Coyote Waits (2003 TV Movie)

Adam Beach: Jim Chee

Quotes 

• Jen : That was Officer Nez, wasn't it?

  Jim Chee : Yeah, you know him?

  Jen : He takes his coffee black with two sugars. He's cute.

  Jim Chee : You know he's married?

• Hosteen Nakai : When you were a boy, you broke a bowl and ran away from my sister's house. You cried and begged me to let you stay.

  Jim Chee : This is different.

  Hosteen Nakai : Is it? I sent you home, not to be punished but to make a new bowl.

  Jim Chee : I don't know how.

  Hosteen Nakai : You don't know why.

• Jim Chee : You wouldn't know it, but you sound like a Navajo.

  Odell Redd : Yah-tee, Odell Redd. South Carolina Redds, Charleston Clan.

• Joe Leaphorn : You need a wife.

  Jim Chee : Well, if you're offering Emma, I accept.

  Joe Leaphorn : No, to keep you sane.

  Jim Chee : You could've just called to tell me that.

• Jim Chee : Hey, Slim. What? Now what would I do with a wife? You're right, what would she do with me?

  [to his cat] 

• Jim Chee : You know what fate is?

  Taka Ji : My dad had a saying, from Vietnam. Said it all the time. "Fate is as gentle with man as the mongoose is with mice."

  Jim Chee : You know, we have the same saying. "Coyote is always waiting. But also, Coyote is always hungry."

• Odell Redd : Tagert thought Ashie could help him prove Butch

  [Cassidy] 

  Odell Redd : died somewhere on the rez. And if he died there, then maybe his bones are still there. And if he could come up with those lovely, famous bones...

  Jim Chee : Then Tagert is famous too.

  Odell Redd : Famous and rich. At least as rich as historians ever get. Chee, it's all bullshit. Pinto claimed to know where Sitting Bull was buried, Geronimo too. Hell, for a bottle of whiskey, that old Indian would tell you where to find Amelia Earhart.