Maverick (TV Series)

Black Fire (1958)

Will Wright: General Eakins

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• Cousin Elizabeth : General, do you know that's the third glass of whiskey you've drunk since we sat down to table?

  General Eakins : If I took the time to count, I wouldn't have the time to drink.

• [looking over his prospective heirs] 

  General Eakins : Hm. Now that I've seen ya, I may decide not to die at all.

• [Bret and Homer have exchanged identities] 

  General Eakins : Maverick, what do you do?

  Homer Eakins : I play poker.

  General Eakins : No, I... I mean, how do you earn your living?

  Homer Eakins : General Gibson, when a man plays poker well, he doesn't have to earn a living. Other people earn his living for him. No one can accuse Bret Maverick of having done an honest day's work since the day he left home. Isn't that right... Homer?

  Bret Maverick : That's right, Maverick.

• [Homer is examining a huge moosehead on the wall] 

  General Eakins : Well, what do you think of it?

  Homer Eakins : Since it obviously isn't a relative, I'll assume you're paying off an election bet.

  General Eakins : Young man, I shot that moose myself.

  Homer Eakins : Well, the least you can do is give it a decent burial.

• General Eakins : Don't tell me. Don't even tell me. That little ratty face, that big mouth that never stops going, those same blame aggravatin' ways.

  Homer Eakins : Dear Uncle, you haven't forgotten me.

  General Eakins : Homer Eakins.

• General Eakins : Do you have to go?

  Bret Maverick : Well, let's say I don't have to stay.

  General Eakins : Well, what can you get somewheres else that you can't get here?

  Bret Maverick : A good night sleep.

• General Eakins : Aw, Luther's dead from the neck up and half dead from there on down.

• Bret Maverick : As my pappy used to say, a man who can't find his own troubles doesn't deserve to share someone else's.

  General Eakins : Maverick, did your pappy have anything comical to say about money?

  Bret Maverick : No, he always spoke very highly of it.

• General Eakins : Homer, if we was both to go to Paris, we could sure do her up in great style.

  Homer Eakins : Do you think you could behave yourself?

  General Eakins : No.

  Homer Eakins : All right, Paris it is.

• Bret Maverick : You think I have an honest face?

  General Eakins : No, I don't, but at least you ain't a relative.