 Down Dodge 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. Marshal and the smell of guns 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 that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chance-y job, but it makes a man watchful. At a little lonely. Hi, Mitch Dillon. Ah, it's pretty late, Chessie. Well, it won't be like this much longer. The end of the month. It's cold, hurried with our rollin' in, and there won't be no peace round here before fall. You're a hard man to please. Well, I ain't complainin' to Conrad and I to have some life and excitement. How are you, Marshal? You remember me? Yeah, sure, I remember you, Elvin. Now, you've grown some. Sure. I've had two years to do it, eh? Put on any sense, have you? Along with a wig? Enough so I'm still not in jail. I gave you a year, didn't I? Said you'd either be jailed or hung by then. I sure hate to disappoint you, Marshal. Chester, you remember Elvin, don't you? Yes, sir, I do. And I still got no use for him. You men sure ain't very friendly. What are your plans, Elvin? Nothing much. You just got a hankering to see the old hometown? Your ma and Billy are gettin' along fine without you. Why don't you leave them alone? I figured they might need some help, maybe. You didn't figure it when you lived here, and you haven't worried about them for the last two years. Well, Marshal... You shut up and listen to me. Two years ago, after I let you get away with everything but murder just for your ma's sake, I finally ran you out of town and I told you not to come back. Yeah, I remember. All right. You are back. By this time, you don't get any second chances. You make one wrong move and I'm on you, Elvin. A man can change, Marshal. Some can and some can't. I'm just telling you how you stand and dodge. Don't look down at me. What? Marshal. Couple of fellas right now behind the bank there. What? Marshal. That's why you've been so talkative. Now, you're there to look out. Look out. Now, Marshal, look out towards the river. Hey, Gref, come back here. Don't rest. Not yet, Marshal. Now, while I've got a gun in my holster. Don't be a fool. Look out. What are you doing? That's too dark now. We couldn't track into that. Is that you, Matt? Yeah. Over here, Doc. He's been grand. When he was around this part of the country, Allie's come home now, Doc. Don, hot coffee. Oh, thank you. He ain't the reason you're here. Sick, Marshal. He acted real funny all day yesterday. And this morning, he sat it up and took all four dawns. I heard him right out of the yard first. I know, Douglas. I see. Uh-oh. Where he went? What he's up to? He acted mighty strange like last night. He wouldn't look me in the eye. That ain't like him, Marshal. Really ain't like Elvin. Pray, Lord, he don't never get like him. Elvin came back yesterday, Miss Greb. What? He was around town last night. And really seen him. That's why he was acting the way he was. Yeah, maybe. I hoped he'd never come back. Even if he is my own son. He'll work on Billy now. He'll get him started down the same road he's on. Miss Greb, Elvin's dead. Dead? He and two other men broke into the cattleman's bank last night. Well, rest in he. Dead. I think I better sit down. Here, here, ma'am. Sit down. Okay. Go up the pox. I took care of him that and day for a whole week. I didn't think in any hour we was going to lose him. Might have been better if we had. I'm sorry, Miss Greb. I knowed for three, four years it was going to end this way, Marshal. Well, I wish it had been some way to avoid it. What did I do wrong, Marshal, back along the years? Some place that made him turn bad? A person never knows, I guess, ma'am. Hey, best do the best they can. But I got to know. I got Billy to think of. Do you think he knew, Miss Greb, about Elvin being killed? Not when he left this morning. He couldn't have. He was home all night. Nobody's been here. He was probably meeting the three of them somewhere. Hideout, maybe. Yeah, I reckon. There's a hand missing of some other villains. What can I do, Marshal? Billy just can't go bad. Police Elvin won't be a wrong influence on him. Not now, anyway. You really think that, Marshal? I ain't so sure. I'll step out from behind a building and try to shoot you in the back. I don't have much reason to do that. You killed Elvin, Greb. He