Original subtitles

-"Gunsmoke."

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

[ Gunfire ]

-Now, listen to me in there!

I'll give ya one more chance to come out of there.

Now!

Keep him busy.

-[ Grunts ]

-That shooter right there is Dan Foley.

Now, why would a feller like him be messin' around with a piddly,

little ol' relay station hold up?

-Dillon.

-Yeah?

-[ Chuckles, coughs ]

-Figures.

[ Strained ] Run from a bull smack into a bear.

-You hear about Jess breakin' out of prison?

-Was supposed to meet him, bring his woman to him.

Well, you fixed that.

-Supposed to meet him?

-Problem is, she and me hit it off.

We was -- we was heading out, needed quick money.

That's why the relay station.

-Where were you gonna meet him?

-Benson's Canyon, south of Mineola, tonight.

Dillon, when you hang him,

let him know it was me told you.

[ Exhales ]

-Matt?

♪♪

Hello, Matt.

Been a long time.

♪♪

-All right. Go on. Get out of the way there.

Go on home. Go on home, now.

Don't stand around here gawkin'.

You know, he ain't got no way of knowin'

that it was his bullet that hit her,

but he won't listen.

-I know, sir, but he did say to get the horses

watered and fed and round up the posse.

-Why don't you go ahead and round them up, Newly.

I'll be with you directly.

-Okay.

♪♪

-Well, that's Leona.

-Yeah, Doc.

-Who did this?

-I did.

Do everything you can for her, Doc.

-Marshal. There's trouble at Long Branch.

-All right.

-Any of you gentlemen goes for his gun,

this man's head gets blown back to Texas.

-Hold it, Jackson.

All right, put the gun down, Jackson.

-Anything you say, Marshal.

-Now, what's going on here?

-Man says I cheated.

-He did.

-Only difference between us, I was a mite clumsier than him.

-All right, you wanna proffer charges against him?

Be about 2 weeks 'fore Judge Brooker gets here.

-I don't want nothin' but my money back

and to shed this town.

-That it? -It sure is.

-All right, pick it up.

-[ Coughs ]

-What is it they say about bad pennies?

-Yeah. I figured you'd turn up.

-Got lonesome for you, Marshal.

-Funny you got lonesome just about the time

that Jess Trevor broke out of prison, huh?

-Paying you a compliment, Marshal.

I'm staking my life that you'll kill Jess before he can kill me

and you.

I just wanna roof over my head 'till Jess is back behind bars.

You owe me that much.

-You got what's owed to you, mister.

-He took my wife.

A few thousand in reward can't pay me back for that.

-You're so concerned about her,

you might be interested to know she's in town.

-Lee? Here in Dodge?

What for? -She's up at the Doc's office

right now gettin' a bullet dug out of her.

-Bound to happen sooner or later,

being Jess Trevor's woman.

He do it?

-No. I did.

-You did?

-She and Dan Foley were making a run for it.

-Foley?

She left Jess Trevor for Dan Foley?

Why, that woman's gone from man to man

like a bottle of cheap whiskey.

Why, she's nothin' but a --

-Keep out of my sight, Jackson.

♪♪

-Marshal, I'm about finished.

-Oh, good, Louie.

-Marshal.

I just wanted to say I'm sorry.

-Sorry for what?

-It's been a spell since I went on a three pint binge.

I'm sorry I caused so much trouble for you.

-That's all right, Louie. Is the wood box filled?

-Not yet, but it will be, time I'm finished.

I promise.

-Matthew.

I rounded up the fellers,

and we're just about ready to go.

-Oh, really, Festus?

I'll be with you in a minute.

How is she, Doc?

-Well, she's conscious.

-She gonna be all right?

-Barring complications, I think so.

-Well, good. I'm glad to hear that.

-She's changed, Matt.

-Been a lot of years.

-All of them downhill, I guess, huh?

-Yeah.

That's the truth, Doc.

She's Jess Trevor's girl, now.

Can I see her?

-Just for a minute.

♪♪

-Hello, Lee.

-Well, well.

Look at you.

Not even a gray hair.

-Well, you know, it looks like

the years been pretty good to you, too.

-You're a lousy liar, Dillon.

You always were.

-You know, I'm sorry about what happened.

