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Gunsmoke, starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

You have heard the words against two bears, and you have heard his answers.

It is you, the council, who must decide where the truth lies.

I do not believe what has been said against my friend.

You have witnessed the decision of the council, Two Bears.

In three days, you must die.

The council has spoken.

Well, at least one of his old friends stood by him.

Grey Horse and Two Bears fought together in the war.

Grey Horse was blind to the evidence.

There are too few of the old chiefs left.

You're making a mistake.

I am leader of the council.

I did not decide against him.

You didn't speak for him, either.

It is the law of the Osage.

You have lived among us long enough to know.

I know this.

He did more for the O.S.A. agent dealing with the Army than any of the other

chiefs. There are those who would not have dealt as meekly with the Army,

Agent Franklin.

Agent Franklin?

Sarah, you shouldn't be here. You know that. The council grounds are forbidden

to women.

I know my father is innocent.

Do you really think you have to tell me that?

No.

Cannot the white man's law help him?

This is a tribal matter.

There's no place for the white man's law.

It's over, Sarah.

I'm sorry.

Jenny! Hold it.

Doc?

What are you up to?

I'm going to do some shopping.

Well, I was on my way down to have a beer with you.

Well, this is going to take me a little time.

Yeah, well, thunder.

What's the matter?

Nobody's where they ought to be today. Matt's not in his office as fast as I

can find him. Well, the two of them rode out early this morning.

They're going fishing.

Oh, no, no.

They're riding out to the Herkimer place. Oh, I forgot about it.

Something about some stolen horses? Yeah, there was some shooting. I patched

up a couple of them last night. How long are you going to be in there?

Well, an hour or so.

Look, why don't you go on down to the Long Branch and talk to Sam? He's there.

I don't want to talk to Sam.

Why not?

Well, you're not as pretty as you are.

Are you the Marshal?

Well, is there anything I can do to help?

You're too young.

Well, I'm not that young.

You are the Marshal.

No, I'm just helping out until the Marshal gets back.

When will he be back?

Well, I can't tell for sure.

Something wrong?

My father is going to die.

Die? Unless I get help.

Well, it's not the Marshal he'll be needing. What you need is a...

Oh, Doc, this young lady here needs some help.

Well, you look pretty healthy to me, young lady.

Well, it's not her. It's her father. My father is not sick.

Well, you just told me that he was going to die.

Medicine will not help him. Well, wait a minute here.

If your father's going to die and medicine won't help him, what's the

matter with him?

They're going to kill him.

Who's going to kill him?

The consul.

They say that he killed Samuel Brightwing. It's not so.

You're Osage, aren't you?

Yes. Well, I know a lot about your people, and I'll tell you something.

That council is not going to kill anybody without evidence.

They say they found his knife in Samuel's bag.

It's not so.

I think maybe we ought to get Matt.

We couldn't do anything about this. It's out of his jurisdiction.

Well, the reservation's in the district.

Well, inside or outside makes no difference. They have their laws. It's

in the treaty.

In the mission school, we are taught that the white man's ways are good.

My father did not care.

yet you are going to let him die.

Can't we get Matt to do something?

Well, he can't break a treaty, and that's exactly what he'd be doing if he

went out there.

No, I know that this doesn't seem right or fair to you, miss, but there's just

nothing Matt Dillon or anybody else can do about this.

Then my father will die for something he did not do.

That isn't right, is it?

No. But my gosh.

I have a right to their laws and... Well, they have a right to their laws.

That's all there is to it.

you may cause a lot of trouble.

You will see my father and you will know that he couldn't do the thing they said.

Where are they holding him?

Holding?

While he's waiting to be killed.

My father is not an animal. He's not being held.

You mean he's just walking around, free?

Yes.

I don't get it.

There are things that he must accomplish before he faces the consul's decision.

Why didn't he just run away?

My father.

Well, you said he was innocent.

He is.

Well, if he is, then they're going to kill him. My father is a chief of the

Osage.

