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I'm gonna win big tonight.

Where'd you get that pot, Charley?

Share with him!

Honey?

Someday they'll be gone and this place will last

long after 'em, and us with it.

There's a railroad needs visit!

Now fun times and work time as set to begun!

Come on, come on outta here.

Oh, oh, oh, look what I always stepped on.

Aw, 'tis that sorry I am, friend.

Keep your hands off me, you pig-boat mick.

Now hold it, bucko, hold it!

See, you got to be grinnin' when you call an Irishman that!

I do?

Of course you do, that's why there's no offense.

No go on, let me hear you call me that once more.

Go on, please, eh?

Or haul your mangy tail outta here, right now!

Come on.

Why, excuse me, friends.

Try to make off with my knife.

Oh, someone, get a doctor, please!

Oh get a doctor, please!

Get a doctor!

Festus, you could help me by staying here

and looking out after things.

Newly can do that, Matthew.

Now, you're gonna need somebody that...

- Here you go. - Much obliged, Miss Kitty.

Here you are, Festus.

Like I was sayin', Matthew, now, Newly can look after Dodge

and besides, you know what things have came to

out yonder in that town in the hills.

Why, it's worser than Dodge ever was at its worstest!

You know what he's working up to, Matt?

Wants to go along with you.

Well, of course I do.

How in the tarnation we know who they're fixing

to send out yonder to help him.

Could be some greeny-horned old galoot

that don't know his elbow from his...

What else.

Matt, didn't you say that whoever would be helpin'

would be stayin' on for a while after you quiet things down?

That's what the telegram said, Kitty.

Well, then why don't you take Festus with you?

I think that's a great idea.

Matt, why don't you do that, then we can get a little

peace and quiet around here.

All right, ya blamed old scutter!

If I was to ever leave Dodge, you'd be miserabler

than a flea bit old hound dog with a rheumaticky hind leg.

'Sides that, you wouldn't find nobody who'd put up

with our blame pickety pickin' hoorahin'.

Oh yes, I'm gonna miss this, I really am.

You be careful, you hear me Matthew?

Oh I will, Festus.

See ya, Matt.

Well, after all this time, you'd think the goodbyes

would get easier, but they don't.

See you in a couple of weeks.

Now don't go blinkin', ya fish.

Oh no, no, you just hold still now

and don't you go flinchin', eh?

It's a gonna be Junction City all over again, Matt.

You can remember that far back, can't you?

The only difference is we're not gonna have

old Marshal Kimbrough to back us up this time.

Hello, Luke.

Matt.

How are ya?

I don't mind sayin' I'm relieved to see it's you.

That goes double.

It's gonna take a bit of savvy to read the

scripture to this place.

That's why I got here a day early, to look thing over

and see where to start.

Came two days early myself for the same reason.

- Come on, I'll show you around. - All right.

They drift in here all the time from

the Oklahoma territory.

Of course, they don't have to worry about the law here

any more than they do down there.

Busting windows and thievin's gotta be quite a pastime.

Of course, problem is nobody gives a hoot.

They're practically trading sugar to gold dust, pound for pound.

You know Matt, I thought I'd seen everything,

but there's something in this town you just got to see.

What's that?

The local banking system.

Come on.

You're just about to see a deposit made.

It's almost 100% robbery proof.

What if somebody steps in inside that circle by accident?

They buried the most recent one this morning.

Figured this would make a pretty good hoosegow.

Worked in Jackson City.

Sure did.

You know, a handcuff to one of these posts for a few days

will at least get their attention.

Blacksmith close by like he is will be handy for forging chains.

Well, Marshal...

let's get to work.

That's the last race in town.

Do tell.

Just once.

Stand aside.

I don't want to spoil your day.

Well, you won't.

Turn loose those reigns or you're gonna get runover, mister.

I'm a U.S. Marshal.

It's like Jimmy says, turn loose them reigns

- or get run over. - You're under arrest.

Next one'll be riding your bread basket!

If you want to push it...

now's the time.

Would you mind repeating that once more?

I said I never knew a Dutchman that couldn't

outclass a tea sippin', shag nastin' in a drinkin' contest.

You spoiling up for a fight?

You got a fight!

Well, actually, I'm more of a drinker.

Now look, look, look, pay no mind to Mike here,

he gets a wee bit testy sometimes.

But there's one thing that we don't do

and that's sip tea!

All the Dutchies I know can empty their glass

in four seconds, if they're a mind.

I can do it quicker.

- You can, huh? - Yeah.

Well now, Dutchie, you've met your master!

I hear the words.

Hey, gaffer, two mugs of suds here!

The best, the same as me and the boys have, right.

I seen.

Let me show who the tea sipper is.

