Original subtitles

Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.

♪♪

I've always said there's very little

in favor of stagecoach travel.

Aside from getting you from one place to another,

there's nothing in its favor.

You've held up most attractively through it all.

Well, I must say, you've made the time pass most pleasantly.

Well, that's something.

My travels might just bring me to Dodge City one day.

It's quite a town.

You'll enjoy it.

It'd be nice to know there was someone there

to share that enjoyment.

I don't think you'll have any problem on that score.

Well, now, that's most encouraging to hear.

I know any number of charming people

that I'd be very happy to introduce you to.

Oh!

Busted clean through.

Well, what'll we do?

There's a line shack a couple miles that way.

You'll all be more comfortable there.

Me, I'll head for Cottonwood Falls

and see if I can scrounge up another axle.

Bert, unhitch the horses.

Uh, you two mind staying and giving Floyd a hand?

Well, it looks like we're going to have a little more time

to get to know one another.

- Oh, really? - Come on.

♪♪

♪♪

You sure the others are going to be able

to find this place?

Sad to say I'm afraid they will.

♪♪

♪♪

You all right?

How about you?

Fine.

I...

I only know one man who could have done as well.

I wonder if he knows how lucky he is.

Here, a souvenir.

♪♪

Why, that there's the prettiest thing

that I've ever saw.

When you talk about Injun charms,

that there is a very T-I-inctum-dinctum.

If I'd have been lucky enough to glom on to that thing,

I'd have been buying drinks for everybody.

Setting them up right and left.

And so I've heard you say several times before.

Yes, in the last half hour.

Miss Kitty, I'll tell you,

now, as long as you hang on to that Indian doodad,

you're gonna have the best kind of luck there is.

You will.

Festus, you sound like an expert on Indian affairs.

Well, I reckon you could say that.

He's an expert on mooching drinks.

That's what he is.

All right, smart aleck.

It saved Miss Kitty's life, didn't it?

And it will, too, as long as you keep a hold of it.

Didn't do much for that Indian that was wearing it.

All right.

Well, it brung her back safe and sound.

Thanks to that, uh, looksome feller

that had brains enough to pay her court.

That what he was... looksome?

Oh, very looksome.

I'll drink to that.

You would.

Oh, um,

you don't have a drink, do you, Festus?

No, ma'am.

Well...

Uh, Sam, give Festus a drink.

Make that whiskey, Sam.

By golly, you see, he's done it again.

Must be something to that good-luck-charm business.

Got him a free drink.

Speaking of luck, we can use a little

with Adam Haley coming into town.

- Adam Haley? - Mm-hmm.

He's being released from prison tomorrow morning.

Matt?

Well, Kitty, maybe five years have changed him.

Yeah, but what if it hasn't?

Well, that, we'll just have to wait and find out.

I'm going to Delmonico's and get something to eat.

You want to join me?

No. No, thanks. I can't leave.

I don't think so, Matt.

I got to go by Aldo Miller's and see about his sciatica.

Well, I can join you, 'cause I'm starving.

No. Just sit down.

You're going to stay here and help me and Sam

count the bottles like you promised.

Well, I reckon that just leaves the two of us, Matthew.

And you hooked for the check, Matt.

All right, you...

Well, you didn't have money enough

to buy a drink a while ago.

Who said I didn't?

You did.

Didn't do no such a thing.

Miss Kitty.

That'll pay for their rounds of drinks.

Here, Matthew.

Just keep a hold of that.

What do you think of that?

Well, I think it's probably counterfeit.

What are you going to do the rest of the month?

Well, I'll do the same thing I've always did.

I'll...

Would you looky here, Matthew?

Well, hello, Marshal.

I wondered if you would still be here.

I'm still here, Haley.

Yeah, brother Adam gets out tomorrow.

That's what I understand.

Figure to meet him here.

All right, you meet him here and then move on.

