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[music playing]

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

FESTUS: Can't you see what I'm talking about, Doc?

Don't you understand--

Coming up on the mile-high turn, folks.

Prettiest view in nine states.

You see, Doc, it's all [inaudible]

Hush up and look at the view.

I done saw it.

He didn't have to call on you after

Matthew got done talking and I got done a'doing my talking--

Yeah, when you got done a'doing you're talking,

everybody in the courtroom, including the prosecutor,

was stone deaf.

Well, Doc, you get a free trip to Denver,

get to stay in a first-class hotel.

Gotta look at the bright side.

Well, the dark side is what I remember in the courtroom

there.

By the time he got through testifying for six hours--

Doing what?

Testifying.

I didn't do no such a thing.

All I done was tell him everything I knowed.

Now and even if I did, when a feller asks you who you are

and all the things you been a'doing as a deputy United

States marshal, a'leading up to when that feller got hisself

shot in the long branch, you gotta start clean back

at the beginning, don't ya?

See what I mean?

Don't ever use one word when six will muddle up everything.

[train whistle]

[train whistle]

All right.

I call.

I'm short.

I call, too.

A little straight, to the ace.

[whistle]

This game is getting too rich for my blood.

All right.

How much am I short?

An even $50 short.

I hope that Dodge bank will be cashing

your notes the same speed you're making them up.

Are you questioning my honesty?

Never entered my mind.

Who said all the buffalo had disappeared?

Instead of looking at buffalo, why

don't you shuffle the cards?

Enjoying the trip, ma'am?

I don't remember a more enjoyable one.

Well, if it's any consolation, your husband is winning.

Who said he's my husband?

[train whistle]

About time for a little fuel myself.

There's a nice view here.

Quite a view out there, ladies.

Quite a view in here, too, conductor.

Pardon me, ladies.

Are we on time, conductor?

Pretty close, ma'am.

We'll be in Dodge before dark tomorrow.

Oh, Scott, look.

Your ears are still bothering you.

Just swallow hard, Mrs. Coleman.

It relieves the pressure on the ears in a twinkling.

Thank you.

I'll be all right.

I can ask that doctor if he has something for you to take.

No, don't bother him now, Scott.

OK.

Ain't that something, Mr. Pennigrath?

As many times as I see it, I never get tired of it.

I understand, Mr. Lucas.

The Lord's good handiwork.

Oh, Miss Sarah, look.

Oh, isn't that adorable?

Isn't this trip just marvelous?

[theme music]

[train whistle]

Well, Matt, for all the good I did at that trial,

I could of sent a letter.

Now, the verdict came out right, Doc.

That's what counts. [stomping]

OK, so I had me a big hand in the way that thing come out.

The way that feller's lying, [inaudible] there.

Will you quit stomping those feet?

You're making me nervous.

Well, they're cold, Doc.

Well, of course, they're cold.

It's always cold at this altitude in the wintertime.

You look out there.

It must be below zero.

Look at the frost on the windows.

It's cold.

How come my head's so hot, then?

Well, sit down, and I'll explain it to you.

See, the reason for that is that the cold air's cold,

and it stays down at the bottom around your feet, you see?

And the hot air rises up around the hot air in your head.

All right.

You don't have to start the hoorah-ing me.

I'm not.

I'm explaining it to you.

I'm trying to.

You see, when the stove heats up the air in the car,

all the cold air stays down at the bottom around your feet.

And then the hot air rises up to the top.

And your feet get cold, and your head stays warm.

Well, how does the cold air know when it's cold in order

to stay down yonder and the hot air know that it's hot in order

to be rising up yonder?

Oh, don't you know that?

No, do you?

Certainly.

Why?

I'm not going to tell you.

Matt, is he hoo-rahing me?

No, no, he's telling you the truth, Festus.

You should have bought yourself some of these warm boots

like we did.

Oh, know.

Ain't nobody gonna talk me into spending my pure dime

on an old pair of boots.

Wait a minute.

Your what?

My pure dime.

I-- Of course, I don't expect no grouchy grouch

that's full of hot air to know what that means.

