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Gun smoke, starring William Conrad.
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I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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Luke! Luke! Supper's on!
Might as well be calling a hog. Only a hog would come faster.
Luke, I ain't gonna hot it up twice!
I'm coming!
I'm coming! When he's thought sure and ready, he's coming!
Ain't nothing in this house to call him away from the barn.
And I ain't been nothing for a long time.
Horses! Ain't nothing in this life but horses!
Well, it's high time!
Luke!
Uh?
Used to be you was better mannered.
Now, Myra?
Used to be you'd wait to do your eating until a body had a chance to sit.
Well, it was you was hurrying me.
Used to be you'd speak a word when you come into the house.
Not just sit there, feeding your face.
There ain't hardly no talk between us no more.
We just eatin' and sleepin' and tending to the place.
There ain't no livin'.
Oh, Myra.
There ain't no folks to visit.
Ain't nothing to see but the land out there.
The land's been good to us.
There ain't no talk between us.
I just ain't fit for it no more.
Well, Myra, Myra, you eat, you'll feel better.
Luke.
Go on, Myra. Go on. Set and eat.
Luke, I ain't got it in me to live this way no more.
There's gotta be folks around and trees for the wind to blow through.
Luke, couldn't we go back to St. Louis?
Oh, you know we can't do that.
We got our stake here, Myra. We got the horses.
Ah, the horses. That's what's done it.
You got no mind for anything except horses.
They fed just a good livin'.
You'd sooner be in the barn with them horses than up here with me.
Well, you ain't talkin' good, St. Luke.
I ain't worth talkin' to. But them horses is.
I guess nobody's worth talkin' to but them horses.
Except maybe that Holland woman.
Now, just hold on there.
You was over there again today, wasn't you?
Well, wasn't you?
Myra, you know full well why I go there.
I know you don't stay here to home.
Joe Holland was my friend.
Now, it ain't easy to keep a place going when your man's been took.
Suddenly, a widow woman needs some help.
Ha!
I ain't gonna stay here arguing with you.
That's right. Just walk out.
Walk right on back to your horses or to that woman.
Don't waste no time again.
I ain't listenin' no more.
You ain't listenin', you ain't talkin'.
You ain't even hardly livin' here no more.
You gentle down some, I'll be back.
You ain't doin' nothin' for me no more.
Nothin' but killin' me.
You hear that, Luke Kirby?
You ain't doin' nothin' but killin' me.
You kill me and I'll laugh.
Cause you'll pay. You'll see you'll pay.
Widow Holland?
Who is it?
I come to see the widow Holland.
Joe Holland was my husband.
Who are you?
Well, I don't expect you'd figure to see me.
It's my husband, you know better.
Are you Luke's wife?
That's what they call me.
Well, it's mighty nice of you to come to call Mrs. Kirby.
It's a far drive from your place.
Come in and set a spell.
I ain't come to socialize.
I can brew a pot of tea.
I ain't comin' in.
Well, you ain't come all this way not even to climb down out of the wagon.
I'll sit right here.
Mrs. Kirby.
Why did you come over here?
I come to see the woman my husband rides off to see.
He don't come to see me, Mrs. Kirby.
He says be a neighborly to Joe's memory, you might say.
You might say.
Mrs. Kirby.
It won't do you no good to set your cap for him.
I ain't settin' my cap for anybody.
Even after I'm gone, he won't be free.
I'll be gone, but he won't be free.
I'll thank you to be leavin', Mrs. Kirby.
Oh, I'm goin' all right.
But admirin' Luke won't do you no good.
No good at all.
Come on.
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So that's the way it was, Mr. Dillon, the old Dan had to stand right there in the kitchen watching.
Watching him clean the fish.
Oh, he didn't care about the cleaning so much, but he wanted to see him cut them fish heads off.
What for?
Old Dan insisted on seeing the fish head come off an ever fish before he did.
Uh-huh.
Well, don't you want me to tell you why, Mr. Dillon?
All right, Chester, you go on. You tell me why. Why?
Why, so as he'd be sure he wasn't eating a mermaid.
That's not very much of a joke, Chester.
Well, there ain't no joke about him. Mr. Dillon, the old Dan was dead.
All right, all right, Chester, I'll take your word for it.
Hey, man, what'd Dan say about it? It was old Dan watching them fish.
See, there's nothing.
Fuck, ain't that Luke Kirby's wife out in that white man's hand?
Yeah, it is.
Hello, Myra.
Marshal, I want to see you.
Well, sure.
Now, what can I do for you?
I don't want the whole town here.
You'd better come on in the office. Here, I'll help you down.
Thank you.
There you go.
Oh, Chester, take care of the rig there, will you?
And then you can go on down and get the mail, huh?
All right, Mr. Dillon, I'll do that.
