Branded (TV Series)

The Mission: Part 1 (1965)

Chuck Connors: Jason McCord

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• Jason McCord : I made a decision, General, that may have blackened the name of McCord, but it preserved the work of a great soldier and Statesman. I stand by the decision.

• Jason McCord : ...It's easy to light a stick of dynamite as long as it explodes somewhere else. Have any of you gentlemen ever seen an Indian war? A Massacre? Have you ever seen women run through with spears? Your best friend's scalp hanging on a feathered stick, the whole town running red with blood? Well, that's what you're asking for, and that's what you'll be responsible for if you break that treaty!

• Laurette Lansing : At your court martial you said you were innocent.

  Jason McCord : Every convicted killer says that.

  Laurette Lansing : Jason, you are innocent.

  Jason McCord : But there are certain things I can't talk about, things that involve a lot of people.

• Jason McCord : It's a lot bigger than I remember. You know, you could raise a herd of longhorn right here in this drawing room.

• Laurette Lansing : I told you I was a determined woman in spite of your thirteen months' silence.

  Jason McCord : You look wonderful. Bright and fresh. And pretty. You're from another world.

  Laurette Lansing : Two thousand miles from home. It is another world. And you look wonderful to me, darling.

• Sen. Lansing : I knew him better than you. From the Point. And through the Comanche War, the Mexican campaign. By the time of Bitter Creek he was too old to command under pressure. Wrote me a couple of letters toward the end. There are some things in those letters that sounded, well, peculiar.

  Jason McCord : Have you told anyone?

  Sen. Lansing : No, but I want you to tell me.

• Jason McCord : That treaty stopped a war. We were glad enough to sign it then. The important thing is that we made it and we should honour it.

• Jason McCord : A promise on a piece of paper is something new for the Indians. Show them it doesn't mean anything a few years later and they'll show you paint and feathers from one end of the territory to the other.