 Gun smoke brought to you by L&M, the cigarette you want in the pack you want, familiar sanding pack and new push-proof box. Live modern, smoke modern, change to L&M. Around God City and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers on the spoilers and that's with a US Marshall and the smell of gun smoke. Starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved west with young America and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm Matt Mann, Matt Dillon, the United States Marshall, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chance they job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Just a listen to that miserable old coyote, Mr. Dillon. Did you hear him? Yes, I heard him, Chuck. Would you stop him from going back? No, there's no reason to. It's late. It's too quiet for anything to be going on. Well, what I was thinking, I sure could do with some beer to go to bed on if anybody was buying. All right. Come on. The place does sound kind of like a morgue tonight, don't it? I would want to, you know, the next month when the trail herds start rolling in, you'll be lucky to get your foot in the sun. Been waiting for you, Marshall. Get your hands up. Yeah, sure, Red. I won't argue with a shotgun. That's what we figured. Take his gun, Red. Yeah. You, you don't mind? Do you, Marshall? I'll go ahead and do what Hacke says. He's the one who gives the orders the way I hear it. You shut up, Marshall. Neither one of us gives orders. Oh. I don't know. Your boys are in this part of the country. That's far enough, right there. Unless you want to see this little lady here get her pretty looks all spoiled. Matt, I've tried to think of some way to get bored to you. That's all right, Kitty. Let's take it easy. Yeah, that's the idea, Marshall. You too. Just take it easy. Everything will be all right. You got what you came after, Hacke, or are you still trying to get it? We've got it. We've been through all the boys' pockets, along with the safe and the cash box. Just fixing to leave when you stumbled in. We didn't have a chance, Matt. They walked in with a shotgun and said, Kitty, do the first one to go. Forget it, Doug. These boys, Tom and Slater, wanted in a half a dozen states for bank robbery, stage hold up murder. You were so quick to recognize us, Marshall. We ain't been around here before. No, but your pictures have them. You must have slipped into dodge pretty quiet, huh? That's right, Marshall. I'm going to slip out the same way. I suppose you were eyeing up over there with the rest of the target. Well, kind of expected more out of you, Marshall, than what I heard about you. Is that so? Meditation's mighty easy to come by sometimes. All right, all of you, we're riding out of here now. We don't aim to get followed. Red, take her on, man. Where? Where you going? Figuring you, boys, it won't be so likely to try nothing if you go along with us away. Matt? Doug, as they tell you, Kitty, you'll be all right. Anybody pokes his head out this door in the next few minutes gets it shot off. One thing will happen to the lady. You keep the boys in line, Marshall. You've got a nice little town here. It's been a pleasure to visit it. Let's go, Rick. What are you doing? What are we going to do, Mr. Dillman? Nothing, Justin. Oh, damn it, Matt. Let's get a posse going. Get some organized here. They took $14 off of me. He's just going to stand there. Hold it, Doc. And the rest of you, shut up. Step it on now. Take it easy and stay away from that door. Matt, we can't just let them ride out. Doc, they got Kitty with them and their killers. One move from us and they'll do exactly what they said they'd do to her. Well, maybe they will, anyway. We'll give her the best chance we're able. That's all we can do. None of that. I just can't figure it, Mr. Dillman. Well, we've spent from midnight last night until noon today checking every trail out of Dodge. To deal in the scouts that worked their river bottom for 10 miles each way. Yes, sir. I know. Old countryside's on the lookout for them. Two men and a woman. They can't just disappear. Well, they sure done. They can't just disappear. Well, maybe they will, anyway. We'll give her the best chance we're able. That's all we can do. None of that. I just can't figure it, Mr. Dillman. Well, we've spent from midnight last night until noon today checking every trail out of Dodge. To deal in the scouts that worked their river bottom for 10 miles each way. Yes, sir. I know. Old countryside's on the lookout for them. Two men and a woman. They can't just disappear. Well, they sure done. It's so