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Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Who is that fellow, Doc?

Jim Forbes.

Somebody special, is he?

You might say that. He cleaned out half this town about three years ago.

Robert?

Swindler.

Where's he been at?

Jay.

Ha!

You rose.

Hey, Forbes!

What do you want here?

Come to see my boy.

You ready to pay up what you owe?

Not quite yet.

Well, you better see your boy someplace else.

You ain't welcome here.

Didn't you hear me?

I heard.

No gun, huh?

No, I... I got out of the habit.

he's going to stay right in the dirt where he belongs.

Boy, no. Just stay out of it, boy.

Let me go.

Let him go.

We ain't going to hurt him. I'll fight with you.

Get your hands off of me.

All right, what's going on here?

What's this all about?

We've got a visitor, Marshal.

Went away a thief. Looks like he came back a yellow belly.

You shut up.

Boy, now cut that out.

I kept it up well as I could.

Of course, things don't look like they did before... Well, before Ma died.

Curtains and things.

Your Ma and her curtains.

House is yours, boy. I put it in your name before I went away.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's our house.

It doesn't matter whose name it's in.

Thank you, son.

Three years is a long time.

So it makes a difference.

Pa, what are you going to do about Clint Fisher?

Do about him?

I figure you had to stand and take it back there in town.

You couldn't fight them all.

No, couldn't. And you didn't have your gun.

No. It's over here, clean and oiled. No.

Pa, you can't fight them with your fists.

No, boy.

Don't you understand?

They hate you.

The whole town hates you.

You gotta wear a gun.

No.

Are you afraid?

Afraid of Jace Holt, Glenn Fisher, the town?

Maybe I am.

What did they do to you in that place?

Give me some time to think.

Maybe it did me some good.

I come back here to prove something.

I don't figure I can prove it by shooting people.

Now, does that... Does that help you?

What's the matter with him?

Oh, he's just trying to decide whether his old man is a coward or not.

Jim, tell me something.

What brings you back to Dodge?

I'm going to prove to the people in this town that there's gold in that mine.

Jim, you don't even own the mine.

I own it.

Taxes wasn't paid while I was in jail. I went back to the state.

Paid the taxes last week and filed a new claim.

Here are the names of everybody in this town that I owe.

You think I'm back here for another swindle, don't you?

I didn't say that, Jim.

But the evidence was pretty strong against you.

Besides, that's gonna take a lot of work and a lot of money.

I got sister in Wichita. I'm gonna use her money.

I just hope it holds out till I can prove I'm right.

Well, you know, as long as you got that money, there are some people in town who

are gonna figure you owe it to them right now.

Well, they're gonna have to wait.

Well, Jim, I want you to know I didn't come here just as a lawman. I came here

as a friend, too.

Your wife's buried up there on the hill. She was a fine woman.

Brian's turned out to be a good boy.

He's been a great help down at the freight office.

Is there anything I can ever do for you?

Just let me know.

Thank you, man.

I found the prettiest rock I could.

I even... It's real nice, boy.

Real nice.

Pa, I'm sorry I lost my temper that way.

Ma wouldn't have liked it at all.

No, I reckon she wouldn't.

the wagon and load it.

Oh, I'll get it.

Well, now, looks like some people just don't get the message.

Maybe we should send him an engraved invite.

Oh, no, no, no. You don't invite people out. You kick them out.

Morning. I'm Jim Forbes. I know.

I've heard about you.

What do you want?

There's a list.

You got nearly $200 worth of stuff here.

Yes, that's right.

You got cash?

Yes, I've got cash. You'll get it on delivery at the mine. No.

You'll pay cash before delivery right here.

I've got the money in the bank. You can ask him.

I want the cash now.

You'll get the cash.

What's

happened

here? Something or somebody spooked my horse.

Don't suppose any of you boys saw that happen, did you?

It's like he said, Marshal, something spooked the horse.

Of course, maybe the horse just got tired of the company it was keeping.

Being a proud, noble animal that it is, it just probably had too much, that's

all.

Fisher, one of these days you're gonna push your luck a little too far.

Now break it up and move out of here, all of you.

Get moving.

Hello, boy.

Any luck?

Luck?

What sort of a fool thing is that?

I had these all sorted out.