No, no, no I'll do this.

Oh, and on top of that, drinks all around for the house.

- Yeah, one little side bet. - Yeah?

If I win...

you personally see to it

that your track crews hang their fun on the lower limb

from here on out.

What if you lose?

You can name it.

Hey, where are those beers?

And one of you fellas, go look for a one-way ticket

on the next outgoing stage for me marshal friend here.

Well, now, now, now don't go hurting yourself, huh?

Oh, that was a darlin' blow, boy, a darlin' blow!

You just remember,

on a lower limb from here on out.

I gave you my word, now I'll keep it.

That's good.

Just so you know, I haven't downed a beer

like that in 15 years.

Was wonderin' about that.

- If you hadn't made it? - I don't know.

Reckon he might have gone for two outta three?

McCurdy?

Well, I heard we had us some law in town.

That's right.

Marshal, my men had every reason to suppose

that that man was making a play for the money.

You won't need this banking set up anymore.

Come back and tell me that in a couple of days.

If you're still around.

I'm tellin' you now and I'm tellin' you once.

Hold off!

All right, hold it.

Marshal, the first thing people learn when they come in here

is what happens to anybody that sets foot

inside that circle.

I've got a right to protect what's mine.

From now on, you leave protecting what's yours

up to the law.

Anybody else gets killed inside this circle,

I'll see you hanged for murder.

No, no!

No, no!

All right!

This place has changed some.

You boys are not wanted around here anymore.

We planned on going anyhow.

You do just that.

Next time.

I'll be lookin' forward to that, now get!

Dang town's depressin' anyway.

Sure be good to forget everybody else's problem for a while

and tie one on, wouldn't it?

That's the only trouble with wearing this badge.

Six-bit piece of tin can sure cost a man

a heck of a lot in life.

You know old man Kimbrough had the right idea,

he once said, "In this job, you never take on nothing

"person if you can't easy give up."

What ever happened to him?

He's dead, Luke.

Did he ever get out from behind his badge?

Nope.

Well then, there's hope for us, Matt.

Time for changes.

You know what I'd do?

Tie on in?

Luke, you think you're going to get along all right here?

Standin' on my head, Matt, thank you.

Matt?

You think time's are changing too fast for us?

That's something I try not to think too much about, Luke.

Take care.

This is Hilt!

Everybody out!

This is the Hilt Hotel, lady, right here.

What in the world are you doing here?

Caleb and I are on our way to San Francisco.

Oh?

Luke, we talked it all out.

I told you it was over.

Well, you're sure taking the long way around to get there.

Well, Caleb begged to see you, it was only right.

I sure appreciate that.

I said this time and I meant it.

I know.

- Luke! - Hey!

Luke!

- Hey, boy! - Oh, Luke!

Scared you would have already gone.

Naw!

Say, that new suit's something!

Finally got long pants, huh?

It ain't the pants, it's the man wearin' 'em.

Seems like I've heard that somewhere before.

You used to tell me that all the time.

We're going to San Francisco, Luke.

So your mother said.

But we can't get any seats on the stage for two days.

The man at the freight office said so.

Now look, it's just about time for supper. You hungry?

Yes sir!

We ain't had nothing but beans and meat

since we left Fort Smith.

Don't say ain't. It isn't polite.

If we go now we can get in ahead of the crowd.

No, you two go on.

I'm tired from the trip.

I think I'll just go to bed.

But we were just going to get something to eat.

Let's go.

You gonna let her go, Luke?

Well now, there's just some things in life

a man's go no right to change, Caleb.

Come on.

Luke!

Come over here and sit with us.

Martha. Mornin'.

You sit there, I'm through anyway.

Caleb, you haven't eaten a thing.

I'm not hungry, Ma.

Besides, I wanna go look around.

Hey, watch it, boy!

- Place has got growin' pains. - Thanks, Luke!

Later.

- More coffee? - Please.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Well, were things as bad as you expected?

Oh, nothing ever really is.

They sent me a man I started with, a good man.

You heard me talk about him, Matt Dillon.

Oh, you'd never know to look at the place though,

it's so quiet.

It's still quivering, though.

Still got a few kicks left in her.

With Caleb, you talked about the town's growin' pains

and now you talk as thought it's dying.

The old way is dying.

The new is getting born.

Luke Rumbaugh, undertaker and midwife.

Forty dollars a month lawman.

One of the best.

Just followin' the rule book

and the man who wrote it, that's all.

I know all about that rule book.

Luke...

I love you.

But I love my son more... differently...

I can understand that.

That difference is the reason

we're going to San Francisco.

These past eight years,

they were my years, our years.

Now Caleb needs a father.

He's grown to be a quite a boy from the sprout I first met.

