- Bart Maverick: As my old Pappy used to say, "If you can't fight 'em, and they won't let you join 'em, best get out of the county."
- Pender: [Hadley] has cleaned up crime.
- Bart Maverick: Even if he had to bring it along with him?
- Pender: Don't you let nobody else hear you say that. You'd stand a better chance of getting' bit by a rattlesnake with the rabies if your name should ever go into that book that little man is writing.
- Copes: And therefore,
- [Hadley]
- Copes: favors the décor of a hunting lodge.
- Bart Maverick: Has anyone weighed his brain lately?
- Cherokee Dan Evans: You missed him.
- Bart Maverick: I couldn't have missed him.
- [shots are fired at Bart]
- Bart Maverick: I missed him.