Gun smoke brought to you by L and M filters. This is it. L and M is best. Stands out from all the rest. Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with the US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Gun smoke starring William Conrad, the French scribe 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 chancey job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. Miss Bell? Yes? I'm Jim Buck. I'm driving the stage from here on into Dodge. Oh, what happened to the other driver? I always spell him here. He told me to look out for you. Oh, that's kind of him and kind of you too. You're awfully young to be traveling alone. I'm 17. Well, now I take it back. Are we about ready to leave? As soon as I get the other passenger away from that bar over there. They told me I'd be alone on the rest of the trip. Now, Miss, I don't know this fella. Says his name's Bassett. But if he's drunk, I promise you he ain't riding. How do you expect anybody to ride sober if you're driving, Jim? Marshal Dillon, what are you doing in Pawnee? Oh, I had some business up this way, but I'd sure like to get back to Dodge. You got any room? Sure have. Oh, this here's Marshal Dillon, Miss Bell. How do you do, Marshal? Miss Bell? It's Linda. All right, Linda. When are you leaving, Jim? Soon as I round up that Bassett fella. Well, get him, whoever he is. And drive easy, will you, Jim? I wore out a horse getting this far and I sure need some sleep. I'm glad you're riding with us, Marshal. I don't like the looks of that fella, Bassett. But you two climb in now. We'll pull out of here in five minutes. Nice day. The lawman's asleep. It's you I'm talking to, you see. It's a nice day, ain't it? Yes. That's better. As long as we're riding the Dodge together, we'd better get acquainted. My name's Joe Bassett. How do you do? There's no cause to be bashful, Miss D. I ain't gonna hurt you. You staying in Dodge? Yes. Well, now that's just fine. Please, I'm rather tired. Oh, you are. You have a dancing girl or something? Ah, you're too young for that, ain't you? Ain't you? Please. Hey. Hey, I know. I got a bottle here. Here, have a drink. No. Say, mister, what do you want? You're making it awful hard for me to sleep. Oh, I am, huh? And I'm pretty tired. Well, that's too bad. Now, it's gonna be a long ride, so why don't you just sit there and look out the window, huh? Because I'd rather look at this pretty little girl here. Now, come on, honey, have a drink. No, I... Hey, Jim. Huh? Jim, pull up, will you? What do you think you're doing? What's your trouble, Marshal? There's no trouble. Your friend Bassett here wants to ride up on the box with you. Huh? He wants somebody to talk to, Jim. Are you crazy? He's waiting for you, Bassett. I'm staying where I am. You're holding us up now you get moving. All right. I will. You're like you broke my arm. You should have left your gun where it was. All right, now get outside. Hurry it up. I'm going. But you're gonna wish you'd never seen me. I'm wishing that already. Give me a hand, driver. All right. I'm sorry for the delay, Linda. It was worth it though. Maybe now we can both get a little sleep, huh? Well, I can certainly use some. What'd you say? I said I can certainly use some. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, I feel as though I hadn't slept since I left St. Louis. Oh, you've come a long way, huh? Oh, it'll be worth it once I reach Dodge. How's that so? I'm meeting my fiancee there, Marshal. Oh, well, maybe I know him. Oh, he hasn't been there long. His name's Lou Paxson. Lou Paxson. Yeah, well, what does he do? Well, I don't really know. I met him in St. Louis. It was only for a few days. Uh-huh. I see. Marshal. What? If you promise to keep it a secret, I'll tell you something. What? I promise. Okay, I promise. I ran away from home. My parents think I'm too young to get married. Oh? Well, how old are you, Linda? Seventeen. Do you think that's too young? Well, I don't know, Linda. I guess that depends on what you're like and what this fellow Paxson's like. Oh, he's a wonderful man. He's so strong and so handsome. Uh-huh. You'll see when you meet him. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure. Marshal. Yeah. Are there a lot of men in Dodge like that man, Bassett? Oh, why do you ask, Linda? Well, he frightens me. He's not going to forget what you did to him just now. Oh, well, you let me worry about Bassett, huh? I don't like him. Well, I don't like him either, but why don't we forget about him and try to get a little sleep, huh? This is it. L&M filters. It stands out from all the rest. Miracle tip. Much more flavor. L&M's got everything. It's the best. Yes, L&M's got everything. Superior filtration, superior taste. 