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NARRATOR: "Gunsmoke."

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

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Thank you.

Have a good day.

Well, huh.

Is that a new hat? -Yeah.

You like it?

Oh, say, I think that hat's pretty.

You don't think it's too much, do you?

Oh, no.

I think it's just fine. -Thank you.

Beautiful.

Say, would you-- would you happen

to know where a fellow could get a cold beer

in this down, Miss Kitty?

You're talking to the right person.

Come on.

Miss Kitty's got herself a new hat.

I got to say this, Miss Kitty.

That there new hat sure makes you look plum pretty.

Well, thank you, Festus.

Well now, what kind of a compliment is that anyway?

-What? -What you said.

You said the hat made Miss Kitty look plum pretty.

You mean she's not plum pretty without the hat?

That's what you said.

That ain't what I meant, John, you old scutter.

Why do you always have to start to pick, pick?

If it wasn't so blamed hot, I'd tell you what I'd do.

MAN: Get the doc!

Somebody get Doc Adams.

Mister Burke!

Found this man on the side of the road.

Got an arrow in his belly.

Where's the doc? -He's got an arrow.

Sam, wait.

Indians slaughtered all them folks.

Indians?

Dead.

All them folks are dead. -Injuns.

You hear that?

Never mind that.

Just get him up to my office, Burke.

All right, get on.

You both give him room.

Easy now.

Easy.

Don't bend him, now.

Another mess, heard you say.

Festus, you better go get Matt.

Yes'm.

I think he's out at the Sloan place.

I'll fetch him.

Well, you're a pretty lucky man, Piney.

That arrow didn't hit any vital parts.

You lost a lot of blood, but it'll heal pretty fast.

Howdy, Doc.

Sam.

Hell, I figured you're about my size, Piney.

I hope they fit.

Thank you.

I better be getting back.

We're pretty busy.

All right, Sam.

Who is he?

Sam, down at the Long Branch.

Bartender.

He has mighty big feet.

Sam?

You bet.

Hearts about as big as his feet, too.

What do you think of that?

I think that's pretty nice.

I guess Sam took up a collection for you.

Pretty good at things like that.

Oh, Matt, this is Piney Biggs.

Piney, this is Marshal Dillon and Festus Haggen.

Piney, what is this Festus tells me

about you being in a massacre.

PINEY BIGGS: That's right.

MATT DILLON: Where was it?

Up north, in a canyon.

He was in pretty poor shape when they brang him

in that freight wagon, Matthew.

Wagon folks are all dead.

Women and children.

You were traveling with them?

A couple of days when my mule got stolen and everything

I owned was on that mule. -I see.

And they picked you up?

Yeah, they took me in like I was just one of them

and gave me food and water.

Up to then, I was just like a dying leaf.

And they attacked without warning?

Sunrise.

Folks still had sleep in their eyes

and they never had a chance.

How many of them was there, would you say?

10, 12.

We had a fierce battle going on and I didn't even have a gun

and I took an arrow in my side and I just

laid there like I was dead.

Did they strip the bodies after it?

Um.

Did they take anything of yours, something

you might be able to identify?

Yeah.

They took a watch my pa gave me.

It played a tune, uh--

You think you might recognize any of them?

Well, I-- I don't know.

Um.

Maybe.

The leader was riding a black and white patch pony.

And-- and the one took my watch, well,

he had a scar that went down through the center of his face.

Reckon it could be that bunch of renegades

that's been raidin' up north yonder, Matthew?

You mean this isn't the first time it's happened?

No.

A bunch of them escaped a couple months ago from a reservation

up north.

You better get a posse together, Festus.

Tell Newly to take your place.

You betcha, Matthew.

Is he going to be here long, Doc?

Day or two.

Why?

Well, if we get a hold of any of those Indians,

we might need you to help identify them.

You-- I mean, you think you're going to find them?

Well, I don't know.

This is the first time they've gotten this far south.

You know, you're a pretty lucky man, Piney.

Out of all those massacres, you're the only one

that's lived through it.

I'll see you later, Doc.

