Episode Transcript
[00:00:11] Speaker A: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. marshal. And the smell of gun smoke.
Gun smoke. Starring William Conrad. The story of the violence that moved west with young America. And the story of a man who moved with it.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal.
The first man they looked for and the last they want to meet.
It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
[00:01:13] Speaker C: People today go more take their pleasures with them. This is the lively life, the life for Pepsi Cola.
[00:01:19] Speaker D: Life bracing, clean tasting.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: Pepsi.
[00:01:22] Speaker C: So think young.
[00:01:23] Speaker D: Say Pepsi.
[00:01:24] Speaker C: Please take Pepsi wherever you go.
[00:01:26] Speaker E: So go ahead and take the drink.
Drink young as you sing.
Yes, get the right one. The modern light one.
Now it's tipsy.
For those who think young.
[00:01:54] Speaker D: Well, if it ain't Grant Lucas coming to town. How are you, Grant? I'm fine, Sam, just fine. First drinks on the house. What'll you have? Well, I was gonna have a beer.
One whiskey coming up.
Is Miss Kitty around today, Sam? Yeah, she upstairs. She ought to be coming down soon. How's my bed? Oh, it's fine, fine.
You gonna be in town long, Grant? Just till after the trial. Oh, yeah, I plumb forgot. You and the marshal are testifying against Messiah Welsh, ain't you? That we are. Well, go ahead and make yourself at home. Thanks.
[00:02:28] Speaker F: Hey, Sam.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: Huh?
[00:02:30] Speaker D: Who's the new girl at the end of the bar?
[00:02:32] Speaker B: Oh, her?
[00:02:33] Speaker D: That's May Towny.
Some looker, huh?
Let her look in every time I come in here. Oh, she didn't waste any time spotting you, either.
I see you, Grant. Thanks, Aunt.
[00:02:47] Speaker G: Hello.
[00:02:48] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:02:49] Speaker F: That's a big bottle you've got.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:52] Speaker D: Want to help me with it?
[00:02:54] Speaker F: I hate to see a man drink alone, Sam. Glad.
Thank you, I may. Tell me, you're Grant Lucas, aren't you?
[00:03:04] Speaker D: Now, how'd you know that?
[00:03:06] Speaker F: Heard Sam say it. I've seen you come in.
Cheers.
[00:03:09] Speaker C: Cheers.
[00:03:14] Speaker F: You know, I like the way you smile.
[00:03:18] Speaker D: There's other things I'd rather be admired for.
[00:03:20] Speaker F: My, we could talk about it at dinner.
[00:03:24] Speaker D: Dinner?
[00:03:25] Speaker F: Didn't you ever take a lady to dinner?
[00:03:27] Speaker D: I did once.
[00:03:29] Speaker F: Was it that much of a hardship?
[00:03:31] Speaker D: It was all right till her husband walked in and started pot shooting at me.
It wasn't so darn funny, I tell you.
[00:03:38] Speaker F: Well, don't worry about me. I ain't married.
[00:03:40] Speaker D: Good.
[00:03:41] Speaker F: I got a room at the Grand Hotel.
[00:03:44] Speaker D: I thought the mice had taken over that place.
[00:03:47] Speaker F: That's Why? I like it real quiet.
Do you mind eating late?
[00:03:52] Speaker D: I guess not.
[00:03:53] Speaker F: Pick me up about 10 tonight. I might even give you a drink.
[00:03:56] Speaker D: All right.
[00:03:57] Speaker F: I'm on the ground floor, fifth window to the right of the entrance.
[00:04:01] Speaker D: Fifth window?
[00:04:02] Speaker F: Just rap on it, I'll come out.
[00:04:05] Speaker D: You don't want me seen in the lobby, is that it?
[00:04:07] Speaker F: People gossip about a lone wolf.
[00:04:10] Speaker D: All right, mae. Uh.
[00:04:12] Speaker F: Oh, don't look, but the marshal just came in and he saw you.
You ain't in trouble?
[00:04:17] Speaker D: Not hardly. He's a friend of mine.
[00:04:19] Speaker F: Well, then I'll leave you. Don't get too drunk now.
[00:04:23] Speaker D: Don't you worry. I'll be there at 10.
[00:04:26] Speaker F: I'll be waiting.
[00:04:31] Speaker B: Grant.
[00:04:31] Speaker C: Lucas.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: How are you?
[00:04:33] Speaker D: Fine, Matt. How are you?
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Oh, good, good. You're in town early. The trial's four days off.
