Gunsmoke 55-04-09 156 Skid Row

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1:04I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall. The first man they look for and the last thing what a meet. It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful. Had a little lonely. Well the train's already in Mr. Dillon. Not good. But I thought we was early. Well now we won't have to wait so long for the mail to be sorted, just a. Hey ain't that Miss Kitty. Oh well. Oh we on here talking to that big phone. That looks like hang grotesque. Oh now what would she be doing with a man like him? He ain't good for hog pants.

2:04You'll go get the mail, Chester. All right. Well I lost my media. I'm a little fresh now. You will not. Why not? You'll kill the air around this girl. I suffocate. Well now you can't talk to me that. Take your hand off her. What? Oh. What do you know's nin for Marshall? You're lucky he is. I was about to jab this parasol in your eye. Maybe just like one of your kind. Get out of here, Grocer. Go on. Before I kill you. You mean it don't you? You would kill me. It's a good thing you're wearing a gun Marshall. You better go on wearing it too. I'm sorry I got you into this Mack. No you didn't get me into it Kitty. Besides I don't think there's a man at Dodge that would not appreciate a chance to put a hole in Hank Groot.

3:04Well sooner the better. Hey who's the girl with Chester? Well I don't know. I never saw her before. Pretty little thing isn't she? Yeah she sure is. Oh home is Kitty. Hello Chester. This here's Ann Cabot. How do you do Ann? How do you do Kitty? And this is the man you're looking for. This is Marshall Billon. Hello Marshall. It's pleasure Miss Cabot. And please. Alright Chester says you were looking for me. I think so. As the US Marshall and Dodge you seem the logical person to help me? Well I'll be glad to help you if it can. I've come from Connecticut Marshall. Oh. I'm looking for Jack Schomer. Jack Schomer. You know him? Well why not Chester? Yeah yeah we know him. He's here. Well uh no not at the moment he had to write up North somewhere. Oh but he'll be back.

4:04Oh yeah yeah I think so. Look I'll tell you what Ann. I'll try to get word to him that you're here. I think I can do that. Oh thank you Marshall but well he's not expecting me. Maybe I just better wait it. It might upset him otherwise. Well sure why don't you do that you got a place to stay? No I haven't. Well there's an extra room over where I live. Is that? I work at the long branch Ann. It's a saloon on front street. Oh. Rooms aren't too close. Quiet there nobody will bother you. Thank you Kitty. Well come on then. We'll find somebody to carry your things over. I think Matt and Chester are going to be busy. Uh yeah here we are. Goodbye Miss Cabot. Goodbye Ann. Goodbye. I'll talk to you later Matt. Okay. It's not very far. We walked from one end of the town of the other and it's about five minutes. Oh my goodness Mr. Dylan Jack show where. How let's go find him Chester.

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7:06How he doesn't care much how he lives, Doc. Well, at least he's got water, honey. What would the whole arcane just river run and ripest his door? What would Schoenmer use water for it, yes, him? Oh, do wash, maybe. Wash. No, the door's open. A shomer. Hey, shomer. It's Marshall Dylan. What are you doing here, Marshall? Yeah. All right, let's go inside. I'm going to get some water. I'm going to get some water. I'm going to get some water. I'm going to get some water. I'm going to get some water. All right, let's go inside. Doc, I better get up. You don't have to get up. Just sit back on the bed. Maybe. How are you feeling, Schoenmer? I got the shakes, Doc. But, I don't know, I will fix that.

8:08Well, what are you doing here? I don't understand. Don't worry about it, Schoenmer. We'll explain it to you when your head's clear. What do we do first, Doc? Take this jug of corn outside and smash it. Oh, here you are, Chester. What are you doing? Never mind. It ain't very cool. You can't do that. That's my liquor. I'm going to get a pot of coffee going, Matt. While I'm doing that, you and Chester take him down to the river. I'm the river. They're going to throw you in and let you soak a while. I'll show them it all. I'll draw. Don't worry, Schoenmer. We'll put a rope on you. All right, come on. Let's get it done. Music Wee! Music Music Music Have some more coffee, Schoenmer? I've been drinking coffee all day long.

9:10Doc, I must have had a barrel of it. It's whiskey that comes from barrels, Schoenmer. Thank you, coffee. I'm floating. I've shown you a pretty sober now. So what are you going to do? I can't face them, Marshal. I'd give anything to see her, but I can't do it. I'm no good for her the way I am now. What happened to you, Schoenmer? What went wrong? The land. The land went wrong. I went wrong on it. I don't know. Anyway, it beat me, Doc. I was going to start a homestead and send for Anne, but I couldn't make it I had to give up. I haven't quit writing to her about a year ago.

