Gunsmoke (1955) s02e38 Episode Script

ANNOUNCER: Starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.
Miss.
Oh, Mr.
Dillon, I've been lookin' everywhere for you.
Well, uh, what's the matter? Well, uh, I- Chester, don't you remember Ed Davey here? Oh, well.
Sure, it's been a long time.
How are you, Chester? Well, all right.
I- Heh.
You ain't been around Dodge in most a year.
I've been up in Dakota Territory gettin' rich.
Gettin' rich? Well, I left there with $20.
That's as rich as I've ever been.
Oh, my goodness.
There for a minute, I thought you was gonna start tellin' lies.
I never had no education, Chester.
Heh-heh.
I don't know how to tell lies.
Well, I don't neither.
Oh, that's why I was lookin' for you, Mr.
Dillon.
Yeah, what's the matter? Uh, well, I- I guess that I- I gotta admit that, well, I'm broke.
Oh, I see.
Well, I believe that all right.
Heh-heh.
Yeah.
Uh, Mr.
Dillon, you're putting me to a lot of embarrassment.
Well, Chester, I'm afraid it's gonna be the other way around.
That's all I got.
One silver dollar.
Well, I- Well, I hate to take your last dollar if- Well, that's all right, Chester.
I can stand the embarrassment better than you can.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I'll- I'll pay you back just as soon as I can.
Oh, sure.
What you gonna do with all that money, Chester? I'm gonna spend it, Davey.
Spend it.
I'll see you later.
Don't you get in trouble now.
Oh, don't you worry nothing about me.
Well, how are you there this evening, Miss Kitty? Well, I'm all right.
Who's been pushin' your swing? Lookie there what I got.
Yeah? That's a whole silver dollar.
Well, congratulations.
Well, I borrowed it off of Mr.
Dillon.
He- He's outside there talking to a fella.
You know, Ed Davey.
I'd- I'd feel real proud to buy you a drink, Miss Kitty.
A beer, if you'd like it.
Really wanna spend that on me? Well, I- I guess I'm gonna have one too, ain't it? Well, I never thought of it like that.
Sam, draw up a couple of beers for me and this- This lady here.
Comin' right up.
Well, Chester, you talk about me like I was a stranger around here.
What do you mean? Well, "this lady.
" Oh, well, I- Well, I always think of you as a lady, Miss Kitty.
I mean, you- You know, I mean, I never think- Thank you, Chester.
Well- Heh-heh.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Heh.
Here you are.
Two beers.
Oh, just- Just take it out of that, Sam.
Sure.
Goodness.
Now, ain't that look nice and cool and refreshing? You look like you're about ready to swim in it.
Heh-heh-heh.
Yeah.
That might not be a bad idea.
Kitty.
They tell me your name is Kitty.
It is.
Then why don't you say hello? Hello.
Let's drink, Chester.
Now, that ain't no way to act.
Now, look, mister, I think you just better leave the lady alone.
I didn't come here to leave her alone.
Stop it.
Look, I've said that's enough.
Now, just- Get outta here.
Come on.
Who do you think you are? Don't chester.
You don't even have a gun.
Yeah, well- Well- Well, I can sure get one soon enough.
Sam, you give me that gun you keep behind there.
No, Chester.
Sam, I said for you to give it to me.
All right.
All right.
Now we'll just see who insults a lady.
Go ahead, stranger.
It's your move.
I guess you don't know who I am.
Stranger's good enough for me.
Don't be a fool.
Just never mind about that.
You gonna fight or ain't you? All right.
My name is Shinn.
Hank Shinn.
You mean you never heard of Hank Shinn? No, I never did.
Anybody here ever hear of Hank Shinn? Well, I guess nobody never heard of you.
Now, are you gonna fight or you gonna apologize to that lady? Gotta be somebody around here heard about me.
Mister, I'm gettin' awful tired of you.
Chester.
Now, Mr.
Dillon, uh, this is my fight.
What's got into you, anyway? Well, he was insultin' the lady that I was with.
Yeah, she told me about that.
But we're not gonna have any gunplay around here.
Well Good thing there was no gunplay, marshal.
Yeah.
Maybe you better pack yourself outta here, mister.
I guess maybe you don't know who you're talking to.
And right now I don't particularly care.
Marshal, uh- Uh, marshal.
Yeah, yeah.
What is it, Davey? This here's Hank Shinn.
That's what I've been trying to tell him.
Uh, I- I never met you, Mr.
Shinn, but you was pointed out to me once.