[00:04:38] Speaker D: There's a good excuse to get away from my camp of mine. Matt, I just turned the horses loose and rode in.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: I'm glad you did.
You stay out of trouble now.
[00:04:47] Speaker D: All I done was buy the gal a drink.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: So far.
[00:04:53] Speaker G: It sure takes one old thief to.
[00:04:55] Speaker D: Catch another, don't it?
[00:04:56] Speaker H: Oh, Grant. Matt.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Hello, kitty.
[00:05:00] Speaker H: What are you doing in town, grant?
[00:05:01] Speaker D: I come in for cy welch's trial.
[00:05:04] Speaker H: That's right. You two are witnesses against him, aren't you?
[00:05:07] Speaker B: For once, duty's gonna be a pleasure, kitty.
[00:05:10] Speaker H: Well, I've never liked si welsh. I hope they hang him.
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Not a hanging charge.
[00:05:16] Speaker H: Well, he killed old charlie up dyke.
[00:05:18] Speaker D: He didn't kill him. He just robbed him of his stock and his land.
[00:05:22] Speaker H: Well, old charlie died.
[00:05:23] Speaker B: It was a natural death. Grant and I were right there.
[00:05:26] Speaker D: He sure was.
That's when he told us how cy forced him into siding over his ranch.
[00:05:31] Speaker H: How come cy welch hadn't been in jail all this time?
[00:05:35] Speaker B: The judge let him out on bail.
[00:05:37] Speaker H: Then why hasn't he run for it? He'll get a prison sentence this morning.
[00:05:41] Speaker B: I think he'll go to prison, all right. But why he hasn't run? I don't know.
[00:05:45] Speaker H: Maybe he thinks the judge will find him innocent.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: It's an open and shut case against him once the judge hears from grant and me.
[00:05:52] Speaker D: Well, I'd sure think so.
[00:05:54] Speaker H: Then si must have an ace of some kind up his plea.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: Well, we'll soon find out.
[00:06:18] Speaker D: Man, it's dark here.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: Just wonder.
[00:06:24] Speaker D: Three.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Four, five.
[00:06:29] Speaker D: Here.
Dan, it's me.
[00:06:37] Speaker F: Heard you're right on time.
[00:06:38] Speaker D: Well, I ain't wanted to keep a lady.
[00:06:40] Speaker C: Wait.
[00:06:40] Speaker F: Anybody see you?
[00:06:42] Speaker C: No, nobody.
[00:06:43] Speaker D: Good.
Hey, you're not dressed to go to dinner. You Ain't ready yet.
[00:06:47] Speaker F: You're wrong about that.
I'm ready. I'm always ready.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: Would you let me through here, folks?
Would you stand back, please?
What happened here, May?
Who killed Grant Lucas?
[00:07:29] Speaker G: I did.
[00:07:30] Speaker F: I shot him.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: But why? What for?
[00:07:33] Speaker F: I didn't know it was him. I didn't know who it was.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: What do you mean?
[00:07:38] Speaker F: Look at that window, Marshall. That busted window.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: You're saying that Grant did that?
[00:07:43] Speaker F: It didn't get that way by itself.
[00:07:45] Speaker B: You mean he tried to break in here?
[00:07:47] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Suppose you told me the whole story then.
[00:07:51] Speaker F: Sure I will.
I keep that gun because of this, Marshall.
[00:07:57] Speaker D: A brooch?
[00:07:58] Speaker F: Yes, those are diamonds. It's an heirloom from my mother.
Worth a lot of money, but I've never parted with it.
[00:08:05] Speaker B: What's this got to do with Grant Lucas?
[00:08:08] Speaker F: I met him at the Long branch today. We got to talking in fool that I am, I told him about this.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: Are you trying to tell me that Grant Lucas came over here to rob you?
[00:08:19] Speaker F: I was in bed, the light went out and he smashed the window. He didn't think anybody was here.
[00:08:25] Speaker B: I see.
[00:08:27] Speaker F: What are you gonna do to me, Marshall?
[00:08:29] Speaker B: Nothing, I guess.
I can't very well arrest a woman for defending her property.
[00:08:34] Speaker F: Then you do believe me?
[00:08:37] Speaker B: Well, is there any reason why I shouldn't?
[00:08:40] Speaker F: No, Marshall. No, there isn'.
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[00:10:14] Speaker G: Chester.
[00:10:15] Speaker I: Hello there, Doc.
[00:10:16] Speaker G: What are you doing here at the stable? Robbing the place?
[00:10:19] Speaker I: No, I ain't robbing the place.