I'll tell you what kind of fool thing that is. That man at the assayer's

office? I took those in there and he just laughed at me. He wouldn't even

look at them. Well, that's no reason to act like a powder cake with a short

fuse. It isn't. Every time I go into that place, I get told about you.

Used to be that nobody around here would talk about it.

Now they all look at me like I was dirt, like I was you.

I didn't mean it like it sounded.

What happened to your head?

Oh, the Benner twins.

They used to be my friends, but... Sorry, boy.

Don't call me boy.

You're right, Brian.

Reckon you've been a man now for some time.

Did you salt the mine?

Ma never talked about it.

Well, I tried not to think about it.

Now all the time I get told.

Brian, it takes money to dig a mine.

People say that faith moves mountains. Well, it doesn't. It takes money and

machinery.

Did you salt it? I ran out of money before I ran out of faith.

That's not what I asked. Did you salt the mine?

Yes, I salted the mine.

You want to judge me, too? All right.

You go ahead.

I needed time and money to prove my faith out.

I got some first-rate ore, put it in with the regular stuff, and I borrowed

money on it.

It was easy.

You were 13 years old.

You know, you were lucky those days to have potatoes to eat three times a day.

I came in this house one night, and I found your mother boiling the bark from

a tree to make soup.

And right then and there, I went out and traded in that equipment for the ore and

salted the mine.

I went to jail for it.

I paid for it. Your ma paid for it.

And now, dear God, you're paying for it, too.

But I hope you know that you don't have to stay with it.

You know, this is pretty good coffee.

Never did learn how to make it like you do.

I think I'd better stay around here and learn.

Hey, Purvis. Morning, Clint. Jase. We hear you sold Jim Forbes another load of

supplies. Yes, I did.

Did you get your money?

I wouldn't sell Forbes anything without cash on top of the counter.

You need something?

Yeah, a box of shotgun shells.

Four bits.

Tell you something else.

He bought a bunch of tools.

Gave Carter $372 for them.

Cash.

Where's he getting the money?

It's real.

I almost broke a tooth biting into some of it.

You know, I think maybe we ought to ask around a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, ask around. It's a good idea.

We'll see it.

$372. And he sent to Wichita for hand winch and cable, and he paid old man

Tremble in cold, hard cash that he got from this bank right here.

Well, uh, just what is it you gentlemen are trying to say?

Well, if he's got money in the bank here, then the folks that lost money on

the mine got it coming to him.

Oh.

Well, what's more, some of us figure that he's back here to start dealing

from the same dirty deck again.

Oh. Well, if you've got his money here in the bank, then you ought to be able

to do something about it.

Well, let me tell you something about the banking laws of this state.

Now, somebody puts money in this bank, they draw it out.

Somebody wants to borrow money from this bank, they pay it back. Or I foreclose.

Now, if you gentlemen have any further business, you don't, well, if you'll

excuse me, I'm a very busy man.

Just like he'd done before.

Just like he'd done before.

Before he was passing out ore, now he's passing out money, and pretty soon

everybody begins to trust him.

I'll bet you anything you want, he's sitting up there on that hill right now

pretending to be mining.

You sure can drive steel.

It's all in the wrist, boy, and the shoulders.

You build up your shoulders, you'll beat your old man all holler.

Here, let me have some of that.

Pedro, you got the charges?

Si, senor.

Let me see them.

Well, that's all right.

Gracias, senor.

Pedro was...

powder monkey and chihuahua.

Well, I hope he'll be with us for a long time. Go set him. Oh, Pedro, ravelly

shale in there. Now, you shake that too much, the whole wall's gonna come down.

Oh, see? Boom.

See? Boom.

He sure works fast. Yeah, well, we got him cheap enough for keeping a share in

the mine.

Can't get a miner much cheaper than that.

Unless maybe he's born into the Forbes family.

Let me do that a while.

Go.

Come on.

On the button. Come on.

That's it.

Eddie, how's this?

Well, good night to you.

Remember that piece of art? I picked up by the Forbes' wagon the other day?

Yeah, what about it?

Amethystine quartz.

Is that good?

Well, it's what they call an indicator.

How do you know?

Well, I've did some mining.

Us Hagans has did a lot of things.