far. Yeah, they sure done. It's so far. Come on, Chester. Let's walk up the street and get something to eat, huh? All right. First time in all my recollection, I ain't had no appetite to speak to her. Well, it won't help Kitty any to starve yourself. I got kindly a bad feeling they ain't nothing going to help her, Mr. Dillman. Why not? I figure they've had time now to get far enough away. They won't need her no longer. Why don't you shut up? Chester, I'm sorry I didn't mean to talk to you like that. I guess we both do. Well, good afternoon, man. Chester. Hello, Doc. Uh, you find any trace of them? No, nothing. You, uh, have a bite to eat with us? Well, I just ate by now ago, but I might sit down with you for some pie and some coffee. If Chester can spare a little, I ain't thinking much about food today, Doc. Oh, is that so? Well, Chester, if you ever reach my age, you'll realize come find brimstone, cas, and calamity. The first thing a man better look out for is his stomach. Yes, sir. So, as he starts going off his feet, he starts going downhill. You betcha. And when he starts to get done, I sure hope Kitty's all right. We all hope so, Doc. Hey, that was Kitty. That was down the street there somewhere. Yeah, come on. No wonder there was no trail. They never even left town. They planned a hole up for a night or two and then right out after the search was all over. Miss Kitty must have broke loose for a minute. Matthew! Matthew! Save it, Miles. There's trouble up the street. That's not the street. It's right over there in my store. What? Upstairs in the storage loft. Mr. Beijing, he's right, Mr. Dillon. His paint glass broke out up there. Yeah. Is there another one in the back, Miles? No, it's the same as the one in the front. I reckon it seems all right. Chester, you go cover that back window, huh? Yes, sir. Me, she's still alive. Yeah, so far. Something might be quiet up there, Matthew. Nothing to talk about, I guess. Well, they know they can't get out of there. Now dark and we can't get in. Matt, suppose we set fire to the building? Oh, no, you're not. You're not setting fire to my store. Not that they stay up there for the next year, you're not. They just didn't have Kitty up there with them, and it'd be easy. Yeah, sure. Just wait for them to starve out. Or else burn the place down. Will you stop seeing that, Doc? Well, it's going to be dark before long, Matt. Yeah, I know. Why don't they give up? They know they haven't got a chance. They have as long as they got Kitty, Doc. I don't know, maybe they're finally ready to talk. Hey, Red! Hack it! Careful, careful, man. You're beating you now. Why don't you throw your guns out of that window and come on down? Well, we throw the lady out instead, Marshall. Look, both of you. If anything happens to her, you know what to expect. Aren't you going home, Marshall? They've got crowd of yokels with you. We can hold out a lot longer than you can up there. But maybe not longer than the lady can. Oh, so help me if I get my hands on his head. Hack! Suppose we get together and talk it over, huh? Maybe we can work something out. Get together, how? You aiming to come up here and vent? Unless you want to meet down here on the street. You'd like that, wouldn't you? Well, what about it? Come by yourself without your gun? Yeah, sure. Anything you want. Nothing, I'll wait a second, man. All right, Marshall. Deal yourself in. You gone clean out your mind, man? You know any other way I can get her into that storage lock, Doc? Yeah, but without a gun, what? Match her just to play in the dog-on pool. Maybe. But there's times when being a fool is about the wisest thing a man can do. You're saying this is one of the times? I don't know, Doc. But I sure hope so. Take care of my gun, will you? You ain't really going to do it, are you, mister? Sure. Who's gonna do it? The bull-headed idiot? But them two is killers. Chester, you're supposed to be around there. I got Sam Moon in the takeover. Mister, don't listen to me now. You just can't do it. There's nothing else to do, Chester. Oh, dang it, Matthew. If it'd do any good, I'd say go ahead and burn the place. They're stuck up there in that lock. It isn't worth much, anyhow. What is up there, Miles? Oh, odds and ends mostly. Stuff I don't need to get that often. Do you think that's what's the most is there are 20 sacks of concentrates? What do you mean, concentrates? Old black iron pyrites. I did. I took them in trade from the black hawk mine. Huh? I've been aiming to ship them east of the smelter. They run pretty high in silver. Well, I don't guess red and the hack will