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Gunsmoke - Tales of the West — Gunsmoke 54-07-05 116 Hack Prine. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the transcribed story of the violence that moved West with young America. And the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job and it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely. It was a long ride from Dodge up to Parker Creek in the Dakota territory and I killed a good horse getting there. But I caught Lee Trumbo. He was asleep in a clump of willow and I took him with out of fight. We rode his horse double into Sioux Falls but we came the rest of the way back to Dodge
and style by stage coach. At least I thought we were traveling in style. Lee didn't seem to care much for it. In fact he wouldn't even talk until the stage pulled into Dodge and drove up front street for the plaza. You're making a bad mistake Marshall. Is that so? I didn't kill anybody. There are two witnesses say it did leave. Why did you run? The brother Dolph said he was after me. That's why I run. You'll get a trial. You can talk about it then. I am going to stand trial Marshall. Dolph will get me out of jail before that. Is that so? I never figured Dolph is a man to do much of anything. You've been against us Trumbo's ever since we come to Dodge ain't you Marshall? Yeah. I have. Neither one of you is going to make good. See what I mean? There's your brother Dolph now. We can go welcome you back. Oh, how'd he know I was coming? I word Chester and Sioux Falls a week ago.
That's fantastic. You're definitely your his man. Chester's not my deputy. Well he sure acts like it. Yeah he does doesn't he? Nope. Here we are. You got my brother and mayor Marshall. Come on, Obli. You're going to be sorry for this. Now that's what leaves me and Tommy. Come on, we get on out of there. I'm coming Marshall. I'm coming. No, I'm not. Shoot him, Dolph. What's going on? Oh, you're going to be a man. Oh, I got the definitely. Don't look at me, Marshall. I didn't even draw. No. No, you didn't, that's it, Dolph. You didn't have to kick him like that. You were hurt him. You'll get his win back. I got him covered, Mr. Dillon. Hello, Chester. Don't you try nothing like that again, Lee. It's all right, Chester. The fight's out of him. You want me to take Dolph, Gun? Well that's funny. I keep forgetting.
You do wear a gun, don't you, Dolph. Is there anything wrong with wearing a gun, Marshall? There is the way you wear one. What do you mean? Oh, you might run into somebody who doesn't know you're afraid to use it. You might shoot you before he found that out. You calling me a coward, Marshall? Mm-hmm. Chester. Chester. You know what, sir? I'm going over to the office. When Lee here stops grown and hurting over and locking up with him. Okay. And if Dolph gives you any trouble, shoot him. Now, Marshall. Get going, Dolph. Go on, move. You'll be sorry for this. I'll make you sorry, Warren. Oh, say, there's a fellow waiting for you over at the office, Mr. Dillon. He's a stranger to me, but you want to see him. All right, Chester. Oh, by the way, welcome back. Thanks. It's been most of the month you've been gone. We sure did miss you here. There were times when I miss being here, Chester. Don't let Lee get away from you now. I'd hate to make that ride all over again.
No, sir, I won't. Oh, I sure won't. Oh, stop breathing like that. Lee, get on your feet. You ain't hurt. Come on. Yeah, too. I'm going to get you some money. Whoa. Oh, man. Hack, hack, Brian. How are you? Good to see you. You're surprised to see me alive, aren't you? Well, hack, it's been at least 10 years. And that man ain't born. It took kill me. At least I ain't running to him yet. Oh, maybe you're just lucky. Luck you're new anyway. Luck luck you're sometimes, is the way I recall it. Now you're thinking about Santa Fe. Yeah. You wasn't very lucky that day, Matt. Remember how it was? You back into a corner with nothing but a beer bottle in your hand. And three, your John Chisholm's drunk cowboys about the empty air guns in here. Yeah. Yeah. And you walked in and killed everyone of them.
