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[theme music]

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

[hoofbeats]

LUKE: I'm wondering which is gonna wear

out first, you or that saddle.

AUSTIN: I can't figure anybody heading for the flats west

of the river.

There's no crossing there.

If it was an anybody.

Hot enough today to stir up some dust devils.

That was trail dust, it wasn't no dust devils.

Think I'm going to have to get you

a pair of eyeglasses, old man.

Old man, is it?

Yep.

Who's complaining of the saddle sores?

Just because your seat's as hard as your head,

that don't mean the rest of you ain't going downhill.

Hold up, hold up.

Let me tell you something about the law, Boy.

They ain't gonna tag two days behind,

not when they can ride into the nearest town and telegraph

ahead.

Probably a wild Mustang you seen back

there, not a horse and rider.

Maybe going through Kansas is making me edgy.

We should have stayed in them back hills.

If we'd stayed in them hills another week,

you and me both would be looking for new horses to ride.

We're doing pretty--

[gunshots]

Who was it?

Moses Reedy.

Oh, I should have known.

[GROANING] ah, that dirty bas--

Take it easy.

[groaning]

How bad is it?

The shoulder one, that can be dug out.

The other one went clear through.

It's bad.

I'm taking you to Dodge.

No, I ain't going.

What, are you crazy?

There's a doctor in Dodge.

No. AUSTIN: What do you mean, "no?"

You want to die out here?

Not Dodge.

Look it, you want the wolves to scatter your bones?

You want Moses Reedy to get you again?

Now get up.

Dodge is only six hours from here.

[groans]

With any luck, you won't even make it.

Come on, get up.

[groaning]

Just pretend it's my cooking.

If you survive that, you can survive anything.

[music playing]

[theme music]

[piano playing]

Well, I'd been fishing all afternoon,

and that cork started bobbing and what do you think happened?

Here came Festus and that mule, and they

punched right-- well, that's the end of a beautiful visit.

Doc, can I talk to you for a minute?

What about?

Well, it's a-- it's kind of a medicine problem.

The office is closed, except for emergencies.

Well, this here is, kind of.

Uh, maybe you better listen to him, Doc.

Oh.

What is it?

Well, I got this here thorn back-- well, kind of back

in my upper leg, there.

You're just in time to inaugurate

my new policy of charging double after office hours.

Doc, I ain't got no money.

Oh, I know you haven't got any money,

but I'll tell you what I'm gonna do-- I'm going to take

that thorn out for you, and then I'll

take your note for 30 days.

And if you don't pay me when it's due,

I'll put That thorn right back where it was.

Luke, Luke?

Let go, Luke, let go.

Where are we?

We're in Dodge.

Oh.

Come on, let me help you down.

[grunting]

Can you stand?

[grunting]

Turn around.

Easy.

Come on, you gotta walk to the lobby.

You have to, Luke.

Two--

[grunting]

Easy, you here.

[grunting]

Easy.

[panting]

How am I doing?

Not good.

That ride didn't help none.

I gotta get you to a doctor. -No.

AUSTIN: You're gonna die if I don't.

Oh, and I'm gonna die if you do.

I can feel it coming.

You're too cussed mean to die of nothing 'cepting old age.

We're in Dodge City, ain't we?

Yep.

[groaning]

Let me have some more of that whiskey.

Here, I got it.

It's right here, I got it right here.

Please, Boy, this is killing me.

I got it here for you.

I promise you something, Luke-- I'm gonna find that Moses Reedy

and I'm gonna kill him just like he tried to do to you.

I promise you.

[swallowing]

Had enough?

Yeah.

I got something to tell you, Boy.

You tell her I didn't wanna come to Dodge.

You tell her you made me, you hear?

Who?

She was only six, seven years old when I left here.

I forget.

Must be more than 20 now.

What are you talking about, Luke?

Who?

Last time I heard, she's using her ma's name

so nobody'd know I was her pa.

You got a daughter here in Dodge?

You go fetch her for me, will you?

She probably won't come, but you tell her-- you tell

her how much I want to see her.

She'll come, don't worry, she'll come.

What's her name?

Kathy.

Her If last name was Allen.

She wrote me once when I was in prison.

She told me she was a schoolteacher.