Matt.

Piney, I'm going to be gone a while.

You rest.

Make yourself at home.

I'll see you when I get back.

Piney.

Oh, Piney.

[sobbing]

Piney, where you been?

You were supposed to be here three days ago.

I've been so scared.

Shh. Shh.

Piney.

It's all right.

It's all right.

What happened?

It's all right.

What happened?

Kiss me, please.

All those poor folks dead.

Lord.

I don't know what I would have done if you'd been one of them.

Oh, I don't know what I would have done.

Rachel, Rachel.

I'm here now.

And my pockets jingling.

Hm?

Anybody in there?

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Is there much fussin' going on?

Been doing more than fussin'.

Been kicking and squirming.

Trying to get out of there.

Wanted to get a look at the world, I guess.

There ain't nothing much to see, is there?

Doc posted nice, Piney.

Ain't like being home.

Good to stay a spell.

No, we got to be moving on.

Piney, you know I think it would

be nice to just-- just stay in one place till the baby come.

Well, we've got a far piece to go here.

Piney, please.

Least till you're well and healed up good.

And you know what I've been thinking?

I've been thinking it's time to really get some schooling.

Daddy!

You are going to get something more than space

between those two ears.

You're not going to be like your daddy, you hear me?

Daddy, you're here!

Just barely, just barely.

Where you been?

Fighting Indians.

Fighting wild Indians.

He'll tell you all about it in the morning.

No, no.

I want to tell her about it now.

I was fighting 5,000 Indians, you see.

They all--

RACHEL BIGGS: Piney.

We staying?

Um, maybe a day or so.

There were 5,000 Indians.

[chanting, drumming]

[gunshot]

[screams]

Come here.

Get up.

Mighty fine.

Mighty pretty for a renegade.

Colley, you want me to-- to get the rest of them.

Nah.

Let's just take these four.

Out of hand, Bill said $2,000 for any or all of them.

Well, now.

Looky here, big brother.

Well, what do you know about that.

Probably stole that off of some poor old dirt farmer.

You ain't gonna be needing that, war hoop.

Time you got left is getting mighty short.

Lets get old scar face here and the others back to dodge

and college that reward.

$40 will help us get a horse and a wagon,

and maybe we might even have some left over for some grub.

MAN: They got the renegades.

They got 'em!

They got 'em!

They're bringing in the renegades.

Howdy, sonny.

Can you tell me where I might find the Marshal?

I'm a deputy.

Can I help you?

Look what we brung you.

Collected four of these savages.

Left one for buzzard bait.

Two or three more of them got plum away.

They look like they could use a drink of water.

Water?

I wouldn't give them the sweat off my nose.

Them's the ones that been robbing those wagon trains.

Cut them loose and let them drink.

Big brother?

You heard what the deputy said, boys.

These poor heathens need a drink.

Now step off and cut them loose so they

can get to the water trough.

Deputy, I'd be much obliged.

$2,000 all that the Army's paying?

That's what I understand.

Just where do you go and how do you go about collecting?

Well, how do you know these are the wanted men?

Piney said one of them had a scar on his face.

Here's your scar, deputy.

Looks like a toss up between them and the buzzards,

don't it?

Got a whole pack horse loaded with goods that they

scavenged off them poor people.

Well, the proof that they're the ones that done it

is Piney's watch.

Plays a tune.

A watch?

Yeah, I plum forgot about it.

Looky here.

Took it off that ugly.

[watch playing music]

Well, I guess that settles it.

Well, Piney?

Is it yours, Piney?

Well it plays a tune just like you said.

Come on, boy.

Is that your watch or ain't it?

It's mine.

Yeah, well, that ties it all down.

Yes, sir.

Big brother done found it.

All right, everybody. Go on home.

The excitement's over.

Go on home, now.

Go about your business.

Sam and Burke can handle these men.

They're going to jail.

Come on.

Well, I say let's go get a drink, big brother.

We's rich men now.

Come on.

Get down to Longbranch.

You know, there's something plum unnatural about all that.