was in with him. Avenged the reason. Yeah, it is sometimes. I just hope maybe they left the country. I doubt if they have, Kitty. I think they'll hold up somewhere. See how he can beat the calm about it. Not till I find Billy, Greb. If you find him, you'll find him all. I hope so. But you know he's joined up with him. Yeah, he'll be right. What are you doing? I've seen him on his feet. Don't give the truer look like him. And now he's headin' righty. Matt, behind justice. What? Evenin', Billy? He's not the killer. Your brother chose Billy. I didn't. You know what he was up against. Now, you better put that gun away. Sure, I will. After I've gifted it in you. Oh, if the kid more chances, and I would have manned but not enough to get myself killed, now you hand over that gun. Stay back, morsel. Any foolishness? Did the gang give you the gun? Did they send you in to do their dirty work for him? Stop. Don't come no closer. I'm not puttin' up with any more foolishness. Billy, now you give me that gun before I throw you over my knee and take a flout of my hand to you. No. I'll hand that over. No. No. Beckless, Billy. I don't want none. Then maybe you'll change your mind. Get inside, Chester. Go back this night. This morning. I told you I don't want it. All right. Don't believe it. You can stop or go to Waston. You can just eat cold nuts tomorrow morning. I'm all out of here, Marshal. You ain't got nothin' to hold me for. Oh, Judge Benton says it's different. He's gonna set bail this afternoon or tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll pay it. Pay it. You crazy? If you don't, Hater, why are you doing the same thing to her that your brother did? You shut up! I just don't understand. The Elvin was big. He took anything he wanted and didn't ask nobody. He's not big now, Billy. No bigger than the rest of him out there on Boothill. You're gonna pay for that, Marshal. If they don't get your eye with them. If they? You'd like to know, wouldn't you? They're a pair of sneak and thievein' rats the same as Elvin was. You don't owe them anything. I think it maybe you'd want to know about his mom. I'd heard of Yeeming Cav, she's got out there. Seems that she was trying to woo him by herself and he knocked it down and trampled it. But she hurt bad. She'd be laid up in bed a week or so. She looks worse off than she is where you'd think the Indians had caught her maybe and beat her to a pulp. And my trouble never comes single once it's done. Wait a minute, Doc. Wait a minute. Huh? Wait a minute. That might work. If she'll go along with it. What's he done, Marshal? You can't do it, Marshal. His partners, friends, that's who you're protecting. Now, Marshal. They're a sneak and coward. Just as low and mean and worthless as Elvin had got to be. He's dead, Marshal. You've got no call to talk about him like that. Dead, yes. Better off dead. I'm his own Marshal, Sam. You ought to have been here this morning, Billy. Shake hands with your friends. Maybe you could have helped him. What you talking about? Look at me. How do you think this happened? They wouldn't do that. That's your friends. Yours and Elvin. All I've seen was a handkerchief over their faces. They said Elvin had told them I was keeping money for them. Money they'd stole somewhere. No, they didn't. They couldn't drag me out in the yard, Billy. Here's their boots. A chunk of stovewood. I'll kill them. So help me, I'll kill them both. Well, I do. They're the same kind of Elvin. They were his friends. Well, they ain't my friends. Marshal. Their names is Chuck Steller and Curly Talman. They're at that old abandoned sod house west of Branch Fort Crossin, just above the ridge. Yeah, I know where it is, Billy. All right, take the handcuffs off, Chester. Yes, sir. I'm sorry, Marshal. I acted pretty crazy. Well, I'll do it once in a while, Billy. Elvin must have been the same kind of he wouldn't have run with him. I guess he wasn't so big at all. No, Billy, not very big, I'm afraid. Billy, would you mind fixing me a cup of tea? Oh, sure, ma'am. Right away. You just lay back there and rest. You're going to be well in no time. I lied to him, Marshal. It was a bright lie, though, wasn't it? Yes, ma'am. About as quiet as they come this grip. I guess we'd better go bring them in. Georgia, hello. That's Kitty.