Always stuck in your craw that you couldn't tie me in

with that Spearville holdup, didn't it?

If I'd have had my way, Haley,

you'd spent the last five years right with your brother.

Ain't much of a friendly welcome, Morgan.

Who are you?

Name's Bates.

Kelly Bates.

We ain't never met.

Well, mister, I'll tell you something.

You're keeping bad company.

Nice to see you again, Marshal.

Marshal looks like a handy man.

You'd know just how handy if you hadn't hightailed it

the night of the Spearville holdup.

Fast, is he?

Well, he's still alive.

Never knew a man yet

that had a permanent hold on breathing.

I don't care what in the Sam Hill

he said, now, Matthew.

I know that Morg Haley's here in town for just one reason.

I'll tell you what it is.

He's here to back up his brother

when he gets off of that stagecoach

and draws on you.

And that other yahoo that's with him

is here for the very same thing.

I'll guarantee you.

Well, you may be right, Festus,

but unfortunately, we can't lock up men

for what we think they're going to do.

Well, maybe you can't, but,

now, you take the face on that Bates.

Why, if I've ever saw a face

that ought to be stuck up on a wanted poster, it's his'n.

I hope so.

And that Morgan Haley, too.

That would get rid of two of them.

You mean you think there's more of them?

Well, there was five altogether in the Haley gang.

Golly Bill, Matthew,

I wished I'd have been there with you

that day in Spearville.

I'll guarantee you there'd have been more than one of them

went to the calaboose.

If that bank teller had lived, they'd all gone.

Not a thing.

Matthew, you think them other fellers

is going to show up?

I'll tell you one thing, Festus.

It won't be long before we find out.

Leave it.

I'm telling you, I don't like it one little bit.

What, Miss Kitty?

Well, they're not about to try anything

until Adam Haley gets here.

I don't know why Matt just doesn't throw 'em out of town.

I'd just leave, have 'em out here

while I keep a eye peeled on 'em myself.

I'll say this for that marshal, he sure keeps a quiet town.

More to the fact that folks is holding their breath.

What for?

Waiting for brother Adam to get into town.

Sort of like birds waiting to pick a carcass.

Something like that.

Still, there's gotta be some life in the place.

Well, I reckon there is if a man wants to find it.

Well, I'm that man.

Well, now, you go right ahead and find it.

You're old enough.

See you back at the hotel.

At least by the time Adam gets here.

- Bates? - Yeah?

Kelly Bates?

Yeah.

Who are you? What do you want?

The names Dell Carthage and Jim Taber

mean anything to you?

They might.

How about Spearville?

Who are you?

My name is John Crowley.

Crowley.

♪♪

Down here.

Is he dead?

He's dead all right.

Did you see any of this happen?

No, Marshal, I was in bed.

Who is it, Matt...?

Why, that there's that Bates feller, ain't it?

Yeah.

Matt, come take look at this.

"Reward for information

"leading to recovery of money stolen from the Spearville Bank.

Only known participant: Adam Haley."

Where'd you get that?

It was on the body.

You fellas better scout around, see what you can find.

Thad, you take South Street.

And you go out to Front Street, Festus.

Right, Matthew.

Some of you men get him out to Percy Crump's.

♪♪

All right, you fellers,

break it up and get on back to your drinks.

- Festus? - It's all over, Miss Kitty.

Little excitement for the visitors in town?

Yeah, you might could say that.

Who was it?

Feller named Bates.

He's dead.

Do you mean the fellow that was in here just a few minutes ago?

Yeah, same one.

Friend of Mr. Haley's here.

Whoever it was done the killing

left a wanted poster on his chest

from that Spearville bank robbery.

♪♪

See you directly, Miss Kitty.

Hey, what are you...?

Well... hello.

Wow, you have a good memory for faces.

Well, I certainly wouldn't forget yours.

That smile means more than you know.

You haven't changed any.

Not so you'd no...

