Original subtitles

Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Patience never was one of your long suits, Verlin.

You best find a place to sit down and light a spell.

Walking the hobs off in your boots ain't gonna hurry things up none.

Dying don't take as long as he's making it.

Maybe she ain't gonna die today neither.

Your poor mama went almost like that.

You know, I stayed with your mama.

Until she passed.

You best be remembering that, you and Coy.

That could be your poor mama in there fevered up like that.

Where's he at, Coy?

I don't know.

Last time I seen him, he was digging out a varmint with Homer.

Homer.

Boy's gonna have him a grief.

We got us a grave to be dug, boy.

You best go fetch Coy. Supper's ready.

Come on, go get him.

All right.

Get over at the wagon. Supper's ready.

Homer's ma die yet?

Carter, where's Homer?

I don't know.

What do you mean, I don't know?

Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on him?

Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on him?

Well, I'll go fetch him, and don't come back without him, or you're gonna get

the tanning that he ought to get.

And run!

You know, Pa, I've been thinking.

Old Wade's cow ain't going to do him much good, not now.

He ain't going to want to drag that old cow along with him, is he?

Now, you eat your food, boy, and you don't think about things like that here.

Well, I was just thinking. Well, you cut out thinking like that.

For all that suffering, she still went peaceable in the end.

Lord knows I thank him for that.

Guess this means that you and Homer ain't gonna be going on to Texas like

you planned, huh?

Turning back, are you, Wade?

Ain't nothing to be going on to.

Back to neither It's all gone now

It's gone like my Libby Wait, I know

that this ain't no time to be asking But seeing as we've been traveling together,

you know these last few days and been sharing together Well

Uh, Verlin here and me, we've been thinking that, uh, you know that old

milk cow that you got?

If you could see a mind to part with it, uh, well, we sure could use a good old

cow like that.

Yes, sir.

We'd be glad to pay you for it, Wade.

As soon as we get to Colorado, we send you our stake money right away.

Anything else you might see a mind to part with, you know, belongings in your

wagon or anything?

Well, boys and I could sure put a use to them, too.

$200 worth of nothing, that's what's left.

Our Texas money.

Well, Wade, if you come on a fair price, you let me know, yeah?

Because a good old cow, we can sure use.

Go find Coy.

Pa?

Pa, you killed him. You just keep your mouth shut and go fetch Coy.

What do I tell him?

Ain't no need to tell him nothing. Just tell him to fetch Homer and bring him on

back here.

He can't have gone far, Pa, if it was him. If it was him, all right.

Do you think maybe he saw? Shut up. It was an accident.

What are we going to do if we find him?

Don't be worrying about that right now. Let's just find him first.

Let's get our hands on him. Now you go fetch Cora and make him help you.

Homer!

Come on, son. This is just plain foolish. Come on down here.

We ain't gonna hurt you, Homer.

Come on down.

Got plenty of hot, warm food down here for you. And a nice, warm fire, see?

Come on down, Homer.

Come on down, Homer. Your daddy wouldn't want you up there after dark like this

now, son.

Come on, Homer, please.

You're wasting your breath, Pa.

He ain't never gonna show himself.

What's he feared of, Pa?

I don't know, son.

All we've been trying to do is what's best for the boy.

Maybe he's losing his mom, Pa, so close is what scared him.

Yeah, I could be right, Coy.

What we've done everything right, we give his folks a good burial.

Decent.

Well, you boys best be getting some sleep now. I want to lay down.

We'll be looking for Homer again when it gets light.

Good night!

Paul, you think there's any chance of that kid still being alive? Didn't I

tell you to keep that boy out of your mind?

Didn't I?

Now, we done give him every chance there is. Whatever happens to him from now on,

it's his own fault. Well, I know, but I just can't help thinking about him.

Well, you stop thinking about him. I told you to shut your mouth about him,

didn't I?

I don't want to hear about him no more.

I know it's a shame what happened to his pa out there and all, but the things

that he done give us before he died is gonna make a better life for all of us.

You just keep thinking on that for a while, yeah?

Yes, pa.

I'm trying. I'm trying. Well, you try a little harder, you're gonna get the back

of my hand across your mouth, boy.

Bye.

