get her, I'm going to cut throats.

Now who is she?

Who is she?

All right, you're the oldest.

You go first.

Bonner.

I'm the lady.

Now what was it you wanted, sunshine?

[laughing]

I might have known I'd find the marshal's

lady in a sporting palace.

You listen tight.

You tell the marshal that Jude Bonner's been to town,

and that I know it was him that brought my brother

in and wired him for hanging.

And then you tell him this.

If my brother hangs, this little lady is going to wish

to god she'd never been born.

How does it look, Doc?

Apparently, Sam, we're in luck.

It just looked like they tried to kick his head off.

DOC: Yeah, I know.

They did a pretty good job of kicking his ribs, too.

Well, I'll have to take care of that when I finish here.

Now hold on to him.

Because this is going to sting.

SAM: Just hold still, Festus.

[grunts]

[knock on door]

Marshal.

Wait, what happened?

They hit Dodge.

How bad?

Dodge is all right.

It's Ms. Kitty.

Jude Bonner rode into town and took her away with him.

He told me to tell you if his brother hangs--

they worked Festus over pretty bad,

too, shot him through the shoulder.

I'll tell you, they hit us before we knew what happened.

There's 24 hours before Virgil hangs.

I'll get the governor, see if I can get a stay of execution.

You get to Sheriff Tanner, tell him

to hold off as long as he can.

Yes, sir.

Marshal, Festus and I did all we could.

I know it.

Now let's go.

You reckon she fixed herself up all pretty for Jude?

Don't let her bother you, old son.

She don't have to be pretty for Jude.

Or me either.

You wouldn't know pretty if you stepped on it, Toke.

That woman ain't here for playing with.

Shame though-- such a waste just to kill her off.

You know, there's not a chance in the world he'll let him go.

I see you don't know Matt Dillon.

Unlike you do, I guess that's true enough.

He doesn't make deals, not with anybody.

Everybody makes deals.

Most of them just make bad deals.

There's a difference.

Even if he wanted to.

Your brother has been tried and convicted.

He's out of Matt's hands now.

Could be there's a way to get him back in his hands.

And if he can't?

Then there's going to be a lot of sorry people,

isn't there, ma'am?

You'll get your revenge by killing me, right?

That's how it's going to be.

KITTY: Well now, isn't that something?

Big Jude Bonner, fearsome leader of the Dog Soldiers,

kill a woman, as if that would bring his brother back.

Now you listen to me, lady.

I got something to lose.

I got something I want back.

I got a brother fixing to die, and Dillon put him there.

Unless I'm an awful fool, I got something he wants back,

too-- bad.

If I lose, he loses, easy as that.

Tell you a story, lady-- I'm a breed.

I'm a breed born of a Cheyenne woman, a Cheyenne woman

your cavalry cut up and killed before I was old enough

to do anything about it.

My old man switched sides by then,

sort of set my style for me, you know what I mean?

I ain't got nothing against you personal.

And I ain't going to lay a hand on you.

But I hear that boy was hanged, woman,

you don't mean nothing to me.

It'd take 1,000 like you to pay back

the debt your people owe me.

MATT DILLON: Governor, I want a stay of execution.

You're not serious.

I'm dead serious.

Why in the name of all that's holy

for him, and on what grounds?

While I was on my way to Hays, the Dog Soldiers hit Dodge.

And they shot up my deputies and kidnapped a woman.

They're holding her to trade for his life.

That's terrible, a dreadful thing.

I guarantee you they'll kill her if he hangs.

Matt, this woman, is it Ms. Russell?

It wouldn't matter.

She's a woman, and her life is on the line.

But you know the law.

Matt, you know my position.

I can grant a stay, maybe, if there's good cause.

If the verdict is in doubt, if the evidence

has been tampered with or was incomplete, yes, by all means.

But Virgil Bonner-- even if I were

to commit political suicide and issue a stay, it wouldn't hold.

The legislature would overrule me, and they'd be right.

You set a precedent like this, and every desperado in Kansas

will be trying the same thing.

Dammit, Matt, I want to help.

You know I do.

But I can't.

I ain't got a conscience.

And if I did, do you reckon I'd waste it on you?

Bonner, she's an innocent woman.

I could take her place.

It's no good to you or your brother to have her die.

There ain't anything no use to me anymore.

MATT DILLON: I did everything I could

with the governor to get you a stay of execution.

Now, we could get word to your brother today.

I wouldn't cross the street to pull

you out of hellfire, Mr. Law.

You kept in mind what I told you back

when you was bringing me in?

I told you how Jude would get you, I did.

I told you how he'd do you.

You never took me serious, did you?

Now I've got you taking me serious.

And every time you think of that woman and what happened to her,

you'll remember Virgil Bonner.

Let her go, Bonner.

Sorry, Matt.

OK, fat man, let's go to the party.

This morning, Virgil Bonner, notorious outlaw

and younger brother of Jude Bonner,

was hanged at Hays City.

Virgil Bonner was apprehended by Marshal

Matt Dillon of Dodge City.

Doc, what do you reckon they'll do with Ms. Kitty?

Festus, you know I-- I don't like to think about it.

Shoot, I ought to be out there looking for her.

Oh, Festus, for heaven's sakes.

These are a desperate bunch of men.

I know how you feel.

But your condition-- you couldn't

do a thing, not a thing.

