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ANNOUNCER: Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

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?

That law feller didn't have to--

Hush up and look at the view.

Look out ahead!

[shrieking]

We hit something!

You all right?

Well, it's nice of you to care.

Doctor!

Doctor!

[shrieking]

Elsa, stay here.

What's that [inaudible] doing?

-I think I got one. -Hold your fire.

Hold the gun, son. -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 dunno yet.

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.

Are you about six months along, maybe?

Yeah, just about that, Doctor.

Doctor, I-- I lost my other baby.

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

You have my word on it.

The men well hang?

They'll be charged with murder.

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

We will talk to others.

What do they want?

They got some scalping--

Why should the train be stopped?

All right, folks.

Now, just sit down and be calm, and I'll

try to explain it to you.

Now, these are Sioux Indians out here.

Now, they claim that two men sold them poison whiskey.

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

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 gonna turn them, even if I knew who the men were.

But I'll tell you one thing.

All of you folks are gonna have some

explaining to do about where you were just

before you got on this train.

Sure not settling for any stand-off.

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

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 gonna have to make the best of it.

They're getting guns.

I hope you're not planning on using those.

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

Give me that gun!

[screaming]

My baby!

All right, everybody get down!

Stay down!

[non-english speech]

What did he say, Matthew?

Gave us till morning to turn over those two men.

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 along without that kind of talk.

There'll be helpful when the train doesn't come in time.

There'll be help, won't there?

Mister, they call this a snow train.

A two day delay is not unusual.

Ask questions in Dodge, Marshal?

You better start asking right now.

And then what?

And kick their worthless souls right out of this train.

Festus, here take this.

There's over 100 Indians out there.

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

Marshal, it's gonna be like daylight out on that snow.

I know it.

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

Well, 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 gonna do if you find them?

Turn them over to the Indians?

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 are you gonna 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.

[gunshots]

[non-english speech]

[non-english speech]

He thinks he's dying.

He's asked for you.

I can't go that far.

Why not?

I work the trains.

Confidence man.

Regardless of that, you go over there,

and you do what any decent man would do.

We're gonna get caught.

Sure as we're sitting here, we're gonna get caught.

We will if you keep talking like that.

I wonder about the marshal.

Could he have gotten through?

[theme music]

Mr. Coleman, how's your wife?

Well, the doctor says all right.

He's not saying much about the baby's chances, though.

Oh, I'm sure everything's gonna be fine.

Don't you worry.

Thank you, ma'am.

Ma'am.

What?

He called me ma'am.

What should he call you?

There's a way of saying ma'am to a woman that doesn't remind

her another year's gone by.

Today, in fact.

What?

My birthday.

Oh.

You thought I'd forgotten, huh?

Well, I wanted you to pick it out yourself in Dodge.

Diamond ring.

What's wrong with a plain gold band?

Only if you'd marry me.

Well, here we all are, not knowing whether that marshal's

dead or not, not knowing whether the sun's

rising is going to be warming our dead bodies in the morning.

Now, you just hold on there, Mister.

Marshal Dillon told you to hush that kind of talk.

Oh, come now, Deputy.

You're saying we can't even talk among ourselves?

I ain't saying that at all.

Thank you, Deputy.

I'm not sure what point I'm trying to make here,

but we've got about two hours till first light.

It seems to me essential we examine our alternatives.

Tell me, Mister?

Billy, only name I got.

Mr. Billy, you seem to be the type of man who knows

about this country we're in.

I think we should hear from you.

Yeah.

well, come day we could all just go rushing

out there with guns and fight.

Now, that's one thing.

I'm willing to fight.

So's Bud here.

You bet.

Well, that's just what they'll be expecting.

They'll have both sides of the train covered.

And whoever isn't just gunned down'll

be-- well, if them Sioux live up to their reputations, whoever's

left alive will wish they hadn't been.

You must be exaggerating, Mr. Billy.

You can ask that deputy standing right there.

Looks like he's accustomed to bedding down on hard ground.

Only thing I got to say is that Marshal

Dillon's gonna get back.

And when he gets back, he's gonna do all

of the deciding around here.

If he gets back.

That's a pretty big if.

[non-english speech]

Let's find them and throw them off.

What are we, animals, acting like this?

