Lonesome Dove (TV Mini Series)

The Plains (1989)

Robert Duvall: Augustus 'Gus' McCrae

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Quotes 

• Pea Eye Parker : What's it read, Gus?

  Gus McCrae : It says, "Josh Deets. Served with me 30 years. Fought In 21 engagements with the Comanche and the Kiowa. Cheerful in all weathers. Never shirked a task. Splendid behavior." That's what it says.

  Pea Eye Parker : My lord. Old Deets is gone. My lord.

• Gus McCrae : [Call is about to hang Jake]  You know how it goes, Jake. You ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. Sorry you crossed the line.

  Jake Spoon : I never seen no line, Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without gettin' scalped.

  Gus McCrae : I don't doubt that's true, Jake.

• Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : I told you what happened. It's an accident she's even on this trip.

  Clara Allen : Oh, I never noticed you having accidents with ugly girls!

• [last lines] 

  Woodrow Call : I guess it's our fault, we shoulda shot sooner.

  Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : I don't want to start thinking, Woodrow, about all the things we that shoulda done for this good man.

• Gus McCrae : You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line.

• Gus McCrae : [after Woodrow almost beats a man to death for whipping Newt and hitting some of his men]  It don't do to anger Woodrow F. Call, does it?

• Woodrow Call : Didn't you hear me? I said get your boots off

  Dan Suggs : Damned if we will. I said we were horse traders

  Gus McCrae : We're more persuaded by the bodies we just buried. Get your boots off

  Dan Suggs : I don't know what the hell you're talkin' about

  Gus McCrae : You're a black liar sir

  Dan Suggs : Just ask Jake if we didn't buy them horses

  Woodrow Call : 'dyou buy them three cowboys you shot? 'dyou buy them two farmers you burned? Pea, you & Newt get your ropes; tie 'em up

  Jake Spoon : Oh you don't need to tie me up, Newt. Hell I ain't killed anybody. I just fell in with these boys to get me through the territory; hell I was gonna leave 'em first chance I got

  Gus McCrae : I wish you'd taken that chance a little earlier, Jake; a man who'll go along with five killin's, takin' his leave a little slow. Go ahead Newt

  Jake Spoon : Pea, you know me; I ain't no killer. Deets you know it too. Gus I ain't no criminal; now you know that. It was Dan that killed them two sod-busters. Hell I didn't kill nobody

  Dan Suggs : You shut your damn mouth, Spoon

  Woodrow Call : Put 'em on their horses

  Roy Suggs : Where's he goin'?

  Gus McCrae : Pick out a tree to hang you from, son

  Jake Spoon : Gus, I...

  Gus McCrae : You know how it works, Jake: you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line

  Jake Spoon : I didn't see no line, Gus. I was just tryin' to get through the territory, without gettin' scalped; that's all

  Gus McCrae : I'm sure that's true, Jake

• Newt Dobbs : Jake was no killer.

  Augustus 'Gus' McCrae : Jake liked to joke, he didn't like to work. I got exactly those same feelings myself.

• Woodrow Call : Gus is told his other leg must be removed or he will die. He refuses. Call: What you need legs for, all you do is sit on the porch and drink whiskey?

  Gus McCrae : Gus: I like to kick a pig once in awhile, how would I do that?