Maverick (TV Series)

The Jail at Junction Flats (1958)

James Garner: Bret Maverick

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• Bret Maverick : [narrating]  Dandy Jim Buckley was a changed man. Getting a sense of decency. All the other times he'd robbed me and sneaked off in the night, he'd taken my horse, too.

• Dandy Jim Buckley : Maverick, hold up, there.

  Bret Maverick : Dandy Jim Buckley.

  Dandy Jim Buckley : By George, it's a small world, isn't it?

  Bret Maverick : Crowded is the word for it.

• Bret Maverick : Buckley, if you lay a hand on my horse, you'll never need yours again.

  Dandy Jim Buckley : Maverick, old boy, I was bringing him to you.

  Bret Maverick : Yeah, by way of Idaho.

• [Dandy Jim is dividing his wad of cash into two stacks] 

  Dandy Jim Buckley : Jim Buckley: Twenty for you, twenty for me. Twenty for you, twenty for me. Maverick, friend, you're not really going to give yours back, are you?

  Bret Maverick : You don't understand me at all, Buckley. I love money but I hate jails.

• Bret Maverick : [narrating]  Now he wouldn't have gone that way, because that way is Broken Wheel and they'd kill him there. My idea was to follow him that way and maybe just half kill him.

• Bartender : I ain't ever seen the sheriff this mad since the day... Hognose Hughes broke out of his jail. Sheriff swore nobody would ever break out of his jail again. The way he feels now, though, I don't suppose he'd mind people breaking in for a worthy cause.

  Bret Maverick : Oh, and lynching is a worthy cause?

  Bartender : Well, now, it does help folks let off steam.

• Bret Maverick : You don't know me at all, Buckley. I've never broken anybody out of jail in my life. And, if I were to start, why would I start with you? You tell me why I'd do it?

  Dandy Jim Buckley : Because you're greedy and because I know where the money is. And if these rubes string me up, I'll die a rich man.

• Madame Higgins : What are you doing in my basement?

  Bret Maverick : Well, I hate to say this, ma'am, but I'm looking for something to tie you up with.

• Dandy Jim Buckley : Did you ever read the story of Robert the Bruce when you were a child?

  Bret Maverick : No. And I just don't believe that you were ever a child.

• [first lines] 

  Bret Maverick : [narrating]  Up till about 1869, nobody had ever heard of a town named Junction Flats, Wyoming. Then, all of a sudden, Junction Flats got its name in all the papers... for a while. It was in Junction Flats that a staunch, young sheriff, named Morrison Pyne single-handedly captured Hognose Hughes, the terror of the western Plain. As it turned out, Sheriff Pyne's day in the sun was a pretty short one because it was from this same jail on the same day that Hognose Hughes made his spectacular escape to freedom. On his way to the city limits, he lowered the population of Junction Flats 10 percent by killing 13 of its leading citizens. The fellows who untied the sheriff said he was fit to be tied all over again. That's all there is to the story. The only reason I mention it at all is, oh, about eight years later I happened to pass through the town of Broken Wheel, about 40 miles west of Junction Flats. I was minding my own business, which is poker. One look into the community center and I knew I was in the wrong town.