Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

American Primitive (1963)

Richard Boone: Paladin

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• Sheriff Ernie Backwater : Well let's get him to the undertaker and I'll buy a beer.

  Paladin : Ernie. Whiskey.

  Sheriff Ernie Backwater : Then you pay.

• Sheriff Ernie Backwater : Most men lie to themselves about something. That they're stronger than they are, or faster than they are. Well, I lie about standing on my own two feet. I never asked another man's help or ever will. Do you wanna come?

  Paladin : My pleasure.

  Sheriff Ernie Backwater : I thank you for that but it won't be a pleasure. He'll probably kill us both. He's like a storm, or pestilence, or drought.

  Paladin : A force of nature, huh?

  Sheriff Ernie Backwater : Like a force of nature, savage, fiercesome. The Comanches have a name for the kind of Texas man who took this part of the country away from the Mexicans, drove the Apaches into the Cherakawas, and the Comanches into the State Plains. You know what it is?

  Paladin : Ameri fore.

  Sheriff Ernie Backwater : Savage American.

  Paladin : Savage American? That's not really a good translation. It's more like, like American primitive.

  Sheriff Ernie Backwater : Pay's $3 a day. Raise your right hand.

• Paladin : It's an invitation to a breath of mountain air and peace, quiet and serenity.

  Maggie : All that on only one sheet of paper?

• Paladin : I think I'm beginning to yearn for things pastoral. Trees tall and green, scrape the sky when the wind blows. Clouds, white, and fat.

  Maggie : Well, for that I could qualify meself.

  Paladin : Open spaces, vast, empty, untouched.

  Maggie : Are you tired of people, Mr Paladin, sir?

  Paladin : Most of them, Maggie.

• Maggie : Well, Mr Paladin, it's early that you've returned.

  Paladin : Maggie, it's 3 am!

  Maggie : Well, I said it was early.

• Paladin : I think I'm beginning to yearn for things pastoral. Trees tall, green, scraping the sky when the wind blows, and clouds white and fat.

  Maggie : Well, for that I could qualify myself.

  Paladin : Open spaces, vast, empty, untouched

  Maggie : Are yah tired of people, Mr Paladin, sir?

  Paladin : Most of them, Maggie.