Hec Ramsey (TV Series)

Mystery of the Green Feather (1972)

Richard Boone: Hec Ramsey

Quotes 

• Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : [Stamp looks at the body of the dead boy]  They scalped him all right. The savages!

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Hey, you know where Indians picked up that little trick, scalpin'?

  Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : No.

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : From the white man.

  Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : I don't believe it.

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : You don't wanna believe it. You ever hear of the Iroquois tribes back east, New England?

  Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : Yes.

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Well, the very first settlers - the Puritans themselves - they put a bounty on those Indians, but it would've been a lot of trouble to bring in a whole Indian, so they found an easy way - just cut and jerk on the hair and ya get your bounty money.

• Chief Sheriff Oliver B. Stamp : [In a standoff with Buckley]  We gonna wait him out?

  Hec Ramsey, Deputy Sheriff : Back in '78 he held off twenty Comanches for more than a month. If you wanna wait around, s'all right with me, but I might miss my pension.

• Hec Ramsey : [addressing Bella]  Well, miss or ma'am or whatever it is, I just gotta figure that anybody who looks like you has got to belong to somebody - and I mean that as a compliment.

  Bella Grant : All right. What he doesn't know won't hurt 'im.

  Hec Ramsey : Well, Hell, suppose he's a friend of mine?

  Bella Grant : Don't friends share?

  Hec Ramsey : Oh, I wouldn't. No way, no how.

• Chief Oliver Stamp : Hec?

  [Hec grunts in response] 

  Chief Oliver Stamp : Do me a favor.

  Hec Ramsey : [surly]  What?

  Chief Oliver Stamp : Don't just walk in there and shoot him. I'd like to take him home alive.

  Hec Ramsey : [softly]  Well, I'll do the best I can.

• [Hec meets a new woman in town in her home] 

  Bella Grant : Why don't you sit down for a while?

  Hec Ramsey : Well, I think I'd best be on my way.

  Bella Grant : Are you shy, Hec?

  Hec Ramsey : Not hardly.

  Bella Grant : Then you're afraid.

  Hec Ramsey : Well, no ma'am, I'm not smart enough to be afraid, but I just don't like leavin' tracks in another man's yard.

• Bella Grant : What're you doin' here? This is a woman's place.

  Hec Ramsey : Well, I'm very fond of women.