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Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

Hi, Kitty.

Oh, hello, Matt.

Oh, what you doing up there?

You sure don't look sick.

Well, I'm... I'm not sick.

I'm worried.

What's the matter?

When was the last time you saw Doc?

Oh, couple of days ago, I guess.

Why?

Well, he hasn't been here for four days.

- He hasn't? - No, he...

he went out to Jake Worth's ranch.

His boy broke a leg, but, well, that was on Monday.

Well, maybe the boy is still sick.

You're not listening to me.

I said he broke a leg.

- Well, I mean... - Matt, Doc's missing.

Now, doesn't that mean anything to you?

Kitty, what makes you think he's missing?

I don't worry about Doc.

He knows how to take care of himself.

Well, he told me he'd be back yesterday.

Well, look, maybe, uh...

maybe he went fishing at Jake Worth's.

You know, Jake is always trying to get everybody

that comes out there to go fishing with him.

Yeah, I know.

Now, just let me tell you something.

If he isn't back here tomorrow,

I'm going to organize a posse myself

and go looking for him.

Say, I think that's a good idea.

You know, he'd probably like that.

He's always complaining that nobody

pays any attention to him around here anyway.

There's no use even talking to you.

Chester.

Oh, you feeling a little

under the weather this morning, are you?

Huh?

I said my blood, I think, is too thick.

Oh, you mean from that long, cold winter we had?

Yeah, well, it turned summer so fast, I just...

I just feel like that I got lead in my veins.

Well, a little sassafras tea

usually takes care of that, you know?

Well, I've been a-drinkin' sassafras tea, Mr. Dillon.

I swear I must have drunk a whole barrel of it.

Ain't took care of nothing.

Hello there, Marshal. Chester.

Ah, Jake.

- How are you? - Pretty good.

Tell me, you ain't seen Doc anywhere, have you?

Well, no. I thought he was

supposed to be out at your place.

He was supposed to four days ago.

You mean he never showed up there?

I sent one of my men for him.

He said he'd come right out.

And that's the last I heard.

Well, that's... it's only a day's ride out there, ain't it?

Even in a buggy.

Well, that doesn't make a lot of sense.

Not to me, it doesn't.

Sitting there with my boy, waiting.

How is the boy?

Well, he's all right, I guess.

Uh, I had to set his leg myself, no thanks to Doc.

I was just up at his office. He ain't there.

I wanted him to stop by

and take a look at the job I done.

Well, it sure don't seem like Doc, you know,

not to show up where a patient's concerned.

No, it don't.

That's why I stopped by, Marshal.

It's got me worried.

Chester, maybe we better go and start

thinning up that blood of yours a little bit, huh?

Well, I'll get the horses.

Well, uh, Jake, why don't you come on inside?

We have a cup of coffee left.

Thanks. I will, Marshal.

Well, which road do we take, Mr. Dillon?

Well, this one goes by the Pope ranch,

and the other goes by old Ed Cluney's.

They both wind up at Emmett Bowers'.

Well, then, Doc could have took either one of them.

Yeah. I tell you, I'll take the one that goes by Pope's.

You take the other one that goes by Ed Cluney's.

It's a little shorter anyway.

- Shorter to what? - Well, Emmett Bowers'.

We ought to get there by dusk, probably spend the night.

Yeah, well, uh, wh-what if one of us finds Doc?

Good. That's what we came for, isn't it?

Hello.

Howdy there, Mr. Cluney.

What are you doing way out here, Chester?

Well, um, I'm looking for Doc Adams.

You ain't seen him by here

in the last day or two, have you?

No, ain't nobody sick around here,

but why don't you get down and rest a while?

The old woman's got a pot of coffee on the stove in there.

Well, uh, golly, that sounds pretty good.

Well, just tie up the horse and come on in, huh?

Well, not hardly this time, though.

Uh, I tell you, could, uh, you tell me how far

it is to Emmett Bowers' place from here?

