Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

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Anybody home?

Anybody around?

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Who's down there?

You get away from my horses.

Don't come any closer, Nick!

Sterret, you got a lot of nerve coming back here.

I don't want to kill you, Nick.

You stole enough off us while you worked here.

You ain't getting my horses.

Two of you?

Horse-thieving scum.

No, mister, look, I didn't...

Hey, mister, look, I didn't...

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All right, let's turn you over.

Easy now.

Where are you hurt?

That's a pretty bad shoulder you've got there.

How long you been here?

I don't know.

You come looking for me?

Should I?

You got a badge.

You can do anything.

It just so happens I was out hunting.

I ran across you by accident.

Looks to me like you're hit in two places,

- you know that? - Better than you.

You got to get to a doctor.

You're not a hand to cut bullets out, Marshal?

This one here is lodged under the bone.

Where you gonna take me?

Dodge City.

Who shot you?

I don't know.

Well, do you know why?

Maybe I know why.

What's your name?

Cale.

Cale what?

That's enough, just Cale.

You in some kind of trouble?

I sure am.

I got two bullets in me.

Well, I'll get a fire going

and get you some coffee before I take you back.

What's the matter with you, boy?

Don't you want help?

I hardly ever want help.

Well, let me tell you something,

you got help whether you want it or not.

Now, suppose you just lie back there and rest easy.

Pretty deep, all right.

Not gonna be too much trouble.

It's flesh, but this one up here,

it's kind of mean.

It's right there under the collarbone.

The marshal saw that much.

Well, he saw right.

What's that?

Well, I'm gonna give you some chloroform.

No, no, you're not gonna use that on me.

You don't want it?

Are you any good?

You a good doctor?

I got a right to know.

Well, there's a controversy about it,

but I think I'm good enough for you.

Hey, listen to me, boy, Doc Adams is a busy man.

He doesn't have time to fool around with you.

Yeah? Well, I'm young, and there's a long life ahead,

and I want to live it in good shape.

I don't want any nervous old man

hacking up on me.

Hold on here.

I'm gonna tell you a couple of things,

and hear me good.

There's no long life ahead of you at all

unless I get those bullets out of there.

And I am busy, like Matt said.

There's a woman out here having a baby,

about ten miles from here, and she needs me.

Now, there's nothing that says

that you and me got to like each other,

but I am gonna have to take those bullets out of there.

And it'll be some easier for you if you take some chloroform.

No, I'm gonna watch you, old man.

Gonna watch, huh?

All right.

Excuse me.

Watch real close.

You just might learn a thing or two

before this is over.

Is he all right, Doc?

Yeah.

Yeah, he's strong as a bull, Matt.

He just sure ain't gonna feel this next one.

Who is he anyway?

Well, his name's Cale, Doc.

That's all I know about him.

I found him out on the prairie.

He's a nice-looking young fella,

but he's sure got a big mouth.

One of these is from a rifle and one's from a pistol.

Looks to me like he must have two enemies.

The way he talks,

he'll have a lot more before he's through.

Think he's going to be all right?

Oh, yeah, he'll be all right.

But somebody's gonna have to watch over him,

and I've got to get out to Mrs. Travis'.

This is he ninth kid, you know.

Well, she's probably got the hang of it by now.

Can you stay with him for a while?

Well, yeah, I guess so.

Why don't you stop by and tell Chester to come on up here?

All right, I'll do it.

And thanks, Doc.

You did a good job.

Don't I always?

Yeah, for a nervous old man.

Did he really called Doc that?

Well, he's quite a friendly young fella.

He tried to hit me over the head with a log this morning

when I was fixing some coffee for him out there.

Oh, sort of the backward type.

Yeah, he's young, bullheaded.

You know the kind.

He's about 20, I'd say.

Chester's been sitting over there

with him half the day.

Oh he's probably taken care of Chester by now.

Broken both his arms or something.

Well, uh,

now that you know what a charmer he is,

I was wondering if you'd go over and sit with him a while?

Oh, I'm flattered.

I got some errands for Chester to do,

and I got a lot of paperwork.

