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NARRATOR: Gunsmoke.

With Milburn Stone as Doc, Amanda

Blake as Kitty, Ken Curtis as Festus, Buck Taylor as Newly.

And starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Not very long now.

All right, Doc.

Woody, Festus wants to talk to you.

All right.

Mr. Lathrope, I know it's bound to hurt you to talk,

but what happened?

Robbery.

Why didn't you just went ahead and give him what he wanted?

I did, but I--

Just take your time now.

I only had $1.87 in my pocket.

He done this to you for $1.87?

All right, now the most importantest thing,

did you see who he was?

Woolfe.

Rance Woolfe, you mean the one that Matthew had

locked up for knife fighting?

Well, just don't you worry none, Mr. Lathrope.

I'm a fixin' to make him answer to the law.

The wayward brother's come home for a visit.

Well, Rance, just like a bad penny.

Always did have a way of making a man feel welcome, John.

You're welcome, Rance.

You're welcome to water for you and for your horse.

And then I'm going to hold the gate open for you

when you ride out.

I ain't done nothing to you.

Not this year, you ain't.

You ain't going to have the chance.

Who you running from, Rance?

I ain't running.

Well, the horse is beat and you look worse.

I can't think of anything except the law

that'll make you stick with anything

long enough to work up a sweat.

I'll take the water.

Then you'd best be on your way.

I don't want Buck Henry knowing you've been around.

Pretty proud of that boy, ain't you?

Proud enough.

He can get by without socializing

with his thieving uncle.

Hardworking boy, I don't want him

to getting no ideas from you.

He's such a hard worker, why ain't he here helping you now?

Today's Sunday, in case you didn't know.

There's a girl over in the next valley he's got his eye on.

Couldn't hardly wait to get over there.

And it reminds me of you and I were his age, John.

Seemed to be we used to do the same thing.

Well, Buck Henry's got it right.

He's full grown, strong as a bull.

What'd you do this time, Rance?

Nothing.

Had some hard times, John.

I suppose.

Say, you wouldn't have anything for traveller

harder than that water, would you?

I guess there's a little rye the kitchen,

but then I don't want to see nothing to you, but your back.

Do you hear me, Rance?

Yeah, I hear you, brother.

All right, Mr. Smart.

What if I do marry you?

You going to take me St. Louis and buy

me a big house, and a carriage, and fancy clothes?

Nope.

Well, then, what are you going to do?

Nothing.

Nothing?

Nothing fancy.

You don't have to tell me that.

You don't know nothing fancy, you farmer.

Brian Scopey said he'd take me to St. Louis.

I'd take you to China if I don't have to marry you.

Oh.

You know, this is the laziest tumble bug I ever saw.

It won't move but an inch at a time.

You're the laziest beau I ever saw.

Why, anybody else I said that to would run down to town

and hit Brian Scopey with the board to prove he

was a better man.

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

Well, a woman likes to know she's cared about.

I could whip Brain Scopey.

Bet you couldn't.

All right, I can't whip him.

You quit that.

You say things like that just to make me mad.

Yeah, give me a kiss.

No.

Gotta come and get it.

Aw, do I have to?

Just got comfortable.

Buck Henry.

Well, that's more like it.

I was beginning to wonder if you'd move for anything.

Come back here.

No, you don't.

I think it's time I got home.

Pa will be after you with a shot gun.

Well, that'd get settled anyway.

Lord, I never heard of a case like you.

Leave the skeeter gun be, John.

Man shouldn't have to take from his own.

But you don't seem to be in a mood for giving.

Now, I got to have food and money.

Pa always said there was a lot of snake in you, boy.

I'll see you in hell before I--

[gunshot]

There always a mule of stubborn, John.

Pa said it'd get you killed one day.

I guess he's right.

He's right about both of us.

What'd you have to bring that thing along for?

I thought I might pick me up a rabbit.

Pa's got a taste for rabbit stew.

