"You say the innocent among you go free." "Is that it, Turner?" "A murderer, an adultress, an embezzler, a cutthroat... where do I look for innocence?" "And there he was... the Bengal." "He must have circled around us up here somewhere." "Magnificent beast." "Magnificent." "But of course, you can imagine the delicacy of the situation." "There was the tiger..." "the Maharaja here." "Of course, the Maharaja had first shot at the beast." "But, um..." "Short-sighted." "Nearsighted." "Refused to wear spectacles." "Refused point-blank." "I say, that's rather funny..." "Ha!" "Point-blank?" "Hello?" "Hunting, shooting... point-blank." "Yes." "Well, his gun wavered a little bit, like this." "There seemed to be some doubt in his mind as to which one of us was the tiger." "My dear fellow, now tell me, what would you've done?" "Shot the Maharaja, of course." "Mr. Paladin." "Excuse me." ""Take the Yuma stage from San Ysidro." "Other half of bill and further details at meeting."" "Who left this for me, Hey Boy?" "I don't know." "It seems he doesn't care about his own money." "Well, he has great confidence in its ability to persuade, and..." "He's right, I think." "Of course." "Lay out my clothes." "Excuse me." "Surely." "I say, boy, you know, Maharajas are sort of foreign chaps." "You don't pot them." "San Ysidro." "San Ysidro Station, folks." "Where is that stage?" "Howdy." "My name's Altman." "You folks traveling to Yuma on business or pleasure?" "Why?" "Say, haven't I seen you somewhere?" "I got a memory like a mean mule." "Picture in the paper maybe?" "Uh, excuse me." ""The Brothers Kara..."" ""...mazov."" "Like the James Boys and the Daltons, huh?" "Well, myself, I don't give any time over to reading that penny-dreadful stuff." "Me, I'll stick with Josh Billings." "Seems like there was these two country boys" " come to the big city..." " Mr. Altman." "Well, right off..." "You've heard it?" "No, sir, but I don't think it won't sit very well with Dostoevsky." "Oh." "Well, it don't pay to eat that foreign stuff." "That's one thing I learned as a traveling man." "Insurance... casualty, fire, life, full line." "Just retired." "Cigar?" "Hey, keep your hands out there where I can see 'em." "I was just getting a cigar, that's all." "Look." "All right." "What you got in that black case you've been hanging onto?" "Oh, nothing." "Nothing at all." "Just papers, stuff like that." "I'd just better take a look." "Sheriff, you're way out of line." "Oh, you don't want to pay no mind to the sheriff." "He's kind of skittish this morning." "You see, he's got it in his head that a whole bunch of friends of mine are hanging around here, just waiting to blow a hole clean through him." "You ain't missing the rope this time, Jelly." "'Cause no man takes a prisoner from me..." " not alive, anyway." " Oh, is that so?" "Well now, sheriff, you never know what a desperate type like me is gonna try." "Sheriff, listen, I know what you expect." "You expect me to hire a gunman, don't ya?" "Like him." "Well, that's natural you'd expect that." "But I want to tell you something." "Look over here." "You see this fellow over here, the one sitting next to that pretty, little lady?" "Now look at him close." "Sneaky-lookin'." "He got eyes like a real killer." "You carrying a gun?" "No." "I'd like to see what's making that bulge under your coat, just the same." "My husband was an officer in the Army." "He doesn't have to submit to this." "Open your coat." "Slow!" "An officer." "Captain." "Say, I knew it'd come back to me." "Why sure, I read the whole thing..." "the trial, I mean..." "How you shot this other officer..." "Major." "What did you say?" "My rank was Major." "Have some jelly beans, Major?" "You know, Sheriff, thinking it over now, I, um, now if I was... if I was going to hire a gunman, he'd be the one, all right." "Of course, I don't know what his price is, but I got I think I that got friends that would stand the gaff." "$2,000?" "$3,000?" "You're very fortunate to have such loyal friends." "You just stay away from him." "Ho!" "Ho!" "Ho!" "Them what's for Yuma, we're runnin' late." "Everybody on." "All right, Jelly." "Get yourself in." "Sheriff, you wouldn't shoot a man in the back, would you, not in front of all these witnesses?" "Sheriff, why don't you have some of my jelly beans?" "Come on, get in!" "Get in!" "All right, Jelly." "Get yourself in." "I'll take that gun of yours till we get to Yuma." "What is it, Sheriff?" "You determined to save Jelly's friends that $3,000?" "Hey, Conlon!" "Why don't you take it away from him?" "I mean, if you figure you're fast enough." "Why don't you shut your mouth?" "Say, mister, better watch that sheriff." "He's a back-shooter." "I'm aware of Sheriff's reputation... and yours." "Yah!" "Yah!" "Aye, muchacho, no." "Now listen..." "Buenos dias, senors." "We have guns." "We have more guns, plenty more guns." "I don't care how many they got." "They ain't getting Jelly." "If that's what they were interested in, they'd have nailed you when you stepped out of that coach." "These men are bandits, Sheriff." "Can't you see that?" "They'll take everything we have if you don't do something." " What do you want?" " To talk." "Yeah, well, you do your talking from there, or else I'll put a bullet in your gut." "Hey, you shoot me, my men will shoot you just as quick." "That makes the buzzards more smart, huh?" "Only a foolish man would feed the buzzards with his belly." "I only wish to talk, senors." " Now just wait a minute." " Not with you." "I think maybe you." " How are you called, senor?" " Paladin." "My name is Solomon." "Hmm." "Already I have killed four men for laughing." "A man's name is his own." "Well, Solomon, what is it you want?" "This one is called Miguel." "One month ago, a gringo drink too much in his village and leave his woman dead." "He see that man get on the stagecoach, he come to tell me." "Now we will that man who killed Miguel's woman." "Well, if Miguel knows which one it is, why doesn't he complain to