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Ep480 | "Letter of the Law"
In this episode titled 'Letter of the Law,' U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon faces a moral dilemma as he attempts to enforce a court order for the eviction of Brandon Teak, a man who has built a lif...
Ep480 | "Letter of the Law"
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Around Dodd City and in the territory on West, there's just one way to handle the killers
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and the spoilers, and that's with the US Marshall and the smell of gun smoke.
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Gun move, folks.
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The story of the violent that moved west with the U.S. and the story of a man who moved with it.
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I'm that man Matt Dillon, the United States Marshall. The first man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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It's a chance a job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
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I'm the right one. The modern right one now is sexy for those who think young.
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Good morning, kitty.
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Well, you're out of the way today.
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I'm a working man. I have to keep a regular hours, you know.
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And what were you doing in the long branch of two o'clock this morning?
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Well, sometimes it's a regular 24 hours, like you.
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Well, these guy made good money at it.
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Kitty, would you really like to see me settle down and run us a little?
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You might get to like it.
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All right, I'll do it.
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When?
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When I'm about 50.
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Oh, so...
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That morning, I said...
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Oh, I said 60.
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We're doing your letter for it.
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Well, thanks.
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Uh, then we'll visit Judge Lambo, over in which talk?
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Uh-huh.
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Is anything important?
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Uh, court order for evictions.
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The name is Brandon Teak didn't file legally on his land over by Wagon Mountain.
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Do you say Brandon Teak?
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Well, well, you know I'm Kitty.
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Well, everybody knows him.
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Brown Aveline.
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Yeah, he had a pretty bad reputation then.
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Doesn't he still?
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No, I'm a singing for some time, Kitty, but he's married and he's trying to prove up some land.
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Well, I don't envy you trying to put him off it.
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Brandon Teak never shoved her easy at Iowa College.
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Well, if you don't, you have to pick him off.
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Maybe the judge made a mistake or something.
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No, no, it's Mara of Judge Lambo, but he knows his law.
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Well, we'll write out that as well, in just a minute.
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Be sure your gun's loaded, Matt.
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Maybe I won't need it, Kitty.
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You want a bet?
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No.
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No, I guess not.
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All right, he was doing the last thing.
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He keeps went and built himself a mighty nice place out here.
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Yeah, he's done fun.
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Hello, Teak.
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Hello, Marshall.
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Kester.
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All right, Teak.
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We'll bring you out this way.
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Well, here you will.
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You might go ahead and get yourself.
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What's this?
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This...
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Court order.
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Immediately eviction.
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Hmm.
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Well, what's this all about, Marshall?
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That's just what it says.
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Well, I got my deed to this place.
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Yeah, but you failed to register at the land office.
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Well, now nobody told me about that.
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I'm sorry, Teak.
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You're going to be a whole lot, sorry, or you try to put me off this land, Marshall.
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Brandon, how are you talking to me?
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You stay inside, sir.
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Hey, nothing.
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And it won't hurt if I come out.
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This is my wife, Marshall Dylan, and Chester Procter, I do miss.
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I do, ma'am.
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Marshall, you get trouble, Brandon?
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They say we got no legal right to this place, sir.
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I didn't register the deed or some fool thing.
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No.
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Now don't you worry.
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Ain't nobody going to move us off.
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Laura, no law.
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That's a court order.
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I ate war a gun since I got married, Marshall, but I can sure go put one on.
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Brandon.
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Now, Sarah, you...
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You can't forget your promise.
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Especially now, you can't.
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That's all the more reason for fighting, sir.
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We're going to have a child, Marshall.
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Most any day now.
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Well, and we ain't moving.
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We ain't starting over.
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If we have to, we can do it.
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I'd rather dive and see you go to fight and again, Brandon.
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Now you think on it.
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She sure don't make it easy on me, Marshall.
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What are you going to do, take?
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It's a hard thing for a man like me to swallow, but I can't go against her.
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I ain't putting on my gun.
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Now, why don't you go in and tell her that?
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And when will I tell her we got to get off the place?
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There's no hurry.
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Well, what about that immediate eviction?
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I'll be responsible for that.
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Right?
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Guess I oughta be grateful to you.
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No.
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No, take not to me.
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Goodbye.
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Goodbye, Marshall.
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Chester Hill.
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Bye, Teeke.
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My things are mint there.
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I thought he was going to make trouble, sure.
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Yeah.
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When are you going to put him off with doing it?
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I'm going to wish it to our Chester.
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I'll find out there.
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Hello, Judge.
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Marshall's doing.
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What are you doing with your toe?
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I came to see you.
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Not so.