It's the least I could do, I guess,

leaving all the work to him.

Seems like your Pa might take Sundays off anyway.

Oh, we went down to services this morning.

He thinks that's enough recreation in the spring

when the plowing's got to be down.

You two are going to rot away in that cabin

like a couple of old skunks.

You know, Pa figures there'll come a day.

Day for what?

The day when I'll take it all over.

He says he's going to sit back in the sun

and watch his grandkids play in the dirt.

You better get yourself a woman before he

starts talking about grandkids.

Guess I'll fine me one.

Not here, then maybe there.

You just quit looking over there.

Mm.

What was that for?

That's enough for one day.

Don't wanna be giving you too much of a good thing.

'Sides, I got to get back and help Pa.

Honestly, Buck Henry, I hope your hair falls out.

Now don't you go fooling around Brian Scopey now.

You hear?

Farmer.

John, I know you don't get rich off a dirt farm.

Seems you should have done better than this.

Pa's dead.

You killed him.

Ain't that so, Rance?

Now you listen, kid.

Ain't that so?

[gunshot]

Hello in there?

What's been going on here?

Who are you?

Festus Higan, Deputy Marshal from Dodge City.

You want to tell me what happened?

My pa got shot.

That's what happened.

You the one that done it?

No.

Who done it then?

I'll take care of him.

You caught you a bullet your own self I see.

It ain't much.

I-- I'll be all right.

You know, I've been tracking the killer here,

a Rance Woolfe, a name, for putting out a week now,

I reckon.

He near beat a friend of mine half

to death there in Dodge City.

What is your name, son?

Buck Henry Woolfe.

Buck Henry Woolfe, Rance Woolfe.

So that's the way it is, huh?

That's the way it is.

I heared he had kin folks up this way.

I-- I'd be obliged if you'd give me a hand

with Pa's burying, Deputy.

I was carrying him, but I must've passed out.

Well, now, here, you just sit right down.

The first thing I'm fixing to do is

take you back to that little town there in the valley

and get that head looked at.

And I'm going to be the one to go after Rance Woolfe.

Let's get my pa buried.

We'll talk after.

We'll send some folks back to pick him up.

I ain't moving till he's in the ground proper, Deputy.

I run the place here and you'd better get clear on that.

He would've wanted the same for me.

Buck Henry, I can't

You can help me or not.

But I just couldn't leave him here this way.

And I-- I ain't going till it's done.

All right.

But quick as we get done, you're headed for town.

Now, see if we can't wash some of the blood

off of that noggin of yours.

I-- I'm sorry I ain't more of a help, Deputy.

I keep getting dizzy.

Think maybe a meal and a night's sleep will see me right.

I'll tell you something.

You're just damn lucky to be alive and kicking.

Bullet been one inch to the side,

you wouldn't been sitting there jawing with nobody.

What do you figure to do now?

You've got any kin folks here about?

No.

I'll stay on here.

It's my place now.

Me and Pa always figured I'd take it over.

Come a day, he used to say.

Day come a lot quicker than we thought.

You and your pa was pretty close, wasn't you?

I guess.

Folks always said so.

My ma died when I was born.

Him and me hung on here together.

He never did marry up again, huh?

Yup.

But she took off after a couple of years.

Couldn't take him, I guess.

Pa was hard headed as they come.

He got it in his head and he'd never find a woman

to match my ma and he never gave any of them

that came after her a chance.

Be lonely around here now.

We didn't pay much attention to religion,

except for Sunday services and Pa said that that

was mostly for appearance.

He always kept the good book around though.

He even read it sometimes.

I didn't have no proper coffin for you, Pa,

and I'm sorry for it.

This won't keep you warm, I guess,

but there may be some comfort in it.

Buck Henry, now you ain't eat a bite.

Go ahead now and eat something.

You have to get your strength back.

I guess you ain't changed your mind about letting

me go out after Rance.