And I'll guarantee you one thing,

he won't be hitting you with any logs.

Well, if he calls me a nervous old woman,

I'm liable to throw a few logs myself.

Well, maybe the sight of a woman

will calm him down some.

Oh, that's the effect I like to have on a man.

By golly.

Didn't think that I'd know you was behind me there, did you?

Huh?

Teach you to cause trouble in our town.

I'll fix it so you won't do it no more,

that's for sure.

No, you just put your hands in there.

Go on, put your hands in there.

That's right.

Now, can tighten that up a little bit.

Now, let's see if you can get out of that.

Go on, see if you can get out of that...

How's the patient, Chester?

Oh, fine. Just wonderful.

He's just been laying there real still,

ain't made a sound, moved or nothing.

Yeah, he looks pretty good

considering what he's been through.

A little fever.

- Not much though. - Yeah.

How did you get tied up like that?

Oh, oh,

well, this isn't anything, Mr. Dillon.

You've seen me do it a lot of times.

It's a trick, you know, Western handcuffs.

You say he hasn't made a sound?

Oh, no, not a peep.

He's a nice looking boy.

Yeah, well, I'll be back in about an hour, Kitty.

All right, Matt.

Excuse me.

Well, what's the idea?

Pretty good idea, don't you think?

No, I don't.

You lie back down there.

You've got a fever.

Yeah.

Just you go on back to sleep.

Oh, not now.

Oh, I didn't mind dozing off

through the rope tricks and all that,

but now, well, I just can't recall

when I have felt more wide awake.

Oh, no, I can play this game

at the Long Branch and sell whiskey too.

Now, look, wait a minute.

You better lie...

Well, well, I'm beginning to think

that Doc's some kind of a medical genius.

The marshal said an hour.

And I figure we can get to know each other

right well in that time.

Why, we might even do some talking.

Well, I...

I just hope you're as healthy as you seem.

Anybody watching after you needs a bullwhip.

Hi, Kitty.

If that Cale means anything to you,

you look after him.

I haven't got the strength.

Kitty.

What'd he do?

Not as much as he had in mind.

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Here's your soup, Pa.

Thank you, Will.

I wish you'd let me go into town for Doc Adams, Pa.

You dug the bullets out, Will.

I'm mending right enough.

The doc knows better than me.

I can't spare you, boy.

Not till I'm fit.

I wouldn't want to be here alone if they come back.

I won't leave you, Pa.

There's no doubt in your mind it was Sterret?

It was him and a young fella.

I sure didn't expected that youngin,

but after I fell in the barn that-away,

there he was, just a-waiting for me.

You never saw him before?

You're sure?

Never before.

But if I see him again, I'll know him.

Yeah, and he'll know you, too,

if you put a bullet in him.

What do you see out there, boy?

Nothing, Pa.

I wish I did.

I ever see someone riding by to town,

I'm gonna tell him to send the doc

and the marshal out here.

Bide your time, Will.

Won't be much longer

before me and you is riding into Dodge together.

At least you didn't get yourself killed.

Us mean ones live forever, boy.

Eat your soup, Pa.

How's your dinner?

You quit worrying about mine and eat yours.

Well, you know, I'm sure sorry about getting you

into that trouble with Cale, Kitty.

I figured him to sleep most of the day.

I don't think he wastes much time sleeping.

I guess not.

Well, I wonder where he is now.

You worried about him?

Well, no, but wherever he is, he can't be in very good shape,

I'll tell you that.

Well, you'll never get me to worry

about the shape he's in.

I'll tell you one thing,

I wouldn't want to meet him when he was completely healthy.

How are you?

- Hello. - Hello, Doc.

Sit.

Thank you, I'm going to.

If you two didn't want any company,

you hadn't ought to go leaving extra chairs at your table.

How are you, Doc?

Well that's kind of an moot question.

I've been out at the Travis place all day.

Oh, Mrs. Travis have her baby all right?

Yeah, she practically had it by the time I got there.

Oh, my gosh, thanks, Joe.

Yeah, Mrs. Travis is fine, new baby's fine,

all the other eight kids are fine.