I'll find her, Luke.

Look, but Luke, you gotta get to a doctor.

LUKE: No!

Luke, it's much more important.

No, no.

I just-- I just wanna see my little girl.

Mister, do you know where-- you know

where Kathy Allen, the school teacher lives here in Dodge?

Kathy Allen?

Well now, Mary Crowley's the school teacher.

She lives at Ma Smalley's.

No, Kathy Allen's her name.

Now, I remember a Kathy Allen, but she wasn't

no schoolteacher-- far from it.

[crowd murmuring]

[boisterous laughter]

[SHOUTING] Hey, Doris?

Over here.

Yeah, what do you want?

Someone here wants to talk to you.

Evening.

Uh, the fellow with the dark--

Thanks for the drink.

Huh, it's kind of expensive, isn't it?

I'm working.

Ah, it's really expensive.

Look, what'll we do, uh, play dice, talk?

Uh, I been told that you know Kathy Allen.

I did.

She's dead.

When?

You a relative?

No, her-- her father's dying, he wants to see her.

Father?

I didn't know she had one.

I mean, she never mentioned him.

How did it happen?

She was working here about the time I come into town.

Some dude-eyed drummer come in, all flash and white teeth

and promised her love forever, or some such.

As she went off with him to Hays City.

Last I heard, she got caught between a drummer

and some kid cowhand she liked and wanted to marry.

Drummer killed her.

She's buried over in the Hays Cemetery, if that's any help.

Nothing's gonna be any help, except for that old man

to see his daughter.

What am I gonna tell him?

She wasn't no schoolteacher at all, just some saloon girl--

run around with a lot of different men till one of them

killed her.

That's what I'm supposed to tell a dying man that's

been like a father to me?

So lie.

Tell him she was a schoolteacher that married

a fine, upstanding Baptist preacher

and run off to Colorado or something.

Thanks for the drink--

Wait.

I sit, I drink-- rule of the house.

Can you afford it, Bucko?

Yeah, I can afford it.

Bull?

How well did you know her?

As well as anyone of us knows anyone

else-- maybe a little better.

We didn't like the same type man.

Tell me something about her so's I can tell him.

DORIS: Like what?

Like, how'd she look?

What kind-- how'd she fix her hair?

He's her father, he knows all that.

He don't know that, ain't seen her since she was little.

[SIGHING] She was, uh, kind of ordinary--

uh, brown hair, mousy.

Eyes were uh-- I don't remember, uh, brown, maybe.

Little big in the hips.

I don't know, she was just a girl girl.

She had a funny laugh when she laughed--

wasn't all that often.

When she got tickled, it was kind of funny.

It was kind of like-- [laughs shrilly]

I'm not helping you much, am I?

Listen-- Listen, Doris, when I came in here,

I had $31, now I got 29.

I'll give you 20 of it if you come back to the hotel with me.

Your mind just skitters back and forth, don't it?

Luke ain't seen his kid since she was little.

He ain't gonna know that you ain't her.

Oh, no.

AUSTIN: It's important.

Look, I can't pretend to be somebody

I'm not-- wouldn't work.

Doris, listen to me.

There's an old man over in the Dodge House, and he's dying.

He ain't gonna see the sun come up tomorrow morning.

He ain't gonna have a-- a hot cup of coffee

and he's not going to pull his boots on no more.

He ain't gonna laugh at nothing, either.

He's not going to have anything like that no more.

And he never asked me for one single, solitary thing.

All the time we been traveling together,

he never asked me for nothing, all he did was give to me.

I owe that old man.

I'm not a play actress.

I can't do it.

I can't think of nothing else to do.

Sorry.

Being sorry's not gonna do nobody no good.

That old man is going to die sad.

That's the worst of it.

Make it 25?

Kathy-- sh-- she wouldn't come?

Sit up here, drink this.

That's it.

Enough?

[coughs]

Easy.

She's coming.

She had to get herself fixed up, you know?

I mean, it's-- it's late, middle of the night--

I had to wake her.

Tell me-- what'd she say when-- when you told her I was here?

She said, uh, I want to see my Papa.

Those are exact words, want to see my Papa.

Oh, that's nice.

AUSTIN: Yep.

When do you think she'll come to see me?

