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Gunsmoke - "Paid Killer Reused Script" (Old Time Radio, 1959) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: November 22, 1959 marked episode 398 of CBS Radio's Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 1: In Dodge City, Lawson Hale offers gunman Ed Granger $ 1, 000
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  Speaker 1: in gold to kill Marshal Matt Dillon, and the threat
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  Speaker 1: begins closing in on Dillon. William Conrad stars as Dillon,
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  Speaker 1: with Parley Bear as Chester, Georgia Ellis as Kitty, and
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  Speaker 1: Howard McNear as Doc. Les Crutchfield wrote the script, revisiting
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  Speaker 1: his January 17th, 1953 Gunsmoke story, Paid Killer, and Norman
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  Speaker 1: MacDonald produced the broadcast. Now Gunsmoke, Paid Killer reused script.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke Around Dodge City and in the territory on west,
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  Speaker 2: there's 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 Gunsmoke.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violent
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  Speaker 2: that moved west with young America. And the story of
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  Speaker 2: a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man. Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first
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  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chancy job. And it makes a man watchful.
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  Speaker 4: And a little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: Gunsmoke Hey.
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  Speaker 3: Hey!
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  Speaker 4: Over here. Wasn't the boy who said you wanted to
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  Speaker 4: see me? Yeah. Well, it better be important, mister.
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  Speaker 3: I don't make a habit of coming running with some
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  Speaker 3: saddle-punk whistles.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe you hadn't ought to make a habit of
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  Speaker 6: calling people saddle-punks.
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  Speaker 4: No offense.
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  Speaker 3: Just an expression.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: I came up from the Pecos country. Been here in
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  Speaker 6: Dodge about a week. Maybe you've seen me around.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen you.
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  Speaker 7: I've been talking to people.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Everybody tells me you was a big shot back in Abilene.
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  Speaker 6: Had all the games sold up. Three or four saloons
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  Speaker 6: paying off. Couple of hotels and so on. Then the
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  Speaker 6: boom busted and you come here. Since you've been here,
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  Speaker 6: you got no ways.
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  Speaker 7: You know why?
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  Speaker 4: You're talking. You tell me why. Dylan.
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  Speaker 7: A fella named Matt Dylan. You tried to scare him,
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  Speaker 7: and he wouldn't scare you. So you tried to buy him.
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  Speaker 7: He wouldn't buy.
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  Speaker 6: Tried breaking him, and he wouldn't break.
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  Speaker 3: So....
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  Speaker 6: Be worth a thousand dollars to you if I kill him?
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  Speaker 3: It might. All right.
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  Speaker 7: Get it in gold. Keep it handy. Am I.
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  Speaker 3: Hired? Yeah. Yeah, you're hired. You know, Chester, you haven't
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  Speaker 3: said three words in the last 20 minutes. That's not
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  Speaker 3: like you.
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  Speaker 8: Well....
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Dillon, did you ever get a funny feeling that somebody
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  Speaker 9: was keeping an.
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  Speaker 8: Eye on you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, but.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I got one right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Chester, I think you got a touch of
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  Speaker 3: the heebie-jeebies. As far as I can see, there's nobody
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  Speaker 3: in the whole place paying any attention to us.
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  Speaker 9: Somebody is. I had the same feeling the day of
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  Speaker 9: the Butler brothers come back to Sanford.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: I didn't even know they was in town, but I
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  Speaker 8: knew somebody was getting ready to call us. And about
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  Speaker 8: six o'clock that evening, they made their play. Do you remember?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 8: I was one of the pallbearers next day.
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's the same doggone thing right now.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think you've got the wind up over nothing, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: That town's never been quieter. Jail's been empty for two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: The only new faces around is that bunch of trail
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  Speaker 3: drivers that came up from the Pecos. They're all strangers.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, B.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Been looking all over for you. Oh, hiya, Billy.
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  Speaker 10: I waited over at the jail for nine hours to
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  Speaker 10: an hour.