Yeah, it's-it's about 25 miles, straight over there.

All right. Thanks a lot.

So long.

Whoa. Whoa, boy.

By golly, I just ought to bring two horses, I guess.

Well, come on, fella.

Let's get some shade.

Come on, boy.

Whoa, boy.

By golly, Nugget, you ain't going to go much farther.

Whoa, boy.

Maybe I can find some help for you up there at the house.

You leave that rifle be!

Now, get your hands in the air and stand up.

Now walk this way.

You darned fool, you darn near killed me.

I can still kill you.

Well, what for?

I ain't done nothing to you.

You got a knife on you or anything, have you?

No.

You get smart with me, mister, I'll blow your head off.

Now, move around there, toward the house.

Well, you're making a big mistake.

You just shut up and do what I say.

Now, move.

- Well, who is he? - He's harmless.

Well, then, why don't you put that rifle down?

I tell you to keep your mouth shut.

What's he doing here?

That's just what I was wondering.

Well, I ain't doing nothing here.

What... what are you people so edgy about?

Mister, I told you once.

Leave him be, Dack.

You can talk.

Suppose you tell us what you're doing here.

Well, it's like I said: I ain't doing nothing here.

My-my horse pulled up lame, and I had to walk.

That's all. I was just trying to get to a ranch

about ten miles away... The Bowers' place.

You ride for that ranch, do you?

No. No.

I-I work for Marshal Dillon.

I was just going to meet him there.

You work for who?

For Marshal Dillon, from Dodge.

What's the matter? Don't you people know him?

Well, maybe I do.

Well, I work for him.

My name's Chester Goode.

I'd sure be beholden to you

for the loan of one of them horses there

so I could get to where I'm going.

I... I could bring him back to you

tomorrow or the next day.

This marshal of yours,

what's he doing up at Bowers' ranch?

Well, he... he's going to be waiting for me soon.

Now, you give me a straight answer, mister,

or it's going to go hard with you.

Well, that there is the straight truth.

We... we was out looking for Doc Adams.

You see, he's been missing for two or three days, and...

and we just had to find him.

Suppose you just get in that cabin there, huh?

Move, now!

You just sit down there.

Don't you got any coffee on, Lilymae?

Well, how would I know you'd be wanting coffee?

I'll get the fire going.

You'll get a fire going?

Be the first bit of work you done since I knowed you.

Dack!

Now you done it.

You killed him.

Why did you yell out like that?

What are you trying to do, warn him?

No, Dack, I wasn't.

You fool woman, you'll never learn!

Stop it! You're hurting me!

So help me, I'm going to whip you good

you don't behave.

I'll kill him right before we leave.

No, Dack.

You want him running off to the marshal

and telling him about us?

I won't marry no murderer, Dack.

You won't, huh?

Well, what choice you got anyway?

Marshal Dillon.

Come in. Come in.

Hello, Bowers.

Glad to see you, Marshal.

You don't get out this way much.

No. Say, I saw Doc's buggy outside.

Is he, by any chance...

Well, Matt, how are you?

Oh, Doctor.

What are you doing here?

Uh, more or less, looking for you.

Well, what for?

You left Dodge five days ago for Jake Worth's.

You never showed up there.

Oh, well, my gosh, Emmett sent a rider

over to Jake's place this morning,

and he came back and said that Jake's boy was fine.

Just fine.

I see.

So, what have you been doing?

Sitting around here playing checkers for four days?

He's been under the weather, Marshal.

But he's all right now.

What's the matter with him?

Well, he's been a sick man.

He showed up here so weak,

he could hardly get down out of his buggy.

Well, I had a little fever... That's all.

Come on, Emmett. You're holding up the game.

It's your move here.

Marshal, he didn't even know where he was

for three nights running.

No, sir. I'm all right now.

I'll... I'll be going back to Dodge in the morning.

Uh-huh.

Say, Emmett, Chester's on the way in.

