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Reluctant Violence

Gunsmoke · July 10, 1960 · 26 min · 895 words

The transcript of “Reluctant Violence”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast July 10, 1960. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Gunsmoke plays Gunsmoke free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers, and that's where the US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke and the story of a man who moved down the United States Marshal, the first man they looked for and the last they want to meet.

It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful, and a little lonely. You might be crazy going around talking like that. I want the man to give up. I'm in my right mind.

Why? It would be a protection to all the separate guys. You should be like inviting your own children. That's right, Zach. The man wouldn't be safe. Oh, he'd be safer. Now you notice, I don't have a gun.

Well, what did you do with the gun? Yeah, what would you do? No one has any reason. What did you do with somebody? You're a gun. They knocked you off to me, don't you? No, no, no, no.

What's that? I did? Yeah, you'd have to get out. Gun would have come in handy now, wouldn't it, huh? He could have. He could have. He could have. He could have. Yeah. Bless him, you.

He could have. Me too, Mark. Well, he wanted to take our guns away. He ain't coming around, you know. He could have a damn near without drinking it all. Hey, you have no more about that than us?

Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to charge everybody, but it would have been standing around the back. It's not waste much time without glasses. Sometimes I wish the words can take wear and tear.

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