What's wrong?

Can we talk somewhere private?

Sit down over there.

Thanks.

Here.

Thanks.

You've been shot.

So that's what it is.

I'm gonna go get the doc.

No, no, don't.

You're the one who killed that man.

He was faster than I was, but I was a better shot.

You need a doctor.

And I should tell the marshal.

It was a fair fight.

I'm asking you to take my word for that.

Kitty, I need 24 hours.

Then, with luck, I'll be out of your life.

Do you think you can make it up to my room?

I'll make it.

That's it... Right at the end of the hall.

Thanks... lady.

Morning.

Wait a minute.

What's the matter with you? I said "good morning" to you.

Doc, don't start to jawing at me now.

I've... I've been up since first light.

Well, that's only a couple hours.

What's the matter... You worn out already?

Yeah, but me and old Thad was up half the night

looking for that feller done the shooting.

Oh, no trace of him, hmm?

Nah, no trace.

Tell you, Doc, I got a feeling

this here's going to be a long day for me.

Why don't you try going back to bed?

It might help. It does sometimes.

Oh, I ain't going to do that till that stagecoach

comes a-pullin' in with Adam Haley on it.

Excuse me.

Could you direct me to the marshal's office?

Yes'm. The marshal's office

is right down the street yonder, Miss...

Haley. Mrs. Adam Haley.

Thank you.

Five years waiting for a man

that I'd only been married to for three weeks.

Adam and me, we could have had

a good life together all them years,

and we're going to... We're going to have it.

Well, I hope it works out that way, Mrs. Haley.

You know what, Marshal?

You know, I guess all that hate

that I felt for you at the time of the trial,

I guess it just burned itself out,

'cause it's been a long time gone.

Well, I'm glad to hear it.

I guess it comes down to a matter of time.

It's how much of it each one of us has

to try and live and to try and be happy in.

Adam and me, we lost a lot of that time.

And I ain't going to lose no more.

And I ain't going to lose him.

Not to no... no bullet,

and I ain't going to lose him to no hanging rope.

What about Adam? How does he feel about it?

Well, sir...

I'll tell you, Marshal, I ain't going to fool you none.

Every letter he's written me has been full of getting even.

Well, sounds like you're gonna have a tough time

talking him into your way of thinking, then.

Well, I intend to keep him from risking those years ahead.

You know, living alone ain't easy for a woman.

I done stood by him, and I done waited for him,

and I figure he owes me something for all that waiting.

Well, I hope he figures that way, too.

Oh, excuse me, Matt.

That's all right, Thad.

This is Mrs. Haley.

- Thad Greenwood. - Oh.

- Howdy. - Mrs. Haley.

You'll be needing a place to stay, won't you?

Oh, but, Marshal, is there a place that's not so public?

I'd just as leave not have

know people that I'm here, you understand?

Sure. Why don't you take her by to Kitty's.

- Maybe she can fix her up. - Sure.

Uh, come on. I'll show you the way.

Thank you.

Marshal.

Thank you.

Good luck.

It's beginning to swell up.

Looks bad.

Doesn't feel very good, either.

If you don't let Doc Adams look at it pretty soon,

he may not be able to help you at all.

The help I need, I already got.

Don't be stubborn.

You might lose your arm,

or you might even die of the infection.

Whoa.

I'll take care of your horse a little later.

Come on.

- Morning, Thad. - Sam.

Miss Kitty around?

She was down for coffee a little while ago.

She didn't go out, did she?

She's upstairs in her room.

Oh, good. Come on, Mrs. Haley.

I'll be gone before long.

Nobody will ever know the difference.

Yeah.

Who is it?

Me, Miss Kitty. Thad.

Uh, just a minute, Thad.

Sorry to bother you, but Matt thought

maybe you might be able to put this lady up.

Oh, excuse me.

Uh, Miss Kitty Russell, Mrs. Haley.

How do?

