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Gunsmoke - "Tag, You're It" (Old Time Radio, 1958) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: William Conrad leads the cast as Marshal Matt Dillon, with
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  Speaker 1: Parley Bear, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Vic Perrin, Richard Crenna,
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  Speaker 1: and Virginia Christine. In Dodge City, a reputed hired killer
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  Speaker 1: named Carl Killian arrives, but will not say who has
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  Speaker 1: brought him there, or who may be in his sights.
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  Speaker 1: Several townsmen begin to wonder whether they are the intended target,
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  Speaker 1: while Dillon has no charge on which to hold Killian
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  Speaker 1: and works to prevent the confrontation the gunman appears to
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  Speaker 1: be seeking. From CBS Radio, written by Les Crutchfield and
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  Speaker 1: directed by Norman MacDonald, this is Gunsmoke, Tag, You're It,
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  Speaker 1: episode 339, originally broadcast October 5th, 1958. And now, our
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  Speaker 1: 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. Gun smoke. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story
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  Speaker 2: of the violence that moved west with young America. And
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  Speaker 2: the story of a man who moved with it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: The first man they look for and the last they
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  Speaker 3: want to meet.
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  Speaker 4: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
• 1:51
  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 3: A morning like this makes a man feel mighty perky, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks to be a nice day, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Sun shining, fine breeze starting up, and breakfast waiting right
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  Speaker 3: down the seat there.
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  Speaker 4: I wondered how long it'd be before you'd get around
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  Speaker 4: to mentioning food.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I like to eat.
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  Speaker 4: I know, Chester, I know.
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  Speaker 3: Give you a knife and a fork and you turn
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  Speaker 3: into a tiger.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, it ain't that bad. Wait a minute, Chester. Well,
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  Speaker 5: been a long time, Matthew.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a long time, Carl.
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  Speaker 3: Just rode into town five minutes ago and the first
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  Speaker 3: man I run into is you. Well, I'm the first
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  Speaker 3: one a lot of them run into. This is Chester Proudfoot,
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  Speaker 3: Carl Killian.
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  Speaker 4: Chester? Hi, Mr. Killian.
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  Speaker 5: That a badge you're wearing, Matthew?
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Marshal here in Dodge.
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  Speaker 5: A lawman.
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  Speaker 4: Well, who'd ever have thought it? Yeah. Well, it seems
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  Speaker 4: we both sold our guns in different ways. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: know about that. I.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still a drifter, Matthew. Same as always.
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  Speaker 4: So I've heard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just a saddle bum here today, gone tomorrow. But
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  Speaker 3: it's what happens between today and tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it, Carl?
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  Speaker 5: Nobody ever knows ahead of time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they pretty well do when you hit town the
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  Speaker 3: way I've been hearing it.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, you know how easy stories get started.
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  Speaker 3: Gun for hire, $ 1, 000 a job, results guaranteed.
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  Speaker 4: That's how the stories go, Carl.
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  Speaker 5: When a fella ain't got a regular job, folks make.
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  Speaker 4: Up things about him. You're a hired killer, Carl, and
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  Speaker 4: we both know it.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't you kind of a hired killer yourself, Matthew?
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  Speaker 4: Who are you here for, Carl? Who are you figuring
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  Speaker 4: to kill?
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  Speaker 3: Well, now, if I was the kind of man them
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  Speaker 3: stories say, you don't think I'd answer that, do you?
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  Speaker 4: You're here for a killing. Nothing else would bring you
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  Speaker 4: to Dodge, right?
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  Speaker 5: You a lawman for real, Matthew.
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  Speaker 3: or just a bronco in this town for your own benefit?
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  Speaker 4: I'm a lawman. Funny.
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  Speaker 3: Years back when we used to cut brush for strays.
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  Speaker 4: Down on the Pecos.
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  Speaker 3: we'd lay there at night in our bedrolls.
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  Speaker 4: and look at the stars and talk.
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  Speaker 3: But we never figured it'd turn out like this someday, Carl.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you get out of town while you still can?
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  Speaker 5: No, I figured I'd look around a few days... See
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  Speaker 5: what kind of place you got here.
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  Speaker 3: I'll see you, Matthew.
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  Speaker 4: Nice to meet you, Chester. So long.
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  Speaker 3: Well, them is the coldest pair of eyes I ever
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  Speaker 3: seen in man's head, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: He got married the year after we worked together, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: Some fence cutters burned his place one night. Killed his wife.
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  Speaker 3: He run them down and shot them, all four of them.