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Lou, it was that man right over there. He was trying to make me drink with him and everything. Which man? He's coming this way. Him. Marshall? Where? His name's Bassett, Lou. He was annoying me. Don't you worry about him, Linda. Ah, so this is who the little girl was coming to see. She's my fiancée. Well, I'll be darned. I mean, she didn't say she was coming here to get married. Well, it's true. Sure. What do you want, Bassett? You got my gun in your belt. You aim to steal it? You aim to sell it? What do you mean by that? You look like a gunman to me. Where are you from? Wichita. Now, what are you going to do about that? Here, catch it. You didn't have to throw it at me. Well, I wanted to see how you handled it. You move pretty fast when you're sober. What are you prodding me for, Marshall? You aim to stay here long? No. Not long. Good. And while you are here, I'm going to be watching you. That won't bother me. Well, well, Marshall, I got to thank you for taking care of Linda. I am, sure. Now, I don't know who that Bassett fella is, but he shouldn't have been bothering her. No, that's right. Well, come on, Linda, we'll get your stuff. They got a room for you over to the Donch House. All right, Lou. Marshall, I hope I'll see you again. You too, Chester. Yes, thank you, Linda. We'll see you. So long, Linda. Bye. My, that Paxson acts kind of funny, don't he? He's trying to hide something, Chester. He is. He and Bassett didn't handle that very well. What do you mean? They know each other. You think so? It was pretty clear that they don't want anybody to know it. Well, why? What do you know about Lou Paxson, Chester? Nothing. I just seen him around. Any idea what his game is? No, sir. I don't. None at all. Well, maybe we'll find out now. I expect he's just been waiting for Bassett to get here. Evening, ma'am. Well, good evening, sir. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Evening, ma'am. Well, hello, Kitty. I heard you got back this morning. Yeah. Sit down. Oh, thank you. You know, you've been gone most two weeks. You know something, it seems a lot longer than that to me. I also heard what happened on the stage. Oh, you did? Yeah. Linda told me. Linda? How come you know her? She's sitting right over there. What? What? Well, it kind of surprised me, too. Paxson brought her in this afternoon and made Sam give her a job. Sam didn't like the idea much. She's only 17, Matt. Yeah, I know, Kitty. What's this Paxson up to anyway? Well, I don't know and I don't care. But you've got to get that girl out of here. This is a terrible place for her. That's not my affair, Kitty. Since you're the only one that can do it, it is your affair. Now, Kitty, I can't have an affair in a thing like this. Why? Because nobody's stolen anything or killed anybody? Because there's no law against it? Is that why? No, that isn't the why, but... But nothing. You know what can happen to that little girl? Look at her, Matt. She's scared half to death right now. You wait till midnight. Wait till it starts to get really rough in here. You know what some of these horn-handed, drunken wild men are likely to do? You can't let it happen, Matt. You've got to get her out of here and if you're any kind of a man at all, you do it right now. Well? Well, Kitty, I... All right. Ask her to come over here, huh? Sometimes I get a feeling that maybe you're not all bad, Matt. Come here. I'll bring it back. Linda, honey. Yeah, Kitty? Marshall's home. Here we are. Ah, hello, Linda. Kitty said you wanted to see me, Marshall. Yeah, that's right. Sit down, won't you? All right. You don't have to be scared of the Marshall, Linda. Oh, I'm not really. But... Well, tonight I feel scared of everybody. Well, then why do you stay here, Linda? Lou says I've got to. Why? He says it's to keep me out of the way. Oh? Out of the way of what? I don't know. But if I'm here, he knows where I am and he can always come to find me. But I don't like it here, Marshall. I'm not used to men like these. Linda, I want you to go back to your room and I want you to stay there. Oh, I can't, Marshall. Lou'd get angry. You don't have to tell him about it. But he'll find out. He'll find out all right, Linda. As soon as I explain things to Sam here, he'll find out from me. Hey, Mr. Dillon. Down at the end of the hall, there goes that fellow Bassett. Yeah. I didn't know he had a room here. Yeah, that could be Paxson's room he came out of. Number 12, ain't it? Well, you're right, it is. Now, listen here. I thought it was someone else. Bassett's gone, Paxson. What do you want, Paxson? I want to talk to you. What about? Why did you pretend you didn't know Bassett at the stage this morning? I don't know him. Well, he just walked out of your room. I mean, I didn't know him. I didn't know him this morning. You're lying. Now, Bassett's a gunman, Paxson. What's your business with him? I got no business with him, Marshall. We were talking, is all. Uh-huh. About how much are you going to pay