- [first lines]
- [four Mexicans confront Clay with guns drawn]
- Calderon: Pardon, senor. It is a mistake.
- Clay Culhane: Is it?
- Calderon: You are frightened, senor. You think that we are bandits.
- Clay Culhane: I don't exactly take you for traveling salesmen.
- Clay Culhane: All right, put them away!
- Calderon: We have no quarrel with you, senor.
- Clay Culhane: Let's keep it that way! Go on back down the hill.
- Calderon: You are making a great mistake!
- Clay Culhane: Well, that puts us even. Now git - fast!
- [Scott prevents Calderon and his men from battering down Martinez's door]
- Calderon: Permit me, senor, I have with me a writ of extradition for Juan Martinez, so called. I am empowered by your government to arrest and return him to Mexico. As you can see, it's all proper and legal.
- Marshal Gib Scott: In this country, it's not legal or proper to break a man's door down without a search warrant!
- Juan Martinez: Be assured, senor, the paper they have obtained is not merely a warrant for my extradition. Had it not been for your warning on road, it would have been my death warrant.
- Marshal Gib Scott: I ought to throw Culhane in jail for obstructing the law.
- Nora Travers: Those men aren't interested in the law.
- Marshal Gib Scott: Well, I am!
- Judge Caleb Marsh: We have no jurisdiction over this man. He belongs to Mexico and it says so right here and it's been signed and sealed by the highest court in New Mexico.
- Clay Culhane: Oh, now wait a minute!
- Judge Caleb Marsh: No sir, you wait and you better do some listening, counselor, before I find you in contempt! I figure a young country lawyer can't be expected to be up on matters of international whittle-whangin', but that don't change the law.
- Judge Caleb Marsh: I'm sorry, sir, I'm real sorry. I only wish that there is something I could do, but that paper don't change anything.
- Juan Martinez: I understand, sir. If a law is to be respected, it must apply equally to all men. I would have it so in my own country if I would have the opportunity to enforce it.