It is Sarah.

daughter of two bear and a white man there's no time to deal with them the

others are waiting we must go

been

going on for putting here a week now three times they've come Why did you

wait so long to tell me about it? I figured I could handle it by myself.

Man, how many head have you lost handling it by yourself?

Fourteen.

Fourteen head.

You never caught sight of any of them? Well, me and a couple of the boys near

caught them yesterday.

Run them out towards the Barranca country.

Yeah, and you got shot up pretty good for all your trouble, too, didn't you? I

doubled back and hit us from the top of the bluff.

Meantime, some of the others are back here helping themselves to more of my

horses. I'd have lost them all if it hadn't been for my foreman, Andy.

You know where he is right now?

Laying in Dodge with a bullet in his leg right betwixt two of your wranglers.

That's where he is.

Yeah, and if Doc hadn't come to me, I still wouldn't know about it. Oh, yes,

you would. My other two hands quit me.

And seeing as how you couldn't run the spread and catch horse thieves to boot,

why, then you call in Matthew, huh?

It ain't fair stomping on a man what's lying on his back, Festus.

Oh, foot.

I got what's left of my mare's outside the corral.

And you don't have any idea who's behind it?

No.

I don't run a big outfit, Marshal. I haven't got much of a crew.

Well, I didn't have much of a crew.

Well, whoever it is figures that your place is easy pickings.

Well, maybe it ain't much, but I ain't gonna be run off.

I'll tell you that much.

Well, Herc, I'm afraid we can't stay around very long and give you much help.

I didn't figure you could.

Well, now, look, as long as you can't get any more crew anyway, why don't you

come on into town for a while? This thing blows over.

Marshal, I've been on this land since before John Brown was breathing fire.

By Judas, I'll stay.

On it or under it.

Uh-oh, Herc, looks like you got visitors.

They're looking for work. They sure got jobs.

Well, now, looky there.

Couldn't be better timing.

You know him?

Kind of looks like my sorrel that one fella's riding.

If it is, that's my best broodmare.

Holy bill, Matthew, this could be our lucky day.

Now let's just wait and see what they got on their minds.

Won't be a long wait. You can bet your Sunday socks on that.

The hired men have run away.

Only the old man remains.

Good. But do not forget, you're white men.

You will not take his scalp.

That will come later.

You will only take his horses and whatever weapons you find.

Then burn the buildings.

I hope he will protect you.

You all right, Herc? I'm all right.

What? There's the engine dressed up like a Jayhawker.

Looks like an old sage.

Well, Matthew, I've saw this fella in Dodge a time or two.

You said old sage.

It was those sages tried to trade me for some guns a few weeks back.

What in the tarnation they want with guns?

They don't have to do no hunting. They got vittles aplenty.

Guns in the hands of Indians only mean one thing.

Yeah, but we ain't had no trouble with these old sages in 20 years.

Trading for guns and stealing horses, that's a troublesome pair if I ever

heard of one.

How do you figure it, Matthew?

I don't know. I think I'll ride over to the reservation and see what they've got

to say.

You think you can get in town, all right, with your shoulder hurt like

that? Don't you fret none about me.

Crestus, why don't you get a wagon and help get him into town?

Well, Matthew, I was fixing to go over to the reservation with you. You're

allowed to run into a regular hornet's nest.

Well, he's going to have to have help getting into town. Besides, I'm going to

need you in there to look out for things while I'm gone.

All right, but you're going to need some help.

This is where my father lives.

You will talk to him?

I'll try.

Please stop them from killing him.

You are the only one who has listened to me.

Even my father's friend, Agent Franklin, has turned his back on me.

I'll do whatever I can.

Wait here. I will bring my father to meet you.

This is my father, John Two Bears.

This man has come to help, Father.

He is a boy.

He's a friend from Dodge City.

Your daughter told me of the council's verdict.

My daughter was wrong to tell you of anything.

Even if the decision was unfair?