I was? Mm-hm.
U-uh, maybe you don't know him here, marshal, but up in Dakota Territory Hank Shinn's got quite a reputation.
Yeah? For what? For a gunman, that's what.
Why, there ain't nobody up there would go against him.
Ain't that so, Mr.
Shinn? Three men tried it once.
By golly, that's right.
That was in the town of Blackhawk, wasn't it? Yeah.
Mm-hm.
Three men tried to take him in a saloon there, marshal, and he killed every one of them.
They was all gunmen too.
Oh, people are still talkin' about it.
Why, Hank Shinn has got about the biggest reputation of anybody up there.
I guess it takes a little time for the news to get to Dodge.
Well, I'm sorry, Mr.
Shinn.
Maybe I should apologize to you.
Heh.
No.
You didn't know who you was talkin' to.
Forget it.
All right.
I'll forget it.
But let me tell you something.
You're gonna impress a lot of people around here, Mr.
Shinn, but you get out of line, I'll cut your string.
You're talkin' mighty loose, marshal.
Somehow or other, I get the idea you thrive on talk.
I don't think I like that.
Don't you? Come on.
I'd have fought him, Mr.
Dillon.
I'd have put him- I don't care who he is.
I didn't step in here to protect you.
I stepped in here to stop a gunfight.
Well, there's gonna be a gunfight if he keeps on like that.
Yeah, and next time, I might not be here.
Whoa.
Uh Oh.
Oh, you- You woke me up.
Chester, you're no good to me asleep.
Well, what do you want? Well, nothin', but, uh, you never know when something's gonna come up.
Oh.
Heh.
You're funnin' me, ain't you, Mr.
Dillon? Well, at least you're awake, Chester, and I got somebody to talk to now.
Well, honest to goodness, the next time I'm gonna go out back there in the weeds somewheres, where nobody can find me.
Yeah, then all I gotta do is watch where the turkey buzzards are circlin'.
Oh, good gravy, Mr.
Dillon.
You talk like that it's plumb shameful for a body to rest his bones for a while.
Chester, sleeping is for women.
It'll just make you fat.
Well, of all the crazy things that I ever heard.
Hey, speakin' of something crazy There's the craziest.
That fella's only been in town three days, and he's already got the town scared to death of him.
Well, he ain't got me scared of him.
I'll tell you that.
Now, look, don't go gettin' all head up about that again.
I told you he's not worth it.
Well, I still think he's got something comin' to him for the way he talked to Miss Kitty.
Me and Mr.
Shinn is goin' up the alley for dancin' and have ourselves a drink.
Well, that's fine, Davey.
Sure a good thing I come along when I did the other night, ain't it? Oh, Davey, you're a nice fella, and I like that, but you're just half simple.
You had nothin' to do with it at all.
Well, it was me that told everybody about Mr.
Shinn bein' such a gunman, wasn't it? It doesn't matter, Davey.
Let's forget it now.
He's right, Davey.
I don't hold no grudges, Chester.
You don't hold no grudges? Now calm down.
Remember what I told you.
Well, I don't see how I can help it, Mr.
Dillon.
Uh, Shinn, why don't you run along, get your drink, huh? Marshal, you're almost as hard to get along with as he is.
No decent man has trouble gettin' along with me.
I wouldn't take that from no armed man.
Oh, no.
Now hold on a minute, Chester.
Hold on.
From what I hear, no man, armed or unarmed, dare talk to you that way.
You bet they haven't.
You got the whole town buffaloed.
All I ask for is a little respect, that's all.
Kind you used to get up in Blackhawk? The kind I'm gettin' here from most people.
But not from Chester and me, is that it? I got no quarrel with either of you.
You can't seem to make up your mind, Shinn.
What's your trouble? I got no trouble.
Why do you say that? I don't know.
It's just a feeling, I guess.
Don't let it spook you.
Nothin' spooks me, marshal.
Maybe you're just lucky so far.
I don't know as I like this talk.
Nobody's making you listen to it.
You bet they ain't.
You know what I think, Mr.
Dillon? What? I think that that Hank Shinn is off-center.
Way off.
Yeah.
And I think we're gonna find out how far, Chester.
Any day now.
Why don't you watch where you're goin', you blind pig.
Get your hands off of me.
Are you crazy? Don't you know who this is? I don't care who it is.
I don't like bein' bumped into.
You're drunk.
Drunk, huh? I'll show you how drunk I am.
No, you'll get yourself killed.
