The Wild Wild West (TV Series)

The Night of the Cut-Throats (1967)

Ross Martin: Artemus Gordon

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Quotes 

• Mike Trayne : The citizens of New Athens took everything I had.

  Artemus Gordon : What can you do in return? You can't steal a whole town.

  Mike Trayne : No. No, but you can erase it. Take away from it all that endures in memory. You see, I'm going to burn New Athens to the ground. And with it all the public and private records, papers, deeds, transactions, certificates of birth and death; in short, all the paper symbols of permanence. There will be nothing left to show that New Athens ever existed.

• [last lines] 

  James T. West : You just convinced me. I should have suspected Sally from the beginning.

  Artemus Gordon : What do you mean?

  James T. West : Well, anyone that would hire you to play a piano had to have a mean streak clear through.

  Artemus Gordon : Well, that's very funny. That's very funny.