If I'd known you'd been in that shack, I --

-You had no way of knowing.

You were just, um...

doing your duty.

-You know, Doc says you're -- he says you're gonna be fine.

-Fine.

It's a relative word, isn't it?

[ Coughs ]

-Lee, you're gonna have to do exactly like Doc tells ya.

-[ Sighs ]

Foley dead?

-Yeah.

-Too bad.

He was the best of a bad lot.

You going after Jess?

-Yeah.

-Be careful, Matt. He's up to something.

He -- he's bringing men in from all over.

Means to see you dead.

Foley and I were supposed to meet him tonight.

-I know.

Well, you rest easy, Lee.

I'll stop by and see you when I get back.

♪♪

-Buy you a drink, Miss Kitty?

To Marshal's success?

-No, thanks.

-All right, I want you to hurry and finish that soup now.

And then you're gonna sleep for about 12 straight hours.

-The years have been good to Matt.

-Well, I guess you'd say so when you consider

all the bullets I've dug out of him.

Times he's ridden day and night to bring somebody in.

I guess so.

-[ Laughs ]

You haven't changed.

-Is that so?

-Oh, a mite more ornery and bossy, if that's possible.

-[ Chuckles lightly ]

You sleep.

-Is he still married to that badge?

-Yes. I think so.

-I almost had him hooked.

Did you know that, Doc?

-Yes. I did.

And you know, at the time, I was kinda sorry you missed, too.

-Who is she?

-Who's who?

-The one who made you change your mind.

-You women are amazing. All of you, just amazing.

You want to gossip all the time.

I dig a bullet out of you

and you lose a lot of very valuable blood,

and then all you want... to do...

-I heard you had a patient, Doc.

I wondered if she needed anything.

-Needs an awful lot of sleep.

-I wasn't gonna bite her, Doc.

-I didn't expect you to. Just that she --

-Who is she?

-I've had a dozen patients up here in the last month.

And I don't recall you asking the vital statistics

of any of them, Kitty.

-Now, don't you get foxy with me.

Matt almost killed a man tonight in the Long Branch,

and it had something to do with her.

-You know she's been shot?

-Festus told me.

-Well, did Festus tell you that Matt thinks he shot her?

-That offer, um, if she needs anything, um,

still holds.

♪♪

[ Door closes ]

♪♪

-Now, the boys be wonderin' where we are.

Foley should've been here by now.

-Cawkins is right, Jess.

Them boys ain't gonna wait forever.

We shoulda rode out of here last night when Foley didn't show.

-Mighta coulda run off with your woman.

-You figure that out all by yourself, did you?

-No, Jess.

He said, uh, most likely Miss Leona and Dan

up and skedaddled.

-He did, huh?

That the way you figure, Rainey?

-Now, ease off, Jess.

You ain't hearin' nothin' you

haven't already figured out your own self.

So why don't you face it?

They ain't comin'.

-Well, I'll tell you one thing.

That's what did happen.

When I'm finished with Matt Dillon, they're next,

if I have to track them from here to Hell and back.

Move out.

♪♪

-They're breaking up camp.

We don't have any time to surround them.

We'll just have to move in from here.

All right? Let's go.

All right, down there.

You're covered, all of ya.

-Matt Dillon.

-Throw down your guns.

Now the rifles.

♪♪

-Let's get outta here.

♪♪

-Newly, go get the horses.

-Yes, sir.

-Burke, you hid bad? -I'm all right, Marshal.

-Ain't nothin' we can do for him, Matthew.

-Did you see who it was, Marshal?

-No.

-The horses have scattered, Marshal.

It's gonna take a while to get 'em.

-All right. Festus, you boys stay here

and give Burke a hand.

Newly, let's see if we can round them up.

-Burke, where is it?

-Oh, right there, Festus.

♪♪

-Hello, Jess.

-Do I know you?

-Nope.

But you'll be thanking me.

I was that bolt of lightning from the sky back there.

Saved your hides from the noose.

-Well, I'm mighty pleased with what you done back there,

but I don't understand why.

-Well, any man on the wrong side of a lawman's gun

is a friend of Lucas Brant's.

-Jess.

He's all tore up.

-Get a hold of him.

-No need.

I can tell a dead man when I see one.

-He's right. We better keep moving.