Yeah. It was real surprise, wasn't it, Matt? Had John Chisholm's been after you ever since, hasn't he, Hack? Oh, then was just the first to Chisholm's man I've killed, Matt. Been riding with Billy the kid to about half a year ago. Huh? Why'd you quit? Never could make out of Billy was working for or against Chisholm. Besides, didn't pay enough. Oh, but you're the one, Matt. If what I got to dodge last night heard you was US Marshall here, I just didn't believe it. Well, being a Marshall isn't that hard at job. Or you can handle it or I don't know that. What I mean is it kind of sudden find a man you used to know be in a US Marshall. Well, I got to earn my keep somehow. Or what are you doing to dodge anyway? I don't know, Matt. I don't know yet. They've been over to Wagon Bed Springs, stretching my legs, sleeping in a bed, doing a little gambling and a like that. Some fellow here sent for me. I haven't seen him yet, but if it's a job he's got, I sure need the money. Well, good luck with it, Hack.
We'll get together later and have a drink, okay? I straight ahead, please. I'll do that door there, the sevens is out there. What's this? Just a present. What do you do? I don't do nothing. Cut up and keep walking, please. What's your lock in the mouth for, Matt? Murder? That's bad. That's real bad. Murder's always bad. I don't mean that. I mean locking a man up. I couldn't stand, Matt. I've never been in jail, I've never been going to be. Well, then you better stay sober around here, Hack. And you're taking it back about that drink. Oh, no. You'll be safe as long as you're with me. Oh. I don't know, Matt. I've been around you when it wasn't so safe. I'll see you later. Yeah, sure, Hack. Oh. Hey, come on in, Mr. I'm leaving. It's all on, Matt. It's all on, Hack. Marshall Dylan? Hello, Oli, how are you? Marshall, I got something I got to tell you.
It's my duty the way I see it. Oh, what's the trouble? Hello, Oli. What are you doing here? Well, I come to tell the Marshall something, Chester, but I sure don't like informing on people. You understand me, Marshall? Oh, what's the matter, Oli? Doff Trumbo, that's what? You got his brother, Lee, and Jail here. And we sure have. I just locked him up myself. Well, Doff's coming to get him out. He's over at the Alifaganzor right now, talking it up. Talking of what up? Well, there's some men at the bar there, Marshall. And Dolph's buying him drinks, and telling them his brother's plum innocent. And they got to raid the Jail here and get him out. You mean he's forming a mug? That's what he's doing. And I don't like it. There's going to be trouble, sure. Oli, thanks very much for telling me this, but don't worry about the trouble. I'll put a stop to that right now. Come on, Chester. Yes, you. What a pair.
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Kind of form a mob to take his brother out in jail, how? How it works sometimes, Chesterfield. Not in dog, you don't. Not so far anyway. Here's the olive ring answer. I don't get in the way. No. You're right, folks. There's nothing else. There's nothing to be afraid of. You may rule. You'll be led by one of the best gunmen in the whole country. I promise you that. And we'll have justice in your dog. Once we're all just the right men. That's the one. What do you want, Marshall? What are you doing here? Holy told you, I've seen him sneak out.
I've just been talking, Marshall. No harm in talking, is there? Well, he's innocent anyway. He shouldn't be in jail. And I'm going to get him out, too. He's men here. It's all with me. And we're going with him. Quiet. Quiet. Quiet. Bartender, this place is closed for the rest of the day. No more liquor. And you men get out of here and don't let me find any of you together again, not for a long time. I get moving. Oh, here, Chester. I'll pay for the beer.
You leaving, Mr. Dylan? Kitty just came downstairs. I haven't seen her yet. I think I'll go over and say hello. Yes, sir. I'd like for me to go across the street and see if they're keeping the olive again for clothes. No, it's all right. I told them they could open up again tonight. Oh, well, thanks for the beer, Mr. Chelan. Sure, Chester. Welcome to Chester, stranger. How are you, Kitty? Fine. I'd be even better if it brought two beers over instead of one. But you can sit down anyway. Well, you can take this one, Kitty. It's kind of warm out of water. Matthew, suppose the day you'll ever come when having good manners will be a requirement for the marshals of us? Well, if it ever does, Kitty, I don't guess they'll need marshals anymore. Yeah, maybe you're right at that. Well, have you been, huh? Everything okay? Well, I was making out pretty good maps till I broke my toes. Okay, toe. How'd you do that? I got a lot of dirty right here in this alone. I got trumped on, Dan, some of the Texas cowboys should have been spending his trail money on red, silk, kankachich and soda water instead of me.