Why, we're not even sure that the men

those Indians are looking are really on this train.

We only have the word of those savages!

Mister, if you got any more of your blabbering

to do to get these folks all worked up,

just keep it to yourself.

Is that right, Deputy?

Just one more peep out of you, and I'm

gonna slap some irons on you and put you under arrest.

You hear me?

I think you're exceeding your authority, Deputy.

[footsteps]

[screaming]

Worse than breaking the windows so we'll all freeze to death,

now we don't even have a stove!

All right, everybody, just be easy now.

Stay calm.

You're the one that's gonna stay calm.

Go on and get his gun. -Don't do it, Clay.

Stop him. -Stop him?

Those Indians are still taking scalps.

Suits you got handcuffs.

Chain him to the seat.

Mr. Wickes, you're putting yourself outside the law.

Maybe so, ma'am.

But disarming a deputy marshal calls

for a jail term or a fine.

Now, that surely wasn't necessary.

It certainly wasn't!

I don't like it any better than you do, ma'am,

but when a group of people are facing death,

they have a right to determine their own fate!

Now, perhaps the two men the Indians are accusing

are not aboard this train.

Fine, well and good.

We'll all go down together.

But I propose we decide among ourselves

if they are aboard here.

Now, let's have a show of hands!

I agree.

You've got your wife to think about, brother.

That makes three.

I consider this as valid as a court of law.

As Mr. Wickes says, people do have a right

to determine their own fate.

You two boys disagreeing with us?

Billy?

I'll have to think on it some more.

How do you make your living, Mister?

Yeah, who are you?

Son, that ain't none of your business.

You two ladies have a choice.

No.

May?

I think the truth should be told.

That's all.

Miss?

The vote is still overwhelming.

What happens when you come up with two

men that can't account for their time or their business?

I don't believe that those two men deserve

to be aboard this train.

All right.

Let's get on with it.

[non-english speech]

I had fainted unless I believed to see the goodness of the Lord

in the land of the living.

Wait on the Lord.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart.

Wait, I say, on the Lord.

Easing a man's mind sometimes can be the difference

between life and death.

I just felt immoral reading those psalms.

Except you weren't.

Far from it.

You know, I don't know how to say this,

but if we get back to Dodge, I'll just board another train.

I'll just go on, do what I've always done.

I guess I'm just a little man, just a very little man.

But when you are small, I mean, I don't mean physically.

I mean, just small.

But-- but you just do what you can.

To live is the thing, isn't it?

Well, I never judge anybody.

Thank you for what you've done.

The name's Dillon.

I'm a US Marshal.

The snow train was attacked by Indians

20 miles down the track.

Get on the key.

We gotta get help out there. -Marshal, I can't.

The line's dead.

I've just been sitting here, hoping it'd get patched up.

What are the chances?

Not very good.

Last I heard there's a blizzard coming in.

Lines are probably down.

Ain't likely to get fixed up before tomorrow.

Tomorrow's gonna be too late, way too late.

I sure don't understand this.

They're after a couple of men that sold them bad whiskey.

So that's what this is about.

I got a wire from Cheyenne.

Come in yesterday when the lines was still up.

It-- it's got the names of two men on that train

you're supposed to pick up.

You gotta give me your horse.

My horse?

Marshal, I live 11 miles from here.

At least you're safe, Mister.

Those 25 people on that train are gonna

die unless I can do something.

All right, Marshal.

But it don't look like to me you're in any shape

to go over that pass again.

I'll make it.

You might need this.

Thank you.

Good luck.

You say what's in that jug is homemade,

but that's not the question.

It didn't poison you, did it?

Seems to me you might do a little selling on the side

at the Stoneridge Reservation.

I make it for the train crew, and that's all!

I think I can bear that statement out.

All right.

All right.

Let's not get emotional.

We haven't heard from you.

Gonna be hearing from the marshal when he gets back.

Billy?

Well, I've traded whiskey with the Indians

from time to time, except not in this case.

Can you prove that?

Nope, I can't.

Been working a claim up beyond Boulder.

My partner bought me out for the price of a ticket

to Saint Louis.

Spend the rest of my days there.

My sister, she runs a boarding house there.

You sure ain't nailing anything down, old timer.

All kind of loose.

Kind of life I lead, son.