My uncle, Hard Rock Hogan Hagan, learned me everything I know up in Virginia

City.

Hard Rock Hogan Hagan.

Hogan Hagen?

Festus, who thinks up the names in your family?

If I'm lying, I'm dying, Miss Kitty.

Fact is, Uncle Hogan Hagen was the onlyest man that ever beat John Henry at

swinging the jackhammer.

That's rolled up in the records.

Festus, I hate to disappoint you, but there never was a real John Henry.

He was just a man that someone made up for a song.

Well, John Henry might not have been real, but Uncle Hogan Hagen was real,

and so was this here.

You really think that mind's any good?

What about you, Matt?

Who knows, Kitty?

Well, I ought to be able to get at least one opinion between the two of you.

Well, everybody in town's got an opinion, but that doesn't necessarily

have anything to do with the facts.

I'll tell you something, though.

A lot of people have been looking at this, uh... Amethystine corpse.

Yeah, well, uh, there's been a lot of talk.

Yeah, I bet there's been some talk.

You know, people who lose money have a longer memory than anybody.

Yes, Kitty.

Now, that there's a lying tale truth, if I've ever heard it.

Well, I'll tell you something.

For Jim and Brian's sake.

I wish it wasn't true.

I hope so.

But I won't do nothing.

The marshal won't do nothing. The bank won't do nothing.

And there he is, up there, working his mind, spending our money. The money he

should be using to pay us back. That's right. That's right, absolutely.

Well, why won't the bank do it?

You can't take another man's money out of the bank. They can't just give you

the money. He put the money in the bank.

He's the only one that could get it out.

And he deposited, so there ain't nothing we can do about it. Yeah, deposit.

The banker told us that our hands are tied. We can't touch it.

Oh, we figured that some of us who could take it should go up there and put it to

him straight.

I mean, either you put up or you get out. I give him $179.

And my wife, she socked me in the choppers with a piece of stove wood for

taking the savings out of the cookie jar.

You hear that? Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Listen.

What I want to know is, is the money up there with him, or is it down here in

the bank?

What do you think we've been talking about? He's got the money in the bank.

I'm not.

I'm not going to rob no bank.

Who said anything about robbing a bank? What's the matter?

Now, will you listen to me for a minute?

Now, we all know that Forbes raised money all over this town in that mine

three years ago. Now, here he is back again with the same get-poor-quick

scheme. We all know he's a flimflammer.

Now, he owes you money, and he owes me money, and I aim to get my money back.

Now, there ain't no better time to do it than right now.

Well, let's go.

Watch where you're going, you knucklehead.

Thank you.

I want to tell you something. This here town is like a boiling tea kettle with

the spout stopped up. What does that mean?

Well, it means the lids are fixing to blow off.

You mean Holt and Fisher?

Yeah. It's just a worrying and a prodding all the time.

So I suppose now you come over here to worry and prod me about it, huh?

Well, now that you bring it up, where else do you think I'd go to prod

anybody?

Well, Festus, that's fine, except for one thing.

What's that?

Holt and Fisher haven't broken any laws yet.

Not one.

Hey, Pedro, what's for chow?

Oh, yesterday, tortillas and beans.

Today, beans and tortillas.

There ought to be a market someplace

for blisters.

Are they high-grade or low-grade blisters?

I guess mine are low-grade.

You know, I get to hurting so much, I just want to sit down and quit.

For a while, that is. You get up and dump, and then we'll quit.

Pa, you know, for a grown-up, you get some right smart ideas.

That

feels

better than new spring rain.

Señor, run!

A prisa!

What do you want?

We've been talking. I ain't interested.

Now, get off my claim. Wait, wait, wait just a minute. You owe us.

All of us.

Now, we just kind of think it's right and proper that you sign over the money

you got in the bank to pay us back again.

Now, we can do it easy like or hard like.

All you gotta do is sign this and we make tracks right off your claim.

I got a list of the people I owe money to.

When this mine makes it, they get their money.

You don't expect us to believe that. I don't care what you believe. Get off my

claim.

Well, boys, I guess he favors the hard way.

You heard him.

Ed,

put a gun on them.

I try to play it fair now.

I'll give you another chance to sign this.

Clint,

I told you.

Swinglers only take your money. They don't give it. We got a reason with him.

