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Gunsmoke - "Trojan War" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: The arrival of the notorious Pueblo gang in Dodge City
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  Speaker 1: leaves Marshal Matt Dillon uneasy, though he has no grounds
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: to move against them. Although the gang has broken no
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: local law, Dillon keeps watch. Then the regularly scheduled Buckeye
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: stage is robbed, a passenger is wounded, and Dillon must
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  Speaker 1: pursue a threat that has put travelers and the town
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  Speaker 1: on edge. This CBS radio-sustaining presentation, first broadcast February 28, 1953,
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  Speaker 1: is Gunsmoke, episode 45, Trojan War, with William Conrad as Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: Parley Bear as Chester, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. Les
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  Speaker 1: Crutchfield wrote the script, and Norman MacDonald produced and directed.
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  Speaker 2: And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 3: Around Dodge City and in the Territory on.
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  Speaker 2: West, there's just one way to handle the killers and
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  Speaker 2: the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the
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  Speaker 2: smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke. 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 3: The story of a man who moved with it. Matt Dillon,
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  Speaker 3: United States Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Gunsmoke Hi, it's a cold morning, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Dillon. Yeah, I'm ready for spring, Chester. The tail end
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  Speaker 2: of winter always gets on my nerves. Well, it shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be long now. The worst of it's bound to be over.
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  Speaker 2: I hope so.
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  Speaker 5: Here, let's try some Delmonico's here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always ready to eat, Mr. Dillon. Morning, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: Chester.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, how are you, Kitty?
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  Speaker 5: How about joining me? Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Pull up a chair, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You're up early this morning, Matt. Usually you don't even
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  Speaker 2: start breathing until noon. It's too cold to sleep, Kitty.
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  Speaker 2: A jail stove always burns itself out about 5 o'clock
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. From then on, you just have to... Oh,
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  Speaker 2: what is it, Matt?
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  Speaker 5: Chester, that second table.
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  Speaker 2: From the window over there. Those three men there, you
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  Speaker 2: know them? No, sir, I don't think I do. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I do. Ran into him about four years ago out
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  Speaker 2: in Arizona territory. That's the Pueblo gang. Never heard of
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  Speaker 2: them coming this far east before.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 2: You want some help, mister?
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  Speaker 5: No, just sit tight, Chester.
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  Speaker 2: Ma'am? Order me some sausage and buckwheat cakes, Kitty, will you?
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  Speaker 2: I'll be right back. I don't want to stay in
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  Speaker 2: this town. I don't like it at all.
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  Speaker 5: Morning, boys. It's the Parks brothers, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Ed and Rio.
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  Speaker 5: And Chuck Evans.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what about it?
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  Speaker 1: Easy, Rio.
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  Speaker 5: It's Dylan, the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Marshal, the one I told you about. Yeah, I bet
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  Speaker 2: you did. What'd you tell him, Chuck? Look, Dylan, our
• 3:35
  Speaker 2: food's getting cold. You got something on your mind or not?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing important, Rio. I figure it's quite an honor to
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  Speaker 2: have the Pueblo gang in town. I just thought I'd
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  Speaker 2: drop over and tell you how I felt about it.
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  Speaker 2: And how do you feel? Well, that depends, Ed. Are
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  Speaker 2: you boys here on business, or.
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  Speaker 5: Pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Does it make a difference? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it makes a difference. I know your reputation, Wester, here.
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  Speaker 2: Half the stage holdups in the last five years from
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  Speaker 2: Colorado to the California border can be laid right at
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  Speaker 2: your door. As far as I know, you're clean in
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  Speaker 2: Dodge City so far. All right, you just keep it
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  Speaker 2: that way. You make one move here and your time's up.
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  Speaker 2: Right then, you're short and I'll take you, all three
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  Speaker 2: of you.
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  Speaker 5: You understand?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure, we understand. We'll think it over, Dylan. Let
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  Speaker 2: you know what we decide to do. Rio, you talk
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  Speaker 2: too much. Now, see you around, boys. You can put
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  Speaker 2: the gun away now, Chester. All right. I'm just going
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  Speaker 2: to be ready in case. Matt, I thought I'd tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Those boys are mean. They were on the Texas Trail
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  Speaker 2: last night. They're just downright mean.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do, Mr. Dillon? Run him out of town?
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  Speaker 2: Not unless they give us some reason to, Chester. The
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  Speaker 2: law doesn't say you can hang a man because he
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  Speaker 2: might steal a horse.