That leaves Mr. Travis.

What ails him?

Same thing that always ails Mr. Travis

when Mrs. Travis has a baby.

He takes to his bed with a whole book full of aches and pains

and the galloping fatigue.

Well, I've been hovering over him all day.

You better have something to eat and get your strength back.

Well, no.

I will later,

but I was kind of wondering about young Cale.

Yeah, we wondering about him, too. He's gone.

Gone? Where?

Nobody knows.

Well, he can't be very far.

He's not mended yet.

Kitty here might argue that with you, Doc.

He's one for your medical journals, Doc.

See, I had to get Chester,

so Kitty went up to stay with Cale for a while.

Why don't you tell him about it?

Well, let me just put it this way,

the last I saw of him, he was, um, slightly fevered

and strong as an ox.

Brash young pup.

He's gonna have to have his ears pinned back a couple of times,

I'll tell you that.

You know, uh, And I'll tell you something,

wherever he is, he...

he just might be a pretty sick boy.

Hey, come on, get down from there.

Come on, get down.

Now, I don't believe I know you.

I don't know you.

Who told you you could sleep up there?

I would have asked for the use of the hayloft last night,

but you were jawing with someone

about a feed bill when I came in.

I couldn't wait.

Name's Cale.

Hank Miller.

You own this stable?

No, I run it for Moss Grimmick.

That bacon and coffee sure smells good, Mr. Miller.

You want lodging and grub, huh?

And a job.

Job?

Well, if I needed help, I'd need a two-handed man.

Have no trouble pitching hay,

and I'm a hand at the forge.

You won't waste any money hiring me, Mr. Miller.

Money?

Lodging, grub, now money, huh?

A dollar a day and my keep.

How'd you hurt that arm?

I got shot.

Mmm-hm.

I guess you better know,

Marshal Dillon's a good friend of mine.

I guess you better know

Marshal Dillon brought me to Dodge.

He did?

You're not gonna burn

that bacon now, are you, Mr. Miller?

Oh.

Yeah, a dollar a day and my keep is fine with me.

That's it, huh?

Well, I guess it's worth trying

for a while anyhow, son.

My name's Cale, just Cale.

Don't ever call me son, Mr. Miller.

Well, I guess I can remember that, all right.

Yes, sir.

Mr. Miller, you are just bound to burn that bacon.

Mr. Dillon.

Hmm?

I found him.

I found that young Cale fella.

You did? Where?

He-he's down at Moss Grimmick's.

He's working down there.

- Working? - Yeah.

You didn't find him in any of those wanted posters, did you?

No.

Well, let's get down and have a talk with him.

Good morning.

Morning.

Mr. Miller, he's gone off for a while.

Yeah, I understand you're working for him here now, huh?

We're giving each other a try.

Well, you seem to know pretty much what you're doing there.

You used to this kind of work, are you?

I've done most everything, Marshal.

Yeah, there's a few things you've done

I'd kind of like to talk to you about.

Yeah, she's sure pretty, that Miss Kitty.

But when she gets a notion in her head,

she just blazes, doesn't she?

Yeah, that wasn't exactly what I had in mind.

Like about these two bullets Doc took out of you.

I'm not much for collecting souvenirs, Marshal.

One's from a rifle, one's from a pistol.

What kind of a trouble were you in, anyway?

Look, I have anything to say, I'll say it.

Don't go hounding me.

Nobody's hounding you.

If you're in trouble...

If I am, it's my trouble.

Nothing happened in your town, Marshal.

I was, uh,

watching you yesterday with that rope.

Where? Up at Doc's?

Well, I thought you was asleep.

Seemed like you handled it real good.

Oh, I was just fooling around.

You ever try this?

Well... How'd you get that knot in there?

Be a poor man couldn't make a rope work for him.

They say you can loop a rope,

twist it, bend it every which way,

but you can't do that to a man

unless he lets you.

Morning, Sam.

Good morning, Miss Kitty.

Oh, we had kind of a quiet night.

They only broke one chair.

Well, if we string enough of those nights together,

we might get rich.

