Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Kate Crawley Story (1964)

John McIntire: Christopher Hale

Quotes 

• Christopher Hale : Kate, you are an enigma.

  Kate Crawley : Now, hold it, friend. Hold it. I've been called a lot of things in my life, but never an e-?

  Christopher Hale : Enigma.

  Kate Crawley : Is that good or bad?

  Christopher Hale : A puzzle. That's what you are, you're a puzzle.

  Kate Crawley : Oh, no, Chris. Not to you. To just about everyone else in this world. But not to you. You're the only one who really knows me.

  Christopher Hale : Do I, Kate?

  Kate Crawley : Are you serious? For Pete's sake, after four years of holding hands, I can't see what's a mystery to you.

• Kate Crawley : Chris, don't spoof me. Tell me the truth. Do I look as ridiculous as I feel?

  Christopher Hale : You look lovely, Kate. I really mean it, lovely.

  Kate Crawley : As long as you think so.

  Christopher Hale : Come on, I'll introduce you to the field of feminine combat. Let's go and give the ladies a treat.

• Christopher Hale : Mess? Oh, no. Not at all. We'll just have to keep our eyes open for the next hundred miles expecting retaliation attack every foot of the way, that's all.

  Kate Crawley : An Indian attack?

  Christopher Hale : That's the way they usually do it. Why, Kate, why didn't you let me handle it? Why couldn't you be a lady for ten more minutes.

  Kate Crawley : Because I'm not a lady. And I never was. And you had no right to make me act like one. Even Stump Beasley was willing to take me as I am. Was, ohh. Am, ohh.

• Kate Crawley : [Chris Hale is sleeping in his hammock]  Rise and shine, sun's up, wagonmaster

  [She tips him out] 

  Kate Crawley : Look at him standing there in your longjohns with his eyes bugging out and his mouth open. Now he don't look much like a wagonmaster to me.

  Christopher Hale : Kate Crawley.

  Kate Crawley : Is this the best you can do when an old friend comes to see you. Looks like I'm going to have to show you how an old friend should be greeted

  [she gives him a smacking kiss] 

  Kate Crawley : . Let that be a lesson to you.

  Christopher Hale : [He yanks her into a firm hold, tips her and gives her a much longer smacking kiss]  Let that be a lesson to you. And any of the rest of you want to take notes. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll put my pants on.

  Charlie Wooster : No fool like an old fool.