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  Speaker 3: And then he couldn't seem to stop after that.
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  Speaker 5: Who do you reckon he's after?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it gives you the creeps not knowing when or who.
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  Speaker 4: Forget it, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let's get some breakfast, huh? You go on ahead, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: For some reason, I guess I just ain't hungry. No, sirree,
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  Speaker 5: I do not understand this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we'll see what.
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  Speaker 5: Matt? What's this friend of yours up to, anyhow?
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  Speaker 4: Huh? Which friend, Doc?
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  Speaker 5: Carl Killian, that's who.
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  Speaker 4: He's not a friend. Been a long time since he was.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 4: What's he been doing?
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  Speaker 5: That's just it, nothing. He's not been doing one busted thing.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then.
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  Speaker 5: Not everybody in town.
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  Speaker 3: Knows who he is and what he's here for. But
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  Speaker 3: they don't know who the mark's on. Why, it's got
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  Speaker 3: them so spooked they're ready to jump out of their
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  Speaker 3: skins whenever a door closes. Well, I can't do much
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  Speaker 3: about it, Doc, until he tips his hand some way.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't committed any crime in Dodge and he's not
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  Speaker 3: wanted anywhere else.
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  Speaker 5: And why isn't he wanted?
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  Speaker 3: And he always managed to goad his victims into making
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  Speaker 3: the first move, so it's self-defense.
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  Speaker 5: Ahem.
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  Speaker 3: You got any idea who he's after?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's two dozen or more men around town who
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  Speaker 3: think they're the one.
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  Speaker 4: One of them may be right, Doc.
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  Speaker 3: Killian stopped in front of Wilbur Jones' store window this morning,
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  Speaker 3: stood looking in there for a while.
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  Speaker 5: As soon as he left, Wilbur locked up and went home.
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  Speaker 3: And he's been sitting home there in this parlor ever since,
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  Speaker 3: with a shotgun across his knees.
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  Speaker 4: I doubt he's after Wilbur.
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  Speaker 5: But you don't know.
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  Speaker 4: One of you men the marshal? Yeah, I am.
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  Speaker 3: Come on in.
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  Speaker 4: Marshal, there's a man here in Dodge that's fixing to
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  Speaker 4: kill me. Oh? What's your name? Tex Bartow. This man
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  Speaker 4: calls himself Carl Killian.
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  Speaker 5: He's been hired to follow me here and do me in.
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  Speaker 3: Well, half the town thinks that same thing, Tex.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I know.
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  Speaker 5: I seen him in Pueblo two weeks ago, and now
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  Speaker 5: he turns up here.
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  Speaker 4: Pueblo, huh? I got in some trouble there, Marshal.
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  Speaker 5: Not with law.
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  Speaker 4: I was cleared.
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  Speaker 5: But I killed a man in a fight, and his
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  Speaker 5: friends swore they'd get me one.
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  Speaker 6: Way or another.
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  Speaker 4: How does Killian figure it out? He was there.
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  Speaker 5: He's seen the fight. I didn't know who he was then,
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  Speaker 5: but I remember his face all right.
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  Speaker 3: And they hired him.
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  Speaker 4: I know they have.
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  Speaker 5: He ain't here just by accident. You might be right, man.
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  Speaker 3: If Killian wasn't poor blow just before he came here,
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  Speaker 3: that must be where he was hired.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe. You've got to lock him up, Marshal. I can't
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  Speaker 4: do that, Tex. I got no charge.
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  Speaker 5: But if you don't, he'll kill me.
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  Speaker 4: Run away wouldn't even help. He'd just follow me.
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  Speaker 3: Keep clear of him, Tex. Don't let him push you
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  Speaker 3: into drawing against him.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you staying? Dodge House. All right, then go
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  Speaker 4: on over there and stay there. And keep off the street, huh?
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  Speaker 4: All right. In the meantime, I'll try to figure something out. Okay, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: So long.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, if he's not the one, Matt, there's another possibility you, uh,
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  Speaker 3: maybe haven't even thought of.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, me, you mean? Yeah, I thought of it, Doc.
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  Speaker 5: Would he take a.
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  Speaker 4: Job like that?
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  Speaker 5: Would you be in friends once? You think he'd really
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  Speaker 5: do that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he'd do it.
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  Speaker 6: Matt, if you don't run that man out of town,
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  Speaker 6: I might as well close up here and take a vacation.
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  Speaker 6: He's practically living here.
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  Speaker 5: At the Long Branch.
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  Speaker 4: Why not? You serve the best beer in town, Kitty.
