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♪

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

♪

-Emilie, don't -- don't look at the house yet.

Now, you wait until we get around the bend here.

Got a lot of brush cuttin' to do in here, too.

-And the flowers... -Got a little work to do.

And we'll all get in here and get busy.

Don't you look at the house, now, Emilie!

-Amos, look at that tree!

-Wait till we get farther and I'll tell you when.

-[ Chuckles ] Okay, watch out.

-I've never seen such green country.

-And maybe we can move those hog pens over.

You know, figure all that out.

[ Birds chirping ]

[ Horse blusters ]

[ Cow moos ]

-That's it.

-Well, it sure don't look like much, Amos.

Them fences got to be fixed,

the way them shingles all done split up.

-I never said it didn't need fixin', Ridge.

-Amos, Amos,

I think that's the prettiest --

that's the prettiest house I ever did see.

It is! -When the week's out, Emilie,

we're gonna own every inch of it,

every board and nail

and clump of dirt clear to the creek.

-And I'll help work, Amos.

You just tell me things to do, and -- and I'll help.

-Them's real windows, ain't they, Pa?

-That's what they are, Susan.

You know what else?

Inside of the kitchen,

there's a pump, brings the water right up into the sink.

[ Laughs ] -Amos, are you joshin'?

-Well, Emilie, you go right inside and see for yourself.

-Come on, Uncle Daniel.

-Daniel.

That bedroom to the back, that's yours.

-You never said nothing about me having

my own place to sleep, Amos!

-Well, I was saving tellin' to please you.

-Let's go see!

-Look, Ma, even got a stove!

-I know!

Oh!

[ Laughs ]

Hey, look.

We got neighbors comin' to call already.

-Howdy. -How do?

-You the new people here?

-That's right. The name is Sadler. Amos Sadler.

-Well, I saw your wagon from up there on the road.

I thought I ought to ride in and tell you,

in case you ain't already heard.

-Heard what?

-The bank in Dodge, folks say it's closed,

may be out of business.

-Uh-huh. How can a bank go out of business?

-Well, I don't know.

I'm just going by what I was told, so I thought I --

-Are you sure you were told right?

-Well, that's what I'm gonna ride in and see, ma'am.

I got my savings in that bank.

Just thought I'd be neighborly and tell you, though.

So long!

-Much obliged. -Ha!

-What's it mean, Amos?

-I ain't sure I know.

-Well, even if the bank goes out of business,

they're still holding the money that people saved,

like our money.

-That's right.

Like that book,

it says you still got the money to buy this farm, don't it?

-Well, it's -- it's our money, Daniel,

and they got to give it to us.

Well, let's, uh...

uh, get the wagon unloaded

and, uh, go into Dodge and find out.

♪

-Open up in here! Open up in there!

-Will you open the door, Harry?

-Open up! Open up! Open up!

Come on! -We want our money!

-Harry, will you open the door?

[ All shouting indistinctly ]

-Harry, open that door!

-Come on, Harry! Come on!

-Get away from that window! -All we want is our money!

-We want our money! -Let me tell you,

Matthew is in there right now with Mr. Bodkin

and workin' to find out.

Now just hush, all of you. -Well, we want our money.

These people got a right to find out.

-My money's in there too, don't you know?

-Well, I know that, but why don't they open...

[ Shouting continues ]

-How bad is it, Doc?

-I don't think even Bodkin knows that.

I talked to him earlier this morning.

He seemed pretty worried.

-Nobody can tell you your business, Harry,

but I think you ought to talk to those people out there.

-Matt, the -- the truth of the matter is,

there isn't anything to say to them.

They've got passbooks in their hands.

They're not gonna listen to dry statistics.

-Well, isn't it true things could get better

in a week or so? -But they may not.

Now, the simple truth is that the panic that started

in the east can affect the most solvent of banks.

I'm certain that we're solvent, but it's question of cash.

-Well, I know one thing you can't do, and that's to let

those people keep standing around out there forever.

Now, it's not up to me to go and tell them something

until you've made up your mind

whether or not you're gonna pay any of them off.

-All right. We'll open the doors.

Now, it'll be first come, first served.

We'll hold and reserve, uh, $12,000.

-Yes, sir. -Yes, sir.

-This is my first experience having a bank run,

and I certainly hope it's my last.

-So do I, Harry.

-Ladies, just step on down there and get right in a row.

Get in a line, everybody.

Matt, I never had some folks get so riled up.

-Well, I can't say I blame them, Festus,

but Bodkin's a good man.

He just needs a little time.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-Now, stay in line.

Now, move in, please.

Everything is gonna be all right.

