- [first lines]
- Tom: Hey, they say you're Pierce Martin. Is that right?
- Pierce Martin: Yes, that's right. My name's Martin.
- Tom: They say you're a fast man with a gun. Is that right?
- [Martin ignores Tom]
- Tom: Hey, Mister. When I ask a question, I want an answer. Are you a fast man with a gun.
- Pierce Martin: No.
- Tom: That's funny I heard you were. Maybe you're just yellow, huh?
- [shaking his head, Martin picks up his whiskey and moves to another table, but Tom follows him and knocks over the bottle]
- Tom: Gee, I'm sorry. I spilled your drink.
- [disgusted, Martin throws money on the table and starts to leave, but Tom blocks his way]
- Tom: What does it take to make you draw?
- Pierce Martin: I don't want to draw.
- Tom: Well, you're gonna... because I'm gonna.
- Pierce Martin: Don't do it. Please.
- Tom: Now, I'm going to count to three, Martin and on three, I'm pullin'.
- Pierce Martin: Somebody stop him, please!
- Tom: One... two... three!
- [Tom starts to draw, but Martin still shoots first and kills him]
- Pierce Martin: Why didn't you stop him?
- Simon Kane: Anything I can do for ya?
- Pierce Martin: Now why would you want to do anything for *me*.
- Simon Kane: Oh, no reason. I can see you been travelin'. Thought you might to fill your canteen... might want to feed your horse. That's all.
- Pierce Martin: Sorry. When a man rides with a bounty on his saddle for so long, you get out of the habit of trustin' people.
- Simon Kane: I can see that.
- Pierce Martin: No, Mister, you can't. Nooo.
- Davey Kane: They say you're as fast as Wyatt Earp. Are you?
- Pierce Martin: I don't know... I don't intend to find out.
- Davey Kane: But you're a preacher...
- Jim Hallett: And you're wondering how a preacher can have a man like Pierce Martin for a friend, is that it? Sit down, David. David, do you remember that wolf cub that Luke found up on the trail and brought home?
- Davey Kane: Oh, you mean Buff.
- Jim Hallett: You raised Buff, didn't you and loved him? You didn't think of him as being a wolf. He was your dog. Then he started killing sheep and they had to shoot him. Did you stop loving him?
- Davey Kane: No.
- Jim Hallett: That's the way I feel about Pierce Martin.
- Simon Kane: During the war, I was pinned down in a swamp with a whole bunch of Johnny Rebs beatin' the bush for me. I don't mind tellin' you I was scared. As a matter of fact, I'd never been that scared before in my whole life. So maybe I don't think that much of puttin' another man through that much scarin' - even a man like Red Martin.
- [Hallett leads the posse to Martin's favorite place]
- Jim Hallett: Why did you have to come back here, Pierce.
- Pierce Martin: Why I don't know.
- Jim Hallett: They found that other man you shot. Why did you have to kill him?
- Pierce Martin: I don't know that, either.
- [last lines]
- Jim Hallett: I understand you've been doing some *talking* around town.
- Simon Kane: A word here and there - nothing more.
- Jim Hallett: Well, whatever it is, I want to thank you. You helped me get my church back again.
- Simon Kane: It's an even trade.
- Jim Hallett: An even trade?
- Simon Kane: Well, a man who's been through what you have and come out ahead, drawing on a far greater strength than his own, I never saw this in a man before I saw it in you. Let's say you've given me and a lot of the other people in this town a new look at God and let it go at that.