- [first lines]
- Henry the Scout: Campfire in Beekers Rocks. Want me to scout it, Mr. Blake?
- Sgt. Matt Blake: If it's an ambush they wouldn't light a fire.
- Henry the Scout: Mmm. Not an Apache ambush.
- Sgt. Matt Blake: Not if it's any ambush.
- [last lines]
- [Sgt. Blake orders the cache of repeating rifles burned to keep them from being captured by Apaches]
- Pvt. Zach: We lugged those rifles for a hundred miles... a hundred miles for nothing!
- Keith Williams: No, not for nothing. Sometimes you gotta lose before you finally win.
- Sgt. Matt Blake: A man's gotta take a lot of things he doesn't bargain for, Prescott. Maybe that's what makes him a man.