All right.

I tried talking. Now we'll play it your way.

Well, this ain't exactly my cup of tea.

The man owes you close to $200. The least you can do is take it out of his

hide. Well, that may be so, but I ain't gonna do any more whipping.

I got a better idea.

One that'll give that no-good skunk something to think about. Bring him over

here.

Give him a drink of water, a long one.

what's that

good senora she won't even feel it go on do as he

says move out i i came here to get my money back not to get my head cut off

well let's go

Let him go.

These rats.

Scum scums!

Who done this?

Oh, it's Fisher and Holt.

Must have went down the back trail. I didn't meet up with them.

They tried to get Pa to sign over the money we got in the bank. I didn't sign.

I've got to get you two in the dock right now.

Pedro, hitch up the team for me, will you? See you soon. Take it easy, Jim.

Come on.

We could give you a working over, didn't we?

Well, you can't blame me for asking, Doc.

Well, no. One of my girls says that she's got double lobular pneumonia.

I thought it might be catching.

Well, I tell you, it sounds more to me like it's double lobular laziness.

And I think there's just nothing I can do about that.

Well, I guess I'll have to make a house call. Well, watch it, though.

Just don't go to treating gunshot wounds or anything like that.

I'll see you, kid.

Kitty?

I've got the forms in here.

They're hurting.

Brian,

what happened?

He really got us.

Here, Jim, get up.

They just whipped away out of him with the whip.

Prestige, get me that toilet bottle there off the... What'd they do to you,

boy? Oh, they just twisted my arm a little.

Oh, let's have a little... It's up here on my shoulder.

You just... Just leave it like that till I finish with your paw. Yes, sir.

Just hear the one dot. Yeah, that's it. That's it.

Now, Jim, you're sure not gonna feel very good.

I'm sorry.

Well, Festus, what happened?

Well, I gather Jace Holt and Clint Fisher and a bunch of them fellas went

up yonder and tried to make Jim sign a paper.

That's right, man.

Make him sign a paper?

Yes, ma'am. To get the mine money we got in the bank.

Look, I wasn't telling you. You could throw them fellas in jail for

trespassing. They're beating up on you. Well, somebody ought to do something

about this. I'll tell you that.

I sure agree with that.

Festus, come on. Let's go get Matt. Yes.

No,

no. Please.

Look, I appreciate it.

I know you mean well.

I know you want to help.

I don't need no help. The marshals know nobody.

Well, why not, Jim?

I just... I just don't... Please.

Please.

Well, it's your skin.

What little there is of it left.

wants to go to the marshal and talk, I say he's welcome.

Who's gonna believe a liar in a swim reef when he has got a sore back?

Besides, then he'll have to tell everybody what he's doing back in his

spent out mind.

Yeah, yeah, but it's the same as the last time.

What we need is good salad in the hand.

Well, don't you worry about it, because I got a couple of ideas.

Keep your ideas.

of good ideas to last until the long branch starts growing some leaves.

What's that supposed to mean?

It means I saw the Forbeses when they were brought into Doc's office.

Are they giving you trouble, Miss Kitty?

Not as much as they gave Jim and Brian Forbes.

If you don't have any shame in you, then you certainly ought to.

What happened, Miss Kitty?

Festus hauled the Forbeses into Doc's office and Jim's back looks like a

bloody washboard.

And young Brian almost had his arm twisted right off.

Well, he was up there, wasn't he?

Working at the mine with his pa, learning all the tricks.

Who says that we know anything about it?

Jim Forbes.

You must sure be worked up to believe the world's biggest liar.

Well, I believe her. So do I. You're not alone.

We wouldn't let go of a bunch of drugs like you. You think Jim Forbes wouldn't

dream up a story like that so we'd feel sorry for him? You don't think he'd beat

up on his own kid to do that? Now, wait a minute.

three years ago.

We were saving up to go to California.

He's got a forked tongue if I ever heard one.

That's the truth, Kitty.

Are you calling Miss Kitty a liar?

I ain't calling anybody a liar.

I'm sorry, Miss Kitty.

We didn't mean to crowd you. It's just that... All right, all right.

I brought this on myself.

I don't usually start things that I can't stop.

