- Angus Mac Gregor: Dead ten times over. Jim, I never saw done to any creature what was done to him. Never.
- Marshal Jim Crown: Doc, what do you think killed him - man or beast?
- Dr. Kihlgren: Neither. I've seen men who died in a hundred different ways. Gunshot, stabbin', clawed by a grizzly, strangled, stomped by a horse, gored - you name it, I've been there to pick up the pieces. But this is somethin'... somethin' else.
- Marshal Jim Crown: There's got to be an explanation.
- Dr. Kihlgren: Alright, you call it! Man, beast, say he was killed by a rock slide if you want. But whatever killed Walt Daggett, I can't put a name to it.
- Dr. Kihlgren: Now superstition feeds on ignorance and rumor. Well, there isn't nothin' I can do about the ignorance, but I won't add to the rumor. We'll nail him in a box and put him in the ground before anyone else sees him and pretend it never happened.