- Bart Maverick: Since when did you turn honest?
- Gentleman Jack Darby: Oh, well, I, um, I have these sudden lapses.
- [first lines]
- Boone Gillis: Rain's still coming down wholesale. Think the good Lord is over-stocked. We don't get rain in these parts 'cept once in five years. Then they get us a real goose-drownder like this one, sorta to make up for lost time.
- Stella Legendre: He's a real man.
- Bart Maverick: But a dead one. He's been dead a long time. My old Pappy used to say, "Those who try to live by the gun, die by the neck."
- [last lines]
- Boone Gillis: You should've left sooner.
- Bart Maverick: Well, if we leave now, we still might get across that creek.
- Boone Gillis: Oh, I wouldn't, if I were you. Most of the mountains back of here empty into that creek and they sure empty fast. Creek wasn't too low to start with. And it's going to get a lot higher fast.
- Gentleman Jack Darby: High card?
- Bart Maverick: High card.
- Gentleman Jack Darby: You deal.