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  Speaker 5: Forget it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see, huh? Our old train's just about ready to
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  Speaker 2: pull off, looks like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's on time. It's three o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Be in St. Louis tomorrow night, Chicago the next day.
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  Speaker 5: If the engine holds up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they don't break down so much anymore. They're getting
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  Speaker 2: them worked out so they're pretty dependable.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess so.
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  Speaker 2: You ever get a hankering to take a trip back east, Mr. Dillon,
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  Speaker 2: just to see how things have changed?
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  Speaker 5: Not me, Chester. I've been on the frontier too long.
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  Speaker 5: I'd be lost back there. I wouldn't know how to act.
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  Speaker 2: I guess man could get his rope kinked over which
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  Speaker 2: fork to use or what to do with it. Oh, hi, Will.
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  Speaker 5: You down watching your competition pull off?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be a stagecoach runner for a long time
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  Speaker 2: to come, yeah. Railroad's not bothering me any.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: Something else is, though. No? Matt, the stage from Buckeye
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  Speaker 2: is more than two hours overdue. I'm getting a little worried.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 5: It's usually late, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Not on this particular day of the month. What's today particular?
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  Speaker 2: Gold dust. It's the day those plaster mines out there
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  Speaker 2: always ship their cleanup. Charlie's never missed getting it here
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  Speaker 2: at three o'clock on time for the eastbound Santa Fe.
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  Speaker 5: Not once. Who's riding the shotgun, Will? Houston Jack. He's
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  Speaker 5: a good man. I doubt if there's any cause to worry.
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  Speaker 2: That shipment runs $ 80, 000 or $ 100, 000 sometimes, Matt. Never been
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  Speaker 2: laid before. Oh, Charlie will probably roll in any minute now.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you later, Will. So long. What do you think, Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 5: Same as you do, Chester. Let's ride off and meet
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  Speaker 5: that stage. Thought I heard it, too.
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  Speaker 2: We must be an hour and a half from town
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  Speaker 2: the way the stage runs. Sure is late, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I hope late is all it is, Chester. I hope
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  Speaker 2: it's not. There. There it is again, Mr. Dillon. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it came from that draw over there, somewhere around that
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  Speaker 2: sumac thicket. Come on. Come on. Look, Mr. Dillon. Wheel
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  Speaker 2: tracks leading off the trail. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Running to the dead gallop and out of control with the.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Chester, there's the stage. I don't see any sign
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  Speaker 2: of life, Mr. Dillon. Well, let's take a look. There's
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  Speaker 2: tracks all around. Must have been three or four horses here.
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  Speaker 2: Three the way I'm figuring it. I'll lay any odds
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  Speaker 2: you want if this is some of the... That's Houston Jack, Mr. Dillon. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Shot in the back of the head. And it didn't
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  Speaker 5: take any chances.
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  Speaker 2: He must have ridden up behind the stage and fired
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  Speaker 2: without any warning. That's probably what spooked the horses and
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  Speaker 2: started to run away. Yeah, they shot the lead horse.
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  Speaker 2: It's an old trick. Charlie's still up here on the box.
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  Speaker 2: They got him, too. That strong box has been forced open.
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  Speaker 2: It's empty. All right, Chester, let's cut these horses loose
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  Speaker 2: and get them out of the traces. All right, Chief.
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  Speaker 2: Come on now, boy. It's the same way they used
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  Speaker 2: to work it out west. Shoot the guard in the
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  Speaker 2: back and let the team run until they're far enough
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  Speaker 2: off the trail and then kill the lead horse.
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  Speaker 5: To stop them.
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  Speaker 2: You mean that duablo gang? Yeah, who else? Oh! That's
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  Speaker 2: a good thing there weren't any passengers. They'd have got
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  Speaker 2: the same treatment. All right, there you go, boy. I
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  Speaker 2: think there were some passengers, Mr. Dillon. One, at least. What?
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  Speaker 2: There's a couple of trunks tied on top and a
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  Speaker 2: carpet bag of some kind inside the stage. Here, let's
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  Speaker 2: have a look.
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  Speaker 5: The only bodies are the guards and the drivers.
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  Speaker 2: Say, maybe one of the gang was riding as a passenger.
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  Speaker 2: They wouldn't leave trunks behind it. What is it?
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  Speaker 5: There's stuff in the carpet bag. Belongs to a woman.