You don't know who you're facin'.
Get outta my way or I'll shoot you too.
This is Hank Shinn, you drunken fool.
Hank Shinn, huh? That's right, mister.
That's who I am.
Good.
Now they'll know what to put on your marker.
You had to have heard about me.
You must have.
Shut up and draw.
Now let me through here.
Did you do that? That fella drawed first, marshal.
I seen the whole thing.
Tried to tell him who I was, but he wouldn't listen.
I did too.
I told him that this is Hank Shinn, but he was drunk, didn't know what he was doin'.
Get a couple of men and take him away, Chester.
Yes, sir.
Uh, Fred, uh, Charlie.
Yeah? Was he too drunk to fight? He had no call pickin' a fight with me.
Should've knowed better.
Now maybe people will leave me alone.
Why should they leave you alone? 'Cause you outdrew a drunk man? What are you sayin', marshal? You seem kinda nervous, Shinn.
Is that the way you acted when you killed those three men up in Blackhawk? I'm all right.
I just wanna be left alone, that's all, so you just leave me alone.
Yeah, I'll leave you alone.
But next time, it may be different.
What do you mean? Maybe the next man you run up against won't know what a killer you are.
Maybe he'll be a real gunman, Shinn, not some drunken cowboy who probably couldn't shoot straight if he was sober.
Told you to leave me alone, marshal.
Yeah, I'll leave you alone.
Get yourself a drink.
You look like you need it.
Mr.
Dillon, he- He's so mad he can't even talk.
Well, he's already talked too much, Chester.
Yeah, what's wrong with him, anyway? I don't know.
Maybe he's not gettin' the respect he needs.
Yeah.
What's the matter? Who's he, anyway? Never seen him around here before.
His name's Al Janes.
Al Janes? Yeah.
He's from New Mexico.
He's a gunman, Chester.
A real killer.
I wonder what he's doing around here, anyway.
I don't know.
By golly, I was right.
It is Matt Dillon.
Hello, Janes.
But it's Marshal Dillon now, ain't it, huh? Yeah, I'm afraid you're right.
This is Chester Goode here.
Oh, howdy.
How do you do, Chester? Well, Janes, what brings you to Dodge? Nothin'.
Just lookin' around.
Have you never been here before? No.
No, I never have been here before.
That's right.
Well, you must have some reason for comin'.
Man like you usually does.
Oh, marshal, you got me all wrong.
I'm here on a pleasure trip.
Maybe a little gambling, a gal to cut the lonesomeness.
You know what I mean? Heh.
All right, Janes.
Now, look, uh, stay outta trouble, will you? This town isn't quite as wide open as some you've been in.
A man gets a reputation and it sure stays with him, don't it now, huh? Heh.
Yeah.
You couldn't sell that gun if it didn't.
Ain't that the truth.
Say, marshal, maybe I'll see you around later, buy you a drink.
You too, huh? I wonder what he is here for.
Oh, nothing in particular.
Well, you sure questioned him close, though.
Yeah.
But I believe him, Chester.
He's a paid killer, but I've never known him to lie.
Well, I guess there ain't too much to worry about, then.
With a man like Al Janes, Chester, there's always something to worry about.
Well, I'm back, Mr.
Dillon.
Well, did you have a good day? Oh, just terrible.
Just terrible.
Here.
How about some of this? Oh, I could sure use it.
Can't take the taste outta my mouth.
Well, where'd you eat that was so bad? Over there at that Durango Café.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't suppose you could've had chili and beans, by any chance.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I'll never eat over there again.
Never.
Not after today.
Something wrong with it? They was sour.
Yeah, just like it'd been cooked a month ago and had been sittin' out in the hot sun ever since, just- Oh, I had a terrible time gettin' 'em down.
Well, you didn't have to eat 'em, did you? I paid a dime for 'em.
Oh, I see.
Well, I wouldn't have ate 'em if I hadn't have been so hungry.
I'll tell you that.
But it was just that I was, well, kinda trapped.
Yes, sir.
Well, it could've happened to anybody, Mr.
Dillon.
Chester.
Hello, Shinn.
Marshal, I- I've been thinking about that fella I killed last night.
You was right.
I did need that drink.
Yeah? I don't like killin' people, marshal, and that's the truth.
I don't like it at all.
What are you tellin' me about this for? Well, I tried to tell Davey, but, well, you know how he is.
He wouldn't believe me.
I'm tired of it, marshal, and I- I want no part of it, so I thought that maybe well, you could tell everybody.