If that's all right with you, uh, Mr. Brant.

-Be needing a place to hide.

Just keep ridin' up that hill. No need to hurry.

That posse won't be behind ya.

-Let's go.

♪♪

-[ Chuckles lightly ]

[ Laughs ]

You're a bounty hunter.

-Well, it's better than pickin' bones for a living.

-A puny $3,500? I call that pickin' bones.

-Well, I can keep ya on ice for a while,

wait until those bankers get jittery and boost the bounty.

Then I'll take ya to Hays City.

That Marshal Dillon in Dodge might ask too many questions.

-How high do you think it can go?

-Figure $5,000.

-I still call that bone pickin'.

-That's enough to feed this vulture for a while.

-Brant, got a lot of boys waitin' for me.

You pull that trigger, it's gonna make them mighty unhappy.

You won't even get a chance to spend that bounty money.

-Well, it just ain't no way to everybody happy all the time.

-All right. Go ahead.

Come on. Shoot.

Shoot it!

If you like chancin' more money, you got time to spend.

You just take that from me.

I have more than my share, believe me.

It hurts a man more than regrets.

-You sound like a preacher, mister.

-You're a scavenger, Brant, livin' off the leavin's.

You think turning me in's gonna make you rich?

All it's gonna do is sic my boys on you.

And they'll get to you no matter where you are.

Don't you forget that.

Now, on the other hand, you could ride with us.

And you could be a rich man.

No more scavengin' after the leavin's, Brant.

$300,000.

-Where?

-[ Laughs ]

I don't do no bargaining with a gun on my back.

-How do I know I can trust you?

-Well, you just pulled us out a bed of hot coals, mister.

Forever in your debt.

Jess Trevor don't forget to pay his debts.

Besides, I got a couple of men missing.

Way I got it figured,

think you could just about fill both their shoes.

-Well, you saw what I could do back there.

-[ Laughing ] Yeah.

Yeah, you did real good, too.

Didn't he fellas?

Yes, sir.

Real good.

Boys...

meet our new partner.

-Okay. I-I'm in. Now, where's the $300,000?

-Well, I'd still prefer you put the gun down.

Now, I seen the way the you pick them posse men off

like jackrabbits hoppin' by.

Now, Brant, are we partners or not?

-You were sayin'...

-Uh-huh, that's better.

Now, you tell me, what would you say if you

had a key to every bank, every Wells Fargo office,

every ranch payroll in the Southwest Kansas?

Oh. [ Chuckles ]

-What keys?

-United States Marshal Matt Dillon.

-You're loco.

-Brant, you kill men for the reward money, don't ya?

Now, you just imagine a bounty

of $300,000 on Matt Dillon's head

'cause, when he's dead,

this whole section of Kansas gonna be wide open for a week.

Take the justice department that long to get the federal law

back in here.

And in that one week,

I got it all worked out, one, two, three.

You and me and my friends gonna be richer than we ever figured.

Yes, sir, $300,000.

[ Laughs ]

You're a lucky fella, Brant.

-You know, that man's got a light in his eyes.

And I'm gonna find out if that light means you

got to be the smartest fella

I ever met or flat out the craziest or what.

-[ Laughs ]

So which is it, Brant?

Smart or flat-out crazy?

Take a good look before the light goes out.

♪♪

[ Knock on door ]

-Matt?

-Sorry.

-Pardon me. Uh, you must be Kitty Russell.

-That's right.

Just wondered if you needed anything.

-No.

Thanks, though, for putting me up.

-Well, any friend of Matt's is...

-Won't you, uh, stay and talk?

-Thanks.

How you feelin'?

-A little weak yet, but knowing Doc,

he'll have me up and around.

-You and Doc go back a long ways.

-Quite a ways.

He, uh, he didn't tell me much about you.

Fact is, I couldn't get anything out of him.

-Doc is being rather tight-lipped lately.

-What do you do in Dodge?

-I own the Long Branch.

-Alone?

No husband or...anyone?

-Alone.

-Well, that's something -- a woman coming to Dodge alone,

running a saloon like the Long Branch.

That, uh, must be pretty tough.

-It was at the beginning,

but I've been at it now for 14 years.

-14 years.

That's, um, that's just about the time

Matt Dillon became marshal here.

-Just about.

