Bret Maverick (TV Series)

Anything for a Friend (1981)

Ed Bruce: Tom Guthrie

Quotes 

• Tom Guthrie : Newspapers! You can't wait to turn some farm boy into a dangerous outlaw, can you? Come here. You want to meet Billy the Kid, the dangerous outlaw?

  [Tom takes M.L. to Billy's bedroom where they find him asleep] 

  Tom Guthrie : What do you figure him to be - 19 , maybe 20? You think a good story is worth the price of his life?

• Bret Maverick : We gotta make our move now. I figure a variation on the old shell game is about the best move we've got.

  Tom Guthrie : What's that?

  Bret Maverick : Well, with Billy as a prize, he won't want to take a chance on splittin' his men. I figure we gotta make a choice on what shell the pea is under and hope he comes up empty.