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How did you know I was in here?
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I was before I found your last time, Judge.
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Oh.
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I would drink.
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How long?
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It's about that corridor, you know, something.
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Which corridor, do you want to go?
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To the thick Brandon T.C. up his land and their wagon nuns.
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Oh, that, yeah.
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I remember.
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What's the trouble?
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Is he putting up a fight now?
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No, he isn't.
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Yeah, he sure must have changed.
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I remember T.C. around here.
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He was a wild one.
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He's married, not Judge.
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I expect him a child any day.
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A child?
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I told him that I could take the time about moving.
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Take there a time.
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That order was to victim with once, Marshall.
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Marshall did.
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There is no room for sentiment in the law.
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Was right is right.
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Was legal is legal.
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It takes been on that land over a year, Judge.
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How come this business about failing the register as deed just came up?
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It was only recently brought to my attention.
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And who brought it to your attention?
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He's pregnant.
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Not that it makes any difference.
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He's pregnant on a lot of land around wagon nuns.
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And he's filed on this piece, too.
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There's nothing irregular about it, Marshall.
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That's what you're thinking.
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Legally, I'm sure everything's correct, Judge.
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What?
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But I just guess it isn't my kind of law, at all.
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There's only one kind of law.
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The way you see it, maybe.
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You can't argue with facts, Marshall.
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Now stop being a sentimental fool.
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Go through your duty.
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Judge, Brandon takes a change, man.
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He's done more than prove up that land.
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He's proved himself up, too.
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Homestead Act 1862.
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Parabraph 12 after one year of the deed,
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this such land is not duty recorded at the news.
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Never mind, Judge.
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I know how it reads.
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And start acting like it.
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I can hold even the US Marshall in contempt of court, you know?
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Yes, sure.
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I know.
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You've got a lot of power, Judge.
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It's just one thing wrong.
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What's that?
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You never learned how to use it.
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I should've done it.
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I should've done it.
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I oughta talk to you, Sprague.
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Come in, come in.
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I do know I was in Dutch today.
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I found out.
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It's about Brandon's teeth.
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Some wrong?
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No, not legally.
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Judge Rambo made that pretty clear.
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You want to tell me what's bothering you, Marshall?
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Yes, sure.
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I think Brandon's teeth deserves that land more than you do.
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Marshall, I'm in the land and cattle business.
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I'm making out mighty well.
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No man can accuse me of ever doing anything yield-eagle or dishonest.
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But everybody knows I practice sharp.
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I'll go on practicing sharp too.
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Even against a man like Tate, who's hung up his gun and stale down
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and tried to make a life for him and his family.
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What do you mean his family?
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I'm as a child coming any day now.
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And he's better off in town, Marshall.
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What?
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My wife stayed in the country.
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That's why I lost her.
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Well, looks to me like I'm doing tika favor.
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You got an awful easy conscience, spray.
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Oh, there's no use arguing, Marshall.
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You got your order and now you go put them off.
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No, spray. I'm not gonna do it.
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What?
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I couldn't hold my head up if I had any part of the kind of law
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you and Judge Rambo want.
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You mean that?
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Yeah, I mean that.
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Why ain't you let you stand in my way, Marshall?
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You're in for trouble.
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His Brandon T. Can his Mrs. Both talking that fellow on him is done.
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You recognize him, Chuster.
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I'm sure I don't. He just fingered me.
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I'm saying you just didn't got no right.
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I don't know. It's a quick call.
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Get up over something, don't it?
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Yeah.
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Miss T. Carton to be standing out making use of day that way.
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I mean, let Marshall do it, settle this, Haley.
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Got nothing to do with it no more.
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That's a trouble here Tick. I'll do my thing.
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You told me there was no hurry about our leave in Marshall.
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Wait a minute.
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But you got that badge, Mr. Who are you?
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Jim Haley, Marshall, deputy sheriff from which town?
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Which town have you got here?
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Well, I took the train to Dodge and then rented me a horse.
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Add something, Haley.
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Judge Rambo sent me, I guess.
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He felt the law needed a little enforcing down this way.
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He's got a court order in Marshall just like when you had plum legal.
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I want you people back up the out of here by the mar.
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Just a minute, Haley.
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I can take care of Marshall.
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No, Brandon, there'll be no fighting.
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No, Sarah, you ain't gonna do nothing except move, Tick.
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And right now.
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No.
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I don't want to.
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No, here. Haley.
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Pick up his contractor.
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She heard Tick.
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I'll be all right.
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Huh?
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She only grabbed his arm.
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And he's gone and heard him, Marshall, flinging her off like that.
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Just a minute.