Maybe you'd be kind enough to explain it to me.

Well, sure.

No, wait a minute.

I'll explain it to you.

Per diem.

It's not pure dime, it's per diem.

And that is a Latin expression, is what it is.

And it means this.

It means a daily allowance that is

given to you for food and lodging and things like that.

And any government agency pays that to a citizen

when they render a service.

Per diem.

Exactly what I'm saying.

Well?

Did you win?

Uh, well, uh, it cost me a bundle

to find out a man who looks like a professional gambler probably

is.

Just how much did you lose?

Oh, well, too much.

Oh, Floyd, you just have no will power

when it comes to gambling. -Oh, come on.

You know, you ought to be more sensible.

You work too hard for money.

Don't worry, Ada.

Wild country out there.

Mm.

I'll bet it's good cougar hunting.

Look out ahead!

[wheels screeching]

[screams]

We hit something.

[screams]

Doctor!

[chatter]

Doctor!

[screams]

[chatter]

[gunshots]

I think I got one.

Oh, for the love of everyone, help me!

[gunshots] -Hold your fire!

Hold your fire!

But there's Indians out there.

We have the right to defend ourselves.

-That don't make-- -Hold your fire.

Put the guns down. -Yes, sir.

The Indians aren't attacking, I don't want

anybody firing unless they do.

Marshal, the tracks ahead have been blocked.

I know it.

Doc, how is she?

I don't know yet.

What are you stopping the train for, Marshal?

[interposing voices]

Conductor, you stay here and keep these people calm.

Festus. -What's gonna happen?

Put them rifles up.

All right, folks.

You heard the marshal.

Just stay in your seats and no more shooting.

Get back in your seats, all of you.

Let's find out what this is all about first.

If it's about Indians, it' ain't good.

You can bet on that. -All right.

Now just calm down.

Appear to be Sioux, Matthew.

Come on.

Thought we were sitting ducks.

Well, they're not shooting at anybody.

If they wanted to wreck this train,

they could have taken out a rail.

Matthew.

You know, I think I know who that is-- Red Willow.

The Sioux chief from Stone Ridge?

Yeah.

I'm going to go out and have a talk with him, Festus.

Get back inside and see that nobody gets nervous with a gun.

[interposing voices]

I hope the poor dear is gonna be all right.

All right, Doc.

Doc, can you lend your hand? [inaudible]

I know. I know.

I'll let you know.

Plenty of blankets and such in the back of the car, Doctor.

Stone Ridge Reservation, huh?

Tough bunch.

Really tough.

What do you reckon it is they want?

No telling about Indians, especially Sioux.

You are Red Willow?

Do you speak English?

[non-english speech]

Maybe I can make you understand.

You'll be making a big mistake if you don't

get those trees off the track.

They will stay!

Anybody leaving train will be killed.

If anything happens to any of the passengers

aboard this train, you'll all be held accountable.

That train will not move.

Troops will be sent out from Fort Dodge to punish you.

We are not afraid of soldiers.

Well, it seems to me that it makes more sense

for you and your father to come into Dodge

City with me and testify--

The men will hang?

If they're about this train, I'll find them.

You have my word on it.

They'll be charged with murder.

If they're found guilty, they'll be punished.

Some of braves with us.

One lost his brother.

Another, his father is blind.

Talk to them.

Tell them that I am as concerned as they are that the guilty men

be found and punished.

[non-english speech]

We will talk to others.

[gasp]

Are you about, uh, six months along, maybe?

Yeah, just about that, Doctor.

Doctor, I-- I lost my other baby.

You lost a baby?

A son, Doctor.

A-- a fine boy.

He had blonde air.

It was curly.

It was my fault.

No, Scott.

Ada, it was my fault.

No, it wasn't, Scott.

I took her with me in the Black Hills prospecting

about two years back.

But we were together, Scott.

And that's the way I wanted.

It was my fault. We should have stayed put.

Doc?

Doc, you're not going to leave her.

You're going to have to be very quiet.

I don't want her moving around at all.

I'll be close.

How's the woman?

Well, she carrying a baby, Matt.

