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Passive Resistance

Gunsmoke · July 8, 1956 · 24 min · 2,815 words

The transcript of “Passive Resistance”, an episode of Gunsmoke first broadcast July 8, 1956. 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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Gunsmoke brought to you by Chesterfield. Chesterfield packs more pleasure because it's more perfectly packed thanks to Acura. They satisfy the most. 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 a US Marshal and the smell of gun smoke Starring William Conrad, the trans-crowd story of the violence that moved West with young America.

And the story of a man who moved with... I'm that man, Matt Dillon, the United States Marshal. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful.

And a little lonely. This is close enough. Let's leave the horses here, boys. Okay.

Don't forget your rifle. Yeah, I got it. Get it. Nice game, move it by the crowd. Looks like he's alone all right. He's alone. For those who could stand being around him stinking sheep. Look, there's a mofle wrong with a man like that, you know.

There he is. We're gonna set it right. Watch him now. I don't see he's wearing a gun. Probably got one hit out nearby. Your name, get in, Seek. He's here. He's your sheep. Yeah? You got anybody helping you?

I always work alone. I know that you ain't wearing a gun, Seek. I don't even own a gun. You don't. I don't believe in killing. We do. Most men do. Seek, yes, is cow country. You know what that means?

Oh, it's my sheep. We've got to make an example of you. The people might get ideas if we don't pretty soon. The country would turn white with them, will it? But I only have a few.

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