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Just a minute, Horsenwright for Dodge told Dr. Get out here.
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Fast.
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Oh, my eight doctors never come out of that house.
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He's been a lot of us doing for a long time.
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She shouldn't have grabbed me, but I didn't mean to hurt her.
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You just keep quiet, I mean nobody wants to hear from you.
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Mr. Donner's Doc.
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He's been over two hours.
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We don't look when I'm doing happy, does it?
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Well, Doc.
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The baby's dead, man.
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Oh, no.
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It's too bad.
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I didn't do it.
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I only pushed her.
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I told you to shut up, Haley.
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I wasn't a chance of saving the baby.
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It's her I've been working on.
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She's going to be all right now, man.
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I don't care for that anyway, Doc.
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Doc, tell you, Marshall.
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Yeah, I'm sorry to hear it, Tick.
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I'm sorry, too.
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But you can't blame me for it, Haley.
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I just now promised my wife I wouldn't kill you.
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Now, don't make me break it.
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Come on, Haley.
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I'm going to take you in the dodge with me.
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Now, look here.
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Ain't you forget, ma'am, a long man, too, my wife?
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I'd like to forget it.
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It doesn't make me very proud of being one.
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I come here to do a job, and I'm going to do it.
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Soon, his wife can be moved, of course.
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Now, this is all over. There's no reason for waiting long.
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I promised her I wouldn't kill you now, Haley.
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But you come back here. I promise you I will.
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A man can take only so much.
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I'll be back.
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No, you won't.
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I'm going to throw you in jail for a while.
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What?
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Take as soon as your wife's better.
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You come and see me. I don't know what I can do, but things aren't going on this way.
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Hello, Chester.
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Hello, Doc.
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Where's Matt?
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In the office.
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Dr. Leith Bragg.
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Well, it's a little late to be talking to him, isn't it?
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I'd say so.
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Eddock, you sure, Brandon, he's coming to that day.
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That's what he told me.
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There's a neighbor who will stand with his wife.
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Not that she really needs anybody now.
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Well, I'm proud to hear that.
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Well, it's only been a week, but she's a strong woman.
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Oh, here we are.
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Oh, I'm really need coming.
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Hello, Doc.
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Chester.
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Okay.
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I was a patient.
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Oh, pretty good, Doc.
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She's being awful brave about it.
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I know how she feels.
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The only time, look, you hear that?
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Yeah, I guess so.
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Uh, Tick, at Miss Dunes in the office,
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you want you to go right on in when you got here.
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Okay.
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Uh, hello, Tick.
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Come on in.
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You know, Lee's sprig, don't you?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I know him.
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Hello, Tick.
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Sprig and I were over at the line office this morning.
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I think we got everything straightened up.
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What do you mean?
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Here, take a look at this.
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What is it?
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It's a deed to the land you're on, Tick.
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And this time it's legally registered.
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Sure, I can see that.
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And it's registered in your name.
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That's right.
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You helped him with this, Marshall?
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I wanted to be sure that they wanted my loophole.
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And there aren't any, huh?
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No.
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You know, if it wasn't for my wife,
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you people would have to shoot me off that place.
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But I wonder I can only stand so much.
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You send Jim Haley out there. I'll kill him on sight.
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I sent Haley back to Wichita this morning.
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Tick, I want to tell you something.
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Ain't you said enough, Sprig?
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No.
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Now listen.
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I'm a greedy man.
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Tick and I'll take anything I can get.
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Legally.
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But Marshall Dillon has been talking pretty hard to me lately.
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Sure.
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Sure I've been listening to him too.
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We're an ain't Haley oughta blame Tick.
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It's me.
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Why?
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I guess I'd have gone right on.
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And I could have.
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Do I hear about your baby?
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Why is that matter to you?
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I lost my son, Tick.
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I lost my wife too.
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Taking my land?
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Going to help you.
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You tell him, Marshall?
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Tick, he's not taking your land.
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And that deeds in his name, ain't it?
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Didn't you go along to be sure he didn't make any mistake?
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There are no mistakes this time.
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Sprig can did that lander when he'd want to now.
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All clear.
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Well, what about it?
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Yours, Tick.
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You...
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You mean...
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You're giving it to me?
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I'm not giving it to you.
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It's yours anyway.
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I'll...
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I'll tell Sarah.
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I'll tell her she was right all along.
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That's right, she was.
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But...
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Well, what about you, Marshall?
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You think it'll be trouble?
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Your jail in the deput of Sheriff?
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Well, as soon as he gets back to Wichita, it'll be trouble.
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Don't you worry about that.
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I always wanted to see California anyway.
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