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[ Gunshot ]

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-"Gunsmoke," starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

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[ Rustling ]

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-Hold it right there.

-It's all over, Marshal.

-Drop the gun belt.

[ Distant murmuring ]

[ Releases hammer ]

-Marshal.

-That one drew first.

His friend was just too slow.

-I seen it all, Marshal.

That's the way it was.

Them two come lookin' for a fight,

and he give it to 'em.

-They're both dead, Matthew.

-Where are you stayin'?

-At Dodge House. -All right.

You can pick that gun up on your way outta town.

-It's been a long day.

-That there's Nick Skouras, ain't it, Matthew?

-Yeah.

-He's the coldest-eyed scamp that I've ever saw.

-[ Snoring ]

[ Snoring continues ]

[ Gunshot ] -Aah!

[ Groaning ]

♪

-This blood money --

I didn't have anywhere to return it.

-Papa, what --

Oh, Papa!

♪

-You understand, Marshal?

I don't wanna sign any complaint against my father.

Don't put him in jail. -It's up to you.

-I'm gonna wanna see that in the morning.

-Uh, Doc, would it really make any difference?

-It'd make a lotta difference to you.

Now, here.

This is laudanum. I'm gonna want you --

-I know!

There's been a time or two I've had to take that.

How much I owe you, Doc?

-Well, we'll take that up in the morning.

-Now, wait a minute.

[ Sighs ]

My papa used to say,

"You take what's owed while it's there.

It might not be there the next time."

-Much obliged.

Matt, wonder if you could put that table back there,

get it out of the way. -All right.

-See you in the morning.

-Thanks, Doc.

-Don't mention it.

♪

[ Exhales ]

[ Huffs ]

[ Door opens ]

-Dr. Adams, will he be all right?

-Everything will be all right, Elenya.

Don't know about his hand.

He may never use it again.

-Good.

-Papa.

-This way, nobody else will die because of him.

-Well, it's pretty easy to see your intentions, Mr. Skouras,

but I don't agree with your method.

-He just may have lost more than the use of that hand.

-What do you mean?

-Bones were shattered, Elenya.

And if the nerves are destroyed, the hand'll atrophy.

That case, would be like walkin' around with a lead weight

for the rest of his life.

-I'm ready, Marshal.

-Mr. Skouras, there's been no complaint against ya.

Your boy claims that the gun

went off when he was cleaning it.

-You believe him?

-No, but he's not filing any charges.

-Can I see my brother now, Doctor?

-No.

-Can I see him?

-I said no.

-Maybe it's better you don't see him right now, Elenya.

Probably'd be better if you wait till tomorrow to see him anyway.

-If you think so, Doctor.

-Nick Skouras hasn't got much of a chance, has he, Matt?

-He's as good as dead, Doc.

With that reputation he's got, how can he defend himself?

-I didn't ask when you buried him.

I asked you who killed him.

-His name is Nick Skouras.

-Jesse.

-Is he still in town?

-Yes, probably will be for a time.

But I heard he --

-Jesse?

-No.

-What do you plan on doin'?

-What do you think?

-Well, now, hold on if you got an idea of our goin'

up against Skouras.

-You owe it to Jake.

-I never owed a man enough so as to get killed over it.

-You ain't gonna get killed.

-But, Jesse, callin' him down here in Dodge

is gonna put Dillon on us.

Now, Skouras is one thing,

but I don't want no dealin' with Matt Dillon.

-Jesse, they plant us next to Jake and the kid,

or we stretch rope?

Now, either way, it ain't gonna do Jake no good.

-That's pure truth.

-Nick Skouras is gonna die.

You gonna help me kill him?

-Well, I ain't gonna let you try it alone.

-Well...

♪

-[ Exhales ]

-Nicholas.

Nicholas.

-[ Groans ]

[ Sighs ]

-Hey, Ellie.

-I brought some kapama.

-You brought kapama? [ Chuckles ]

Hey, let me see you.

[ Groans ]

[ Exhales ]

Well, look at you.

It's been a long time.

I never figured you to be in touch.

-It isn't something that we are --

brother and sister avoiding each other.

-Has to be.

-Has to be.

-I try to help when I send home money,

but Papa throws it back in my face.

-How could you think he'd take it?

-I hoped to make him.

-You know nothing.

Even if I could, I wouldn't have.

-Well, what're you here for?

You feel guilty because dear old Papa shoot me?

Is that it?

-I've missed you, Nicholas.

-Oh.

I miss you too.

-Well, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. -Hey, hey.

It's all right.

-He said you were drunk,

so drunk you didn't even hear him come into the room.