Mrs. Haley?

Mrs. Adam Haley.

I don't want to cause you no trouble,

but the marshal, he thought...

Well, it's no trouble, Mrs. Haley.

It's just that... well, I've hired two more girls,

and I don't have anything available.

I understand.

Well, no, I-I am sorry.

It's just that I'm all filled up.

It's all right.

Thank you. I understand.

Thad, why don't you see if Ma Smalley can put her up.

Right. Come along, Mrs. Haley.

♪♪

Oh, Thad, did you get, uh, Mrs. Haley fixed up?

Yeah, over at Ma Smalley's.

Oh, didn't Kitty have a room?

No, she, uh...

A couple of the new girls over at the Long Branch

- got the last rooms. - Oh.

Help yourself to some coffee.

Oh, no, thanks.

Matt, I've been thinking about that shooting last night.

What about it?

Well, this Kelly Bates fella...

He, uh...

maybe he's the kind of man that...

Well, what I mean is that...

maybe whoever shot him had a justifiable reason.

Justifiable or not,

that'd be up to a judge and jury to decide.

I guess you're right.

- I was just thinking out loud. - Matthew?

I've been poking around town like you told me to,

and I think I found something.

Blood, and it's fresh enough to make a feller wonder, too.

Where is it?

Right at the back door of the Long Branch.

Let's go.

Thad, check up on those telegrams, will you?

I followed the trail here.

See how far it gets.

See there?

Look at this here.

Reckon he could be inside?

Let's take a look.

Well...

he was in here all right.

Sure ain't here now.

Can't tell whether he was coming in or going out.

Either way, he's got a heap less blood than he had.

Let's check with Sam.

Morning, Sam.

- Oh, morning. - Sam.

Hey, you fellas figure on surprising somebody?

Sam, we found some bloodstains out back.

Have you, uh, noticed anybody around

that might have left them?

No, sir, I haven't.

And I was keeping a sharp lookout

after that shooting and all.

A man might have gone through here, though,

while we were all outside.

Festus, check out in front

and see what you can find, will you?

Right, Matthew.

What's wrong?

Matt found bloodstains in the storeroom downstairs.

Matt?

The marshal.

Kitty, that time you mentioned one other man,

was the marshal that man?

You, uh, better get your rest while you can.

Will you give me what's left of 24 hours?

I hope I can, John.

I honestly hope I can.

Miss Kitty?

Marshal wants a word with you.

I'll be right down.

Matt.

Got a minute?

Sure.

Can I buy you a drink?

No. No, thanks.

Kitty, I found some bloodstains out in back

and in the storeroom, too.

Bloodstains?

You mean that whoever it is you're looking for

might have been in here last night?

Could have been.

Have you seen anything or anybody that looks suspicious?

No.

What about Morgan Haley?

Has he been around?

I haven't seen him since last night.

He's been making himself pretty scarce.

Well, Matt, it couldn't have been him.

He was in here during the shooting.

I'd still like to have a talk with him.

Well, looks like the only way

we're going to get any answers to this

is when his brother Adam rides in on that stage.

I'll see you later.

♪♪

Oh, Kitty, come in, come in.

Thanks.

What brings you over here this time of day?

Don't tell me you need medical attention.

You don't, do you?

Oh, no, no. I, uh...

Louise said that you had some pills for her, and I...

thought I'd pick them up and save her the trip.

Louise? Well, that's funny.

I told her I'd bring them over by the Long Branch this evening.

She didn't tell me.

She must have forgotten.

Oh, makes no difference.

I can make them up for you if you want to wait.

Won't take a second.

By golly, we've had some excitement around here,

haven't we, with everybody expecting that Adam Haley back

and that Bates fellow getting shot last night.

Yeah, the, um... the excitement got kind of close to home.

What do you mean?

Matt and Festus found bloodstains

in the storeroom at the Long Branch.