Well now.

I don't believe we've heard from you two.

His name's Al.

Mine's Bud.

Just traveling into Dodge, looking for work.

Where you've been, I believe, is

what we're more interested in.

We hunted some.

I mean, we worked a ranch here and there for stake money.

Sure ain't nailing anything down, young timer.

Kind of loose.

You boys boarded the train at Denver?

That's right?

-Working at a ranch near there? -That's right.

No, we--

You are traveling together?

Listen, we ain't hardly old enough to drink,

let alone sell whiskey.

I mean, if you're traveling together,

you must know where you've been and what you've been doing.

We work in ranches.

Your answer too?

Yeah, sure.

Minute ago, you said no.

You boys better get together with the facts.

Or the lack of them.

We've been doing a lot of things.

I think you two should be more specific

if a vote is to be taken here.

You'll be a-voting yourself right into jail's what

you'll be doing.

Frankly, Deputy, I wish I were in a nice, warm cell in Dodge

this very moment.

Look, we don't have to answer any more questions.

Course you don't.

You're entitled to silence.

What was the name of the ranch you boys were working at.

It's crazy what's going on here.

Look, maybe-- maybe me and Al'll vote for the gambler

there, not 'cause he's guilty, but maybe

we just don't like him.

I'm going to stay by my wife.

You've gotta vote here too, young man.

Lot of lose, a wife with child.

Well, I'm not pointing a finger at anybody.

I know how that boy feels.

I'm sure we all do.

But if any of us are gonna get out of here alive,

we've got to keep going.

None of us are above suspicion.

[moaning]

Here, now, now.

-What's happened? -No, no, no, no.

What's happened?

We have to keep you warm.

Nothing's happened.

Ada.

Ada.

Can't lose the baby.

No, nothing like that, no.

She's having cramps.

That's not unusual under these circumstances.

Don't you worry.

Don't you worry.

I have made so many mistakes.

Well, if you can admit that at your age,

you're way ahead of lot of us older folks.

She wanted us to settle on some land,

have sons, watch them grow with the land.

I was looking for something else.

Now, I don't even know what it was.

My father, he wanted me to stay with the land he worked.

Almost 40 years, he worked that land to make it pay.

I just-- just walked away from it.

Then he was gone.

Took some years to know what he meant, why he was always saying

a man that was buried on his own land

had the peace of knowing he was leaving more

behind than just his bones.

Sounds like your father was a smart man.

I wish there was some way we could be born smart.

No, that wouldn't be very good.

Life wouldn't be very interesting.

Some mistakes we make, some low points,

they make us feel good when we're right.

[chattering]

Doctor?

What in thunder's going on in there?

-Nothing. -Well, listen to it.

Well, they're just arguing if the marshal's coming back.

Don't leave her, Doctor.

Please.

[groaning]

[non-english speech]

[non-english speech]

I don't know what you are so upset about.

Everyone else has accounted for their whereabouts.

You're crazy, Wickes!

Do you really think that my brother and me would be carting

a pregnant woman around an Indian reservation,

selling whiskey?

No one is accusing you, Mister.

We're just trying to find out your whereabouts

before you boarded the train.

Mr. Wickes, why don't you stop all this?

Why don't you leave Mr. Coleman here alone?

I'm not about to leave anyone alone

till I find out who's guilty!

I'm not about to die for someone else.

Are you, Reverend?

Oh, I don't want to die at all, but I believe what you're

trying to do here is wrong.

You know what I believe?

I believe we're running out of time.

They're coming!

Billy, help me get loose here.

Now, the way I see it, there are only two men aboard

this train who can't account for their whereabouts,

and I'm not about to die to save their hides!

Well, don't you think it's about time you two ceased your lying?

We told the truth!

You can't pin this on us.

We have nothing to do with it!

The morning I boarded the train in Denver, I saw you

and your friend drive a wagon into the livery

at the railroad depot, and there you sold that horse and wagon.

All right, all right! We lied.

We lied.

But what we had to.

We're on the run from the Army.

It's true.

We're deserters, Army deserters.

We couldn't tell anybody, or they'd arrest us.

You gotta believe us.

We didn't sell no whiskey to no Indians.

What about the wagon?

We sold it.

We stole it so we could get train fare back home again.

We don't believe you!