-He says everything is gonna be all right, Amos.

-I didn't figure a bank

could be running out of people's money they put in.

-$700.

-That's it, Charlie.

I'm sorry.

-What?

-We're closed. There's no more money.

-Well, that's a lie.

There's plenty of money in that iron box.

I can see it!

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-My book here says we got it comin'!

-Now, now, folks, I'm sorry, but we're gonna have to close.

Now, you just have to give us a little more time.

When the banks reopens -- -Yeah, but when's that gonna be?

-Well, we don't know for sure. May be only a matter of weeks.

Now, just be patient, friends, please!

-We need our money now!

-Yes, you come back here.

-We got $2,000 in that iron box!

-I'm sorry, Mr. Sadler.

-Get out here and pay us. -You don't have to push us.

Chester, you gotta explain one thing to me.

Ten years, been comin' in here to Dodge, givin' money, heart,

and saving this bank here.

Now you got money inside! We all saw it!

Now, wait up!

-What's it all mean?

-Means we don't get our money from the bank,

means we don't own that farm we bought.

-I'm gonna talk to the marshal about this.

-Yeah? What does he know about it?

-It'll be all right, Amos.

Don't you worry none.

-Lord,

make us thankful for what we're about to eat here,

which comes to us through your favor.

Lord, don't let nothin' happen

so as we can't make this our home,

like we want to.

-Please, Lord.

-Let this be our land.

Thank you.

Amen.

-Amen. -Amen.

-Amen.

-You didn't take nothin'.

-I'm not hungry.

-Emilie, you've gotta eat.

-Come on now, Emilie, it ain't that bad.

I told you we figured driving home today,

all we gotta do is ask for a little time,

just a little more time.

[ Hoofbeats approaching ]

-See who it is.

-Whoa.

Well, evenin', Mr. Sadler.

-Mr. Acton. Well, uh, come in.

Just come right in. -Thank you. Thank you.

-This is Mr. Acton, the broker feller.

Uh, this here is my wife Emilie.

-Mrs. Sadler. -Daughter Susan.

-Hello.

-Brother Daniel. -Howdy.

-Cousin Ridge.

-I'm pleased to meet you all, I'm sure.

-Uh, if you haven't ate, uh, we sure got a place for you.

-Oh, it's very kind of you

but, uh, I did come out as a business matter.

-You see, I received this telegram today

from Mr. White in Kansas City.

Uh, he's the owner of this property.

I mean, he's the man you're buying it from, uh,

through my office, uh,

and, uh, well...

-Well, we, uh,

wanted to ask you for just a little more time,

what with the banks closing and all.

-I, um, I think I understand.

Only...

-Only what?

-Well, by rights, the money should have been paid,

the balance due, that is, before you moved in.

Didn't seem to be no rush and...

Well, I, uh, I have to get it immediately,

no later than Friday.

The -- the -- the bank closing, not only here,

but Kansas City and St. Louis, uh,

well, it took everybody by surprise, including Mr. White.

He needs cash and...

well, there's another buyer waitin' with the cash.

Please understand my position.

-There's no way we can have it by Friday.

That's only 3 days.

-I-I-I'm truly sorry,

but...

well, Friday is the deadline.

-Mr. Acton...

you're a business man.

You're not a sod farmer like -- like these men here.

Mr. Acton, they've been working all of their lives

just to get a hold in the world.

They've been looking for a-a place for their loved ones

to live, just...

just to give them a decent place,

where we can kinda put our roots down.

-Reckon you've said what you come to say.

-Yeah.

-I ain't hungry no more.

Ridge, let's us take a walk.

-You shouldn't cry, Emilie.

-Pa won't let us lose our house.

-[ Whispers ] No.

-All that keeps coming back to my mind

is our money there,

right in front of our faces.

It's our money, not theirs.

God-fearing man all my life,

do what's right in my way of livin'.

It's the right and wrong of it.

What's right, and what's wrong?

-Amos, if we do it at all, best be done tonight.

[ Door creaks ]

-Amos?

-Daniel, you better go on back to the house.

-Amos, three's better than two.

We just might be needing them strong shoulders of his tonight.

-Some work for me to do?

-We was talking of ways of saving the farm, Daniel.

-So Emilie won't cry no more.

-So Emilie don't cry no more. [ Sighs ]

Have to be telling her something.

-Well, that's easy.

Just tell her we're goin' into town to get our money.

That ain't no lie.

♪

-This is a good place right here.

-Ridge, you make sure there ain't nobody around out there.

Now, do like we showed you, Daniel.

-[ Whispering ] The rope.

Right here, Daniel.