You can have been over 16, darn fool. How much you can do for a broken toe, is it? No, at least it doesn't hurt when I'm sitting down. I, uh, here you broke up Dolph Trumbos party at the Alifagandra's afternoon. Huh? You hear just about everything, don't you, Kitty? Man, they talk more than women. This place is full of men, they're in nice. You think if I close my eyes and pray real hard, they don't go away? All that they did, what would you do for a living? That'll keep me awake. Say, they're your friend Dolph now, just came in. Huh? What's a stranger, will they not? Hello, Pete. It's a matter who is he? He's a gunman, Kitty. That's so? Yeah, I guess he's about the handiest man with a gun that ever hit Dutch. Dolph's gone and hired him a gunman. Who is he anyway, what's his name? He's a friend of mine, Kitty.
A friend of yours? Yeah, good friend. He saved my life once. But now I guess he's gonna try to get it back. His name's Brian. The government never did pay me much for enforcing the law and dodge, but even if they doubled it, there were times when I'd like to acquit. I sat there with Kitty and watched the two-minute bar. They had a drink, and they shook hands. It's Fall in America, make it count. Ram Drive into Fall sales event, make it powerful with our strongest Ram 1500 ever, make it move with a ram heavy duty with an available Cummins diesel, and make it go the distance with a 10-year or 100,000-mile powertrain limited warranty. Hurrie and now for great deals during the Ram Drive into Fall sales event, excludes fully electric vehicles applied to 2026 model-year vehicles non-transferable, visit moapart.com for complete details and a copy of the powertrain limited warranty,
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And hack walk, God. I got up and I followed it. Follow me, Mac. Yeah, hack. Look for. Where you staying? Dodge house. I don't got a room. I, uh, I'd like to talk to you. Street will do. Okay. Dolph was trying to form a mob this afternoon hack you. Want to rate his brother out of jail. I heard about it. When I went to break it up, I heard him say and they'd be led by one of the best gunmen in the country.
That wouldn't be Dolph and so. Dolph. He's afraid of guns. He, uh, he meant to. Didn't he hack? He was just guessing I'd come in. And you have not with no mob. I told him that. I don't work with mobs. You shouldn't know better to say that. How do you work, hack? All alone by myself. I'm a pretty good gunman, Mac. Yeah, I know. It saved my life once you're being a good gunman. Yeah. Mac. Turn his brother loose. I get paid if you do. Look, hack. Lee Trumbo murdered a man. He's going to send trial for it. I don't get paid if he stands trial. But you get paid for shooting me. That's what Dolph said.
That was his deal. Well. Oh, they tell me you're better with a gun you used to be, Mac. I don't want to fight you. Afraid, Mac? How'd you get to be martial, anyway? It's a job. I took it. Well, I've been offered a job, too, and I took it. Yeah, but you had better jobs, hack. Well, it's been bothering me some. That took an awful chance saving your life once. Now I got to take another to kill you. Don't make much sense, doesn't it? Look, hack. I got it. I'll go on back to Wagon Bed Springs. I'll lend you some money to see you through. You know, it ain't that easy, Mac. I back out on this. The world will get around nobody will hire me for nothing anymore. My reputation won't be worth crowbie. Did Billy the kid pay you to kill men? Of course not. Of course not. That was her pleasure. You know how I ate jaunchism. And you come down a long way, hack.
Sell on your gun. I killed a man for pay over to La Hanta. Didn't bother me now. Who was it? I don't know. Some gambler, pretty good gunman, though. Tell me something, hack. The Dolph say how his brother murdered that man here. Dolph claims he didn't do it at all. Well, there were two witnesses who saw him do it. The man was a buffalo skinner, unarmed. He didn't even have a knife on him. But he refused to buy Lee Trumbo a drink so Lee shot him. Oh, no. That's right. Shot a unarmed man? You think it over, hack? I'll see you tomorrow. Good night. A man like Hack Prime had his own peculiar sense of honor. The idea of shooting me seemed the buttering less than the fact that Lee Trumbo had killed him on armed men. Later that night I heard he'd been seen having an argument with Dolph.