It's a little early for whiskey, young fella.

I didn't come for whiskey.

It's a little early for anything, isn't it?

You're some better looking than I remembered.

They promised me that you'd be sick as a horse.

I feel pretty good.

I make better coffee than that.

Why don't you go someplace and make yourself some?

Aw, now I didn't hurt you none, now did I?

I cried all night.

I kiss a woman,

it's not supposed to insult her.

Now look, I've forgotten all about it,

why don't you?

Well, you're just sure not supposed to forget about it.

How's your shoulder?

It's mending.

Maybe you ought to let Doc take a look at it.

Aw, you're not gonna start acting like that, now are you?

Like what?

You don't have to pat heads and take care of strays.

You're a good-looking woman.

You're a good-looking boy.

You said it.

Only it doesn't change anything.

'Cause you don't take to mothering and neither do I.

I'll make you a real cup of coffee sometime.

Remember me?

Yeah, I've been expecting you. Come in.

How do you feel?

I feel okay.

Here.

What's that?

It's a dollar.

Well, I can see it's a dollar.

- What's it for? - That's all I have now,

but I'll pay you right along as I earn it.

- How much do I owe you? - Unbutton your shirt.

I want to have a look at that shoulder.

I asked you a question.

Nothing wrong with my hearing.

Just sit down and unbutton your shirt there,

and let me look at your shoulder,

and maybe I can give you a sensible answer.

That's a fresh bandage.

I put it there this morning.

You did?

Yes, sir.

You clean that out, too?

Yes, sir. What I could.

Coming along all right, isn't it?

Yeah, I don't know why, but it is.

All right, now here,

you sprinkle some of this on the wound

next time you change bandages.

It'll help the healing along a little.

I don't know.

You don't know what?

Maybe I don't need that.

I mean, I haven't got a lot of money.

Well, who said anything about money? Here.

I did. I been saying it ever since I come here.

Well, let me worry about that.

Oh, no, no, I'm not gonna be beholden to you.

Well, that's not one of the requirements around here.

Well, you're just full of words all the time, now aren't you?

Why can't you tell me how much I owe you?

Now you must've done a good job

because I'm getting along real good.

All I want to do is pay you and get out of here.

Well, the door's right over there

where it was when you came in,

and if I've got to listen to your smart lip

every time I see you, you can consider the bill paid in full!

I never saw an old man wasn't stubborn.

And I never saw a young one that didn't know it all!

You call that eating dinner?

He needs work, Mr. Miller.

He's a fine one, ain't he?

Never seen better.

Belong to someone you know?

He belongs to Tate Gifford.

Lives seven or eight miles the other side of the river.

- A ranch? - Mmm-hm.

Why doesn't he keep him there himself?

Well, he belonged to his boy.

He died of the smallpox about a month ago.

Tate brought him to me and asked me to keep him

till he could stand to look at him again.

You figure he might sell him?

He might. I wouldn't swear to it.

I'll ask him when I see him.

You do that.

And, Cale, uh,

Tate Gifford just might consider it a favor

if you take out in the country

and give him a good workout now and again.

Well, I just might do that now and again.

Ho.

There's no working him at all, Mr. Miller.

He just works himself.

Next time you'll be telling me he can read and write.

As soon as he can, I'll let you know.

All I know is he still eats like a horse.

Hey, that reminds me.

I better get him something to eat, huh?

Yes, sir?

A little feed and a lot of water.

Yeah, I notice she favors that left forefoot.

I better look at it.

Don't do nothing that costs money.

Mmm-hm, just what I thought.

Hey, mister?

There's a nail missing in this shoe.

I told you, don't do anything that costs money.

Cale, you take care of this.

Feed and water and a nail in the left fore-shoe.

You know that man?

I know he's hard on a horse, I know that.

You know who he is?

No, why?

What's the matter with you?

There's something I got to be sure of.

Now hear, you go after a man with a gun,

- I'm bound to tell the marshal. - You're no such thing.

- I'd have to. - It's not the marshal's concern.

You've got a look I've never seen before,

and I don't know what you're up to,

and I can't stop you, but the marshal can.

