Will someone please tell all of us on Front Street what finally happened to Sunshine and Matt?

Question

We stood in the rain and cold all night praying for them. Please tell us if they are OK.

Answer 1

Dodge City, Kansas
Circa 1873

TO RECAP WHAT HAS HAPPENED THUS FAR:
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And now....PART FIVE....THE CONCLUSION:

"The Desert"
Subtitle...... "If We Lose Sunshine, We’ll lose Matt.”


People were gathered on Front Street as Festus made his way down the long flight of stairs.
Burke: “Well ? What’s happening?! “
Festus:” Sunshine is ….dying.”
A collective gasp could be heard.
Kitty: ”And Matt?”
Festus:”Ol’ Doc had to sedate him.”
The silence that followed was deafening.

Doc took Sunshine’s pulse. He rubbed his face and carefully put her hand back, resting atop Matt’s.
“They’re in YOUR hands now, God.”

Doc pulled up a chair and thought long and hard about the situation. The snakebite, combined with the dehydration had taken a damaging toll on Sunshine.
He turned to Newly…… “Another woman wouldn’t have lasted THIS long.”
Newly: “ She’s no ordinary woman, Doc.”
Doc: “ Amen to that.”
Newly stood with his hat in his hands, chin to his chest and then turned to go.

He passed Kitty on the stairs. They nodded to each other but no words were exchanged.
Kitty came in and walked over to Doc’s side. She saw Sunshine, her ashen appearance
too disturbing to look at for more than a few seconds. She put her hand to her mouth when she looked at Matt.
Kitty: “Doc? Is there anything I can do? ANYthing?”
Doc didn’t answer, but rather placed his hand over Sunshine’s and Matt’s. “ Pray, Kitty. Just pray.”
The door opened again as Festus returned.
Festus: “Doc?”
Doc just shook his head…”No change.”
Festus: “ Doc? Please work a miracle. We can’t lose Sunshine.“
Doc stared blankly at a wall...... “ I don’t know what else to do.” He got up and walked to the window.
“But I do know this ……..." He rubbed his face.
"If we lose Sunshine …… We’ll lose Matt.”

Doc, Festus and Kitty contemplate this thought as
the scene ends.
A close-up shot fades on Sunshine’s and Matt’s hands.

CUT TO COMMERCIAL


Late afternoon, Doc has gone outside to stretch his legs. Dodge is very quiet. No one has much to say. Those who are gathered on Front Street at the foot of Doc’s stairs look up at him. Their worried faces bespeak their fear. Doc is silent.

The scene cuts to Sunshine and Matt. A curtain blows in the breeze and there ia a faint ticking of a clock …………
As the camera pans the room,
a sound is heard, barely audible.
You see Matt and Sunshine’s hands. Fingers very slowly begin to move. It’s difficult to discern just whose fingers they are.
The camera goes to Matt's face......Motionless. It then focuses on Sunshine. The slight flicker of a twitch crosses her lips. Her fingers begin moving again.
She begins to open her eyes. Her confused expression gives way to a soft sigh . Very slowly she turns to her left to see just what it is her fingers are touching. Her eyes are unfocused. She has trouble clearing her vision.
Sunshine: " Matt?~~~~~~Baby?......... MATT?!" She struggles to roll to her side and get a better look at him.
Matt has been given a large dose of sedative medication and is totally inert. Panicking , she grabs the blanket that covers him and struggles to sit up.
Seeing no sign of movement, she shakes him and cries his name, over and over. Exhausted and weak from her fragile condition, she collapses across his chest. Her voice is not strong enough to be heard through the open door or window. Her cries go unnoticed by Doc and the people gathered near him.

Only one person hears her.
Matt opens his eyes as he tries to clear his head. He feels a weight on his chest and starts to brush it aside.
The camera zooms in as he realizes it is a person. His confused expression gives way to astonishment.
Matt starts to speak, coughs, clears his throat...."Sunny? Sunshine!"
He pulls her next to him, so they are lying side by side.
The moment their eyes meet..........

FREEZE FRAME