him? I've got nothing to do with him, I tell you. All right. Now, I don't know who you're after, but this time I'm going to stop the trouble before it starts. Chester, when's the next stage leave? Not until the day after tomorrow, Mr. Dillon, but there's a Santa Fe out in the morning. I'll be there to see that you're on it, Paxson. No, I can't leave, Marshall. Marshall, you've got no right to make the... You're leaving and you're leaving alone. What? A man who put an innocent 17-year-old girl to work in the long branch isn't going to keep her if I can stop it. I got her out of there, Paxson, and I told Sam she's not to come back. Well, I got... I got good reason for her being there. Now, on what are they? Well, it's none of your business. Marshall, if you're interfering in something, you've got no right. As far as Linda's concerned, maybe I am, but I'm doing it anyway. That you and Bassett are different. 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Well, now when did I start going to bed at midnight? Well, you should. A man needs to sleep. Well, then what are you doing up there? I'm looking for somebody to argue with. Well, I'm your man, starter. What? Sounds like somebody beat us to it. Yeah, come on. Yeah, see? That came from right down the street, down by the alphagans. Yeah, it sounded like it. Mr. Dillon! Mr. Dillon! Over here, Chester. What happened, Chester? Lou Paxson, they shot him. He went into the back room at the alphagans wearing a mask and carrying a gun in his hand, but they shot him before he could run off with any money. He didn't even try to shoot back. Well, has he hurt bad, Chester? I don't know, Doc. I didn't wait to see. Well, I'll go see that he's taken up to my office. Give him a hand, Chester. I'll come up there in a few minutes. But where are you going? There's a man across the street I want to have a little talk with. Where? Oh, Bassett. Yeah, that's right. Evening, Marshal. What are you doing here, Bassett? Watching. Watching for what? Not for anything. Just watching. You working with Lou Paxson? Why? He just got shot. Dead? Why don't you go find out? Hmm, he ain't nothing to me, Marshal. You know, Bassett, I was going to run you out of town tomorrow, but now I think I'll keep you around until I find out what this is all about. I ain't done a thing. And you're not going to, because I'm going to lock you up right now. I never been in jail in my life, Marshal. A lot of men haven't, even men like you. But you're going now. No, I ain't. You leave your gun alone. Then get out of here and leave me alone. There's been one shooting already. That's enough. Now I'll take your gun, Bassett. Not likely. He missed you, Mr. Dillon. Thank goodness he missed you. He wasn't too much of a hurry, Chessie. Is he dead? He died standing. I knew there'd be trouble. I just had to wait and see what happened. Go get Linda and bring her up to Doc's, will you? Yes, sir. How is he, Doc? He's not good, Matt. One bullet in the neck, another in the chest. I'm sorry, Paxson. There's much I can do for him. No, I can't live this way. Not for long. Paxson, Linda's gone for Linda. She'll be here directly. Poor Linda. How did you expect to hold up the alafaganza like that? Was Bassett supposed to help you? Him? No. He was just waiting for the money. What? I tell you, it don't matter. It's what he come here for. We robbed the stage up north. I run off and I spent the money in St. Louis. He followed me. He found me. No wonder you didn't want to tell me what it was all about. He said he was gonna hurt Linda if I didn't get the money, so I figured she'd be safer where there was a crowd around. Bassett's dead, Paxson. Is he? So am I. Just am I. He's gone, Matt. No, that's probably Linda. Better keep her out of here. Yeah. Chester, wait in there, William. Yes, sir. What are you gonna tell her, Matt? I'm gonna tell her the truth, Doc. The whole story. Oh, that would be awful hard on her, wouldn't it? Finding out what kind of a man Paxson was. No, you could spare her that. Linda got off easy, Doc. Married to an outlaw should have been in real trouble. But all this won't do her any good at all if I don't send her home a lot smarter than she left. And that's what I'm gonna do. And now our star, William Conrad. Thank you, George. You know what I like about L&M's is they're mild and mighty easy on the draw. When you get right down to it, no filter stacks up with L&M's pure white miracle tip for quality or effectiveness. Darn good smoke. See for yourself. L&M stands out from all the rest. Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal. Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston, with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns by Tom Hanley and Bill James. Featured in the cast were Eleanor Tannen, Vic Perrin, Lawrence Dobkin, and Paul Dubov. 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