No little thanks to you.

That'll be a good place to raise a boy.

The place doesn't matter, Luke.

Then why go?

Because it's a long way from Fort Smith...

and I'm going to give Caleb a father.

Well, like I said, Frisco's a pretty good place to shop for one.

You get yourself a nice, secure man

with a nice, easy way of life.

I hope so.

A man that'll give you 100% flat out commitment,

with the odds on chance that he'll be able to keep it.

Who has that?

Oh, for sure nobody wearing one of these.

I never asked you take that badge off.

I know that.

When I get outta bed in the morning, I don't know

whether I'm gonna see it again that night or not.

Who does?

When I put on my badge, the only thing on my mind is

doin' the job and stayin' alive.

I know.

I don't expect any more than that.

But you and the boy, that's...

that's something I can't easy give up.

But you are giving us up.

You're letting us go to San Francisco.

It's not the same thing.

I don't understand.

Not many would.

So here we are, right back where we started from.

That was a mistake, starting in the first place.

Luke, do you really regret that?

You mean now, right this moment?

I sure do.

There's nothing on God's earth

that I'd trade these last eight years for.

Nothing.

Now you take good care of your ma, hear?

Some city man'll do that.

Aw, there's lots of good fellers in the city.

The only life for a real man is with his boots in the soil

or his rump in a saddle.

Where did you hear that?

You told it to me.

Oh.

You forget?

You forget all those other things you said too?

Well son, there's lots of things a man does in his life

that he wished he could do different.

Why?

Because it's right.

Man always does what's right,

if he wants to stand square with himself and his maker.

I won't stay there.

Come on, give it a try.

Luke, I want to stay here, with you.

Yeah, I wish you could too, son.

But it just can't be.

Now you go on with your ma and

grow up and be something solid like your pa, hear?

You're the only pa I ever known, Luke.

We're movin' out!

Tell me something, Luke.

How come in just about every town I've ever operated in

I could always get around the law one way or the other,

but never around you?

What?

Never mind.

You've been staring at that fly speck on the wall

for the last 15 minutes.

I just wanted to see if you were listening.

Well, I guess I... just feel like being quiet.

If you felt like being quiet,

you could go to your hotel room.

And if you felt like drinking, you could go to one

of the saloons that you haven't closed down yet.

Now, you came in here for a reason, Luke.

Since you're not one to take free samples of anything,

it must be to talk.

Come on, let me buy you a drink this time.

Thanks.

What's her name?

What's whose name?

The woman you saw off on the stage.

You remember, the one with the kid.

Do you know everything

that's going on in this town?

Oh, if she's as important to you as you're acting like she is,

you'd better go and do something about it.

Am I really that obvious?

Probably not to another man.

Well anyhow, it's too late now.

The only thing it's too late for is to be born.

Oh, go on.

Go on and get outta here and find her.

I mean, you're depressing

with what little business I got left.

Thanks, Kate.

How come I always get kissed goodbye?

Come on folks, we're ready to go!

Stage is leavin'!

Thank you, Caleb.

Mom, mom it's Luke!

Tell the driver to get your bags down, boy!

Yes, sir!

I figure I'd write a new chapter in that rule book.

Oh?

Traveling parson came by and nobody in Hllt

had ever seen one there before so I latched on to him.

Made him promise to wait till we got back.

Oh Luke, oh.

Caleb, you get the bags down.

While I'm taking this rig back, you go pound on room #5.

Tell that parson fellow we're back.

Yes, sir.

Tell him, your mother and best friend are getting married.

Yes, sir!

There are times that a man can do no wrong.

He's back, let's go.

With the cards running like this?

What'd we come up here for?

Part of what we come up here for I'm doing.

Now if you're in a hurry, you go take him yourself,

you might be lucky this time.

If he comes around tonight, that's one thing.

If not, tomorrow's soon enough.

Hurry up, deal!

Yes!

Aren't you ready yet?

Luke Rumbaugh, I had planned this day or night

over and over in my mind for years

and I'm not gonna be hurried.

Well, if I've got to put up with this all my life,

we can just call the whole thing off.

Not on your life.

Oh, now wait a minute, wait a minute.

Don't fix yourself up too fancy,

I kinda like you just like you are.

Oh Luke.

They do that all the time.

Oh, you're just in time, preacher.

Obviously.

Son, why don't you step over here by the bed,

right over there.

Sir, turn around this way a little bit,

right about in here.

- Right here? - Fine.

Are you ready?

Parson, I've been ready a long time.

That just about tells it all for both of us.

"Dearly beloved,

we're gathered together here in the sight of God

and the face of this company to join together

this man and this woman in holy matrimony,

which is an honorable estate.

