Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series)

The Trap (1962)

Richard Boone: Paladin

Quotes 

• Marshal Jim Buell : They won't understand.

  Paladin : They understand. And I understand. 23 years of intimacy with the misery and madness of men, wrappping bodies in ponchos and kicking dust over the blood, telling a wife you just shot her husband or a father that his son must hang and telling yourself the law will be done no matter what the personal pain, anguish. I understand that 23 years of anguish, torture can twist a man. The ironic thing, marshal, is that only the very best survive long enough to break.

• Paladin : [First lines]  Madam, if I have to make a choice between fighting the Marshal and fighting you, I'm going to choose the best way to survive. And chivalry can wait.

• Jeri : Why don't you stop them?

  Paladin : Which one do you want me to shoot?

• Hey Boy : Two children.

  Paladin : Hey Boy, I'm going after the man. But I am not going because you would make my life miserable if I didn't. No, Sir. I'm going because I'm tired of low ceilings, huh, and the taste of champagne. I'd like some sunshine and fresh air for a change.

  [So he arrives in the middle of a nasty rainstorm]