Is that what killing a man does to you?

If that's the way you feel, why?

Why do you go on, Nick?

-I don't know.

Once you get started, how do you stop?

-How do you begin killing other men?

-Oh, Ellie, I don't know.

First one, he need killing.

It wasn't just me. The whole town said so.

One day, came to me, backing off or facing him.

And then, after that, I don't know.

Always seemed to be someone that needed killing,

somebody the law could not or would not touch.

-Those two men here in Dodge.

-Ellie, they got paid to shoot a ranch foreman, Alvin Hayes,

and they crippled the rancher's son that tried to interfere.

-And you got paid for killing them.

-Yeah, I got paid.

One hundred dollars.

I got paid.

-I know it's no excuse for this,

but it nearly killed Papa when he heard what you'd become.

And then, last night, when he saw those two men

dead in the street and then heard you shoot them --

-Ellie, Ellie, don't. Don't.

What's the point to go over and over?

That's kapama.

-I have to go now.

-Yeah. I guess so.

-What are you going to do?

-What am I gonna do?

The last 3 years, I only know from day to day.

-Not much has changed then, has it?

-Not much.

-And everything.

-Hey, Ellie.

Don't go.

Come here.

I wanna see you.

You know, you look good.

You grow into a real pretty girl,

except what a -- what a -- what is this, clothes?

Hey, I want -- I want you to do something for me.

I want you to take this

and buy yourself a dress, huh?

-No. I --

I can't.

Papa wouldn't let me.

-But I want, not Papa.

For me.

It's important to me.

Huh?

-[ Laughing ]

-Eh, what you sharpen this knife on,

rocks? -Well, it's pretty old.

I guess I could use a new one. -No, no.

There is still plenty life in it.

-Good morning.

-Good morning, ma'am.

If you're in a hurry, I can wait.

-Oh, no. I'm not a customer.

-And sometimes, she's not daughter.

-Daughter?

Well, I didn't think I'd seen you around here before.

My name's O'Brien, Newly O'Brien, Miss.

-My name is Skouras.

-Skouras.

-My brother is Nicholas Skouras.

-Well, Miss Skouras, it's my pleasure.

-This great, big, silent man here is my father.

Right now, he's not too happy with me, are you, Papa?

Papa.

See what I mean? -All right.

All right. All right.

If you take good care of this knife,

it will last a long time.

-Yes, sir.

Uh, how much do I owe you for it?

-Dime!

Elenya, go tell everybody we're open for business.

-Papa, Nicholas is all right.

-I didn't ask. Go on. Go on.

-You mind if I go along with ya?

-It's for the barber.

Come on.

-Uh, there's a dance Saturday night, Miss Skouras.

And if you're gonna be in town...

[ Patrons chatter, stop ]

[ Chatter resumes ] -Can I help you?

-You know him, Matt?

-Yeah. That's Jesse Hill.

He's a sidekick of Jake Walker.

-Do you think they know about Jake and that other one?

-Well, if they don't, it's just a matter of time.

Percy buried 'em this morning.

-I got me a little bone here in the back of my neck,

just starts hurtin' a lot --

thunder, when there's trouble brewin'.

It's chawin' on me pretty good right now.

-Must be after Nick Skouras.

-You think they'll go after him?

-Well, normally, they'd be afraid to.

But with that hand of his the way it is...

-They ain't gonna be afraid no more.

[ Doors clatter ]

-Jesse.

-Hi, Doc. -Hey.

-Hey, you, uh, got some of that coffee for me?

-Sure. Comin' right up.

-Scat.

You don't know me, but I know you for dead sure.

Name's Jesse Hill.

-Go on.

-Oh, how do you do, darling?

-Brent.

-What can I do for you, Jesse Hill?

-We just talked to a man here in town.

-Yeah. -[ Chuckles ]

-And I'm supposed to ask you who that man was?

-Undertaker.

Kinda set us back some when we heard it was Jake

he buried, Jake Walker.

-Is that a fact?

-Yeah.

That's a cold fact.

You see, me and Jake was friends.

-And real good friends, I'll bet.

-You'd make money.

-It's a sad thing

for a man to hear his friend has been buried.

-Gee.

-I knew Jake wouldn't be that easy to take.

-Mister...

it was as easy as a preacher falling to sleep.

-I'm here to settle it.

-All right.

But you've got to give me time.

-Time?

I ain't got no time.

Let's go.

-Hill. -Yeah?

-First sign of trouble outta you, you're gonna land in jail.

-Whoa. Marshal, we was just --

-Hank.

-First sign.

-You want a drink, Marshal?

-No, thanks.

Skouras, you got any plans?