Well,

now, here, you're not going to use that thing.

You don't need it. I'm not going to hurt you.

You pass a wagon?

Well, I pass a lot of wagons.

Matter of fact, I'm looking for a wagon myself with some folks in it that need a

doctor, I hear.

A wagon with three people in it.

A man with a brown hat.

Two boys.

Yeah, come to think of it, I think I passed them about an hour ago. They're

your folks.

Well, they're not your folks.

Well, you must have some folks around here someplace.

You look to me like you could need a drink of water.

Careful of that gun now.

All right, now that's enough.

Tell you something.

You're just sure not going to last very long out here.

I'm just going to take you in the dock.

Here.

What are you trying to do to me?

You would have killed me, don't you know that? Who in thunder are you? Who are

you?

Well, here.

Here, young man.

All right.

I don't know what's happened to you.

I'm gonna get you into town.

Just dang near as big as he is, ain't it?

Almost blew my head off with it.

I believe you're just making that up. He looks like a pure little old angel to

me. Well, that pure little old angel has got teeth. Look at there.

Must have smarted, didn't it? Didn't feel very good, I'll tell you that.

How old do you reckon he is?

I don't know. About ten, I think.

Tried to shoot you in the head, huh?

He didn't miss me over a foot.

I'll tell you this, any young'un that'd try to do that can't be too bad.

Howdy, Miss Kitty.

Festus. I'm sorry I'm late, pal.

All right, Kitty. There he is.

I never saw him before.

No, I hardly expected you would, but I did think maybe you'd hear somebody

talking over at the Long Branch about a lost boy or something. Nothing like

that, huh?

No, not a word. But I'll ask around.

What are you gonna do with him?

Well, I... About the only thing I can do, I gotta keep him here. He needs

attention.

I don't mean... I don't mean physically. He's fine that way, but... Well, what do

you mean?

Well, I'll tell you.

He's scared. He's just scared to death of everything and everybody.

He'd been hurt.

Somebody's hurt that little fella bad.

I sure would give it a lot to know who it was.

Miserable rotten luck!

What are we gonna do, Pa?

How do I know what we're gonna do if you boys had checked these wheels before we

left? This never would have happened. You never asked us to check no wheels,

Pa. We didn't know.

Oh, you don't know nothing. That's the trouble with you both of you. You don't

know nothing. You don't even know when to wipe your noses unless I tell you how

to do it and when to do it.

Well, now, there ain't no sense in yelling at y'all. There's only one thing

to be done, and that's get another wheel, and that's what we're gonna do.

Where at? Where are we gonna look? I don't know where at, and I don't know

where we're gonna look.

But there's gotta be some place around here.

Maybe some squatter's cabin.

Couldn't we get a wheel off Mr. Bonnie's wagon?

It ain't far and it wouldn't cost us nothing.

Coy, you got a real head on your shoulders, son.

Now, here's a smart boy. He uses his head, you see?

That's just what we're gonna do.

We're gonna use old Bonnie's wheel.

Paul, we can't go back there.

Not back there.

What's the matter with you? It's only half a day's ride, boy, from here back

to Bonnie's wagon.

We can leave the wagon, go the rest of the way on the horses. What do you mean,

leave the wagon?

There's a whole stake here in this wagon. What are you talking about?

Paul, we can't go back there.

What if he's there?

What do you mean, what if he's there? What if who's there? Who?

Is that what you're afraid of, son?

You're afraid of Homer?

Oh, son, he's done long gone by now.

He's dead, boy.

But, Pa, old Bonnie's Texas money, that's a real... Shh!

Now,

don't you ever mention that again, boy.

Didn't I tell you about that?

Didn't I tell you never to open your mouth about that again?

Now, you remember how it was, don't you, boy?

Old Bonnie figured it out just like his missus did.

That's the way it happened.

He fevered up just like his missus, and the night before he died, he'd give me

that money because I was his friend. I was his only friend, boy. Now, remember,

I'm gonna get this saddle here and saddle up the mare.

You're gonna ride on back to Bonnie's wagon. Anybody you see on the road, you

pay them no mind. Here.

Just relax. Maybe we ought to introduce ourselves.

I'm Doc Adams. Most everybody around here calls me Doc.

