"The man you're turning loose is a killer." "Sometime before sun-up, you're gonna want me to take him back, and you'll have to ask me." "Mr. Paladin." "Mr. Secretary, it's a pleasure and an honor to see you even under these circumstances." "Your servant, Mr. Paladin." "Hey Boy, thank you." "You have read the dossier?" "Yes." "Then please destroy it." "Mr. Secretary, there's one point I should make clear before we go any further." "You son is a murderer." "Under no circumstances will I help him to avoid punishment." "And under no condition whatsoever will I interfere with due process of the law." "Mr. Paladin, I'm asking you to do one thing... bring my son to justice." "Why the secrecy?" "To protect the administration from low gossip and sensationalism." "It's not public knowledge that I once married a dance hall girl." "Well, I will be as discreet as possible for as long as possible." "This may help you find him." "He uses his mother's name." "Lemont." "Billy Joe Lemont." "Poison, sorrow" "Hunger, pain" "A man can suffer and live again" "But nothing in this world" "Can save a man who needs a woman" "Who needs..." "Don't try it, Billy Joe." "Not if you want to live." "I wasn't considering it." "Who are you, mister?" "Put them on, through the belt." "You got the wrong man." "No." "Where to now?" "I've got friends down there." "Those are friends of yours, huh?" "Well, let's get our horses and go and see your friends." "Just a minute, Missy Decora, you ain't paid for neither of them drinks." "Now, just because we're moving off don't mean you have to give the stock away to the hired help." "Why, I'm awful sorry, Hanna." "It must have just slipped my mind, seeing as me and your husband had so much to talk about." "Poison, sorrow" "Hunger, pain" "A man can suffer and live again" "But nothing in this world" "Hello there, Miss Hanna, Woody." "Want me to water your horses?" "Thank you, son, I'd appreciate it." "You people know him?" "Never laid eyes on him." "You'd recognize me if I was standing on your bar top singing." "Billy?" "Billy Joe!" "Why, you wasn't more than that high!" "Oh, I remember now." "Uh, Hazel." "You're Hazel's little boy." "Well, Hazel's little boy has learned a couple of new tricks since last you saw him." "What you taking him in for?" "Murder." "Spitting in the street, more likely." "This boy ain't no killer." "Billy, we'll camp on the other side of the stream tonight." "Trail tramp." "I don't see no badge pinned on your chest." "No, you don't." "A bounty hunter." "I can smell it the minute you rode in here." "Laski's run into your kind before." "Well, Laski, one time could be enough for any man." " Boy." " Yes, sir." "It's for watering the horses." "Well, gosh, thanks." "Decora wants you to come over and fetch back some stew." "She says it's her stew, not Hanna's." "Sounds awful good." "It's better than beans." "Tell Miss Decora we will accept her generosity most happily." "And, boy." "Gosh, thanks." "But you already..." "Your boss lady did not water those horses." "Well, gosh, thanks, mister." "Uh, mister?" "Why'd you do that?" "Well, to remind myself that the scales will tip both ways." "There, that ought to hold you." "The aroma itself is nourishment." "Thank you, Decora." "There's something I can do for you?" "I got me a sensitive nose." "I know I can't get no sleep with the stink of a bounty hunter around here." "You want me to fix your nose?" "It's your pleasure to try." "There's plenty witnesses that I ain't armed." "I'll try very hard to remember that." "Hanna, I have never killed a woman of your magnificent proportions and dignity, but put the shotgun down." "Put it down." "There are about two hours of daylight left." "Why don't you just pack up and move on?" "In the morning." "And in the meantime, it would be an extremely prudent idea if everybody here paid strict attention to his own business." "Boy." "Well, one thing about you, Billy Joe, you do have an unquenchable sense of humor." "Yeah, they say the grin widens as the rope stretches." "Well, you learn fast and you learn young." "I used to do a little song and dance on the bar top." "Good for business." "Don't believe me?" "Ask Hanna." "The dregs, the bottom of the pit, the slag of society." "They figure there's some that's even lower, for instance bounty hunters." "Is that what you are?" "What do you think?" "I think there's nothing worse than clapboard and canvas saloon people." "But