-Could be they are being made for me.

-Uh-huh.

You know, if it wasn't for that hand of yours,

I'd run you outta town right now.

-If it wasn't for this hand of mine, Marshal,

I wouldn't be here.

-You want me to put you in jail for your own protection?

-You could.

-All you gotta do is ask.

-What's the matter, Marshal? You don't like your job?

-What are you talkin' about?

-Uh, it's not your problem, right?

Bodyguarding a crippled gunfighter?

♪

-Doc, I'm tellin' ya, this here little, old bone...

-Yeah, the bone in your head's hurtin' ya somethin' fierce.

-In my neck, and it is.

-Good afternoon.

-Hi.

-You want somethin', Mr. Skouras?

-Yeah. New right hand.

You sell them?

-Well, I'm sorry. I'm fresh out.

-Hey, you got a crossdraw holster?

-Well, we don't have too much of a call for them around here.

-So you can make one?

-Yeah, I could.

-How long it take you?

-Take me a couple days.

-All right.

-I'll be back in a couple of days.

-Uh, Mr. Skouras, would you mind leavin' a deposit?

-All right.

-Say, Mr. Skouras...

are you all that fast with your left hand?

-I don't think so.

♪

♪

-Elenya.

-You like it, Papa?

-It's very pretty.

-That boy this morning, Newly,

he asked me to the church dance Saturday.

-Hmm. And he give it to you,

a dress, hmm? -No.

We can stay until then, can't we?

-I suppose. -Oh, thank you, Papa.

-Uh, uh...

Elenya, the dress.

-[ Chuckles ] It's the prettiest one I've ever owned.

-Yes, and I think maybe the most expensive.

Well?

-Nicholas gave me the money.

-Sure.

-He wanted me to have it.

-And I want you to bring back that dress

and get back the money.

-Papa, please!

-No arguments!

Return the dress and give the money back to your brother!

-But Papa --

-Don't "but Papa" me.

You know where that money come from --

from the dead men that your brother killed.

-Well, looks like we're bustin' up a family spat.

-What do you want? -That depends, old man.

-I don't know you. -Well, lookee here.

Pretty, little missy.

-That's a pretty dress.

I heard ya say Nick gave it to you,

Nick Skouras, your brother.

-Go away from here.

-That means he's partial to ya, makin' things nice, easy, cozy.

-I don't know who you are or what you want.

-Easy, and I'll tell you exactly what I want.

[ Hammer clicks ]

Jake Walker was near kin to me,

and your son killed him.

-You --

you should go fight with him.

-That's a fact, only you've fixed things

so the settlin' of it ain't so easy to get to.

-Please leave us alone. -No.

We -- we can't rightly do that and square things.

Anyways, old man,

it's 'cause of you that we're havin' to wait here.

Now, why'd you shoot him? Huh?

-We figure whatever happened between you and him oughta

bring him out in time.

Then, we can set it right.

-While we're waitin' for him, you and me can get acquainted.

How about that? -No! No!

-Papa, no!

[ Shouting ]

Stop!

No!

-All right. That's enough.

Hold it.

All right. Get over there.

Get their guns, Festus.

-Animals!

-It was the old man that started it, Marshal.

-Nobody asked ya.

-Marshal, they're after my brother, Nicholas.

They're going to kill him. -All right.

That's enough of that. -Come on, Mr. Skouras.

Just stay... -Here we go.

-Put all your weight right on me now.

-Tsk, tsk, tsk.

-Come on. Take it easy now.

Right here.

-What're ya gonna do, slap our wrists for roughin'

up that old man, Marshal? -Yeah.

Give us a couple of days free room and board

in your jailhouse? [ Laughs ]

-That's probably what Judge Brooker'd give ya.

-Unless a little rough and tumble is

a hangin' offense in your town.

-Ya know, I think maybe I'll just give you boys

a head start outta town.

You've got as much time to get outta Dodge

as it takes to saddle up.

Get movin'!

-Marshal -- -We're going.

[ Knocking ]

-Yeah?

-It's Elenya.

-What's the matter?

-Jesse Hill and those two other men just beat up Papa.

-What? -No, no.

The Marshal will take care of it.

-I'm going to find Hill, and you stay here.

Papa.

-Elenya, you go back in my room.

-You feel all right, Papa?

-You do what I say now.

Go.

I should have put that bullet through your heart.

-Yeah.

Lots of things you should have done you didn't do.

-If those Hills come back and so much as touch

your sister,

I take an oath I will kill you.

-Don't worry, Papa.

They won't come back -- 'cause I'm leavin'.

-And good riddance.

-You never change.

