Gunsmoke (1955) s03e24 Episode Script

starring James Arness as Matt Dillon.
There.
She'll get real hot now, Miss Kitty.
Oh, thanks, Red.
That's just fine.
Oh, good heavens.
Shut the door! Everything sticks.
Come on in and sit down.
Chester.
Grab a green glass and fix yourself a drink.
Oh! Yeah.
Still snowing, huh? Oh.
Snowing, Doc? It It ain't just snowing.
It's blizzarding.
It's getting worse, huh? Oh, I tell you.
Thanks.
I ain't seen weather like this in years.
Oh, good heavens, Chester, this is nothing compared to the way it used to storm when I was a boy.
Well, I wasn't a-talking about when you was a boy, Doc.
I said years, not centuries.
Well, now, you see here Oh, now, now.
I'm not gonna sit here all night and listen to you two bicker at each other.
Good heavens, might as well.
There isn't nothing else to do.
Hmm.
Well, you're right about that.
Storm like this sure doesn't help the business any.
Well, it's all right for you two to sit here by a nice, warm fire and talk.
Well, what's the matter with you? Oh, nothing, Doc.
I was just thinking about Mr.
Dillon is all.
Well, he's in Hay City.
And he's probably doing the same thing we are- sitting around a nice, warm fire.
Well, no.
No, that's just it.
He ain't.
What do you mean he ain't? Well, I-I got a telegram from him yesterday that he was leaving Hay City this morning.
On horseback? Yeah.
In this blizzard? Well, now, Miss Kitty, there wasn't no blizzard this morning.
This all come up at noon.
Gosh, that's right, and knowing Matt, he'd have been out of there before daybreak, wouldn't he? Well, that's what I'm a-saying, Doc.
I'm just plum worried about it, 'cause there ain't no man can live for very long in weather like this out on that prairie.
Well, he He probably found a cabin or a shelter of some kind.
Oh, well, sure, good heavens.
Matt can take care of himself.
Oh, you're right, Doc.
You know, I'll bet he's just as comfortable and cozy as we are, sitting around the fire here.
Who are you? Let him in, Alvy.
Any man out in that weather has been made harmless.
Get inside.
Now, get them hands up, mister, high.
Alvy? Unload him.
Hey, look here, Hack.
That's a nice gun.
That's a real nice gun.
Shut up, Alvy.
Put them down.
You can get over by the fire now, but don't you try nothing.
I'll cut you in half with buckshot.
Now, go on, get! You look half froze, stranger.
You must have wanted something real bad to come out in weather like this.
'Course we don't know everybody, but I never seen him around here before.
He's a stranger, Alvy.
He don't belong around here.
Belle? Belle, get on in here.
Supper ready, Belle? It's awful cold.
Shut up, Alvy! You recognize him, Belle? You ever seen him before? No.
Take your hat off.
Show your face.
Maybe Hay City.
Maybe you've seen him up there sometime.
I don't know him.
You sure? Yes.
You lying to me, you know what I'll do to you.
I never saw him before.
He come in here on a blizzard.
Must have been looking for some cattle Alvy, we don't know what he's doing here.
Why shouldn't a man come in out of the cold? Even in here.
That's enough, Belle.
Mister, what about my horse? Can you put him in your barn? He'll freeze outside.
Alvy? Now, Hack, I ain't going out there.
I'd freeze to death.
And the horse will freeze if you don't.
Now go on, Alvy, before I get cross.
Oh! Supper's about ready.
Leave it.
I want to talk to our friend first.
We may not have to feed him.
But the potatoes will get mean.
They'd better not, that's all.
I'm real curious about you, stranger.
Yeah, I noticed that.
Don't get me mad, mister.
You make fun of me, I'll blow you all over the wall.
The meat'll be boiled to shreds if we don't You just don't understand any other way, do you, Belle? What is it you want to know about me? Oh, I can tell.
I can handle you easy now.
What? All I got to do is hit her, and you'll talk.
I don't have to do nothing to you.
