Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge (1987 TV Movie)

James Arness: Matt Dillon

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Quotes 

• Matt Dillon : I was wonderin' if you were going to come to say goodbye.

  Kitty Russell : I was wonderin' too. It isn't easy.

  Matt Dillon : No, Kitty, it isn't.

  Kitty Russell : Matt, I-I don't you want to think... Well, it isn't that it's...

  Matt Dillon : Kitty, we've never needed explanations, have we?

  Kitty Russell : No. Goodbye, Matt

  Matt Dillon : Goodbye, Kitty

• Matt Dillon : You know, Kitty, it's really been good seeing you again. Maybe when all this is over and I get back...

  [his sentence is incomplete as Kitty responds] 

  Kitty Russell : I'll be here.

  [as Matt closes the door behind him] 

  Kitty Russell : Aren't I always?

• [first lines] 

  [to two young Indian boys] 

  Logan : Git!

  [to Dillon, who is carrying a bale of furs] 

  Logan : Them papooses - I'd keep 'em out if I was you. If it ain't nailed down, they'll steal it.

  Matt Dillon : They live here.

  Logan : Well, I guess a squaw is better than no woman a'tall, huh?

  Matt Dillon : You were given 15 years in territorial prison, Logan. What are you doin' out?

  Logan : Lookin' for you. Been a long look, Dillon, but I promised myself I'd pay you back. Here I am.

  Matt Dillon : Mister, you aren't the first gunny come lookin' for me. There's two more buried out in back there. Now you better drop the gunbelt.

  Logan : Now why should I do that?

  Matt Dillon : 'Cause I got one aimed right at your belly.

  Logan : You gotta be desperate runnin' a bluff like that.

  [Dillon shoots the cup out of Logan's hand] 

  Matt Dillon : Drop the gun... Now that hideout gun that's holdin' up your backbone.

  Logan : You don't leave a man a lot, do you, Marshal?

  Matt Dillon : Mister, you didn't bring a whole lot with ya!

• Logan : What's that I hear?

  Matt Dillon : Oh, that's just a little whitewater up ahead.

  Logan : I can't swim!

  Matt Dillon : You can walk can't you?

  Logan : Walk?

  Matt Dillon : Yeah. You have to make two trips. First you take these pelts down around the rapids, then you come back and carry the canoe. It's only a couple of miles.

  Logan : Carry the canoe? The hell I will!

  Matt Dillon : The hell you won't.

• [Matt has just knocked out a young Army officer who tried to arrest him] 

  Matt Dillon : I'm sorry, Lieutenant, but I don't have time to play games.

  Bright Water, Jake Flagg's Daughter : He was looking for my father, too?

  Matt Dillon : That's right. Bright Water will you look after him? The boy is as green as they come, but he does have backbone. One of these days, he'll make a hell of an officer.

  Bright Water, Jake Flagg's Daughter : A blue belly?

  Matt Dillon : A blue belly who near got himself killed lookin' out for you.

• Matt Dillon : Glad ya came. You're lookin' great.

  Kitty Russell : You cut that out.

  Matt Dillon : What?

  Kitty Russell : You listen to me, cowboy. I've got you out from underneath my fingernails and you're gonna stay out. Do you hear me?

  Matt Dillon : Yes, ma'am... Kitty, I understand the rules and all, but it doesn't mean we can't still be friends, does it?

  Kitty Russell : Friends? Friends? I'm staying at the Long Branch while I'm in town, so when you feel up to it, I might even buy you a beer.