- Keel: Sure there was hate and why not? The Grotons raided this town twice over before we set a trap! They burned, they looted, they killed. Why, a life to one of them was no more than a blade of dried grass.
- Samuels - Bureau of Territorial Records Rep: It seems he was 13 years old at the time. The court sentenced him to hang after he reached the age of 21 of course. He should have been executed over three years ago, but the file on the case was misplaced.
- Paladin: And the only reason it came to light was that Justin Groton's file had been misplaced?
- Samuels - Bureau of Territorial Records Rep: Exactly.
- Paladin: And you find that amusing?
- Samuels - Bureau of Territorial Records Rep: Well, all I want to do is close the file on him.
- Paladin: No. How?
- Samuels - Bureau of Territorial Records Rep: Well, by getting him properly hanged of course.
- Justin Groton: What good is the law? He says I'm free. But I'm not. I can't even buy a penny liquerice.
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- Paladin: Justy, one of us is gonna get hurt if you go on holding that gun with your hand shaking like that. You hold it right there! I wanna get you some coffee.
- Sheriff Carlton: As a matter of fact he didn't hardly say nothing for more than a year. He'd just sit on his bunk and stare off. Then, to keep from going off his head I guess, he started collecting the leaves that blowed through his cell window. Kinda gave him something to look forward to, you might say. Then he wasn't no trouble at all. Lestways until he took it into his head to run off.