Over to have a little game of card with Moss Grimmy.
[00:10:24] Speaker G: Ah, same thing.
Where is Moss, anyway?
[00:10:29] Speaker I: I guess he must have went out somewhere.
[00:10:31] Speaker G: It's too bad. I wanted him to take the buggy road.
[00:10:35] Speaker I: Man can't even unhitch his own buggy.
[00:10:38] Speaker C: You are.
[00:10:38] Speaker I: Get yourself a coachman, Doc.
[00:10:42] Speaker G: I just got one.
[00:10:44] Speaker I: What You.
[00:10:46] Speaker G: Come on.
[00:10:46] Speaker B: Come on.
[00:10:49] Speaker I: Well, I guess somebody's gotta help a poor busted down Old sawbones who don't know nothing.
Come on, let's go.
You just hold his head, Doc.
[00:11:03] Speaker C: I'll do the work.
[00:11:12] Speaker I: You know, these lines could sure stand.
[00:11:15] Speaker D: A little saddle soap, Doc.
[00:11:16] Speaker G: Yeah, it's just a.
Isn't that Si Welch?
[00:11:20] Speaker B: Whirr.
Yeah.
[00:11:26] Speaker I: Wonder what he's doing in town.
[00:11:28] Speaker G: Up to no good, more likely.
[00:11:34] Speaker C: Hello there, Doc.
[00:11:36] Speaker D: Chester. How are you? Good.
[00:11:37] Speaker I: I was fine up till now.
[00:11:41] Speaker C: You come into town today and haven't seen the marshal around?
[00:11:43] Speaker I: He rode out to Grant Lucas's place. Won't be back till real late.
[00:11:48] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, Yeah, I heard about Grant.
[00:11:50] Speaker D: That's too bad.
[00:11:52] Speaker C: Some girl did it, huh?
[00:11:53] Speaker I: Saloon gal or at Long Branch.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: Downright shame for a man to go like that leaving a bad name behind him.
[00:12:00] Speaker G: That's a fine thing for you to be saying, Si Welch.
[00:12:04] Speaker C: What do you mean, Doc?
[00:12:05] Speaker G: You couldn't care less about his death or his reputation or anything else.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: All right, all right. I didn't like the man. He was gonna go into court in a couple days and lie about me, wasn't he? Then he brought all this trouble on me in the first place. Now, that doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way he died. I'd feel that about any man even if he wasn't.
[00:12:22] Speaker G: You're glad he's and you know it.
[00:12:24] Speaker C: Well, how'd it make any difference to me?
Marshall Dillon still testifying against me, and he one less witness doesn't matter.
[00:12:31] Speaker G: Yeah, that's true. Thank you.
[00:12:33] Speaker C: But don't think I'm not going to win that case. Anyway. Something makes a marshal look like a fool.
[00:12:38] Speaker G: You seem awful sure of yourself, Doc.
[00:12:42] Speaker C: I'd be in California by now if I wasn't sure.
[00:12:45] Speaker G: Yeah, well, you're the kind who'd run out already.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: Yeah, I've been called a lot of things, maybe, but never a fool.
See you at the trial.
[00:12:57] Speaker I: Well, that's one fella I sure would hate to claim as a friend.
[00:13:02] Speaker G: Or as an enemy. Ch.
[00:13:16] Speaker C: Mark. Jeep, bring me a beer.
[00:13:19] Speaker D: Yes, sir.
[00:13:20] Speaker F: Want some company, mister? I've got my own beer.
[00:13:23] Speaker C: No, thanks. I like to drink alone.
[00:13:25] Speaker F: All right, then, drink alone.
I know you're kind, Mr. Fancy Clothes and empty pockets.
[00:13:30] Speaker C: You just leave me alone, will you?
[00:13:32] Speaker F: Oh, I sure will. Yeah. All right with you if I stand at the same bar?
[00:13:36] Speaker C: You can stand anywhere you like.
[00:13:38] Speaker H: Thanks.
[00:13:38] Speaker F: I'm fine right here.
[00:13:41] Speaker D: Here you are.
[00:13:42] Speaker C: Thanks.
The new girl you got's real anxious.
[00:13:45] Speaker D: Ah, don't get edgy, mister. May's just being friendly.
You don't Mean no harm.
[00:13:52] Speaker C: Oh, yeah.
May.
[00:14:00] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:14:01] Speaker C: There's only two days left.
[00:14:04] Speaker F: I know that.
[00:14:05] Speaker C: Don't turn around to me now. What about the marshal?