He's a killer, Buck Henry.

I don't care what he done, boy.

This here's a job for the law.

Why, Rance'd cut you up and hang you out to dry

before you could bat a eyeball.

He's pretty nigh did it already.

He killed my pa, Deputy.

Now, the way I see it, I got a duty.

You've got a duty to get that noggin healed up

and take care of your pa's place here.

Sounds to me like that's what he'd be wanting.

You didn't know him.

He was a proud man.

Now, I know what he'd have expected of me.

[sigh]

Want more coffee?

Yeah, reckon we could sodder up a little bit.

Kid, it don't make no near mind what you think.

I'm telling you how it's got to be.

These here kind of finding a dead guy to be left up to law.

Don't you see?

No young--

[bang]

I sure gave you enough chances, Deputy.

You're about as stubborn as Pa was.

Now come first light and it's me going after Rance.

Good morning, Mr. Brody.

Good morning, Buck Henry.

Hurt yourself, did you?

Oh, it's nothing.

I-- I, uh, got some business to attend to for a few days,

so I was wondering if you could go over and water

the stock while I'm gone.

I'd be pleased to.

You know, it ain't too often a man gets a chance to do

the Woolfe family a favor.

How's your pa?

He's dead.

He's dead?

Shot down, yesterday afternoon.

I don't know what to say.

Nothing to say.

It's done.

He's buried.

Only one thing left to do now, I'm

the one to take care of that.

Who done it?

Rance.

Rance.

Yeah, John always did say that Rance wasn't worth the pyre

it'd take to boil him all to hell.

Listen, I don't like the idea of your riding out alone.

You just say the word and I'll go along with you.

I guess it's my affair, Mr. Brody.

Well, you take care, boy.

Joanie's down at the house doing some washing,

if you want to see her.

Thank you.

I'll go down there.

I got me a deputy marshal tied up in Pa's bed.

Don't forget to cut him loose when you go down there, OK?

Buck Henry, you got a place here.

You remember that.

I will.

If I ain't back in a couple of weeks,

the stock and place is yours.

I left the paper in the house.

I don't want it going to the state for taxes.

Buck Henry?

What on earth are you doing here on a weekday?

And what happened to your head?

Oh, scratched myself in my sleep.

I was going to ask you to run off with me,

but seeing you looking like that, I changed my mind.

Oh, you wait.

Joanie-- I, um, I come by to tell you that

I won't be visiting for awhile.

What?

I got to be away for awhile.

See, Pa's dead.

Pa?

How?

He was shot down, happened yesterday.

My Uncle Rance did it.

-I'm so sorry. -It's done.

Being sorry don't help none.

Only thing that helps now is setting things straight.

Would it matter if I didn't want you to go?

I knew you wouldn't want me to before I got here.

Joanie, I didn't come for advice.

I come to feel you close to me.

Oh, Buck Henry.

I'm so sorry.

You're shivering.

Well, someone walking across my grave, I guess.

Bye, Joanie.

It's that plain knuckle head.

Can't be worried about one thing,

getting somebody back here to cut me loose.

Well, he's an honest boy.

And he's after my daughter Joanie, you know.

Well, if I was you, I wouldn't go out and buy no rice till I

brang him back here alive.

He's out there after a killer, his own uncle.

I know it.

You know-- and you stood there flat-footed and let him go?

Well, you're a law man and you didn't

have much luck in stopping him.

I'm just a farmer.

Say, listen, how about you and me riding up to the place

and having a bite to eat?

Oh, I ain't got no time for that.

I'm high-tailing it out of here trying

to keep that skamp from getting his head blowed off.

My daughter Joanie can fix us up some biscuits

and eggs in no time at all.

You're facing a long trail on an empty stomach.

Well, I can run them two down without no vittles in my belly

if that's what I got to do.

The only thing I can't figure out

is why you're so old fired bent on slowing me down.