And I'm pretty concerned about it.

I'll tell you something.

She'd be a lot better off almost any place else.

Doc, we've got a quite a problem going.

I want you to be in on it.

What do they want?

They got some scalping on their minds all right.

Why should the train be stopped?

All right.

Now, folks, just sit down and be calm.

And I'll try to explain it to you.

Now these are Sioux Indians out here off the reservation.

Now they claim that men sold them poisoned whiskey.

Three of their braves are dead, and five of them are blind.

That's horrible.

What's that got to do with us, Marshal?

Well, they claim that the two men got on this train

in Denver. They don't know who they are--

What do you mean, don't know who they are?

They want us to turn them over to them.

Yeah, but how do we know they're telling the truth?

Maybe they just want to board the train, do some robbing,

get hold of the women. -All right.

That's enough now.

I'm not going to turn them over even

if I knew who the men were.

But I'll tell you one thing.

All of you folks are going to have some

explaining to do about where you were just

before you got on this train.

What about right now, Marshal?

If they'd wanted to hurt innocent people,

they could have derailed the train

instead of going to the trouble of putting up this barricade.

Well, you're sure not settling for any standoff?

What you're really saying is we're trapped here.

We're going to have to stall for a while.

But I personally think that the reservation police are

going to be looking for them.

They might not miss anybody for days on that reservation.

In the meantime, I'm going to be talking

some more with Red Willows.

I fought Injuns in the army.

I never heard no talk from them that made any sense.

I'd better get back, Matt.

I'm not sure you know what it means

to be stranded up in this country

this time of year, Marshal.

When the sun goes down, so does the temperature.

A drop of 40, 50 degrees during a single night is not unusual.

We're just going to have to make the best of it.

I just wish the marshal had a chance

to know what we're doing.

I'm the conductor on this train, not the marshal.

I'll take full responsibility on getting us out of here.

I don't know how good this is going to be,

but it'll be nourishing.

That's it.

They're getting guns.

I hope you're not planning on using those.

Just keeping them handy in case we need them, Doctor.

Well, they're all coming back.

I hope they've talked it over and decided

to listen to reason.

What if they ain't?

I hate to think about that, Festus.

There are more than a dozen gals on board here.

If they attack, we don't have a chance.

Want me to go with you?

No, I think it's better if you stay here.

Some of those folks are pretty scared.

Oh, I'll do it, Matthew.

Good luck to you.

Go.

[wheels screeching]

[gunshot]

Get aboard, Marshal!

[gunshots]

Give me that gun!

Up here.

Here.

Right over here.

[groans]

Matthew?

I heard some shooting.

Give him a hand, Festus.

I want him right here.

Let me help you, Doc.

Conductor?

This your idea?

The train is my responsibility.

From now, the comfort of the passengers

is your only responsibility.

[windows shattering]

[screams]

Festus!

[screams]

All right.

Everybody get down.

[screams]

Stay down.

[screams]

[non-english speech]

I thought we had a chance before that shooting started,

but I'm afraid it's past talking now.

What'd he say, Matthew?

He gave us until morning to turn over those two men.

Supposing we don't?

Well, they didn't say.

But you-- you don't have to use much imagination.

If we don't freeze tonight, we die tomorrow.

We'd better get those windows sealed up.

Use anything you can-- blankets, whatever you can find.

[chatter]

I once spent three nights up here, Marshal.

A rock slide blocking the tracks.

The doctor took off two of my toes.

We can get long without that kind of talk.

There'll be help.

When the train doesn't come in time, there'll be help,

won't there?

Mister, they call us a Snow Train.

A two-day delay is not unusual if we

get caught in a blizzard or a rock slide crosses the tracks.

They'll start looking for us after the second day, maybe

after three.

Ask questions in Dodge, Marshal?

You'd better start asking right now.

And then what?

And kick their worthless souls right out of this train.

[chatter]

Well?

You got a better answer?

I think so.

Warm up a pot of coffee and see to the comfort

of your passengers.

Marshal, I-- I-- I didn't think it was a good idea.

I'm sorry.

It's not important now.