-You ever intend leaving?

-Not when everything I want is right here.

-Miss Kitty.

-Yes.

-Forgive me, but the posse's coming in,

and I thought you'd wanna know.

-Thanks, Sam.

♪♪

[ Door closes ]

-[ Sighs ]

-What happened, Matt?

-Well, Doc, well, we got ambushed.

And Burke was shot in the leg. Easy with him, boys.

Help him upstairs real quick.

-How about Trevor?

-Well, exchanged guns before he got away, Doc.

How's Lee?

-Think she's gonna be all right.

-Oh, well, that's good. I'm glad to hear it.

-Wait a minute. She's not up there, Matt.

-She's not? Where is she?

-Well, she -- she's at Kitty's.

-Kitty's?

-Well, you know I couldn't take care of her up there.

I can't be with her all the time and Kitty said that --

Well, she insisted that she wander over and --

and -- She's right.

[ Indistinct conversations ]

-Did you get Trevor?

-He got away.

-Got away.

-Hello, Kitty.

-How'd it go, Matt?

-Well, we had a little trouble out there.

They got away.

-Oh. -Doc says she's all right, huh?

-Well, she ate breakfast.

That's a pretty good sign. -Yeah.

It's all right to go up and see her?

-Sure.

-Well, let's have a drink after.

-Thanks.

-Barkeep, a bottle.

A couple of 'em.

[ Knock on door ]

-Come in.

-Lee, can I, uh, talk to you for a minute?

-Well, it's your town so I hear.

-How you feelin'?

-Pretty good.

The Doc hasn't lost his touch.

-He says you're gonna be all right.

-That depends if you found Jess.

-Almost, but he got away.

-Are you, uh, gonna go after him again?

-Yeah.

Lee, I, uh, thought you might wanna know

there's no charges against you for what happened out there.

-You want me to get out of town?

-No reason for that.

Anything I can get you?

-[ Chuckles lightly ]

What in the world would I need?

I have a jelly-spined ex-husband downstairs

who wouldn't lift his hand to defend the, uh, the sanctity

of our marriage.

I have another slow-drawing ex-boyfriend

who's lying on a board at the undertaker's.

I also have another ex-boyfriend that just broke jail

and probably ready to wring my neck.

Now what else could a good woman want, Marshal?

-Lee, look, I -- -Would you get my clothes

and let me get out of here?

-Lee, there'll be plenty of time for that when Doc

says you're ready.

And I get Jess Trevor in jail.

-Matt...

don't get yourself killed in the meantime.

♪♪

-I took the liberty of ordering while I waited for you, cowboy.

-You got good taste.

-So do you.

-Kitty, you know, I met Lee a long time ago.

Her father ran a trading post out in Colorado.

Was the kind of place where men on the run could go

and I was trackin' down a couple of 'em.

We met, that's how things got started.

Those years since then been pretty rough on her.

-Matt, you can't account for everything

that happens to people who touch you.

You know, I learned a long time ago

there are some things in this life

you just accept the way they are.

-Pretty deep for a redhead.

-I'm a pretty deep redhead.

♪♪

-[ Coughs ]

[ Glass shatters ]

[ Laughter ]

-Hey, mister.

I got a wagon parked up the alley here

with a lot better stuff in it than you'll get inside there.

Only a dollar a bottle.

Go ahead, have a jolt. See for yourself.

-Ah, come on.

Hey, whoa.

-[ Chuckles ]

Is this any way to treat a friend of mine?

Dressin' him up like a Thanksgiving turkey.

What's the matter with you boys?

It's Tim Jackson.

Wouldn't be no Jess Trevor gang

without this strong right arm of mine.

[ Chuckles ]

Timmy, the boys tell me that you been into Dodge City

talkin' with Marshal Dillon.

-Jess...

-Aren't you gonna tell me you're glad to see me?

Ask me how I been all these last years.

Oh, I forgot.

Give me that bottle.

Why, you always did need a little snake oil

to loosen up your tongue, didn't you?

Go on, take it.

Tell you one thing, Tim.

That federal jug ain't no place for a drinkin' man.

A jug-drinkin' man, that.

[ Laughs ]

-[ Coughing ]

-Timmy, why'd you do it?

Was it for the reward money

or on account of Lee or both.

