- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: Well, ain't that like a woman. Talking about a kitchen when a man comes courting.
- Jean Lewis: Here, mix. Oh, all right. You can sit down first. Take off our boots.
- Marv Jennings: Yeah, when you're inside, it's awful hard to recollect just how big a night sky can be.
- Max: Here, give her this. Jean loves flowers.
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: I know. A husband should know something about his wife.
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: It's not that simple, Mr Carr. Other people have a say about what happens to Jed Whitmore.
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: [Advice to Coop] When you settle down. make sure you got your past all wrapped up.
- Harry Whitmore: [Their first meeting] Jed!
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: Harry Whitmore.
- Harry Whitmore: [his unshaken hand drops to his side] It's been a long time. Just looking...
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: Harry Whitmore. You got a reputation I don't like.
- [Harry's smile disappears]
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: I came to tell you this town isn't for people like you.
- Harry Whitmore: Jed, it's me. Harry. I'm your brother. What's going on?
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: I don't know what you're so confused about. But you get one thing clear. You and your friends you got, got one day and then you're leaving. You're riding out and not coming back.
- Harry Whitmore: Jed, what are you saying?
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: Frank, Frank Lewis. I'm sheriff here. What are the likes of you doing in Springtown anyway?
- Marv Jennings: I don't like lawmen even if the name if Whitmore.
- Harry Whitmore: Wonder if I'll know him.
- Marv Jennings: What do you mean: If you know him?
- William Carr: How long has Frank Lewis been the sheriff here?
- Max: Ah, became sheriff right after he got married.
- William Carr: Has he been married long?
- Max: Yeah, ever since he's been sheriff.
- Harry Whitmore: You've got to listen to me. I'm your brother.
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: No, but if I had a brother I wouldn't turn on him.
- Harry Whitmore: Don't make me into a Cain. I didn't turn on my brother. I took care of him. I went up for twenty years and I kept my mouth shut. And that wasn't easy with everyone wanting to know where you were, day after day, year after year.
- Jean Lewis: Frank, do you have to go away? Is there something wrong? And don't shake your head and try to brush me off. I'm your wife, remember.
- Patsy Lewis: Where do men like that end their years? Coop said there was a man killed in that robbery. When I look at Mr Whitmore I -it's hard to believe.
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: Two men died that afternoon, Harry Whitmore's older brother and a train agent. It's hard to believe about Harry... Whitmore because, well, he wasn't responsible for either one of those killings.
- Patsy Lewis: Anything wrong, Dad?
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: Now did I say there was anything wrong? Your mother? We missed you, that's all that's been wrong.
- Sheriff Frank Lewis aka Jed Whitmore: It all started when Pa was killed as he wouldn't move off the land the railway wanted. Then Ma died. Just withered away and died 'cos she didn't like living any more. There was a set of steel tracks right through where her garden used to be. Yeah, there was nothing left for us but the folks' grave. So we lost our head and set out to get even with the world. For us, that meant the railroad.
- Jean Lewis: You're just going to give Marv that money?
- Harry Whitmore: Well, that isn't Marv's money. Ernie and Jed and me took that.
- Jean Lewis: I married Frank Lewis. He rode into town, got a job and I married him. I don't know any Jed Whitmore.
- Marv Jennings: He's a sheriff and he's famous, ain't he. He's more famous than you know. He's more famous than your Mama knows. There's men all over the country just waiting to meet up with Jed Whitmore.
- Patsy Lewis: My father is Frank Lewis.
- Christopher Hale: [Voiceover] Several years ago, before the Civil War, the railway had pushed its way across the Eastern States as far as St Joe, Missouri, making many friends but also leaving, in its path, many enemies. Among those enemies were the three Whitmore brothers who became almost a legend before staging what was known at the time as the "Great Train Robbery." Revenge was their motive to get even with that Monstrous Iron Horse.
- [They killed the agent and got away with the railway payroll of $100,000]
- Christopher Hale: For years to come, people were to tell stories of the three young Whitmores. Then there were only two. Ernie had been killed in the getaway and Jed and Harry rode on. Harry went East. Jed headed West. And then there was one. Harry was caught and served his time in the Peniteniary. Jed Whitmore, the youngest, was devoured by the growing West, never to be heard of again. Fifteen years had passed, the Civil War had been fought and people were still moving West.
- Marv Jennings: What was all that talk about that silver box?
- Harry Whitmore: That was something that belonged to our Ma. Yeah, Pa got it for her one time when she was mad at him. It was a kinda make-up present. Yeah, Ma sure thought lot of that box.
- Marv Jennings: Are you sure it was your Ma's?
- Harry Whitmore: You don't mistake nothing like that. Hey, are you sure Carl will give $5,000 just to talk to Jed?
- Marv Jennings: He said he would. Why not. It's a good story. Jed Whitmore is just about as famous as Jess James, even more so. Well, people, of course, don't know much about him. And Frank Lewis is famous too. Now you take two men like that and you put them together in the same skin, why you get a package people are gonna want to be reading about forever.
- Harry Whitmore: But we ain't sure that Jed and Frank Lewis is the same man.
- Marv Jennings: What about those tales we heard when we was in that jail in Cincinnati, about how Frank Lewis was cleaning up Springtown, about how he did it, all singlehanded, all without wearing a gun and all that hogwash. And you said at the time, it sounded to you just like your own baby brother Jed.
- William Carr: I'd like to buy you a drink.
- Cooper Smith: There's only so many hours in a day, so many things to do. Next time, maybe.
- William Carr: One? For the road? I hear it's a rather long road and dry. In places.
- Cooper Smith: All right, Mr Carr. One for the road.