[first title card]
Title card: Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared.
[last lines]
Monco: [counting reward sums of outlaws he just killed] Ten thousand... twelve thousand... fifteen... sixteen... seventeen... twenty-two. Twenty-two?
[a wounded Groggy comes from behind and raises his gun; Monco whirls and shoots him dead]
Monco: ...Twenty-seven.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: Any trouble, boy?
Monco: No, old man. Thought I was having trouble with my adding. It's all right now.
Monco: Tell me, Colonel... Were you ever young?
Col. Douglas Mortimer: Yup. And just as reckless as you. Then one day, something happened. It made life very precious to me.
Monco: What's that?
[Mortimer shoots a glance at him]
Monco: Or is the question indiscreet?
Col. Douglas
Mortimer: [pause, then] No. No, the question isn't indiscreet. But the answer could be.
Wild, The Hunchback: Well well, if it isn't the smoker. Well... Remember me, amigo?
Col. Douglas Mortimer: M-Mm.
Wild, The Hunchback: 'Course you do. El Paso.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: It's a small world.
Wild, The Hunchback: Yes, and very, very bad. Now come on, you light another match.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: I generally smoke just after I eat. Why don't you come back in about ten minutes?
Wild, The Hunchback: Ten minutes you'll be smoking in hell. Get up!
Train Conductor: Hey, Mister. You just can't pull the emergency cord and jump off! Tell me, why did you stop that train? If you wanna get off, you're...
[looks at Mortimer's gun]
Train Conductor: Well, the railroad company would might be pleased to make any arrangements for any passenger, if you wanna get off, Dear Sir.
Col. Douglas
Mortimer: I did get off. Thanks.
Cuccillo: [Looking at dead body] Who did it?
El Indio: Why don't you look at the knife?
Cuccillo: [short pause] It's mine.
El Indio: And it shouldn't be there, should it?
[Mortimer has just recovered the watch from Indio, which contains a picture of the woman that Indio raped]
Monco: [peers at the picture] There seems to be a family resemblance.
[He hands Mortimer the similar watch with the same picture he had taken earlier]
Monco: Here.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: [pause, then] Naturally,
between brother and sister.
Sherrif of White Rocks: [Hands Monco the reward money for Red Cavanaugh] Two thousand dollars. It's a lot of money. Takes me three years to earn it!
Monco: Tell me, isn't the sheriff supposed to be courageous, loyal, and above all, honest?
Sherrif of White Rocks: Yeah. That he is.
Monco: [Pulls off his
sheriff's star and walks out] I think you people need a new sheriff.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: [discussing strategy to defeat Indio] When two hunters go after the same prey, they usually end up shooting each other in the back. And we don't want to shoot each other in the back.
Monco: [amused] Then the Colonel dies...
Col. Douglas Mortimer: One from the outside one from the inside. There's no other way.One of us will have to join Indio's gang.
Monco: Why did you look at me when you said one of us?
Col. Douglas Mortimer: Because they don't know you. Wild sees me and his hump will catch on fire.
Monco: Tell me Colonel... how
do you propose that I join up with Indio? Maybe bring him a bunch of roses?
[first lines]
Train Conductor: Tickets. Tickets, please. Tickets. Tickets. Thank you. Tickets.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: Is this part of Tucumcari?
Train Conductor: We should pass there in about three to four minutes.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: Thanks.
Carpetbagger on Train: Well, eh,
excuse me, but you made a mistake, Reverend. I couldn't help hearing you're going to Tucumcari. I sell goods around here, and I gotta tell you, you're on the wrong train. I think the nearest stop to Tucumcari is Amarillo. By getting off at Santa Fe and returning by way of Amarillo, you should be able to get right where... you're... going.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: [slowly
peers over the top of his Bible with a steely stare] Huh...
Carpetbagger on Train: Uh... you see the train doesn't stop at Tucumcari.
Col. Douglas Mortimer: [stuffs his Bible into his bag] This train'll stop at Tucumcari...
Monco: Which way we headed?
El Indio: North.
Monco: North? Along Rio Bravo Canyon?
El Indio: Why not?
Monco: Seems like a pretty good place for an ambush to me.
El Indio: You know a better way to go?
Monco: Yeah, south.
El
Indio: Hm... ride to the border?
Monco: Tell me, isn't the Sheriff supposed to be courageous, loyal, and above all honest?
Sherrif of White Rocks: Yeah, that he is.
Monco: [grabs his badge and walks outside] I think you people need a new Sheriff.
[leaves the badge and rides off]