Then that fellow must have been hiding in there

while they were looking all over town for him, huh?

Something like that.

It is kind of strange

how he disappeared into thin air, ain't it?

Doc, uh...

how long can a man last...

I mean without proper attention...

With a bullet in him?

Well, that depends on where the bullet hit him

and how much blood he lost.

Depends on a lot of things like that.

It could be fatal?

Yes, could be.

Of course, I always advise my gunshot patients...

The ones that can't visit me regularly...

They better keep the wound clean and control the bleeding.

And then...

it doesn't hurt anything if they have some laudanum

to kind of kill the pain.

You don't happen to have anything

to soothe a bad conscience, do you?

You know somebody that's got one?

I might.

Well, be kind of hard for me to prescribe

till I knew the extent of the illness.

Well, I've always heard that the best remedy

was the truth, but...

Truth's kind of hard to come by sometimes, huh?

Doc, have you ever been in a situation

where you had to make a choice

and no matter which way you turn it seems to be wrong?

Once or twice.

What did you do?

I suppose what everybody else does.

I just sort of did nothing

and kind of hoped that the whole thing would go away.

Doesn't, does it?

No, Kitty, hardly ever.

In my experience, I find that...

you eventually reach a point where you have to make a choice.

Haven't helped you very much, have I?

Yes.

Yes, you have.

Maybe more than you know.

Thanks.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

What are you doing here, Bonnie Mae?

I felt my place was beside you.

I reckon it is.

Oh...

Hello, Marshal.

Hello, Haley.

Adam.

Five years.

That's what you cost me, Marshal.

That's what you cost yourself, Haley.

I was hoping the five years would have changed you.

You don't change none.

But it don't make no difference.

Marshal, I ain't wearing a gun now.

Sorry to disappoint all these fine,

upstanding folks of your town.

I made a lot of threats last time I seen you.

I figured face-to-face was the only way to square 'em.

But that's all past now.

And somehow it just don't seem important no more.

I'm glad to hear that, Haley.

Bonnie Mae, you got us a place to stay?

I sure have, Adam.

My job isn't going to be as tough as you thought it was.

Suppose that's all there is to it?

Well, Kitty, I sure hope so.

Adam, I was so proud of you out there.

Was you, Bonnie Mae?

Yes. All those people out there, they were just waiting...

Adam.

Morgan!

You old son of a...

Well, look at you.

Oh, you haven't changed all that much.

You think so?

What you done for me and the boys...

- Five years. - Well, that's all past now.

- Yeah. - Adam?

Well, I take an oath I ain't never going to forget that.

Morg, like we said, it's in the past.

Kelly was killed here last night in Dodge.

Just like Jim, just like Dell,

with the Spearville poster and all.

That don't mean nothing to us, Adam. Nothing.

Morgan, you listen to me.

You leave us be.

Adam and me, we're going to live our lives

like the past never happened, because...

No, that'll never be.

What?

Don't you understand?

Five years... that's a long time out of my life.

Adam...

Did you think I was going to come out of prison

after not touching a gun for five years

and go up against Matt Dillon?

But you said...

I said what was smart to say.

The thing he'd believe.

♪♪

I'll take care of him right enough.

But my own way.

Another?

I had forgotten the bite of it.

Well, he got Dell in Salina.

Uh, Jim was in Coffeyville with his woman.

She didn't see who done it.

And the poster was right on the chest.

Adam, please.

They say Kelly wounded him?

Well, that's the talk the way I got it.

Dell and Jim, they got a shot at him, too.

That just leaves me and you.

That's right.

Don't take much figuring who it would be.

Some kin of the bank teller who got shot.

Kelly and me figured that out, for all the good it done.

According to the newspapers,

the, uh, teller's name was Crowley.

Well, we'll take care of him after the marshal.

You face him, I'll be behind him.

Say 2:00.

After Bonnie Mae leaves on the stage.

I'll sure be glad when the Haleys leave town.