they're my kind, Paladin." "Maybe that's why I hate them." "Poison, sorrow" "Hunger, pain" "A man can suffer" "And live again" "But nothing in this world" "Can save a man who needs a woman" "Mr. Paladin!" "Mr. Paladin!" "Help!" "Hold it!" "Hold it right there, or I'll break it off." "Turn him loose, Laski." "Drop your gun belt and I'll turn him loose." "Laski, you're forcing me." "Leave him be!" "Pig." "Now, hold it!" "We're turning Billy Joe loose." "He's a killer." "With only your word for that." "An your word ain't good enough for us, bounty hunter." "Pretty salty bunch of crackers, ain't they?" "How 'bout talking this off?" "There ain't nothing you can do." "Yes... yes, there is." "I can take Billy Joe in." "I can kill one..." "Two, maybe three people, and I can take Billy Joe in." "You want to spend the evening with him, is that it?" "Billy Joe, you want to spend the evening with your friends?" "Sure." "Well, before this evening is over, you may ask me to take him back and you will have to ask." "Billy Joe, come tomorrow morning, I'll snap that other cuff on you, and you and I will ride out together." "Meantime, you try to ride out alone, you try to draw down on me, and I'll kill you." "I wouldn't think of it." "That's very prudent of you." "Now, you just go and have yourself a time." "Come on, the drinks are on ol' Billy Joe." "I thought it might help." "Well, I don't know what to do." "I'll take him with me." "Decora, you want to come with us?" "Feel like a little innocent child without this." "Innocent you are, Billy boy." "Here you are, Billy." "Well, I just knew we was missing something." "Where's Paladin?" "Well, it'll wait." "We got us some partying to do." "All right, boy." "Now, slip this on." "Probably be sore for a couple of days." "Probably stiff, too." "Probably." "Dee dee da da da, da da..." "Mind if I sit?" "I'm buying tonight, celebrating my freedom." "Hanna." "You're celebrating your freedom while you still have it." "A bottle of your best for my friend." "Came here just in time." "That's the bottom of the barrel." "Is that all you had, eighteen dollars?" "That's a fair amount of liquor!" "Now get that bottle!" "How's the kid?" "He's in some pain, otherwise all right." "Of all the people I've ever known, you're the only one I'm gonna hate to see dead." "Well, don't let it spoil your party, Billy Joe." "I don't understand you, Paladin." "How come you're so cocksure of yourself?" "Probably because I do understand you, Billy Joe." "For a woman who can't bake biscuits," "Hanna always had a lot of flour on her hands." "A lot of years go by, but people don't change much, do they, Paladin?" "Same old faces." "The same old meanness." "The same old habits." "You keep the bottle, Billy Joe." "I won't need it." "It ain't so hard, really." "But you do gotta have the hands for it." "You bubble-headed idiot." "I oughta kill you for that." "Didn't you think it was funny?" "No, I didn't think it was funny." "Woody thought it was funny." "Didn't you, Woody?" "Very funny." "What now?" " Want to dance?" " No, I'm tired." "What's the matter?" "Don't you like me anymore?" "I don't want to dance." "You remind me of somebody." "A song I..." "Poison, sorrow," "Hunger, pain" "A man can suffer" "And live again" "But nothing in this world can save a man" "Who needs a woman" "Who needs a smile" "What's a matter with you, Billy Joe?" "Nothing." "Not a thing." "And you better shut up, or else I'll take you right now!" "Billy Joe, why don't you try taking him?" "How much help do I get?" "We set you loose." "That was enough." "You should've been long gone by now." "Well, I'm going." "Someone keep him tied down." "I'm gonna circle in back of the wagon to the horse." "Aah!" "Hanna!" "You're all gonna get your turn." "Billy Joe..." "You keep out of this!" "This is between me and them." "Why aren't you on that horse like you planned?" "Because I don't like these people." "I'm going, but I'm going to kill them first." "Mr. Paladin, you ain't gonna let him?" "I didn't have nothing to do with it." "Take him in, Mr. Paladin." "Please, in the name of heaven, take him in!" "Laski?" " Please." " Billy Joe!" "Billy Joe, that gun you've got, it's not cocked and it's not aimed." "You try to do either, and I'll kill you." "You're gonna take him with you?" "No." "You people killed him." "You bury him." "He's back with his own kind now." ""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"