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  Speaker 4: I got to talk to you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Billy, every time I've given you money, you've
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  Speaker 3: bought yourself a bottle and stayed blind drunk for two days.
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  Speaker 10: Well, it ain't money this time, Marshal. I got something
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  Speaker 10: to tell you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what?
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  Speaker 8: Something I heard.
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  Speaker 10: There's a couple of fellas talking over by the liver stable.
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  Speaker 10: He didn't see me. I was back.
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  Speaker 3: At the water crawl.
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  Speaker 10: Sort of, well, resting, you might say.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know how it is, Marshal. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: A man gets dry in his prairie country. What were
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  Speaker 3: they talking about, Billy? About you.
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  Speaker 10: One of them offered to kill you for a thousand
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  Speaker 10: dollars in gold, and the.
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  Speaker 8: Other one took him up on it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Who were they, Billy? No, sir.
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  Speaker 10: It is dark, and I didn't recognize their voices. They
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  Speaker 10: was already there when I woke up, and they left
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  Speaker 10: right after that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, uh, maybe it was some kind of a joke.
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  Speaker 10: It didn't sound that way to me.
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  Speaker 8: It ain't no joke, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon.
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  Speaker 9: I told you I felt it. There's somebody around who's
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  Speaker 9: been hired to kill you. Can you figure who'd want
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  Speaker 9: to do such a thing, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Dillon?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can figure a dozen or two, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Well, good morning, Marshal.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't seen you since the robbery last month.
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  Speaker 3: Attempted robbery, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Barkin.
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  Speaker 6: So it was, thanks to you. Well, Marshal, the bank's
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  Speaker 6: at your service.
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  Speaker 7: What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 3: Give me some information, if you will. Well, if it
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  Speaker 3: isn't confidential. It is, but I want it anyway.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I hardly know what to say. Perhaps we'd better
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  Speaker 6: step into my office.
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  Speaker 3: All right. This way, gentlemen. Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Now, just what was it you wanted to know?
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  Speaker 3: I want to know whether one of your customers has
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  Speaker 3: drawn a thousand dollars in gold from the bank in
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  Speaker 3: the last few days. Any particular person in mind? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's what I want to find out.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I hope this won't go any farther, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Who was it, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Buchan?
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  Speaker 6: I certainly wish to make it clear that I don't
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  Speaker 6: approve of this man, but after all, he is a
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  Speaker 6: good customer.
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  Speaker 4: It's not my place.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. Who was it?
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  Speaker 6: Lawson Hale. Lawson Hale? He took the gold out just
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  Speaker 6: this morning, as a matter of fact. Said he was
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  Speaker 6: working on a cattle deal of some sort. I do
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  Speaker 6: hope you regard this as confidential, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure. Well, Chester, we know who one of them
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  Speaker 3: is now.
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  Speaker 8: But who's the other? The one who's actually going to
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  Speaker 8: do it?
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  Speaker 3: Some punk who wants a thousand dollars bad. Doesn't care
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  Speaker 3: much how he gets it.
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  Speaker 8: That sure don't narrow it down any. I know. Sure
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  Speaker 8: is quiet tonight, Mr. Jones.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Ain't many people out.
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  Speaker 3: No, not many.
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  Speaker 9: That moon's throwing quite a bit of light.
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  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: There goes to this.
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  Speaker 9: Kindly makes a target out of a man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does, kind of.
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  Speaker 9: If somebody was out to shoot somebody, this would sure
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  Speaker 9: be a good night for it.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose so. Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dillon, would you mind if I make a comment?
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  Speaker 3: I thought that's what you were doing, Chester.
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  Speaker 9: Let's go on back to jail and stay off the streets.
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  Speaker 9: This way, you're just asking for it.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Chester, if it's gonna come, it'll come. I'd rather
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  Speaker 3: meet it halfway than to sit and wait for it.
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  Speaker 8: Asking for it, asking for it, that's what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: It's been two days now, Chester. It gets on your nerves.