I've been sentenced according to the laws of my tribe.

And what if the law is unfair?

By what right do you judge what is or is not fair?

I'm not judging.

It must be shown to all who will see.

The council's decision must be obeyed by all the Osage.

Father, please.

Now, this thing is done.

It cannot be stopped.

Your daughter doesn't want you to die.

She doesn't believe you killed that man.

My daughter knows I did not kill this man.

And yet you're going to let them kill you.

There'll be no more talk between us.

You will go now.

My father's friend, Gray Horse, did not choose for death.

He believes my father did not kill.

Could he be of some help?

Somebody must.

Very soon, somebody must.

This is Osage land.

I know it is.

What do you want?

Well, I come to see one of your people.

Who would have dealings with a white man?

His name is Gray Horse.

And I believe he's a friend of Two Bear's.

We know who he is.

Turn back and you will not be harmed.

I figure on seeing Gray Horse first.

Then I'll ride on.

You will not interfere in Osage justice.

You haven't the right.

It's not interfering I'm planning on.

I just come out here to see if something can't be done.

Two bears will die.

Seems that way.

And you will go.

After I see Gray Horse.

Timed that just right. Just stand easy, young fella. Take off the gun belt.

What?

Don't what me. Just do what I said.

You're in trouble, boy.

Would you mind explaining to me how I can save myself from two Indians and I

be the blame?

You're trespassing on Indian land.

I'm not trespassing.

My name is Elias Franklin. I'm the Indian agent, and you are trespassing.

Well, Mr. Franklin, I'm not trespassing.

I was brought here by an Indian.

You were what?

A girl named Sarah came to me.

Asked me if I couldn't help her with her father.

Came to you?

Well, she wasn't looking for me. She was looking for Marshal Dillon.

You work in the Marshal's office?

Not exactly.

Did Dillon send you here?

No.

I'm not a lawman.

It's just that the Marshal was out of town and this girl needed help.

So I came out here to see what I could do.

You're saying what you could do could cause a lot of trouble. Do you know

that? I just came out here to talk to a man named Gray Horse.

And you attacked a young buck on the way.

I didn't attack him.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just come along with us now before

this thing gets so far out of hand that I can't control it.

Control what?

Never mind what, just come along.

Now you wait a minute.

Now!

My debt to you is finished.

It is so.

Two beers.

What of your daughter?

My daughter?

My trade is good here.

I can provide well for her.

My woman and I have talked.

She could come and live with us.

That is kind of you, old friend.

I've made plans for her.

Goodbye, two beers.

I heard you were arrested.

I'm sorry I caused you trouble.

It wasn't your doing.

If you had not come to help my father, Agent Franklin would not have arrested

you.

I did what I thought was right.

But now you are in here, and I cannot help you.

Look, I told you it wasn't your fault, and you're not to worry. You hear?

So the council had no choice but to sentence John to death.

That young friend of yours I got locked up over there, thought he could stop it.

I probably ought to let him stew in jail a while, but I'm afraid I'm gonna need

him. Come on, I'll have him released.

I still don't understand what all this has got to do with the stolen horses.

I'm not sure it has anything to do with it, but since you say those young bucks

were trying to trade for guns... Well, that's what this fellow here Crawford

told me.

Well, the past six months or so, there's been a split between the older people

and some of the younger ones, and the council tried to stop it.

What kind of a split?

Well, you know the pride of these people, Marshal.

Somehow they got all stirred up. The younger ones, that is.

And the way I hear it, they are looking for a return to the old ways.

Some of those old ways can be a little bloody. I know.

Now, what's John Two Bears got to do with it?

He was one of the loudest voices to speak against them in the council.

He really wanted to set them down hard.

Uh-huh.

Well, all I really came here for was to find out about the stolen horses and the

gun running.

I'll have the agency police help you if you want.

Well, if I were you, I'd look into this situation before the Army has to handle

it. There's been peace for 20 years. They wouldn't make any kind of a move

that would necessitate anything that drastic.