And I'm gonna stop this. Now, why doesn't everybody just step right up to

the bar and have a drink on me?

Wait a minute!

Except any of you that think that Brian ought to suffer for the sins of his

father.

Now, anybody who thinks that, you can just start walking.

Oh, come on, let's get out of here.

and drink someplace else.

Still don't like this, Clint.

One way in means only one way out.

Oh, stop spooking, will you?

What about here? They brought the judge to show him during the trial.

They sure pushed it in further since they come back.

Yeah, a lot of blasting.

Sure, same stuff that's coming off the tunnel wall, all right.

Hey, hey, look here. Look here.

What?

Just like before. Now, just like before. What's like before?

Quartz. This is quartz, the stuff that he sold to the mine with. It's the same

thing that he bought him to dodge in those sacks.

Why, that double-dealing card stack and no good polecat, he's trying it all over

again. Just the way we think.

Please come in.

What are you doing here?

We... How is he?

I don't know. Maybe I hit him harder than I thought I did. Is he dead?

Come on, let's get out of here.

Wait, wait.

What do you think?

Why not?

We'll all be next to that.

Well, like the banker says, if you don't get paid, you foreclose.

Thank you.

Pa? Pa?

Are you all right?

The

mine's

gone.

The years.

Pedro, you saddled my horse.

Señor, you... Saddle my horse!

You kept it loaded, too.

Yeah, but... but why?

I didn't set that charge. Holton Fisher did.

What are you doing?

You're not going down there all alone. I'm going with you. No, you're not.

You're staying here.

I'm the one who did the crawling.

There ain't gonna be no more crawling.

Your Ma could have married Hank Showdall. He's a farmer.

Instead, she'd pick me.

A mole, gopher, looking for rainbows.

Underground.

Well, the only gold I ever found aside from your Ma was... you.

Get him, Paul! Get even!

Then come back.

figure that old scutter doc out why not all i said to him was it maybe jim

adored to give up the mind and i said so far he could have found that much gold

in a bowl of soup down at delmonico's instead of being out there sweating and

breaking his back like that what doc say he said something i ain't been able to

figure out yet what's that

Little people has got little faith, whatever that means.

He's wearing a gun, Festus. You better go get mad.

I'm gone.

Fisher!

He got blew to pieces. Somebody sure put him back together again fast.

Gave him a gun, too.

I'll take you one at a time or both together.

Don't make no difference.

I'll fill

your

hand, Forbes. I'll take you.

Hold it.

What's going on here, Jim? I'm going to kill him, Matt.

I'm taking all I can take. They blowed up my mind.

He's a liar.

We went up there, but it was to check up on him.

Yeah, we saw where he salted the mine. He was going to swindle the whole town

all over again.

Well, now, if he blowed that up, he did it to cover the evidence.

Yeah, he's mad because we scalped him before he scalped us. Send him back to

jail. You want to give us back our money?

Rattlesnake don't change his rattle. Oh, he's a robber and a thief, and you know

it. What about my money?

He's a no-good, twisting rock rat.

We're going to run him right out of town.

Dodge would be a better place with the likes of him gone.

Look, it's a strike, senor. Look at this one.

Where? The whole mountain.

Pedro found it. The blast opened it up. It's a strike.

Oro supremo.

I don't want to see that.

Look here, Matthew.

Sack of that and my dog's sick.

You'll all get your money back.

Well, I think I owe you two a little something extra for being a part of my

case.

I got it. I got it. Wait a minute. That's mine. It was closer to me. I got

it. I got it. I got it. I got it.

I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it.

I got it.

I got it. I got it. I got it. I got it.

I got it.

Boy, let's get that order out of the assay office.

I don't think he's going to laugh at you today.

Festus, you know, you keep looking at that any harder, it's going to break in

two.

All right, Mac, you just keep on the hoover on me, but even hard rock holds

them back. You've never seen anything like it.

I don't know, I'll tell you, as long as you feel that way, maybe we ought to go

over and you can buy me a beer in honor of his memory.

I reckon I could at that, but remember I told you Uncle Hogan Hagen learned me

everything I know about mining?

Mm-hmm. Well, he learned me something else, too.

What's that?

How to talk a lady saloon keeper out of a couple of cold beers.

Want to give it a whirl?

Let's go.