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Stambridge, Will Stambridge!

It's nine o'clock, Stambridge!

You'll be buying one of two things, Lonnie,

a grave or a reputation.

Well, we all get us a grave, eventually.

Stambridge!

I'm waiting, Stambridge!

Do you hear me? It's nine o'clock!

Hey gunfighter, I'm waiting!

You hear me, Stambridge?

Hey, Stambridge!

He's the best there is.

I don't figure so.

Most people do, though, that's why he's the one to go after.

You want a reputation that bad?

I want to be somebody besides

Dell Colby's son.

That's what I want.

All Dell left him, and he don't see nothing

but the size of his daddy's tracks.

Oh no.

Why didn't you stop him?

He was a man, Mrs. Colby.

And you're fired.

Get your stuff and get off the ranch by morning.

Will Stambridge!

A thousand dollars to the one who kills him, here and now.

One thousand dollars!

Somewhere there's someone who'll stop you.

I swear I'll see you dead.

I'll pay to see you dead.

Men like you got no right to live.

You meant that? A thousand dollars?

You don't care how or where?

He's dead.

Every bump, every jolt, every piece of dust

just puts that much more distance

between us and Dodge City.

I still say we'd been better off waiting for that train.

Take a chance on something coming up?

Not on your life.

With that trial ending early we got an extra two days.

If we live through it.

Oh, you'll live through it or I'll kill ya.

Kitty, I still don't

see how you got ready so fast?

I've been packed for a month.

Did I tell you I love this?

Yeah, you make that look pretty good.

St. Louis here we come.

It'll be a time 'fore he's rode again. Frog's cut bad.

What'd you give me on 'em towards one of those?

Got too many stoved up this past month.

Gotta hold on to the sound ones. Can't sell none.

It's a long walk to nowhere.

The eastbound stage from Dodge

will be a long in an hour or so,

westbound's due early tomorrow.

One's the same as the other.

That horse ain't worth more than $30 to me.

Put it toward a seat on the eastbound.

How far?

Far as it goes.

Grub's inside and bunk if you like.

That I would like.

Whoa! Whoa!

Oh, thank you.

Gonna be a few minutes Marshal,

just time enough to water the horses and grease the axles.

All right, Hank.

Running a little late, gonna try and pick up some time,

hope you don't mind Ms. Russell?

Oh, you've just been dawdling along.

There's food inside, ma'am.

- You're Marshal Dillon? - That's right.

I gotta a message for ya here somewhere.

Sheriff down in Greenberg had it wrote up.

Think I know, yeah here it is.

And there's hot water on the stove

if you have the mind to wash up.

It's from Judge Brooker.

Now what?

Beckwith's lawyers filed an appeal for a new trial,

it starts Monday. I'll have to be there to testify again.

No.

It's my job, Kitty.

Oh Matt, don't use that word with me, not now.

I don't know what else I can do,

I'll tell you what, we'll get a

fresh start as soon as the trial's over.

Do you know what it took to make this trip?

Yeah.

Well then you must know that after

the trial there will be something else?

I've had 18 years of something else's Matt, please?

Kitty, I'm sorry.

So am I.

Look, I'll find us a rig to get back to Dodge with.

I'm not going back to Dodge.

You have to go back but I don't. I'm going to St. Louis.

Pulling out, Ms. Russell.

The stage is leaving Mr. Stambridge.

Have a good trip, Ms. Russell.

Take it away, Hank.

Whoa!

Both hands where I can see 'em.

And don't nobody get excited and won't nobody get hurt.

Climb on out of there.

Well, sweet Marie.

Throw down that cash box old man.

Oh, you got the wrong stage, mister.

We ain't carrying a thing.

Hey, you.

All right RJ, looks like we found

ourselves something right here.

Stay away from me.

Peppers in the stew, huh?

Just like I like it.

Leave the lady be.

Huh, what I got here? A hero?

Take what you want and leave the lady be.

Looks like we got ourselves two heroes, Mayhew.