Oh, any time about now.

[GROANING] Well, I-- I got to get a shave,

I-- I need to get cleaned up.

Stay down, you're all right.

Get down.

Well, your hair could use a curry comb or something.

Yeah.

Real pretty, that's it.

[knocking]

What's that?

Wh-- what am I going to say to her?

Say wh-- whatever you like.

Well, you-- you won't leave us alone, will you?

No, I'll-- I'll be here if you want me.

Hello, Papa.

I'm Kathy.

[music playing]

Kathy, how are you?

Fine.

How are you?

I mean, uh, are you all right?

I'm all right.

Been a long time, ain't it?

Yeah, it has, hasn't it?

Ma talked about you a lot.

Did she?

DORIS: Yeah.

What'd she say?

Oh, just that, uh, she missed you a lot and um, you know?

You had a rough time of it, didn't you?

Yes, but we made out.

I, um, became the schoolteacher here-- make $14 a month.

Come sit down by me.

Sit down by me.

Kathy, I just want you to know that I'm

awful sorry for everything.

Being sorry don't help nobody.

Somebody once told me that.

What's passed is gone forever.

I had to keep running-- I had to.

I always loved you and your ma.

I hurt when she died.

She had a nice burial, lot of people turned out.

There were flowers.

I don't guess she ever done nothing with that old farm

I left, did she?

Farm?

Farm-- the old farm.

Ah, no, no, no, no, no, Papa.

Kinda never amounted to much.

When she died, I-- I sent some money back to the bank

here at Dodge, pay the taxes so you wouldn't lose it.

I just kind of moved away from the farm, though.

[coughing]

Not wanting to be there alone with Ma gone.

[inaudible].

I don't want to be here.

[coughing]

Get back there, tell him you love him.

Go on.

Papa?

I love you.

[panting]

Turn your back.

Go ahead, turn your back.

Austin?

Yeah?

Help me.

What?

My money belt.

What you want your money belt for?

[panting]

What do you need this for?

[panting]

What's this?

Kathy?

It's $300.

I know it don't make up for nothing,

but I want you to have it.

I wanna-- I wanna know where that come from.

Kathy?

Where'd that come from?

I saved it.

You saved it?

You mean all the time we've been together,

and we been miserable and had no money and no place

to stay or nothing, and you saved $300?

I saved it for my little girl.

Papa, I don't know what to say.

Say no thank you, that's what you can say.

Papa, I do owe a lot of bills.

It's yours.

[panting]

Papa?

Thank you.

You're tire now.

I'll come back after you've rested.

No, don't leave just now.

You sleep.

I'll be back in a little while.

You promise?

Promise.

You sleep.

You're not planning on keeping that?

He gave it to me.

You want to give it to me, or do I dig for it?

You do, I'll scream clear to the Rio Grande.

Start screaming.

I'll tell your old gent.

What then?

I swear I will.

I'll tell him that she's dead and she

worked at the Bull's Head.

He gave the money to me, and I'm going to keep.

There's nothing you can do about it.

All right, you keep it.

But you're going to earn it.

You're gonna nurse him, and wash him--

you're gonna wash his back for him if he wants you to.

For $300 I'd do a lot worse than that.

You bet you will.

You'll be his daughter and you'll

make his last days happy.

The way he looks, that can't last long.

Get in there and start earning it.

[whimpering]

I-I don't think these boots is gonna work.

They ain't even the right color.

It says right here in the paper, six of them [inaudible]

and I need their job.

I--

Look, I can't stand it anymore.

I'm going for Doc.

No.

Are you just gonna let him die suffering like this?

[groaning]

Won't be long.

DORIS: How do you know?

I thought you were a friend of his?

I'm the best friend he ever had.

I'm wanted by the law, don't you understand?

Law or no law, what do you think he'd do if it was you?

[whimpering]

Gotta keep moving.

Look, I've gotta go tell Bull I won't be coming back tonight,

all right?

Go on.

[door closing]

LUKE: I told you, Mister, they're too tight.

[mumbling]

[music playing]

[knocking]

Come in.

Sorry to bother you, Doc.

It's all right.

A friend of mine rode in with this broken arm,

I figured you'd take a look.

Sure, where is he?

Dodge House, Room 12.