Well, Kitty, I'll tell you, the way things are right now,

I'd just as soon they stayed around a while.

Why, for heaven's sake?

Well, I just can't help feeling

they had something to do with that killing.

- You do? - Yeah.

I'll know more about it when I get an answer

to some telegrams I've sent.

Hey, Dillon, I want to talk to you.

What are you doing about Kelly Bates?

You found the one who killed him yet?

Well, now, I was hoping maybe

you could give me the answer to that.

How would I know that?

Well, there was a wanted poster

from that Spearville holdup on his body.

Spearville?

That place going to eat at you as long as you live, ain't it?

Well, give up, Marshal.

You ain't going to tie me into that.

You ain't got a chance.

Matt, here are the answers to the telegrams.

Oh, thanks, Thad. Sit down.

Have some coffee, Thad.

Uh, no, thanks.

See you later, Matt.

- What's the matter with him? - Hmm?

Thad.

He sure has been acting peculiar.

Well...

What?

A man named Taber and another named Dell Carthage.

Both shot; never found the one who killed either of them.

Well, I don't understand

what that's got to do with the Haleys.

It could just be that Morgan Haley will be next.

Or his brother.

♪♪

It's me.

What's the matter?

The mirror.

He saw you.

Who?

Thad.

When he was up here with Mrs. Haley.

Did he say anything to you?

No.

No, he didn't say anything.

Kitty, I'm... I'm sorry.

So am I.

Would he say anything to your marshal friend?

He hasn't.

Question is... will he?

I don't know.

I only know what I've done to him.

I'm grateful to you, Kitty,

for not asking questions.

I've already learned some of the answers.

Two men... Taber and Carthage.

And Kelly Bates.

They killed my brother.

And now there are only the two Haleys left.

That's right.

Good-bye, Kitty.

And thanks.

I'm checking this in.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about what counts and what doesn't count.

You just stay right where you are.

Well, Matt wanted me...

I don't care what Matt wants.

You've been a good friend, Thad.

I thank you for it.

Will somebody please tell me what this is all about?

It's about the killing last night, Matt.

♪♪

Adam, don't make me go, please.

You wait for me at home.

Home? What home?

Living alone?

I'll be there.

Soon as I do what's got to be done.

Adam, it don't make no sense... No sense at all.

I'll be the judge of that.

You're throwing away the rest of your life for nothing.

Nothing? That's all I've been thinking of for five years.

It's going to be over in five seconds.

Either you're going to be dead or he will.

It's too late to change that now.

It's not too late.

Get on that stage with me.

Please. It's as simple as that.

And we'll... we'll-we'll ride away from it.

I'll join you as soon as I can.

It's going to be too late then.

Better get aboard, missus.

Good-bye, Bonnie Mae.

All right, take it away, Burns.

Adam Haley.

Crowley.

That was my brother you killed.

No, it wasn't me killed him.

It was Kelly Bates.

Get going.

He won't be at the Long Branch.

Thad, get Festus, and you two check the other end of town.

Right.

Matt...

I, um...

I owed him my life.

Kitty, that's something we're both grateful for.

Why me? I already done my time.

Not for murder.

I ain't got no gun.

Way I heard, it was a flat shootout with them others.

No time for that now.

This is the only way I can get you and your brother.

They'll hang you for murder.

They'll be hanging a dead man.

Over there.

♪♪

All right, come on out of there.

Hurry it up.

You Crowley?

That's right.

Well, you'll have to come with me.

All right, Thad, let's get him out of here.

♪♪

Marshal!

Crowley!

Now, you keep out of this, Dillon.

I'm calling him out 'cause he killed Adam.

Don't be a fool. He's not even armed.

♪♪

Marshal...

I want to tell you about that woman.

It's all right, Crowley.

I know about that woman.

♪♪

♪♪

Stay tuned for scenes from next week's Gunsmoke.