The Deputy (TV Series)
The Lonely Road (1961)
Henry Fonda: Chief Marshal Simon Fry
Quotes
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[Meg Billings' husband has been paroled from prison]
Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : Simon, can I ask you somethin'?
Marshal Simon Fry : Sure.
Sergeant Hapgood Tasker : Couple or three times I heard talk - about you and Meg billings, I mean.
Marshal Simon Fry : It's killin' I'm here to stop, not talk.
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[Shad Billings has just been paroled from prison where he was serving time for murder]
Marshal Simon Fry : What are you going to do?
Shad Billings : Raise cattle again. Why?
Marshal Simon Fry : Cattle... maybe a little Cain?
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Shad Billings : You haven't changed a bit.
Marshal Simon Fry : The question is - have you?
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Marshal Simon Fry : Come here to tell you that Shad Billings is back.
Trace Phelan : You on the level?
Marshal Simon Fry : I'll tell you one more thing, Phelan. Stay away from him - and his wife.
Barber : [to Phelan] Looks like you won't be needin' a bath this trip.
Trace Phelan : Oh, shut up and fix that water.
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Marshal Simon Fry : Join me in a drink?
Trace Phelan : Well now, that's real nice of you, Marshal, but I got a rule - no liquor when I'm workin'.
Marshal Simon Fry : Can't see you gettin' much done.
Trace Phelan : For an impatient man like me, waitin's work.
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Trace Phelan : You know, Marshal, I'm by way of bein' a peaceful man. You ask anybody here who it was that settled the trouble at the Arizona Star mine when the diggers wanted two dollars a day more.
Marshal Simon Fry : Killed a couple of men settlin' it.
Trace Phelan : They drew on me - a dozen witnesses saw 'em. Couldn't just stand there. Besides, that's what the mine company hired me for - to keep everything peaceful... even if it took bullets to do it.
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[Simon has arrested Shad for a parole violation]
Trace Phelan : You all saw him - he don't even wear a gun. This time it was Shad; next time it'll be me.
Marshal Simon Fry : That's right, Phelan.
Trace Phelan : You gonna run me out of town, Marshal?
Marshal Simon Fry : What I said was clean out of the territory.
[Phelan reaches for his gun]
Marshal Simon Fry : You make *that* move and you might go even further.
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Barber : Trace Phelan backed down to you, Marshal. He backed down!
Marshal Simon Fry : That disappoint you?
Barber : Nobody can say I like to see blood spilled.
Marshal Simon Fry : Well, that ought to make your customers feel better when you shave 'em.
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[last lines]
[Simon kills Phelan when he tries to use Meg as a hostage]
Marshal Simon Fry : I said, "Clean out of the territory" but I warned him it might be even further than that.