Oh, please, please!

[screaming]

Get some water, quickly!

Get your guns out, everybody.

Get your head down!

[shouting]

Please, please!

We're deserters, Amy deserters!

There they are!

They're all yours!

Hold your fire, or I'll kill the Chief!

[non-english speech]

All right, you boys, back in the train.

All of you.

It was our lives or theirs, Marshal.

Yeah, except I know who the men are, and it's not them.

Now, get back in the car with the others!

All right.

Go on.

[non-english speech]

I know who the men are.

They will be punished!

We didn't know the whiskey was bad.

Brother and me ordered from somebody else.

We never woulda--

-Matt, you all right? -Yeah, I'm fine, Doc.

Well, wait a minute. What's that?

It's all right. Never mind.

Everything's all right.

Will the train be moving?

It'll be moving.

I love you, Ada.

I love you very much.

Scott, you don't have to tell me that.

Yes, I do.

It's something I want you to remember.

Where's this Scott Coleman?

He's in the baggage car with his wife.

Hold on just a minute, Mister.

You're just about to see the inside of that warm jail

you've been talking about.

My brother and I bought that whiskey.

We thought we could make some money

selling it on a reservation.

We didn't know it could hurt anybody.

My-- my brother's dead.

You can kill me, but please, let's that train move on.

There are innocent people, my wife and baby.

Tell your father that I'm sorry for what's happened.

I'm sad for his dead warriors.

But this man is my prisoner.

The other man you sought is dead.

There's a woman on the train, carrying a baby,

that needs attention in Dodge.

If you try to take this man from me, there'll be more bloodshed.

Tell your father I think the Sioux

have more honor than to let innocent people suffer.

[non-english speech]

[non-english speech]

My father says, as the sun melts the snow,

so too melts the anger in the Sioux.

You are man of honor.

Take your people and go in peace.

You're gonna be all right, Ada.

Isn't she, Doc?

I think so.

Doc, you know something, Doc, between you and that preacher,

I got a feel I'm gonna make it.

You bet you will.

Got through, Marshal.

He'll send the wire on to Dodge.

Tracks clear, Marshal.

Steam's up. -All right.

Why don't you go on and tell the passengers we'll be moving on.

Yes, sir.

I

I ain't gonna have a bit of trouble firing, Matthew.

Pat there can run the engine.

All right.

I'll go and tell Doc we're just about ready.

Be underway again in a matter of minutes, folks.

Well, soon be in Dodge, picking out that ring.

I don't think so, Clay.

I'll be going on to Saint Louis alone.

No.

Well, now, look, Donna, I know you're upset,

but that's understandable.

You'll feel better when we get in Dodge.

No.

No, Clay, I won't.

Those boys, isn't it?

All right.

Maybe we were wrong, but we had to do something.

I thought I knew you, and then I

saw the look on your face and the others

when you threw them off the train.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

So am I.

Anything I can get for you, Reverend?

Oh no, no, no.

Thank you.

I should think in your line of work, you'd know that by heart.

Yeah, I see what you mean.

Well, I did hear it said once that a man could

read this particular book for his whole life

and still find something new on every page

every time he opened it.

Like this, for instance.

I was just reading in Matthew.

In as much as ye have done it unto

one of the least of these, my brethren,

ye have done it unto me.

You make a valid point, Reverend.

I mean, we were about one minute away

from being skinned alive.

Now, you think about that. -Don't remind me.

How much stockade time you think we'll be putting in?

Well, the marshal giving us the right to turn ourselves in'll

make it easier.

But I don't care how much time it is.

Nothing'll ever scare me from here on in.

I have a feeling of deep shame.

Well, you needn't, ma'am.

It all seems so unreal.

I think you say things you just don't mean because it's so

hard to collect your thoughts.

Well, don't you even think about 'em, ma'am.

I've seen plenty of like situations in my lifetime.

The animal just comes out in a man.

We're all of the animal breed, you might say.

And it don't seem likely that the nature of things

will be changing any time soon.

Beg your pardon, ma'am.

We'll be leaving any minute, Mr. Wickes.

Fine.

You might ask Mr. Foreman if he'd like to continue our game.

We had no choice, Marshal, none at all.

You had a choice, Mister, and you made it.

[theme music]