[ Wood splintering and creaking ]

[ Loud thud ] -Easy!

-Just real easy, Daniel.

[ Wood splintering ]

[ Carriage passing ]

All right then, watch -- watch them squeaking nails.

-[ Sighs ]

[ Wood cracks ]

[ Wood cracks ]

[ Nails squeaking ]

[ Wood cracks ]

♪

[ Loud clatter ]

[ Meow ]

[ Metal clanks ]

-You little scutter.

You like to scare me halfway to death.

Now, go on home 'fore your mama finds out you're missing.

Go on! [ Hisses ]

-I'm -- I'm sorry, Amos.

-Doin' fine, Daniel, just doin' fine.

-[ Stifles cough ]

[ Stifles cough ]

[ Wood cracking ] -Easy, easy.

[ Grunts ]

Straight through here.

-Great job.

-I'll get y'all in with this.

-Right here, Daniel.

Get up behind that handle and we'll break that lock.

[ Handle clatters ]

-Lock ain't broken.

Try the other handle there.

[ Footsteps approaching ]

-Oh, evenin', Mr. Bodkins.

-Well, hello, Festus. I couldn't sleep,

so I thought I'd do a little work on the books.

-Yeah.

Well, this here has been kind of a bad day for Dodge, ain't it?

-Well, I'm sure we'll pull out of it.

There'll be some cash here by the first of the month.

Enough, I think, to ease the deposited burdens.

-Yes, sir.

Well, if you feel like having

some coffee drippin', come on back.

I'll have some dead and waitin' for you.

-Well, thank you, Festus.

-Yes, sir.

[ Handle clatters ]

[ Metal clanking ]

-Locks ain't gonna break.

-Somebody's comin'.

-Headed right this way.

-Way he's dressed, be that banker fellow.

-Well, maybe we can't get that box open,

but that there bankin' fella can.

Get your faces covered.

Ridge, get on the other side of that door.

-Just keep your mouth shut!

-Have no gun.

-Get that there iron box open.

-Now, you men listen to me.

-Do like he says, mister.

-Just hush!

You open that box up, fast!

-You may not have heard, but you'll find very li--

-Just get it open!

-All right.

Hand me some of the money, one of them stacks there.

Get!

-$2,000.

-Stand back. -Now, wait, now.

Don't shoot. All we want to do...

-You stand back or you're a dead man.

[ Gunshot ]

-Oh, he's been hurt.

-Get him in the wagon.

-Mr. Bodkin? Mr. Bodkin?

-Whoa.

-Easy. Easy does it. -What happened to him?

-Emilie, just get back!

It was a -- it was an accident, that's all it was.

Just -- just an accident. -That's all it was.

-Amos, whatever I do, I'm a...

-All right, he's been shot.

I want no questions. We just gotta take care of him.

Get in the house and get some hot water and some bandages!

Easy.

-I'm sorry, Amos.

I-I was just trying to do right.

-You did just fine, Daniel. Did just fine.

-The fact that you feel anything at all

is something to be thankful for.

-Can we talk, Harry?

-Sure, Matt.

-Did you recognize any of them?

-Uh, it's like I told Festus.

They had, uh, handkerchiefs over their faces.

-What about their voices?

-Well, everything happened so fast, Matt.

-Well, anything, the way they were dressed or...

-Oh, they were farmers.

No.

No, no, more like hill people.

-Well, they were using a wagon.

Festus followed the tracks as far as the wash.

-Cashier says that $5,000 is missing.

-All right. Festus and I will head out,

see if we can pick up the trail.

[ Door opens ]

-Sting a little there.

[ Door closes ]

[ Rooster crows ]

[ Water sloshing ]

-Amos, we shouldn't wait any longer in gettin' the doctor.

-We can't. I told you.

He's strong.

Plenty of men live with bullets in 'em.

-Supposin' he don't.

-I'm sayin' he will.

We're gonna do what we can.

-Supposin' it ain't enough.

-It's gonna have to be.

-Cousin Ridge!

Cousin Ridge, my dolly's...

Money?

-Susan, come here. [ Chuckles ]

-I never seen so much money.

-Can you keep a secret? -Secret?

-Yeah, this -- this is money that, uh,

I been savin' for your pa, only it's a surprise.

It's for, uh, buyin' stock and things later,

only you gotta keep it a secret.

-Oh, I will, Cousin Ridge.

My dolly's crib needs fixin'.

-Oh, that's no problem, honey.

It's probably the way you're picking it up.

-Now, you've got to try to sleep now.

-[ Weakly ] I keep thinkin', Emilie,

of Amos trying to help us.