What's that?

About that gold watch.

So?

You know, somehow that musical watch and that old boy

just don't go together.

But you said we staying!

Go outside, Merilee, and play a while.

What's going on, Piney?

You ain't ever owned no gold watch.

Just-- just be quiet, Rachel, please.

Piney!

We gotta go.

But you said we gonna stay a while.

We got the money.

What we gonna stay around for?

What we running from all of a sudden?

Just get your things together!

Rachel, just-- just get your stuff together

and be ready when I come back.

Piney, what's wrong?

Look, just be ready when I-- when I come back.

That there the last one?

What's this right here?

Looks like two sets of tracks.

Same Injun ponies all mixed up with regular shod horses.

Looked like they came from different directions.

That's right.

And these shod horses here, looks like they

were taken off the wagons.

Seems like they headed north.

That's the way we're fixin' to head, ain't it?

You better mount up.

We got a long ride. -All right, fellas.

Get on the horses.

We got a long ways to go.

Hap, take the wagon back on into Fort Dodge

and tell them we're out after the renegades, headed north.

OK, Marshal.

-Thank you. -Good luck.

All right.

Whoa!

Wait up, boy.

You fixin' to leave town, boy?

Uh, no.

Not exactly.

Well, I was talking to that wife of yours.

She said you was.

You know, that deputy says that you got to identify them Injuns

or we can't collect that bounty money from the army.

There's a soldier boy gonna be coming to the Marshal's office

tonight so you can quantify them Injuns again.

It's only fair that you point out them Indians so we

can collect that bounty money.

Well, we give you $100.

That's right, boy. $100 will take you a long way.

But if you don't, boy.

I'm afraid you're about as close as you're

ever gonna get to California.

Savvy?

Is anything wrong, Piney?

Well?

Is it them or isn't it?

Yeah, they took the stuff.

Thank you, Mr. Biggs.

That's all.

Well, about two hours.

I figure a patrol can be sent out

and take them off your hands.

To be hanged upon apprehension.

4 o'clock tomorrow morning at Fort Dodge.

Piney?

Piney, what's going on?

Where you been?

Where's Merilee?

She's in bed.

It's so late, Piney.

What-- Piney, what is it?

Piney, what's happening?

What is it, Piney?

What's wrong?

Tell me what's wrong, Piney.

What's happening, Piney?

Tell me.

I done something.

I stole off dead people.

I took a watch.

I saw it.

And I took it.

You took it off a dead man, Piney?

Well, if I-- if I hadn't, somebody else would have.

And I was going to sell it and we needed the money.

Oh, Piney.

Them Injuns?

Yeah, I figured those are the ones that came back

and I took an arrow and I-- I put it in my side.

I laid down like I was-- I was dead.

Then you didn't see no Indians kill nobody?

What difference does it make whether I saw them or I didn't?

Well, you got to tell the law that you ain't sure, Piney.

Well, I just come back from there.

You tell them everything?

I'm a black man.

I can't tell those people I was picking off dead bodies.

Piney, did you lie to them about them Injuns?

Tell me, Piney.

Did you?

Indians being Indians.

What difference does it make?

If they didn't kill those people, they kill other people.

Being Injuns?

Maybe they's all the same.

That's what folks say.

They say the same thing about niggers.

Those three awful men, they say punch me $100.

And we were going to get to California.

I can't crawl around on my belly like a lizard.

Not anymore.

Merilee and the baby's got to have something more than I.

I don't want them to live on a garbage heap like I had to.

Do you hear me?

Rachel, do you hear me?

I don't want them to live on a garbage heap like I had to.

Better than living off four men dying.

It was better those four men die than my family die.

Rachel, it'll never be the same between the two of us again,

will it?

I ain't never going to leave you, Piney.

I know that.

But you-- you'll never see me as a man again, will you?

I didn't say that.

Why-- why don't you look at me, Rachel?

Rachel, look at me!

[screams]

Look at me, Rachel.

I'm-- I'm sorry.

I-- I'm sorry.

It's all right.

No, I'm sorry.