Would you like to try for none?

That'll do just fine for a start.

Here let me look.

Oh never mind.

What do you mean never mind? Just sit still.

You've got a bullet in you.

Oh leave it be.

From the looks of this you could bleed to death.

Here, hold this.

Yes, ma'am.

I don't think you should do that.

You've lost a lot of blood.

Ever happen to ya when you're

stomach's trying to keep from churning over,

and your head keeps talking to you about

a large fried pork and such.

As matter of fact it has happened a few times.

Ms. Russell, wasn't it?

That's right Mr. Stambridge.

Hardly seems fitting not to say thank you.

It isn't necessary.

Then I won't.

You seemed a little upset in the stage earlier.

Yeah, I guess I was running from something.

Lady, we're all of us running from something.

Some of us just harder is all.

I guess you're right about that.

You bet I am.

I guess you got to stop sometime.

Maybe.

Morning.

Good morning. How you feeling?

Like it's time for us to get out of here.

Well, I'll go see if I can find some help.

I think there'll be a stage a long later today.

I heard the station master mention it back where I got on.

Well, you've got to get that wound

looked after before it gets infected.

Meanness will hold off the infection for a few more hours.

You were half right, you know?

About what?

About running.

You never really stop all together

but you can sure slow down a lot.

Is that what you plan to do?

I will if you will?

I think it's the stage.

Has he said anything to you, has he?

Who?

Matthew.

Well, sure we had dinner together about an hour ago, why?

Well what did he say?

Say about what?

About him and Ms. Kitty, of course.

He didn't say anything to me

about Ms. Kitty and I didn't ask him.

I don't think you need any lesson, Festus,

on how to be a friend.

When he's ready, he'll say whatever there is to say.

Ma'am, the stage will be here in about five minutes.

Thank you.

Does it look that bad?

Well you'll live.

There will be some people real sorry to hear that.

You must know some very interesting people.

I know very few people.

You should have a doctor look at that.

Well, there'll be one in Dodge.

There's also a United States Marshal.

Now what's that supposed to mean?

I know a gunslinger when I see one.

The laws got no quarrel with me.

At least none that I can be arrested for.

I appreciate the concern.

Well under the circumstances,

Lady, you owe me nothing.

I guess you don't see it the same way as I do.

You've evened that score.

I'd like to see you when we get back to Dodge.

Of course, I wouldn't want my seeing you to be an embarrassment.

Try the Long Branch, it's a saloon. I own it.

Lathrop, what I'm asking for ain't more than

a couple dollars worth of supplies.

Well, it ain't the flyer and the coffee cart

it’s the past due bills, long past due.

I thought all these years of trading here...

count for something?

It's all the years that's carried you this long.

Mr. Lathrop, Corley.

- Good afternoon, Festus. - Festus.

Well I ain't saw you around in quite a spell, Corley?

Staying close to the place, mostly.

What can I do for you, Festus?

Well, I was fixing to pick up some coffee for the jail

but I can wait until you and Corley gets done.

We're done.

Lathrop, obliged all the same.

I sure hated to refuse him credit.

Well, I'll tell you now Mr. Lathrop.

You ain't the onliest one in town that's

put the kibosh on his credit, ya know?

It's a sorry thing.

That farm of his has got the richest bottom land around

for a whole year it's done nothing but lay fallow.

It's terrible what happens to some men

when they lose their woman.

Well, I reckon I'll take some of your coffee.

Sure thing, Festus.

I could have told you, begging ain't

gonna do you no good.

I didn't beg.

Uh huh.

Now, you show some respect.

You show some sense. Get shed of that farm.

She was your ma.

She was your wife.

She stopped being my ma when she married you.

Keep the hill you buried her on, but sell the rest.

Then what?

Then we move into town and get some decent work.

You haven't done a decent days work

since, I don't know how long?

Oh, I know how long its been since you last did.

Sell it, or I'll find a way and I'll sell it myself.

