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Gunsmoke - "Brother Whelp" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Stedman Rutger comes back to Dodge after six years away,
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  Speaker 1: only to find his brother Tom holding the family ranch
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  Speaker 1: and married to Tassie, once Stedman's fiancée. That return places
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  Speaker 1: old resentment squarely within Marshal Matt Dillon's jurisdiction, as the
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  Speaker 1: Rutger family faces the prospect of violence. From CBS Radio,
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  Speaker 1: this is Gunsmoke, episode 241, Brother Whelp, originally broadcast November 18th, 1956.
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  Speaker 1: William Conrad stars as Marshall Dillon, with Parley Bear as Chester,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and Howard McNear as Doc Adams.
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  Speaker 1: Les Crutchfield wrote the script, Norman MacDonald produced and directed,
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  Speaker 1: and now our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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  Speaker 2: gun smoke.
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  Speaker 3: © BF-WATCH TV 2021.
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  Speaker 4: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad.
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  Speaker 2: The story of the violence that moved west with young America.
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  Speaker 2: And the story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 5: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 5: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 5: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 3: My. What I do to Claire.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dillon, a man can get a whole lot out of
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  Speaker 8: books if he just puts his mind to it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess he can at that, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: Did you know they got books on everything? Man takes
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  Speaker 8: time to read them. There's books on politics, history, geography,
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  Speaker 8: hog raising.
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  Speaker 4: Which one are you working on now?
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  Speaker 8: Well, this here book ain't exactly one of them top ones,
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  Speaker 8: but it's still mighty valuable, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what's it called?
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  Speaker 7: Advanced Theories in the Art of Draw Poker.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, there you could stand some improving, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: That game last night was any sample.
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  Speaker 7: I'll get it back. That's why Doc loaned me this
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  Speaker 7: book of his.
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  Speaker 4: Doc loaned you? Chester, Doc lost more in that game
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  Speaker 4: than you did.
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  Speaker 8: Well, yes, but the card just wasn't with him. But
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  Speaker 8: he's got the theories down cold. This book tells you
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  Speaker 8: every play there is, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Tassie. Uh, what? Come in.
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  Speaker 9: He's come back, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Who's come back?
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  Speaker 9: Stead.
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  Speaker 10: Stead Rudger.
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  Speaker 9: I just saw him ride in. I'm afraid, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: He's been away a long time, Tassie.
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  Speaker 9: I know, but he won't have changed any. You know
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  Speaker 9: the kind he is.
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  Speaker 4: Six years, a man can calm down an awful lot.
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  Speaker 4: Not Stead.
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  Speaker 9: A lot of things have changed since he left.
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  Speaker 4: I guess that's true enough.
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  Speaker 9: When he finds out about me and Tom, there's going
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  Speaker 9: to be trouble. Marshal, can't you arrest him?
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  Speaker 4: Arrest him? On what charge? He hasn't done anything.
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  Speaker 9: But he will, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: Believe me, he will.
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  Speaker 9: You've got to keep him and Tom apart.
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  Speaker 4: Where's Tom now?
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  Speaker 9: Over at the Long Branch. Marshal, what are you going
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  Speaker 9: to do?
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  Speaker 5: Look, Tessie, I don't go looking for trouble. Now, Stead
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  Speaker 5: can't expect to find everything the same way as he left.
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  Speaker 9: But he will, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: I know it. Hello, Sted.
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  Speaker 6: Evening, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Tassie. Well, hello, Tassie.
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  Speaker 9: How are you, Sted?
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  Speaker 10: Talk about luck. Come here to ask the Marshal where
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  Speaker 10: to find you, and.
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  Speaker 4: Right here you are.
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  Speaker 10: And prettier than ever.
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  Speaker 4: No, Sted.
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 11: Now, what kind of talk is that for a man
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  Speaker 11: to hear from his intent?
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  Speaker 9: Marshal, please.
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  Speaker 5: Sted, wait a minute. You've been away quite a while,
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  Speaker 5: haven't you?
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  Speaker 10: Long enough.
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  Speaker 4: Too long, maybe, Sted. Tassie's married now. Married? That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Been almost three years, hasn't it, Tassie? Yeah. Who'd you marry?
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  Speaker 6: Tom.
