The Rifleman (TV Series)
The Mind Reader (1959)
Michael Landon: Billy Mathis
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Quotes
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[Lucas wants to talk to Billy about John Hallager's murder]
Marshal Micah Torrance : [to Billy] You got some more company, boy.
Lucas McCain : How are you Billy?
Billy Mathis : [looks up from his cot] Expect an answer to that?
Lucas McCain : I didn't ask to hear my head roar.
[Billy puts his head down on the cot]
Billy Mathis : [sarcastically] I get free lodge and three meals a day. What more can a man ask?
Marshal Micah Torrance : I've heard all this before. I'll be in the office.
[leaves the room]
Lucas McCain : Did you bushwhack John Hallager?
Billy Mathis : [bitterly] What difference does that make?
Lucas McCain : GET ON YOUR FEET WHEN YOU TALK TO ME!
[Billy gets up from his cot, stands up, and walks over to Lucas]
Lucas McCain : There, that's better.
Billy Mathis : Nah, not to me it isn't. I'm still looking out through the bars.