This is my office, and this is Dodge City.

What's your name?

Oh, well.

All right, I'll just call you Clem. Everything's going to be all right,

Clem. My name's Homer.

Oh, all right, Homer. You see, we didn't have much of a chance to get acquainted.

You slept all the way in town.

You even slept when I kind of passed up your legs there a little bit.

You scratched them, you know.

You're going to be all right.

Nothing wrong with you.

A little rest won't cure, at least I don't think so.

Where is it?

What's that?

My gun. What did you do with it?

Oh, well, I locked that up so nobody'd steal it.

It's mine. I want it.

Oh, I know that, but you see, uh, Marshall here, Marshall Dillon, he don't

like the idea much of young fellas carrying guns, especially 10-year-olds.

I'm 12.

That's all.

And I'm not gonna stay here.

Where do you figure you're gonna go?

Colorado.

It's a long way.

I'm going to get there.

Well, I don't doubt that a bit.

Tell you, though, before you go, I think we ought to have a little food. Why

don't you and I go down to Delmonico's and get something to eat?

Well, now, if you're going all the way to Colorado, you're going to have to

have some nourishment.

My gosh.

Come on.

Yep. It's going to hurt you a little to walk.

I can walk.

Sure you can.

I'm a good doctor.

Come on, let's go.

The woman was here, the man there.

There's no identification on him at all, huh?

None.

It's very strange, Marshal. The doctor at the port performed an autopsy.

He believes the woman died of consumption and the man had a bullet in

his back.

I see.

I guess whoever did it just went over here and helped themselves to their

belongings then, huh?

Well, that's the way we figured it.

Probably Indians.

No, no, I don't think it was Indians.

How can you be sure?

Well, all the hoof prints here are shod.

Looks to me like all the people around here were wearing boots.

And you're prepared to swear that it wasn't Indians?

Well, I guess I am, Captain, if you insisted on it.

I'm obliged to tell you, Marshal. I simply don't believe it.

Tell me something, Captain. How long have you been out here in the West?

Three weeks.

That's about what I figured.

I suppose you've checked over this stuff pretty good for any clues as to who they

might have been.

Whoever did it was either very lucky or very careful not to leave any clues.

Of course, we don't know what was murdered.

No, but on the other hand, there's easier ways to kill yourself than

shooting yourself in the back.

Well, look here.

There's wagon tracks leading right out this way.

Seems to me your scouts could have followed that all right, couldn't they?

Well, I don't have time to set my scouts trailing wagons, Marshal.

I called you because I figured it was a civil matter.

Well, you did the right thing, Captain. I appreciate it. Thanks.

You sure you can follow those?

I can try.

Doc,

I'm telling you something. He's going to bust.

He hasn't eaten in a couple days.

Well, he's a glum and owned that pie. You'd think he hadn't eaten in a couple

of months. Why don't you just hush up? You're going to make him nervous. Now

he's hungry. I want him to eat. And that's the very reason why he bit you.

What is?

Because he's hungry.

Oh, for heaven's sake.

So I don't blame him for turning you loose once he got a taste of it. Oh,

shut up.

You want another piece of pie?

Go ahead on, Homer. He's rich. He can afford it. If you don't want it, I'll

eat it myself.

Gunny, I'm going to have to take him out of here before you corrupt his morals.

I'd like my gun now.

Ernest, bring this young man another glass of milk. We'll talk about that gun

later.

Please, Pa, I couldn't help it. You couldn't help it? You come back without

the wheel, didn't you? And why? Because you were scared something was gonna pop

out of the ground, a ghost, and get you? Pa, you gotta listen to me. It was more

than that. The graves was all dug up. What do you mean, they was dug up?

That's what I've been trying to tell you. The bodies was gone.

Somebody took them away.

Who took them?

Well, I don't know who, but the graves was all open, and old Barney and his

wife was gone.

We should have dug them graves deeper, and we should have hid the bodies.

Paul, we got to get out of here.

That's what you get.

That's what you get for being good to people, for doing a good turn for them.

You give them a good, decent Christian burial in the ground, and somebody comes

poking around that don't respect the dead.

Paul, listen to me. We got to get away.

Why should we get away?

Why?