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  Speaker 2: There's no woman here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then they must have taken her. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's almost dark.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Chester. Let's try to pick up their trail.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just no use going any farther, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 2: It's too dark to tell what we're doing. Well, they
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  Speaker 2: were heading toward the river here. Let's take a look
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  Speaker 2: through these willows, and if we don't find anything, then
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  Speaker 2: we'll ride on back to town. All right. I still
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  Speaker 2: keep getting a faint whiff of wood smoke from somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: I sure wish we would find the fire. It's getting
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  Speaker 2: colder in the... Wait a minute. Look over there. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll swear. It's fire, all right. What's left of one, Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 5: You suppose there's still one?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Let's leave the horses here and go up on foot, huh?
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  Speaker 5: All right, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's nothing moving. No signs of life. They couldn't
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  Speaker 2: have left too long ago. That fire would have burned
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  Speaker 2: itself out. Well... I'd say we're too late, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've gone.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks that way already.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a half hour or an hour ago. Made a
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  Speaker 2: fast camp, stayed long enough to warm up and then
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  Speaker 2: they went... What was that?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. They're over here, Chester. There's somebody lying on.
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  Speaker 2: The ground over there. Help me. Help me, please.
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  Speaker 5: Here. Throw some brush on the fire, Chester. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's all right, miss. It's all right now. Three
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 6: Robbed the state. Killed the driver and the guard. Brought
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  Speaker 6: me with them.
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  Speaker 2: Anything I can do, Mr. Dillon?
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  Speaker 5: No, Chester, I'm afraid not.
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  Speaker 2: A little of it.
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  Speaker 5: Chester, get some light over here. Grab one of those
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  Speaker 5: branches that's caught fire.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Mr. Dillon.
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  Speaker 5: Just easy now. It's going to be all right.
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  Speaker 2: I pleaded with them. Begged them to let me go. Here.
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  Speaker 2: This help in? Yeah, hold it over here.
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  Speaker 5: Helen.
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  Speaker 2: But they wouldn't. They wouldn't let me go. Helen Ford.
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  Speaker 6: And when they left, they drew their guns and shot me.
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  Speaker 2: They shot me.
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  Speaker 5: You know who they were?
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  Speaker 2: Helen?
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  Speaker 5: Helen, can you hear me?
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 6: One named Rio. One called Chuck. They sat on their horses.
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  Speaker 2: Shot me.
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  Speaker 6: Then they left.
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  Speaker 2: She's in awful bad shape, Mr. Nellon. We ought to
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  Speaker 2: get her to dog. Shot me. And laughed. But it
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  Speaker 2: didn't matter. Not this.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Not.
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  Speaker 2: Well... It's too late now. Yeah, it's too late. I'll
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  Speaker 2: carry her back to Dodge. Get me your saddle blanket,
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: will you, Chester? You knew her, Mr. Dillon? A long
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: time ago. Then things happen the way they do. Later
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  Speaker 2: she married Bill Ford and went out to Colorado. It was.
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  Speaker 5: A long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't expect I'd ever see her again. It's a
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  Speaker 2: bad thing, Mr. Nealon. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm gonna see
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  Speaker 2: him hang for it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Over here, Chester, we'll check the livery stable first.
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  Speaker 2: They could have pulled out, of course, but I'll lay
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  Speaker 2: odds they came straight back into town. It won't take
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  Speaker 2: long to find out.
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  Speaker 5: Now, let's go in.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Who's there? Who is it? It's Matt Dillon.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: Is that you, Mr.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Kelvin? Oh, yeah, sure is, Marshal. Hey, let me get
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: a lantern lit. I'm just fixing to lock up the
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  Speaker 2: stable and go over and grab myself a bite to eat.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Running things alone again tonight. Confounded boy didn't show up.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Like he's not drunk and seen. There. Come on, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: We got a fire going back in the office. Come
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: on back. Set us back. I'd like to, Calvin, but
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: we don't have time. I'm looking for some horses. I
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: got them, Marshal. You want to buy, trade, or hire?
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Just a look.
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  Speaker 2: There are three fellas staying over at the Dodge house.
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  Speaker 2: They've been there about a week. Ed and Rio Parks
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  Speaker 2: and Chuck Evans. They keeping their horses here? Yeah, they are,
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  Speaker 2: right back here. And if I ever saw a ruination
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  Speaker 2: of good horse flesh, this is it. There. Take a
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  Speaker 2: look there. That one belongs to the oldest parks boy, Ed,
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  Speaker 2: and the one next to it's Rio's. They been rode, Mr. Jones.
