- Wishbone: On a drive, the one thing you gotta have to keep the cattle movin' is men. Trouble with that is, each man thinks without him, everything comes to a standstill. Fact is there's only one man the drive can't do without: he's the one who keeps the men goin' who keep the cattle movin'. He's the cook. That's my job. My name's Wishbone, feeder of the Gil Favor outfit. This idiot beside me is the cook's louse, Mushy.
- Rowdy Yates: Look, before the last vote you said high and mighty with unreasonable doubt of the man's guilt. Just because a rock comes through that window doesn't mean he murdered anyone!
- Sheriff Tom Bracken: I'll take that hardware, gents. It's an awful small room for 12 men to be locked up in. 12 live men going in. We'd like to see 12 live ones come out.
- Arthur Hennig: Gene stopped in to have a cup of coffee with Shaun.
- Seth Warner: You told me immediately after the crime that they had a violent argument.
- Arthur Hennig: Well, ah, no. There was some loud talk. But that Indian agent always had a lungful of air. I wouldn't say they was arguing. I would just say they was talking loud.
- Seth Warner: You told me that Shaun accused Matson of trying to steal the Indian lands.
- Arthur Hennig: Oh, no, sir. I went back into my kitchen about that time, so I didn't hear nothin'.
- Sheriff Tom Bracken: That means you're both gonna stay here. You're both gonna be jurymen on a murder trial.
- Rowdy Yates: We can't serve on a jury. We're not even residents of this area.
- Sheriff Tom Bracken: When did you cross the Oasis River?
- Rowdy Yates: Oh, about three, four weeks ago. Why?
- Sheriff Tom Bracken: Well, for three, four weeks you've been residents of this county.
- Gene Matson: Yes, friend, you've got a lot of trouble.
- Wishbone: Considering the kind of trouble you got, I don't like to complain about mine.
- Rowdy Yates: Gene Matson, Surgeon and Dentist.
- Wishbone: And Undertaker.
- Rowdy Yates: [Rowdy surveys the quiet street] Looks like he's been busy.
- Wishbone: We're supposed to passing on what went on out in that courtroom. But we're talking around it, up and down it and inside and out it. But we're not talking about it.
- Ellis Williams: I couldn't let you down, Dr Matson. Not after all you've done for me. After what you did for this town. All I can do is thank you in the only way I know how. That's my personal verdict.
- Ed Shore: They're counting on you. You may be the first one they'll shoot.
- Ellis Williams: Let them. Least I won't die the way I live.
- Mort Billings: You got a way out?
- Wishbone: Have an open vote.
- Ed Shore: And that way, we flush out the spy.
- Jason Clark: We should all be ashamed. Two men we've never seen watching us squirm, each in his own way. For myself, in acquiring a press, I lost sight of the purpose of the press. John Red Cloud has committed one crime against his people and will now compound that by letting the lying accusation of the Defence Attorney stand. And that the Commanches killed Shaun O'Riordan rather than the man we know committed the murder, Gene Matson. Matson's men burnt down Mort's warehouse and Mort's grateful they didn't take his general store. We know what they made Arthur's wife do. Look at these drovers' faces. Now, we either do something about it here and now, or we walk out into that courtroom. admit defeat, and do our best to live with it from now on.
- Gene Matson: I voted not guilty. I decided this town deserved Gene Matson.
- Ott: You voted not guilty cos you're scared
- Gene Matson: Yeah, lazy, shiftless, no count. Can't deny it. Rest of you are all superior to me. Ellis can outdrink me any day of the week. Tavish, sell his mother if he thought it'd make it easier for him to peddle his goods. And Clem, he couldn't tell a piece of iron unless it was in the shape of a horseshoe. And Mort, he's in love with his warehouse and general store. And he thinks if he plays his cards right, Gene Matson will then be Mayor.
- Ott: All right, no good, you had your say.
- Gene Matson: Only part of it. Just want to let the hot tongued bearded gent know who he's tied down to.