Amos been a real good brother to me.

-Shh, now you just hush now.

-I've been so much trouble, Emilie, like tonight.

-Daniel, you're never any trouble at all to us.

-Oh, no, Emilie.

I think real good sometimes.

I-I know. I...

I just try to work hard like Amos and cousin Ridge.

-Daniel, try to get some sleep.

-[ Breathing shakily ]

His fever is the same.

Amos, I'm just --

I'm just plain scared of what's happening to Daniel.

-I know, Emilie. I-I know.

But there's just no way to get a doctor.

Just...there's just no way.

-I wish we were back in the hills, anything.

It's better than what we got now,

the way that Daniel is in there!

-Thee's nothing we can do about that now.

Get a doctor out here, we're all gonna got to jail,

and that's the long and the short of it.

-Listen, maybe if we just gave the money back...

-$2,000 is ours, Em!

It's our money!

There's a whole lot over in that box,

but all we took was what belonged to us.

Too many years, Em!

Too much hard work.

Too much to give in now.

Em, I promise you, I promise Daniel...

-[ Voice breaking ] You won't get him a doctor!

What good is promises to a dead man?

[ Wood cracks ]

-Uncle Daniel!

-Susan.

Don't -- don't say nothin'.

Don't say nothin'.

-But, Uncle Daniel!

-I'm trouble, Susan. I-I gotta leave.

Don't...

Don't... [ Inhales sharply ]

-Pa! Cousin Ridge!

Pa! Pa!

-Daniel.

-Uncle Daniel's real sick, Pa.

-I-I'm sorry, Amos.

I never do nothin' right.

-We gonna let him die?

[ Knocking on door ]

[ Knock on door ]

[ Knock on door ] -Well, hold on!

You don't have to knock the door down!

-Well, who are you? -Sadler. Amos Sadler.

I come for ya to help my brother.

-Well, what's the matter with him?

-Uh, well, he, um... he was a-plowing near sundown

and, uh, must have slipped, hit his foot.

He's in awful bad shape, Doc. You gotta come and help him.

-Well, where do you live?

-South Road, 'bout 10 mile out.

-Why, Tom White's old place. -That's it.

-Well, all right.

You go on up there, and do what you can for him,

and I'll hitch up and be along with him just a minute.

-Well, go on! I'll be there as soon as I can!

Just...Go on! -Yes.

-You told me it was his foot.

-I reckon I was mistaken.

-Got a bullet in him.

-Yeah, we know that.

So you just do what you have to do.

-Guess we've gone too far to turn back now, Doc.

♪

-Whoa, Ruth.

-Evenin', Miss Kitty. -Hello, Kitty.

-Well...

-You, uh, still up, huh?

-Mm-hmm.

Up and, uh,

waiting on that supper you were gonna buy me at Delmonico's,

except for Delmonico's has been closed for an hour.

-Yeah, well, we didn't forget, Kitty,

just that we ran across some wagon tracks

out there by Owl Flats, and we followed them.

Turned out it was a parson and his bride

on their honeymoon.

Not much of a resemblance to those bank robbers,

I'm afraid. -[ Chuckles ]

Well, I, uh, I'm not the chef at Delmonico's but, um,

I'll see what I can whip up for you in here.

-All right. Sounds good.

-That sounds just right.

-Anything been happening around here?

-No, except that, um, old Doc got a call tonight

to go out to Tom White's old farm.

Seems the new people that have taken it over

had some kind of an accident.

-What kind of accident was it?

-He said it had something to do with a plow.

Doc can't understand why they waited

until the middle of the night to call him.

-Matthew, you don't suppose...

-It's a possibility, Festus.

I better go out there and check up on it.

Look, uh, I'll be back

but try and hold him down to one plate, will you?

-Oh.

-Lost an awful lot of blood.

You might be more useful

if you pray a little. -Oh, never mind that.

All we want to know is when he's fit to travel.

-You mean, if he lives?

-You tellin' the truth?

-He's gotta be ridin' by mornin'.

Fit for a wagon, leastwise.

That'd be one sure way of killing him.

-Stay then, do what you... gotta do.

-All right, but you stay in this room,

otherwise there will be somebody pullin' a bullet at you.

-Finish loading the wagon.

-Why?

-We're still leavin' soon.

-Amos, you've been a good husband to me.

You done your very best, and I believe in you,

but I don't know what you are now.

-Em, I'm sorry. Ain't no turnin' back.

It's too late.

Now, you get to that packin'.

-Where are we goin', Ma?

-We're moving. We're just moving.

-Susan's bed will make a good place for Daniel in the wagon.