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  Speaker 3: When you go out to bring a man in, you
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  Speaker 3: know you may have trouble and you're ready for it, but.
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  Speaker 8: But this way, it's... I understand what you're doing. Kindly
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  Speaker 8: bothers a man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Let's walk on down to the Long Ranch.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Kitty.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, it's good to see you, ma'am.
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  Speaker 10: You've been avoiding.
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  Speaker 3: Us the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 4: Of days.
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  Speaker 3: Been busy, Kitty. Want to sit down? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 8: Not right now, anyway. Something bothering you, Matt?
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  Speaker 4: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Bothering me?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes.
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  Speaker 8: You seem to be on edge about something. Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what?
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  Speaker 8: Lawson Hale just come in.
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  Speaker 3: Down in the bar there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I ought to have a talk with him, Chester.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's one way.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's the one I haven't tried yet. Excuse me, Kitty. Sure, Matt.
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  Speaker 8: Matt, now you be careful.
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  Speaker 4: And I had it right in the palm of my hand.
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  Speaker 4: Bit of the trail driving hit that town. The boys
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  Speaker 4: grab her pay and they'd head straight for one of the.
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  Speaker 4: Something I can do for you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I want to talk to you, Hale.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't see nothing stopping you.
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  Speaker 3: Let's move down the bar a ways.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, but I'm fine right here.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't we move down the bar a ways?
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  Speaker 4: If it's that important to you.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon me, boys.
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  Speaker 4: Come back and finish that story. Is this far enough?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's far enough. I understand you hired yourself a gunman.
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  Speaker 3: And you sent him out to get me. You've offered
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  Speaker 3: him $ 1, 000 in gold. I don't know what you're talking about, Bill.
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  Speaker 3: You wouldn't care to tell me his name, would you?
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  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so, because, you see, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know nothing about it.
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  Speaker 3: What's he waiting for? He's had two days now, and
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  Speaker 3: he hasn't made a move. Well, like I said... Why
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  Speaker 3: don't you do the job, Hale? You're wearing a gun.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you can save yourself some money.
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  Speaker 3: I've got no.
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  Speaker 4: Quarrel with you.
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  Speaker 3: You mean you're yellow? Scared to call your own place?
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  Speaker 3: I said I've got a weaseling no-gut cow at Hale.
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  Speaker 4: I'll let that ride for the time being.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought you wouldn't. Come on, Chester, let's get
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  Speaker 3: some fresh air.
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  Speaker 6: All right, sir.
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  Speaker 3: See you later, Kitty.
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  Speaker 4: Doc.
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  Speaker 9: All right, man.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess he just.
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  Speaker 6: Ain't the kind to take chances, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Jones.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't need to, Chester. He's got a hair killer
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  Speaker 3: problem somewhere around. If I only knew who he'd hired,
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  Speaker 3: I could force the play myself. This business is... Having
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  Speaker 3: to leave it up to the other man.
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  Speaker 8: Over there by the stable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw the flash.
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  Speaker 8: Reckon you got him, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dillon?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Let's move in. Now watch yourself. He
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  Speaker 3: may be playing possum.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: The flash was right here by the corner.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well... That's that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Looks like he got away.
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  Speaker 5: He's gone, all right.
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  Speaker 8: Took one shot and we're on for cover.
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  Speaker 3: But he'll be back.
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  Speaker 8: The End I think that fire feels real good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: The old jail seems kind of cozy. Anyway, it's a
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  Speaker 9: lot better than crawling down the street waiting for somebody
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  Speaker 9: to put a bullet in your back.
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  Speaker 3: Chester! Will you stop squeaking in that chair?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: Two more days gone by and he hasn't made another move.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 9: That cottonwood sure burns up fast. I guess I better
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  Speaker 9: shake down the stove and throw another.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Might be a way at that, Chester. Loss on the hail.
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  Speaker 3: That's the only fact we're sure of. Loss on the hail.