Looks to me like you're trying to lose

your daughter a husband.

Well, all I know is that Buck Henry deserves a chance to try.

That's all I'd ask for myself.

There ain't one of you up here that understands that this

is business for the law.

It's still be amazing.

Give me a whiskey.

You there.

You talking to me?

Would you be a poker player?

Glass for the lady here.

Maybe.

Right now I have some other things to take care of.

I am at your service.

[laughter]

Come on, Musket.

You can't do this now.

All right.

You asked for it.

You know what'd Pa do.

Uh, ma'am?

Who are you?

Deputy US Marshal--

You look like you can handle mules.

Well, I reckon I can.

Well, then, get down here and get this one to move.

I can't be standing around here like this.

Whoa, whoa.

Now it wouldn't hurt you none to quit being

so short with your elders.

'Sides, what in the tarnation you

doing way out here in the middle of no place?

This here ain't no country for a girl all by her own self.

I'm looking for somebody.

Maybe you've seen him.

He's 18.

His name is Buck Henry Woolfe.

You gotta be that there Joanie, ain't you?

How'd you know that?

Well, I know a heap more about that whole outfit

than anybody needs to know.

Now, that don't change things a bit.

You're getting on that mule and you're turning around.

And you're heading home.

Not if the mule don't move.

Well, before you learn to mule anything,

you've got no more than the mule knows.

Go on, get in your saddle.

Now, looky here, mule.

You see this here stick?

Much obliged, Deputy.

Well, wait a minute.

You're-- you're supposed to turn around and go the other way.

Must be the blame up here that makes

them all so that gum stubborn.

Tell you, they're all just plain silly in the head.

Come on, Bullet.

The only way I'll go back now is if you take me.

Then you'd never catch up with him.

The next town we get to, I'm fixing

to find some folks to put you up till I can

get back and fetch you home.

Now this here ain't no time for no she male

youngin to be tagging along.

Don't you understand why I got to get to Buck?

Whoa.

'Course I can see how you feel, but think

how everybody else'd feel if you was to get yourself shot.

Well, your pa's probably done fretted himself sick

because he went back to the farm and found you gone.

I ain't gonna stay behind.

Looky here, missy.

You're going to stay behind even if I got to throw you in jail.

Jail?

That's what I said and I mean it.

10.

Hand, again.

I call you.

Pair of kings.

Two pair, nines and fives.

Hey.

Have you enough, my friend?

Deal the cards, lady.

You're having yourself quite a run of luck, ain't you?

Luck has nothing to do with it.

Don't you ever get tired of looking at a man?

It's my pastime.

You don't have to sit there.

Well, I'm going to sit here, mister,

until I get all my money back.

You hear me?

Why don't we get it over with, my friend?

Five cards, all up for what you have left.

You deal the cards, lady.

Ace king, amber man.

I can see.

Pair of threes.

Look at you.

Game seems to be over.

You've got all my money, mister.

I need that money.

You're a bad poker player, my friend.

And you drink too much when you shouldn't.

Your luck, your money, and your welcome have just expired.

[gunshots]

All right, time for you to ride on out of here.

I'm hit.

You'd better ride, my friend, while you can.

Hey, there, boy.

Reed, give me a hand.

Get inside.

Watch that step.

Get him over there on this table.

Bring that other table over.

Easy now, boy.

Get his legs up there, Reed.

I got it.

Watch the bad one.

Yeah.

Put something under his head.

So you're the one that started all that commotion.

That wasn't a very fair fight you set up on him.

I didn't come to fight him.

I came to kill him.

And I still aim to.

Take it easy, boy.

I don't know what he did to you, but I trust it's worthy of what

you have in mind for him.

You hit him.

He's hurt badly.

Now you can take that for whatever satisfaction

it is and quit while you're ahead of the game.

He killed my pa.

Well, that's a different problem.

Hold steady now.

Hm, at least the bullet went through clean.