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  Speaker 10: My brother, Tom?
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  Speaker 9: That's right, Sted.
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  Speaker 10: Sneaking rotten snake.
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  Speaker 2: You've got room to call names Riding out of town
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  Speaker 2: free as air Never a word from.
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  Speaker 10: You No good double crossing brother of mine.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, he's so no good He's worked himself half to
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  Speaker 2: death Trying to save the ranch.
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  Speaker 10: After your pa died.
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  Speaker 4: Pa's dead, huh?
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  Speaker 9: Two years ago.
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  Speaker 11: So Tom got the ranch along with my girl Well
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  Speaker 11: Tom made a clean sweep for himself Tassie.
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  Speaker 4: You better run along now. You leave this to me,
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  Speaker 4: will you?
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  Speaker 9: All right, Marshal. Goodbye, Sted.
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  Speaker 10: Tassie, as far as I'm concerned, you're still my girl.
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  Speaker 9: I said goodbye, Sted.
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  Speaker 4: She's still my girl. Sted, I'm going to give you
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  Speaker 4: some advice. You forget about her. You just ride on.
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  Speaker 11: I may just do that, Marshal. But not till after
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  Speaker 11: I talk to Brother Tom.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's get it over with. You'll find him
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  Speaker 4: at the Long Branch. Thanks. And you'll find me right
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  Speaker 4: beside you while you talk.
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  Speaker 10: No call for that.
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  Speaker 4: I just aim to tell him something. Tell him what?
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  Speaker 10: Tell him I'm going to kill him.
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  Speaker 6: The End.
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  Speaker 10: Some things don't change, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, such as?
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  Speaker 10: This here old long branch. Just a little noisier, is all.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Well, your brother's down there at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the bar.
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  Speaker 10: So I noticed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now.
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  Speaker 10: Bad blood gun. Hello, Miss Kitty. You still look the same.
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  Speaker 10: You haven't changed much yourself, Sted. Come on, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 10: See you later, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 5: Buckstead, I hope you got it straight. You go for
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  Speaker 5: your gun and you know what'll happen.
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  Speaker 10: Just a little family reunion, Marshal. Don't you worry about
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  Speaker 10: a thing.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening, Marshal. Well, haven't seen you for quite a.
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  Speaker 4: Spell, Stead.
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  Speaker 6: Heard you was in town.
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  Speaker 10: Tell me, how are you, Tom?
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  Speaker 6: Stead, it's good to see you.
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  Speaker 10: What you holding your hand out for, waiting to rot?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 6: I just thought we'd shake, for old time's sake.
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  Speaker 10: It's for old time's sake I'm gonna kill you.
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  Speaker 12: Now wait, Stead, if that's a joke or something.
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  Speaker 4: You ran into Tassie in my office, Tom. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think it is a joke.
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  Speaker 6: But, well, Stead, you got things all wrong.
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  Speaker 7: I can explain about things if you just let me.
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  Speaker 10: Same way you explain to Tassie, maybe?
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  Speaker 8: Look.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't mean to do it, Sted. It just happened.
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  Speaker 12: You was gone so long. Well, I just fell in.
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  Speaker 10: Love with her, that's all. You're claiming that makes it
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  Speaker 10: all right?
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  Speaker 12: I thought you'd forget her, Sted, before you'd been gone
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  Speaker 12: a month. That's how it was with her. In six months,
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  Speaker 12: she was all over.
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  Speaker 10: I'll just bet she was with you helping her.
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, she'd forgot about you.
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  Speaker 4: All right, fine.
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  Speaker 10: Then she forgets easy, Tom. So in six months, she'll
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  Speaker 10: forget about you.
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  Speaker 6: Marshal, are you going to stand for this?
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  Speaker 4: I can't run him in for talking, Tom.
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  Speaker 10: We're going to settle this ourselves, Tom. Just you and me.
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  Speaker 12: You're a gunman, Stead, for six years now. I heard
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  Speaker 12: about you. I ain't got a chance against you.
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  Speaker 4: You did. Should have thought of that before. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Tom, are you in any position to pay him off
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  Speaker 5: in cash for his share of the ranch?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I reckon I could borrow it from the bank,
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  Speaker 12: but he ain't got no share, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: Pa left the whole thing to me.