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  Speaker 8: It'll be kind of hard to prove anything, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Who said anything about proving it? I got an idea.
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  Speaker 3: Come on. I've been thinking, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dunn, you ain't got no evidence. To arrest, hell, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: I know, but I can scare him. If I figure
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  Speaker 3: him right, I think he'll scare easy.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe so, but all the same.
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  Speaker 3: There he is now, Chester. Just came out of the
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  Speaker 3: long branch. Hanging around for the free drinks. There's not
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  Speaker 3: an ounce of nerve in a dozen like that.
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Hale.
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  Speaker 3: Hold it, Hale, right where you are.
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  Speaker 4: What seems to be the trouble now?
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  Speaker 3: No trouble unless you want to make some. You're under arrest. I.
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  Speaker 8: What for?
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  Speaker 3: I'll think of something. You're taking me in without even
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  Speaker 3: making a charge.
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  Speaker 4: I'll remind you there's witnesses here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I noticed. When they're not hanging around you,
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  Speaker 3: they're after somebody else. What have you done, Hale? Hired them, too?
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  Speaker 4: I asked you what the charge was, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: Vagrancy.
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  Speaker 4: Vagrancy?
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  Speaker 3: As far as I know, you've never had any visible
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  Speaker 3: means of support as long as you've been in that city.
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  Speaker 1: I'll match any dollar of yours with a hundred better ones.
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  Speaker 3: Fine. That'll help pass the time.
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  Speaker 4: Now, look at here, Marshal. Shut up.
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  Speaker 3: You think you... All right, boys, break it up. The
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  Speaker 3: party's over. You had your last free drink out of
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  Speaker 3: this pump. Now let's go to jail. Keep walking. It's
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  Speaker 3: the last cell on the left. Oh, Dylan.
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  Speaker 4: Dylan, I'll break you for this, so help me.
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  Speaker 3: You've been trying it for a year, and I'm still around.
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  Speaker 4: You won't be after this.
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  Speaker 3: Chester, I'll knock the door.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: All right, get inside. Make yourself at home.
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  Speaker 4: Nothing to hold me on. Nothing at all. I'll be
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  Speaker 4: out of here by tomorrow noon.
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  Speaker 3: I doubt that. In fact, there's a pretty good chance
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  Speaker 3: you'll never get out of that cell. Not alive, at least.
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about? According to the law, I've
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  Speaker 4: got it right.
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  Speaker 3: The law, huh? You've broken it every chance you've got.
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  Speaker 3: Tried to break the men who serve it, but when
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  Speaker 3: your own neck gets caught, you start hiding behind the law.
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  Speaker 4: Nevertheless... All right, fine.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, the law out here is kind of sketchy. Now,
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  Speaker 3: this little affair between you and me is one of
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  Speaker 3: the things the law doesn't quite cover. So I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to run it my way.
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  Speaker 10: What kind of talk isn't going to help you?
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  Speaker 3: You've hired a man to kill me, offered him $ 1, 000
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  Speaker 3: to get me out of the way. You can't prove that.
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  Speaker 3: He's made one try and missed. He's still around dark
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  Speaker 3: somewhere waiting. Now he'll try again. That's your problem.
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  Speaker 4: It's not mine. I don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know what'll happen, though, if he does get me?
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  Speaker 3: The first thing Chester's going to do is to come
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  Speaker 3: straight back here to the jail and pop a couple
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  Speaker 3: of bullets through these bars. Your boy may kill me, Hale,
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  Speaker 3: but you're not going to live to profit by it.
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  Speaker 4: He wouldn't.
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  Speaker 7: He wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 4: Shoot down the helpless prisoner? No, neither one of you
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  Speaker 4: would do it.
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  Speaker 3: Chester and I have been friends for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you ask him whether he'd do it or not?
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  Speaker 8: You bet I'd do it.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, you wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: You heard somebody shoot Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Dillon in the back. I don't see where you got
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  Speaker 8: any kick coming.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's your answer, Hale.
