 Gun Smoke brought to you by L and N Filters. This is it. L and M is best. Spans out from all the rest. Rounds out city and in the territory on west. There's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers. And that's with a U.S. martial and the smell of Gun Smoke. Gun Smoke starring William Conrad. That's Rod's story of the violence that moves west with young Americans. And the story of a man who moves with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. 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. When it's dark I expect my wall may be something. No, but there's somebody up the street that won't shift. Want me? Yeah, Peter said he came in a barbershop and asked where the Marshal's office was. He mentioned your name. Oh, and you didn't see him, huh? I didn't talk to him, but I saw him getting back on his horse. He hit it for the okay statement. I wonder who he is. I saw him stranger. I never saw him before. What do you look like? He's built kind of like a stork. All legs. Got reddish hair with a white streak running right down the middle. Oh, he's built like a stork. It looks like a stork. It's like a stork. He's a big hook. Yeah, Mr. Billings. You sure about that white streak in his hair? He took his hat off and put a horse fly. I couldn't miss it. Oh, my goodness. What's wrong? It's him. He couldn't do nobody else. Now you look scared, Chester, is this man after you? Don't tell him why I'm not, Mr. Billings. Tell him I went to Brown in the summer to knock out and get me stuck together and then I'll hide in your office until it gets dark. a minute. If you're in trouble, I'll help you. You can't help me. I'll go pull up out on the ferry somewhere if you need. I gotta get out of here. Where, what do you live in? Well, you know, he must be in trouble, man. I never saw Chester act that way before. No. Look, Doc, let's go down and wait for him in your office, huh? Maybe we can get some sense out of him there. Doc, I'll take an open door and stuff after that window, Doc. I'm always happy to help out anybody who's on the run. I ain't running, Doc. I'm just hiding out for a spell. Look, Chester, what if this man decides to outweigh it? He's gonna spend the rest of your life wandering around in prairie? He won't wait long, Mr. Dillon. He hates town. Well, then maybe he'll come looking for you out there. Well, that's better than finding me here. Why? Magnus just don't belong in a town amongst civilized people. He's too terrified after. Who is Magnus? Magnus Probsfoot, Mr. Dillon. Magnus Probsfoot? My baby brother, Dog Donning. Where are you walking in the world? Are you running away from your brother? I don't know what he's doing to me. That's why you can't tell what Magnus will do next, Doc. You can't tell, Donning. What do you mean, Chester? Mr. Dillon, when Magnus was 10 years old, he took off from home and went and lived off the land all by himself for two years. He was a rifle and a knife and a horse, and you know something else? I swear he ain't slept in a bed since then. Well, I don't say anything so wrong with that. Well, how would you like to have a little brother that would never come in the house except to feed your own men? And sometimes he wouldn't even show up to do that for months at a time. He claims being around people too much dulls a man's senses. Magnus is crazy, Mr. Dillon. He embarrases me. How long has it been since you've seen Magnus, Chester? Well, I left Waco in 1952 to join the war. I ain't never been back. The last I heard a couple of years ago, you need Magnus. I can find out why I'm at it. Well, he's not gonna shoot you, Chester. He came to visit his big brother. What's wrong with that? Oh, no. Magnus has got something on his mind. He didn't come here just to say hello, not Magnus. He's got something going. Probably wants me to go live with the Indians or something full of things like that. I remember one time he tried to get me to go up into the Rocky Mountains with him during the winter. He said if we got cold, we could sleep in caves with bears. Well, now that sounds like ferns. Now, why didn't you go? Oh, all right. You can laugh all you want, you duck. It ain't your brother. No, no, no, no. I'm sorry, Chester. But running away won't do any good. That's right, Chester. Magnus doesn't sound like the kind of a man who'll give up finding you just because you want anywhere around. Now, you