Mr. Miller, I want you to understand now

I've just got to stop you.

I'm sorry, Mr. Miller.

I'm sorry.

I still think you ought to see the doc first, Pa.

I been living to see the marshal, Will.

You know that.

Okay.

- Howdy, Marshal. - Marshal.

Well, hello, Nick, Will.

You mind if I sit down?

Not at all.

He's, uh,

he's doing the fathering these days.

I tell you, it's hard taking orders again.

What's the matter? You been sick?

Pa got shot, Marshal.

Shot?

And I'll do the telling about it.

See how he takes orders?

Marshal, you see, there was two of them.

Sterret was one and the other...

Now, wait a minute, who's Sterret?

You mind that thieving hired hand

worked for us most of last year?

Oh, yeah, yeah, I think I remember him.

Me and Will let him go a month or so ago.

Then he come back bringing that young friend with him.

They was set on stealing our horses.

This is about a week ago, Marshal.

I'd gone off to Fort Dodge

to see about selling some horses,

and Pa here was alone.

Well, do you think they knew that?

He could have seen me ride off, I guess.

Now, I'm doing the telling.

He could've thought that both of us was gone.

I mind that morning after Will left,

I heard this whinnying and goings-on out in the corral

and I grabbed my rifle and run out there,

and I seen Sterret and I yelled to him to get out.

What about the other fella?

Well, he was in the barn.

I didn't see him yet.

You see, Sterret and me fired back and forth.

To tell the truth, I don't think I hit him,

but that young one in the barn,

I shot him right enough.

But you didn't know him?

No, sir.

You see, I fell in the barn.

Sterret hit me pretty good.

I fell in, and there was that young one.

The last thing I did was fire on him.

I shot him right in the shoulder.

Now, Nick, you said you shot him with a rifle?

Yes, sir.

And you know you hit him in the shoulder?

Oh, he grabbed for that shoulder quick enough.

Now look, you say he's a young one.

How young?

Oh, I'd say around about 20, I guess.

Pa swears he'd know him if he saw him again.

Yeah, he was medium build, fair-headed.

Not a bad-looking boy.

Nick, how long you gonna be in town?

Well, Will's set on me seeing Doc Adams.

I won't be an hour, Marshal.

It's Pa's idea to ride on home alone.

I got some business to take care of at Fort Dodge.

Be home about suppertime.

All right, if I find out anything,

I'll let you know.

- Thank you, Marshal. - Thank you, Marshal.

You haven't by any chance been down to the stable, have you?

No, not since this morning.

Why? Is something wrong?

I don't know. I'm going down there to find out.

I got to talk to Cale.

Feel better, Hank?

Yeah, anything's better than that.

Give me a hand.

You sure you're all right?

Oh, yeah.

He didn't want to hurt me, Marshal.

Oh, no, he just bound and gagged you, that's all.

Well, he figured he had to.

I was butting into his business.

What business, Hank?

Well, this fella come back in, left his horse.

Cale was awful anxious to know whether I knew him.

Well, I didn't, and so next thing I knew,

he'd strapped on his gun

and was going to take out after him.

So when I tried to stop him...

Yeah, he stopped you.

I better look around town.

That won't do no good.

They're gone.

You mean they left town?

Yeah, I come to just as they come back here

and got the horses and rode off together.

You know which way they went?

Well, the best I could tell by listening,

they headed west.

Better get the horses, Chester.

Yes, sir.

You won't have no trouble trailing them.

The other fella's horse had a loose shoe.

Thanks, Hank.

That'll help a lot.

Matt.

I can't be wrong about that boy.

We could all be wrong about him, Hank.

Least you can do is tell me who you are.

You don't know the face.

The name wouldn't mean a thing.

Look, I had plenty of time to look at you good now.

I know I never seen you before.

I know I seen you.

Well, what'd I do?

Anything you don't remember,

I'll tell you when we get there.

Get where?

Where we're going. Mount up.

You gonna kill me, you could do it right here.

I could do it anywhere.

You just keep that in mind.