Six weeks ago, I wouldn't have figured that they'd be stealing any horses

either.

I will be finished soon, Father.

That is for Spotted, dear.

He has often admired it.

Yes, Father.

We will ride to Greyhorse to talk about you. May I not stay here?

It would be wrong for you to live alone.

I will be alone no matter where I live.

Do not say such things.

I think them. Why may I not say them?

What I am doing is right.

so that the young men will be given an example of how an Osage should obey the

council?

The words of the council are only spoken among the men.

But at night, the men lie down among their women, and from them I have heard

of the would-be warriors.

They must not fight.

They must learn that the council's decision in all things has to be obeyed.

I am selfish. I only think of my father.

I have no choice.

I wish you had never been a chief.

I wish you had just been one of the many that followed instead of one of the few

that led.

That's not true.

I'm proud of you, Father.

I love you.

And in love, there's no room for pride.

You have no choice and...

I have no answer.

It's near here where they jump.

How much farther is it to where Gray Horse lives?

On the way, Sarah told me it's pretty close now.

No sage reservation land.

I know.

Then you are not lost.

No, I'm here to see you, if your name's Gray Horse.

You wear a badge of the white man's law.

I'm an United States Marshal from Dodge City.

You are here to see me.

That's right.

I will listen.

I understand you're a friend of a man named John Two Bears.

Now, if there's any connection between his sentence for murder and these stolen

horses... Horses?

Stolen?

If you had any influence, we could hold things up until we've had a chance to

investigate.

What have the Osage to do with stolen horses?

Well, one's been killed and two have been wounded so far.

You were sure they were Osage?

The man I found had this on him.

That's Osage medicine, isn't it?

Oh, I hope they... The war medicine of the Osage when they were fighting

people. And I took this one off of a brave who tried to kill me back there.

Now, if these two are some of the ones that have been causing trouble on the

reservation... I know of no one causing trouble.

The agent Franklin told us a different story.

It is a tribal thing to be handled by the council.

It may have to be handled by the army if it gets out of hand.

Now, John Twobears...

talked in the council meeting against these two men, and a couple of days

later he was accused of murder.

Something you yourself refuse to believe.

The council has decided.

Two Bears himself has accepted this. So must we all. There's nothing I can do.

But if there's a chance to save his life?

The white man has laws by which he lives.

Some of them seem strange to us, but they are the white man's laws. For him,

they are good.

Would you heed an Osage who asked you to change them?

The time grows short, Gray Horse.

Two bears?

This man is a marshal of Dodge.

I have heard of Matt Dillon.

I've heard of two bears.

Do you think to bring your law here?

Only long enough to catch some horse thieves.

It would seem they were Osage.

Maybe one of the men you spoke against in your council.

Do you think these horses are stolen? They're not.

They're all I have left.

I bring them to you, old friend.

Sorry to have bothered you.

I'll catch up with you in a minute.

After tomorrow, my daughter will come to you to be your woman.

Sarah? Please go now.

But your father just... There's no point talking about it.

Are you going to live with Grey Horse?

He's alone.

The day after tomorrow, I will be his wife.

Why?

He's my father's friend.

I will do as my father says.

Well, that's as wrong as his being killed.

Grey Horse was a great warrior.

Like my father, he's a chief.

I will be honored if he accepts me.

You know that's not so.

Wait a minute.

If you're so almighty concerned with what's truth and what's right, then look

at me and tell me that again.

It is the custom of my people.

Like it's a custom to die for a murder you did not commit?

You can't understand.

Well, then explain it to me.

Explain it to me the way your father explained why he's got to die.

You have been my friend.

I'm very grateful.

Goodbye.

You don't explain it by avoiding it.

Goodbye, Thad.

And thank you.

Thank you for being my friend.

And they're all over the place.

Yeah, they've been following us half the day. They just keep them tabs on us.

I haven't seen any signs of them.

