Gunsmoke 52/05/17 004 Dodge City Killer Written by Herb Purdum With Ben Wright, Vici Raaf, Paul DuBov, Larry Dobkin, Lillian Buyeff, Lou Krugman, Ralph Moody, GUNSMOKE Dodge City Killer 05/17/1952 Script by Hugh Purdum EPISODE NOTE: The cover page of the script for this episode, which contains cast, crew and production information, has the title, Dodge City Killer. PLOT Saloon and hotel owner Jack Grace fancies himself a ladies man, especially with his female employees. Dillon saves Grace from being shot by an employee, Annie, who resisted his unwanted, amorous advances. Chester arrives and lets Matt know that an old friend, Clancy Yarr, is waiting for him at the front desk of Grace's hotel. Yarr has brought his wife Narisha, the daughter of the Comanche warrior chief Black Eagle, with him and Grace is refusing to give them a room. Matt convinces Grace to provide accommodations for the Yarrs. The Marshal treats his friend's wife with great respect and Narisha has made her first friend in Dodge. Moreau, the storekeeper, lets Matt know that some folks in Dodge want to run Narisha out of town. Dillon expects trouble and it happens that night during a card game between Matt, Clancy, Moreau, and a new man in town, Morgan Wade. Wade, a gunman working for Grace, draws his guns and gets the drop on his fellow card players. The three men turn the tables on Wade when they convince him that each of them has a gun under the table pointed at the gunman. Wade folds under their bluff and Matt makes Wade unload his guns. When the bluff is made clear to an angry Wade and he threatens them, Matt orders the gunman to get out of town. Chester enters the saloon with news that Narisha has stabbed Jack Grace. When Matt reaches the dying Grace, he notices that the man has scratches on his face and a bite mark on his arm. Clancy identifies the knife used to kill Grace as Narisha's. She has taken a horse and fled Dodge. Dillon refuses to form a posse composed of angry townsmen; he and Clancy will go after the woman and bring her back to stand trial. At nightfall, Matt makes an obvious camp. He believes that Narisha is nearby because she wants to stay close to Clancy, so she will see the camp and perhaps come in when she realizes who is after her. While waiting for Narisha to show up, Matt and Clancy come under rifle fire. Clancy is slightly wounded. The two men then maneuver to catch their unseen assailant and encounter Narisha holding a rifle. She has knocked out the shooter: the disgruntled Morgan Wade. Matt knows that Narisha will not get a fair trial in Dodge, so he gathers sworn affidavits from Doc and other witnesses and with Chester, takes her before Judge Craddock in Hays City. When the Judge listens to Narisha's testimony on how Grace attacked her and reads the affidavits regarding the injuries she sustained during Grace's attack, Grace's previous attacks on other women, and the scratches and bite mark on Jack Grace, the Judge finds Narisha innocent of any criminal act. Later, Matt reminds Clancy and Narisha that Kansas is still on the frontier and many people still have bitter memories of loved ones killed during the Indian wars and it will take time for those memories to fade. The Yarrs and Matt part as friends.