Rachel, listen-- listen, I'll go right now.

I'll go to the Marshal.

It's all right.

No, I'm going.

I'll go right now.

It's only my time coming.

It's only my time for the baby.

It's time.

[sobbing, laughing]

It's only my time.

Your time's coming.

All right.

All right.

I'll-- I'll get the Marshal, all right?

I'll get the doctor.

The doctor.

You just be quiet.

You watch your mother, all right?

It's all right, baby.

It's all right.

Mama's gonna be all right.

It's only your baby brother coming.

[knocking]

Doc, I'm sorry, but it's so late, but my wife--

What's the trouble.

Well, she's-- she's doing it.

All right, now.

Just hold on, hold on.

Everything's going to be fine. Where is she?

She's going to have the-- she's going to have the baby.

Yeah, I know. But where is she?

We-- we're-- you know what, our follow laundry is--

Exactly. Now just a minute.

Hold on, it'll be fine.

You go back and stay with her. Tell her I'm coming.

The set--

Tell her I'm coming right away, Piney.

Right. I'll be right there.

Colley-- Ha!

We got you there, you old buffalo hunter.

Well, Glory be.

If it ain't that old Injun fighter we owe some drinks to.

Well, my wife's bornin' my baby.

Doctor's coming and I've got to--

You ain't gonna turn down the drinks, are you boy?

Now come on.

She gonna have that baby whether you--

Now hold up, boys. I'm closed.

Hold on, bartender.

All we want is a little ol' bottle of drinking

whisky for our partner here.

Well, it ain't mine to loan and I'm closing, is all.

Now wait a minute.

Just got a little time to kill between now and daylight.

Just a couple hours, that's all.

Don't you hear good?

I'm closed.

Now get your gear and get out.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Here.

A dozen men couldn't drink up all the whiskey that'll

buy if it took them all night.

Now you just keep the change and trot on home.

Get back here about daylight and lock her up.

Yeah!

We'll see you.

Don't worry about it.

Now we got to settle down to some real drinking.

You know, we got some celebrating to do.

We got to toast that new baby of yours.

Sit down here.

Give me a chair there, Rath.

Sit down.

Doggone, where's the whiskey.

Get you a big swallow in, right.

Go on, drink up, boy.

Have a drink. [laughing]

That's it.

Drink it all up, don't he?

Hello there, honey.

You the doctor, sir? You him?

That's right.

Your daddy sent me out here to see your mommy.

Now can you show me where she is?

She's right in there.

OK.

Mrs. Biggs?

Hello, Doc.

My mommy, she ain't sick.

You ain't gonna have to give her no bad medicine.

Oh my, I should say, we're not gonna have

to give her any bad medicine.

I'll tell you, though, your mommy and I are going

to see to it that you get a little baby

brother or a little baby sister to play with.

Now why don't you just tell your mommy what it is you want?

Which one?

I don't care.

I ain't done you no harm.

I come in here like you asked me to and I had your drink

and I've got to--

All right, boy.

I'm plum tired of funnin' with you.

You and me got something to get straightened out between us.

I've been watching you, boy.

You know, there's something about you

that just don't add up, you and that fancy banker's watch

of yours.

Now look here, boy.

Me and these two old boys is going

to collect us a pile of money come morning,

money that we worked hard for.

Now you've done right by us so far.

But I want you to get one thing through that head of yours.

I ain't gonna sit here and let you mess the whole doggone

thing up by pulling something foolish about them Injuns,

you hear?

Oh, I ain't worried about them Indians.

I'm worried about my wife.

My wife is bornin' my baby.

I'll worry about them Indians later.

Later?

Why, you ain't got the slightest notion, have you?

You know, come 4 o'clock this morning,

them soldier boys is gonna hang them Injuns.

Well, you're doing fine, Mrs. Biggs.

About eight minutes apart.

It's gonna be a while yet, though.

Where's Piney?

Where's my husband?

Well, I expect he was delayed a little while in town.

He'll be along.

You just-- you just stay on the buggy.