10:10You're not the first man in this country broke. It's more than that, Marshal. Most men who quit find something else to do, but with me, I'm not going to do anything. With me, it's like I lost everything. I couldn't face people anymore. Then that night I got into a fight at the Long Branch. You heard about that. I heard. I ran away. Couldn't stand up to it. I guess I'm a coward. Everybody says I am. Every man's been a coward at one time or another, Schoenmer. But it doesn't have to last. It's lasted with me. How could I face Anne knowing I'm a failure and a coward to bully? Well, you can prove you're not a coward just by going to Seer. Try it. Women have a way of understanding these things. Well, I... I don't know, Doc.

11:11All right, Schoenmer. We'll tell her you're in the horse straight in business. That's why you're out of town. But you'll have to tell her the truth. If you're Seer. I'm only half a man. I'll tell you something. You think on it. But don't take too long. Hey, Kitty. Hey, Kitty. Hello, ma'am. Anne and I have been looking at town over such as it is. Oh, what do you think of Doc, Anne? Well, at least it's not as wild as I expected. I keep telling her the real trouble makers don't even get up till sundown. The letters scare you.

12:12I don't worry about Anne. She doesn't scare easy. Marshall, you haven't heard anything about Jack when he'll be back. Well, uh, Jack Schoenmer's a busy man, Anne. He is up north somewhere, like I said. He trades horses, you know? No, I didn't. I hear me. You'll probably be back in a whole day or so. I can wait. I'm used to waiting. You haven't been long, Anne. No. Oh, Kitty, look. How those the kind of bonnets you were telling me about in the window over there? Those are the ones. Mr. Jonas doesn't have them marked up too high. Listen, price tags on them. Excuse me. Where is Schoenmer? We soberly my peas doing some thickin' mouth. Sitting in that shock of his? Yeah. Kitty, they're all a dollar and a half. Is that too high? No, that's fair. We'll go in a Taiwan onion in a minute. Oh, good. I wish Schoenmer'd hurry up and mat. I hate playing this kind of game with a girl like that.

13:14Yeah, I know. Hey, I ain't seen you and Dodd for. No, you haven't. Mat. My name's Hank Root. But you'll stay here, Kitty. I'm not accustomed to meeting men this way, so. Oh, not don't get like that. Brought? I ain't doing nothing, Marshal. I'm only talking to lady. You leave the ladies alone, Grot. All of them. And if I have any more trouble with you, I'm gonna run you out of Dodge for good. Now get moving. You want them all for yourself, huh? We're an inkin' of be that way. You'll see. Thank you, Marshal. I'm afraid they're not all gentlemen out here. Why are you gonna get around to shootin' him, Mat? If I'm gonna stay out here, I guess I'll have to learn to handle men like that. You won't run into anybody worse than Hank Grot.

14:14No, and if he bothers you again, and you let me know right away. I certainly will, Marshal. How could it? Now you two go by your bonnet, sir. Goodbye, Marshal. Goodbye, Mat. Goodbye. Cracked lids, wobbly dog on legs, rusty chimney. Otherwise, it's working something wonderful. You know something, Mr. Dillon? Oh, I trust it. Next year, we're just gonna have to find another stove. This is about war out. We can't afford anyone, Chester. Well, what about one of them, Hayburn and Gercheepe? It takes two men and a boy to keep a Hayburn and a stove going, you know?

15:14I don't know, but it... Well, Miss Kitty. Hello, Chester. Math. What's the matter, Kitty? I can't find Anne. What? We had dinner at Del Monaco's tonight, and then I had to go to work. Anne was going back to a room to do some sewing and things, but she's in there. I don't know where she is. Well, how do you know if you've been there? I broke a heel off my shoe and I went over to get a different pair. I stopped by her room, and she's not there. That isn't like her math. Well, you go back to work, Kitty. We'll look for her. Come on, Chester. You better find her. Yeah, we'll find her. Let me know, Math. Will you? Sure, of course I will, Kitty. Where will we go to look, Mr. Dillon? I will go to the house first, Chester. That's why she was headed. Kitty's off, what's that, Anne? Yeah. Kitty takes a liking to somebody. She's kind of a tiger about him. I guess that sure is true. Well, I hope nothing's happened, Anne. Maybe she only went for a walk or something.

16:14Yeah, maybe. But a woman shouldn't go for a walk at night, along with her fidgety. Now, might get lost or something. Yeah. How to stay indoors at night, unless she's with somebody. That's right, Chester. She's too dangerous in a place like Doug. You don't ever know what might happen to you. No. Hold up, I'm gonna Chester. Why don't you see nothing? I'm gonna ground over there at the stuff of that patch of moonlight. Oh, my goodness. You get to end, Cabot. She's been hurt or something, yeah. Anne. Hey, Anne. Yeah, she's unconscious, Chester. What happened to her? I don't know. I'm gonna carry her up to Doug's. You go tell Kitty, huh? Yes, you.

