Rawhide (TV Series)

Incident of the Night Visitor (1960)

Dane Clark: Jeff Barkley

Quotes 

• Gil Favor : You're trying to tell me you're all alone out there on the plains alone?

  Joey Gardner : Yes, I am. At least I am now. I was travelling with some horse traders for the last few days but I left them last night after I seen your herd yesterday.

  Gil Favor : Horse traders? What horse traders?

  Joey Gardner : From Colorado, going to Missouri. The boss is a fella called Nick Mesa.

  Gil Favor : Well, that explains a bit of it.

  Jeff Barkley : Yeah.

  Rowdy Yates : Who's Nick Mesa?

  Gil Favor : Probably the biggest horse thief on the plains. Doesn't even bother with single horses, steals whole herds.

• Jeff Barkley : What was your Ma's name?

  Joey Gardner : Hazel. For her eyes they used to say.

  Jeff Barkley : Hazel. How old are you, son?

  Joey Gardner : Twelve. Well, not quite. But I will be in September.

  Jeff Barkley : Twelve years ago.

  Joey Gardner : Something happen to you then too, mister?

  Jeff Barkley : Yeah, something happened to me.

• Jeff Barkley : Well, maybe that ain't my ambition.

  Gil Favor : That's the trouble, it hasn't been hard to see you don't think much of being a drover. Look, Jeff, as long as you take the responsibility of the job, why not do it right.

  Jeff Barkley : Responsibility? What for? The peanuts you pay me?

  Gil Favor : You got a way of making it faster, you.

  Jeff Barkley : Well, maybe I do.

  Gil Favor : Legal?

  Jeff Barkley : Now what do you mean by legal?

  Gil Favor : I just said it.

  Jeff Barkley : A man don't just say that for no reason at all. What's the matter? Somebody in this crew seen me before? Somebody tell you something?

  Gil Favor : Tell me what?

  Jeff Barkley : That's it. That's why you've been riding me so much. Somebody tell you I been in prison?

  Gil Favor : Prison? I didn't know that, Jeff.

  Jeff Barkley : Sure you do. You're just like the rest of them. You won't give a man a chance to live it down.