If you don't mind putting us up for the night,

why, uh, maybe we'll see Doc back into town tomorrow

just to be sure he gets there.

Well, you're sure both welcome.

I'll go tell the cook to put a real feed on.

Oh.

Thanks a lot, Emmett.

Well, I guess I'll go put my horse up.

Chester looking for me, too, is he?

Yeah, he sure is.

Well, by golly, I didn't know I was causing so much trouble.

Well, I didn't need the ride out here,

I can tell you that.

But I guess it didn't do Chester any harm.

You know, he's been complaining about having thick blood.

Thick blood?

Well, I'm glad he's got something to complain about.

He never feels very good unless he has.

Say, you know, uh,

that's pretty nice.

Did you knit that yourself?

Where's your husband?

Who?

I said, Where'd Dack go to?

Oh, he's out scouting around.

He always try and kill everybody that comes around?

Dack never killed nobody in his life.

Sure shoots at 'em awful close.

He never killed nobody, else I wouldn't stay with him.

I wonder, could you give me a drink of water?

I'm awful thirsty.

Wouldn't let a man go without water, would ya?

Just a little one?

Thank you, Mrs. Dack.

Dack's his first name, and I ain't his missus anyhow.

- You ain't? - No, I sure ain't.

Well, I'd say that you was better off.

I don't blame you a bit.

No woman's better off.

Even if it's got to be a man like Dack.

Well, I'd sure say that you are.

He wasn't always a bad man.

When I first met him, there were lots of nice things about him.

Well, he sure has changed some.

Yeah, he's, he's changed, all right.

He's nothing but a horse thief now.

And I guess you know all about that.

No, no, wait a minute, Lilymae.

No, I don't know nothing about Dack.

Neither does Marshal Dillon.

We come out here looking for Doc,

and that there's the truth.

I... I don't know a thing about Dack.

He's gonna kill you, Chester.

I tried to talk him out of it.

He won't listen to me.

I was just giving him a drink of water.

He don't need no water.

Look, it's raining.

Never you mind the rain.

What were you talking to him about?!

Nothing. Like I said,

I was just giving him a drink of water.

Now what's the matter with you?

You're feeling sorry for him or something?

No, Dack, course I'm not.

Well, you tell me the truth.

You tell me the truth

or so help me, I'll beat you half to death, Lilymae.

Don't you want your supper?

Get it on. I'm hungry.

Don't you get any ideas about feeding him.

No sense in wasting good food on what's already a dead man.

By golly, Emmet, that was sure good.

Well, Doc, for a sick man

you put away a pretty good meal there.

He's hardly had anything before today, Marshal.

Well, I'm a physician, you know.

And I don't believe in stuffing a fever.

You sure don't. Little soup and a couple eggs

is all you've had since you got here.

Well, I sure made up for it tonight, though.

Gosh, if I stayed here another week,

I wouldn't have to eat anything all next winter.

You're welcome. Stay as long as you like.

Well, thanks, Emmett. Golly, thanks a lot.

But I got to get on back to Dodge.

Folks'll be needing me, you know.

What's the matter with you, Matt?

You're not worried about Chester, are you?

No. No, not really, Doc.

Just that he's been a long time getting here.

He's probably holed up somewhere on account of the rain.

My gosh, he can take care of himself.

Well, sure, I know that, Doc.

I'm not really worried about him.

Just, I'd feel a little better if he showed up, that's all.

Well, he'll come riding in here any minute

just wetter'n a drowned rat, you'll see.

Sure, he will.

If he don't, you go back

by the way of Ed Cluney's in the morning.

- You'll run into him. - Yeah.

Well, I'll tell you. I'm gonna go to bed.

I'm a little tired.

We gonna get started at dawn, you say?

Well, if you feel up to it, Doc.

Well, sure, I feel fine.

I'll bed you down upstairs, Marshal.

Oh, fine, Emmett.

Come on. I'll show you the way.

Good night, Doc.

Oh, good night, Matt.

I changed my mind.

