Hardcastle and McCormick (TV Series)

Rolling Thunder: Part 1 (1983)

Brian Keith: Judge Milton C. Hardcastle

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• Judge Milton C. Hardcastle : [Showing McCormick a stack of manila file folders]  What I got here, wise guy, is 200 cases that came in and out of this courthouse. Everyone of 'em was guilty and every one of 'em walked away clean because of legal technicalities! Sometimes witnesses disappeared. Sometimes they died... Now, I want these guys, see? They escaped justice and I know good and well they're on the outside now committing new crimes. So that's where you come in, see? Now what we're gonna do, we're gonna hunt 'em down, we're gonna find out what they're doing now, and we're gonna bust 'em! You're gonna be my fast gun!

• Mark 'Skid' McCormick : [Reading with derision one of Hardcastle's Lone Ranger comic books]  You actually read this junk, don't you?

  Judge Milton C. Hardcastle : Sure! Count on the Lone Ranger riding the plains dispensing justice. You didn't see Billy the Kid getting off on a technicality. Hunt 'em, hear 'em, and hang 'em! That's the way!

  Mark 'Skid' McCormick : [Incredulously]  I'm in a nightmare here!

  Judge Milton C. Hardcastle : Listen, they had respect for the law back then, y'know. Wise guys rule the world today, but we're gonna step in and sling some lead, kid.

  Mark 'Skid' McCormick : [Sarcastically]  Yeah. Get 'em up, Scout!