You, uh, mind if I take off my coat? I mind! You might have another gun hid out there.
Hack? He could raise his hands, and I could unbutton it.
Well, now, that's real smart, Belle.
Look, mister, look, uh, I can't get this coat off with my hands up in the air.
Now go ahead.
I don't see no gun.
Belle, come here.
Drop the jacket, Belle.
Now hold out your hand.
Do it, Belle.
Open it.
Open it, I said.
Oh, that's bad.
That's real bad what you done, Belle.
And I'm gonna have to learn you.
I'm gonna punish you.
I'm gonna put you outside in the weather.
After supper.
After you've cleaned up supper.
Have to give you time to be thinking about how cold you're gonna get.
Now, get out! United States Marshal, huh? You're in bad company, Marshal.
You shouldn't have come here.
Looks to me like I kind of struck gold coming here.
Now, why do you talk like that? I still got the shotgun in.
That there, fire.
It's colder and colder outside.
You didn't see nobody around out there, did you? What? Who? Somebody might have come along to cover the marshal.
That's all.
Marshal? What marshal? Him, Alvy.
He's a marshal.
Shoot him, Hack! Shoot him! Let go of me, you fool.
But then, Hack, you got to shoot him! Shut up, Alvy.
Now I'll handle things.
Why don't you sit down, Marshal? You might as well make yourself comfortable while you can.
Where'd you ride here from, Marshal? Hay City.
Well, that's a fool thing to do with a blizzard coming on, wasn't it? There wasn't any blizzard coming up when I left.
Yeah? Maybe you thought you could get the jump on us easier in the storm, huh? Was that it, Marshal? You know, I'm kind of curious.
What is it you two are wanted for? Don't you tell him that.
I don't trust him at all.
Oh, it'd get mighty dull around here without you, Alvy.
You don't trust him.
Quit, quit laughing at me, Hack.
Stop it! I don't like laughing, and you know that.
And don't you do it no more.
I got ways, Hack.
Yeah, I seen you and your ways.
Don't you try none of them on me, Alvy.
Well, maybe I won't.
Oh, now you don't understand, Alvy.
It's all right to tell the marshal about us.
He ain't going nowhere.
He ain't? Well, of course not.
We'll kill him.
We'll kill him and bury him somewhere.
Oh, that's fine, Hack.
Why didn't I think of that? I do the thinking for us, Alvy.
You know that.
Me and Alvy are wanted for murder, Marshal.
Up in Cheyenne.
Wyoming.
We was robbing a bank.
And a couple of people wouldn't do what we told them to.
We didn't plan it that way, but you know how it is when you're robbing a bank and all.
Yeah.
We been here 35 days.
See? Alvy here knows how long everything's been.
What about the girl? Where'd she come from? Oh, she was here.
With her pa.
Her pa? He got troublesome.
We killed him the first day.
We told him, Hack.
Now, let's shoot him.
I'm thinking, Alvy.
Sit down.
Well, let's do it.
I'm getting hungry.
We got to do it right, Alvy.
Now, here's what we're going to do.
We'll knock him on the head and throw him outside.
Then when the storm breaks, we'll carry him off about 20 miles and dump him.
It'll look like he got throwed and hit his head and froze.
Now, you just don't care about anything, do you? Just me.
Sometimes, Alvy.
Sure, me and Hack are friends.
You bet, Alvy.
Hack! Let me hit him.
You hold a gun on him, and I'll get up behind him and hit him.
Okay.
I think there was a branding iron over here.
I'll hit him with that.
Hack.
Now, watch it.
You wouldn't, uh, kill a man without giving him something to eat, would you, Hack? Now, looky here, Marshal, you sit back down.
I can't hit you like that.
Leave him be, Alvy.
What? We're going to eat first.
Oh, Hack! Now, you can hit him after supper.
Oh all right.
Belle! We're going to eat now.
Marshal.
Thanks, Belle.
Well, I've eaten better than this on the trail.
I told you it'd get overcooked.
Now, you hold your tongue.
