MATT AND CHESTER ARE SITTING THINKING ABOUT THE NEW, ALBEIT TEMPORARY, LAW THAT SAYS REGULAR GUN FIGHTS ARE TOO LOUD.

I just can't see a showdown by yours truly and Joe Bad-Guy happening such that the townsfolk, not to mention the home viewers, can hardly even hear the shots being fired.

Yeah, it would make you seem, well, kind of like a sissy lawman, Mr. Dillon.

DOC OPENS THE DOOR AND GREETS THE BOYS.

Hi, Matt. Chester.

(Doc sees the anguished looks on the mens' faces)

Hey, why so uptight? By the way, can I even use that word in the 1880's?

Sure. Why not?

Along with future slang being uttered over a century before its invention, one of the future's environmental gangs has also paid Dodge a visit.

Oh yeah?

(beat)

Huh??

Well, Doc, they have passed some type of ordinance that says Mr. Dillon and really any person who shoots their gun in Dodge City must use a silencer. You know, to limit the ambient noise.

I mean, how am I supposed to continue to be a huge symbol of the old west, on the law enforcement side of things, if I can't also be an inspiration when I stand out in the street and gun some law-breaker down and scare half the town doing it?

Whaaaaat? That's crazy. I hope you told 'em you weren't having any part of such.

How can I? The're the same ones who've gotten control of the state finances. I'll be out of a job if I don't comply!

Well, ah, have you actually tried to use this silencer thing to see how it might be used to your advantage? I mean, seeing as you have to use it and all.

Well, no, we haven't actually put one on our pistols just yet. Seems so stupid.

Let me see one of those things.

DOC TAKES A SILENCER FROM CHESTER AND EXAMINES IT.

How do you even use it?

It's supposed to attach to the end of the gun barrel.

Let me see yours, Matt.

MATT HANDS DOC HIS GUN AND SILENCER.

(rubs his chin)

This is the durndest thing!

But, you're right, Doc. Maybe I ought to try it out and see how things work.

There you go!

MATT STANDS OUT IN THE STREET WHERE HE USUALLY IS WHEN HE WINS GUNFIGHTS. CHESTER IS BESIDE HIM.

OK, we got the silencer thing on the gun, right?

(looking down at Matt's holster with the extra long barrel sticking out the bottom)

Yes, Mr. Dillon. But I still wonder how quickly you are going to be able to pull your pistol all the way out since the barrel is so long. It will not be an insignificant amount of time, for sure.

(beat)

And, what if the bad guy you are going to shoot at knows he has nothing really to lose by disobeying the new ordinance so has a regular-length gun barrel to pull out, probably quickly, to shoot at you?

Hmm. You may have something there, Chester. Maybe I need to try to get a variance.

Is that like a different type of weapon?

(looks at Chester like he has a screw loose)