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  Speaker 2: He's about the only one I serve it to.
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  Speaker 6: The minute he comes in, the rest of the boys
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  Speaker 6: start edging toward the door.
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  Speaker 4: You can't blame them.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty hard to relax with the executioner standing at
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  Speaker 3: your elbow.
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  Speaker 6: You'd never know. Looking at him.
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  Speaker 3: Evening, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 4: Matthew. Hello, Carl.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how's the law business coming along, Matthew?
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  Speaker 4: The town's been pretty quiet the last few days.
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  Speaker 5: I noticed that.
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  Speaker 3: Don't seem to be hardly any.
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  Speaker 4: People around at all. Well, at least not close to
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  Speaker 4: where you are.
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  Speaker 3: Folks hadn't ought to feel that way.
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  Speaker 5: I don't mean no harm to them.
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  Speaker 4: Were you in Pueblo just before you came here, Carl?
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  Speaker 5: I might have been.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, is that where you took on the job? I
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  Speaker 3: reckon you believe all them stories, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Just like everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Rusty?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good evening, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Killian.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Rusty.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, Miss Fennel. Excuse me for.
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  Speaker 7: Butting in, Miss Kitty, but Melba and Becky wondered.
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  Speaker 6: If they could have the rest of the night off.
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  Speaker 4: I'm seeing there's no.
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  Speaker 3: much business anyhow.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: Tell them to go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: You see, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Killian, you're ruining my business.
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  Speaker 3: I'll try to make up for it some right now
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  Speaker 3: if Miss Fennel will do me the honor of having a.
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  Speaker 4: Drink with me.
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  Speaker 1: Why, sure.
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  Speaker 4: I'd love to. Good.
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  Speaker 3: See you later, Matthew.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give him credit on one thing, Matt.
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  Speaker 4: The girls all like him.
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  Speaker 5: They think he's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he was fine once.
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  Speaker 6: He makes you jumpy, though. The way he moves around.
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  Speaker 6: Not saying much, but always watching.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it started some of the citizens thinking, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, everybody's guilty of something, Matt.
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  Speaker 6: I even catch myself wondering if I'm the one he's after.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not likely, Kitty.
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  Speaker 6: But even you're not sure.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: You see?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I almost wish it had hurry up and
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  Speaker 6: happened so we'd know, so we'd have it over with.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I guess a lot of people feel that way,
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  Speaker 3: but there's nothing they can do. Hey.
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  Speaker 4: What is it, man? Text Bardo, that kid that came
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  Speaker 4: to see me this afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: He's got a gun.
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  Speaker 5: All right, kid! Hold it, Bardo! He tried to shoot
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  Speaker 5: killing in the back.
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: Tried is right. Bardo? Bardo?
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  Speaker 5: You know, I think that boy was aiming to do
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  Speaker 5: me some harm, Matthew.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he's dead, Killian.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't have much choice the way you commented.
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  Speaker 4: You're on the clear.
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  Speaker 3: It was self-defense. I saw it myself. Just another job
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  Speaker 3: done according to order.
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  Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: He was the one you were after, wasn't he?
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  Speaker 5: I never saw that boy before in my life.
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  Speaker 4: Never heard of him. Don't even know his name.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Matthew, if I really was after anybody, I still am.
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  Speaker 5: Good evening, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon. What are you doing back here, Chester? When I
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: gave you the night off, I didn't figure to see
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  Speaker 3: you till morning.
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  Speaker 5: I'm giving up.
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  Speaker 4: Going to bed.
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  Speaker 3: Can't have no fun at all in this town, as
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: long as that doggone old Killian's around. He has kind
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  Speaker 3: of slowed down the nightlife.
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  Speaker 4: Hasn't he?
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  Speaker 5: He just ain't nobody out in no place, hardly.
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  Speaker 3: And them that is, is so busy looking over their
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  Speaker 3: shoulder and jumping sideways that a man can't get to
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  Speaker 3: feeling easy no matter how hard he puts his mind
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  Speaker 3: to it. It just seems a shame to waste all
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: that hair grease and that boiled shirt, though, Chester.
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  Speaker 4: I figured you'd end up as the king.
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  Speaker 5: Of the Long Branch. That's another thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know that little old girl over at Long Branch
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  Speaker 3: that I've.
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  Speaker 5: Been kindly sweet-talking lately?
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: Rusty Fennell?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, now she can't see me for days. She
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: just keeps hanging around him all the time. That's not
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  Speaker 3: smart to get serious over a dancehall girl anyway, Chester. Well, now,
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  Speaker 3: Rusty ain't just a common dancehall girl, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dunn.