You only wear down.

Wear down enough years.

We only got one lifetime. -We?

-Ellie and me!

-Elenya has nothing to do with what is between us.

-Why?

Because she chose to stay with you?

Because she felt sorry for you?

-I need no pity.

-Ah, you -- you -- you --

you're like the whetstone.

You got no wagon.

You go 'round, 'round, but you don't get anywhere!

-And where do you get, you with your guns and your killings?

-Wherever!

It's quicker than your way.

-Quicker, yes, quicker!

But there is no shame to the way I earn my living!

-No shame? -No!

-Papa, there is shame if you can do better and you won't!

There is shame when you turn your back on a dream!

There is shame in what you do to Ellie!

-What? What? Do you know what you're talking about?

-Yeah, I know what I'm talkin' about.

So do you! -What?

-The farm!

You never made no move to do nothin' 'bout getting it,

and you never will! Why?

Tell me that! Why?

-I explain nothing to you, you animal!

Animal!

Animal!

Animal who kills for money!

-You kill as good as me, only your way is slower.

It took Mama a long time to die.

All that while, she waitin' to see a farm,

a house for her to live in.

Well, I wouldn't wait.

And how long you gonna make Ellie wait?

-Ellie's my daughter.

She's not your business.

-'Cause she is if I can make you see!

-I take good care of me and mine.

-How?

With promises?

With empty words?

How many years you point to a piece o' land

and say, "That's gonna be ours someday"?

How many times I hear you say,

"Soon, we're not gonna move around no more.

Soon, we're gonna have a place of our own"?

My whole life, I hear that.

When Mama died,

where we buried her...

Why not there?

-Don't know what you're talking about.

-Well, then tell me how much longer!

Till Ellie's dried up and withered away?

Till she's so old she can't have

a husband, can't -- -I don't wanna hear no more!

That's enough! You don't have the right --

-Wait a minute, Papa.

I wanna ask you somethin'.

What're you gonna do with that money you been hidin'

under the wagon seat, huh?

Yeah, I known about it since before Mama died.

You that afraid to fail?

Huh?

Oh, Papa.

You're afraid.

Oh, Papa.

♪

♪

-[ Sighs ] I don't mind sayin',

Dodge is one town I'm gonna give wide berth to from now on.

-Well, it ain't like we didn't try to square things for Jake.

-I want Nick Skouras dead.

-Okay, Jesse.

We'll kill him.

But there's time.

He ain't gonna take root back in Dodge.

-Neither is that old man of his or his sister.

-Huh?

-So?

-Every year, him and his wagon make the same circuit.

Tomorrow or the next day, they'll be leavin' Dodge.

It'll be just like we planned.

-I am going to deliver these knives to the store.

You continue to load.

-Papa, I want to see Nicholas before I leave.

-No, no, no. There is no time.

I want to leave before the day gets too hot.

You continue to load.

-Elenya. -Nicholas!

We're leaving.

-Yeah, I know.

-Well, it's -- it's not right after these years.

-Ah, it may not be right, but it has to be here.

I was going to get somebody

to give this to you. -What is it?

-It's a deed to a farm a few miles south of here.

-A farm?

-Yeah, and you don't let him talk you out of it.

You make him take it and work it.

You understand?

-But I can't! You know what he would say.

-I -- I -- He'll say it bought with blood money.

Well, you tell him some of that blood was mine.

Ellie, if you won't take it,

you're gonna run around with him year after year.

And finally, he's gonna die, and you're gonna have nothing.

You make him take it and work right now.

You understand? -I'll try.

-Okay. -I'll try.

Maybe -- maybe he will take it.

Maybe you'll be able to come back, eh, yes?

-Maybe, maybe, maybe.

You -- you take care of yourself, huh?

And you take care of him too, huh?

Bye-bye. -Oh, Nicholas...

See you soon, eh? -Yes.

-On a farm. -On a farm.

♪

-You going to tell me?

-I have to for now.

-Why?

-Will you hear me out all the way without interrupting?

-How I can say?

I don't know what is.

-Papa.

-All right. All right.

-It's a deed,

a deed to a farm.

-Hmm.

Where'd it come from?

-Doesn't matter.

-You wanted farm real bad.

Huh?

-More than anything I've ever wanted in my whole life.

-All these years, things were hard for you, huh?

-That doesn't matter. -Yes, it matters.

Going from town to town,

not having a place you can call your home.

-Papa.

-Maybe Nick was right.

Maybe I have been afraid to fail.

Maybe it is easier just to dream.

You know he said that to me? He said, "Papa, you're afraid."

That's what he said to me.

But if a man has dream,

he must do something about that dream.