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  Speaker 2: They been rode plenty. Yeah. What time did they come in, Kelvin? Well,
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  Speaker 2: about an hour ago, more or less. Gone since forenoon,
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  Speaker 2: just come back a little while ago. Look at that horse.
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  Speaker 2: Been rubbed down twice, and he's still wet. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: say where they'd been today. No, not them. They ain't
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  Speaker 2: the talking kind. Just left their horses and went on
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  Speaker 2: over the hotel. Wherever they was, though, they must have
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: been riding like the devil himself was chasing them.
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  Speaker 5: Well, maybe he was.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Mr. Kelly. Yeah, you're welcome. Well, I guess there's
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  Speaker 2: not much doubt of it, Chester. And I could have
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  Speaker 2: stopped it before it happened. A man shouldn't be jailed
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: on suspicion, I figured. Just because he might do something wrong. Well, my.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Everybody has to play it the way he sees it.
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  Speaker 2: Only sometimes you can see it a lot plainer afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 5: Go get him, that's all.
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  Speaker 4: The End.
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  Speaker 2: Well, where do we start looking? The Texas Trail. One thing, Chester,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: before we go in. Now, you leave the play on
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: this to me, huh? Just keep me covered, that's all. Mr. Dillon,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: what was her name before she was married? Marlowe. Helen Marlowe.
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  Speaker 2: All right, come on, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was a real dull evening up until now.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Matt? Chester? Hi, Miss Kitty Kitty. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking for the Pueblo gang. Have any of them
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  Speaker 2: been in here? Why, yeah. One of them's here now.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Little Park, she's over there at the faro table. Huh? Well,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: what's wrong, Matt? What happened? They held up the Buckeye stage.
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  Speaker 2: Killed Charlie and Houston Jack.
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  Speaker 5: And a passenger.
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  Speaker 2: A woman. Helen Ford. All right, Chester. Be careful, man.
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, Kitty.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Just cover me, Chester.
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  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, you... 500 says I've got the car. Are you
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: going to cover me or not? What's the matter? You
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: all a bunch of bikers? Maybe they haven't been out.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: Robbing stagecoaches, Rio. What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they don't make that living by killing women. Bill,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the man could get in trouble shooting off his mouth
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  Speaker 2: that way. You're already in trouble. All right, boys, Rio's
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: checking in his hand. The game's over. You can slide
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: out at the end of the table over there. You're
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: under arrest for murder, Rio. I don't know what you're
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: talking about, Dylan. Murder. Murder. A murder that you're going
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: to hang for. Now, where are the other two? Go
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: find them if you want them. I'm going to as
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: soon as I finish with you. I said you're under arrest, Rio,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: and I get your hands up.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: Well, then I don't. You're not going to make any play,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: you know. have the guts.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Shooting a man in the back is more your line, Rio.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: You're killing a woman. Now get your hands up. That's better.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: All right, Chester, get his gun.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Seems like it's getting colder, Mr. Dillon.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Clear as a bell.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Look at that moon. Where do you suppose they are?
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: You've been in nearly every saloon on Front Street.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know, Chester, but wherever they are, we're going
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: to find them.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: And you know something, Mr. Dillon? When we do arrest
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: the other two, they're as good as hung with the
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: evidence we got on them.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: I haven't arrested him yet.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Maybe them other two won't be taken as easy as Rio.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: That's up to them. If they want to surrender, they can.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I've never shot a man with his hands up. Chester. Huh?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Ben's barbershop over there. The man that he's shaving. It's
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: kind of hard to tell with all that lather.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: No, it's Ed Parks.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Come on. And there's just him and Ben in the shop...
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I wonder where Chuck Evans is.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: We'll worry about him later.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Just help yourselves to a seat, gentlemen. Be ready for
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: you just as soon as... Oh, evening, Marshal.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: How you been? I didn't know you were in the
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: habit of shaving outlaws.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you're mistaken, Marshal. You just have a seat
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: there and I.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: No, I recognize him, all right. It's Ed Parks.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Well, looks like you got the advantage of me, Dylan. No,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: we can't have that, Ed. Wipe the leather off his face, Ben. Yes, sir.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Sure thing, Marshal. Just a second now, Mr. Parks. There.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: There you are. It's too bad you have to leave
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: that shave half-finished, Ed. But they'll give you a free
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: one just before they hang you. What are you talking about, Dylan? Now, gentlemen...