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18:28It's the best. The best. And was still unconscious when I got her up to ducks. And she stayed that way. He examined her, but he couldn't find anything wrong. There wasn't a scratch on her. Her hair was must up some, but we figured that happened when she fell. Ketian Doc spent the night watching her and waiting. But at noon the next day, and was still unconscious. And there didn't seem to be a thing anybody could do about it. Just her and I stayed out of the way and did our waiting downstairs in the office.

19:29I've heard tell of people going to sleep and staying out there practically forever. Mr. Don't you think that's what she's got? Whoever heard us sleep and sickness are on here at Shuster. Well, maybe she caught it back. He's doing rotted with her. I don't know about back east. Marshall? Well, what do you know? I'll come on in. It's no use, Marshall. What? I came to tell you I can't do it. Oh. I'm gonna go away. Maybe you can tell her I got killed or something. No, I haven't been drinking. Not a drop since you and Doc and Chester came down there. Shoma, there's something. Pat, I wanted to tell you the day. Yeah, what is it, Doc?

20:30Well, Jack Shoma. Hello, Doc. It's a good thing you're here, Shoma. Well, he doesn't know about her yet, Doc. Oh. No, why? We found Anne lying unconscious on the street last night and she's been that way ever since. She came to her a few minutes ago, man. Oh. She's a relief. Yes, it seems Hank Groot stopped her and tried to talk to her. She slapped him, made him so mad he hit her. He must've done it with the flat of his hand. But it gave her a concussion. He's a mighty powerful man. Hank Groot hit Anne. I'll go get him, Doc. Wait a minute, and I'll go with him, Mr. Lillian. I just want to lock the door out back here, Doc. All right. I saw Groot going into the Texas Trail next door. Oh, good. I'm going back to Anne. She's a bad shit. Yeah, Doc. Mr. Duh, can you give me a hand out here? Yeah, I'm coming, Justin.

21:31Cut it door and warp. Mr. Duh, you have to shove onto it so I can get it locked. Okay. Here. There it is. Thank God. You know, we're going to have to build a new door one of these days. That one sure ain't much. Hey, where'd Schoemer go? No, I don't know. Mr. Duh, my gun's gone. What? My six gun. It was on the cot here just a minute ago. Are you sure? Of course I'm sure. Schoemer must have taken it. Him? What for? To go after Hank Groot with. Come on. You see, Mr. Duh. Well, it's a sentient doc that can take your gun. Oh, no, of course not. But the idea, Schoemer going after Hank Groot. He saw him going to the Texas Trail here. And this is the last place I'd look for Schoemer. Oh, maybe.

22:33There he is. He's talking to Groot over there at the bar. They're gunning your belt. Don't scare me, Schoemer. You're a coward. Everybody knows it. Maybe I'd been a coward long enough. Wait a minute, Chuck. I'm not carrying a gun. It proves you're a coward, Schoemer. I'll get rid of the gun. I'll slide it down the bar. Oh, good. There. Now will you fight? You will fool me to do that. I'll kill you now. I'll kill you with my bare hands. Come on, I'm not afraid. All right, hold it. Now you stay out of this, Marshall. It's my fight. Not anymore, Schoemer. Groot's under arrest. He's my prisoner. What are you talking about? Are you coming, Groot? Yeah. I'm coming. Hey, hey, hey, hey. My goodness, Mr. Dillon. You ruined your six-gun using it that way.

23:34Hair, tag it, Chester. When Groot comes so bringing it to jail, huh? We'll be up to docs. I think Schoemer's ready to talk to Ann now. You wait here, Schoemer. Huh?

24:35What a man. Schoemer? Where's Ann, Doc? She's in the back room there. I've got to see. Wait a minute. What? You're too late. Too late. And I had a couple of minutes gone. No, she asked about you. She won't be seated. I think she knew something was wrong. We didn't fool her. They should have come here first. They're going after Groot, maybe. Might have helped. I didn't prove anything to her. What do you mean? I wanted Groot to kill me, Marshall. Don't you understand?

25:36That way I never have to tell Ann the truth about me. It's her I couldn't face. Where are you going, Schoemer? Where do you think, Doc? You're going to get a drink. Well, man. We tried, Doc. It just wasn't there. And now our star, William Conrad. Thank you, George. Mild and flutty quick on the draw. That's Ellen M. for you. And the pure white miracle tip on the business end of every Ellen M. Filders out everything but the taste of the world's finest.

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