And if he has a woman child,

he must do his best for his daughter.

-Papa.

-We will buy that farm,

but not with this.

Oh, no, no, not this.

I have money.

And I suppose have been waiting for the right time.

Now, suddenly, my baby's grown up,

so I suppose it's right time.

Huh?

We will go back to, uh,

that, that, uh, what's the... -Dodge.

-Dodge! Dodge!

We will go back to Dodge and look.

-Papa! -Yeah, Papa.

-Yes, Papa!

[ Both laughing ]

-Yes, Papa. Oh!

[ Laughing continues ]

-Ha! Hyah!

♪

What is this?

-[ Chuckles ]

-Hank.

-[ Gasps ]

[ Hammer clicks ]

-There ain't no marshal out here to play your hand, old man.

-Nicholas!

Nicholas!

[ Sobbing ]

-Anything wrong?

-My brother! I have to find my brother.

-Well, he ain't here no more, Miss Skouras.

He checked out of the hotel about 15 minutes ago.

-Where did he go? -Well, I -- I couldn't say.

It might be, if you hurry,

you'll catch him over at the stable.

♪

-[ Sobs ]

-Nicholas! Nicholas!

-Hey. What's the matter? What happened?

What ha-- -[ Sobbing ]

Is it Papa? -Uh-huh.

-Hey. Where's Papa?

Where is he? Tell me!

-They got him! -Who?

-Those three men. They got Papa.

-Where'd they take him? -I can't tell you!

That's what they want. They want you to come for him.

That's why they sent me here. They want to kill you!

-Or they kill him, huh? Where is he?

You tell me where he is!

-Two miles south of town.

-You stay here.

-[ Sobbing ]

-If you ain't a caution, old man.

Tied up like a slab of beef just to keep you down.

-Here. You take that.

Uh, Skouras, this is twice as much

as what I asked for. -Yes, keep it.

♪

-Nicholas! Don't go! No!

Don't go, Nicholas! Please! -Hyah!

-Nicholas! No!

-Elenya. Elenya. -[ Sobbing ]

Newly!

-What do we do with the old man after it's over, Jesse?

-What do you think?

-Seems to me we got to kill him.

-I think you're right.

-Shame.

That little girl's gonna need a friend to look after her.

Bein' she's got no family and all.

[ Laughs ]

-Jesse, he's comin'!

-Nick! Nick! Nick! Run!

Run away, Nick! Nick, run away!

Don't come here!

Don't come here, Nick!

-Papa, what they do to you?

-Run away.

They wanted you to come so they can kill you.

-Untie him.

-Sure is touchin'.

-You don't need him now. You got me!

Cut him loose!

-You ain't in no place to be tellin'.

-Come on, Jesse. Get it over with.

-Skouras.

♪

-Hold it!

[ Gunshot ]

-[ Groaning ]

Papa...

[ Panting ]

[ Stammering ]

It's all right, Papa.

The whetstone.

The whetstone.

You -- you'd trade that for a dream, huh?

[ Groans ]

[ Filing ]

♪

-Well, just tear 'em all the way down and give 'em

a real good cleaning. -All right, sir.

I'll get 'em back to ya as soon as I finish.

-All right, Newly.

-Good afternoon. -Marshal.

-Hello, Mr. Skouras, Elenya. -Yes.

-Yesterday, Elenya baked some psomi.

I said we have to bring some for the marshal to taste.

-Psomi? -Mm-hmm.

-Uh, psomi. It's, uh, it's Greek bread.

And it's the best bread I ever ate, Marshal.

-Oh. Thank you very much.

How're things on the farm? -Oh, they --

-Marshal, the last crop

of wheat was enough to pay for our new team.

-True, and I got the new loan

to build a windmill for pumping water.

Gonna develop the back 80 acres.

-Good. -I'd say they're workin' out

pretty good as farmers, wouldn't you, Marshal?

-Oh, I guess so.

-I knew that all the time. Listen.

In the morning, with a little bit of coffee...

[ Kisses ] -Ah. Well, I'll give it a try.

Good luck to ya. -Good-bye.

-Elenya.

-Elenya, tonight at 7:30?

-I'll be waiting. -Okay.

-Good afternoon, Mr. Skouras.

-Good afternoon, uh... -Newly, Papa.

-I know that. Newly.

[ Laughing ] I'm sorry, but it's such a funny name.

-Ha.

-You know, if it was Nick or Mike, but --

Newly is a... [ Laughs ]

It's all right, Newly. Good name!

[ Continues laughing ]

-Marshal?

-I'll, uh, I'll see ya later...

Newly.

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

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