Rita, hand me that whiskey.

And I'll need some bandages.

Last petticoat I had went up to my knees.

Easy now.

Stings, does it?

Well, it'll clean it up better than anything

else there is around here.

Rita, see that he drinks the rest of that.

Deputy, is that a town up ahead?

Plain sure looks like it, don't it?

Hold steady now.

Just say it's a small service, huh?

In light of your intention to go out there and let

your friend finish your job.

Easy.

Easy.

Easy.

Easy.

Give me a hand.

Why are you helping me?

Why are you doing all this?

Let's just say I owe you one.

I had an opportunity to do you a big favor.

I let it go by.

One more thing you'd better understand, boy.

That bullet hole, you lose any more blood,

you'll never stay in that saddle.

I'm obliged to you, all of you.

Believe I'll have myself a drink.

Hey, mister, I'm looking for a feller, a killer.

Just wondering if you'd seen him pass by this way.

He's 30, 35 years old, six feet tall,

kind of a quick tempered scamp.

I-- I think I saw your man, Deputy.

He rode north tonight.

There was another one, his name was Buck Henry.

There was a boy.

Is he all right?

Where is he?

That young man of yours is quite a rarity

in this world, girl, one who knows

exactly what he wants from it.

I found that calls for a fit of meditation.

But where is he?

He stopped long enough to take a bullet in the leg,

then he took off after the killer.

You could have stopped him.

Perhaps.

But there are certain issues in which a man of good conscience

may choose not to intrude himself.

Now this here boy, was he shot bad, was he?

Not so bad as the gunfighter.

The gunfighter, by this time tomorrow, is a dead man.

But there's a reasonably good chance that he could kill

your young man before then.

Obliged.

Miss, the mule, now, it's just too slow for both of us.

You got to promise me something, that you'll stay right here

and wait for me till I get back.

Now will you promise?

You'll catch him?

I aim to try, Ms. Joanie.

Now, mister, I'm fixing to leave this here

young lady here with you.

And I don't expect nothing to happen to her.

Will you sit down here, next to me, girl?

Do it.

Let this soldier be on his way.

You and I will just sit together for awhile.

Just don't you forget what I told you.

You can set your heart at ease, Deputy.

Satan closed up shop a long time ago.

Buck Henry.

[gunshot]

Buck Henry.

I didn't mean to kill John.

Just happened, you hear me?

[gunshot]

It just happened.

I told you, boy.

[gunshot]

Buck Henry?

Is that you, Pa?

I want to go home.

Girl.

There's a room upstairs.

Why don't you get some sleep?

I couldn't.

Try.

When you wake up, I'll hire some responsible citizen

from this disreputable community to escort you home.

I ain't leaving till he comes back.

You do as you're told, girl.

Oh, Buck.

But the deputy?

Oh, he went on, said he had to get home, see about a friend.

I never thought I'd see you again.

Your leg.

Oh, it's all right.

He fixed me up, made me rest till I got my strength back.

Bartender, a bottle of elderberry wine,

and three glasses.

No worry here.

You're gonna be black and blue and kind of sore for awhile,

but you'll be all right.

Well, thanks, Doc.

Don't mention it.

Marshal, I'm sure glad you got back.

We haven't heard a word from Festus

and it's been almost a week. -Oh.

Feels more like a month.

Well, for heaven's sakes.

Festus.

Mr. Lathrope, it sure is good to see you up and around.

Well, I'm sure glad to see you, Festus.

What happened?

Yeah, what happened, Festus?

What--

I'll tell you.

That there Rance Woolfe, Matthew,

he ain't never going to hurt nobody again.

I-- I--

[snoring]

Tell you something, Matt, I think that old mule's

going to need a little rest.

Yes, sir.

You know, by golly, I was doggone

worried about him this time.

I sure was.

Now don't go tell him I said that.

[theme music]

NARRATOR: Stay tuned for exciting scenes

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