Let's go!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Will, wake up, we're in Dodge.

Marshal?

I just saw Ms. Kitty. She's coming in on a stage.

Thanks.

I got your message, Burke.

You just sit there and I'll go get some help.

Oh, I don't need any help Kitty.

Just sit there.

What's happened?

Stage hold up, I'll explain to you later.

He needs some help.

Will this is Marshal Dillon.

This is Will Stambridge, Matt.

Marshal.

Um, it's a gunshot wound. I did what I could.

Couple you boys give me a hand here.

I'll see you in the morning.

How bout dinner tomorrow night?

Well, Doc said that you'd be

up in a day or two, but I don't...

Maybe now that you're back you'd

rather have a little time?

It's gonna take a lot of time, Will,

but I'm not gonna stop living.

How bout eight o'clock?

I don't know the town, so you'd have to pick the place.

Sleep well.

Kitty you all right?

All I need is a hot tub and a good night sleep.

Hmm. Well that's been known to cure a lot of things.

Matt, I owe you an apology for storming off like I did.

Well just as long as you're all right, Kitty.

I'm fine.

- I'll walk you to Long Branch. - All right. Goodnight, Doc.

Goodnight, Kitty.

Kitty, I'm sure sorry about the trip.

Well, like you said, it's the job.

Anyway, what does it matter in a hundred years?

Guess you're right.

Kitty, about Will Stambridge...

What about him?

I'll guess you'll find out sooner or later.

That he's a gunfighter?

Just so long as you know.

As matter-of-fact, I've learned

quite a bit about him in the last two days.

He's not on any wanted posters?

None that I know of.

Well then, what people talk about

really doesn't interest me a bit.

Goodnight, Matt.

I'm gonna have us a new pot of coffee before you can say

"Right over the roof of the house

with a piece of raw liver in his mouth," Matthew.

And this here is going to be Aunt Tori Heebs'

special brew, Matt.

Just stout enough to float a smithy's hammer.

Matthew, how blamed much longer are you...

Are we gonna have to wait 'fore we get

them there new Wanted posters from Wichita?

They usually get here first of the month.

Well, they done already four days late, then.

Yeah, and they were three days late

when you asked yesterday.

Besides, Stambridge isn't going to be on any of 'em.

Who said anything about Will Stambridge?

You know, Festus, that coffee is not gonna cook

unless you put it on the fire.

I'll tell ya something, just betwinxed you and me

and that water trough yonder,

I'm getting filled clean up to my goozler with Will Stambridge.

I guarantee ya, I am.

Well, the talk is she's sweet on him.

On a gun fighter? The ma'am saved her life, that's all.

What bothers me is a man like

Will Stambridge being in our town.

And I agree with Turner.

You know the trouble his kind can bring.

Aw, the Marshal can handle that and him.

Then why in blazes is he standing by

doing nothing if what Burke here says is true?

I mean, him and Ms. Russell, after all these years,

what more reason does he need to

hand Stambridge his walking papers?

When you think about it, any other gunman

he would have sent packing days ago, it don't make sense?

Unless Stambridge has his number all the way around.

Aw, Mr. Grimes...

Listen Burke, I'm not the only one been thinking that.

There was an old trapper

I started wandering with back in the 40's,

I was about 17 or so, I guess,

and he used to say,

"The further down the mountain a man goes

the more clearly he remembers the view from the top.

I never forgot that.

It does go by fast, doesn't it?

Yeah.

The older you get the faster it goes.

It's frightening to look back and see all the years.

I wish there were more than memories to show for 'em.

What else could there be?

A family, a home.

Well I guess we all have to make choices.

For most of us, there comes a time when...

we question the choice we made, whatever it is.

I think the mistake is in not making

a change if we really want it.

It's taken me better than half my life

to find out I wanted to change.

Not now, Will.

You let me know when.

I've joust cows til my rump ain't nuthin

but a solid callous

and I'm going back to Texas

with nothing but that callous and empty pockets.