All right.

Luke Dangerfield?

Yeah, shot up bad.

We make a deal, Doc?

Deal?

I don't know what you mean.

He ain't going anywhere.

You patch him up and don't call no marshal up here.

I don't want Luke dying in jail.

Well, he won't die in jail.

But you go down and tell Marshal Dillon that Luke

Dangerfield's up here.

I'll get busy and see what I can do for him.

Go on, do as I told you.

Is he any better?

Same.

The Doc's with him.

I'm getting the marshal.

Count me out.

What do you mean, count me out?

You got his $300, remember?

Well, I figured I earned that.

Well, figure different.

I feel kind of creepy talking to a guy

thinking I'm his daughter.

I don't care how you feel.

Don't cross me.

Austin?

Right here, Luke.

Can we ride out?

Don't worry about anything.

Kath-- Kathy?

Kathy?

Still here.

Go to sleep now.

You're on to something I don't understand here.

What's your part in all this?

Let's just say I have an interest in him, Marshal.

How come he called you Kathy?

Had more than one name in my time.

How's he gonna do, Doc?

Well, he's pretty tough.

I'd say if he gets plenty of rest, reasonably good.

You mean he's gonna live?

I said his chances were good.

[sighs]

Thanks, Doc.

Matt, I'm gonna need somebody to take care of him up here.

That's her job, she's being paid for it.

I'll take this, Festus.

You and Newly will have to stay on

to take turns outside the door.

Sure, Matthew.

All right, let's go, Austin.

What for?

I'm not wanted for anything.

We'll find out.

Doris, that's laudanum in that little bottle on the table.

When he wakes up, I want you to give him a couple of teaspoons.

I'll be back in a couple of hours.

All right, Doc.

[door closing]

How long will it take?

Shouldn't take more than a day or two.

What about Moses Reedy?

What about him?

What about the bounty?

Well, it was his bullet drove Luke in here for help.

If he comes to claim the reward, he'll be paid.

I don't figure on giving him a chance to spend it.

Well, if I were you, I'd think about

that-- I'd think about whether it's worth your hanging.

DORIS: You sure come a long way back in two days.

I feel like I come a long way back.

You're supposed to leave the skin.

I never done this before.

You ain't gonna do it to me again, that's for sure.

Quiet so I can get your lower lip.

What are you gonna do with it when you get it?

[giggles]

Kathy?

DORIS: Hm?

You don't even hate me a little bit, do you?

DORIS: For what?

For leaving you and your ma.

Why did you?

I don't know.

I do.

You're one of those restless people.

You just couldn't stay anywhere for very long.

Most people, they don't understand that, they think

that everybody's got to be like they are-- rooted in the ground

hard and fast like an oak tree.

You talking about me or yourself?

You, of course.

Thanks, Festus.

Deputy out there is seeing you stay in here.

Can I open these?

Hey, what's this here?

It's like Christmas time.

Oh, ain't it nice?

Why thank you.

Oh, you shouldn't have bought all this stuff.

Uh-huh, you like these?

That there, oh, them's fine.

Look at that big one there.

Oh, that-- oh yeah, that's awful nice.

Did you get this for me to go dancing in?

The boy's worth a new dress.

He sure is.

Marshal let you out, did he?

Yep, surprising the number of sheriffs don't know my name.

That's a good way to keep it.

Well, howdy.

How are ya?

You look like a burying.

Going or coming, I can't tell.

Kathy bought me the outfit.

Got me some extra duds over there, too.

Oh.

Well, if you don't need me no more,

guess I'll go get some sleep.

You run on along.

Austin here will walk you home.

Oh, uh, I got some things I gotta tend to here.

Kathy?

That old farm out there-- what kind of shape's that in now?

Uh, I haven't been there in a long time.

LUKE: Well, uh, the way land prices

is going up around here, that place ought

to be worth quite a bit by now.

Austin here is a old farm boy, why

don't y'all take a ride out there

tomorrow and have a look see?

Why?

Well, so we'll know how much it's worth.

Maybe the-- maybe the old house needs

fixing up before we sell it.

And?

And what?

The um, money you get for selling it?

Well, it ain't gonna do me no good in jail,

I'll see Kathy gets it here.