When we get closer to those horses, we'll see plenty of sign.

I'll make you a bet.

What's that?

I'll bet they're wearing those while Hoopy watched McCollins.

And another thing.

If we find the ones who stole the horses, we'll find the ones who made it

look like Sarah's father killed that man.

Better get some sleep, Thad.

We start out soon as it's late.

I hope we find him in time.

They have not found the horses. Then they must not.

It will be very simple to kill them.

They sleep like old women.

To kill them, but only bring in other whites.

The time is not yet ready.

But if they come upon the horses?

In that event we have no choice, but only in that event.

Soon we will be strong enough.

Soon we will have enough horses and guns to give our braves.

And the cry of a Hopi will fill the land.

I swear to you, and the others.

One day soon, the white man will be driven from the land of the Osage.

Any sign of horses?

Nothing.

Well, if they're around here, we'll find them somewhere.

Did you see anything in those bucks that were following us?

No, just once or twice.

Over there.

It's Franklin's Indian police.

Oh. Well, I hope they've had better luck than we have.

Yeah.

Let's try up here toward the rocks.

I am ready.

When the shadow no longer touches the stones, it is the time.

Good shooting, Thad. Thanks.

Those horses must be around here someplace.

They're showing themselves like that.

There's a couple of dozen of them in this canyon right below us.

We were told to bring help if you need it.

As a matter of fact, I can use them.

With a couple of dozen horses over here, you can take back the agency for me.

Keep them covered, Thad.

Come on.

Who are you?

I'm United States Marshal.

You have no right here.

Would you rather have the army?

What does this mean?

You want to tell them, Gray Horse?

Tell them what?

This man's a horse thief.

What's he doing wearing that?

Well, Hopi, Indian war medicine taken from Osage horse thieves?

We found him up a box canyon near here.

Well hidden.

That is your horse, isn't it?

We found him among the stolen horses.

And it was taken from me.

Or maybe you just added him to your remuda.

Why should I do a thing like that?

Well, the men that are following your Wahope are going to need all the horses

they can get, aren't they?

I know nothing of the followers of Wahope.

What about that cache of rifles we found up the canyon?

I know nothing of them.

That's not what he told us.

Gray Horse is a great leader who will bring back the Osage to their place of

honor.

It was he who killed the one who would not join us.

He took the knife of John Two Bears and killed Samuel Brightwing.

Because Two Bears spoke against the greatness that was to be ours again.

It was Grey Horse who gave us the medicine of the great Wahopee.

We are to be punished.

We will accept it proudly and honorably.

Like the great Osage warriors that we are.

The Osage have no need for warriors.

We are at peace.

The old days are past.

Only a fool would relive them over again.

We will handle this matter ourselves.

The council will meet tomorrow to decide.

And the guilty ones shall be punished.

All right, fair enough.

That worked out better than I'd hoped for.

I want to thank you, Marshal.

Could have gotten pretty messy if we'd had to call the Army in.

Well, we've got Thad here to thank for that.

Me?

Well, it sure wasn't any of my doing. Of course, if things had worked out

differently, we might have had the whole Osage Nation down in our necks.

That's right.

Instead of having just a few hot-headed young bucks, we might have had a

thousand of them.

Oh, wait a minute.

I guess we can consider ourselves pretty lucky at that.

Better get out of there. We got a lot of riding to do.

There are a lot of people indebted to you, Thad.

Thank you, Mr. Franklin.

Would you mind if maybe I come out here sometime?

Whatever for?

Well, it all depends on Sarah.

Anytime, Thad.

Anytime at all. Thank you very much.

Thad? Hello, Sarah.

I want to thank you for my father and for me.

Thank you very much.

Well, that sounds kind of funny.

I will not see you again.

Why? Are you going someplace?

No.

Well, no, I just talked to Mr. Franklin, and he said it was all right if I come

out here again.

Oh, please do.

I'd like that very much.

Bye, Sarah.