[00:14:09] Speaker F: He's like a cat. I don't think anybody could shoot him, even in the back.
[00:14:12] Speaker C: Don't let that badge fool you. He's just a man.
You could have shot him by now and got away easy. Nobody suspect a woman.
[00:14:19] Speaker F: He already suspects me.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: What?
[00:14:21] Speaker F: Grant Lucas. I know it.
[00:14:25] Speaker C: I should have hired a man for this job.
[00:14:27] Speaker F: Go ahead and hire one, but you pay me first.
[00:14:29] Speaker C: I pay you nothing if you don't finish it.
[00:14:31] Speaker F: You try that and I'll talk more than hang yourself. It might be worth it to have you hang with me.
[00:14:37] Speaker C: You listen to me, mang. You get that Marshall. You get him tonight, one way or another. Oh, so help me, I'll carve you up so no man will ever look at you again.
[00:14:46] Speaker F: Bet you would.
[00:14:47] Speaker C: I mean it, mang.
[00:14:48] Speaker F: All right, I'll get him. Quit worrying about it.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: I'll quit worrying after he's dead.
[00:14:52] Speaker F: You just have the money ready tomorrow.
[00:15:13] Speaker D: Is that you, Marshall?
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Oh, hello, Moss.
[00:15:16] Speaker D: I've been waiting for you.
[00:15:18] Speaker B: You needn't have. I can put the horse out.
[00:15:20] Speaker D: No, no, I'll take him. You had a long enough day.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: You're right about that.
[00:15:25] Speaker D: Get things took care of, did you?
[00:15:28] Speaker B: I did what I could.
[00:15:30] Speaker D: Grant Lucas is a good man.
He must have been drunk or something.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
Well, I've got to go to bed, Moss.
Good night.
[00:15:40] Speaker D: Good night for sleeping, huh?
[00:15:43] Speaker B: How's that?
[00:15:44] Speaker G: No moon.
[00:15:46] Speaker D: I can't remember a night as black as this one.
[00:15:48] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
Good night.
[00:15:52] Speaker G: Good night, Marshall.
[00:16:05] Speaker B: All right.
[00:16:05] Speaker A: Who's there?
[00:16:06] Speaker F: No, no, don't shoot it. It's me, Marshall. May.
[00:16:10] Speaker B: Tell me, May, what are you doing back there on the alley?
[00:16:15] Speaker F: I, I. I didn't know it was you. I was afraid.
I was trying to hide.
[00:16:19] Speaker B: I almost shot you.
[00:16:21] Speaker F: Well, I was.
I was trying to get to my room.
I got lost.
Too many drinks, I guess.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: You alone?
[00:16:30] Speaker F: Of course I'm alone. I simply got lost, I tell you.
Don't you believe me?
[00:16:37] Speaker B: Sure I believe you, May.
You want to tell me the truth?
[00:16:40] Speaker F: I might even believe that I am telling the truth. I got lost.
Oh, Marshall, that, that, that awful business that night. I. I haven't been myself today.
I haven't been able to think or anything. I can't get it out of my mind.
[00:16:55] Speaker B: All right, May. Come on. I'll see you to your room.
Wow. How's it going, Esther? How about Doc?
[00:17:19] Speaker G: Yeah, Mac.
[00:17:20] Speaker B: How'd it go well, Everything's taken care of. Grant has some relatives back east tomorrow. I'll have Mr. Botkin contact them and settle the estate.
[00:17:29] Speaker G: Oh, man, that sure is a waste when a man like Grant Lucas has to go.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: What are you doing up so late?
[00:17:35] Speaker G: Oh, I thought I'd stop by and have a cup of coffee with Chester for before I turned in.
It's a dead town tonight, Matt. There weren't more than six men over the long branch. They were just closing up when I left.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: Well, I guess that's why May Tommy left early.
[00:17:50] Speaker G: No, she wasn't there.
[00:17:51] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. I ran into her on the way from the stable. I took her to her room. What? Yeah, she said she was lost. I think maybe she had a little too much to drink.
[00:18:01] Speaker I: Ms. Joan, that tussed Si Welch was in town today.
[00:18:05] Speaker B: Well, that's good. Trial's the day after tomorrow.
[00:18:07] Speaker G: You know, if you ask me, the law's been a long time catching up with that man.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: It's only been a few months, Doc.
[00:18:13] Speaker G: Oh, I don't mean just this business here.
I mean from years back. From years back when I first ran into him. He wasn't any good then, either.