might as well stay and see what he wants, huh? You'll take it over for a while. You'll see that we're right. He'll be in the stable here with his horse. He always did like horses better than people. I have the doors open. Let's take a look. I don't see nobody, Mr. Yellow. Let's go, huh? Oh, wait a minute, Chester. Call her for it. Oh, no. Go ahead. He might be in the back there, or it's dark. Well... Go ahead. Magnus. Magnus. See, he ain't doing it. Now, wait a minute. Yeah. You have got floppy fat. Oh, Magnus. Soft-living done it. Magnus, what are you doing in Dodd City? I have come looking for you. Why? Why ain't you in Texas where you belong? How come you don't talk like a Texan or more, Chester? I've been waiting long, but I don't answer my question. What are you doing here? I have come to help you. To help me? Well, I always could take care of myself better than you, Chester. And when I ran into Maul last summer and she told me about this, I got worried. I figured it's how you might leave me. Leave you for what? Sir, help you run? Thank you. Help you be Marshall? What? Help me be Maul. I ain't no Marshall. I forgot. Magnus, this is Marshall Dillon. How do you do, Magnus? But I thought you were the Marshall, Chester. Of course, I'm not. What day do you got ideas? Maul? She said you wrote her. I ain't wrote Maul for over a year. And when I did, I told her I worked for a Marshall. I didn't say I was one. The young man never said no to that thing. Well, Maul is getting kinder. Oh, she makes her things up some these days. She sure does. Anyways, I'm proud to know you, Marshall Dillon. Tell me, is Chester a good help to you? Yes, yes, he is. He's a fine help, man. Good. Well, I come all this way. I reckon I'll stay. I do the work for you, too. Magnus, you can't just walk up to somebody and say, I'm going to work for you. Why not? It ain't right. Nobody asked you. Nobody told me not to. That's why you ain't no more civilized than you were 10 years ago. Oh, I learned a lot in the Army. Chester saw a lot of places, a lot of people. How long since you slept in there? Well, not since I first went off from home, all right? How long since you lived in town? You know, I don't like towns. I generally ride around them. How long since you talked to a woman? Besides mom, I mean... Now, Chester, you know... How long since you had a drink? I don't never drink. You're gamble? Feller in the Army taught me, but I never used it. You see, Mr. Dillon, he ain't civilized. Now, wait a minute, Chester. You're not being quite fair. A man doesn't have to do all those things to be civilized. I just finally showed him how crazy it is for him to say he wants to stay here and all, Mr. Dillon. You know, I might like this, but I never give it a first chance. Living like you might be exciting. Yeah, maybe I've been missing something. You would hate it, man. I'm telling you for your own good. I know you better than you do. You're half-wild. That's what you are. You couldn't stand living the way I do. I'd never try this, Chester. Well, go talk somewhere else. You just get me in trouble here. You always did. I promise I will not get you in no trouble. Besides, Marshal Dillon don't need no help. You can't stay here without a job. Well, I got some money. Let go from top and life's worth it. You still eager to see these magnets? Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute, you're civilized. Look, I got an idea. Now, maybe Chester's right, Magnus. Maybe you wouldn't like living in the town. Of course he wouldn't. He'd be miserable, as like Magnus says. Chester, he never gave it a chance. Now, why don't you let him find out for himself? If he gets in trouble, I'll be in trouble. Magnus don't know how to live around people, Mr. Dillon. You are live with people in the army. That's different. Well, I'm staying anyway, Chester. There's no use to argue. Give him a chance, Chester. Show him dodge. Show him what it's like. And let him make up his own mind about it. All right, he won't leave anyway. But you're going to do what I tell you, Magnus. You're going to live exactly the way I do. That's the deal. I'll do it, Chester. All right. And we'll start by getting our room at the dog house. Oh, no. I'll sleep much better in the stable here with my horse, Chester. Now, you see what I mean, Mr. Dillon? Magnus, you follow me. We're going to sleep in a bed tonight if it kills