Now, if I lay out the likes of Will Stambridge

I go back with a name, right?

Right.

Not to mention doing this town a favor, getting shed of 'em.

Marshal too huh, Coots?

This town and your Marshal can go fry.

At least I'll go back with something, right?

Right.

Well men, the Marshal is right over there

at the Long Branch Saloon, right now.

Are you talking Texas or are you gonna show us some grit?

He's going back to his herd

and you two are clearing out of here.

He was talking about you Marshal?

Let's go.

Well Marshal, I really don't take

to that clearing out 'cause you ain't got no right to tell us so,

me and Coots here, we haven't done a thing.

That's right.

Hey!

Ahhh!

If anybody what's to use their gun, now is the time.

All right boys, back to your herd.

It's Corley Deems place.

I understand it's for sale.

I'm going to buy it.

You needn't look so concerned,

I'm buying a piece of land with some buildings on it.

It means more than that, Will.

It means you're putting roots down here,

- and you'll be... - Underfoot?

Does that bother you?

You have the right to live any place you want to.

That's not what I asked you.

I know it isn't, Will.

And I don't have the answer, at least not yet.

Nobody's pushin'.

Like hell you're not.

Stambridge.

Good afternoon, Marshal.

Got some strange gunmen after you in this town.

What do you mean?

Gunslingers I can understand but these Texas trail hands?

I guess you didn't hear, Marshal.

The last town I was in

a woman offered a $1000 for me, no questions asked.

And you think these men heard about it?

Somebody has.

I could understand if you ordered me out of town.

Comes to that, I will.

About Kitty...

What about her?

Is she really her own women?

Mister, if you don't know that you got a long way to go.

Thank you, Marshal.

You got a minute, Matt?

Sure.

I need some answers.

The scales are getting all out of wack.

It's hard to throw away 18 years.

Yeah.

I know what that badge means to you,

to this town, to everyone.

But I'm thinking of us.

I was just a kid when we met, Matt,

and I was going to live forever.

I knew how things had to be with us

and it was all right.

But, I thought that someday,

some far off someday.

That things would change.

And Matt, my some days are almost gone.

I guess what I'm asking is...

for you to tell me to say no to Will Stambridge.

Kitty, you know how I feel.

But that's a decision you’re going to have to make yourself.

I know Matt. I know.

Did you bring it in cash, like we said?

Here it is, $650.

I made out a Bill of Sale

for your share of the property, Mr. Deems.

The balance I'll settle with Mr. Bodkin in the morning.

I get to keep the hill?

It's been arranged, you keep the hill.

My wife, she's buried there, you know?

He knows, he knows, you told him a dozen times. Now sign it.

We can be out of here in a day or two.

For all of me, we're out of here right now.

There is no rush, Mr. Deems,

you take all the time you want.

Sign it.

Thank you, Mr. Deems.

Mr. High and Mighty Gunfighter bought himself a pig sty.

Don't talk like that, Sheb.

I'd go pound sand down a rat hole.

This was a might fine home, a lot of years.

Yeah, it's a pig sty now.

All right give me the money, Sheb.

What for?

So, we can figure out what we owe

and take it out and see what is there left.

- What we owe? - To Mr. Lathrop and others.

They get nothing!

You're a living shame to the memory of your mother.

You ain't nothing like she ever was.

Ugh.

Here's to your new home.

I was hoping you might come out

and give me a hand fixing it up.

Well, now that's not gonna take an hour or two

that might take quite a while.

I was hoping it might.

Can't ever tell, you might get attached to the place.

Will?

Not afraid are ya?

No. I'm not afraid.

That's good.

Because the new owner thinks very highly of your taste.

Well, in that case, here's to the new owner.

Ms. Kitty?

Come on in, Festus.

Ms. Kitty, I sure hate'd to bustin in on your supper here.

That's all right. What is it?

Well a, Matthew he ain't here

and ain't gonna get back for a couple of hours

and he told me to look out after the town.

All right?