It's bad, ain't it, Doc?

I don't know yet.

[groan] Doc, I-- I've been thinking about something.

Yeah?

If the Almighty is making a choice--

Mhm.

Her and that baby, that's kind of more important than me.

See anything?

I keep thinking I see them at the edge of the trees.

But it's only the shadows on the snow.

Whether you see them out there or not,

you can bet they're there.

Yeah.

Then, of course, there's my work at the orphanage,

but it's hardly work, not with children.

My whole point is you win, but it goes out just as fast.

It doesn't seem to be real money, to plan ahead with,

I mean.

Look, I got this fellow, Wickes, hooked for plenty

if we ever get out of here. -Oh.

Here you are, Matthew.

You think you're going to be warm enough now?

Oh, yeah, I'll be fine, Festus.

Thank you.

Doc?

How are they?

Matt, I know there's nothing you can do about this,

but they'll be a lot better off when they get someplace

where it's warmer.

Marshal?

Do you think maybe you could go up and talk to the Indians

again and let them know what's at stake?

They don't care what's at stake.

All they care about is the two men they're after.

They've got to be colder than we are.

I mean, out there in the open.

Freezing by this time.

No, no, the only thing they'll do

is bury theirselves under that snow in them

buffalo robes and hides just like they been

doing on them hunting parties ever since they's

old enough to toddle.

That's what they'll do.

Could we fight them?

I mean, uh, sneak out of the car, what men we have,

and catch them by surprise.

You don't surprise the Sioux Indians.

Marshal, it's 20 miles on foot.

I don't see your chances of making it.

It's only 10 miles if I go by way of Glacier Pass.

Ah, Festus, here take this.

Oh, Matthew, you ought to have it.

There's over 100 Indians out there, Festus.

If I don't make it, you're going to need every gun you can get.

When that moon starts coming out,

Marshal, it's going to be like daylight out in that snow.

I know it.

I plan to be long gone before the moon comes up.

I imagine that you've had some experience with Indians.

-Some. -They gave us 'til morning.

What do you think they're going to do?

Fire the train.

Get us out in the open and point to any two of us.

Skin us out, guilty or not.

What do you mean?

Skin out two of us, tie us up to a tree and start cutting.

Attention, everyone.

There are two men aboard this train guilty of murder,

yet no one's been asking any questions.

Don't you find that strange?

Why is that?

There's a strong possibility by morning this car may be burned,

and we'll be out in the cold facing those Indians.

Now, Mr., uh?

Billy.

Just Billy.

As I was about to say, uh, Mr. Billy here

knows very well that's something dreadful

can happen to innocent people if we just

sit around here doing nothing.

Now I propose if anything is to happen,

that we try to see to it that it happens to the guilty parties.

Except you don't know who they are.

Well, my lad, that should not be too difficult to determine.

Let's find out who we all are, what business we had in Denver,

where we stayed, if any of us had

time to take an overnight trip to that reservation.

Suppose I start it off.

My name's Wickes, Sam Wickes.

I buy yearlings in the cow towns.

I spent the entire week in Denver.

That can be proven.

Stayed at the Crawford Hotel.

In fact, Mr. Pennigrath and I had dinner most every night.

Neither one of us had time to take a wagon

and go up to Stone Ridge reservation.

I can vouch for Mr. Pennigrath, and I'm

sure he can vouch for me.

Now who else wants to speak up?

Mr. Wickes here can vouch for me.

That's very true.

We're narrowing it down.

Narrowing what down?

Simply trying to identify the guilty men

by process of elimination. -All right.

What are you going to do if you find them?

Turn them over to the Indians?

Well, at best, we're all pretty curious.

I, for one, agree that anyone selling

poisoned whiskey to the Indians deserves everything they get.

She's absolutely right.

I'll tell you this, Marshal.

If it comes down to them or us, it ain't no choice at all.

Well, we've got a choice. and I'm taking it.

So happens up here at the next relay station,

there's a telegraph.

Now I figure I can get there in four or five hours.

If I can, I can be back here by morning with soldiers.

How you going to get off this train without them seeing you?