Well Matthew, he'll be getting back directly,

and you can just--

Shh.

[gun shots]

[galloping horses]

[screaming]

Listen, Dodge.

This here's Jude Bonner.

They hung my little brother this morning.

I took that marshal's woman.

Now I've brung her back.

Doc, I gotta get me a gun.

No, no, don't move.

Don't move.

You tell that marshal of yours, it was him made this deal.

And then you tell him Jude Bonner satisfied.

[gun shot]

[scream]

Doc, Doc!

Somebody get Doc, hurry.

Kitty.

Kitty.

My god.

[crying]

All right, get out of here, all of you.

Just get on out.

Is there anything I can do now?

No, not a thing, Burke, thanks.

I tell you this.

Something's got to be done.

Any changes, say, hurting the marshal?

No.

Doc, I just wish there was something

I could do to help out.

I think there is.

She's upstairs, Marshal.

How did it happen, Doc?

He shot her.

He just deliberately shot her down.

How bad is she?

She's alive.

That's just about all.

The wound, it's bad, awful bad.

But Matt, they abused her.

They-- they treated her something terrible.

They broke her down.

I don't think she wants to live.

I've done all I can.

Kitty?

I need you, Kitty.

I need you.

[gasp]

[groans]

Pulse steadier, Matt, slower-- it's a good sign.

What's her chances?

Fair, I think.

That's about all I can say.

Do the best you can, Doc.

Matt, no.

Don't do that.

Don't do it.

I know you got to go after him.

But before you take off that badge,

I want you to listen to me.

Before you came into Dodge, Matt, there was no law at all.

You brought it all with you when you came.

And people love you for it, and respect you.

Now if you take off that badge and go out there with vengeance

in your heart, then you'll betray everything

you've ever stood for.

Within the law-- like it's always been.

If it was anything else, Doc-- anything else.

Not this time, boys.

Well, we're going by ourselves, then, me and Newly.

But we're going.

We ain't making no time.

You in a hurry?

No, I got all the time in the world.

But I know a law man who's whistling boots

and saddle long about now.

Of course, you don't care.

I don't.

Now you know that wasn't going to bring

Virgil back, Jude, killing her.

We did everything we could.

We just couldn't get him out of there.

But we got out that law man.

I don't want at him.

That ain't enough.

You want him to catch up with us, then.

Is that it?

Now how come we don't just set up and wait and then spike him

when he comes riding through, just drop

him before he even sees us?

A posse gets tired when it gets too far from a saloon.

Dillon ain't going to quit.

He'll follow me up into Wind River country.

He'll lose a man here and there as he goes.

And when we get him where we want him,

if he's got anybody left, we'll cut him apart.

When we get that marshal under our gun, I want him.

Doc?

Where is he, Doc?

He went after him, Kitty.

Alone?

No, Festus and Newly went with him.

And the whole town rode out after them.

They can't help him.

They're just targets for those--

Kitty, no power on earth could have stopped him.

You know that.

I don't want you to think about it, not at all.

I want you to rest-- just rest, that's all.

I couldn't live without him, Doc.

You know that.

You bet I do.

Let me tell you something.

You won't have to.

Because the Sun hasn't come up on the day

that Matt Dillon can't take care of himself.

Now you believe that.

You just believe it.

Appears like the fort north, Wind River Mountains.

Riding the way you are, Matthew, you're

just liable to run spang into their brisket

without even never knowing that they is there.

NEWLY: There's a bunch of fellows from Dodge back there,

Marshal, who sure would like to be

with you when the time comes.

You can have or do whatever you're mind to.

But don't hold us out, Matthew, not now.

Festus, I know what you're saying.

I appreciate it.

But this is something I gotta do alone.

How are you going to do that by yourself, Marshal?

Jude Bonner's got his pride.

If I call him out in front of his men, he'll come.

You ain't coming out, Matthew, if you go

in there all by your own self.

Festus, the Dodge men are no match for those Dog Soldiers.

I want you to turn around and take them home.

We've been together a long time, too long to make any speeches.

Been a lot of good years.

Well, I got to give you the figuring prize, Jude.

I reckon we got him where it hurts.

He don't care if he lives or dies.

All right, let's get set to help him out.

Bonner, Jude Bonner.

You're talking, Law.

I'm here to kill you.

What are you going to do, talk me to death, Dillon?

[chuckling]

No, I thought I might take you apart with my bare hands.

That is if you like to fight men as well as you do women.

You ride on up here.

We'll see who likes to do what.

You just give the word, Jude.

I'll drop him kicking.

You sit tight.

I told you back there I want him myself.

You ain't going to fight him.

You ain't going to go down there and take him on alone.

Yes I am.

You maybe can't understand this.

But it'd be worth my life to hang his hair on my lance.

I lose, you shoot him down.

All right, Bonner.

It's your move.

Blood gets blood.

That's the way the preachers talk it.

You know a lot about preachers, do you?

I know it was you hung my kid brother.

He hung himself.

I just brought him in.

Well, it don't matter.

I lose, you lose.

A man like you's got no way to win, Bonner.

She lived.

I got a way to win.

And you give it to me.

Lafitte, leave him.

He's mine.

Hold it right there.

[gun shots]

Anybody squeeze one more trigger and you're

all fodder for the turkey buzzards, and I mean it.

Now throw your guns down.

[theme music]

NARRATOR: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

from out next "Gunsmoke."