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  Speaker 4: No, he wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Chester. Let's go look the town over.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, well, it's tonight that he's going to.
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Tonight, who's going to do what?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know anything about it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's too bad. If I knew his name, I'd
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  Speaker 3: have a lot better chance. And so would you. Well,
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  Speaker 3: see you later. Or anyway, Chester will. No.
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  Speaker 4: No, Dylan, you can't do it. Dylan, you can't go
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  Speaker 4: out in the street. He'll get you sure.
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  Speaker 5: Dylan, no.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. I'll tell you his name.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: He's a trail driver. He came up from the fakest
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: last week. His name is.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: His name is Ed Granger.
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  Speaker 3: Ed Granger?
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've seen him around the bars. He's a dark-haired,
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: surly-looking fellow. He's got a scar across the cheek.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Chester, let's go get him. Come on.
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  Speaker 8: He's here, all right, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Jones.
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  Speaker 8: He'll be there by the.
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  Speaker 4: End of the bar.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Looks like he's by himself.
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  Speaker 8: What are you going to do, arrest him?
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  Speaker 3: There's no evidence, Chester. Only one way I see is
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: to make it personal. You stay out of it. Just
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: cover me, that's all. Yes, sir. Your name Ed Granger?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Might be.
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  Speaker 3: You know who I am?
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  Speaker 7: Judging by the star, I reckon you're a U.S. Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: You ought to do better than that. After all, I'm
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: worth a thousand dollars to you. Who says so? Lawson Hale. Hale?
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Your memory's getting better, huh?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're talking about, Marshal.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Sure you do. That deal you made with Hale. He
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: told me all about it after I threw him in
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: jail and persuaded him a little.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: I told you, I don't know anything.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: You're wearing a gun there, Granger. Why don't you draw
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: it and go for the thousand dollars? Why don't you
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: take a chance?
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: This fellow you're talking about's in jail.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: I reckon he wouldn't have anybody working for him now,
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: would he?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You tell me.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: I got no reason to draw on you, Marshal. Not
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: unless my back's turned, huh?
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: I ain't drawing.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Granger, you tried to kill me night before last.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Can you prove that?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: If I could, you'd either be in jail or dead
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: Well, since you can't prove it, what's the argument?
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Just that I don't like the idea of somebody trying
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: to shoot me in the back. Now, if you're any
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: man at all, we'll settle this right here and now.
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: You leave me alone, Marshal.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: You still figure you got no reason to draw on me?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I ain't drawing. All right, Granger, you got ten minutes
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: to get out of town. And when you're out, stay out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Don't come back now or ever, you understand? Yes, sir.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: You can start right now.
• 21:50
  Speaker 8: Must be nearly midnight, Mr.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: Dillon.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, about that, I guess.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: If this is sure one day, I'm glad.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: It is over.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so am I. At least I can breathe a
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: little easier now.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: I'll just get the fire built up a little.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: No, leave it, Chester. Take care of the prisoner first.
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: You still ain't got no evidence. What are we going
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: to do about him?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Same as with Granger. Turn him loose, run him out
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: of town. It should have done it months ago. Go on,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: get him, huh?
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, my. Mr.
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: Dillon? What?
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: Oh. Granger must have stopped by here on his way
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: out of town.
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: Looks like he got Hale over at the window for
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: a talk and grabbed him and cut his throat right there.
• 22:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Figured Hale had sold him out. Get a bulletin on
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: the wire, Chester. Wanted for murder, Red Granger.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: All right, Mr. Dillon.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I guess Hale got pretty much what he bargained for.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: He hired himself a killer in order to kill him.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: He got it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke. Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: Marshal.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by John Meston. Featured in the cast
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: were Lawrence Dobkin, Vic Caron, Ralph Moody, and Joseph Kern.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Carly Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Hawkins as Kitty.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Gunsmoke, episode 398, paid killer reused script, now comes to
• 24:01
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