They'd believe you.
Tell 'em I'm through, that I'm not a gunman no more, that I'm just a plain, ordinary citizen.
Shinn, if you're just a plain, ordinary citizen, why don't you tell me what this is all about? I'm tryin' to tell you.
I- I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna take off my gun, and I'll leave it right here.
Now do you believe me? Well, do you? Shinn, I swear I don't know what to think about you.
There's the proof.
There's my gun.
I'm gonna go and try to forget about this.
I was up all night worryin' about it, so you tell 'em, marshal.
You tell 'em right off.
Was he crazy or what? I don't know, Chester.
Well, I don't believe all that about him being tired of killing people, do you? No, of course not.
It was more like he was just scared of something, ain't it? Yeah.
You know what? I think I know what it might be.
What? Al Janes.
What's he got to do with it? I don't know, but I think we'd better go find out.
What for? We'd better warn him that Hank Shinn is unarmed.
Well, he- He can see that.
No, Shinn was wearin' a coat.
Oh, by golly, you're right, Mr.
Dillon.
Uh, you know, and Al Janes is bound to find out that there's another gunman in town.
Right.
Where we gonna look for him? We'll try the gambling houses first, and we'll just hope that Hank Shinn is stayin' out of them.
Key, please.
Certainly, Mr.
Shinn.
Hey, you.
Me? Yeah.
Didn't he say "Mr.
Shinn"? That's right.
Hank Shinn.
Well, what do you know about that? I heard about you all over town.
Oh.
Don't pay no mind to that talk.
It don't mean nothing.
I'm a peaceful man now.
Peaceful? That ain't the way I heard it.
Just leave me alone.
What's the matter with you? Nothing.
Nothing's the matter with me.
Nothing? Well, you're kinda jumpy for a killer.
I ain't no killer.
I- I quit killin'.
You quit? Three men back in Blackhawk.
Killed 'em all.
You ain't quit.
You can't ever quit after that.
Yo, I can.
You ask Marshal Dillon.
Dillon? What's he got to do with this? Just ask him, that's all.
Go on.
Ask him now.
Hey, you.
You got a big reputation around here as a killer, but let me set you straight on one thing.
Don't you ever tell me to do anything.
You don't understand.
Oh.
He's still alive.
Get over and get Doc Adams right away, will you? Yes, sir, marshal.
It was self-defense, marshal.
Give me your gun, Janes.
I told you it was self-defense.
Ask the clerk.
I said give me your gun.
You always were bullheaded, weren't you? Go ahead.
Take it.
Heh.
All right, Chester, get him back to the office.
Yes, sir.
You want me to lock him up? No, he won't run.
Least you got sense enough to know that.
All right, let's go.
I opened up my coat to show him I didn't have no gun, and he shot me.
I see.
Marshal? Yeah? I never killed nobody before last night.
I figured that.
Them three men out in Blackhawk, they had a fight.
I was the only other man there.
And I hid out.
They killed each other.
And you took the credit for it, huh? Made people respect me.
For the first time in my life, people respected me.
Well, he was just lying about it all the time, huh? Yeah.
Doc, you know, it's- It's funny how things work out sometimes.
How do you mean? Well, I'll tell you later up at the office after I talk to Al Janes.
How is he, marshal? He's dead.
Well, he oughta be.
I hit him twice, just about plumb center.
Of all the cold-blooded butchers that I ever heard of Well, he went for his gun, didn't he? Or didn't you bother to ask the clerk yet? He was just tryin' to show you that he wasn't wearin' a gun.
Wasn't wearing a gun? He was unarmed.
I got his gun right there on my desk.
I can't believe it, a man like him unarmed.
He was a liar, Janes.
The only man he ever killed was that one last night.
He was a fake all the way.
I don't believe you.
How's it feel to kill an unarmed man? I don't like it.
But you're gonna stand trial for it.
That don't bother me none.
It was a mistake.
Oh, I'll get off all right.
But everybody's gonna be laughing at me, especially when you tell 'em about him being nothing but a liar.
Do you have to tell 'em that? I hate gunmen, Janes.
I hate every one of you.
So you are gonna tell everybody, is that it? Yeah, and when I get through, your reputation won't be worth much, will it? My reputation won't be worth nothing, especially when they find out that he was nothing but an unarmed nobody.
Yeah.
Except for one thing.
Hank Shinn wasn't quite a nobody.
What do you mean by that? Looks like he got himself a gunman after all, doesn't it? The cells are out back.