Jedros Woman

Originally Aired: November 6, 1960 Gunsmoke #448, "Jedros Woman," Matt Dillon and Chester discover a badly beaten and starving woman near their campsite after someone steals their pot of cooking beans. Following the tracks through the brush, they find her collapsed with the bean pot nearby, too weak to have eaten the food she desperately took. The woman is covered in bruises and barely clinging to life. Unable to get any information from her unconscious form, Matt and Chester carefully transport her back to Dodge City in a borrowed wagon, where Doc Adams takes her in and begins fighting to save her life. The mystery of the woman's identity is soon solved when a man named Jedro arrives at the Long Branch Saloon demanding his wife back. When Matt confronts him about the brutal beating, Jedro claims it's none of the marshal's business and insists on his legal right to see her. Despite Doc's concerns about what the visit might do to his patient, Matt agrees to take Jedro to see the woman he calls Allie, setting up a tense confrontation that will determine her fate.