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  Speaker 5: She comes from a real good family.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Her papa and mama's dead, but she's got a rich
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  Speaker 3: uncle that's a very important man, and his health ain't too.
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  Speaker 4: Good neither the last couple years. So that's why you're
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  Speaker 4: so interested in her. I thought it was true love, Chester. Yeah, well, now, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon, I ain't one to always be thinking about money,
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  Speaker 3: but it sure don't hurt none to know that the
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  Speaker 3: only heirs is just her and her cousin in Pueblo.
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  Speaker 5: Pueblo? That's where her uncle and her cousin live. What's
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: the matter, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon? Chester, I think I'll drop over to the Long
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  Speaker 3: Branch and have a talk with Rusty. Well, she ain't
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  Speaker 3: there now. She left with that doll darn Killian.
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  Speaker 6: Is that a room?
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Second door down the hall, the landlady said.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Chester, you wait here by the stairway. I'll
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: see if she's come home. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: It'd be better if I talked to her alone.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon.
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  Speaker 4: Who is it?
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  Speaker 3: Marshal Dillon, Rusty. I'd like to talk to you for
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's awful late, Marshal.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: Well, it won't take long, eh? Pretty important. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Just a second. What is it, Marshal?
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Mind if I come in?
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: I guess it's all right.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: Thanks.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: Please don't mind the room.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: When a girl lives alone, she gets careless about throwing
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: things around.
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  Speaker 4: That looks fine to me.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: What is it, Marshal?
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Is anything wrong?
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: No, not exactly, or at least not yet.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Rusty, I hear that you've been seeing quite a bit
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: of Carl Kelly in the.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Last couple of days.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I guess maybe I have.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: I see. Well, I think he's nice.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: I think people are wrong about him.
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  Speaker 3: Rusty, how did you happen to meet him? Did he
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: make a point of trying to get acquainted with you?
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: Well, he came into the Long Branch a few times
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: and he talked to all the girls, but he, well,
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  Speaker 7: he seemed to like me the best.
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  Speaker 5: Can't we talk about something else, Marshal?
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  Speaker 4: Killian's the reason I came here, Rusty.
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: Well, then, come on over by the window.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: It's hot in here.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: All right, sure. Here, let me open it for you. Thanks.
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: This is better, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's fine. You've got a nice view of the
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: street from here.
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  Speaker 7: That's one reason I took the room.
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  Speaker 5: He's behind that screen in the corner.
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  Speaker 3: That's quite a street. Always something going on down there,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: any hour of the.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: Day or night. Yeah, I guess that's right.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: He didn't want to see you.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: There's the night stage pulling in from Walnut Creek, Pueblo,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: and Denver.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Rusty, your life's not worth ten cents, mine either. What?
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I say, it looks like they're carrying a short load tonight.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: I know him. He's got a gun on us right now.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: You're the one he's here to kill.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: I don't believe you.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Just take it easy. I'm going to jump his move.
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: It's the only thing I can do, and I just
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: stand still. Well, I was right. He did have his
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: gun in his hand. Why?
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Why did they want to kill me?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Your cousin hired him. Your uncle died in Pueblo two
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: weeks ago. I checked my telegraph an hour ago. With
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: you dead, too, your cousin would get the whole estate.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: You all right, Mr.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Dillon?
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm all right, Chester. Carl? Carl, I'm sorry.
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: That was a fast draw, Matthew.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. They.
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: They just gave me the name. Rusty Fennel.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I didn't know it was a woman.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Not till I got here. I never took a job
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: like that before.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Who hired you, Carl?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: Young fella in Pueblo. A cousin, I think he said.
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: I'd have turned it down if I'd known it was
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: a woman.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I had to go through with it, though. Matter of honor.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: You call it honor if you want, girl. It's all right, Matthew.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: I'm finished. I'm glad of it. I like the girl.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Only job.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I ever failed on was the last one. The only
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: one I ever.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Failed.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: I thought he was so nice.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: He was just waiting for a chance to kill me.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Well, he'd had four days to do it, Rusty, and
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: he hadn't tried. You know, sometimes a man can win
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: by failing.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: And maybe he got just what he wanted. THE END.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Gunsmoke.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Produced and directed by Norman McDonald. Stars William Conrad as
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Marshal.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: were Vic Perrin, Dick Crenna, and Virginia Christine. Harley Bear
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: is Chester, Howard McNair is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
• 20:01
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