One good thing about renewing my TV service, I get to watch the westerns that have been absent from my TV for several months (due to Channel 40 electing to switch to DTV early). I only get home in time to watch part of Bonanza, but all of Gun Smoke and yesterday I got to see a Gun Smoke episode that I didn't remember seeing before.
It was slightly strange. Matt Dillion got hit by a gunman robbing the bank and lost the use of his right arm - his gun arm. While he was flat on his back in Doc's 'hospital' nobody went after the bank robbers - they didn't even think about going after the bank robbers. That was just silly. Then they let Matt go off by himself because he was afraid that gun fighters would come looking for him, knowing he was handicapped, and put the town at risk. Then when they knew the bank robbers were looking for Matt because he had killed one of them doing the robbery, Doc talked Festus & Newly out of getting a posse together to go after Matt to save his life - Hello, they were bank robbers - why were the deputies not going after the bank robbers? That was just silly.
Then Matt meets a young man who deserted the army. He had a fast draw and could shoot the antennae off an ant at 50 paces but he didn't believe in killing for any reason. He was sitting over an open fire with something turning on a spit over the fire when he declared he had never hurt another living thing. What was on that spit, honey? Roasted lettuce?
Anyway, the kid learned that sometimes you have to shoot back to save your life (or Matt's life), but he threw his gun away and decided to go back to the army because they were bound to have a job for him that didn't involve killing people. Matt went back to Dodge and everybody went on with their lives except for the bank robbers. All but two were dead and the last we saw of them they were face down in the dirt (the live ones, the dead ones were belly up).
Nobody ever went after the money.
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