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  Speaker 11: The whole thing to you. But tomorrow night you won't
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  Speaker 11: be worrying about the ranch or about Tassie.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 10: Just listen to me, Tom. Early tomorrow morning I'll be
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  Speaker 10: sitting on the front porch of the Dodge house, just
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  Speaker 10: waiting for you.
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  Speaker 11: And unless you want it to happen right in front
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  Speaker 11: of Tassie, you better ride in.
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  Speaker 10: If you ain't showed there by sundown, I'll ride out
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  Speaker 10: after you. Stay down. Good night, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: What am I going to do?
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  Speaker 4: Looks like it's already been done, Tom. The day you
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  Speaker 4: married Tessa.
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  Speaker 6: She's the one that counts. She's the only one.
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  Speaker 4: Stead doesn't see it that way.
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  Speaker 12: He thinks I wronged him, but he won't listen.
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  Speaker 6: He never would.
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  Speaker 12: But I ain't going to let it hurt her, no
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  Speaker 12: matter what it takes. Well, I tell you what, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: I'll stay and I'll raise you 50 cents.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you will. I'll just go right along with you
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  Speaker 10: on that raise, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I was hoping you would, Doc. Sure you will.
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  Speaker 10: How many cards you want?
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  Speaker 4: Let me see now. Give me three. Three?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, raise me 50 cents on nothing but a pair. Oh, my.
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  Speaker 10: I'm taking one. You ought to read that book I
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  Speaker 10: loaned to Chester.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 10: Might keep you from pulling such darn fool moves as that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll try to get around to it before the
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  Speaker 5: winter's over, Doc. All right, Doc. Here's another dollar at you.
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  Speaker 10: Dollar? Dollar? Oh, Matt, are you crazy?
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  Speaker 4: What way of finding out, Doc?
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  Speaker 10: Drill three cards, then go right in for a dollar. Yes,
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  Speaker 10: you're aiming to bluff. But you're talking to the fellow
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  Speaker 10: who invented bluffing.
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  Speaker 4: Is that so? Well, Doc, if you'll just see me.
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  Speaker 10: All right, all right. I'm staying right with you. And
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  Speaker 10: I'm upping you 50 cents. Oh, yes, if a man
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  Speaker 10: wants to throw his money around like a rum-drunk Comanche,
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  Speaker 10: I'm always glad to buy it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come on in, Chester. How's Stead making up?
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  Speaker 8: Well, he's still sitting there on the porch at the
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  Speaker 8: Dodge house, but he's getting kindly fidgety, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon. He is, huh?
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  Speaker 8: I reckon he ain't gonna wait much longer. It can't
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  Speaker 8: be more than a half hour till sundown.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess we better ride out ourselves, Joseph.
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
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  Speaker 10: No, you don't, Matt.
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  Speaker 7: No, no.
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  Speaker 10: Not just when I got you over a barrel.
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  Speaker 4: Doc, I got some business to attend to.
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  Speaker 10: It'll keep until we finish this hand. Your bet, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you'll watch this, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: It's right out of the book. All right, you raise
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  Speaker 4: 50 cents, Doc, and I'll call you.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, John, I was hoping you'd raise it some more.
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  Speaker 4: You're greedy, Doc. Okay, lay him down.
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  Speaker 10: It is a pleasure. Yes, I drew to a flush,
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  Speaker 10: and I made it.
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  Speaker 6: All blue.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my, that pot looks like it's worth about five dollars. Doc,
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  Speaker 4: wait just a minute. You know that pair I held? What? Well,
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  Speaker 4: they were aces, and I drew three cards. A pair
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  Speaker 4: of deuces. And another ace.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I declare.
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  Speaker 10: A fool, Howells! Oh, but the book says the odds
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  Speaker 10: against you.
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  Speaker 4: I never read the book, Doc. Let's see, that comes
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  Speaker 4: to $ 5. 00. Thank you, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Guess we better head out, Chester.
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  Speaker 10: But, Matt, it's against all theory.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're probably right, Doc. It was a hunch, that's all. Doc?
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  Speaker 8: Doc, I ain't got much time for reading anymore. I'll
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  Speaker 8: get that book back to you first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 10: Keep it, Chester. Keep it!
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  Speaker 4: Keep it!