Well, fact is, somebody's brang up a charge

of murder against Will Stambridge here.

Murder?

I never seen him hit, Pa.

Well, what did you actual see, then?

I knew he and Pa had been talking

about his buying the farm.

And, well, Pa told me he was coming out

and well... I left before he got there.

But, when I got back, like I said, I seen him driving off.

He never saw me, though.

Then, when I got inside, I saw Pa lying dead on the floor.

How much good will it do to tell you everything's he told ya is a lie?

Well that's why we're all adjoined here

so that you can tell your side, don't you see?

I was there, I bought the place, I paid $650 cash.

The paper Mr. Deems signed is in my hotel room.

You able to prove that, are you?

Festus!

Your Mr. Bodkin cashed my draft,

the money I gave to him.

No sir. Festus, I never seen no money.

All I saw was Pa lying dead there by the fireplace,

and if he signed the paper,

he signed it at gunpoint.

You believe that?

Well, it's Sheb's story here.

It's the truth.

He's lying. Look at him. Listen to him.

Ms. Kitty, I sure hope you never come home

and find one of your kin lying dead on the floor.

See how smooth talking you'd be?

I don't believe you.

Well, believing is going to be up to Judge Brooker and a jury.

And I sure hate to do it, Ms. Kitty,

but I'm gonna have to lock him up.

Now Matthew, he ought to be back any time now

and he can sift through it and

find out what the answers are.

But til then...

I said it right from the start, didn't I?

I said this man was trouble.

I knew as sure as Satan loved sin,

he would be the cause of somebody getting killed.

Who'd a figured it would have been

somebody like poor 'ole Corley Deems?

Now if he'd been run out of town

the day he came, like he should have been,

none of this would have ever happened.

Lord knows, the Marshal had reason enough to run him out.

Personal reasons.

Get the hell out of here.

All of ya, now!

I'm sorry for you kid, your old man was all right.

Well, I like that Festus cared.

He didn't raise one eye with that Will Stambridge, no sir.

He sweet talked Ms. Kitty.

Next he gone smooth talk Judge Brooker.

And it's all gonna be forgotten.

I wouldn't say that.

No, no, it's a terrible thing

enough to make a man's innards turn hind side out.

If Dillon can't get rid of him for us boys,

maybe we ought to get rid of him ourselves?

Yeah.

All right men, come on let's get him.

Don't do anything foolish.

If it comes to it deputy,

do you think you could shoot any of those people,

your friends, protecting me?

I'll do the job that this here badge tells me to do.

All right boys, we been waiting around long enough. Let's get 'em.

Looks like it's gonna be rough, Festus.

It's sure looking that way, Newly.

All right that's far enough right there.

Now Deputy, we've come to get Will Stambridge.

You ain't fixing to get him.

Hush up, hush up all of you. Get on home

before somebody gets hurt.

You ain't gonna shoot nobody, Festus.

Yeah, we're your friends.

Simmer down. Back off. Go home.

He killed Corley Deems.

And it's been proven he shot Lon Colby

over to Newton, in cold blood.

There was 20 or 30 witnesses.

Yeah, that's right.

That ain't been proved yet.

Seems to me you'd be glad to see him got rid of?

What he's done to your friend the Marshal,

taking his woman and all.

He's gone!

Go now!

Festus? Festus?

Move out of the way we're coming through.

We're taking him Newly.

We got him.

You hold it right there.

Now let him go.

All right men, get that rope.

Hang 'em.

Hold it!

Get that rope off him.

I mean it! Get it off! Now!

I want everybody off this street right now!

Move!

You better hope Judge Brooker has

more faith in your story than I do.

Well, like the lady that once said,

there are things that just can't be.

I remember, Will.

As long as there's hope we never know for sure, do we?

No.

That's what keeps us going.

I'll never forget you, Kitty.

- Goodbye, Will. - Goodbye.

You know something?

I know a lady who could sure use a drink.

Well, I know man that's ready to buy.