'Bout what?

I ain't gonna kill him.

Just gonna leave him tied up there.

Now you get ready.

We gonna leave as soon as I saddle the horses.

You hear that?

Yeah. What made him change his mind?

I don't know, but I'm so glad.

Uh, you ain't really figuring on leaving me

tied up like this, are you?

I mean, a body could lay here for a month of Sundays

before anybody come on this place.

I... I'd help you if I could, but I can't.

He'd hurt me something terrible.

Well, he don't ever need to know.

Well, how could he not know?

Well, that there's easy. You got a knife there, ain't ya?

All you got to do is cut me loose. I won't move.

I'll just lay here real still

like I ain't been cut free at all.

Dack won't ever know anything about it.

Chester, I told you what he'd do to me. I can't.

Lilymae, if you don't help me now, I could die here.

And it'd be just as much your fault as it would be Dack's.

If you don't want my killing on your conscience,

then you better do something about it.

You better pick up that knife and cut me loose.

Can I trust you, Chester?

Well, of course you can trust me.

I just want to get out of here alive.

I don't want to get Dack or anything like that,

but you better hurry or he's gonna get back here

before you get it done.

Whoa. Whoa.

All right, easy now.

- Whoa. - Whoa.

Ain't that Chester's horse?

Yeah, it is, Doc.

Looks like he's lame.

Where you suppose Chester is?

I don't know.

My guess would be he probably headed

for that grove of trees there during the rain.

Well, that was last night.

He's not there now or he'd have seen us.

He couldn't have, he couldn't have gone on to Emmett Bowers'

or we would have passed him.

No. You know, he probably went on to Cluney's place.

It's the closest.

By golly, that's what he did.

He's probably just sitting there eating

a great big breakfast and waiting for us.

Yeah. Well let's head back that way.

I tell ya, we might as well take the horse here.

You want to look at him?

Oh.

Horses ready?

They're ready.

Well, I'm just about finished here. I'll...

Lilymae.

We've got a long ride ahead of us, Dack.

We better get started, ain't we?

How long you knowed me, Lilymae?

What?

I said, "How long you knowed me?"

Well, it'll be...

two years come July?

You knew we were getting married right off, didn't ya?

Of course.

You've promised me.

Well, I ain't never gonna marry you, Lilymae.

What are you saying, Dack?

I'm gonna leave you right here.

Dack...

I'm riding off alone.

I'm gonna leave you here... with him.

The two of you gonna be alone.

Only he's gonna be a corpse.

No, Dack, no!

I'm gonna kill him.

No, I won't let you.

You get out of my way.

Get up!

Doc, let's get down there and see what that is, shall we?

♪♪

Mr. Dillon.

Chester, what's happened? You been shot?

Oh, no, no, just stabbed a little bit.

Who's he?

Well, his name's Dack. He's a horse thief.

He's the one that stabbed me.

I... I had to shoot him, Mr. Dillon.

Ah. It's a good thing Doc's coming along.

Well, did you find Doc?

- Yeah. - How is he?

Well, he looks to me like he's a lot better off than you are.

Doc, bring your bag and come on. It's Chester.

Chester, what... what have you done?

Oh, nothing. I just got cut a little bit.

Well, my... Here, can you get over there on that bed for me?

Yeah, I think so. Just a crease. It ain't much.

Well, just lie down there. Let me take a look at it now.

Kind of burns a little bit.

Hmm, gosh, I don't doubt it.

But it's not bad. You're gonna live, all right.

But you lost some blood.

Well, I think that I could have told you that.

It's a woman.

Oh, I forgot to tell you that there was a woman with him, too.

There was?

Yeah, but let her go, Mr. Dillon.

Wasn't she in it with him?

Well, yeah, kind of, but if it hadn't been for her,

he'd have killed me.

She saved my life.

She did?

Yeah.

So why don't you let her go, Mr. Dillon?

Poor thing.

She ain't going no place anyways.

No place at all.