[00:18:22] Speaker I: Why, Doc, you didn't ever tell us.
[00:18:24] Speaker G: You knew Cy Welch before. Oh, I just knew him in passing. He never was the kind of a crook that I have any admiration for.
[00:18:31] Speaker B: Where was this that you knew him?
[00:18:32] Speaker G: On the river. There were a thousand just like him.
[00:18:35] Speaker B: The river? You mean the Mississippi?
[00:18:38] Speaker G: The Mississippi. Now, what other river would I be talking about?
[00:18:42] Speaker I: Mr. Jones, what's bothering you?
[00:18:45] Speaker B: May tell me.
[00:18:47] Speaker I: What about her?
[00:18:49] Speaker B: Kitty told me that she used to work the riverboats.
[00:18:54] Speaker I: That's right, she did. But I think I remember now.
[00:18:56] Speaker G: She used to.
Well, now, that's mighty interesting, isn't it?
[00:19:01] Speaker B: Yeah, Doc, it sure is. Chester.
[00:19:03] Speaker D: Hey, she.
[00:19:04] Speaker B: Put on your hat.
We're gonna call on a lady.
[00:19:19] Speaker F: Who is it?
[00:19:20] Speaker C: It's me. Open the door.
[00:19:26] Speaker G: Sorry.
[00:19:27] Speaker F: You shouldn't be here.
[00:19:30] Speaker C: Suppose you're gonna tell me you got the marshal coming here, huh? Gonna try to pull the same trick on him you did on that Grand Lucas?
[00:19:35] Speaker F: Of course not.
[00:19:36] Speaker C: Well, then what are you gonna do? When are you gonna get rid of the marshal, mate?
[00:19:39] Speaker F: Why don't you leave me alone?
[00:19:40] Speaker B: Oh, I'll leave you alone, all right.
[00:19:42] Speaker C: Give you $1,000, just like I promised, and then I'll leave you alone for good and all. But first, you've got to finish your job.
[00:19:47] Speaker F: All right, all right.
[00:19:48] Speaker C: No, it's not all right. All right.
I think you're scared. Now, you hear? I think you're so scared that Marshall.
[00:19:54] Speaker B: You'Re not going to do a thing.
[00:19:54] Speaker F: No.
[00:19:55] Speaker C: That's right, isn't it?
[00:19:55] Speaker F: No. No, it isn't.
[00:19:56] Speaker C: You stop lying to me.
[00:20:00] Speaker F: Rotten beast.
I will tell him. I'll tell him everything.
[00:20:05] Speaker H: I don't care.
[00:20:06] Speaker F: Let them get me, but they'll get you too.
[00:20:07] Speaker C: Oh, they're not going to get me.
What are you doing?
[00:20:13] Speaker F: Show you what I'm doing.
[00:20:14] Speaker C: Turn on.
You were gonna shoot me. You were gonna kill me. A woman like you?
[00:20:23] Speaker B: Kill me?
[00:20:27] Speaker A: Quiet.
[00:20:28] Speaker B: Hey, are you in there?
[00:20:30] Speaker C: That's a marshal.
[00:20:31] Speaker F: Come in, Marshall. Come in.
[00:20:33] Speaker C: I'm gonna have to kill you now, mate.
All right. Hold it, sir. Oh, no.
[00:20:39] Speaker I: Mar.
[00:20:55] Speaker B: Is he dead?
Yeah, he's dead.
[00:21:00] Speaker I: Miss Billy looks like she is, too.
[00:21:07] Speaker B: May.
May, can you hear me?
[00:21:12] Speaker I: Hurt, Marshall.
[00:21:14] Speaker F: I'm hurt bad.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: Always sent for Doc. No.
[00:21:19] Speaker F: No, it's too late, Marshall.
[00:21:24] Speaker B: What, me?
[00:21:26] Speaker F: I was gonna kill you.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:32] Speaker F: Then I got scared.
I couldn't do it.
I won't get paid now, will I?
Will I?
[00:21:46] Speaker C: Mark?
[00:21:59] Speaker B: She did, yeah.
[00:22:02] Speaker I: My goodness. What a time to worry about getting paid.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: She got paid all right, Chester.
She got paid good.
I just wonder if the job was worth it.
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Gunsmoke, produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, US Marshal. The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston and adapted for radio by Frank Parrott.
Featured in the cast were Lynn Allen, Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartel and John Dana.
Harley Bear As Chester, Howard McNear as Doc and Georgia Ellis as.
[00:23:36] Speaker D: Kidding.
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