Instituted of God and the time of man's innocency,

signifying unto us the mystical union

that is betwixt Christ and his church.

Into this holy estate, these two persons present

come now to be joined.

If any man can show just cause

why they may not lawfully be joined together,

let him speak now or forever after hold his peace."

Ring.

With this ring, I thee wed.

"With this ring I thee wed."

"Those whom God hath joined together,

let no man put asunder."

I pronounce that you are husband and wife.

Luke, oh Luke!

Hello there, son!

Luke?

How much do I owe you preacher?

The usual donation is $3.00.

Well, since it's the middle of the night.

I'm afraid I don't have change for this amount.

Just keep the change.

We just both thank you.

You're most welcome and I hope the three of you

will be very happy.

Good morning, Mrs. Rumbaugh.

That's an awful nice way to start off that new chapter.

Isn't it, though?

It will work, Luke.

You bet it will.

Boy!

Yes, sir?

Didn't I see you with the marshal last night?

Yes, sir.

That's what I thought.

I got something really important to tell him.

You think you can get a message to him for me?

Yes, sir.

You have put a spell on me.

I feel like I'm 19 all over again.

That was no spell, Mrs. Rumbaugh.

Hey, what you got there kid?

Hey, Luke, breakfast, how sweet.

Luke, a man stopped me down at the cafe.

Yeah?

What man?

He said he came back with friends to keep

the town from dying.

Where are they now?

At the cafe.

Luke?

How many were there?

- Two. - Are you sure?

Yes sir. At least two was all I saw.

Good morning, Marshal.

- You're under arrest. - Both of us?

Put your hands on the table.

I said put your hands on the table!

Him too?

On your feet.

Ha!

Get down!

Marshal, you better get that shoulder looked after.

There's four more.

Just keep moving.

Marshal, looks like you done run outta time

to get that shoulder looked at.

Not twice in the same day.

Hello Matt, come in.

Luke.

That's my wife, Martha, she sent you the wire.

- Dillon. - Marshal Dillon.

That's Caleb.

Hello, son.

- You all right? - I will be.

Sorry to put this on you, Matt.

Who did it?

Man named Badger.

You won't have any trouble findin' him.

How'd it happen?

I got caught up by the dumbest stunt of all.

Well, I guess that happened to all of us.

That's the last time for me.

I'm quitting.

Truth is, I...

I knew I was ready to quit when I made up my mind

to ask Martha to marry me.

Lost the edge, Matt.

But how do you explain

something like that to a boy, huh?

That's him, over there.

Your name Badger, is it?

That's right whiskers.

There's a big feller out yonder with the marshals

badge pinned on his shirt, told me to tell you something.

He did?

Either you come out yonder or he's fixing

to come in here and get you.

You tell him I got the message.

If I was you, I wouldn't settle down on my nest.

Look to me like he meant business.

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.

Bad idea.

Don't make a move.

- Badger? - Right here.

You're under arrest.

Fools they're hiring, get bigger and bigger.

Better hold it right there, get your hands up!

Now move over.

I'm gonna say this one more time and you better hear me,

the lid's on this town.

Anybody tries to take it off's gonna wind up like them.

The law's come to Hilt and it's gonna stay here.

You better think about that, think about it hard.

Luke, ma'am.

Luke, I just talked to Newly and Festus,

they said they'll stay on till the new deputy gets here.

Thank you, Matt.

I wish you both luck.

I think your boy'll come around.

I'd like to believe that, but

these last days tell me different.

So long, Luke.

Take care, Matt.

Goodbye, Marshal.

Mrs. Rumbaugh.

Topeka will be sending another deputy in a week or so.

Well, Matthew, don't tell old Doc it'll be that quick,

so as he could enjoy hisself for a few days.

Festus, Doc won't be fit to live with until you get back.

Well fiddle, I know that Newly,

and old Doc, he knows it too, but if he knowed

that I knowed that he knowed,

why he'd turn seven ways of purple and deny it.

We'll see you directly, Matthew.

All right.

I was afraid I was gonna miss saying goodbye to ya.

Goodbye, Marshal Dillon.

Caleb, I know what you're thinking about Luke,

but you're wrong, you're dead wrong.

He's a coward.

Luke's a coward.

No, he isn't, son.

Luke's one of the best lawmen that ever was.

Was.

Luke wasn't afraid of doing his job.

He wasn't even afraid of dying if he had to,

because he didn't have anything he felt was that

worthwhile that he was gonna leave behind.

But now it's different.

He's got your ma and he's got you.

The reason he did what he did was so you'd have a pa.

You think about that.

You'll see I'm right.

Luke!

Oh, Luke!

I love you, Luke, and I'm sorry.