Come on, Myra.
All right, Myra, what's on your mind?
I want to tell you something about Luke, Marshal.
Well, go ahead.
He's going to kill me.
What? He's gonna what?
I figured you ought to know.
Now, just a minute, Myra, you can't be right about that.
I'm right.
I've known Luke for years. He... he's just not the killing sort.
You ain't been living with him.
Well, has he harmed you?
No, not yet, he ain't. But he's a-going to.
Well, now, don't you worry about it, Myra.
I'm sure Luke won't do any such thing.
But I'll have a talk with him anyway.
There's nothing you can do, Marshal.
Well, you must have figured I could do something if you'd come to tell me about it.
I just wanted you to know for afterward.
Well, afterwards might be late, isn't it?
No, Marshal, it ain't late.
You'll know what to do then.
You'll know what to do all right.
Well, that doesn't make any sense, Matt.
No, Kitty, it doesn't.
Not just the way she said it, though.
Her husband's going to kill her.
But she doesn't want me to do anything about it.
Until afterwards.
Well, I believe I'd want you to step in a little earlier if it were me.
Yeah, most people wouldn't.
I don't know Myra Kirby, but I'm sure of one thing about her.
Oh, what's that?
The hate she feels for her husband's a terrible thing.
Yeah.
I wonder how he feels about her.
Well, Kitty, if Myra's right, he must be carrying around quite a hate, too.
It doesn't sound like Luke Kirby.
He's always seemed like such a kindly man.
Yeah.
Oh, well, you can ask him about it.
He just came in. He's heading for the bar.
Oh, oh, yeah. Thanks, Kitty.
I'll go talk to him.
Sure.
Leave the bottles, Sam. I'll be using it a while.
Hello, Luke.
Oh. Hello, Marshal.
I don't see you in here very often.
No, no, I ain't in Alton.
There's times a man got to get some drinking done.
Yeah.
You having troubles, Luke?
Oh, well, I ain't had no sleep.
I got a sick stud horse out there. I've been setting up with him.
Hmm.
What brought you into town?
Oh, I run out of horse medicine I've been using.
Hey, Marshal, you want to have a drink?
No.
Do you drive in with Myra?
Myra don't come to town.
She was here today, Luke.
I don't know nothing about it.
She came to see me.
I told you, I don't know nothing about it.
She told me you were having trouble.
Man has trouble with his wife. It's his own business.
She said she's afraid you're going to harm her.
Oh, she'd be better off keeping her mouth shut.
She said you're going to kill her, Luke.
Well, she's a bigger fool than I took her for.
Listen, Marshal, Marshal, man's wife, he's got to deal with her.
Yeah, just so the law doesn't have to deal with you.
I figure you're trying to do me a favor.
I don't want to see you in any trouble.
You can't help the trouble I'm in, and the law can't help it neither.
Man's wife starts living with devils.
Ain't nobody can stop it.
Just don't you try to stop it for good, Luke.
That's all.
Well, there ain't nobody else to do it, Marshal.
There ain't nobody else but me.
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Hello, Doc.
Oh, Matt.
I'm heading for some lunch. You want to come along?
I'm still looking for some breakfast.
You're getting awful lazy in your old age, aren't you?
Sleeping till noon.
Sleeping, yeah.
That sounds like the kind of deduction you'd make.
You mean you didn't sleep till noon, Doc? What's the matter then?
You waiting for somebody to come along and buy your breakfast for you?
I'm waiting for a chance to eat it.
I've been out to the Kirby place already this morning.
Oh? Well, why?
Myra Kirby's badly hurt.
Well, what happened to her?
Cut on the head, bruises.
Is she going to be all right?
Yeah, I think so.
Could she tell you how it happened?
Well, she says Luke did it to her, but I just don't know.
Yeah.
Well, where you going?
I'm going to see Luke Kirby.
Oh, wait a minute.
You won't do any good going out there now.
Why not?
Luke's not there.
Oh.
Myra says he's off to the west buying up some horses.
He'll be gone a few days.
I'll go see him when he comes back.
Are you sure you've had enough, Matt?
Yeah, Kitty, I guess I have for now.
Oh, I sometimes wish I could sit down and eat like a man.
Two helpings of meat and three of potatoes.
What's stopping you?
A very important thing. It's called the waistline.
Oh, come on, now, Kitty, a little extra heft never hurt a woman.
It hurt me in the pocket, but...
Well, I'll buy the extra food for you.
Well, the extra clothes I'd have to buy. I'm talking about, Matt.
I settled on the second helpings and I split out at the scene.
Matt?
I've been looking for you.
Oh, sit down, Doc.
I haven't got time. You better come with me, Matt.
Where you headed?
Back to the Kirby place.
What? Is Myra going to take a turn for the worse?
You might call it that. She's been shot.