I'm gonna stay in this buggy.

Don't worry about it.

[bell ringing]

Rath!

Just how drunk you think we was, boy?

Let me tell you something.

I done taught little brother how to use that skinning knife.

I give him the word and he'd peel

that hide off you before the good Lord got to work.

All right.

Let me up and I'll tell you.

All right, boys.

Let him up.

All right.

Get to talking.

Well, you got to know something.

You haven't done anything you have to pay for.

And I've got to go and tell the deputy the truth.

What do you figure that is, boy?

Them Injuns ain't done that killing.

They ain't kill those white folks.

You're a liar.

I'm not a liar.

All right, boy.

Why don't you just tell me about it.

When I come on the wagon, the killing was done.

Food, horses, guns were all gone.

Them Indians come after me.

I didn't have no stolen goods.

[shouting]

Rath!

They come there like me.

Scavengers.

We come a-ridin' into Dodge.

We hear this wild tale about how you done fit along side of them

poor white folks.

And all about how you'd taken that arrow and all how you had

that fine gold banker's watch, which just didn't seem right

in the first place because it never

figured that you and that gold watch would ever go together.

No, that watch wasn't mine.

He done vultured-- vultured his dead body.

Well, ain't that a whole that's wrong.

A black Indian.

Stinkin' black Indian!

Rath! Rath!

Kill 'em!

Kill 'em!

I'm gonna kill 'em!

I'm gonna kill 'em!

Sit him down and squeeze him.

Well, who's have thunk it.

The boy done fought like a wolverine, didn't he?

All right now, Mrs. Biggs.

You're almost there.

You just stay right in the buggy.

I wish Piney was here.

Wish Piney had told you-- really,

really come on by himself.

But I'm glad you're here, Doc.

I'm glad, too, Mrs. Biggs.

Because I think this little one is gonna need a little help.

Here, honey.

We can't have you crying like that.

Your mommy's going to be just fine.

I promise you that.

Now tell you what-- we're going to go outside here where

you can wait for your daddy.

He'll be along in just a little while.

You can just sit right here and wait for him.

[groaning]

Come on now, boy.

Simmer down and have a drink.

It's all just about over now.

You just take it easy and we'll win and army will win,

and you're gonna win, too, if you just

got sense enough to see it.

You play it my way and you're going

to wind up with a $100 ticket to California

for that new baby of yours.

Ain't nobody gonna stop you.

You play it your way, you're gonna just another dead black

boy for the crows to pick.

Come on, now.

Drink up.

[clock ticking]

[watch playing music]

[bell ringing]

Well, I reckon that takes care of it.

It's all over now but the crying.

Guess we'll just mosey on out to the fort

and get what we got coming to us.

You can go on home, boy, if you want to.

Just take it easy.

Or if you feel real brave and real foolish,

you can run with your little ol' tail to the law.

But remember one thing-- when you do, they gonna heist you

up on a pole for your trouble.

It'd sure be too bad, too.

Because then I reckon you wouldn't

get to see that new baby of yours that's

supposed to be born tonight.

[crash]

[gunshots]

Now you make one move, mister, and I'll put a bullet in you.

You all right?

I'm all right.

They kept me here till those Indians were hung.

They didn't hang anyone, Piney.

Your wife told Doc Adams you were

going on over to see the Marshal and why

you were going to see him.

I wired the fort in plenty of time.

Been looking for you ever since.

They're not dead?

No.

Nobody's dead.

Deputy, we was just in here getting drunk

and that darky started arguing and pulled a gun on us.

It don't look that way to me.

Now you get up.

Pick him up, would you?

Come on, little brother.

Get up.

Honey, you know where to find me if your mommy needs me.

Papa, we been waiting for you.

Piney, everything's all right.

You got a fine new son.

Piney.

You're hurt. -No, no.

It's nothing.

It's nothing.

I got tangled up in my thinking.

I'm all right now.

Thank you, Doc.

Rachel.

Kind of was worried about the way you'd make your mind up.

I got to know the daddy of my son real well.

Do you like your brother?

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

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