Well, you know what we done.

What did I tell you about that?

Didn't I tell you we done nothing?

Now, we found that old man out there with a bullet in his back.

And all we done was to give him a good, decent Christian burial.

Ain't nobody gonna believe that.

Don't care what they believe. How many times I got to tell you that, son? You

don't have to bother with that.

Ain't nobody saw us with the Bonneys. Ain't nobody saw us any connection with

the Bonneys. And ain't nobody gonna say that our word is not the gospel truth.

What about all this stuff we took?

What about it? You want us to leave us out there for the Indians?

You want the Indians to take it?

Besides, ain't nobody saw that how we got it.

And ain't nobody gonna say that it ain't ours.

What about Homer?

Well, what about Homer?

How many times I told you about Homer, boy, that he's dead?

I told you there was no way that he could live out there without food.

What are we going to do?

Well, we're going to go back into Dodge.

And we're going to buy us another wheel and bring it out and set it up on the

wagon.

And then we're going to go on to Colorado like we planned.

Homer, you little old scape, don't you realize there's a law against horse

stealing? Let me go. Just let me go.

You know I can't let you go, especially not on somebody else's horse. But

they're getting away.

Who's getting away?

Oh, you ain't gonna tell me, huh?

All right, just get down.

I know what you're fixin' to try to do. You're fixin' to kick me right in the

head, ain't you?

Well, that old dog wants to hunt. Now, get down off of there.

I think it's time you and me and Doc had us a heart-to-heart talk.

Now, you get down from there. I mean it.

Well...

You in a dress, are you going to trust this young and I've ever run up again?

You better set him down, or I'm just going to get on you like ugly old eggs,

honey!

United States Marshal. Now throw the gun down.

Come on out of there.

I sure am glad to see you, Marshal.

You alone out here?

Yes, sir.

My pa and brother's gone into Dodge.

We broke a wheel.

Let me show you.

I can see how you could break a wheel with all this weight you're packing

here.

I suppose so.

Did you come far?

All the way from Ohio.

With all this?

No. We got most of this stuff from Mr. Bonney.

Who's Mr. Bonney?

He's a man we met on the trail.

His wife was real sick. Then she died.

What happened to Mr. Bonney?

He died, too.

How'd he die?

He was sick like his wife.

Must have come on awful sudden.

Well, son, I tell you, I think you'd better come along to dodge with me.

I sure would like to, Marshal.

I'm scared to be alone.

But Pa would scheme me alive if I left this wagon.

Well, don't worry about him.

Get you ready to come along now.

No!

I swear, he's got himself a head made out of solid marble.

I have not. Now, you listen to me.

We've tried every way in the world to...

Be a friend of yours, and you just won't have anything to do with us. What's the

matter with you?

I never wanted to come here in the first place.

Well, I'll tell you, if you hadn't have come here in the first place, you'd have

been out there on the prairie with the buzzards picking at you. Is that what

you wanted?

I want to go to Colorado.

Homer, you little old scutter. What Doc's trying to tell you is that you're

too dang little and too young to be out here on the prairie all by yourself.

I am not.

Now, I know that rankles you, but it's a gospel truth.

I ain't sick no more. You got no right to keep me here.

Well, I'll tell you about that. We got every right in the world to keep you

here. And if you don't quit trying to get away, we're going to put you where

you can't get loose. What do you think of that?

What do you mean?

Well, we're just going to have to throw you in jail for the good of your own

self.

You're not the marshal.

I am too.

Well, I'm one of the marshals out of town, a happy mouth.

Is that right?

Well, I'll admit it's kind of a dangerous situation, but it's truth, all

right.

Oh, come here, son. I want to talk to you.

Now, sit down there.

Now, I don't know what in thunder has happened to you, but somewhere, sometime

along the line, you've got to learn how to trust somebody.

You don't trust me.

Well, we're willing to try.

How? Well, my gosh, if you'll promise that you won't try to run away on us,

we'll just give you the run of the whole town.

Honest engine?

Honest engine.

I can go wherever I want?

Well, as long as you don't leave town, you can.

How long do I have to keep this promise?

Until Matthew gets back.

That's a marshal.

That ought to be about tomorrow.

You won't tell him I tried to steal a horse?