be very interested in the sacks of concentrates. Marshall, you lose your nerve. I'll be all right with ya, Hacks. They'll shoot you down for you yet halfway across the street. Why, Chester? That's what they figure. They can do it a lot easier. Mr. Dune, that... Yeah, never mind, Chester. Well, good luck, man. Thanks, Doc. Make a mighty fine target down there, Marshall. I'll make a better one at 10 feet, Hacks, if you can keep your nerve that close. Listen to them ready. Talk real brave, don't we? The stairs is over there to the side, Marshall. I know. It's my town, Hack, remember? You don't run it too good, you know? Sure, if we're one of your boys down there, it gets notion. You worried, right? You never see today. It's like a little lamb in a loading shoe. That shouldn't have done it. They're not going to let you out of here. Take it easy, kitty. I'm sorry, Matt. You all right? You wouldn't have done a fool thing like this if it weren't for me being here. Sure, I would have. Part of my job, kitty. Teaching boys like these a little respect for the world. Marshall, did you come up here to talk to me or this lady here? Why do you say me, Hack? Doesn't red even count? Well, you know what I mean. Yeah, I know. I just wonder how long it's going to take red to learn. What are you talking about? Oh, shut up, Ray. He's just trying to start trouble. Well, no, I wasn't mean. Learn what? You got your orders, didn't you, Red? Hack told you to shut up. I don't take orders from him or nobody else. Red, well, you listen. Don't you see what he's trying to do? What? Trying to make bad feeling between us. Talking a pack of lies. He's trying to start us fighting each other. Yeah. Yeah, sure he is. Sure. You're easy to fool, aren't you, Red? You believe that? All right, that's enough now, Marshall. Just one more word like that'll blow you in a hat. Hack, you haven't got a chance. I thought you'd realize that by now. There's two shotguns against your bare hands, says we got a chance. Yeah, but you can't use those guns up here. Huh? Didn't you even bother to take a look at these sacks here? What are you doing there? Just hooking a spur and one of them and ripping it open. You could have done the same thing, Hack. Well, there's some black dust or some kind. Here, let's toss some up in the air, huh? Don't you recognize it? Don't get there all full of that stuff. Didn't either one of you ever work around a mine? Yeah, I did. Then take a closer look, Red. Don't you know black powder when you see it? Oh, it's blasphemy powder. That's what it is, it's gun powder. No. Now, you better lay those shotguns down easy, boys. You pull a trigger and this whole place will go up in one big blast. You're right, Red. We can't shoot nobody in here. It'll stand a better chance of going to trial. Now, that's why you come up here without a gun. All right. Oh, shoot, my gun. But we're still two against one, Marshall. Come on, Red, jump in. All right, come on, Red. It's even now and I'm going to break your neck. No, no, no, not me. You win, Marshall. All right, then help hack onto his feet. I'll take the shotguns along. All right, get moving, Red. Hey, you're holding that shotgun like you was going to use it. Just in case you change your mind. What? Why didn't you jump and... What's he doing with that gun? He can't use it no more than we could. Oh, not with all that powder. Now, Miles could be wrong. Maybe it is gunpowder. Who? What are you saying? I know it looks like gunpowder, but if it is, Miles got fooled. He bought it for concentrates. Black-eyed pirates. It ain't gunpowder. He fooled us. A liar. What about that? A long man. And cheats for lions. Yeah, I'm a liar, all right? I'll admit it. But it beats being what you were. All right, now get moving. Down those stairs. Go on. You can tell what part of the country a man was from and how he made his living from his family roads. There's three-quarter rigged, Cheyenne, rural, Mexican, California, and McCrellan. The only trouble was, he still couldn't know whether he was out to kill you or not. Gun smoke. Produced and directed by Norman McDonnell, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshall. The story was specially written for gun smoke by Les Crutchfield, with editorial supervision by John Meston. Composed and conducted by Rex Corry. Sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Lawrence Dobbkin, Ben Wright, and John Daner. Harley-Bare is Pester, Howard McNeary's Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. Join us again next week for another story on gun smoke. Through here's the CBS Radio Network.