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This is right around where I found Cale that day.

Sure don't do us much good now, does it?

Well, I don't know, Chester, maybe it does.

Nick Archer's place is right over there.

Think that's where he headed?

Well, I'm beginning to think so.

Let's go over and see.

Right here, where you're standing,

that's where that old man died.

You... You gonna kill me here?

It'd be fitting.

What for?

A week ago today.

Now, I'm gonna give you time to remember.

You came here.

You shot that old man,

and he reeled in here and he died.

You're crazy. I never killed any...

I saw you through the window yonder,

and when you rode off, I came riding after you.

You remember that?

Look, mister, I told you,

I never saw you before.

You saw someone riding after you,

and you shot away.

Now, I'm gonna be drawing from the wrong side

a long time because of you.

You starting to remember?

Look, I didn't know it was you.

Somebody was after me; I just fired.

Anybody would've.

I figure I owe you something.

Well, you weren't killed. Y-You're lucky

you weren't, coming after a man like that.

The old man weren't so lucky.

I want you to know

that I'm the last thing he saw before he died.

He thought I was with you.

He died thinking I wanted him dead.

Is that what you dragged me here for?

Because of what an old man thought?

Well, he's dead now, ain't he?

Nearest way I can make it right is to settle with you.

That's crazy kind of thinking.

Well, you put me down for that kind of crazy thinking.

Hold it, you two.

Nick, you're all right?

You got a lot of gall coming back here.

Mister, I thought you were dead.

And you come back to make sure?

Nick, he's out of his mind.

He wants to kill both of us.

- You got to help me, Nick. - You stay there, Sterret.

I ain't got a gun.

He's the one that's after us.

Mister, don't listen to him.

Drop that gun.

Go on, drop it.

Are you hurt?

A little bit ago, you could've killed me.

I don't want you dead.

What do you want?

- To talk to you. - Why?

Make you understand, if I can.

Well, I don't mind listening.

I never worked with him.

I don't even know him.

That day, I was just sleeping in your barn,

when he shot you and you fell in here.

Now, I know how it looked to you,

but that wasn't how it was.

I... I shot you in the shoulder.

Yes, sir, you did.

I thought you were dead.

I rode off after him, saw his face,

and he shot me,

and I never saw him again until today.

Why didn't you turn him over to the law?

No, I only know to do things my own way.

This was personal.

I figured you died thinking I killed you

or wanted you dead.

Now, that was his fault.

I had to do my settling with him.

You don't know me.

What do you care what I thought?

Didn't rest easy on my mind, that's all.

You think it would set easy with you?

No, sir, I don't think it would.

You mind I get some water?

I'm dry.

I'm kind of dry myself.

I'm beginning to think you don't want me dead.

I sure don't mind you being alive.

Sets better, does it?

Sets better, yes, sir.

I'm glad to see you, Marshal.

Well, I guess you're all right, Nick.

I'm lots better now.

You go nosing into everything, don't you?

Yeah, but you pretty much fixed it so I have to.

Well, it's all settled without you.

He understands,

and you'll find Sterret in the barn.

Like I told you before, I handle things my own way.

Yeah, I know how you handle things.

Knocking out Hank Miller, tying him up,

stealing his horse.

Mr. Miller, he'll understand.

I'll show you where Sterret is, Marshal.

Seems to me you take an awful lot of understanding.

You shoot Sterret?

I had to.

But don't believe me.

The old man saw it, too.

Mr. Miller, he's okay, isn't he Chester?

Yeah, yeah, sure, he's gonna pull through it all right.

Seems to me like you could do a little bit better

if you'd talked to somebody first

before you start shooting them and beating them up

and riding off the way that you did.

I mean, it looks to me like you could make friends

once in a while.

It's a lot easier than making enemies.

Yeah, well, I'll manage.

I've had to manage all my life.

That long, huh?

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It's just the pride in him, Mr. Dillon.

It's big as he is.

You know, I...

I think maybe if he learned something.

Yeah, well, he's got an awful lot more to learn yet.

Well, that could be,

but didn't you, I mean, at his age?

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess I did.