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  Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dillon, if you don't show up pretty soon, I'm going
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  Speaker 8: to be nothing but a doggone human icicle.
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  Speaker 4: He'll show up, Chester.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe he won't.
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  Speaker 7: It's just too doggone cold for him to even think
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  Speaker 7: about killing.
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  Speaker 4: It's not cold when you're carrying the hate in you
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  Speaker 4: that Stead is, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: It's a downright shame.
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  Speaker 8: Things being all twisted up this way, it just ain't justice,
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  Speaker 8: that's all.
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  Speaker 4: No, but it's a fact.
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  Speaker 7: It's a shame.
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  Speaker 4: Quiet, Chester.
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  Speaker 7: It must be him, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I sure don't care who hears him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he told Tom what he was gonna do.
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  Speaker 4: Tom? Hold it, Steadfoot. It's Marshal Dillon. You're covered. You
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  Speaker 4: walk up here slow. Oh, it is the Marshal. And
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  Speaker 4: still riding herd. Yeah. Tom's not here.
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  Speaker 11: The light in the house.
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  Speaker 4: Tassie's there.
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  Speaker 10: Well, she don't need no protection.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe she does, in a way. I'll ask you something, Ted.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about Tassie? You know how I feel. Maybe...
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  Speaker 4: But do you love her enough to put her ahead
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  Speaker 4: of yourself?
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  Speaker 10: It ain't a matter of that the way I look
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  Speaker 10: at it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid it is, Stead. Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: You know you're taking quite a bit onto.
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  Speaker 4: Yourself, ain't you? I'm just trying to stop a killing, Stead.
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  Speaker 5: I know you could get him to draw on you
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  Speaker 5: and claim self-defense and you'd probably go free.
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  Speaker 4: But it won't get you what you want, Stead. It
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  Speaker 4: will get me what I want.
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  Speaker 10: And she'll forget him in six months.
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  Speaker 4: She'll never forget him. And neither will you. Oh, Tassie! Hey,
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  Speaker 4: wait a minute. What you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I could have told you this, but I figured it
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  Speaker 5: was better to get you out here and show you.
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  Speaker 10: Is that you, Marshal?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, yeah. Could you come out a minute, Tassie? Stead's here.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Sted, if you love her, you think it over
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  Speaker 4: before you go on trying to kill your brother.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Tassie.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, Sted may be riding on tonight, and I figured that, uh,
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  Speaker 5: I ought to have a look at his nephew first.
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  Speaker 4: What? Uh, can you hold up Matt's chair, Chester?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: We're not careful.
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  Speaker 4: Shh.
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  Speaker 9: Don't wake him up.
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  Speaker 10: Nephew? Tassie, you mean you and Tom?
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  Speaker 9: He's six months old now. I supposed you'd heard.
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  Speaker 10: Here, let me....
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's his name?
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  Speaker 9: Stedman Rutger. Stedman? It was Tom's idea. He wanted to
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  Speaker 9: name him for you. It's awful cold for him out here.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah, well, get him back in the house, Tassie. Oh, listen, it's...
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  Speaker 13: Like Marshall said, I'm riding on tonight. I just wanted to...
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  Speaker 13: see him and say goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: And and good luck tassie if if ever you need
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  Speaker 4: for anything like you can reach me somehow.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you sted good luck to you night marshall.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, Tassie, by the way, Tom will be out later. He, uh,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: accidentally got locked up in jail today.
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  Speaker 10: In jail?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he'll explain when he gets here. Good night, Tassie.
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  Speaker 9: Good night, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: All right, you win, Marshal. It's like poker, Sted. You
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  Speaker 5: size up your man, then you play your hunches. I
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  Speaker 5: kind of had a hunch that you really did care
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  Speaker 5: for her.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I ain't getting no younger around here. See you
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  Speaker 10: again sometime.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Stud. Listen, Marshal.
• 18:46
  Speaker 10: You keep an eye on her, will you? Her and
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  Speaker 10: the kid both.
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  Speaker 4: Sure I will, Stud. Good luck. Thank you, Marshal. Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald, starred William Conrad as
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  Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: The script was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield,
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  Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by John Meston. The music was composed
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  Speaker 2: and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Ray Campbell.
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  Speaker 2: and George Ellis is Kidding.
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