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: If you're under arrest for murder, get your hands up.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Your brother's waiting for you at the jail. You arrested real....
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  Speaker 5: What about the hands, Ed? Are you gonna put them up?
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: No, dirty gentleman! Huh?
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: That was a fast move for a barber, Ben.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I knew he had a gun under the towel, Marshal,
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  Speaker 2: but of course I couldn't say anything about it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: And if you'll send the bill for your shaving mug
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: to the stage company, they'll probably take care of it
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: for you. Yes, sir, Mr. Dillon.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Chester, spill some water on him. I want him to
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: walk to jail.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I'll bet Chuck Evans got clean away, Mr. Dillon. The
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: word must have gotten to him. Well, he had to
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: do it awful fast. The clerk said he checked out
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: of the hotel less than ten minutes ago. Kelvin? Kelvin?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: The light must hurt his eyes. He never keeps a
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: lantern burning. Afraid of fire, maybe. Kelvin?
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Are you there, Kelvin? Yes.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's wrong? Who is it?
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Matt Dillon.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Strike a light. A man could fall over something in
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: this table and break his neck.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: All right, all right. I just don't get excited. I'm
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: used to it myself. I know just where everything is
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: and don't see any point in wasting oil and... Now,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind, Marshal? Chuck Evans. Is his horse
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: still here? Indeed, it most certainly is. As a matter
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: of fact, he's back there saddling up right now. Good.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I told him it seemed like a fool time of
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: night to start out on a trip, but you can't
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: reason with anybody that treats horses the way that bunch does.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: I guess not.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Nelson! Go on, answer him. Yes? What is it? Give
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: me a hand back here. What is it? Tell him yes.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: All right. I'm coming. What's this all about, Marshal? Nothing
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to get yourself worked up about. Just stay right here
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: and stay out of the way.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: All right, Chester.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. He's got a lantern right there at the stall. Yeah.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: You were right about one thing, Chester. He's trying to
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: leave town.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Give me a hand with this, Kelvin. I can't seem
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: to get the... You've gone somewhere, Chuck. Who? Now, look, look, Dylan.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: You got nothing on me. Lay off.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: The Parks boys are in jail.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about it, Dylan. You can't prove
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: a thing, and you can't shoot me. I'm not even
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: wearing a gun. It's hanging there on the saddle horn.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So I see.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: If the other boys did something, I don't know anything
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: about it. You're a liar, Chuck.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: And you're a coward.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: You've got no call to talk like that. Shut up.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Now, you're under arrest. Chester, get his gun off his saddle.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Look out, Mr. Dillon. He's got another gun. I'll kill you, Dillon. Sir,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: help me. You're scared, Chuck. You're too scared to shoot straight. Sir,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: help me.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Well, I guess that does it, Chester.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Come on. What is it, Marshal?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: What happened? Evans is dead.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: The Parks boys are going to hang your short three customers, Kelvin. Well,
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: who's going to pay the stable bill? The stable bill?
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You got their horses. Sell them. Oh, yeah, I never
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: thought of that. Well, it serves them right. Anybody that
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: would treat a horse the way that bunch did, David.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I guess it's over, Mr. Dillon.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's over, Chester.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: And it's just as well. This country would be a
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: lot better off with them fellas dead than alive.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: I guess so.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Huh. Even the moon looks brighter.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Mr. Dillon, you're still thinking you should have jailed him
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: on suspicion, aren't you? I'd have half a dodge in
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: jail if I started that. No, Chester, it's the kind
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: of a chance a lawman has to take, whether he
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: likes it or not.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: But I'm not liking it much right now. In the morning,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: I'm going to have a talk with a preacher about
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: holding a service for Helen.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: That's about all I can do for her now.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke, under the direction of Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Marshal.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Tonight's story was especially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Featured in
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Tom Tully, Paul Dubov, John Boehner,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Harry Bartell, and Louise Lewis.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Parley Bear is Chester, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Gunsmoke is heard by our troops overseas through the facilities
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: Join us again next week as.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Marshal, fights to bring law and order out of the
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: wild violence of the West in Gunsmoke.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: The curtain falls on Gunsmoke, episode 45, Trojan War. Follow
• 28:21
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