you. Magnus Marshall. What did you get to last night, Magnus? I didn't say you were around anywhere. It gets dark. I generally go to sleep, Marshall. Yeah, sure. Well, how did you like the dog house? Tell the truth now, Magnus. It is too hot. Not enough fire. And you know, the bed was too soft. But I slept good. I bet you were in that bed more than five minutes, Magnus. You slept on the floor. I know you did. You cheated. I'll try it again tonight, Chester. You're going to try more on that tonight. You need me for anything, Mr. Dillon? I have nothing that I know of, Chester. Then I think I'll spend the afternoon at the long branch playing cards. Damn, Magnus. Oh, not Chester. You don't want to do that. That's evil and wicked. Besides, it's wrong. Are you going to live like me, or are you ready to give up? I've got a gamble to earn. Can I just set the watch? Magnus, I'm going to get you left all over. You're going to gamble. I'll go feed him my horse now. Okay, but you wait at the stable for me. I'll pick you up there. I'll wait. You're being kind of rough on him, aren't you? Don't you think you should take it a little slower? If I give him an affirm, he might fool himself into thinking he likes town life, Mr. Dillon. And you don't think Magnus ever really would, huh? A man like him never changes. Magnus can live off the country like an animal, but he just don't know how to take care of himself around people. Well, I guess you know what you're doing, Chester. But I was just thinking, if it doesn't work and he wants to stay, I think with his experience and everything, he might be a great help to me. What? Oh, no, Mr. Dillon, don't tell him that. Please don't. Anyhow, not that I've had a chance to show him what life's like around here. Please. Well, okay, Chester, I won't. You work on him first and see what happens. I'll wait. I think I can get to that new dealer that got here. All right, you make up. You know how it is with me, Mr. Dillon. I never do in Holox. I mean, you're lost. But I'll get it back next payday, maybe. Next payday? He really did pay, didn't he? Chester? He did. Oh, what about Magnus? Here he comes after him. Marshall? Well, that's quite a handful of bills he got there, Magnus. Well, it's all he has, but I am just as glad. I was getting mighty weary sitting in one place all afternoon. You mean you broke the dealer? He claims I did. Anyway, he quit buying. Well, for a man that doesn't gamble, you seem to be a pretty fair blackjack player, Magnus. All I know is what that seller taught me in the army. Well, he must have been a good teacher. He is a gambler, Marshall. A crooked gambler to boot. What? That's why he taught me, Chester, to show me what happens when you gamble. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Magnus. You mean the dealer you were playing against today was crooked? Playing most of them, Marshall. That's what this seller told me. Magnus, I just figured something. You couldn't be one unless you were playing crooked, too. Of course I was playing crooked. That's the only way I know how. Well, I'm... Magnus, suppose you'd have found out that he'd been a cheatin'. He's not worried good. Magnus, the good this seller taught me in the army. Oh, man. Well, what are you going to show him now, Chester? I don't know. Hello, Kitty. Are you just coming? Why? I heard Chester's good brother was here on the meeting. Well, you can show it and see if that's fine. I mean, you aren't meeting? I sure do. Magnus, excuse me. Are you a woman, Magnus? How do you do, Magnus? Well... That's a married woman, Magnus. I'm still a miss. Oh, I don't get around women, Mike. Well, it's not too late to start. You have something against us. I'm generally off in the country somewhere alone. So you don't see many women, is there? I don't see none at all. What do you do, Magnus? You trap? Mostly. Sometimes I just travel around looking. Well, Chester? I've been all over, Miss Kitty. I've been most everywhere. I'll bet you've never been to Canada. Right. One of our friends of mine... You never told me you were from Canada, Magnus. You never asked me. Do you like Canada, Miss Kitty? I never got that far north, Magnus. Is it pretty? It's awful big. It's pretty cute. It's cool sometimes when trees crack. Yeah, sounds like rifle shots. You ought to hear that. It's kind of exciting. Oh, but it is spooky, too. Most of the time it is. You get used to it. But that awful cold, Magnus. I don't think I'd ever get used to that. It's no worse than a blazer doing the prairies. And besides, you get more shelter in them big trees up there. In the snow, it's real deep. That's the best shelter. It's awful warm when you get way down deep in the snow there. Like, one time, when I was coming back from my track line, I was like, all right, then we're off, Magnus. It's supper time. You've got to go eat. Oh, that's me. Well, he's finished his storage. Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Kitty. Well, we've got to eat sometimes. Oh, Miss Kitty, ma'am. Oh, yes, yes. No, I haven't. I'd be right proud to buy you a date. Supper? After Marshall Dillon will be there. Well, I'd love to come, Magnus. Thank you. Oh, my goodness. My name is Moon Sam. No, wait a minute, Kitty. Let me buy a drink all the way around before we go. Huh? Well, I never drank. Well, I kind of think maybe Chester will need one before the night starts. You should have had supper with us tonight. Ah, we said. No, not just to eat. To hear Magnus. He has Kitty along, and he never stopped talking to her once. I thought he was woman-ish. Yeah, well, so did Chester. I'm sorry, Miss. Where is he now? I don't know. Chester took him off somewhere. Oh, Chester's going to get into trouble. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, what's this coming here? It's a man carrying somebody. It's Magnus, man. Yeah. Why, that's Chester he's got. Oh, Magnus is just that hurt? He ain't hurt, Marshall. He didn't end up there. What's the matter with him, Magnus? Oh, he, uh, he got sleepy. What? Well, Marshall, I had to suffer. Chester said he's going to have to do some drinking. He said we was going to have three, four drinks and every saloon in town. I didn't want to do it, but, well, you know how he's been talking. Yeah, yeah, I know. How parted you get, Magnus? Well, I made all of them. But like I said, Chester, he got sleepy the last few years. I carried him along so he wouldn't be disappointed about it tomorrow. You carried him along like that? This is the only way I could, Marshall. Follow me, Magnus, and you'll put him to bed. What? He's the only man down that way, Marshall. That's his J. Well, we'll lock him in the cell and put him on the floor, Magnus. He might roll out of bed and get hurt, otherwise. Besides, I always lock up men that get that sleepy. Mr. Marshall? Oh, he's out back watching up. I turned him loose a while ago. Well, how's he feeling? Well, he says he feels fine. He says he can't imagine why he's faded that way. Never done it before, he says. It's soft living, like I told him. Oh, Magnus. I come by to see if you'd like to get some coffee, Chester. Well, I could use some. You look pretty good this morning, Magnus. I treated you and Chester. I slept on the floor last night. Oh, that's why. It's no use, Chester. I've been thinking. I just ain't sitting for town life. I'm going to leave. What? I'm going to leave. I'm better off out there in the open. Well, wait, Magnus. You can't leave. Well, you told me so yourself. Well, I didn't know, then. I didn't know about you. Magnus, you're better off any time than I am. Thanks, Chester. But I know where I belong. Now, you can't leave now. Can you, Mr. Dillon? Well, I was up to him, Chester. But if he wants to stay, I'll give him a job at some time. We could use him. There. You see, Magnus? No. No, I tried it. I got to try everything once. But it just ain't for me. Well, why not? You get along fine here. What's wrong with it? Well, it's all right for you, Chester. But for me, it just ain't exciting enough. Not exciting enough? Well, what's exciting about living on the ground like an animal? You'd have to try that to find out, Chester. You want to come with me now? No, of course I don't. I couldn't stand it. Well, I guess we're just different, Magnus. Now, there's nothing wrong with being different, Chester. I guess you're both wearing that right now. Yes, I sure have. But, Magnus, you don't have to leave today. You can stay till after New Year's. You got to. Why? Because I wanted to. You're my little brother. Well, Magnus, I'm kindly proud of you. Okay, Chester, but I'm getting out of that blasted hotel. I want to move back in with my horse. All right, that's fine. Magnus, of course. Look, I'll come help you get your stuff. You co-dead over together. West End, Guns Most.