Could be much worse off.

-Ain't nothin' gonna change your mind?

-Nope.

-What about the doctor?

-Storeroom, tie him up.

Somebody'll find him.

-Unless he died right up in that storeroom.

-Mind if I come in?

I'm the marshal from Dodge City.

I, uh, I'd like to ask you a couple questions.

-[ Whispers ] You say a word, it'll be your last.

-Looks like you folks gettin' ready to move, huh?

-That's right, uh, reckon we don't have much choice

since the bank took our money.

-I understand Doc was out here, uh, workin' on your brother?

How is he?

-Well, he's, uh, doin' fine.

Doc said it ain't too much.

-Somethin' about, uh, he hurt his foot plowing or...

-Yeah, he was, uh, plowin'.

-Amos, tell him the truth.

-Let go of me.

-You shouldn't have come out here tonight, Marshal.

-Ridge.

-Don't you folks think you're in enough trouble already?

-We took what was ours, that's all.

-$5,000 was yours?

-What are you sayin'?

-I'm saying $5,000 was taken from the bank.

-Oh, no, that's not -- that's not true. Amos...

-There was more than that in the box,

but we only took $2,000.

I'll swear to that on a Bible.

You couldn't find another penny in this house.

-You're right.

Only money in this house here belong to Amos.

-So you can't put us in jail for taking what's ours.

-Jail?

-Well, the jail part will be up to Judge Brooker.

But I'll tell you one thing --

You better come up with a lot more than $2,000,

or you will be in trouble.

-Cousin Ridge, our secret, the money you got.

-She don't know what she's talking about.

She, uh...

-The surprise to help Pa.

-Did you take more money, Ridge?

-No, I thought that we...

Was only thinkin'...

[ Sighs ] of us.

I was just trying to help out.

I-I'm sorry.

Get away from that door.

Move now.

-Don't! -It's all right.

-Ridge! You better think it over.

-We know you wasn't thinkin' only of yourself, Ridge.

You could have rode off any time, but you never did.

So why don't we face what's to come, together,

like we always did?

♪

[ Shotgun thuds ]

-Well...

[ Grunts ]

-Matt, I've been on this bench for more years

than you'd care to remember.

And in all that time, I've never had a case like this before.

You robbed a bank.

Now didn't you know you were breaking the law?

-We didn't figure we was breaking laws

no more than the banker man there,

holdin' our money from us.

Was ours.

Still is.

-But...

You, Harry, now that you've opened up again,

are you ready to give him back his money?

-It's his money, Judge, just like Mr. Sadler says.

-Case closed.

Except for you, Ridge.

Five years...

probation.

If I ever see you in my court again, I'll...

I will, too!

-Does that we can go home, Pa?

Does it?

-I reckon it does, Susan.

Sure reckon it does.

You know, we all be thanking you, Marshal.

-Well, I want to wish you a lot of luck, Sadler.

-Thank you. Doc, thank you. -Sadler.

-Oh, I sure am tickled

that things worked out like they...done.

Mr. Bodkin, I got me a idea on how you can keep from a-gettin'

yourself in a picklement like you just done here.

I mean, the -- the bank a-runnin' out of money.

-Really? How? -I wanna hear this.

-Well, you got this feller a-comin' up,

puttin' money into your banks, see.

Well, you just set that aside, don't you see?

And then you got this here 'nother feller

coming in the bank wantin' to borrow some money!

Well, you go ahead and you loan him that there money,

but you make him promise to keep his money in your bank.

Either way, you got this here fellow

a-puttin' money in the bank,

and you got this here 'nother fellow a-borrowin it

and tryin' to take it out, don't you understand?

-Well, now that is absolutely

the most brilliant thing I've ever heard.

Don't you think that's a great idea?

-Mm. -Well, certainly.

Now what you ought to do is put him on salary right now.

Take him over to the bank, give him a job,

put him in one of those cages.

That's exactly where he belongs -- in a cage!

-All right, smart aleck!

I ain't done 'splaining what I'm thinkin' about.

Now this here fellow that's a-comin' in a-borrowin' money,

so he comes into you,

says he wants to take out a dollar or 2,

cash-wise, don't you see?

I mean, well, go ahead on,

give it to him 'cause the only thing he's a-doin'

is a-borrowin' his own money!

Then, there's your other fellow that's a-comin' in,

savin' this money.

Well, all you gotta do is show him that there book

that you got that's all full of squiggles

and squaggles a-provin' to him

that you got twice as much money in the bank

as you had when you started with, don't you see?

What...

Another thing you could do is

to get the first guy and the second guy together.

♪

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

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