the authorities?" "If you were to ask Miguel this, he would say," ""No one will listen to my complaints."" "But he is wrong." "I listen." "Well, Solomon, you may listen, but you are not the law." "Now you are wrong, Senor Paladin." "For those such as Miguel, there is no other." "You ain't taking my prisoner away from me." "Stay back!" "My back was in your keeping, senor." "Gracias." "De nada." "You were doing a necessary thing." "He was a very stupid man." "In such an exchange, nobody wins." "Nobody." "Nobody wins but the buzzards... and the magpie." "Si." "Always in the end it is them, huh?" "For you, too, Solomon... and for me." "Ay, when I first see you, I have a smell for you." "You and me, compadre, we have the same bad dreams." "No hay mas tiempo." "Si, si." "Your federales know pretty good I've come over the border." "They find me maybe one hour." "Solomon... which one of those people on the stagecoach is it?" "Gracias." "Uh, only Miguel knows." "He's no longer with us." "Mmm." "That's too bad." "Too bad." "Si, it's too bad." "Now you will have to pick one for me." "I don't have the right to do that." "But if you do not, by the time this is finished," "I will have to shoot everyone in the stagecoach." "You, too, I think." "Ay, pick a bird for me to share with the buzzards." "Miguel would not care now which one it is." "Jelly!" "Get a shovel out of the boot." "Well?" "Are you volunteering?" "No." "Uh-uh." "Driver, how well can you use that thing?" "Oh, fair." "But what difference would it make?" "We wouldn't stand a belly rat's chance against them, and you know it." "Why don't you pick someone like he says?" "It's probably him they're looking for anyway." "Listen, Turner, there's a lot of things that I am, but that's one thing that I ain't." "My way of dealing with women doesn't include killing 'em." "You follow me?" "I wouldn't be likely to follow you anywhere." "Well, pretty little lady, there's a lot of them that has, and they ain't any of 'em gone away crying'." "Well, he's not quite as dashing as Lieutenant Carson was, but he seems to have the same way of looking at you." " Stop it, Ralph." " Why?" "We're all going to be dead in half an hour anyway." "You killed Carson, didn't you?" "Isn't that enough?" "No." "To my wife's honor, gentlemen." "It came at a very high price." "Yes, very high." "And you're going to see that I pay for it to the last second, aren't you?" "Well, what about him?" "Or you?" "Senor Paladin!" "Kill us all, that's what he means." " Well, not me!" " Altman!" "Leave me alone!" "I'm not going to be slaughtered with the rest of you." "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot, mister." "Please don't shoot." "I have something in here." "All right?" "I have money to pay you in here," " If you let me go." " You let me see." "First you have to promise me that you'll let me go." "You let me see!" "It's paper." "Nothing but paper." "They're bonds, negotiable bonds." "They're good anywhere." "You got no gold?" "That's $90,000 there." "I took it from the company I worked for, so I know it's good." "You understand?" "You got no silver?" "I'll give it all to you." "$90,000." "No." "No!" "No!" "Solomon!" "Senor Paladin, take your rabbit back." "Senor Paladin, your time is growing short." "My men wish to see it done." "I would be a sad thing if they did not see it done." "So you give me one, huh?" "We have no other choice, you and me." "One comes out, the others go free." "You would take the word of a bandito?" "I'll take your word." " On the grave of my mother." " No." "On that." "On what you and I know about bad dreams." "Si." "On that." "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo." "You can't do that." "You can't just pick somebody out." " Why not?" " Because it's not fair." "If one of us is guilty, that's who it has to be." "Oh." "And the innocent, Turner?" "The innocent go free." "An embezzler... convicted cutthroat... an adulteress... and a murderer." "Just where do you suggest I start looking for innocence?" " Wait a minute." " That's not right, Paladin." " What about you?" " What about me?" "Who are you to choose?" "How do we know what you're guilty of?" "Who am I to choose?" "Ask him." "And as for what you know about my guilt, you don't." "That's right." "For all we know, you may have did the Mexican's wife." "That's right." "I don't believe it." "For that, I thank you." "So what are you going to do now?" "Well, Jelly you don't have too much to lose if you made that walk out there." "Do you?" "I guess not." "Turner... you're going to drown yourself in that bottle before too much longer, so it wouldn't be any great sacrifice for you to walk out there, would it?" "Altman... you don't have a lot to lose, now that Solomon and the wind have blown your dreams away, do you?" "No." "Solomon!" "Si, senor." "I've chosen." "You don't have to." "Not you." "None of them is worth your life." "Nor his." "But which one would you choose?" "Mister, maybe you're right." "I don't have anything to lose." "But I saw him take Conlon, and I'm betting the chances on my neck that he takes you." "I would have expected you to have offered me." "But then, you do love me." "Do you think so?" "You, Senor Paladin?" "Must it be this way?" "Solomon, you're asking me to judge them." "I only want you to pick one for me." "I can't do it, Solomon." "I can't give you a life." "You force me to choose, then I have to choose the one man over whom I do have the power of life and death." " I am sorry, senor." " Let it go, Solomon." "One of us will die, and justice will not be served." "I have also make a promise to Miguel." "No mas." "Esta bien." "When I first see you..." "I have a smell for you." "In the end, they... they always win, huh?" ""Have Gun Will Travel"" "Reads the card of a man" "A knight without armor in a savage land" "His fast gun for hire" "Heeds the calling wind" "A soldier of fortune" "Is the man called Paladin" "Paladin, Paladin, where do you roam?" "Paladin, Paladin, far, far from home"