Thank you, Papa.

Good night, now.

Good night.

[sighs]

Well, I might just walk her home after all.

Luke, the marshal says that Moses Reedy

can claim that bounty money if he wants to.

So?

So, I figure him coming in, doing the claiming

if he knows you're in Dodge.

I'm going to find that Moses Reedy and I'm gonna kill him,

just like he tried to do to you.

You want me to give you some advice?

The marshal already give it.

[door closing]

Uh, just hold on there if you would.

That little brain of yours is sure working away, ain't it?

What's that supposed to mean?

You, buying them clothes with some of that 300-- you're

really thinking about the farmland.

So that's how you figure, huh?

That's not, that's how you figure.

What time you bringing the carriage around tomorrow?

Huh?

I live here, top floor in the rear.

Call for me right after breakfast,

we'll go and look over my property.

No, I ain't-- no, I ain't.

Oh, better find out where it's located, too.

[music playing]

[birdsong]

No wonder she left here to work in a saloon.

AUSTIN: What's so bad about it?

DORIS: Got eyes?

AUSTIN: Guess you don't.

What's the trouble, no trail hands pawing you out here?

Who said I let trail hands paw me?

[sighs]

I can just picture it-- get up at light, work till it's dark,

six kids crawling all over you and your back aches.

My ma did it.

She did a lot more laughing than she did crying.

How's come you left the farm?

I don't know, rode out, wanted to see things for myself,

I guess.

I'm gonna fix this place up, sell

it on shares to some family.

How much you figure it'll bring?

You ain't getting a smell f it, so don't worry about it.

It's going to be an income for Luke in case he goes to prison.

DORIS: In case he goes to prison?

Where else you think he's going?

If we break out of Dodge, maybe we'll be riding again.

Maybe you'll end up in jail right along with him.

Maybe, but I owe him to try.

Yep, I figure about $300 a year on a piece of land like this.

Something you keep forgetting, he's turning it over to me.

Yeah, but you ain't taking it.

You intend on pushing me around?

Nope, don't have to.

I figured it out.

You like him.

You like him just about as much as I

like him and you're wondering right now

what's going to happen when he finds

out you ain't his daughter.

Yeah, he'd probably think I did it just for the money.

Well you did at the start-- the $25 I give you.

Maybe not.

Maybe it was the way you looked when Bull gave you

only a nickel change from a dollar,

like you ain't never been in a saloon

before buying for a girl.

Well, maybe um, I ain't accustomed to it.

So what?

I kind of thought to myself, he never had a girl before-- I

mean, a real girlfriend.

[SCOFFING] Did you?

Yeah, about that.

Well, not much doubt about you having plenty of men friends

though, is there?

Whatever I did, I'm not ashamed.

I had nothing, I was nothing-- maybe

I still ain't-- but whatever I am, I earn my own way.

[birdsong]

Sorry.

What's left after I bought the clothes.

It'll help Luke-- good lawyer, maybe.

Ah, Deputy, heard Luke Dangerfield's

in town, bad wounded?

That's right.

My name's Moses Reedy, maybe you heard of me?

Yeah, I heard of you.

I put a bullet in Dangerfield-- I come

to collect the bounty on him.

You're going to have to talk with the marshal about that.

MOSES: And where's he at?

He's up the street, I'll go get him.

I'll wait at the saloon.

[crowd murmuring]

What's the matter, Reedy?

Can't you find no friend to drink with you?

I don't know you.

Don't recognize faces, huh?

Just backs, is that it?

I never seen you before.

Well you're gonna see me, Reedy, 'cause I'm

the one that's gonna kill you.

A man not wearing a gun shouldn't talk like that.

Well, I'll tell you how it's gonna be,

then-- you and me is gonna meet each other again.

And when we meet, you look and see if I'm wearing a gun.

And when you do-- I want everyone here to hear this--

when you do, you get the right to draw and fire

first without being invited.

You'll get that split-second difference, Reedy.

You wait that split-second and you're a dead man.

That's enough out of you, Austin.

Marshal, I come into town for my money, $3,000.

It's my bullet in Dangerfield, I run him to ground.

I'm sending a wire up to Hays for confirmation.

Should be a check for you at the bank in about an hour.

