Maverick (TV Series)

Burial Ground of the Gods (1958)

Claude Akins: Paisley Briggs

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Paisley Briggs : Oh, help. Oh, help, somebody.

  [Bart looks into a dark alley and sees a man lying on the ground calling for help] 

  Paisley Briggs : Somebody, help. Help.

  [Bart looks around and doesn't see anyone else to help and enters the alley] 

  Paisley Briggs : What's the matter?

  [Paisley stops acting and points his pistol at Bart] 

  Paisley Briggs : I'm sorry. I really am. I never done a thing like this before.

  Bart Maverick : Still time to change your mind.

• Laura Stanton : But all six men aboard that stagecoach were killed by Indians.

  Paisley Briggs : Six men was killed, and six men burned, and six men buried, but there must've been a seventh man.

• Paisley Briggs : So, whether you love your husband or the man you're fixin' to marry, it, uh, seems to me the answer is all the same. Bury the dead, I say.

  Laura Stanton : Of course, silence is golden... Isn't that right, Mr. Briggs?

• Paisley Briggs : For a man who lives a soft life, Mr. Asher, you hit awful hard.

  Paul Asher : That's how I earned a soft life, Mr. Briggs.

• [pointing to the Indians' smoke signals] 

  Paisley Briggs : Your ears burnin', folks? You're bein' talked about.

• Bart Maverick : Paisley, just when I think I got you figured out, you have to go and do something decent.

  Paisley Briggs : I could kick myself.

• [Bret leads the supposedly dead Phillip Staunton into camp] 

  Paisley Briggs : Well, what do you know? I wasn't lyin'!

• [last lines] 

  Paisley Briggs : Well, Mr. Maverick, only 10 more miles to Denver. Every mile's worth a thousand dollars to me. Yes, sir. Tomorrow morning, I'm on my way to Ellie May with ten thousand dollars in my jeans.

  Bart Maverick : Correction, Paisley. Eight thousand, eight hundred. Remember me?

  Paisley Briggs : Oh, Maverick.