Well, we just have to divert the Indians'

attention for a few seconds while I jump off the back end.

My deputy Festus Haggen and Mr. Coleman

are going to help me with that.

[moaning]

[chatter]

Uh Doc, better tell the folks not to pay no never mind what

we're fixing to do out here.

We're just going to put on a show

for them Injuns out yonder.

Come on.

All right.

[sounds of a struggle]

Ah, let go of me.

[gunshots]

Let go of me now.

[grunts and groans]

[inaudible]

[gunshots]

Put it down now.

Put it down.

Marshal told you to stay in the passenger car

with the rest of them passengers.

Go on now.

[non-english speech]

[non-english speech]

The, uh, conductor said you wanted to see me.

Yes, Reverend.

Reverend, it's kind of touch and go with this fella over here.

I think you can help me.

Oh, uh.

[groan]

He thinks he's dying.

He's asked for you.

Is he dying?

I'm not sure.

He may pull through.

I'd like you to comfort him.

Doctor, we could all be dead by tomorrow.

I can't go that far.

-Why not? -I work the trains.

Confidence, man.

Yes.

Regardless of that, you can be of service to him.

Oh, but to cheat people out of their money is one thing.

To-- to deceive a man who is meeting his maker?

I'm not asking you to deceive to him.

I'm asking you to read to him.

Read?

From the Bible.

What?

I want you to read a passage from the Bible to him.

What?

No.

Might do you some good.

Look, I just carry it around.

You never read it?

No, I don't go that far.

I think I said that.

There are a few things I could say to you.

There's no time for that.

Now you go over there, and you do

what any decent man would do.

[moaning]

The 23rd.

23rd Psalm.

Coleman.

Coleman.

Yes?

Your wife will sleep now with that sedative I gave her.

And I want you to go in the other car

and get yourself some rest.

I'll-- I'll let you know if there's any change.

Thank you, Doctor, for everything you're doing.

You go on now.

I'll watch her close.

I've got a lot to account for.

Reverence.

Oh, we all do.

We all do.

"The Lord is my shepherd.

I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.

He leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul.

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his namesake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of death--"

---shadow of death--

"I will fear no evil for thou art with me.

Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."

It was a stupid thing we done.

We're going to get caught.

You know, sure as we're sitting here,

we're going to get caught.

We will if you keep talking like that.

Don't you understand?

We just got to act natural.

How can you act natural with the Wickes fellow asking

all them questions about where we've been

and what we've been doing?

But he ain't asking them now.

And if he starts up again, we just stick to our story.

He'll get started again.

You can bet your life on that.

Once the sun comes out and the marshal ain't back with them

soldiers, he'll get something started.

Look, I keep telling you.

Don't lose your head.

He can't prove nothing, Al.

Boy, I wish we hadn't done it.

Oh my, I wish we hadn't done it.

Well, I wish we hadn't either.

But wishing ain't gonna help anything.

Just get your mind off it.

How?

I don't know.

Think about something else-- hunting or girls

or how good it's going to be when we get back home again,

anything except them Indians.

The moon is up.

The snow looks like frosting on a cake.

It's so peaceful.

Strange.

Here we sit, the two of us, time slipping away.

This moment and perhaps a little more

may be all that we have left in our lives.

It's not real.

There, in the trees, men are waiting, men we don't

even know who might kill us.

I used to wonder where and when I-- where my life would end.

And here I am.

And in 100 years of imagining all

the possibilities of where-- oh-- I never dreamed

it would be here like this.

Are you afraid?

I was.

And I think I might be again, but not now.

I think that's strange, too.

I think I ought to tell you, Mae, I've always envied you.

Envied me?

You're always so pretty.

You had so many beaus.

When we were in school--

Oh, my.

And I always envied you.

You were so strong and clever.

And you never seemed to need a single soul.

How many years have we known one another?

50 years?

More like 60.

Oh, Sarah, I'm so glad we're together.

So am I.

I wonder about the marshal.

Could he have gotten through?

Could he?

I don't know.

ANNOUNCER: Stay tuned for scenes from next week's "Gunsmoke."

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