No, I figured I'd won. But another kill him in Dodge, either me or Hack had been avoided. And the lovely next morning word came that a man had been shot at the Dodge House. I sent Chester on over while I went up and got Doc Adams. How do you know the man he's no already dead, man? I don't know, Doc. Well, it doesn't matter. I'd probably make more money off of him dead than alive. I don't know. Well, I get paid for autopsy, is that right? Sure. But just try to collect for the ones that keep alive. Just you try. And I'm glad I don't have to, Doc, but I still notice you buy a new buggy ever since. Oh, yes. Wear it out before, racing across the prairie. Delivering babies, setting bones, digging out bullets. Delivering babies. I'll exercise, keep them on, young dogs. That's a good thing I don't think I'm sympathy to keep me young. Here we are. What's going on?
What's going on? Oh, Doc. Where is he, Chester? In that room right there, number 12. And you know who it is? It's Oli. Oli? Yes, sir. And half-prime, Chai. What? It's Hax Room. What's going on? He did it all right. Let's take a look. Where's Hax now, Chester? I don't know, sir. Nobody's seen him for the past hour. I kept everybody out of the room, Mr. Delivering. All right. Now, stand aside here, boys. Let the Marshall and Doc through. Come on, Doc. I'm on the letter. Let me through. Let me through here. Oh, that's a good one. It's Oli, all right? He's dead, Matt. Real dead. Three, four hours, probably. Nobody heard a shot or nothing, Mr. Deliver. When the clerk come on duty about an hour ago, he saw Hax Prime walk out of here. Why anybody want to kill poor little Oli? I do not understand.
I'll bet I know, Mr. Deliver. What, Chester? You didn't talk Hax out of trying to kill you after all. He went back to the door last night and told him he'd take the job. Then he figured the only way to get you into a fight was to shoot somebody so you'd have to come after him. Yeah, maybe. Come on, let's start looking for him. We will return for the last act of gun smoke in just a moment. What a pair. Last Paul and Mary Ford. America's most popular recording duo. You ought to know you buy millions of their records. Lesson Mary say, Chesterfields for me. I guess you could call us a real Chesterfield family. I've been enjoying them now for over six years. So, over 15 years for me, we believe it's the best cigarette ever made.
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He's coming out. All right, get off the street, Chester. Good morning, man. Hello, Hackel. Just killed a man. That's Saloon there. Dove Trumbo. I killed him. I give him a chance, but he wouldn't draw. I killed him anyways. That's too bad, Hackel. No man's going to frame me. I never thought you killed Oli, but I wanted to hear you say so. How'd you know I didn't do it? I wouldn't be your style to kill a defenseless little fellow like that. Well, of course not. So while you were out gambling last night, Doth killed him and dumped him in your room. I found him there and then I went after Doth. I was going to be there. I was going to be there. I killed him and dumped him in your room. I found him there and then I went after Doth. And no man can do that to me.
Hackel, according to the law you murdered Doth, I'm going to have to arrest you. What? You're going to have to stand trial for it. Oh, no, man. No, sir. I ain't going to jail. Not me, man. Never. I'm a law man, Hackel. I got to arrest you. Matt, I told Doth last night I wasn't going to take his job. I told him I was going to leave town. You're under arrest, Hackel. All right. I guess you've got to do it. Let's go for it, man, Hackel. Let's see what happens.
Hackel, oh, you're sure good, Matt. You're off good. Yeah. Better this way, Matt. And getting paid to fight you. Sure, sure it is. There weren't no reason to fight you. Not that way. I can't see you no more, Matt. It's like being underwater. I can't see nothing. Mr. Dylan, that was awful good shooting. I never seen nothing as fast as that in my whole life.
My, I bet he didn't know what hit him. Way he spun around there when you got. Mr. Dylan? Mr. Dylan, what's the matter? Mr. Dylan? All right. Music Here is our star, William Conrad. Right now I'd like to step out of my character as Marshal Matt Dylan to join George Finnamen as a Chesterfield salesman. In about the greatest compliment I've ever heard about any product is what smokers say about Chesterfield. They satisfy. So whether you smoke a regular or a king size cigarette, Chesterfield is best.
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