Oh my gosh, forgot about that.

Well, I don't know.

What do you think? We ought to mention that horse business?

Oh, I don't think we ought to tell him.

All right.

We won't mention the horse.

Is that a deal?

It's a deal.

Look out, son. That shoe's hot.

Hey, blacksmith.

See that wheel there? Can you fix that?

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess so. As long as you ain't in any hurry.

No, we done come too far already today to go on back tonight.

We was figuring my son here and I on staying tonight.

Fine. Have it for you first thing in the morning.

Boy, I'm much obliged to you.

Come on, boy.

Let's just go see the big city.

Might even spend a dollar or two.

And he's smaller than me. And he's skinnier and cozier.

No doubt about it, Matt. It's the same boy.

You haven't seen him since this morning?

No, we ain't saw him since he tore up old Doc's office.

Any one of a hundred places he could be hiding, but he can't shoot anybody with

that gun.

Why not?

Well, I took the bullets out and hit him before I locked it up.

Everything. Hello, Mr.

Stableman.

Come on.

Nag.

You can laze with Tom.

I ain't give you nothing. I take your money. Get on up here now.

I take your money and I don't give you nothing back.

Trust nobody.

You gotta always watch out for yourself because you can't ever trust nobody.

Hear that?

Oh, come on.

Let's go. Let's get out of here.

We got a room at the hotel. Get away from me. Didn't I tell you to get away

from me? How many times I had to tell you that? You and your brother ain't

worth a party to blow yourselves up with.

Get out.

Ain't you something.

Now, I gotta feed you, right?

Thought I told you to stay on out of here.

What are you doing here, boy?

You killed my pa, and I'm gonna kill you.

Son, that was an accident.

I was aiming at a sage hen.

You killed my pa, and then you took his money.

I seen you.

Well, you ain't going to kill me for that, are you, boy?

Oh, no.

That was an accident, son.

I was just being neighborly.

I'm just a poor old man, son. I wouldn't hurt nobody.

I was just helping your daddy because your mama was so sick.

Hey, boy.

Tell me something.

Did I kill anybody before?

Well, if you hadn't, you better know something.

You ain't liable to kill me with just one shot.

I can see that's all you got in there, just one bullet.

You know what happens if you don't get me with that one bullet?

Old Judd Prince gonna get you, boy.

I got lots of bullets, enough to kill you.

I don't think you do.

I don't think you got any bullets at all.

Matter of fact, boy, I don't even think your gun's loaded.

It is, too.

Oh, it is?

Well, if it's loaded, son.

If the gun's loaded, shoot at the bucket.

Not at me. If it's loaded, you go ahead and shoot right down at the bucket.

No, no.

Down at the bucket.

That's right. Point down at the bucket.

Point it down at the bucket and shoot the one bullet. Go ahead.

Hey, boy.

Where's all them bullets you said you had in the gun?

Huh?

Go ahead, boy.

Lift at it.

Can't budge it.

Too bad.

Stay away.

Why should I? It wasn't very nice of you. You come after me with a gun.

I told him. I told everybody what you'd done.

No, you didn't. You didn't tell nobody.

You know why?

Because if you'd have told anybody at all, this whole town would be abuzzin'

with what you had to say.

So you didn't tell a soul.

So you know what I'm gonna do?

I'm gonna fix you now, boy, so you ain't never gonna tell nobody nothing.

Get out of here.

I told you to stay away from me, boy.

You leave him alone. He's just a kid. Listen to me. This boy has enough on us

to hang us. Now, if you ain't got stomach for it, if you ain't got stomach

for it, then get out of here. No!

No! I said get out of here.

Get out of the cell! Out! Out!

Okay, boy.

Hey, boy.

First rule of thumb, son, when you're going to kill somebody.

Don't forget to put the bullets in your gun.

Boy.

I'm gonna come up there now, son.

And I'm gonna get you.

Here I come, boy.

Okay, boy.

I'm gonna squash you like a bug.

I'm gonna cut you, boy.

Of course he is, Matthew. He's crying his heart out.

Ain't he, though? He said that's the best remedy is for a 12-year-old man.

Come on, old man.

All right, move out of the way. Let this man through. It's all over.