Doc's been in there throwing off a long time, hasn't he, Mr. John?
Yeah.
I wonder how she's coming along.
Doc will let us know as soon as he can.
Yeah, I guess he will, all right.
Don't seem decent, does it, for a poor woman to get shot
just a few days after she's been beat up?
No, it doesn't.
Matt?
Oh, yeah, Doc.
You better come in now.
All right.
In here, Matt.
Myra?
Here's the Marshal.
Marshal?
Right here, Myra.
Listen close to me, Marshal.
I'm listening.
He done it.
Luke's done it.
You hear me?
Yes, I hear you.
He...
He's been shot.
He...
He rolled off.
But he done it.
He killed me.
Like I told you he would.
And he'll pay for it, won't he, Marshal?
He'll pay?
Yeah, Myra.
I expect he's paying already.
He'll pay.
Matt?
She's gone.
She never had a chance.
Yeah.
She didn't give herself a chance, Doc.
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Mr. Dunn, you don't think Luke Kirby would have just come over here at the Holland place, do you?
I don't know, Chester. I'm gonna find out.
It looks to me like a man would like to put a lot more distance between him and the law on this.
Yeah, maybe so. You stay here with the horses, will you?
Yeah, sure. You don't think you'll need me? They're inside, Daddy.
Oh, if I do, I'll holler.
There's Holland. It's Marshal Dillon.
Come in, Marshal.
Did you know that Lyra Kirby's been shot?
No, Marshal, I didn't.
She's dead.
Oh.
She said Luke shot her.
I don't hold with talking disrespectful of the dead, Marshal Dillon.
But she was a mean woman. Mighty mean.
You don't sound very sorry.
I take no pleasure in a person's dying, Marshal.
She was found down by the barn.
She must have known something after all.
What do you mean?
She wouldn't go near the barn.
I figured it was because of them horses. She hated them horses.
But maybe she knows something would happen to her there.
Yeah.
Do you know where Luke is?
I ain't seen him in a week, Marshal, and that's the truth.
You don't know where he is, then?
No, I don't know.
But I know this, Marshal.
What's that?
I know if Luke did kill that woman, he was powerfully drove to it.
Powerfully drove.
Yeah.
Miss Holland, I think maybe you're right.
I sure do hope you're right, Mr. Dillon.
Figuring that Luke and Kirby headed out this way.
Don't worry about it, Chester.
I ain't worried.
But it will say that this ain't the prettiest camping place I ever stopped at.
What's the matter? You missing your feather bed?
You know I ain't got no feather bed, Mr. Dillon.
Well, stop complaining then and toss another log on the fire.
Yes, sir.
I'd still like to know, though, how come you figured Kirby would be heading this way?
Well, if I were in Kirby's place, I'd want to find a friend, Chester.
That horse trader's probably the only person Kirby feels safe with right now.
He sure couldn't find a friend in Dodge.
Yes, sir, but if he murdered his wife...
Well, maybe he did, maybe he didn't.
I killed her all right, Marshal.
Well...
Hello, Luke.
Come on up to the fire. Sit down and get warm.
Thank you.
Mr. Dillon, he's gone.
It's all right, Chester.
You can have a gun, Marshal.
You didn't try very hard to get away.
Wasn't no use to it. I don't know why I headed out the first place.
Except I guess a man just has to try.
Yeah, I guess so.
Wasn't no use from the beginning.
Myra fixed it all, just like she said.
She fixed it so as you'd shoot her, didn't she, Luke?
Yeah, she did, Marshal.
Seemed past believing, but that's what she did.
How did she do it?
She was in the barn, hiding.
See, she...
She never come to the barn, Marshal.
Now, I thought someone left that stud horse of mine.
He's worth about everything I got.
I... I'd always feared somebody'd steal him.
Yeah.
I heard a noise in the stall. I come out with my gun.
I give warning. Marshal, I give warning twice.
And then he's shot.
And then I shot.
And she was waiting for it, Marshal.
Just waiting so as I couldn't miss.
Ain't nobody gonna believe me, but that's the holy truth.
I believe you, Luke.
But we're gonna have to see if the court believes you.
You're gonna have to come back with me.
Oh, I'll come easy, Marshal.
I think you got a good chance.
Will you?
I tell you the truth, Marshal. I don't care a whole lot.
Man's wife hates him so much that she'll make him kill her.
Ain't much to care about.
Yeah.
Well, you can bed down on the other side of the fire there, Luke.
We'll head back at sunup?
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Gunsmoke.
Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal.
The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Marion Clark
with editorial supervision by John Messon.
Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dobkin, Virginia Christine, and Gene Bates.
Harley Bear is Chester, Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty.
This is George Walsh inviting you to join us again next week
when CBS Radio presents another story on Gunsmoke.
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