-Jess, I --

-You know, I understand about the money.

I used to think about that a lot of times myself.

But on account of Lee, I mean, all you had to do was ask.

Tell you the truth, I was gettin' kind of tired

of her anyway.

You know, when you get right down to it, Tim,

just between you and me, wasn't worth the trouble, right?

[ Laughs ]

Ah, yeah.

Things been pretty rough, huh?

Well, I'm back now. And I'm gonna

do something about that just as soon as Marshal Dillon's dead.

You're wonderin' who's gonna kill him, hmm?

Can't be me.

Can't be these boys. We couldn't get close enough.

I need somebody who can just stand right alongside of him

at his own sweet time and just kill him dead.

Chance of a shabby lifetime, Tim.

Maybe as much as...

$50,000 just for one bullet.

One dead lawman.

'Course, I realize between you and me, money don't count.

Why, you'd be glad to do it for nothing, wouldn't ya?

Aw, you'll do it.

You'll -- you'll do it.

Just exactly the way I tell ya.

Won't be any risk, Tim.

-No risk? -No.

No risk.

See, Tim, I don't want a gunfight.

I want an execution.

[ Laughs ]

♪♪

♪♪

-Mite worrisome when I lost track

of you and your friends earlier this evenin'.

Appears like Matthew had it figured out pretty good.

-Where's Trevor?

-What? Marshal...

-Shootin' Matthew your own idea, was it?

-No. He said --

-What did he say, Jackson?

-Now, Marshal Dillon'll have a bullet in his head by now.

-Yeah, if that Jackson didn't just take off.

-Jackson's too scared. He's too greedy.

He'll be along any minute.

-You know, it's too bad Daggett

ain't back with the rest of the boys.

Be a lot more relaxin' if they knew Dillon was dead.

-Well, maybe they'll be here before Jackson gets back.

Whether they are or not, we're gonna go on into Dillon's town

and tear it apart board by board.

-Get your hands up.

-There's no one else, Marshal.

-Where's Daggett?

-Keep sweatin', Jackson.

He's gone to get the boys.

-That right, Jackson?

-Yeah.

They'll be coming all right.

I told you you were makin' a mistake.

My life isn't worth a plugged nickel.

Neither is yours.

-All right, we're going to Dodge.

Come on.

♪♪

-Move on. -You can't lock me up with him.

-Oh, I'll see. -He'll kill me if he gets a chance.

-Get in the cell.

-Marshal, you can't leave me here.

-Oh, there's bars in between you, you ninny.

-Marshal.

Marshal.

Marshal, Daggett'll be coming with the others.

They'll spring Jess and kill me.

Let me out.

Marshal.

Marshal!

Marshal!

-Festus, keep an eye on things around here, will ya?

-Even catch a couple winks

if that squalling jackrabbit'll let me.

-Marshal.

Marshal.

-Hush your mouth!

-It'll be a few minutes, but -- Oh, good morning, Marshal.

-Sam.

[ Knock on door ]

-Come in.

-Lee, look, I just came by to tell you --

-You found Jess. -That's right.

-You're gonna be having visitors.

Some of Jess' friends are very loyal.

-Well, I'm putting him on the night train back to prison.

Tim Jackson's locked up and he's gonna stay there

till Jess is in prison.

-Well, what Dan Foley did,

that, uh, kind of puts me adrift.

Right back where I started from

with about 15 years of my life missing.

-Those years mean all that much, Lee?

-There's only one thing in the world that ever meant that much.

♪♪

I, um, I talked to the redhead.

Finally got her pegged.

She's a smart woman in many ways.

-Lee, I'll, uh, I'll see you later.

-Matt, be careful.

Jess' friends, they, uh, they'll be here.

You won't even know who they are.

-Thanks, Lee.

♪♪

-[ Sighs ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Train whistle blows ]

-Time's came, Matthew.

-Get him, Festus.

-Come on, let's go, kid.

-I'll be back to see you, Timmy.

There'll be 20 guns pointed at your head, Marshal.

-There's gonna be one pointed at yours.

Let's go.

All right. Move.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Gunfire ]

-Drop the guns.

-Giddyup.

♪♪

-Well, Matt.

I finally did something worthwhile.

Take care of him, Redhead.

♪♪

♪♪

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

♪♪