You can talk your head off when you're outside in the weather.
Now, you go on outside.
I'll learn you to eat if I have to bust your neck.
Don't hurt her, Hack.
Not too bad.
What? Well, you cripple her up, who's going to do the cooking? Not you.
I've eat your cooking.
Well, my sister was a good cook! And we should've brought her, Alvy.
No, I don't like her.
Where you from, Alvy? What? I said where you born? Oh Republican River.
That ain't no place, you fool.
Well, that's what they told me- Republican River.
My ma and pa lived in a wagon.
They had lots of kids, too.
'Course, most of them died.
I'm about the only one that turned out any good at all.
Yeah, you done fine, Alvy, just fine.
Well, I can't eat no more of this.
You throw the rest of it out and come in the front room.
Marshal, get going.
Are we going to hit him? Throw him out to freeze up now, Hack? Not yet.
I want to punish Belle first.
Belle! Belle, you get on out here.
Now, get on outside.
Do it, now.
Hey, Belle! Get out and close the door! You'll blow the lamp out! Hack, someday you're going to get caught without that shotgun.
Somebody's going to tear you apart.
Marshal, you've been in my way ever since you come in here.
Now you're trying to get between me and that girl.
I don't like that.
Now, you sit down.
Hack, I'm sleepy.
I'm going to hit him and go to bed.
You can do what you want to after, but I ain't staying up all night.
Alvy's got his mind made up, Marshal.
I can tell.
Now, you sit down.
Alvy! Now what? Wrap something around that iron.
What for? So they won't be able to tell what he got hit with.
Oh, what difference it make? I want to go to bed.
Alvy! Now you do what I say.
Now, go ahead, Alvy.
Marshal you keep your eyes on me.
Belle.
That was smart of you, Belle.
I thought he'd shot you.
No, he shot Alvy.
I heard you yelling.
He's going to find out I'm not in there in a minute.
Alvy? Alvy! All right, stand up, Marshal.
Stand up! I got another shot in here for you, Marshal! Now, stand up! What are you going to do? I don't know.
Just have to stay out here and wait.
Till I get too cold to handle this thing.
Come on in, Belle.
It's all right, they're dead.
Both of them.
Belle, you'd better put this around you.
They're dead? They can't hurt me anymore? No, Belle.
They can't hurt you anymore.
It's all over.
"Over" It's all right now, Belle.
Things will look different in the morning.
You'll see.
Belle? Belle? I'm in the kitchen, Marshal.
Got some coffee ready.
Good, I could sure use some.
Did you bury them? Yeah.
How? Ground's all frozen.
I found a pile of rocks out by the barn.
Well, it, uh That coffee sure smells good.
It only needs pouring.
Sure I can't get you something to eat? No, no, thanks, Belle.
Not after that breakfast you gave me.
The storm's really lifted, huh? Yeah, it's clearing up out there.
There, get some of that in you.
Thank you.
That's a mighty good cup of coffee.
Tell me something, Marshal.
Tell me the truth, now.
Why, sure.
What do you want to know? You married? No, I, I'm afraid I wouldn't make a very good husband.
Why? Well, it's my job.
Little too chancy.
Thanks, Marshal.
Thanks for putting it that way.
Belle, let me tell you something.
I'm going to leave this place.
What? I can't stay here.
Where are you going to go? I've got three horses.
I'll take them into Hay City and sell them.
And what then? I'll get me some pretty clothes and find me a place.
It won't be hard.
After this.
Belle.
Listen to me.
Now, you've got to forget about what happened here.
You're young.
You've got a whole lifetime ahead of you.
And nobody is ever going to know about this.
I'll know, Marshal.
I can take care of myself.
Belle, look, uh You've got a long ride ahead of you, Marshal.
You're sure there's nothing else I No! Thanks.
I'll say "good-bye" to you here, Marshal.
Good luck, Belle.
Look me up next time you're in Hay City.
Belle, don't let this make you bitter.
There's still some good men left in the world.
So they say.
So long, Marshal.
So long, Belle.