You remember what I said about that split-second, Reedy.

Wet-eared kid.

Soon as you get your money, I want you out of Dodge.

You and Austin hitting it off?

Look at that-- almost let it slip by.

Kathy, I know I ain't ever been good for much of nothing,

but let me do one thing in my life, give you some advice.

Grab ahold of Austin and hold on-- he's a good man.

Take that $300 I give you, start a new life.

Kathy--

I'm not Kathy, I'm Doris-- Doris Prebble,

and I work at the Bull's Head Saloon hustling drinks.

I know you ain't Kathy.

I don't know just when I knew-- maybe when I got to feeling

better, seeing good again.

Do you know what happened to her?

She married a Baptist preacher and moved to Colorado.

I'm glad.

No, she didn't.

She's dead.

I'm so sorry, but she's dead.

If you knew all this time, why didn't you say something?

Because maybe I needed you the same way maybe you need me.

Hidy, Festus.

Hold on there, Austin.

I ain't going to carry no gun into Luke's room, Festus.

Well I know it wouldn't make a lick of sense,

but then I got my orders from Matthew, you know?

Just uh, felt better, having a gun.

You's fixing to take this into Luke?

You'd ought to be ashamed of yourself, Austin.

Stupid idea, I guess.

Luke, Moses Reedy's in town.

Austin.

He's collecting, he's waiting for a voucher right now.

Austin, Doris and I have been talking.

Doris?

You know, Luke?

Yeah, I know.

And I know why both of you done it, and I'm thanking you.

He knows you ain't his daughter, why don't you get?

Don't need no saloon tramps hanging around now.

[ANGRILY] Well--

Luke, no.

Don't you talk to her that way.

You lost whatever brains you had?

It's all right.

It's all right, Luke.

Good-bye, I'll see you later.

[panting]

Don't you never [inaudible] again.

I had to get rid of her fast-- I had to get rid of her fast

so the law won't blame her for nothing.

Quick, look-- I got these at the Bull's Head.

Can you ride?

Ride?

AUSTIN: Two minutes, Moses Reedy's

coming out of that bank.

I aim to face him down.

You can't get away with it Austin.

You think any jury in the world's

going to convict someone that kills Moses Reedy face to face?

That ain't what I mean.

Don't you understand you can't kill a man and not be changed?

AUSTIN: There's more to it-- there's a horse saddled

in the alley behind the hotel.

Soon as I shoot, the [inaudible] gonna be a lot

of confusion out in the street. Everyone's gonna go out there,--

No. -- including the deputy.

No, don't try it-- don't try it, Austin.

That's when you get down them back

steps and you get on that horse and you ride, you hear me?

You ride. -Don't-- don't try it, Austin.

I'l meet you later in Indian Territory.

LUKE: No.

I'll see you, Luke.

Good luck.

All the way in, Deputy.

Get back behind that desk ans stay there.

[gunshot]

MATT: Drop the gun, Luke.

Shoot him, Marshal.

Come on, drop it.

Why don't you f you can find Doc?

Yes, Sir.

You could have got away, Luke, you could have got away.

[PAINED] But-- but you couldn't.

Better get him up to his room.

I wouldn't advise you to try spending

any of that money in this town. -I ain't that crazy.

Well I'll be back to see you tomorrow, Luke,

unless you try to get out of that bed again, in which I'll

send the undertaker.

I'm obliged to you, Doc.

Well why don't you two get together and get that old farm

in shape out there so if I ever get out of jail,

I'll have a front porch to rock on?

Well, it's not really up to me.

[clears throat]

I guess.

You guess what?

Guess you probably had worse offers.

Well don't just sit there.

It's your time to walk him home with that game leg and all.

Get, both of you.

All right, Luke.

Howdy, Marshal.

Luke.

You sure put a big price on my head in Kansas.

Well, you were a pretty tough customer when you were younger.

How long you think they gonna give me this time?

I don't know, it's hard to say.

Well, I figure I'm gonna live about a hundred years.

That'll still give me time to teach my grandkids how to ride.

Well, I'll tell you, I think that'd be a pretty good bet.

You said I had worse offers?

Better ways of saying things, I guess.

Might try saying them straight out.

Sort of find you pretty.

That's not too bad for a start.

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

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